Project3 years ago
Minhang Riverfront Regeneration is a riverfront designed by the architectural firm SPARK. SPARK’s proposal creates a 750-meter-long recreational environment that meets the government and community’s desire for a sense of place that facilitates better pedestrian connections and promotes a more sustainable living environment. The riverfront design includes continuous green ribbons of walking, jogging, bicycle tracks, and 3 pedestrian bridges that link the residential, education and business communities.
Project3 years ago
Xitou Greentown is a commercial space designed by the architectural firm WJ STUDIO. The users of modern office space have gradually diversified from simple workers and clients. More functional modules need to be implanted into this space, forming a “third space” outside of work and leisure in response to the single state of accommodating the old work-life. the designer thought to design a continuation of the natural space so that the static garden becomes the core spiritual support of the space. The function is also an aesthetic expression of design thinking.
Practice3 years ago
WJ STUDIO is an architectural firm based in Hangzhou and Shanghai established by Leo Hu. WJ STUDIO pays attention to the continuity and creative thinking of architecture’s interior and exterior space. Starting from understanding architecture, the surrounding environment, and the core content of products, WJ STUDIO explores the connection among space, humans, and nature. It creates practical, interactive, and personalized interior and exterior spaces for users.
Project3 years ago
DASH Home is a residence designed by the architectural firm Kariouk Architects in Ontario, Canada. As with all our architecture, pragmatic requirements came first, and aesthetics emerged from those requirements. DASH Home (an acronym of each family member’s first name), unlike a standard suburban home, places the primary living functions on the second floor; the grade level is reserved for a small stair hall, a two-car garage, a caretaker suite and an elevator shaft. As such, all the primary areas of the home, being elevated, have significant privacy despite nearby neighbors. Because the natural site itself is steeply sloped, all the main living areas are in the treetops.
Project3 years ago
Sanskruti School, designed by Shreyas Patil Architects, considers the psychological and physical needs of kindergarten children who have tendencies to explore spaces with exciting avenues and colorful vistas with minimum boundaries. The massing of the built form is blossomed by stacking rows of classrooms within the three sides of the plot. With a rhythmic twist and turn of these blocks, a volume of cubes jutting out at perpendicular and angular degrees assists in creating simple yet powerful architectural volumes.
Practice3 years ago
Shreyas Patil Architects is an architectural firm incorporating contextually appropriate, sustainable design strategies. The design philosophy aims to strike a balance between contemporary design forms and climate-responsive strategies. Respecting the site context, staying true to materials, and creating comfortable yet dramatic spatial qualities are what they desire to design.
Project3 years ago
High Brick House, a residence by the architectural firm Studio MITI focuses on designing compact and optimum space for a couple. The architects start the design by analyzing the context and finding out Lat Phrao Wang Hin district is a high-density area. Each house was close and adjacent, having effects on the private property of the house. The architect provides the solution by the service part on the ground floor and lining space on the 2nd-4th floor. The spatial arrangement was set up by spiral stacking in the center of the house. The result of spatial arrangement is the connection of all interior spaces by visual impact.
Project3 years ago
Dai An Apartment is a housing project designed by the architectural firm H.2. Architecture and Interior. The economic problem of the apartment was to create maximum space and usable area. It also had to be easy to construct, blocky, solid but unique, and attractive to young people. It also had to make the most of the green space. The proposed solution was using lightweight structures to change the internal space; redistribution of uses: entrances, stairs, and light structures help save costs in terms of materials and construction labor.
Project3 years ago
OH! HOUSE is an apartment renovated by the architectural firm Laura Ortin Arquitectura with a concept of Mediterranean style. The team attended to the wishes of the clients to have a fresh, pleasant, and comfortable house with a very contemporary organization of rooms, materials, and geometries but from our origins. During the design process, “aquamarine” green became the fetish color of the house. The clients liked it so much that the designers took it to all the spaces, splashing certain furniture points to achieve a connected and dialogic interior design.
Project3 years ago
Groupe Scolaire Cranves-Sales is a school designed by the architectural firm Christophe Rousselle architecte. In the search to adapt in the best possible way to the context, the project proposes fragmented volumes according to each program, thus allowing an adequate scale for the different uses and minimizing the misleading notion of a huge “UFO” type project, which would be more related to an urban school, in a denser environment.
Project3 years ago
Lami Lace is a showroom designed by the architectural firm Chevli Architects. Built in this tight urban fabric, the intention was to create a quieter environment inside the showroom while meticulously displaying their products to increase client engagement. Along with artificial lighting, the four-level display spaces are naturally lit using glass roofs and floors. Meticulously detailed and crafted spaces were created using a neutral material palette to display colorful products. Neutral tones like greys and browns were crafted and benefitted the beautiful display section enhancing their colorful laces that popped out, bringing a certain vibrancy to the space!
Practice3 years ago
Chevli Architects is an architectural firm based in Surat and Canberra, established by Vikram Chevli. The team is curious and inquisitive, striving to better themselves through each project and each passing day. For the team, size, location, and budget are not a concern – they see each project’s unique challenges as a possibility to deliver the best outcome for their clients.
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Project3 years ago
Dall’Ovo Magalhães Arquitetura designed SPA S.V. Farm, a farmhouse that incorporated several updates, revitalizing the entire building. In the barbecue area (gourmet space), we tried to create a contemporary environment, but one that recalled the old farmhouses, through the use of red, burnt cement on the walls and part of the lining. In addition to the wood and braided straw lining, the entire floor was replaced, and the woodwork was restored.
Project3 years ago
Forest Retreat is a rustic yet modern residence designed for holidays by the architectural firm Kariouk Architects in Ontario, Canada. The most powerful aspect of the design is the long, tent-like roof, which follows the site’s topography. The roof and its ridge beam became the design’s primary focus, shaping the circulation path through the home’s interior, ultimately extending a view toward the forest. Historically, the Canadian identity has been defined by our relationship to the land. Fulfilling the client’s mandate, the home honors that emotional connection through visual and material harmonization with its surroundings.
Project3 years ago
Athita Hidden Court Chiang Saen Boutique Hotel is a hospitable space designed by the architectural firm STUDIO MITI. Based on the concept of making harmony in the context of Chiang Saen vernacular architecture. The architects designed the layout by making buffer space between the old temple and the new hotel. The entire functions were arranged by L-shape. The buffer zone was created for betweenness space and to reveal the beauty of the temple.
Compilation3 years ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – The Gully Home by ED+ Architecture. Along with this, the weekly highlight contains a few of the best projects, published throughout the week. These selected projects represent the best content curated and shared by the team at ArchiDiaries.
Project3 years ago
A Red Oasis is a terrace development project designed by the architectural firm UA Lab. The project was to develop an open space for an office on the top floor. The requirements were to create an outdoor recreation space for the office staff. We conceptualized it as a multipurpose space engulfed by a green envelope creating a tranquil environment that is cut off from the noisy city so that they can make the most of their time off work.
Project3 years ago
MO House is a residence designed by the architectural firm Laura Ortín Arquitectura. The project was conceived just when bodies and, after a few days, our minds were confined. Could this new household up another confinement? The team wonders. This will be, perhaps from now on, the new question to project. Because if architecture is good because it is flexible, bright, and healthy, it will endure confinement and any future situation. Because it will be adaptive, evolutionary, and caring.
Practice3 years ago
Laura Ortín Architecture is an architectural office based in Murcia, Spain, open to any kind of design. The team works on projects and management of new work, rehabilitation, reform, and furniture design—also technical consultancy and urban planning. The architecture, regardless of the scale, is faced with: respect, memory, hospitality, honesty, and always, always economy. The office defends the political (social) capabilities of architectural design. The small (or great) purpose is to get closer to Happiness.
Project3 years ago
IPPUDO Vietnam is a restaurant renovated by the architectural firm Takashi Niwa Architects located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The building design is kept to be as simple as possible. It is a place where activities and interaction occur between multi-layered screens. The space is designed to be comfortable and familiar with its surrounding. Therefore, families often utilize the comfortable dining space as a resting place while they are using the adjacent pool. The restaurant is a social hub within the area, where interaction and food are shared. The design approach of Ippudo Vietnam is a challenge to realize a social space that responds to changes. It grows as it ages with its surroundings.
Project3 years ago
The Gully Home is a residence designed by the architectural firm ED+ Architecture that offered itself to the surroundings. It is also swaddled in its layers of privacy and barriers, shielding itself from the open environment it is placed in. The design brief was very simple, making it much more challenging. The 39’x93′ linear plot had its larger side facing the ocean front with a beautiful view of the Bay of Bengal. Like every beachfront property, a default requirement was to ensure that every part of the house had a view of the ocean.
Practice3 years ago
ED+ Architecture is an architectural practice established by Ammaar Chowdry and Mridula Chowdry in Chennai in 2021. The fundamental underlying principle of the practice is envisioning the built form as a pragmatic realization of the client’s dream. At ED+, the architecture reflects the site and the context. Every design is made sensitive to the land on which it is built – complimenting the surrounding landscape and enhancing its capabilities.
Project3 years ago
Office 543 was designed by Charged Voids on a tight, 140-sqm plot in a busy commercial district in Mohali, Punjab. The narrow building, closed from two sides, has openings through two courtyards and multiple skylights, thereby maintaining optimum daylight and ventilation. An oval-shaped private meeting area emerges from the intersecting geometry of straight lines and an ellipse, resolving a complex design brief on the small footprint and creating a free-flowing spatial sequence.
Practice3 years ago
Charged Voids is an architectural firm based in Chandigarh established by Aman Aggarwal. The firm explores the possibilities of a transcendent and spiritual character in architecture. The work of the award-winning practice is underpinned by a purposeful dialogue between Western modernism and elements of Indian architecture. Each project’s objective is to honor architecture’s universals: gravity, light, human perception, and nature. Aggarwal’s unique approach derives from a critical examination of the times we live in and the ecological and environmental factors that shape our collective experiences.
