Project5 years ago
All Automatic HQ, designed by OpenIdeas Architects, is a workspace functioning as an office and, on the other, an experience center for the firm’s hi-tech products. Given the nature of the space, the design was expected to work as a marketing vehicle. The ambience of the experience centre — comprising a conference room and a living room-like home theatre was tailored as a well-appointed, contemporary home so that users could understand the impact of the high-tech merchandise.
Project5 years ago
Jublee School, designed by Funktion design, addresses the general requirements of a school keeping in view the existing structure. The use of hollow clay block and locally sourced materials makes sure this project is extremely cost effective and eco-friendly as well. The use of primary colors on the doors and skylights liven up the common areas. The doubly loaded corridors are lit and ventilated with skylights.
Project5 years ago
CYTA, designed by Archetonic & Atiko Arquitectos, insistently looks for a careful integration with the natural and urban environment. The façade is composed by balconies and terraces with plants–in pots that are integrated to the structure, an Irving wrought iron screen, and sober framings. The facade coexists with its surroundings and the trees that face the street. The building and apartments are designed to provide an intimate haven within CYTA amidst all that dynamism and energy.
News5 years ago
The aim of the competition was to manifest into reality the idea of your dreams, and create a house based on it. The competition aimed to create a pure and highly imaginative expression of a home that will have a degree of surrealism to it.
Project5 years ago
Kunal Abode, designed by I-con Architects and Urban Planners, is an obvious reflection of how the light is brought into the house. The initial step towards this design has obviously been satisfying the requirements and overcoming the hurdles, the balance and the unity of both is what the concept was. There was a specific inclination towards making the house nature friendly and viable.
Project5 years ago
Mobalco Cocinas Flagship Store, designed by Ruben Muedra Estudio de Arquitectura, is an excellent example of Modernism or, more specifically, of the Sezession movement. The commercial space of the trapezoidal plan has been used for many different purposes and, as a result, is void of all architectural value due to its scarce respect for the original construction. The intervention consists of disposing of all inappropriate elements to recover the essence of the original site.
News5 years ago
Dublin-based practice Grafton Architects has been named the 2020 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal. The Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen and is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence “either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture”.
Project5 years ago
Work and live, designed by Rust Architects, create a living space alongside a work space, while maintaining both intimacy and clear separation. The design challenge included mixing different functions, creating storage areas and maximizing natural light in a small space – without demanding a complex operation. To facilitate the parallel use of the different functions, the finishing materials were chosen according to their acoustic quality: double layered wooden floors, insulated walls, exposed bricks and acoustic ceiling tiles in the work space.
Interview5 years ago
Architect Hiten Chavda from Anahat Architects, Vadodara, India, talks about basic principles of Green Architecture in the context of India that can be adopted by both: architects and informed clients.
Project5 years ago
Caldeiroa car parking, designed by Pitagoras Group, is a building with three storeys and a roof, landscaped and accessible, with smoke and natural ventilation, and covered parking for 500 vehicles. It also established a number of functional and urbanistic parameters, determining the accessibilities. The question of the existing heritage and of the integration of the new programme in consolidated historic zones would have to stand at the core of this intervention.
Practice5 years ago
Pitagoras Group is an architectural firm that works in all architectural fields: from interior design to urban planning, including residential, health, and equipment for both: the private and the public sector, developing projects from concept design to tender packages and field management.
News5 years ago
In beaches, parks and squares, the Lifeguard Tower will add with its architectural figure to increase the aesthetic value of its surroundings.
Selected Academic Projects
Project5 years ago
Bare minimalist, designed by Realrich Architecture Workshop, has a subjective quality, and is not limited by standards or regulations like public buildings. The result, between one house and another is unique and very personal. It has a relative level of comfort, but also optimized for particular occupants. From the front view, a straightforward material arrangement can be seen as a reflection of the concept of bare and minimalism. Charles later called this house the Open House Technology.
Project5 years ago
Island Rest, designed by Strom Architects, is a contemporary family holiday home that sits on a spacious site with direct access to the water and views of the Solent beyond. Our design is a low profile, a simple single-storey rectilinear form containing the main living and dining area with a bedroom ‘wing’ leading to it. This creates a dramatic impact as you look through the house to the gardens and water beyond, and inside a sense of light and space.
Practice5 years ago
Ström Architects is a contemporary architecture practice based in the New Forest. We specialise in unique modern homes, but also have experience in larger-scale residential schemes, and the arts sector.
Pedagogy5 years ago
Find summary of the last three days of the workshop – Grasshopper as a Tool. In these sessions students learnt to create city modelling in grasshopper using Elk and Mosquito (Sonic) plugins.
Project5 years ago
Funktion Design set out to build its own studio by bringing to the fore a strong conceptual ideation and structural exploration that they have hallmarked in all their projects to date. The best light and ventilation are available in these high-density sites’ upper reaches. Therefore, the design strategy evolved as a response to this site context and a reinterpretation of the program of an architecture office typology. Funktion Design is an expression of an interesting structural language.
Project5 years ago
CASABOX, designed by Caio Persighini Arquitetura & Design, is focused on exploring the purity of the cube and in a poetic and architectural paradox of the simple and pure shape, brings out all the lustiness of the apparent reinforced concrete, shaped in loco. In this concept, the constructive elements present themselves naturally and simplistically. Considering the practicity, its functions offer autonomy and dynamism, besides fulfilling the expectations and wishes of the contemporary style.
Practice5 years ago
Caio Persighini Arquitetura & Design focuses on developing projects where architecture comes as a resource to meet people’s premises and desires concerning their needs, whether in product development or space development conception. But in what fills us and establishes how strong a tendency are projects where conceptions with modern, brutalist, minimalist, and deconstructivist parties challenge and intrigue our creative capacity to develop projects.
Pedagogy5 years ago
In these sessions of the workshop – Grasshopper as a Tool, students were taught some advanced technical points about how to apply forces on points and mashes for form finding process in Kangaroo. There was also a discussion and teaching about how to record data of simulation and reuse it to form kinetic installations.
Project5 years ago
The Obvious, designed by MYVN Architecture, is an office interior with an open plan and enough space for everyone to work. Though the plan is divided into parts, it follows the order and feels vast. The plan is flooded with natural light which enhanced the idea of minimalism artificial light would have not made such impact. Even the grey cement epoxy goes well with the concept whereas adding green complemented the palette and completed the picture as a whole.
Project5 years ago
Family House Extension, designed by Rust Architects, has a sloping roof, creating a large, tall space that turned the small apartment into a family house with an open balcony and a double-height public space. In order to let natural light in, 4 skylight windows were placed on the sloping roof so that all the interior spaces receive air and light. In order to maintain the simple and modernist design of the building, the architects maintained a functional and convenient division and a simple and suitable design.
Project5 years ago
HIVE, designed by OpenIdeas Architects, is conceived as an intelligent, adaptable and sustainable family home. Being well-informed about architecture and given his core competency in mechanical engineering, the client was very clear about what he wanted as a ‘home’ — a smart structure rendered in metal and a ‘mono-space’ living area. The architecture is expressed as an angular V-shaped structure oriented towards the green pockets spread around the house.
Practice5 years ago
OpenIdeas is a multidisciplinary design studio that develops innovative ideas that provide unique and valuable design solutions. The attempt is to present architecture for what it is: an intelligent and innovative response to local constraints, allowing us to set a professional practice of high caliber, where new technological innovation and design excellence play a leading role. The architecture proposed results from continuous search for balance between process oriented approach, coordination of materials, technology, and play of light.
