Juan Caidedo Architects
(“Text as submitted by Architect”) Juan Guillermo Ca Juan Caicedo, Pasto 1981. Visual artist (2007) from the National University of Colombia and…
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Tack Barn | Faulkner Architects
Tack Barn, designed by Faulkner Architects, is a residence with strong agricultural history that are confusingly morphed between the two vocabularies. The reuse of an old barn to house people, on weekend getaways from urban life presents a conflict in identity for the built form. Uses change over time, the intention here was to maintain and use the embodied energy of the familiar barn in the neighborhood while allowing the signs of human inhabitation to be subtle, but evident.
Raffles City Hangzhou | UNStudio
Raffles City Hangzhou, designed by UNStudio, is a sustainable urban hub for living, working and leisure, becoming a major landmark. The project furthers the practice’s ongoing research into Superliving, in this case into (integral) strategies to create sustainable, healthy cities that offer a high quality of life, while addressing future needs for greater efficiency and density in cities in times of rapid urbanisation and growth.
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A speck of green amidst the grey: a journey of building a team and practice sustainably
“From practice, academics to organising art festivals, Architect Falguni Desai has been actively practicing, discussing and propagating sustainability in all streams of her work. In this talk she shares with us her projects, concerns and her journey. Starting from her projects to discussing the changing times and variety of materials, the talk gives us a glimpse of how her journey has been guided by her intuitive processes.
Phutthamonthon-Y House | Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
Phutthamonthon-Y House, designed by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated, is a small house with a concrete rooftop garden, which makes a dialogue with the leaves surrounded and provides a view to a vegetable plot and a garden below. The concrete rooftop garden is close to the branches of the tree to create an experience of touching from one plane to another. In other words, this is how to use the space most efficiently. The wall emits light as if it is a firefly.
Project Array | 1405 Design Studio
Project Array, designed by 1405 Design Studio, is an ever-growing, innovative, open layout space responding to their assorted working styles and design sensibilities. The space needed to be both extremely functional, user-oriented as well as design intrinsic representing the brand and its various facets. A Space that has a very subconscious connects between the seller, the designer and the craftsman. This interpretation became a guideline: a highly personalized unit with individually defined and controlled space.
Selected Interviews
1405 Design Studio
1405 Design Studio delves into various projects: creating luxurious residential spaces, small dwellings, commercial offices, experience centers, schools, and retail spaces. The Studio’s design language is situation and solution-based, wherein aesthetics is not an add-on but a by-product. It is what makes design timeless and holistic. Every object and space reflects its environment, people and process; that becomes the underlying concept for our unique, bespoke, cohesive designs.
Fashion Meets Architecture | The Red Studio
Fashion Meets Architecture, designed by The Red Studio, is inspired from Anthropomorphic sculptures of Anthony Gormley. This Sculpture can be internally accessed thru a lift which forms a vertical structural spine. Various programmatic spaces including the studio and display areas are stacked vertically at various levels within the Anthropomorphic Man. The outstretched leg further accommodates a spectacular Ramp Walk offering out of this world setting for exuberant displays.
The Screen House | tHE gRID Architects
The Screen House, designed by tHE gRID Architects, is a beautifully integrated development comprising three discrete spaces, each one serving the needs of sub-sets of the unit yet linked in spirit and design. Water-bodies, semi-open spaces and vegetation articulate the connectivity of the three homes. The architecture explores the interplay of alliances between plant life, water, sky, built-form and humans. The building comprises of sections interlocked with the functionality of the spaces to create a balanced whole.
Selected Projects
Discovering meaning in Material Pragmatism
Prof. Surya Kakani talks about ‘Material Pragmatism’ at his practice – Kakani associates, Ahmedabad. The practice explores architectural resolutions within a resource conscious framework by reusing existing buildings, reducing carbon footprint by using energy efficient materials, recycling materials and harnessing construction technologies that involve skill and craft.
Architecture competition Campus of Religions: Results Announced
With the Campus of Religions in aspern Seestadt, an interreligious center and a new location for the Church Educational University of Vienna / Krems is being created. The Viennese architecture firm Burtscher-Durig ZT GmbH emerged as the winner of the urban planning competition and was able to prevail with its architecture. All 42 submissions will now be presented in a one-week exhibition.
Bardales – Urban Training Center | Natura Futura Arquitectura
Bardales – Urban Training Center, designed by Natura Futura Arquitectura, integrates needs within the urban area, providing spatial possibilities and strengthening a community. They proposed to use part of the existing infrastructure of their current one-story home in the city’s urban center, partially exchanging their residential space to make it productive, living alongside it. Bardales reflects on the way in which urban facilities are developed in cities and the usual conditions in which people exercise.
Selected Academic Projects
Hosne Aziz Villa | In Quest Design Studio
Hosne Aziz Villa, designed by In Quest Design Studio, is a multi-family dwelling unit with an idea of long lasting regional expression. So basically it’s a vertical impression of the traditional village joint family house format. The public and private spaces are designed in such a way that they can be merged together to form a larger periphery. Alongside ample natural light and ventilation inside individual apartment, we paid special attention towards glare free light.
In Quest Design Studio
In Quest Design Studio aims to respond appropriately to often difficult and conflicting requirements rather than specializing in a particular building type or architectural style. Our attribute to architecture is based on principles of truth to materials; close relationship with nature; user and maintenance-friendly environment; honesty of expression; glorifying local craftsmanship; adaptation of latest technology; respecting the social pattern; achieving sustainability through proper design decision; careful use of land, water, sun & wind.
The Canaletto Tower | UNStudio
The Canaletto Tower, designed by UNStudio, employs the concept of clustering several floors together to establish a group of vertical communities. The project incorporates the remodeling of the facade, a streamlining of the building’s mass and a contrasting of scale and detail untypical of a residential tower. The facade for the Canaletto tower was designed to emphasise its residential character and to define a distinct ‘Islington’ response.
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Floating Walls | Crest Architects
Floating Walls, designed by Crest Architects, promises an escape from the city life finding an intimate space in the crowd and arriving at a visually engaging structure amidst the chaotic background. An introverted open plan layout has been adopted to create a seamless flow of spaces and to ensure connectivity across the floors. Skylights and multiple slits integrated in the design keep the interiors well lit, accentuates the spatial experience and makes certain of a connection with nature that largely lacks in today’s urban world.
Crest Architects
Crest architects is a pragmatic and holistic design practice that provides a scope for a wide range of experimentation and exploration in architecture of various kinds of projects. The firm has ventured into redefining residential design of single and multi-dwelling houses, institutional, commercial and hospitality projects while providing purpose built interior spaces and landscape designs that complement the architecture.
Introduction to Grasshopper | Grasshopper as a Tool
In these sessions of the workshop – Grasshopper as a Tool, students were given the introduction of GRASSHOPPER- a plug in of Rhino software.
Competition results Announced : Architecture Thesis of the Year | ATY 2020
The ‘Architecture Thesis of the Year | ATY 2020’ is an international architecture thesis competition organized by theCharette. The aim of the competition is to extend appreciation to the tireless effort and exceptional creativity of student thesis in the fields of Architecture, Urban Design, Landscape and Restoration. The competition received over 1000 entries from 104 nations across the world.
Place for Community Living | UA Lab
Place for Community Living, designed by UA LAB, provides opportunities for people from different places and cultures to come together and interact. This place becomes a common platform for the entire community to meet. It might help to enhance/induce richer social interaction between the people. Proposed community space is designed as a park. A park in which, activity of seating, walking and playing is central and enjoyed to the fullest by the people.
Lookout House | Faulkner Architects
Lookout House, designed by Faulkner Architects, stands upright at an angle to the slope providing a constant reference to the perpendicular horizon in the distance. The enclosed and darkened exterior entry provides relief from the visual noise of the neighbourhood. Red-orange glass suggests the colour of cooling magma, referencing the site’s geology and offering a warm approach. The glow extends to the interior, bathing the entry and central stair in light.
Casa RA | Oficina Conceito Arquitetura
Casa RA, designed by Oficina Conceito Arquitetura, is exactly the same height as the tallest neighbor and closely relates to its surroundings. Swings and hammocks make residents enjoy the freshness of having a home garden connected to nature, and this relationship ends up awakening in children a sense of important preservation. The entire RA house was erected with apparent ecological bricks and received dark pigmentation on the base and white paint on the upper volume, making it lighter.
Studio Retreat | Modo Designs
Studio Retreat, designed by MODO Design, is a weekend retreat formed as a cascading one having interplay of volumes. Designed as an L-type layout comprising of living area, dining area, kitchen, a work space and a bedroom at lower level and one bedroom on the upper level. It also houses office space for work purpose.
MODO Design
Modo Designs’ is an architecture firm in Ahmedabad, India, involved in residential, institutional, and corporate projects. The firm derives its name from a latin word ‘MODO’ which means ‘of its time.’ An essential concern has been developing an architectural environment of qualitative character. Also integrated planning and thinking out of the box are a crucial emphasis. The firm’s vision is to develop a sensible, imaginative and innovative architecture in India with an emphasis on construction finesse.
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