Just An Architect
Just An Architect is an architecture studio that focuses its main activity in architectural design, and is also present in other areas, namely in interior architecture, inspection, construction monitoring and consultancy.
Fireworks in white | fala
Fireworks in white, designed by fala, is a familiar exercise of fitting in ambiguous programs, correcting mistakes and introducing an insistent order. Almost pure interior, the space is an elaborate composition of fearless geometries. Three fluid walls are framed between a dotted marble floor and a white wavy ceiling. Proud doors suggest possible rooms and occasional mirrors simulate the missing windows. Curtains, doors, columns and cabinets complete the spatial parade that can be used as a house.
Mansueto High School | Wheeler Kearns Architecture
Mansueto High School, designed by Wheeler Kearns Architects, transformed 5.5 acres of industrial brownfield into a place of great opportunity for its students. The design of the school supports this goal, organized around a central green space which emulates a college quadrangle and allowing high-schoolers to envision a college future from day one. The use of masonry anchors the building’s identity, replicating the historical context of the site, providing a sense of protection, and shielding interior functions.
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The Klotski | Graham Baba Architects
The Klotski, designed by Graham Baba Architects, is a three-story, mixed-use infill building that reflects the neighborhood’s eclectic vibrancy and gritty nature. Riffing on the idea of shifting uses and planes, the design takes its visual cue from a sliding tile puzzle, also known as a klotski, where the object is to rearrange tiles to solve the puzzle. Sustainable features include rainwater cisterns that collect and recycle all on-site rainwater, roof-top solar panels, energy-efficient radiant heating, and thermally efficient, operable windows encouraging cross ventilation.
Apartamento na Almirante Reis | BALA atelier
Apartamento na Almirante Reis, designed by BALA atelier, is a rehabilitation intervention to counter the weak pre-existing conditions of habitability. Efforts were made to preserve the historical legacy of this constructive typology, preserving the elements considered relevant to the characteristics of the time. A rigorous approach is defined, with a special focus on detail, choosing pine wood as the primary material, and valuing harmony and compatibility of the others. The new configuration of the space allows for a dynamic and flexible experience of home.
Bala atelier
Bala atelier is an architectural firm based in Lisbon, Portugal.
Selected Interviews
Weekly Highlights 2021 #15
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Trapezioma by Andyrahman Architect. 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.
Ovoid | GreyScale Design Studio
Ovoid, designed by GreyScale Design Studio, is a holiday home with a contemporary adaptation of the local architecture with pitched roofing. The design stemmed from the basic brief of flowing with the land topography and creating the entire structure within the foliage height. The house is built in locally available laterite stone, which in its exposed form arrests all your senses along the passageway from living to bedroom. The house is constructed in the way that allows sunlight in every corner of it throughout the day. One can truly feel the serene outdoor all across inside the house.
Vinod Residence | Murali Architects
Vinod Residence, designed by Murali Architects, has a rustic yet futuristic parametric façade that brings out the bricks’ dynamic side. They unveil its frozen state in a new dimension; parallelly, its sturdiness is also set out by its genuine exposed skin. It is not just the façade that speaks out for itself, but also the well-ventilated interiors, where the play of light creates statements in every face of the inner brick walls. It is a balanced mix of contemporary and traditional architecture, conceiving new values that respond to regionalism and a new future.
Selected Projects
Murali architects
Murali architects is one of the innovative design practices in Tamil Nadu, offering services in Architecture and Interior design. The team creates innovative, inspiring residential, commercial, institutional, and hospital projects. The projects are unique and possess qualitative architecture as an outcome of commitment to our core value of design excellence and are dedicated to research & development.
Result Announced: Architecture Illustration Competition
The result announced for Architecture illustration competition held by DesignClass
Comfort Town | Archimatika
Comfort Town, designed by Archimatika, is a housing project with a 40-hectare explosion of rainbow-colored concrete on the ground below. Children’s building blocks inspire Comfort Town’s 180 low-rise apartment buildings, a playful response to the sprawling 1950s and 60s communist-era housing that encircles them. The focus was on three techniques: silhouette: different turns and heights of dual-pitch roofs; window: using the French balcony and the window shifting system to avoid monotonous rows; color: the first daring color solution for a residential neighborhood in the country.
Selected Academic Projects
The Shop at The CAC | EskewDumezRipple
The Shop at The CAC, designed by EskewDumezRipple, is a comprehensive co-working development with technology, arts, and cultural-based businesses. The shop is a hub of entrepreneurship in the developing Downtown innovation corridor. This renovation preserves the classic Warehouse District architecture of the existing building while incorporating modern elements. The light-filled space features high ceilings with exposed beams, large windows, a contemporary art collection, and a flowing, open floor plan.
Six houses and a garden | fala
Six houses and a garden, designed by fala, has four identical and two exceptional houses around one common garden hidden inside a city block. One architecture tying the fragmented reality. The composition of each inner space combines orthogonal, diagonal and curved lines. Acting within a very small volume, this combination of ambivalent geometries achieves quite unconventional living rooms. The materiality of the awkward interiors follows their complexity.
Trianglo Lounge Bar | Maden Group
Trianglo Lounge Bar, designed by Maden Group, is a space that fits harmoniously with several components like works of art, colors, and plants. The chosen ceramic tile, called Araldica, handmade and designed by Italian designer Federico Pepe, gave the space another experience and feeling. The captivating effect of this tile, which has a perfect play of duality with a natural look and minimalist lines for its geometric compositions. During the day, natural light rays fill the space and create a natural focus of the plants, while at night, it leaves the space bright. The interior is modern, sleek, with clean lines and spaces.
Compilations
Maden Group
Maden Group is an architecture studio, based in Kosova, that gives comfort, spreads friendly vibes, and works with creativity. The designers always try to integrate new elements according to the evolution of technology and materials, giving different dimensions and colors to our creations but never losing the identity. The main attention is the environment and the atmosphere where we work in.
Yeh Inth Patharon ka Ghar
‘Yeh inth patharon ka ghar’ is the second article of the series ‘Har Ghar Kuch Kehta Hai’. This series of blog articles is centered around everyday life in traditional Indian homes. Using clues from Bollywood songs, regional poetry, TV advertisements and folk culture, the articles aim to highlight the various associations that people have with their homes, their neighbourhood and the city. What kinds of spaces and elements constituted traditional Indian homes before the living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen? What were these spaces called? What purposes did they serve? What meanings and values were associated with them? How was the home perceived in relation to the neighbourhood and the city? The tone of the articles is reflective and borrows from the authors’ personal experiences.
PLAA-GUT restaurant | Touch Architects
PLAA-GUT restaurant, designed by Touch Architects, transforms two existing houses into a restaurant with a semi-outdoor area and step-like dining under mango trees. The space between generates a transition route between the restaurant and the café building by a rectangular tunnel made of wooden trellis. The space under and around this mango tree will be used as a “co-outdoor space” for both restaurant and cafe.
A home for the Guptas | Raghuveer Kathpalia
A home for the Guptas, designed by Raghuveer Kathpalia, is an inquiry into what it means to settle, one of the many ways to do that. It began with how one will perceive the site’s landscape once occupied and conditioned. The clients, in their brief, wanted a house that would change their relationship with the outdoors. In some ways, the project disaggregates their current home in a fairly dense urban setting. The layers of verandahs courtyards and the possibility to connect and disconnect all of these by the movement of the doors enable this phenomenon.
Raghuveer Kathpalia
Raghuveer Kathpalia is a practicing architect with an ideation of lived experience of space, of how one sees architecture within the built environment. They happen everywhere in the city through a process of accretion and negotiation of adjacency. A home is what makes the city happen, it is that which holds all settlements. That is why my present pre-occupation is about settling in a landscape. Such as how one experiences a piece of land once it has been occupied vis a vis how one did before occupation.
T house | CTA | Creative Architects
T House, designed by CTA | Creative Architects, is a multi-generational family home focusing on visual connectivity and ventilation. The project was created by two blocks stay about two corners of the house, two void spaces between two functional blocks, combining garden and common activities to ensure that all spaces are illuminated by natural light. Arranging spaces with ventilation and lighting also creates a space to connect, encourage members to leave the rooms, join in common activities, enjoy nature or seeing each other.
@BATUBATA | Studio Air Putih
@BATUBATA, designed by Studio Air Putih, has the main concept of following the environmental context located in scattered and disorganized surroundings. Using bricks as the main building materials indicates a humble character since it blends well with the surroundings. Furthermore, bricks are a local material typically low maintenance and environmentally friendly. The ‘Architecture in the Box’ concept is applied where the bricks surround the office glass wall.
Studio Air Putih
Studio Air Putih (SAP) is an architecture and interior design studio with projects ranging from residential to hospitality designs, establishing a distinguished design brand.
Holmwood Transfiguration by The Vrindavan Project
This project in Mussoorie by architecture firm ‘The Vrindavan Project’ challenged the architects to a four year long design and construction process. Integrating modern systems, services and amenities they built a form that would restore the original structure while adding value to it.
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