Quarantine Pods | Winner Announcement
The Quarantine Pods challenged the participants to design the pod should be designed to prevent the spread of the virus while providing a healing environment.
Casa Scout | BAAG – Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal
Casa Scout, designed by BAAG – Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal, creates a versatile and inclusive space for different uses by the young scouts. The building is in constant dialogue with the outside: nature and its surroundings are present in all the interior spaces. The main challenges of the project were to create a new urban image for the institution and to make it coexist with its surroundings, mostly comprised by typical low-height houses.
Strangers: Room with a rejected view | Wutopia Lab
Strangers, designed by Wutopia Lab, is a simple and direct gesture of how to understand or change the local landscape or activate local life as a stranger. The inspiration came from Magritte’s surrealist painting “Le Calcul Mental.” The design is just a reinforcement of this traditional type on this site. The architectural vein eventually becomes a muttering of materials, constructions, and formal symbols. The enclosed homestay rejects these mutterings.
Sponsored
Wutopia Lab
Wutopia Lab is an architecture company based on a new paradigm of a complex system. Wutopia Lab regards Shanghai’s culture and lifestyle as a starting point, using architecture to promote sociological progress within building practice. Wutopia Lab focuses on humans and is dedicated to linking different aspects of urban life: traditional, daily, and cultural, to interpret Urbanian lifestyle and to develop a contemporary Chinese aesthetic based on Shanghai.
Retail of Tomorrow | Winners Announcement
The brief for Retail of Tomorrow was to design a retail store that redefines the traditional market prototype in today’s changing times. The architectural concept for a shop that brings back the lost ritual of buying that improves upon the deficiencies present in the trade process recovers the lost human senses of a buyer, provides the possibility to sense all properties of the good, and cohesively includes such possible solutions.
Weekly Highlights 2021 #39
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Sal De Jade by 0studio. 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.
Selected Interviews
Artist Victor Perez-Porro Studio | Anna & Eugeni Bach
Artist Victor Perez-Porro Studio, designed by Anna & Eugeni Bach, is made of 2 light wooden elements that organize the required program into a larger open space. The result is a zig-zag wall that generates two small spaces between the glass and the windows, offering a new “place” to be present that also serves as a natural thermal regulator.
Benjamin Moore Experience Center, Jinhua | NDB Design Studio
Benjamin Moore Experience Center, designed by NDB Design Studio, is a showroom and experiential space hoping to convey its brand values and image. The design team broke the conventional display modes of showrooms but tried to combine products and art experimentally and reshape the overall spatial scenes for experience, purchasing, and communication, thereby turning the 100㎡ space into a place with attitudes and full of “impromptu” surprises.
NDB Design Studio
NDB DESIGN STUDIO, established in 2019, specializes in interior design with post-90s designers as its main force. The studio insists on originality for each project, and pursues creative design ideas. Business scope mainly includes architecture, interior, VI and furnishings design solutions. NDB DESIGN STUDIO is a young professional team that excels at capturing clients’ needs and capitalizing on professional expertise and common sense to approach design.
Selected Projects
Winner Announced | Terra x Terra Pavilion Design
Challenge for “Terra x Terra” was to design an architecture pavilion that speaks for a more sustainable built habitat of the future using contextual technologies.
Interplay | Compartment S4
Interplay, designed by Compartment S4, sets itself apart by rendering an earthy spatial quality that brings warmth to the space. Architectural elements like walls and slabs transform the overall spatial quality of the workspace and take the design one step beyond interior decoration. The custom-designed teakwood furniture pieces are intricately designed to create harmonious compositions and other fixed elements in the space.
Chimney House | Dekleva Gregoric Architects
Chimney House, designed by Dekleva Gregoric Architects, transforms a single archetypal architectural element into the house’s central theme, all while referencing vernacular and regionalist architectural elements, such as the gabled roof. The building’s envelope is developed as a thick wall that carefully curates incoming light and expands the exterior’s views.
Selected Academic Projects
Dekleva Gregoric Architects
Dekleva Gregorič architects is a Ljubljana-based architecture studio attempting to pursue the concept of ‘research by design’ and ‘design by research’ spanning several modes (spatial, social, material, historical…), different scales and programs, diverse climates, and localities. Understanding specific constraints and conditions of the context becomes the ultimate generative tool that aims to challenge the obvious and propose a specific response.
Plot ABC | Blue Temple
Plot ABC, designed by Blue Temple, is inspired by Myanmar’s traditional bamboo scaffolding construction technique. The goal is to create a self-sustained multifunctional community public space which will include a chin lone court (traditional Burmese ball game), a zayat (senior resting area), an urban community farm. The objective of this real-world project in the center of the city is to showcase the possibilities that bamboo holds within the construction industry.
AOC Business Center | Mube Arquitectura
AOC Business Center, designed by Mube Arquitectura, results from programmatic premises, the plastic possibilities of concrete as a material substance, and the know-how of AOC in its activity, projection, and stability. The program consists of offices, warehouses, garages, an outdoor park, a tennis court, a lake, and a cycle and pedestrian maintenance circuit.
Compilations
Mube Arquitectura
Mube has been developing architecture and urban planning projects since 2000, maintaining the search for innovative and effective solutions to the multiple demands of the world as the mobilising principle of its projects. The developed projects have covered various areas, both in new buildings and in the area of rehabilitation, combining different scales and typologies, from housing to urbanism, services, equipment and interiors.
Ekhusen | AndrénFogelström
Ekhusen, designed by AndrénFogelström, consists of four small cabins embedded in nature on the island of Öland off the Swedish east coast. The whole building is lifted off the ground to guarantee it can withstand flooding from the nearby Baltic Sea. This also made it possible to save the large oak trees on the site, whose roots are left undisturbed by the footprint of the building.
Rehabilitation of Vila Nova de Famalicão Municipal Market | Rui Mendes Ribeiro
Rehabilitation of Vila Nova de Famalicão Municipal Market, designed by Rui Mendes Ribeiro, decongests the old fairgrounds and makes a more pleasant space with better hygienic conditions. The intervention in the Famalicão Municipal Market aimed its rehabilitation, with the premise of enhancing its architectural character and improving the existing conditions. The main volume, which was maintained and rehabilitated in the architectural Project, takes the form of a broken line in a blueprint.
Rui Mendes Ribeiro
Rui Mendes Ribeiro is an architectural practice based in Vila Nova De Famalicão, Portugal.
House in Litoral Alentejano | Aires Mateus
House in Litoral Alentejano in Portugal, designed by Aires Mateus, includes four houses and a water tank. The placement of the several houses will be decided by each owner. These areas, compressed by a lifted ground and a lowered ceiling, become spaces that group to limit and define the “exterior volume,” emphasizing it as the main space of the house.
Office MA | éOp – architecture and design
Office MA, designed by éOp – architecture and design, aimed to create different areas of use so that the entire space was uniform in terms of its experience, materiality & form. Simple spaces were intended so that the appropriation could be based on the identity of the new business projects. The new installations intend to introduce a uniform collective, where the routes discipline and the volumes confine in work and leisure areas.
éOp – architecture and design
éOp concept atelier is an architectural and design practice based in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.
Interview with Darshan Soni | Design Director, Apical Reform
Do join us for a live interview on October 11, at 04:00 PM with Darshan Soni, Design Director at Apical Reform, India, as part of our interview Series Interior Design and Innovation.
Wood and Mountain | Sher Maker
Wood and Mountain, designed by Sher Maker, is a hospitality project welcoming travelers into the middle of nowhere atmosphere. Form of the building was designed simply in order of steel structure refers to the wooden house wall system commonly seen in northern Thailand. Architecture language influenced by vernacular architecture, the project takes shape as a simple wooden structure opening up to the surrounding vegetation.
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