Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Barrenechea Social Lounge by architects Cafeina Design. 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.
Kamal Theater , first national theater with a century-long history is high for both Kazan and its citizens, with maximalist approach to the execution of this project.
The Fort, designed by Jonathan Segal FAIA, is a study in the integration of a small historical building with a new eight-story, mixed-use apartment building. The building has been broken down into 3 formal elements. The original Ford Dealership, the lower 2-story long horizontally screened structure and the upper vertical finned tower. All core power is provided by the large rooftop solar array and the hallways are all naturally ventilated.
Grow Your School, designed by Lucila Aguilar Arquitectos, seeks to promote the potential of the children of the community and also to generate a sense of unity among the inhabitants of the area who actively participated in the entire process, from planning to construction, in addition to educating towards the use of bamboo as a practical, resistant and sustainable material. Finally, a project was carried out that took up pre-existing elements mixed with new elements.
Lucila Aguilar Arquitectos is an architecture firm based in Mexico City that proposes to redefine the space and world in which we live. With an emphasis on innovation, sustainability and quality design, they seek to innovate with strategies and materials that lead us to a harmonious relationship with the Earth, creating examples that inspire the creation of a world in balance, being the seed of social and ecological awareness.
EPA Studio, designed by Elphick Proome Architecture, is inspired by the close relationship to the adjacent tree canopy, the roof evolved into an oversailing inclined plane supported by a steel structure of ‘branch-like’ brackets. The building form responds by becoming a rectangular glazed pavilion, elevated on tapering concrete columns that vary in height according to the slope of the site.
Machiya townhouse renovation, designed by 07BEACH, is a renovation of a traditional townhouse into a showroom for a kimono shop and photo studio. The contrast between the old and the new is naturally eye-catching, but a sense of humor and ingenious beauty goes beyond were aimed to add. Since a polyhedron of small pieces of glass seemed to fit this project more, as its glitter is like a Kimono’s one, rather than trying to make it look transparent with a large piece of glass.
07BEACH is an architecture and interior design studio based in Japan and Vietnam headed by Joe Chikamori.
The Dharavi Project : Express | Participate | Learn was to develop a place making project that will act as a Centre for change and community empowerment.
Edifício S.Roque, designed by Sónia Cruz – Arquitectura, seeks to establish a neutral dialogue with the surroundings, expressing a clean and technical language. The challenge of the building came from the need for regulatory compliance and the desire to qualitatively score the place. The glazed balconies, allow the enjoyment of the place, and its environment, becoming exterior extensions of the housing compartments. The interiors express a simple but qualified language, which is neutral to any aesthetic standard and type of living.
The Cove House, designed by Justin Humphrey Architects, is a robust yet elegant new residence in a waterside suburb south of Brisbane. It is a rich and tactile exploration of thresholds and edges. An off-form curved concrete wall invites you in past a delicate timber-batten screen and through a series of landscaped courtyards through to the water beyond. Indoor and outdoor spaces are given the same priority within a house that connects its inhabitants strongly at all times to both water and garden.
Justin Humphrey Architect is a design-focused architecture and interior practice based on the Gold Coast. From large private houses to small renovations, the team approaches each project with an open mind and desire to create site-responsive, functional, considered, and exciting spaces designed to enrich the lives of our clients.
PHI announces the selection of Architectural firms for Stage 1 of the PHI Contemporary International Architecture Competition for a new cultural institution.
Barrenechea Social Lounge, designed by Cafeina Design, is an extension of an existing residence where the idea of a contemporary paradise is evoked as an unusual discovery. The design premises were to first respect the existing trees, second the position of the pool aims to create an intimate social spot at the back of the building, third a raised platform.
Tiny house Satzberg, designed by Baukooperative GmbH, captures the Vienna Woods’ fantastic view and creates a maximum connection with nature. To create privacy, the house is closed entirely on the sides, while lots of glass at the front and back to ensure maximum openness. The ulterior motive was a seamless transition between inside and outside. During the planning, as much as possible was avoided in order to create the maximum amount of space and to concentrate on the essentials.
Baukooperative GmbH is an architectural practice with a discourse with the building cooperative based in Brand-Laaben, Austria.
Casa Huolpoch, designed by Workshop, Design and Construction, seeks to respect and rescue the historical values of Yucatecan colonial architecture, combining them with contemporary details and volumes. The volumetry of the back of the property reads as a totally disruptive design from the historical part of the residence where the steps to the second level serve as a visual axis and as a sculptural element, becoming the hallmark of its architecture for its dynamism.
Hana House, designed by Dim Studio, is a residence on a riverside site in a city on the verge of new urban development. The house is a work of art that everyone in the family can experience every step of the way. That is also the goal set when designing the house.
DIM Studio is an architectural practice based in THANH XUÂN, Hanoi.
Tree House 2021 Architecture competition a way of living in the lap of nature, suspended amongst a magnificent tree and under the starry sky.
Render Challenge 2 is a rendering competition organized by archiol in association with artuminate. The competition received 106 entries from around the world.
34 Restaurant, designed by REM’A, has characteristics of the old venue – intimate, with green and wooden elements that confer the restaurant its own identity. This condition drove the team to explore an aesthetic-spatial concept that implied a deconstructed approach from the “art nouveau” movement. From chromatic characteristics to the curved/ondulating and asymmetric forms that shape the spaces, instead of the “intertwined” elements so typical of this artistic movement, as well as the use of plants, all of which are detached from the project’s structural elements.
REM’A is an architectural practice based in Rua da Arcela headed by Romeo Ribeiro, José Pedro Marques & Pavlo Dobrovolskyi.
The Ledge, designed by Wallmakers, is a residence based on a dream sequence as an extension of the mountain into the air. Camouflaged within the natural landscape, the roof and the external walls are made out of treated Casuarina poles, a fast-growing tree whose wood is considered waste and used only for scaffolding and fencing.
