Concrete in Architecture | Winners Announced
Concrete in architecture is an architecture competition organized by archiol in association with artuminate. Concrete is an important material in the field of architecture and construction.
Escenario TODOROKI | Sasaki Architecture
Escenario TODOROKI, designed by Sasaki Architecture, consists of 16 units, with its facade as the main feature — reflecting the rareness and exotic nature of the wild environment found amid busy roads. The basic structural form used in the facade’s composition is a square: primitive and recognisable shape. The architectural structure design follows a minimalist approach in combination with highly flexible and diverse spatial compositions ― despite the challenge of the spatial urban building limitations.
The Veil | Giles Miller Studio
The Veil, designed by Giles Miller Studi, is a 17-metre solid brass sculpture suspended across the first floor of a listed London building that allows light in. It comprises thousands of brass ‘louvers’ arranged to create a rippling ‘veil’ over the space. The 3200 brass pieces were laser cut and then individually machine-bent before being slotted into the vertical contoured ‘ribs’ that make up the undulating shape of The Veil.
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Giles Miller Studio
Giles Miller Studio believes in enriching human surroundings and specializes in artistically focused surfaces, architecture, and sculpture. In each discipline the studio brings new meaning to spaces by celebrating the relationship between materials and light.
V House | MOAD- The Madras Office for Architects and Designers
V House, designed by MOAD- The Madras Office for Architects and Designers, is a residence built for contemplation and delight in Chennai, India. It is conceived to heighten the consciousness of living through light and materials. Designed as a series of loosely connected pavilions, The ground level being the largest, opens out minimally, allowing for nature to cave in, giving a sense of living in darkness. These pavilions are landscaped at different levels, with hanging gardens engulfing the home.
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Selected Interviews
MOAD – The Madras Office for Architects and Designers
The Madras Office for Architects and Designers (MOAD) is a multidisciplinary design practice known for sensitive design, deep cultural influences, collaborative design approach, celebrating local materials and keen attention to detail. MOAD offers Architectural Design, Urban Design/ Master Planning, Interior Design, Architecture/ Urban research, Graphic Design, Installation Art and Set Design.
House ½ | doT and associates
House ½, designed by Dot and associates, is a 100% tongue and groove house with construction and interior living requirements completed in six weeks. House ½ hopes to escape the city’s chaos and desires, and to return to the sensory to feel the beauty of life. The core spirit of the house is to allow the quality of the house to reopen perceptions that the busy urban life has clouded. An offline house is a process of creating a symbiosis with the environment.
doT & associates
Dot and associates is an architecture and design practice, and everything related to space can be regarded as an extension of architectural thinking. The designer imagines, thinks, and develops suitable materials and construction methods, and then shapes the possible containment of Various “air”-like spaces, including utensils, installations, furniture, interiors, houses, factories, public buildings, landscapes, etc. design and engineering projects are executed.
Selected Projects
The Farm | Scott Posno Design
The Farm, designed by Scott Posno Design, serves as a weekend and vacation home for the users who frequent the tranquil property for relaxation and enjoyment. The Farm aims to engage the history and physical attributes of the site while amplifying a relationship with the outdoors. The Farm was not conceived of as a single iconic house in the country, but as a compound of buildings that engage the compelling qualities of site and landscape in such a way as to maximize use and enjoyment while establishing a greater connection to nature.
Scott Posno Design
Scott Posno Design is a design studio specializing in residence, renovations, interior design, and landscape design projects locally and across the Country. The methodology is practical and straightforward. The design process is collaborative, working closely within a team that includes our clients, builders, consultants, and engineers.
Residencia HRB | Schuchovski Arquitetura
Residencia HRB, designed by Schuchovski Arquitetura, is a concise and contemporary home with construction open to the landscape. The house’s layout directly responded to the site’s characteristics. Sensitive and original, the owners value the handmade artifacts and establish a close relationship with the environment. Therefore, the designers have selected materials that value true nature, in favor of the concept of sustainability.
Selected Academic Projects
Schuchovski Arquitetura
Schuchovski Arquitetura is an architecture firm that believes in rescuing lives’ essentials and bringing people’s well-being through their homes. Therefore, the language of our projects is always determined by each family’s identity, imprinted on their home’s architecture. Here, each project has its history and identity. And in response, the team brings elements of originality and boldness: the unusual and the authentic are always present in the creation.
Weekly Highlights 2021 #34
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – TB – House by Trung Tran Studio. 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.
Alone House | Story Architecture
Alone House, designed by Story Architecture, is a residence with lots of space to relieve the pressure of every day, which is the design criterion. Although the area of the house is small, all the spaces in the home have designed floor vents or glass arrays to free up the vision.
Compilations
Cecil Street House | Chan Architecture
Cecil Street House, designed by Chan Architecture, is a renovation and extension to a single-fronted, double-story Victorian terrace house in South Melbourne. The brief was to create a striking, modern extension with light-filled open spaces while reconstructing the period house at the front. Internally, the open stairs connect the three levels to a large roof deck, providing additional open space for the clients to enjoy. It also provides a thermal chimney effect to minimize the need for mechanical cooling.
Chan Architecture
Chan Architecture is a boutique, Melbourne-based architectural practice with a strong focus on design. The philosophy is to create design-oriented, client-focused buildings that are both beautiful and sustainable buildings. Chan Architecture has completed several successful residential projects across Melbourne, including renovations and extensions, new houses, and multi-unit developments.
Casa M&M | Estudio PKa
Casa M&M, designed by Estudio PKa, has a solid volume, openwork, and light control management to create space for sunlight. The house is perceived as something compact; the solid volume was sought to be as pure as possible, and the accessory interventions such as shutters and parasols to be organic. This is why wood, a noble material, predominates in the material constitution of the house, giving warmth and naturalness to the whole house.
Leftcraft | Graham Baba Architects
Leftcraft, designed by Graham Baba Architects, is casual and approachable yet distinct from local restaurant and bar establishments. The design explores and plays with themes of materiality, color, texture, and the contrast between new and old. The infill building, modified at various times during its existence, features concrete walls and floors and a tongue-and-groove Douglas fir ceiling, all of which were cleaned and left exposed to express the building’s character.
Symbiosis University Hospital and Research Centre | IMK Architects
Symbiosis University Hospital and Research Centre is an architectural project designed by IMK Architects in Pune, India. Sitting along a slope, the building is strategically positioned to minimize the cut-and-fill of the hill site. Planned as a robust curve along the contours of the land, it forms the project’s façade. Imbibing the client brief of ‘grandeur’ being a key element, two significant and symbolic entrances have been designed, distinct in approach to cater to the client brief of unique identities for the hospital and the academic block.
IMK Architects
IMK Architects is an architecture and urban design practice with a team of architects, designers, planners, engineers, and visualization artists. IMK Architects focus on exploring the potential of architecture within the paradigms of culture and civilization to serve the needs and aspirations of the communities it serves. Social consciousness, sustainability, and robust designs have been the cornerstones of the practice.
The Drawing Board 2021 | Know the Site
This year’s design challenge for “The Drawing Board” is much more than an architecture contest. Immerse yourself in the study of Wari and discover the higher calling that pilgrims submit to each year. This challenge is to give young architects and design students an opportunity to explore, invent and be creative with challenging architectural problems.
Island Retreat | Coates Design: Architecture + Interiors – Seattle Architects
Island Retreat, designed by Coates Design: Architecture + Interiors, has Pacific Northwest architectural style, with wood floors and expansive two-story glazing allowing a view of the mountains from the upper balcony. The site topography was maintained to minimize earth disturbance on the steep slope. The new homes were built on the existing footprint. Each home includes a material palette of stone, concrete, wood, and metal, complimenting one another while defining the subtle differences in the siblings’ tastes.
Baan Chong | Studionomad
Baan Chong, designed by Studionomad, is a renovation with the purpose of adding one full additional floor to accommodate three generations of the family. The design team formulated a method to work on existing building design limitation and enhance functional and aesthetic quality of the building with shapes the client enjoys. A tight solid building was ultimately transformed into a well-lit and well-ventilated residential space where all areas are interconnected with a glimpse
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