Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Dien Khanh House by 6717studio. 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.
Dirk And The Chocolate Factory, designed by Anna & Eugeni Bach, adapts an industrial space to a studio and housing space for a family that values the character of the original building. The project proposes a solution that allows for the enjoyment of the original diaphanous spaces while introducing small modifications and solutions that grant sight of the three ceilings, despite the new space distribution that requires smaller spaces.
Anne Street Garden Villas, designed by Anna O’Gorman Architect, is one of ten social housing demonstration projects in Australia. To create liveable, forward-thinking social housing, they were encouraged to challenge conventions of social housing and employ small design moves that they thought could have a big impact – especially when it came to giving tenants a sense of ownership over their residence. There were many ideas shared in the workshops, which can be loosely categorised into these key themes: Community, Privacy, Accessibility, and Adaptability.
Anna O’Gorman Architect is a Brisbane-based architecture studio engaging in open conversations to create a thoughtfully executed outcome. This focus drives every aspect of our studio – from the connection we build with you through to our interest in sustainable design, community and quality of life.
K House, designed by MHNDUnion, creates a practical family home that captures the Harbor’s panoramic views and provides a warm and relaxed atmosphere with plenty of light and generous amenities. To emphasise the sense of seamless spaces the architectural material palette of dark metal, timber, stone and off-form concrete makes its way to the inside of the house with beautifully designed interiors. The client had a strong sense of style and a very good understanding of materiality, form and space.
Casa Máxima, designed by Gramática Arquitectónica, had to accommodate into this magical geometric reality of just one-floor plan. The design of the surrounding garden includes a perimetral path which is drawn above the grass using grey granite, sketching curves and diagonals that create three different exterior spaces. Inside, the materiality instead, links ceilings with walls, and just breaks by the use of grey flooring, to enphasize the difference between volumes and their pure form.
Gramática Arquitectónica is an architectural firm creating stories and atmospheres that transform into objects and architecture.
WA Museum Boola Bardip, designed by OMA, provides spaces for exhibitions and events, and new retail and dining opportunities for the former Museum, showcasing the State’s natural and cultural collections. In the Museum, heritage and contemporary structures complement each other. The preserved historical buildings evoke the site’s social and cultural history. Clad with perforated metal facades, the new rectangular volumes shine under sunlight and glow in the dark. The WA Museum Boola Bardip is a landmark building in Perth’s Cultural Centre—for the city and the State.
Ein Karem House, designed by Matti Rosenshine Architects, is addition and complete renovation of a historic, 19th-century agricultural farm building. The primary challenge was transforming the dark and damp structure into a light, open and airy residence. This was particularly challenging, given the strict preservation laws. The brief was to convert the historic farm building into a residence while adding to the existing footprint.
Matti Rosenshine Architects is a Jerusalem-based studio that has designed many projects ranging from intimate residential interiors to large-scale public facilities. The team designs within the timeless vocabularies of traditional architecture. They are deeply interested in creating bright, airy contemporary architecture that blurs the boundary between interior and exterior spaces.
Casa del Calvari, designed by ENDALT Arquitectes, aims to adapt the house to a contemporary habitat to highlight the scars of the removed parts. The house is designed as a sequence of spaces progressively entering an inner world typical of traditional Valencian architecture: the corral, a small backyard. As we enter the house we gain privacy until we find the living room, which takes a breath of tranquillity and freshness through a custom folding window.
The Corbelled Brick Extension, designed by Yard Architects, combines a specific and pragmatic spatial arrangement within a dramatic architectural intervention. The solution resulted in a simple and uncompromising floor plan that defined the design from the outset. The external aesthetic of the extension is purposefully weighty and sculpted. The brown colour was combined with a color-matched mortar to create a weighty and homogenous appearance.
YARD Architects is a creative design practice specializing in design-led residential architecture, from inspirational house extensions to highly successful multi-unit developments. The team works through an in-depth exploration of design possibilities, utilizing model-making, drawings, and visualizations to develop the scope and design before producing detailed technical packages and specifications for pricing and construction.
The Presidential Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall is an architectural project designed by Uygur Architects in Turkey. The design is an unintentional statement on a futuristic aesthetic which looks back at the time of conceptualization from the very future. Guest’s experience is a clear incentive which eschews a singular roof or façade to convey a sculptural structure composed of seemingly independent forms and the balance of curvilinear and sharp-edged buildings.
The High House, designed by Ravel Architecture, is configured as a boomerang to accentuate the natural curvature of the land. The plan was placed to take advantage of canyon and downtown views. A board formed retaining wall was placed in order to terrace the site for access. One side of the retaining wall is driveway and pedestrian access, the other side is the home, held up on piers as tall as 30 feet.
Ravel Architecture is an Austin, Texas-based Architecture practice specializes in bespoke residential and boutique commercial projects that find their way through a first principles program-based approach. The practice uses its experience in land acquisition, development, design, and building to inform a project’s success.
House with a Brick Veil, designed by Studio Lotus, seeks to negotiate the fine line between privacy and connectivity with neighborhoods in New Delhi. In line with the region’s strong tradition of brick production, the House is conceived as a brick masonry structure with a high thermal mass, thereby maximizing daylight and minimizing solar gain. A 345-mm thick brick wall wraps around the building as a veil – floating away from it at times to form intimate courtyards for light and ventilation.
The Shack, designed by The Shack Collective, is a geometric tesselating mirrored pavilion, ‘Between the Earth and Sky’, for independent UK arts festival, Brainchild. Rising 3.5 metres, Between the Earth and Sky is a demountable origami-like structure that consists of a lightweight timber space frame, made with three interconnected arches clad in tesselating angled acrylic mirrors.
The Shack Collective is a Black women-led collective of designers working across arts, architecture, and eco-design. The Shack Collective is inspired to build ambitious sustainable installations for outdoor community use and music performances that aim to bridge the gap between interaction and the social constraints currently facing many people.
Pent(agon) house, designed by Touch Architect, is a refurbishment of residence on the top floor of an existing building. The penthouse was revamped by transforming all layout into perfectly suitable spaces for the owner’s daily life. Mixed style is used to create this penthouse by using silhouette colors on floors and walls, which are black, white, grey, and wood furnishing on some elements to create comfort and coziness.
Dien Khanh House, designed by 6717studio, tries to retain the traditional familiarity that is gradually fading away in rural houses, to create a fresh living environment, close to nature and the surrounding environment, but also satisfy modern life and contemporary social development. The project is both strange and familiar with the combination of undulating tile roofs in harmony with the charming scenery of mountains and rivers in the land of Dien Khanh.
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Tencent Beijing Headquarters by OMA. 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.
B&B ITALIA Showroom, Ningbo, designed by OUTIN. DESIGN, achieved the unity and continuity of the brand space from the perspectives of building, landscape and interior. In this interactive, immersive space, commercial logic is upgraded to the communication of brand culture and aesthetics. The key requirement of the design was to echo the core values of the brand and convey it in a more intimate and understandable manner.
OUTIN. DESIGN is a multi-disciplinary practice that works in fields of architecture, public interaction, exhibitions and installations, visual identity and brand planning, residence and lifestyle products. The four teams of the practice are independent and also work in a collaborative manner. Working in sectors of residence and lifestyle products, WMT team strives to “inspire turning points of life”.
