Project5 years ago
CAF House, designed by Estudio MMX, incorporates execution compliance with the strict residential regulations that promote the hegemony of the landscape. The architectural program is focused on privileging most of the spaces with landscape views, taking advantage of the descending topography of the small piece of land, and integrating a generous garden. The protagonist of the project, the garden, joins the ground floor’s common areas, creating a spatial continuity between the access and the back that has direct contact with the golf course.
Project5 years ago
Casinha das Lapas, designed by stu.dere – Oficina de Arquitetura e Design, consists of rehabilitating an old stone house attached to an apartment building, however, with good sun exposure and the privilege of privacy on a small terrace protected from the movement of the street. The objective was to hierarchize the areas by floors, and adapt the space to contemporary ways of living, increasing both the functional capacity and the quality of the uses.
News5 years ago
The Challenge aims to support and promote diversity and inclusion in technology, innovation, and the built environment sectors. All the projects judged in the competition were led by women; address urban sustainability, mobility, food, waste, water, building, urban farming, air quality solutions; deliver measurable impacts; and have the potential to be scalable in other cities.
Project5 years ago
Multi-functional Sport and Event Hall, designed by NAPUR Architect Ltd., has thoughts and lines assembled into a system. The concept of the building becomes clear if we read and interpret it in the space and timescale of the city. They create a Masterplan for the whole brownfield area. They framed the area into a chessboard-like matrix of cultural-, commercial-, green-, leisure, and sports functional blocks.
Project5 years ago
Flores Tower Façade, designed by MVRDV, has a colorful panorama of plants and trees, taking inspiration from the building’s location. 1,800 images from databases and university libraries were processed into a layered composition for the artwork. The artwork vertically summarises the arboretum’s planting catalogue: The smaller the plant’s image, the further away it is. The legend is incorporated into the plinth of the tower, with the text size and line thickness also indicating how far each plant or tree species is from the tower.
News5 years ago
The core idea of this project is the house as a place of community. The programme is very open and spaces are shared even with the neighbourhood.
Project5 years ago
Self Service Laundry, designed by stu.dere – Oficina de Arquitetura e Design, creates a modern and innovative environment, reflecting the evolution of a society that seeks practical solutions for managing its day-to-day while still bringing the memory of traditional community washers back. This space is intended to be a harmonious space that provides a lounge area for people to have a comfortable space while waiting for the washing and drying equipment to finish.
News5 years ago
“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.
News5 years ago
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.
Interview5 years ago
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.
Project5 years ago
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.
Practice5 years ago
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.
Selected Academic Projects
News5 years ago
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.
News5 years ago
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’.
Practice5 years ago
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.
Project5 years ago
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.
Practice5 years ago
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.
News5 years ago
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.
Project5 years ago
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.
Project5 years ago
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.”
Practice5 years ago
Mounir Benchekroun Architect is an architectural practice based in Morocco.
Practice5 years ago
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.
News5 years ago
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.
News5 years ago
The Kurgi Observation Tower competition sought out designs for an observation tower for Kurgi farm, one of the last remaining Latvian Ardennes breeding programs.
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