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.
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.
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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.
Selected Interviews
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.
Selected Projects
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.
Casa Campinarana | Laurent Troost Architectures
Casa Campinarana, designed by Laurent Troost Architectures, minimizes deforestation and preserves as much as possible of the Forest became the main architectural strategy. In order to optimize the relationships between external and internal spaces and to optimize exposure to climatic factors, the house was divided into two large volumes: a longilineal and a transversal one. The reduced width of the main volume is designed to guarantee cross ventilation in all environments.
Selected Academic Projects
Jakob Factory | G8A Architecture & Urban Planning + Rollimarchini Architekten
Jakob Factory, designed by G8A Architecture & Urban Planning & Rollimarchini Architekten, is a highly innovative and specific manufacturing space set to become a design reference for tropical sustainable architecture. Proposing an environmentally friendly alternative to the typically horizontally spread manufacturing buildings. Jakob Factory offers an innovative vertical densification strategy, stacking the usable zones on superimposed slats.
Rollimarchini Aarchitekten
Rollimarchini architekten is an architectural practice with projects spanning private dwellings, to complex large-scale structures including factory production buildings, ice hockey stadiums, schools and retirement homes for the elderly. In short, we believe that the best architecture is achieved only when function, design, finance and technology work together.
G8A Architecture & Urban Planning
G8A Architecture & Urban Planning specializes in architectural design, urban planning, and interior design aiming to innovate and produce creative strategies. G8A focuses on setting standards at all levels, particularly economic and environmental efficiency. Integrating culturally added value into each project remains a central part of all actions and discussions within the team.
Compilations
Villa House Renovation | Bruno Rossi Arquitetos
Villa House Renovation, designed by Bruno Rossi Arquitetos, reorganizes and dissolves the fragmentation to prioritize natural light and ventilation. The demolished areas allowed a sense of unity to the spaces, visual and real connection for them. The used materials, such as concrete, steel and wood, are also a support for the art collection and the antiquarian objects that the family had interest in.
Mobiuseum | Kritikaa Architect
Mobiuseum, designed by Kritikaa Architect, is conceived as a continuous, never-ending infinite Möbius loop, representing the concept of time where the visitor feels “floating” in space. The Möbius form has been placed strategically on the center of the site to produce a minimal footprint of the building. The building blends perfectly into the contoured topography of the site and extends till the waterfront.
Kritikaa Architect
Kritikaa Architect is an interdisciplinary Architecture & Design Studio with projects spanning various design fields, from architecture and interior design to construction, industrial to various building design, and landscape design to master planning. The team would use Parametric Design as an extra tool to enhance our design approach. This parametric blend with architecture is essential for form-finding, optimization, and fabrication of idea.
Leisure Pavilion by the Dam | Bruno Rossi Arquitetos
Leisure Pavilion by the Dam, designed by Bruno Rossi Arquitetos, is a space that values outside living, leisure, and contemplation. This new pavilion, built as an independent structure, crosses the area under the shelter in a longitudinal implantation, parallel to the lake, bringing scale, direction and facade to the whole set. Its layout organizes and integrates different spaces, creating a semi-open space that ensures users privacy, without obstructing the views of the surrounding area.
Floating Pavilion | Bruno Rossi Arquitetos
Floating Pavilion, designed by Bruno Rossi Arquitetos, represents a building with no clear boundaries, without beginning or end, mimetized in the landscape. A bigger thermo acoustic metal shingle roof was proposed, supported by a prefabricated laminated timber structure. The floating Pavilion, is defined as a simple roof over a deck, appearing as just two plans, floor and ceiling, which assure leisure and contemplation. The architecture shows itself capable of creating shelter above water.
Tatersal Amador Aguiar | Bruno Rossi Arquitetos
Tatersal Amador Aguiar, designed by Bruno Rossi Arquitetos, provides basic infrastructure to the livestock show and guest reception, creating exhibition and con-fraternization spaces. The approach to the site suggests an effective rereading of corrals in farms, usually composed by gable roofs, setting a patio. Moreover, the program organization considers service flows, accessibility for the guests, besides taking into account the privileged perspectives to surrounding landscape.
La Quinta | Perez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados
LA QUINTA, designed by PPAA Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados, is a weekend house that respects the place’s identity, built context, and height of the neighboring pre-existent walls. These existing walls played an important role and set the limits that would define the space contained in the house. Three voids were proposed in the form of patios for a plan that works all the restrictions inwards and has no views of the landscape.
Bath & Storage | Bruno Rossi Arquitetos
Bath & Storage, designed by Bruno Rossi Arquitetos, promotes the dialogue between the new intervention and surrounding nature. The sunlight permeates the space between the wooden boards; thus, the design of shadows and solar rays covers the interior space floor. As a result, the simple program is solved by an also simple design, although effective and functional.
Casa Cova | Anonimous
Casa COVA, designed by Anonimous, is a vacation home which involved creating two different compounds of private rooms that connect through the common recreational areas. The architectural design of Casa Cova seeks to lead and frame the views from various angles, starting from the main central volume along with the two main arms of the building into the horizon of the views and sunsets in the Pacific Ocean.
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