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, 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, 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.
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, 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, 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.
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, 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, 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.
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, 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, 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 is an architectural practice based in Vila Nova De Famalicão, Portugal.
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, 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 concept atelier is an architectural and design practice based in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.
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, 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.
1205 – WSW Wohnhaus S. IM Allgau, designed by CAMA A, is the construction of a new low-energy single-family house in Germany. The living space was designed and optimized for a family of four, and the floor plan of the main house is compact and efficient. The corridor allows you to walk through the house from east to west, from the street over the front garden to the back garden, which is oriented towards the west.
CAMA A, based in Berlin, is an architecture office for the big picture and the small details founded in 2011 by Marc Hensel. For them, architecture is the challenge of calmly combining functionality and sensuality. The simple, the reduction to the essentials and always sharpened the view to create tension between the everyday, the familiar and the changes in our needs. The desire to discover the familiar in a new way and to caress the mind’s senses.
Juana Azurduy, designed by BAAG – Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal, consists of two four-story wings separated by an inner courtyard. The building looks to provide an urban statement, making a point of considering the wall that divides it from the school a façade and not just a “blind” wall. The goal was to create apartments capable of adapting to the resident’s needs, in line with their preferences.
Artisans Ayutthaya: The Woman Restaurant, designed by Bangkok Project Studio, is a restaurant governed by women descendants who are determined to preserve Ayutthaya’s cuisine and craft. They are five right-angle triangular buildings made of glass blocks framed by wood. The designer intended these five buildings to be made of materials that everyone overlooks, but when put together, create a new value worth a second look.
Bangkok Project Studio, based in Bangkok, is an architectural and interior design practice headed by Boonserm Premthada.
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Mothimahal Gold & Diamonds by ENVID. 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.
