Architecture Master Prize 2020 Winners announced
The Architecture MasterPrize honours designs in the different disciplines of designing fields with the goal of advancing the appreciation of architecture worldwide.
Meditation Space for Creation | Jun Murata | JAM
Meditation space for creation, designed by the design studio Jun Murata | JAM, guests are prompted with various light experiences. The designer inserted a white container. A short container, referred to as “closed space”, is connected to the outside of the container used as a guest room.Seasonal scenery ends from the rectangular opening in the east and west. Additionally, natural phenomena that change every moment bring changes inside.
LT Houses | Michel Macedo Arquitetos
LT Houses, designed by Michel Macedo Arquitetos, is inserted in a growing urban area where the buildings designs are predominantly repeated. The sloping corner allows vehicles to access by private circulation, releasing the main facade for pedestrian access. The post-tensioned structure allows flexible plants, generating possibilities for different arrangements and fulfilling the needs of the market and the families who live there.
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Open for Registration with Deducted Fees: Theories of Deconstruction, Post Modernism and Minimalism | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries
The Workshop encourages participants to explore a spectrum of cross disciplinary inspirations in order to evolve a better understanding of these thought processes.
Vikarna Basement | Studio 4000
Vikarna basement, designed by Studio 4000, is a relocation of an architectural studio to the basement by enhancing its experience. The brief also had scope for exploring possible additional uses and values to the marginal spaces of the plot and give expression to the idea of living & working from the same place to the common users. Considering this, the design intervention began by setting aside specific functional requirements to start with; instead an attempt was made to work outwards at general qualities – sky-visibility, natural ventilation, daylight factors – and placeness.
Can Tho House | Landmak Architecture
Can Tho House, designed by Landmak Architecture, blends two different cultures with indigenous culture imbued with sophistication. The house has four façades creating spaces sandwiched between wells of light, giving different emotions when standing under it. The feeling between inside and outside was completely reversed. This solution design immerses humans in nature, touching the plants and flowers in any public space, even when walking on the small bridge.
Selected Interviews
Open for Registration with Deducted Fees: ARTITECTURE: Art + Architecture | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries
Workshop will focus to enable theories enhance participants thought process to be able to conceive works of great originality and creativity.
Garden house | Hiren Patel Architects [HPA]
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The exterior is a combination of box forms with overhanging wood finish flat roof stone cladded walls and large glasses. The entire house is a stone cladding with local sand stone.
The Northstar School | Shanmugam Associates
The Northstar School, designed by Shanmugam Associates, intends to find ways to learn with nature and inspire from Gujarat’s stepped wells. Open-ended corridors, building orientation and future development were factored into the overall planning. The design foundations at Northstar lie on ideologies of exploring contemporary design with local material, using regional references to define built form and finding simplistic solutions for complex design problems.
Selected Projects
Shanmugam Associates
Shanmugam Associates (SA) is a professionally managed architecture and design firm pioneered in southern Tamil Nadu, India. SA has its growth laid on a strong foundation. The architecture is simple, rational, powerful, experimental, and pragmatic. The essence is to deliver minimal and timeless solutions taking into consideration nature’s sensitivity, economic barriers, and client’s requirements. Immense focus has always given to sustainability and sensitivity to nature in SA.
Open for Registration with Deducted Fees: Research Writing Workshop: For Architecture, Design and Planning | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries
Workshop will focus on how to express the results of your research and field work in writing, develop critical reading skills, and integrate sources to make more effective arguments.
Graha Lakon | Andyrahman Architect
Graha Lakon, designed AndyRahman Architects, is a residence with dialogue between Harmony and Contrary as the aim. Since the beginning, the client collects ethnic wood material which he dreams to use it as architectural element of his building. therefore, it becomes element for one area of the façade of the building. There is interesting dialectic between the old-fashioned and the contemporary in this design where the old-fashioned furnitures were arranged inside interior design with contemporary impression.
Selected Academic Projects
Eagle’s Nest | Ian Bennett Design Studio
Eagle’s Nest, designed by Ian Bennette Design Studio, aspires to balance and curate the experience of outlook and expansiveness of site, with privacy and seclusion. The restrained material palette heightens this experience of site, landscape and built form along with the changing dynamic of light and shade. Capturing views whilst maintaining privacy was of paramount importance for a site flanked with pubic land and fronted with both a busy pedestrian walkway and vehicular thoroughfare.
Ian Bennette Design Studio
Ian Bennett Design Studio is a multi-disciplinary design studio specializing in high-end residential design characterized by bold, low maintenance, robust + above all else, pure built forms that are highly considered internally + externally. The Studio is a full-service practice taking projects from inception to construction completion.
Integrated Community Center Rohingya Refugee Camp | Rizvi Hassan
The host community of Hindupara and arround have come forward to create the center from which they can benefit in terms of psycho-social support, training, case management and knowledge sharing
Compilations
Homefood | Landmak Architecture
Homefood, designed by Landmak Architecture, restored Vietnamese farmers’ purely natural and traditional farming methods. The work was completed with a combination of additional architectural elements and those renovated from one front part of the old building. The restaurant is designed and built out of local and traditional tropical materials. Such architectural and construction methods and materials aim at creating spaces filled with Light and Emotion.
Landmak Architecture
Landmak Architecture company is an architectural practice that tries to spread the modern design concept in Vietnam.
Open for Registration: Computational Design Thinking | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries
During this workshop, participants will come to know about developing an understanding of algorithm-based design that will help developing the thought process that enables one to approach the design intangibles with a logical mind-set.
The Cube House | Reasoning Instincts Architecture Studio – RIAS
Cube House, designed by the architectural firm Reasoning Instincts Architecture Studio, is a multi-generation residence. The house is conceived and manifested as a blend of modern aspirations of traditional values of its inhabitants. Situated within a dense urban fabric of a residential colony, the site demanded careful consideration of the house massing to maintain its privacy and openness.The physical from of the house as its name suggests is conglomerated and articulated within a single cubic volume leaving one third of the land open for landscaping. Its components also adhere to this inherent geometry at various scales while following disciplines of climatic design.
Etam Paris | MVRDV
Etam Paris, designed by MVRDV, takes advantage of the building’s wedge-shaped floor plan by stripping back the exterior as much as possible. It highlights the building’s clean classical appearance, allowing plenty of light to enter the Etam store from both sides and creating large windows for display. The preservation and modernisation of existing buildings serves as a key sustainability strategy for MVRDV.
Sublime Ordinariness- housing at Vasind | DCOOP
Sublime Ordinariness is a housing project designed by the architectural firm DCOOP that keeps in mind the socio-cultural factors. Family, relatives and community play a critical role in Indian society. Using the Mumbai chawl as a reference to organize the spaces, we saw it as a typology with tremendous possibility of being a social catalyst. Three blocks come together along with the semi round monolithic block to form this large central community space into which all the corridors open.
Cerrado House | Vazio S/A
Cerrado House, designed by Vazio S/A, explores the programme/form relationship as an inevitable correspondence. The play between function and form here is spontaneous and undogmatic: the ramps and stairs of the swimming pool are stamped onto the façades and shape the internal space. There is no landscape design: the house sits on natural terrain, whose immensity and vistas are best seen from the pool terrace.
Vazio S/A
Vazio S/A mixes research on urban voids and architectural practice specializing in houses, commercial buildings, urban design, etc. The designers strive for an active approach full of purpose, a vision of informality, empty spaces, and the market as something that can point the way toward new projects and opportunities. Allied with the portfolio of a conventional firm is an experimental studio that explores architecture competitions, publications, partnerships with social and artistic groups, and ephemeral urban interventions.
Open for Registration | Paradigm Shifts: Bauhaus (Advance Studio)
This Workshop gives an advanced and detailed insight towards the Principles and Curriculum of Bauhaus developed during the timeline when the institute transitioned both its location and ideology under the leadership of its renowned masters.
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