Student Prize Winner Announced for CLT Induction in India – Design Competition
Aakar Design Private Ltd with the partnership of Mitsubishi announced the student prize winner and special mention of the competition workshop “CLT Induction-in India”.
Shades of Green | Live Interview with Architect Sanjay Prakash | India
“Sanjay Prakash, B. Arch., A.I.I.A., is an architect with a commitment to energy-conscious architecture, eco-friendly design, people’s participation in planning, music and production design. In this talk he points out that mainstream architecture, which stresses on code compliance, safety, and value for money, became green, with a stress on efficiency and substitution of fossil resources with renewable ones. He then goes on to explain how green is leading to sustainable (blue) architecture, which includes the concerns of sufficiency, equity, identity, and resilience, not covered by merely green architecture, with visual examples from Sanjay Prakash’s own experience over the last 40 years in the field.
Entrepreneurial Pathways to Sustainability | Live Interview with Keyur Sarda | India
Keyur Sarda, co-founder of Kesarjan Building Center, is a graduate of School of Building Science & Technology, CEPT university and exploring building materials is his passion. This talk is about his journey as an entrepreneur, more of learning from experiments, a commercial try given to main streaming the Appropriate Technologies.
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Integrating the Opposites | Live Interview with Dharmesh Jadeja | India
Over last 29 years, Dharmesh Jadeja has lived & worked in Auroville. This conversation aims to share experiences, thoughts and enquiries at his practice – Dustudio, and an opportunity to redefine the profession, by the process of unlearning, as well as relook at our own timeless traditions.
Dementia-Friendly Wayfinding System | Immortal
Dementia-Friendly Wayfinding System’s objective was to create a system that assists seniors and those afflicted with dementia in navigating around their neighbourhood safely and independently. This was achieved by formulating wayfinding strategies that support easy navigation between residential blocks and key amenities around the estates, especially within high-traffic zones.
Immortal
Immortal is an architectural design firm based in Singapore.
Selected Interviews
Akravi Disha | Within n Without Architects
Akravi Disha, designed by Within n Without Architects, is a penthouse with a brief seeking desired solution for a drama writer and chartered accountant. Being at an elevation of sixty feet above ground level, the possibility of exploring physical connections of sheltered indoors with the ground and landscape was another concern. Views, privacy, light quality and good ventilation were some of potential aspects onto the platter to work.
Within n Without Architects
Studio ‘Within N Without’ is an architectural firm that believes in its ideas and emphasizes evolving innovative architectural processes. The studio has extensive experience in varied-scale projects from private to public sector, including temples, masjid and gurudwara, Artist studio, Office buildings, residential, farmhouses, etc. They aim in dedication and passionately working in architecture and socially contribute towards society through architecture.
Result Announced | Metaphysics in Architecture Competition
Result announced for the competition “Metaphysics in Architecture” which was a 2021 Architecture Essay Competition, organized by Archiol.
Selected Projects
House COVE(R) | Touch Architect
House COVE(R), designed by Touch Architect, is a two-story single-detached house with a small curve-triangular land shape located at the corner. An extension shape is similar to a cove which parallels with the curve of the land, to use the space to its full potential. Double space between the stairs and skylight allows natural sunlight through downstairs, instead of creating vertical voids that lack privacy. Vertical aluminium trellis together with perforated metal are used to cover all cove, continuing to an existing house, to harmonize both buildings.
The Night Ministry | Wheeler Kearns Architects
The Night Ministry, designed by Wheeler Kearns Architects, provides an oasis for security, independence, and safety for young adults facing adversity. The new headquarters is located in the “Mural Building” – a prominent manufacturing building known for its large murals that cover the North, East, and South Elevations along a busy Chicago expressway. Three floors of the heavy-timber building are renovated to include “The Crib” – an overnight shelter, a serving kitchen and dining space, administrative offices, meeting rooms, and multi-purpose programming space for social services, job assistance, and social activities.
Result Announced | Sustainability in Architecture
Archiol announced winners of architecture writing competition “Sustainability in architecture”
Selected Academic Projects
Weekly Highlights 2021 #20
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – House in Estrela by Aires Mateus. 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.
Bridge view | Kendle Design Collaborative
Bridge view, designed by Kendle Design Collaborative, is a family home with mountain and valley views similar to a hillside location. Part foyer, part gallery, the split-level entry hall acts as a social and spatial connector between formal and informal living spaces while reducing the perceived separation between levels. Millwork at the kitchen, as throughout the home, is an extension of the architecture and conceived as sculptural form as well as functional storage. The scale is modulated between cozy and dramatic via the inclusion of floating ceiling clouds and light coves that define the spaces below.
Marcomonde Shibuya | UUfie
Marcomonde Shibuya, designed by UUfie, represents the first permanent retail space for the Japanese fashion brand, Marcomonde. The apparel line is a fusion of culture and fashion. The space—composed of stairs, millwork, and floor—has been conceived as a free-standing, abstract, geometric sculpture. The overall design gives the appearance of a staircase, but this is an illusion, as the staircase leads nowhere. In relationship to the main building, the store creates an intriguing physical disorientation by suggesting a stairway leading to a secret place.
Compilations
Uufie
Uufie is a multidisciplinary design practice with the philosophy to find a specific natural characteristic and strength within each project to bond people with the natural world. They believe that physical structures have the power to inspire wonderment and discovery but also a sense of connection to a natural world that sometimes feels as if it has slipped our grasp. At heart, the work aims to make architecture a sensory and visceral experience.
Winners Announced for CLT Induction in India – Design Competition
Aakar Design Private Ltd with the partnership of Mitsubishi announced the frst three winners of the competition workshop “CLT Induction-in India”.
Architecture Faculty in Tournai | Aires Mateus
Architecture Faculty in Tournai, designed by Aires Mateus, is positioned to bond the structures and define new external spaces. The project occupies the interior of a historical city block where buildings from different identities and periods coexist. There are two industrial buildings and a convent that has been used as a hospital. Inside, public functions are sheltered, operating not only as passage spaces and meeting places but also as a part of a new identity.
DOM House | CRUX arquitectos
DOM House, designed by CRUX arquitectos, is half of a house equitably split when inherited in the village of Los Pedrones. Vernacular architecture in rural settings is profoundly ad hoc. In DOM house, the intervention follows the same direct spirit but from a subtractive rather than an additive approach. The volume of the house is reduced with the intervention, and it is also emptied on the inside. The more informal exterior extensions were replaced by a light structure that set off against the masonry wall’s heaviness.
St George Orthodox Church | Wallmakers
St George Orthodox Church, designed by Wallmakers, resurrects the original church using stabilized earth blocks to form Nubian arches, alter, and the aisles of the church are supported by flying buttresses built without shuttering. The church’s architecture builds on the imagery of historical monuments, but the transparent use of the material in its potential forms gives this building its fascinating edifice. By re-interpreting a historic construction technique and responding to the footprint of the structure on the site, the attempt is to create a building made with the earth that inspires awe and a sense Of wonderment with its rich spatial quality.
Shenzhen Terraces by MVRDV breaks grounds
Designed with sustainability as a focus, the project’s green outdoor spaces mix together with a wide variety of activities – including a theatre, a library, a museum, a conference centre, and retail – to make the site a hub for meeting, learning, leisure, culture, and relaxation.
Result Announced | History of Architecture-Architecture Writing Competition
Result announced for the competition History of Architecture is a 2021 Presentation and Writing Competition, organized by Archiol.
Life on the Tree | LAAR
Life on the Tree, designed by LAAR, is envisaged as a young girl’s manifesto whose childhood was spent climbing trees in an old masonry house. The project is conceived as a “solar”, a traditional country mayan house, which considers the open space, the patio, as the living universe of its occupants. The heart of this space is a “ramón” tree, whose only presence transforms the perspective since it gives its intimacy away, making their pinnacles approachable, creating a symbiotic relationship with the human being since they’re both protagonists that shelter the space.
Kauhale Kai | De Reus Architects
Kauhale Kai, designed by De Reus Architects, is a private residence that balances traditional forms while translating the spirit of Polynesian cultures through a modern sense of restraint. The clients share an affinity for Hawai’i and Polynesia, modern art and design, and the beauty of natural materials and craftsmanship. Exterior materials include copper shingles, steel doors and windows, integral-color cement plaster, cedar eaves, coral-clad columns, and travertine pavers. Pools and water features are integrated throughout the plan, merging the natural and built environments.
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