The Spirala Community Home Competition was a chance for participants to create a structure within the Spirala Ecological Village in Northern Portugal that would be a shared space for the community to meet and run events. The winning entries were selected as they best served the community, while at the same time being great examples of sustainable design.
The design challenge for “Allcart” is to develop a handcart concept for vendors that help them reinvent their commerce methods considerably. The design should be lean and cost-effective for the investment they can make and open new means to utilize the inherent qualities of selling on the street and not being pinned to any location.
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Nuestro sueño by Espacio 18 Arquitectura. 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.
Royal FIC Headquarters, designed by Eduardo Borges Barcellos and Garoa, address new space necessities and to establish a different interface between collaborators and clients. It was a part of a major structural revamp initiative by the company through administrative and marketing actions to create a new workspace. The proposal aimed to create contemplation spaces in coexistence with the necessary conditions for developing the required work. The proposed circulation allows different fluxes of people in contrast with the rigidity of workstations, which grants the space with fluidity and movement.
Eduardo Borges Barcellos is an interior design practice based in Brazil.
U house, designed by Rivvon inc., is an SRC condominium with a typical Ramen structure that lends itself to a construction project that will renew everything. It is a house for a couple, and Rivvon inc. designed it with the future growth of the family in mind. Fitting in with the times, the changing surroundings, the changing technology, and the different lifestyles of the residents is possible through the design.
Rivvon inc. is a multidisciplinary design practice with projects in Architecture, Interior Design, Space Design, and Furniture Design. The value and appeal of materials, places, history, and environment already exist. There is also a sense of inevitability and appropriateness that arises from the people involved and the purpose of creating the space itself. The team helps to shape the past, present, and future by designing relatively to what is needed in the space.
The “Staydium 2.0”challenge is to design a concept stadium for national and international events in a small city, such that the setup could be used/reused for many purposes beyond sports. The sheer culmination of many facilities and building services makes a stadium an ideal box to serve many functions beyond sports.
Heideveld Primary School, designed by Meyer & Associates Architects, Urban Designers, has a compact and simple form, focused around a shared central courtyard and two secondary undercover courtyard spaces. The shared space hierarchy is a theme that runs throughout the school’s design. The playful use of colour brightens up the interior spaces and forms part of the identity of the school. The protected nature of these spaces proved essential in the harsh Cape winters and in the face of the South Easterly wind on the Cape Flats.
The Estate, designed by Studio PKA, is an urban design project of a planned commercial district in an otherwise organically growing city of Mumbai. Tall Edwardian buildings along tree-lined streets are reminiscent of the era they were built in. This study intends to bring awareness to a critical site like Ballard Estate, in the Fort Area because it has the opportunity of invoking a structured public approach to a commercial site.
Casa S.Bartolomeu, designed by Sónia Cruz – Arquitectura, is a new intervention that replicates and reinterprets the place’s characteristics through the rhythm of fenestration and coating materials. The municipal services established the volumetry to transition from the historical area to the most recent construction area. The materials used, in addition to considering the characteristics of the place, respond effectively to contemporary living with superior quality and finishes.
Sonia Cruz Arquitectura specializes in technical consultancy and advice, construction projects, alteration/rehabilitation projects, construction supervision to interior design. The atelier has a multidisciplinary technical team guided by rigor and innovation. It is convinced that architecture directly affects the quality of our lives. The attention to detail, technical innovation, and aesthetic quality aims to provide each project and work with a recognized and differentiated added value.
Kaira Looro Architecture Competition is a design contest open to students and young architects with aims to discover new talents and to adopt sustainable architecture models for the humanitarian purposes to improve living conditions in developing countries
Strathmore Hotel, designed by Studio Nine Architects, is refurbishment and renovation of the 165-year-old hotel, with a constant thread of materials throughout to connect the spaces. A highlight of the project — the previously enclosed first floor balcony has been transformed into an open-air Bar and Dining area with a new operable roof and bi-fold windows. The re-imagined first floor is a ‘revolution’, offering a new, premium dining and lounge experience.
House in Minho, designed by Germano de Castro Pinheiro Arquitectos, intends to respect and recover the ancient memory of the residential site. The intent to obtain a fluid space dictated the structural solution embedded in the architecture, consisting of three large beams that run the entire length of the south volume. This solution allows the non-existence of pillars in all spaces, materializing the desired experience. With this intent in mind, the differentiation between spaces was marked through the different floor and ceiling heights and through the introduction of patios and moments of zenithal light.
Germano de Castro Pinheiro provides high-quality urbanism, construction, rehabilitation, and remodeling services to the most diverse programs: single and multi-family housing, services, healthcare, hotels, commercial, industrial, sports and interior architecture. The concern that underpinned and sustained its constant modernization was the search for being up-to-date with conceptual, technical and material innovations, reflecting on them and combining tradition with the avant-garde.
Be Green, designed by HORMA Estudio, is a restaurant interior whose driving concept is Healthy, sustainable, sincere, and natural. The project’s protagonist is the terracotta color, which covers the floor and the plinth materialized in micro-cement. The whole route is doted with details in other colors, for example the orange of the furniture or even the green of the lamps and the vegetation. Ceramic and micro-cement are the main elements that give shape and life to this interior, giving it a special character.
Kandis Residences, designed by ONG&ONG, is predicated on the concept of “homes in the woods,” envisioned as a green, immaculately landscaped sanctuary that accommodates the modern urban lifestyle. The residential blocks feature modernist box frames that complement a simple yet elegant façade. The development’s overall colour scheme is subtle, with a warm, calming palette that further accentuates the serene qualities of this flourishing green oasis.
Nuestro sueño, designed by Espacio 18 Arquitectura, is a residential clay box containing coherent, concrete structures based on a 60cm module, marking and distributing the program, indicating the heart and soul of the house. This house was made with wide and adaptable spaces, so in the future, accommodations can be done. The idea was always to create a welcoming-life full space that will show you how Mexico embraces you, a place where you can finally feel being in Oaxaca.
Espacio 18 Arquitectura is a Mexico-based architectural practice located in Oaxaca.
The winners of the 5th European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention were announced by the jury yesterday in the courtyard of the Frederic Marès Museum, a historical site in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter. The announcement of the 15 finalists, four winning works and two Special Mentions for Restoration was made during the 5th International Architectural Heritage Intervention Biennial.
Silver Pine, designed by SAOTA, is a contemporary home set among the pine woods that introduces a revolutionary outward-looking approach to the city’s architectural tradition. The pinewoods that the site overlooks are thus a significant motivation for the design’s open, outward-facing orientation. This approach explores a new kind of architecture that invites as much natural light as possible during the dark winter months to compensate for the lack of sun and mitigate its absence.
Casa Havai, designed by Garoa, is a residence that turns itself to the inside; in a way, it is introspective, a feature that comes from the place’s specific constraints. The house’s structure is of structural masonry, with the walkway and the gable roof’s structure designed in metallic structure, the slabs – made in loco – are inverted to facilitate the distribution of the hydraulic installation, the electrical pipes are apparent, the floor used was hydraulic tiles, green as grass.
