Andre Scarpa
Andre Scarpa is a practicing architect in Brazil.
Brick Curtain House | Design Work Group
Brick Curtain House, designed by Design Work Group, seeks sustainable and functional amalgamation for the living environment. The layout was organized such that the private zone was at the inner side and public zone in the front, facilitated by a centralized connecting service. The spatial organization brought the biggest climatic challenge to the front facade, with large surface areas exposed to the West side, intensifying the heat gain throughout the day.
Design Work Group
Design Work Group, an architecture and design firm based in Surat, Gujarat, sees architecture as a means to enhance the personal experience. The designers believe those clear, honest, and frequent communication is the foundation of a successful project. They see sustainability as integral to the design of every building. With a team approach, they analyze the site and building concept as a whole system.
Sponsored
AMRA7 Apartment | Bruno Rossi Arquitetos + Piratininga Arquitetos Associados
AMRA7 Apartment, designed by Bruno Rossi Arquitetos & Piratininga Arquitetos Associados, is a refurbishment of the home interior focusing on modern architecture and structural beauty of the building, based on its rigorous attention to detail, providing new openings for natural light and views, and better circulation. The key design element is the twenty-six-meter-long raised shelf system. It connects the whole apartment along its extension and spatially defines an “equator line.”
Piratininga Arquitetos Associados
Piratininga Arquitetos Associados, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, deliver architectural designs in planning, building, and interior design, in addition to having a wide range of experience with territorial development. They have been regarded as a pioneer in space planning and interior design, contributing to enhancing those markets in Brazilian architecture.
Fired brick Conundrum
In this interview, Architect Vinu Daniel talks about the depleting state of country fired brick, how the new high-quality fire brick has replaced it, and what is the environmental impact of such an event. He also introduces us to his beautiful projects and the way he runs his practice called Wallmakers.
Selected Interviews
The winner аannounced of the Vyzvolennia Square and the revitalization of the DASU building
The concept of the project is to initiate a path guiding the industrial society back to the regional roots. The Concept is inspired by the history, tradition and nature of Mariupol and its surroundings. The revitalized square is the place where diverse people coexist and influence each other.
RG House | Michel Macedo Arquitetos
RG House, designed by Michel Macedo Arquitetos, is conditioned by an environmentally protected area in the backyard. The RG house diverges into two distinct priority facts, one environmental and another human: the uneven topography, characteristic of the city, and the contemplative value that the preserved vegetation offers to the residents on the most private limit of the lot.
Beach House | Bruno Rossi Arquitetos
Beach House, designed by Bruno Rossi Arquitetos, is a vacation retreat among the natural landscape by creating engaging social areas. Because this is a beach property, there were a few issues to be considered in the structural project, like the proximity to the woods, hot and humid climate. The project explores the possibilities of different construction and structural methods, letting the materials shine on their own, harmonizing with the site’s surroundings.
Selected Projects
Bruno Rossi Arquitetos
Bruno Rossi Arquitetos is an architecture firm that analyses feasibility, design, compatibility, completion of the work, and occupation. The balance of these complementary fronts has guided the office’s activity, reflecting how the projects are conceived. On the one hand, the utopia that the discipline of architecture is one of the alternatives to rethink how we live and live in the world. On the other, the practical vision of the appropriate use of resources, construction systems, and economic viability.
Pirouette House | Wallmakers
PIROUETTE HOUSE, designed by Wallmakers, is an inward-facing house with all its spaces opening into a funneling central courtyard. The project attempts to promote this local agriculture-based industry on the brink of extinction. The Pirouette House features the “Last of the Mohicans” fired bricks as an ode to the stellar practice of Laurie Baker, with spaces that are made beautiful by the pure geometry and patterns created by the walls that seem to be coming alive and pirouetting around.
Vardo Restaurant | Nex Architecture
Vardo Restaurant, designed by Nex— Architecture, is an eclectic restaurant forming the final element in the redevelopment of the square. Nex created further value by incorporating a new rooftop public space with extensive greenery, enhancing the square amid the bustling King’s Road. Dedicated to sustainability, the building achieves BREEAM ‘Excellent,’ making it one of the greenest restaurants in London, with the retractable glazing forming part of a semi-passive system to maximise performance and minimise energy consumption.
Selected Academic Projects
Nex— Architecture
Nex— Architecture connects people to place through distinctive, engaging design and specialise in integrating transformational projects into sensitive historic and cultural settings. We create value by intimately connecting our architecture to the city, creating long-term adaptability and enhancing the public realm. The diverse portfolio includes culture, leisure, workplace, education, infrastructure and residential buildings.
Green Product Award 2020
The Green Product Award &Green Concept format provides an insight of what is already possible today and will continue to move the green scene in the future.
JK House | Michel Macedo Arquitetos
JK House, designed by Michel Macedo Arquitetos, is composed of two fundamental aspects: structural design and nature. The design of the structure that rests on this stone is positioned so that the premise of the proposal could be revealed in the access as a sculptural piece that unites structure and architecture, keeping the natural concrete with strong appeal to the local techniques. This project suggests an exercise of reflection to the residents, understanding their place in fact, the natural and built place, the techniques used.
Compilations
Michel Macedo Arquitetos
Michel Macedo Arquitetos is an architectural practice based in Pato Branco, Brazil.
Gray Villa | White Cube Atelier
Gray Villa, designed by White Cube Atelier, considers contextual architecture with the least influence on the virgin garden and seeks a close relationship with the natural environment. Irregular rocks and soaring mountains leaded us to design a light and orderly project to respect the surrounding environment. Utilizing basalt stone as a vernacular material enriched this connection with the context. Grey villa is the representation of a modern approach, modern color, modern volume, modern connection with the nature and the reflection of modern thought.
White Cube Atelier
White Cube Atelier is an architectural practice that ranges from one-off villas to residential complexes, from commercial interior design to mall and hotel design. The designers decided to focus on our hometown and we could design and construct some buildings in a context which was devoid of any modern contemporary architectural content.
Opera Truck – Result announced
Art is the fundamental form of representation yet it is unnoticed, at the comfort of our screens there is a visual barrier that deprives us of its actual flavour.
Tlalpuente | Perez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados
Tlalpuente, designed by PPAA Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados, explores the relation of the house with its environment. The architectural concept addresses the idea of an open plan over a basement on natural terrain. This was traduced in an intersection of basic Geometry and a structural intersection that defines the house’s spaces. This grid resulted in three main voids: each has a particular purpose that compliments the interior space, views and terraces.
Azure Office | Dubbeldam Architecture + Design
Azure Office, designed by Dubbeldam Inc. Architecture + Design, is rendered in a bold orange super-graphic, visible through the reception glass on axis at the end of a long corridor leading to the office. The space is bathed in natural daylight from both south- and east-facing windows, increasing productivity and a sense of wellbeing for staff. The office’s material palette is a strategic interplay of new and old. Within this emerging creative precinct, Azure has situated itself in 5,600 square feet of space spread over two levels. The entry is demarcated by its distinctive logo, rendered in a bold orange super-graphic, visible through the reception glass on axis at the end of a long corridor leading to the office.
Dubbeldam Inc. Architecture + Design
Dubbeldam Architecture + Design is a multi-disciplinary design practice that seeks to create thoughtful projects with sustainable approaches. Their work exemplifies bold design and meticulous craftsmanship, ranging from homes, multi-unit residential projects, workspaces, hospitality, and mixed-use buildings to landscape design and architectural installations. At every scale, they prioritise design that benefits both people and the planet while enhancing the overall quality of life.
Untamed Pavillion | Daffonchio Architects
Untamed Pavillion, designed by Daffonchio Architects, is the result of a collaborative process between a sculptor, writer and an architect. All materials were assessed in relation to ease of construction + fabrication, ease of de-construction, ease of transport and recyclability. This produced an interesting description of the birth, life and recyclability of all materials used, whether they are “green” like the solar panels that power the building, or “standard” materials.
Hacettepe University Museum And Centre For Biodiversity | Erkal Architects
Hacettepe University Museum And Centre For Biodiversity, designed by Erkal Architects, houses scientific research facilities and exhibition spaces devoted to scientific materials on the topic of biodiversity. The architectonic logic of open and closed spaces follows an order of geometric compartmentation which is manifest in numerous biological phenomena. The exhibition material falling under the topic of biodiversity belong to a very wide spectrum of scientific disciplines and have a broad variation of sizes, dimensions and scales.
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