Project5 years ago
RISD North Hall, designed by NADAAA, has a brick façade that has become the tectonic glue to the site, having the ability to ground the extension up the hill. The brick serves as retaining walls, pilasters, and the grounding façades of both the north and south faces of North Hall. Critical to the conception of this project are building technologies that adopt composite systems to bring out the best optimal material use. From the thoughtful input of the campus community, the design features common spaces for socializing, making, reflecting and creative expression.
Project5 years ago
Kecherile Veedu, designed by Finder Studio, is a traditional Kerala home with a courtyard and has the warmth of mud walls and wood, the feeling of coziness of spaces. Despite being tightly packed in an odd-shaped 11-cent plot, the two triangular sky courts make the spaces airy and well-lit. A typical single-story structure attracts more heat gain than its multistorey counterparts. Reminiscent of a distant past; the material palette for the Kecheri house is essentially earth tones:- brick, stained concrete, cement plaster, and wood.
Practice5 years ago
Finder Studio is an architectural practice based in Trivandrum, Kerala, with the philosophy of searching for a spatial narrative. The team works on comprehensive architectural and interior design projects. They believe architecture is all about spreading happiness, where spaces are created by drawing inspiration from the traditional spatial language while engaging with the needs of the present.
News5 years ago
IBA’27 announced results for competition “Winnenden productive urban neighbourhood”
Project5 years ago
In-Sight House, designed by TOUCH Architect, is a refurbishment of a 3-storey townhouse that allows daylight, natural ventilation, and a garden inside. Initiative design of this building was directly portrayed into simple 6 boxes which are 3 existing and 3 expanding. Not only the eye sight, but the linkage space between each space inside the house also allow daylight in order to save electricity expense and make the house bright.
Project5 years ago
Mu Xin Art Museum, designed by OLI Architecture PLLC, is inspired by the complexity of the artist’s work but also his writing which was deeply impacted by the consecutive imprisonment. Taking a cue from the urban fabric of the town of Mu Xin’s childhood, the museum itself is a landscape of intersecting experiences. A series of cast-in-place colored architectural concrete volumes in varying sectional relationships to the canal and “street” house these experiences as singular galleries and program elements inviting visitors to wander through the “landscape.”
Practice5 years ago
OLI Architecture PLLC is an architectural practice combining work experience of over 30 years on the signature museum, civic and institutional projects worldwide. The firm offers full-service architectural design with a vision toward the future, a vast disciplinary understanding of the built environment, and respect for each project’s specific cultural parameters. OLI’s specialty expertise includes civic and cultural building design, museography, exhibition design, education, healthcare, and custom retail and residential design.
Compilation5 years ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Halaman -The Courtyard House by Zero 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.
Project5 years ago
Home of Blended Pluralities, designed by Ego Design Studio, is a residence in a lush green site flanked by huge mango trees. This need for the dichotomy of spatial constructs was explored as the core content of the house. Home of Blended Pluralities explores spaces of traditional content, entwined with the features of a modern home. Both the spatial constructs interact and explore each other through the gardens associated with the mango trees- which existed before all.
Practice5 years ago
EGO Design Studio is the confluence of a handful of irreverent brats who graduated from the Department of Architecture, Thangal Kunju Musaliar College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala. Having started their respective careers at the offices of several well-established architects of Kerala and beyond, they came together in 2009 to fulfil a promise they had made to each other while still in college. And so, in the fall of 2009, was born EGO Design Studio.
Project5 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.
Practice5 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.
Selected Academic Projects
Project5 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.
Project5 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.
Practice5 years ago
Rodrigo Simão Arquitetura is an architectural firm based in Brazil.
News5 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.
Project5 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.
Practice5 years ago
Sher Maker is an architectural firm based in Chiangmai,Thailand led by Ar.Thongchai Chansamak and Ar. Patcharada Inplang.
Project5 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.
Practice5 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.
News5 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.
Project5 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.
Article5 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.
Project5 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.
