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 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, 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 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.
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.
Happy Excellenseaa 126 by Happy Homes, designed by Sanjay Puri Architects, is a housing project that creates a sustainable microenvironment. The apartments are planned to facilitate cross ventilation & are sheltered by large cantilevered decks that mitigate heat gain in response to the location’s climate. The extensive landscaped space generated by the layout is planned with numerous sports facilities & different areas for different age groups.
Campestre, designed by PPAA Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados, is a private residence with a rectangular proportion. Its rectangular proportion guided the house’s design. The designers sought to build a house that could be inhabited at the first level alone being it a prerequisite. In a T-shaped floor plan, public spaces encircle the first patio. Common spaces and Kitchen constitute the first part of the construction, while private spaces are at the back in the second section of the house.
During this workshop, participants will come to know about taking forward from the original Bauhaus foundation courses, this workshop will act both as an initiator of foundational coursework for students as crash course on Bauhaus ideology, its pioneers and its pedagogy.
Shelter Rooms, designed by Studio 4000, provide place of rest & drinking water facility for a large work force doing multiple shifts on the port. Port authorities required several of these dotting the edge along the harbour to be replaced with new designs. The proposed design makes a formal response to the port’s generic conditions and physicality; while letting a much smaller structure for civil use sit respectfully against a monumental background of cargo liners, enormous cranes, forklifts, shipping containers, etc.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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, 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 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.
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, 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.
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