Casa em Santa Teresa | SPBR Arquitectos
This house is located in two of the highest points of Morro de Santa Teresa overlooking the landscape of Rio De Janerio
Thaphra House | Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
Thapra House, designed by the architectural firm Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated, is a residence in Bangkok, Thailand. The House responds to the buzzing environment with double aspects: being a calm, hidden private residence and, at the same time, having an attractive look of public building that invites gazing from outsiders. It could be said that both physical dynamic and imaginary force of the environment surrounds and acts on this house. These conditions make the house not to be just a pleasant home with perfection for basic needs, but should also respond to the buzzing environment.
Tainan Spring | MVRDV
Tainan Spring, designed by the architectural firm MVRDV, is a lush lagoon and park in the preserved ruin of a mall in central Tainan. It is a public space design that includes the transformation of a former city-centre shopping mall into an urban lagoon surrounded by young plants that will develop into a lush jungle, reconnecting the city with nature and its waterfront. In addition to the new public square and urban pool, the plan includes improved public pathways, a reduction in traffic, and the addition of local plants. Tainan Spring shows what solutions are possible for unused shopping malls now that online shopping is supplanting physical stores.
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Jungalow | Neogenesis+Studi0261
Jungalow, designed by the architectural firm Neogenesis + studio0261, is a residence that aims to create an economically modest built form. . Abstraction of urban farming could be seen in both exterior and interior spaces. The design uses the natural light and the built form to its advantage. The heart of the structure is the double heighted courtyard which is embellished with creepers and climbers.
Sammakorn House | Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
Sammakorn House, designed by the architectural firm Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated, is a residence widely open to scenic landscape. For this house, the back is not storage, cleaning area or hidden space but a bedroom, a living room and the relaxing areas. These rooms are put on the three floors for the inhabitants to enjoy the view with a lawn and a pond. Facing west direction, the front of the house next to the entrance is used as functional spaces.
Power Wing | Openbox Architects and Openbox Group
Power Wing Sculpture, designed by the architectural firm Openbox Architects, is a structure that sends a message about sustainable energy. In order to create a more dynamic form, each solar panel was arranged in various angles according to energy waves to be “The Power wing”. The piece of art itself will express engineering aesthetics by revealing a steel skeleton of a 50 meters piece of art with only 2 columns, and grand cantilever, combined with solar panels installations. This symbolised mankind’s achievements in structural and energy engineering..
Selected Interviews
Openbox Architects and Openbox Group
OPENBOX Architects (OPNBX) was founded in 2004 by NUI Ratiwat Suwannatrai & PRANG Wannaporn Suwanntrai, architects and landscape architects. The design studio has been formed, based on the core belief that architecture and landscape should be designed and perceived as one. For the past 16 years, OPENBOX has been involved in numerous projects of various types, that illustrate the importance of unified concept, boldness and harmony between architectures and their surroundings.
Veranda on a Roof | Studio Course
Veranda on a Roof, designed by the architecture and design firm Studio Course, houses a library and a pantry, which extend into a terrace. A concept, which conjures up an image of a welcoming social space meant for all. Traditionally, verandas have always been an integral part of our homes. It is a space designed keeping in mind the family and their clear understanding of a special place they wanted to add to their home. A space crafted out from their lifestyle which revolves around books, food and plants.
Maitry 8 | Studio ii
Maitry 8, designed by the architectural firm studio ii, is tucked between two adjacent houses in a quiet row-house society. The narrow house has abundance of light and air ensuring comfortable living in all the spaces. The house offers varied experiences for varying seasons, times of the day and family gatherings of any size. A house which could breath and which would have ample daylight in every area from dawn to dusk.
Selected Projects
House in Carapicuiba | SPBR arquitetos
House in Carapicuíba, designed by the architectural firm spbr arquitetos, is a place to live & work. However, it is as separate as possible. The different levels offered by the site were utilized to arrange the two main programs. The street level was kept free of any enclosed space, it is a kind of “pilotis” with two different areas: the first one is on the ground, very close to the street, and the other one is aerial, as a roof terrace over the building. The House and the office is connected by the bridge with its steel grid floor that leads over the open space: downstairs to the house or upstairs to the office.
Farm House | The Vrindavan Project
Farm House, designed by The Vrindavan Project, sets a unique example of reusing materials and innovating with material technology. The primary volume of this home has omitted the use of concrete altogether, by spanning a brick vault, which removes steel from the equation while reducing cement content to create a stable roof. Apart from the natural beauty of such a form, this vault provides for ventilation and illumination of the space.
The Vrindavan Project
The Vrindavan Project is an architecture and design firm with an evolving process, which grows organically and adapts to each task. The overall resultant continuum is a “Project” in itself; as the studio is not to be static or set in any particular form. “Vrindavan” is a reference to the Divine abode; a place of His youth and creative field of action.
Selected Academic Projects
Sena House | Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
Sena House, designed by the architectural firm Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated, is a residence in Bangkok, Thailand. Creating an environment and one’s own context is paramount to housing; bright whiteness, clay, stone flake and transparency form this three-personalities and four-atmospheres building. The three layers of the building surface are laid out differently, even it may seem unnecessary, but, in this context, it is absolutely necessary, yet it is humble.
Red Box House | tHE gRID Architects
Red Box House, designed by The grid Architects, creates a visual statement that would hold its own ground amongst the urban fabric. The project is designed to satisfy an urban lifestyle that regards nature as a precious, inextricable part of living. This project was driven by contrasts and contrarian requirements, a strive towards minimizing the shortcomings, using them to create positives. A programme that would be introverted and inclusive at once. In fact, the architects harboured an upbeat, buoyant attitude towards the assignment right from the outset.
Day 4 | Introduction to Grasshopper: Task 3
In this session of the workshop – Introduction to Computational Design, focused on learning more about Grasshopper. The task was to learn the basics of contour technique in grasshopper to design furniture if the material to be used were MDF or Plywood sheet.
Compilations
Guha | Realrich Architecture Workshop
Guha, designed by the architectural firm Realrich Architecture Workshop, combines new and renovation projects located in Taman Villa Meruya. The renovation section consists of adding sequences for adding elaborated programs for Omah Library, such as more storage for bookshelves, bookstores, and galleries. The program challenges the typical housing in Indonesia to be mixed with more micro business programs such as education and even coffee shops in the future by maintaining the privacy and opening itself to the public.
Disaster Management Healthcare Units | KNS Architects
Disaster Management Healthcare, designed by KNS Architects, intends to provide an architectural solution to help healthcare professionals. The disaster management healthcare units can also be converted into dignified shelters for this purpose and can house almost thrice the number as an accommodation unit as compared to when it is a healthcare unit. The team has implied certain important medical and construction regulations to create what can be a fully operational medical facility in a span of less than 2 weeks.
4 Architecture Studio
4 Architecture Studio is a young studio that accepts projects for architecture, landscape, industrial design and any other type of artistic design. Calling it as 4 is because of the cooperation of four friends in No. 4 flat established in 2014. 4 believes that nowadays there is no desire for a definite and specific style. It means that the designer should be strategist by creating the style using the data and the expectations of the employer.
KNS Architects
KNS architects is a multi-disciplinary firm that aims to create contextual, artistic & bespoke design solutions. Since its inception, the firm has undertaken a wide spectrum of projects ranging from master planning, malls, hotels, residential and commercial buildings, bungalows, second home schemes, high-end apartments, commercial interiors, restaurants, clubhouses & showrooms. In addition to projects in INDIA, KNS have successfully concluded projects in Dubai, Singapore and London.
LatLong Travel Solutions | Neogenesis+Studi0261
LatLong Travel Solutions, designed by the architectural firm Neogenesis + studio0261, is a residence converted to an office. The space that demanded functionality, flexibility and adaptability as the prime requirement, making ‘Minimalism’ as the design approach. The layout further involves consideration of naturally well-lit zones with ‘Biophilic’ way of design increasing occupant’s connectivity to nature by converging ‘greens’ that break into the space.
Day 4 | Introduction to Grasshopper: Task 1& 2
In this session of the workshop – Introduction to Computational Design, focused on learning more about Grasshopper. The task was to learn intersection technique to generate form and to learn modeling using triangulation technique to create 3 dimensional modules in grasshopper.
Honeycomb Mosque | Andyrahman Architect
Honeycomb Mosque, designed by KNS Architects, takes inspiration from honeycombs to develop architectural elements in this building. The mosque is based on the intelligence of Nusantara, by making holes in the wall that enables the airflow from inside-out, so that the room inside the mosque becomes cooler. This hollowed wall made from vent blocks, which dominates the overall appearance of the mosque. This mosque aims to be the “honey” to the environment, not only “sweet” physically but also gives “sweetness” in a broader context to the world.
Culunco House | AL BORDE
Culunco House, designed by the architectural firm Al Borde, is a residence with an intense contact with nature. This is as well the name that the architects from Al Borde chose for an excavated house in the middle of a sloping ground, surrounded by earth and trees in the Valley of Tumbaco, in Quito. The orthogonal volume is composed of two programs divided by the stairs of the entrance but united by a same excavation, same construction system and same roof.
La Errería * Architecture Office
La Erreria is a Spanish-based architectural office founded by Carlos Sánchez García & Luis Navarro Jover in 2012. The Practice is convinced that new strategies are needed for linking the architecture to the place from new perspectives that have to do with sustainability, proximity and deep thinking. The small scale, by opposition or necessity, is today the work of a new generation of architects with which we can guarantee a greater conceptual intensity, a greater constructive integrity.
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