LIV[IN]G CORE competition Results Announced
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“Living Core” is designed to erase boundaries of traditional programme by creating spaces that can accommodate multiple functions while meeting the primary and traditional characteristics of a shelter.
Belfast Design Week welcomes you this November
Our 2020 theme is “Environment” which can be interpreted in many ways – from the built environment, to sustainability, to our digital surroundings and beyond. Our events and commissioned designers will explore this theme.
Building in Context | A Chat with DCOOP | Part 1
In this talk Quaid Doongerwala and Shilpa Ranade Talk about their practice, DCOOP Architects. DCOOP aims towards bridging the gap that exists between concerns of ‘pure’ design, the contingencies of execution, and sensitivity to the requirements of the user, to produce an environment that is at once contemporary and sustainable.
Sponsored
Maison des Artisans | Studio Salima Naji
Maison des Artisans, designed by Studio Salima Naji, uses raw earth, local palm tree or local wood as its construction method. The recognition of a responsible, quality architecture, concerned with social, economic and environmental issues is at the heart of our approach in the choice to use local materials as a priority, not without difficulty. Whether for housing or public facilities, this approach is more than possible: it is now necessary.
Studio Salima Naji
Studio Salima Naji, headed by Dr. Salima Naji, follows eco-construction facing the challenges of a certain modernity with appropriate innovation. The organisation re-invests so-called vernalcular techniques for the benefit of sustainable development.
The International VELUX Award 2020 announces Ten Regional Winners
The projects signalled a multiplicity of directions and concerns that light plays an important spatial role as a common denominator and as an inspiration independent of latitudes and attitudes.
Selected Interviews
Urbanising Asia and World Knowledge: CEPT Essay Prize
The CEPT Essay Prize 2020 invites you to explore a particular urban condition from anywhere in Asia to understand the nature of networked knowledge production about habitats and cultures, people and world-views. Parallel and interconnected geographies are the important operative ideas as compared to the older imagination in banal binaries such as ‘East versus West’.
VTN Architects
VTN Architects, an architectural practice, creates green architecture that merges nature, local vernacular, and contemporary design. Based in Ho Chi Minh City, VTN Architects infuses its work with lushly planted walls, hanging vines, structure-piercing trees, weathered stones, and sunken landscapes. It also incorporates traditional Vietnamese building techniques, like complex bamboo trusses, perforated blocks, cooling water systems, shaded terraces, and thatched roofs.
Alvie House | Adam Dettrick Architects
Alvie House, designed by Adam Dettrick Architects, is sustainable, liveable, and connects with its local environment to take full advantage of its spectacular location. The untreated locally sourced timber cladding will grey off, twist, discolour and stain – so the house is indelibly but discretely stamped with a weather-beaten camouflage. The house expands towards these north and west views. Planning aligns the house with the lakes and the sun.
Selected Projects
Adam Dettrick Architects
Adam Dettrick Architects builds on the ideas and aspirations to create intelligent spaces that are beautiful and practical and have a special sense of place and meaning. With clear climatic values, energy-saving solutions are embedded into our design conception, starting with an assessment of ‘re-usability’ if an existing building is in place. Enlisting sunlight as our most powerful tool, we design to create the optimal balance between space and light as we do with form and function.
The RE-Stock London Results Announced
This competition sought to reconsider the use of existing London sites as a means to jumpstarting the city of London once again as a hotbed of innovative affordable housing.
BIT Sports Center in Beijing | Atelier Alter Architects
BIT Sports Center in Beijing, designed by Atelier Alter Architects, continues Leonardo Da Vinci’s dialogue on the interdisciplinary discourse between science, architecture and art. After researching related art and history of material science, the project draws inspiration from Da Vinci’s flying machine and the geometry of trajectory parabola widely used in military science. The sports center adds athletic space to the school, including a basketball stadium, swimming pool, a gymnasium, etc.
Selected Academic Projects
Concrete phrontistery | Tarik Zoubdi Architecte & Mounir Benchekroun Architect
Concrete phrontistery, designed by Tarik Zoubdi Architecte & Mounir Benchekroun Architect, emerged from a desire to provide a new teaching building for 21st-century education. With a vision to encourage learning, sharing, and interaction, the newly built high school was designed to link the old middle school built in 2017 and the OCP residential developments nearby. In order to integrate the building into its context, the architecture was inspired by the local heritage of the “Portuguese city.”
Mounir Benchekroun Architect
Mounir Benchekroun Architect is an architectural practice based in Morocco.
Tarik Zoubdi Architectte
Tarik Zoubdi Architectte believes architecture is the poetic spatial translation of human aspirations for a better life. The designer believes in contextual architecture, which claims to belong to a place as if it has always been part of it. He believes we must resist the collective temptation to fall into “folk mimicry” and renounce any temptation to “fashion” by seeking timelessness.
Compilations
San Francisco Affordable Housing Challenge Results Announced
A continuation of the affordable housing design series, participants were tasked with somehow making one of the most expensive cities in the world more affordable.
The Kurgi Observation Tower Competition Results Announced
The Kurgi Observation Tower competition sought out designs for an observation tower for Kurgi farm, one of the last remaining Latvian Ardennes breeding programs.
Carrizal | Perez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados
Carrizal, designed by Perez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados, is a set of eight private houses set in the same property. The master plan included access to all the houses by way of a main axis, which was on the longest side of the lot and would be divided in half. Placing trees already there was crucial to the division of the plot into symmetrical parts. The house’s program includes a ground floor, in which the public functions are accommodated, with a view to the two outside yards for each individual lot.
Warehouse Morinha | stu.dere – Oficina de Arquitetura e Design
Warehouse Morinha, designed by stu.dere – Oficina de Arquitetura e Design, is a large light space dynamically fitted as a space for children should be. The intention was to create a sense of exploration as one walked through space, as though it were a labyrinth, like a game for a kid. Hence the implementation of the wire mesh creates a physical but not visual barrier. The materials used have been selected in such a way that their use is unique, without the need for adjacent layers and finishing with other products.
stu.dere – Oficina de Arquitetura e Design
stu.dere – Oficina de Arquitetura e Design is dedicated to the development of Architecture Projects, Interior Architecture and Design. Its mission is to combine quality, innovation and design in the creation of its projects and attract clients by its excellence and know-how, asserting itself as a different brand in the market by providing a service of professionalism, accuracy and competence.
Via Media Residence | Matt Fajkus Architecture
Via Media Residence, designed by Matt Fajkus Architecture, is a refurbishment that respects the existing structure and site’s strong qualities while enhancing it and supplementing it with additional development. The renovation includes a complete update of interior and exterior finishes to achieve a fresh aesthetic with clean lines. Wood and stone accents compliment the freshly-painted white stucco from the outside.
Matt Fajkus Architecture
The design work of Matt Fajkus Architecture is based on the belief that each project is unique, driven by the client, the site, and functional requirements, rather than a singular, preconceived aesthetic. The firm aims for clear and simple solutions to complex problems by blending expertise and experimentation. The office believes that the current sustainability-driven era is the most all-encompassing movement since Modernism.
Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum | Atelier Alter Architects
Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum, designed by Atelier Alter Architects, tells the fossils’ history and the natural science of researching the fossil. The layout of the showrooms is determined by the time and storyline. The horizontal crystalloids also introduce sunlight to the interior space and their growing direction. In all, the tilted crystalloids interweave the sunlight and exhibition spaces. The finalized renovation appeared in the form of a penetrated Cartesian grid.
Atelier Alter Architects
Atelier Alter Architects is an interdisciplinary practice based in New York and Beijing noted for designing from critical site analysis. Atelier Alter Architects focus intensely on culture projects. The practice’s portfolio ranges from furniture to large scale complex. Whether it is architecture, landscape or urban project, Atelier Alter Architects strives to manifest ideas of significance, ideas that offer critics rather than imitations.
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