Project5 years ago
Among the greenery of the coniferous forest around, from the glitter of the sun from two sides: the sky and water, the Father’s House crashes into the landscape and becomes the central hero of the picture. Getting the maximum from the minimum of the basic materials – concrete, glass and rebated roof – is possible due to a competent approach to the composition, strict project supervision and a successful dialogue between the customer and the chief architect. The experience of the professionals, responsible for this project, came in handy for this house and its owner.
Project5 years ago
Koper Central Park, designed by ENOTA, offers a uniform and attractive appearance with its intensive hinterland greenery, it drowns the heterogeneity of the surrounding built structures. The basic building blocks of the new city park are monolithic, undulating urban elements. Fusing the elements of a city beach and a contemporary city park encourages the area’s residents and visitors to use the space in different ways.
News5 years ago
Street Furniture is an important tool for creating a sense of identity and place making. Effective and quality furniture in a public setup creates an intrinsic relationship between people and urbanscape. Industrial zeitgeist and its mass production methods have eliminated the ‘”design” from the process of creating new furniture.
Project5 years ago
Rathdowne Street House, designed by Robert Simeoni Architects, alters and extends the existing double-story Victorian residence and provides a separate self-contained studio at the rear of the site. The works to both the original dwelling and the new studio sought to provide elegant and spatially sophisticated responses through voids and set back wall alignments to capture morning sunlight, curate sun traces during the day, and offer enhanced cross ventilation opportunities.
Project5 years ago
Sierra Fria, designed by PPAA Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados, explores the Idea of the site as a contained void with a structural open grid on top of it. This structural grid is intersected in the middle by the stairs and the service units, freeing the surrounding spaces towards the exterior. On top of this light wall-based structure is a solid block that contains the private rooms of the house; these spaces have more restricted openings to the outside views.
Project5 years ago
Museo Universitario del chopo, designed by Ten Arquitectos, is an architectural renovation project in Ciudad de México. Always having respect for the emblematic structure of the Chopo University Museum, the expansion took the form of a volume inside the original structure. The canopy remains intact and functions as a framework that wraps the added volume. Managed by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the museum is the scene of the most avant-garde art forms in the city, a space for the performing arts, installations, concerts, events, and even film shoots.
Project5 years ago
Park Way House, designed by Arqbr Arquitetura e Urbanismo, is a single-story house with structural modulation associated with traditional construction techniques. The challenge was to Promote two architectural experiences, one with the street, more austere and controlled, and the other with the vegetation at the back of the lot, more generous and open.
Practice5 years ago
Arqbr Arquitetura e Urbanismo is an architecture and interior design practice based in Brasilia, headed by Eder Alencar and André Velloso.
Project5 years ago
Delusion, designed by UA LAB, is an office interior that creates an ambiance through delusions to perceive the space to be much larger than its actual size. This effect created a dynamic space. Glass with different tints is used to carve out diverse spaces catering to varied functional requirements. Unobstructed Natural light and Linearity ties diverse spaces together. Making the Singularity and Diversity both to co-exist harmoniously.
Project5 years ago
The House in 1970, designed by Architects Collaborative, is bound on either side by shared function spaces with the double-height courtyard becoming an interaction pivot. A permeable brick envelope wraps the length of the plot and all its functions into a cohesive whole. The wall, defined by a gradient brickwork weave, helps weather into all house spaces when required.
Practice5 years ago
Architects Collaborative is a multi-disciplinary design firm based in New Delhi, emphasizing context-driven architecture and design.
Project5 years ago
Museum Amparo, designed by the architectural firm Ten Arquitectos, is an architectural renovation project in Ciudad de México, MX. With the main objective of providing the Amparo Museum with all the facilities to become a space for dialogue between its exhibitions and a new contemporary architectural language. With the renovation of rooms for temporary and permanent exhibitions, the modernization of the auditorium and the adaptation of the roofs to establish a relationship with the urban landscape of the Historic Center of Puebla that transforms the relationship of the building with its context.
Selected Academic Projects
Project5 years ago
Marina East, designed by Hames Sharley, is not only about housing but building a community in a unique location tailored to the individual. The idea of celebrating the boating lifestyle and the unique position at Marina East allowed Hames Sharley to explore the concept of water, the jetty, and the boatshed in an architectural, playful expression of lifestyle. The outcome has a sympathetic outcome contextual, relevant, and appropriate in form, scale, and aesthetic.
Practice5 years ago
Hames Sharley is a multi-disciplinary practice covering the specialist areas of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Development.
Project5 years ago
Woolami House, designed by Robert Simeoni Architects, act principally as a landscape object with a deliberate lack of distinction between interior and exterior. This project faithfully restores the existing 19th-century building whilst designing the new addition as a separate wing. In keeping with the feeling of a landscape structure, an austere sense and appearance to the new building were sought using off-form concrete for the columns and roof, with articulated interior infill located at points of habitation.
Practice5 years ago
Robert Simeoni Architects produces high-quality architecture, including residential, religious, institutional, public, and community buildings. The practice is strongly interested in creating buildings and interiors that are highly responsive to their surroundings and sensitive to their context. An interest in light, materiality, and detail further imbues architectural outcomes rich in atmosphere, integrity, and meaning.
Project5 years ago
Guadurnal’s Lunchroom, designed by the architectural firm Al Borde, is a project that revolves around the precept of reusing the materials. It was born from a moment where will and chance came together. In 2016, for the World Conference of the United Nations Habitat III, the Infonavit Pavilion was perfect to be reused. Just a few meters away from this pavilion our project was located, we had won the design and construction of the German Pavilion.
Project5 years ago
Zeus is Loose, designed by Urban Soul Project, is a hostel managing an existing office building of the 70s on Aristotelous Square. The timeless presence of copper processors in the area led to the use of copper color in the facade of the building. The openings in the facade were opened up to the structural elements of the floor slab, beams, and columns. The building’s existing floors were preserved, forming the basis of the palette of materials and colors for the interiors, which also references Byzantine art’s colors.
Practice5 years ago
Urban Soul Project is an architecture firm and design studio offering services ranging from architecture, interior design, planning applications, and municipal approvals for hospitality, offices, and commercial and residential projects in Greece and abroad. USP’s aim is to blend modern and traditional design with the highest standards in quality construction through new technology, materials and vintage techniques.
Project5 years ago
Matrix 1, designed by MVRDV, is an innovative building for works on sustainable solutions for current and future problems. MVRDV designed an open building where employees have more freedom to choose their workplace, thanks to an open staircase that forms the social heart of the building. In the design, all areas are kept flexible: office space can be converted into laboratory space with minor adjustments and vice versa. Matrix 1 will house multiple companies and laboratories; it creates a spirit of cross-fertilization and innovation.
Project5 years ago
Jojutla Central gardens, designed by the architectural firm Estudio MMX, evokes the concept of resiliency by means of vegetation. To rebuild an identity that uses public spaces as its media, while obtaining the community’s approval was the major challenge for developing Jardines Centrales de Jojutla. The core idea came from the trees. The arcades that coexist next to the gardens are structures that reinterpret the region´s traditional architecture. They serve as frames for the civic and leisure events required by the city.
Project5 years ago
The Bugs House, designed by Landmak Architecture, is a refurbishment of the home interior by creating a void & moving the location of the stairs. By interconnecting them most effectively, the designers added more lofts and public spaces and limited walls. With the uninterruptedly interconnected spaces which are also connected to light sources and gardens, after the final renovation and construction, THE BUGS’ HOUSE was created – a house with various fascinating public areas.
Project5 years ago
Diaphanous House, designed by Taller Estilo Arquitectura, is an anonymous dwelling on its exterior that adapts to the contextual image of the city, returning to its original façade and joining the rhythm of mass over openings of the neighbouring houses. The building aims to mix two languages; one belonging to the past and the other being contemporary, resulting in our opinion, a sustainable architecture with a proper use of resources.
Project5 years ago
Tropical Chalet, designed by G8A Architecture & Urban Planning, reflects the simplicity of its idyllic context through a porous design that welcomes the surrounding environment of lake-front greenery. Materials were chosen not only for their sturdiness and climate resistance, particularly bricks with their high insulation qualities. But also, their minimal and natural aesthetic, once again blending with the surrounding landscape.
