Project4 years ago
The Northstar Nest, designed by Shanmugam Associates, is a kindergarten campus that intends not to have sharp edges to make the building child-friendly. Focussing on sensory perception, colorful handmade cement tiles have been introduced in the classrooms and common areas. A child-friendly color palette, simple geometrical patterns on the pergolas in each floor, and simple building form have been intentionally planned to introduce colours, shapes and patterns to children using architecture as a learning medium.
Project4 years ago
Viter House, designed by Sergey Makhno Architects, was created in collaboration with the elements of nature and inspired by the winds. Its graceful monolith stands firmly on the ground, stretches to the sky, breathes along with the winds, and reminds us that the true essence is in harmony, and harmony is where the house is. The space was organized in a way for the couple to be comfortable alone, for the children to have a place to return with their own families, and for the guests to have a place to sleep, eat and rest.
Project4 years ago
Rebelo House, designed Ren Ito Arq, is an apartment remodelation project that created visual connections between each space to feel the other member of family. Though the same design language was used for furniture, walls, and doors, proper details, illuminations and materials were used for each elements. It makes the design more human and accessible. An illumination that projects light for the ceiling and the table was installed above the dining table.
Article4 years ago
In this interview Prof Gurdev elaborates on various teaching/learning methodologies for learning Structures under the title – Structures in Architecture, A Process. In this article, we present a summary of his talk with images from students’ works, done under mentorship of Prof Gurdev.
Project4 years ago
Modular Kindergarten, designed by Architekt Maciej Franta, creates an architecture of simplicity as minimalist background for colorful and expressive preschool life and respect to the existing values. The whole idea of the building is based on forming architecture as a backdrop for preschool events while continuing to form continuation of the existing architecture. Kindergarten rooms directly open onto kindergarten garden swallowing for a seamless direct connection between the interior and garden.
Project4 years ago
Casa Mirador, designed by RAMA Estudio, has a “nomadic” lifestyle so their stays in Ecuador were short and sporadic. The specific request was to expand their existing house for social areas, include comfortable and independent bedrooms for the daughters, and take advantage of the view of the site. This structure requires a minimal foundation, which allows almost no soil disturbance and very little time for its manufacturing and assembly. Floor and ceiling elements frame the view and allow the nature of the environment to surround the space.
Practice4 years ago
Rama Estudio is an architecture studio, design, and construction that focuses on the optimization of resources through experimentation. The group is interested in processes that strengthen the design and production with coherence to the needs, the place, its memory, and the environment. Scales of work, which range from the territory to the object, are related to achieve an integral vision that objectively responds to social, cultural, and spatial issues.
News4 years ago
Over the years ZedLab has experimented with transition spaces in different kinds of projects ranging from residential to institutional. Contrary to the traditional courtyard within the building envelope, the approach is to introduce transition spaces at the periphery that creates a protected external environment for the users and the building itself.
Project4 years ago
KAP-House, designed by ONG&ONG, achieves an intrinsic integration between architecture, interior design, and landscaping. It reposes behind wild grassland that grows from the remains of the old Malayan Railway. Placed on a plot that was once the sprawling garden of a classic colonial black and white bungalow, the home was imagined as a paradigm of modern tropical living. Their intention was to create a home resplendent in the “likeness of nature, capturing nature alive to create a spectacular vision.”
Project4 years ago
METU Graduate Students Guesthouse, designed by Uygur Architects, is a living environment for academicians of different ages and professions. The project’s core unit is designed as a singular cell for one person, including a sleeping and study space. This core cell is repeated in the five-story building with angular articulations reminiscent of different streets. The intention was to create low-cost construction with minimum maintenance requirements. Therefore, simple and strong materials such as raw concrete and undulated metal panels are used with their own colors.
Project4 years ago
The Courtyard House, designed by Associated Architects Pvt Ltd, tried to reflect traditional courtyard houses with modern interventions. The dialogue between the spaces and activities revolves around the courtyard, which we refer to as the heart of the house. The elevation of the house strikes a modern & contemporary note in an urban milieu. We can see an elevated mass from the ground offering protection against direct light inside the building, & providing cross ventilation beneath it simultaneously.
Practice4 years ago
Associated Architects Pvt. Ltd is a convergence of its philosophy and skills that conceptualize each with references to climate, context, and location. This analysis is used to arrive at appropriate design decisions & appropriate construction solution. Design development is done by massing and modelling at various stages of project progress until a completely satisfactory result is achieved. Through a channelized management system and a design philosophy, we arrive at an appropriate design solution with a refined process and professional skills.
Selected Academic Projects
Project4 years ago
The Stone House, designed by Within n Without Architects, is a quiet place for reading and relaxing, a pause point to look over. It also is an interactive place to sit and talk with family and a congregation space for social gatherings. Access to the house is through a journey of unfolding views that resonates the experience from the landscape thus giving the native flavour to this architecture that belongs to this place.
Project4 years ago
Casa Sakura, designed by Estudio PKa, transitions between the street and the house’s access and is the heart of it, and all the circulations turn towards this spacing. The idea is to go through different sensations: first we can appreciate the music room, with different instruments used by the family, which also eventually opens above a multipurpose space, generating flexibility of environments. The materialization of the house is of exposed concrete of boards combined with phenolic; It has a double wall, rpt dvh aluminum openings and travertine floors.
Practice4 years ago
Estudio PKa is an architecture studio, oriented to the design, direction and execution of the works that they materialize as a team. Interpret the needs, through a different, global and creative vision, which transforms project objectives into precise and unique efficient proposals, immersions in a real economic context. They follow up and evaluate throughout the creative process, select both the project and the operational technician, and optimize and refine the results.
Project4 years ago
Housing Complex Niigata, designed by Takuyahosokai, has a dialogue between built form and seasonal and daily changes to the sun’s altitude, weather patterns, and fluctuations in atmospheric conditions. This temporal cycle conspires to continuously transform and direct light and shadows, generating a form of architectural expression. The configuration of the facade has been determined by the efficiency and practicality of evacuation routes, service piping and to allow for re-use of the formwork, amongst other requirements
Project4 years ago
Belife, Gabinetes de Saúde Integrada, designed by Arquitetos Romulo Neto, Integrates Medicine, Wellness and Dermatofunctional, Physiotherapy and Group Classes. Human Body is the central point of our project, the curve as an expression in the form, in a fluid way, with a present function of concealing the pillars. After this path, spaces appear, corresponding through color, to the four great elements, the intention is that those who visit the space, feel good, in communion with nature.
Practice4 years ago
Romulo Neto Arquitetos, is an architectural firm with projects diversified in location, size, and content with competence, quality & economy. They value the private customer and support a large company. They bet on innovation, service excellence, and an incessant search for solutions that generate value and functional and economic aesthetics. Our customers are the driving force of our existence.
Project4 years ago
Darkwood Residence, designed by Cumulus Studio, is a family home with wilderness at heart that is Clever, not posh with a sustainable footprint. The response was relatively low tech, stripped back and simple. The designers prioritised the natural surrounds, natural light and hard-wearing natural materials to fit the brief. A stepped design and folded, sculptural roof lets light flood the living area. Built-in furniture fits the small footprint, with deep windows allowing you to sit, relax and feel part of the view.
Project4 years ago
5 Element House, designed by Studio PKA, is a weekend retreat and a reprieve from the city’s bustling life in a pristine landscape. The house on top of the hill, reminiscent of the forts in the horizon, reveals its ability to become one with the land and is a pure reflection of the realm surrounding it. The light cast reflections of rippling water from the pool against the walls. The shadows grow across the expanse of the house and along double-height walls as the day wears on. The world around had grown into the design the same way the design had grown into its surrounding.
Compilation4 years ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – IHA Residence by Wallmakers. 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.
Practice4 years ago
PKA is a design studio is a well-established practice providing complete design solutions in interior-architecture. With corporate interiors as its core strength, the studio has slowly expanded its horizons to designing other spaces as well and has a wide spectrum of projects from corporate to residential including bungalows and villas. The past two decades have seen the practice grow from a small design studio to one of the industry’s preferred practices.
Project4 years ago
Desert wash, designed by Kendle Design Collaborative, is a unique modern home designed to celebrate nature and desert living. Rammed earth walls, expansive glass and floating steel and wood clad roofs shelter a family in modern beauty and provide the perfect backdrop for their extensive collection of art and Asian artifacts. Throughout the home you experience the site sensitivity of the project through its unique pallets and how the residence respects the natural qualities of the site.
Project4 years ago
Sun house, designed by Tetro Arquitetura, is a residence that rises from the ground to reach stunning views of the mountains of Minas. The wooden deck with the pool is over the house, sunning the whole day and shading the rooms. The living room connects this leisure area with the upper part of the land, opening up to the lush native vegetation.
