Project4 years ago
Sands Point Residence, designed by HMA2 Architects, is a modern residence conceived as a family “resort” for everyday and all-season living; the design mixes an open flow of flexible spaces. The house is like an open shell nestled on a carved hill. A wrapping metal roof and wall surrounds and protects a permeable glass and wood skin that invites arrival and frames the open landscape and water views. The house energetically reaches beyond its shell to connect indoor and outdoor experiences.
Practice4 years ago
HMA2 is a New York-based design firm offering architecture and strategic and master planning; HMA2 is a recognized leader in the design of learning places. They transform libraries, universities, and schools into celebratory destinations that speak to today. Their designs are products of learning. Culture, technology, history, art, climate, and the client’s mission and values teach them. Shifts in how people work, live, and socialize inform us.
Project4 years ago
Park Street House, designed by Robert Simeoni Architects, creates an intensely private residential space with an attempt to carry through external details and elements. The north facing exterior façade has been planted with creepers, which grow along expressed vertical wires, giving the house an additional layer of greenery, shading and privacy. The interior spaces of the building aim to be domestic, architecturally intense and pragmatic all at once. The house is one room wide, and the circulation space becomes an adjunct to the prescribed rooms.
Project4 years ago
House in Samambaia, designed by Rodrigo Simão Arquitetura, preserves relief, stones, and native trees, creating functional spaces that integrate domestic life with the nature of the place. The carbon steel structure used in most of the building made possible large spans with spares of reduced sections, allowing large window openings and creating open spaces in dialogue with the garden and the region’s beautiful landscape. The concepts of open space, using materials in their natural form, and integrating with nature seek to inspire in the family simplicity and a functional and integrated lifestyle.
Practice4 years ago
Rodrigo Simão Arquitetura is an architectural firm based in Brazil.
News4 years ago
The winners of the Melbourne Affordable Housing Challenge have been selected. This competition tasked participants with tackling Melbourne’s affordable housing crisis, and entries were both varied and inspired.
Project4 years ago
Boonma, designed by Sher Maker, is a renovated program of cafe originally located on a hill land Surrounded by massive trees. The building is blend with a massively private forest and the atmosphere of the disordered natural landscape. A new boundary is defined using materials or planes that create blur and dilution between inside and outside areas. Run follow the curve using the radius of the original building to determine the shape Insert between the original tree and hang materials like opaque plastic curtains to disguise the building from the viewpoint of the entrance.
Practice4 years ago
Sher Maker is an architectural firm based in Chiangmai,Thailand led by Ar.Thongchai Chansamak and Ar. Patcharada Inplang.
Project4 years ago
Flash Battery Headquarters, designed by Studio Bocchi, is a production headquarters capable of interpreting the identity and characteristics of the production. The key points of the project were clear. They required a pragmatic approach: structural simplicity to ensure flexibility, cost efficiency, speed of execution, attention to the aesthetic definition of the building and creating a pleasant and functional working environment. The office building has been “hollowed out” in the middle to obtain a glazed patio around which the interior spaces are arranged.
Practice4 years ago
Studio Bocchi has been active in architecture, urban planning, and interior design, working on all scales of intervention, from small private commissions to large companies. Its team of architects, engineers and surveyors, and its well-established professional network of specialists and firms with whom it collaborates, allow the studio to provide all the services necessary in the design and construction process.
News4 years ago
Silk Matters announced the winners of Gaudi Architecture Prize 2020- International Design Awards. This award aims to provide a platform for students and recent graduates to showcase their un-built academic and idea projects.
Project4 years ago
WERK12, designed by MVRDV, is a mixed-use building that combines a simple form, honest materials, and transparent façades. This public route up the building blurs the distinction between interior and exterior, placing the interior spaces in conversation with exterior balconies. Simple geometries and honest materials morph into a vibrant lightshow. A key to the design was in the flexibility of the spaces. The design’s external circulation core on the building’s northeastern side is supplemented by 3.25-metre-wide terraces surrounding each building floor.
Selected Academic Projects
Article4 years ago
In collaboration with the Government of the State of Oaxaca, TEN Arquitectos carries out the studies and construction documents for the new Congress Center of Santa María Huatulco. The 5,000 square meter project will be made up of an architectural program that brings together cultural, commercial and green areas.
Project4 years ago
Campo Alegre, designed by Costa Lima Arquitectos, introduced changes in the configuration of the internal space, transforming the original five bedrooms structure into a three bedrooms apartment. This operation enabled the creation of a master suite with a closet and a significant increase in the kitchen area. Looking for a careful approach and reusing existing materials, the intervention improved the quality of the internal space and the comfort and energy efficiency of the apartment.
Practice4 years ago
Costa Lima Arquitectos is an interdisciplinary architecture firm working in architecture, urban planning, real estate development, and consulting. They develop projects ranging from small-scale refurbishments to urban macro plans. The team is skilled in providing full-service assistance from the early stage of an investment to the finishing of the buildings, including interior design.
Project4 years ago
Option Coffee Bar, designed by Touch Architect, is a time-sharing, massing, and zoning design was created to suit both contrast functions of a healthy food restaurant in the morning while used as a craft-beer bar in the evening. A simple white box was created to show contrast from the context and focus on the art elements inside. This makes it easier to catch the eyes of people around the site. At the same time, it generates a ‘simply different’ atmosphere by using all black and white materials. It arouses customers’ sensations by changing emotions during the timeline.
Project4 years ago
Cork Oak House, designed by Hugo Pereira Arquitetos, is a single family house on a plot of extraordinary morphological characteristics, which remained almost intact and unchanged. The development of this project took into account the strong relationship with nature, making it an integral part of the house and a key element in the enhancement of interior spatiality. The natural environment and the panorama that is enjoyed were the decisive elements for its construction.
Practice4 years ago
Hugo Pereira Arquitetos is an architectural practice offering expertise in architecture, interior design, and urban planning. The team is committed to delivering high-quality projects that present innovative design, functionality, sustainable solutions and excellent value through careful control of cost that ensure client satisfaction. Their goal is to design buildings and environments that work, inspire people and transform communities.
Project4 years ago
Daniels Building at One Spadina, designed by NADAA + Adamson Associates Architects, embodies a holistic approach to urban design and sustainability. As the new home for the John H. Daniels Faculty of architecture, landscape, and design, its purpose is to engage students and the broader community in dialogue about the built environment. It restores the historic and forgotten building to its original grandeur while also integrating a new addition.
Practice4 years ago
Adamson and AAI provide architectural services offering a full range of architectural, planning, interior, and urban design services in both the private and public sectors. The portfolio encompasses projects in virtually every market sector — commercial; cultural; hotel and residential; justice; colleges and universities; hospitals and healthcare; airports and transportation centers; retail; entertainment; and large-scale, mixed-use development sites.
Project4 years ago
Cube House, designed by RDMA, considers its primary motive to be privacy and is defined by using a layering method to generate high privacy yet an un-massive border. The house area is set by a double-skin wall. Air circulation is maximized by creating openings above the house, generating privacy and resulting in skylights all over the house. As for the massing, the house is shaped as one big mass split by the main stair and one big skylight in the middle of the house as the main air circulation and natural lighting source.
Practice4 years ago
RDMA is a design office focused on architecture, interior design, furniture development, lighting, and landscaping that has always been integrated. RDMA examines design style as an attitude towards the context of the task given where the program should meet not only function but also aesthetic value within the constraints of the local climate. Tropical climate in its comfort of modern Architecture. By an innovative way of thinking through the contemporary way of making.
Article4 years ago
Construction has started on the Pyramid of Tirana, the brutalist monument in the heart of Albania’s capital city. MVRDV’s design will see this crucial heritage building, once the showpiece of Communist dictator Enver Hoxha, dramatically renovated. The concrete structure will be reused, the atrium and its surroundings greened and opened, and a small village of cafes, studios, workshops, and classrooms – where Albanian youth will learn various technology subjects for free – will permeate the site, both inside and outside the pyramid itself. The Pyramid is thus expected to become a new hub for Tirana’s cultural life and a carrier for the new generation. “Working on a brutalist monument like the Pyramid is a dream”, says founding partner of MVRDV Winy Maas.
Project4 years ago
Floating Planes, designed by Compartment S4, is a retail experience design for a jewelry brand defined by a harmonic play of vertical lines and horizontal planes. Slender mild steel bars are used to design the hanging display shelves, display tables, stools, chairs and even the waiting bench. The olive green walls and tapestry add a certain touch of grandiose and poise to the otherwise populated space. Its composition with all the other elements triggers hidden memories of halcyon days and nostalgia of celebrations that are associated with jewelry in India.
