Project5 years ago
Sujetex Headquarters, designed by the architectural firm studio ii, was Designed for a young and enterprising industrialist. The building reflects aspirations and becomes part of the identity. Set in an industrial set-up, the building hopes to provide a quiet and restful atmosphere to administrative staff of the company where one can peacefully work while being right next to the shop floors, boilers and machinery. Placement of the building and openings were prompted by the existing trees on site – anchoring the internal spaces to the surrounding green.
Project5 years ago
Halftime, designed by COBE, has a flexible and multi-functional architectural design that allows it to transform and modify the building for varying purposes. The 8,650-square-meter rhomboid roof structure consists of V-shaped concrete beams covered in glass. A third of the roof consists of skylights, allowing daylight to flood the building throughout. HALFTIME has an inspiring, dynamic, and unusual work environment that offers creative and informal meeting places and networking opportunities.
Project5 years ago
The Silo, designed by COBE, originally used as a storage container, is converted for new use as a residential apartment building. In order to bring The Silo’s industrial concrete facade up to current standards, the exterior of the existing silo has been recladded. In contrast, the interior has been preserved as raw and untouched as possible. An angular faceted exterior facade made of galvanized steel has been installed to serve as a climate shield. This has allowed the building’s characteristic slender tall shape to be maintained.
Project5 years ago
Jainam House, designed by EssTeam Design Services LLP, combines small working units into a single building to function as the corporate office. This project optimizes every inch of the available space to the best possible use. The project demanded flexibility in terms of usage and had to be climatically sensitive, with the site offering innovative façade design opportunities.
Project5 years ago
Naidi Community Hall, designed by Caukin Studio, takes its form from theatre staging, crescendoing at its front facade. Serving a village of 400 people and 75 households, the hall’s main function was to provide a space for the community to come together for meetings, celebrations, funerals and weddings. In Fijian culture, the community hall is the cultural and operational heart of a village..
Project5 years ago
Reflected Topography- BGRT, designed by Collaborative Architecture, is a skillful response to design a multi-functional Public Space. The lobby is dominated by a central column. The Central column became the axis for spatial orientation. The lighting design plays the lead role in the overall architectural identity, and the project succeeds in effortlessly merging the lighting design and architectural space into a unified whole.
News5 years ago
This competition is part of Bee Breeders’ Portugal design series and was organized in collaboration with Quinta Do Monte D’Oiro, a family vineyard located in the Lisbon region. Participants were tasked with designing a wine tasting room that could accommodate roughly 30 people and make full use of the vineyard’s exemplary vistas.
Project5 years ago
Colibrí House, designed by Taller Estilo Arquitectura, is a rehabilitation of a residence to restructure some elements to extend the living area to fulfill the programmatic needs of the household. Also, a partial remodeling of the construction to create a living space for the enjoyment of the exterior functionally and in symbolic ways. Managing textures and materials such as pasta floors, concrete, stone, metal, and wood give character to spaces, providing warmth and functionality and achieving a blend of traditional materials and contemporary forms.
Project5 years ago
Las Golondrinas, designed by PPAA Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados, is a weekend house in irregular terrain and slopes. The concept was to have a solid basement. This holds three independent volumes, each for a specific purpose: public area, sleeping area, and service units. These volumes were held together by a single enclosing slab on top of them. Within them, the semi-open halls and remaining space is used as a terrace area with a view to the surrounding forest.
Project5 years ago
Niloofarr 22, designed by architectural and design firm Studio Saheb, is a housing project with a 2-dimensional order of infill typology. The project is a minor effort to counteract the solid order of infill typology and tries to find and experiment new possibilities and new ideas in this confined typology. The main concept to change this condition in this project was to divide the building mass to separate individual boxes and then redefine the building mass by setting these boxes alongside each other in a new order.
Project5 years ago
Futago House – Twin House, designed by Sergey Makhno Architects, is a tribute to the fascination with Japanese architecture and the architect Tadao Ando. The residence is modern and minimalist. As you approach the house, you get the impression that bulky concrete rectangles are hanging in the air — their vertical bases are hidden behind a strong fence. The perfect match is about concrete walls, milk colours, modern Ukrainian art and panoramic windows.
Project5 years ago
Door to Mérida House, designed by Taller Estilo Arquitectura, respects the building’s characteristic features, enhancing the traditional construction in the city but adapting it to the actual use. The volume integrity of white cement, combined with wood and red pigmented cement, contrasts the whole materiality, giving the house an open and comfortable character. A living place that becomes anonymous because of the tree, which protects the context but shows the interior side of a town with history.
Selected Academic Projects
Project5 years ago
Cankaya University Center For Congress And Culture, designed by Erkal Architects, undertakes academic conferences, congress events, and cultural performances such as concerts and theater productions. The main hall integrates with interior spaces such as separable seminar rooms and the main foyer. The main foyer is the central element of the architectural programme as it commands views across the entire campus and beyond.
Project5 years ago
Sculptor’s pool, designed by architectural firm Connatural, talks about immersion in the water but also in the landscape. A long, thin line that continues to form a terrace it speaks to us of movement, it seeks to get lost in the native forest. Losing yourself is also immersion. By pretending that the pool is one with the landscape and is inscribed in the relief, the idea is pursued that in the depth of the pool a proper geography is also generated, which accommodates the various particular human positions of aquatic activity.
Project5 years ago
Tourist Residential Resort, designed by AYK Associates Architects, pursues environmental sustainability standards to preserve the region’s stunning and picturesque landscape. Additionally, it has been designed to blend itself effortlessly and smoothly into the beautiful natural landscape of sown and reaped fields. Using textured, earthy tones the resort is made predominantly from timber and streel structure, reducing the concrete walls and its embodied carbons.
Practice5 years ago
AYK Associates Architects is an architectural practice that believes simple, dynamic, sustainable, and modern spatial volumes define the design language. Bespoke solutions and a unique integrated design approach embrace the philosophy. Proposals blended harmoniously with the built and natural environment are what we look for. The desired result is an aesthetically pleasing surprise for the end-user and the city in an exciting spatial experience.
Project5 years ago
Villa Mandra, designed by the architectural firm K-Studio, is a residence that encourages the freedom to exist peacefully in nature. This 6-bedroom holiday house celebrates its spectacular view from a grounded viewpoint blended into a sensitively landscaped, stone-walled garden that screens it from the road behind. Form follows emotion rather than function, as every space becomes another opportunity for rest, reflection and exploration.
Project5 years ago
National Dance Theater, designed by ZDA – Zoboki Design And Architecture, is an adaptive reuse project of an industrial building. The new building is thus a forum where science and culture meet, where – reflecting the spirit of the place – experimental genres, folk dance based on exceptionally rich folklore, contemporary dance, and classical ballet are all given a stage.
Practice5 years ago
Zoboki Design & Architecture (ZDA) has two facets: one is humanistic, and the other is materialistic, masters the world of technical, technological knowledge. The designer believes striving for high-level cultivation of both qualities is indispensable if we want to create good architecture. In today’s complex, constantly changing environment in which we work, special empathy is required to carry out our architectural tasks at a high level of quality.
Project5 years ago
Creative Lab House, designed by Meeta Jain Architects, began with the fundamentals of a house being one’s ‘haven.’ A private ‘container’ through which one also connects to “elements of nature and neighborhood.” The house form was boiled down to 2 essential components, i.e., “a pavilion and a box,” a duality explored programmatically and experientially as private /public, open /closed transparent/opaque throughout.
Project5 years ago
Institute of Quality Automotive – IQA, designed by Firma-a, transforms a building into a more contemporary and direct relationship with the city. The intervention carried out on its facade sought to rescue the building in its purest form. The ornaments were removed to simplify the reading of its windows. Regarding technical requirements, easy-to-assemble and highly efficient materials were used throughout the project.
Practice5 years ago
Firma-a is an architecture firm based in São Paulo that works on private, institutional, and public projects. The team believes architecture is a process of synthesis and convergence, making teamwork, dialogue, and understanding of our client’s needs the way to overcome pre-conceived forms and ideas. The goal is to produce highly effective projects, regardless of their nature or scale, capable of meeting each client’s aspirations and the contemporary world’s demands.
Project5 years ago
Reforma, designed by PPAA Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados, has a concept to establish a dialogue between positive and negative space. The designers were seeking to create a game of counterparts, where the negative and positive spaces defined each other mutually and where empty space would be virtually enclosed. The counterpart of the façade is a solid wall with the height of the built area, which limits visibility of the neighbours and gives privacy to the house.
Project5 years ago
E&A 64 HOUSE, designed by Taller Estilo Arquitectura, seeks a dialogue between colonial and contemporary architecture. The Patios or courtyards are a real composition system, making them the main element configuring the structural order, the interior, and exterior visuals part of the path. The plant composition pretends to use all the natural aspects in favor of functionality and spatial comfort. A Study, lobby, living room, dining room, kitchen, and bedrooms with bathrooms shape the architectonic program.
