Result Announcement: Europe 40 Under 40- 2020
Winners announced for “Europe 40 under 40” the young architects and designers below the age of 40.
Gymnasium A+ | Archimatika
Gymnasium A+, designed by Archimatika, continues the complex of educational institutions and offers space for both the academic process and leisure of the children and their parents. The school’s building is made in achromatic colors contrasting with the bright surrounding apartment buildings. The courtyard of “Gymnasium A +” is designed in the form of an amphitheater. Much attention is paid to landscape design: more than 80 mature trees are planted on the territory, not only deciduous but also coniferous species selected.
House in fontaínhas | fala
House in fontaínhas, designed by fala, is structured within overlapping antagonistic spatial structures dissolving into the garden, a precisely divided piano nobile, and a headstrong roof. The complexity is introduced to accommodate all the necessary programs, adapting to the narrow perimeter of the site. A set of equally distanced wooden beams supporting the roof causes inconvenient intersections. The striped concrete cornice is introduced on both elevations and a blue circle, aligned with an unnecessary pink column, ends the peculiar composition.
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Hun ne Chandu Chana Mana Katariya ma Petha
‘Hun ne Chandu Chana Mana Katariya ma Petha’ is the third article of the series ‘Har Ghar Kuch Kehta Hai’. This series of blog articles is centered around everyday life in traditional Indian homes. Using clues from Bollywood songs, regional poetry, TV advertisements and folk culture, the articles aim to highlight the various associations that people have with their homes, their neighbourhood and the city. What kinds of spaces and elements constituted traditional Indian homes before the living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen? What were these spaces called? What purposes did they serve? What meanings and values were associated with them? How was the home perceived in relation to the neighbourhood and the city? The tone of the articles is reflective and borrows from the authors’ personal experiences.
Jackson Hole Airport QTA | CLB
Jackson Hole Airport QTA, designed by CLB, is a facility that houses three program spaces: a fuel island, wash building, and detail building. Overall site planning and desired program spaces were provided by the Jackson Hole Airport based on existing constraints, increasing demand, and future phasing and growth of airport development. Maximizing operational efficiency was a driving factor of the overall design. Materiality was intended to complement the existing palette of the main airport terminal building; rusted metal, concrete, steel, and timber.
Data Driven Design using Rhino and Grasshopper
In this talk, architect Adnan Makda, founder at Arkeytec, Ahmedabad, talks about Data Driven Design. DDD is a goal-oriented design approach that specifically addresses performance-related criteria, such as energy use, operating cost, occupant comfort, daylighting, FSI, views, and HVAC size, among others.
Selected Interviews
Hachi Homestay & Spa / Hachi Lily House | SILAA
Hachi Lily House, designed by SILAA, is a tranquil homestay constructed with the use of reclaimed lumbers, and incorporating materials like stone, concrete, glass, and terracotta. The project takes shape as a small bungalow that offers privacy and serenity, away from the bustling city. SILAA architects aimed to create a calming hideaway surrounded by lush vegetation, where the client’s family can enjoy a close bond with nature and look after the homestay as their own business.
SILAA
SILAA is a Vietnamese architectural studio striving to create simple projects using natural materials as the main elements of the buildings. The aim is to bring a peaceful atmosphere and connect people, nature, and people in between.
Markthalle Salzburg | Smartvoll
Markthalle Salzburg, designed by Smartvoll, is a rebirth of a market hall embracing the industrial charm and reinterpreting market typology. The market structure begins in the middle of the hall, where the existing brick walls serve as a frame. This creates an exciting contrast between a historical structure and modern architecture. The most prevalent elements in the implemented structure are the white containers. They create not only an industrial atmosphere, but their clever layering, stacking and sequencing also create rooms of varying height and dimension.
Selected Projects
Aneto & Table Restaurante | Just an Architect
Aneto & Table Restaurante, designed by Just an Architect, intends to make compatibility between the image of pre-existence and the Aneto brand. The concept was made from passing the environment from their farm, to the intervention space to assume itself as a logical extension of the product’s path. The definition of external access to space was already part of pre-existence, so the intervention started by trying to direct this access to better use and distribute the program in space through an antechamber.
Just An Architect
Just An Architect is an architecture studio that focuses its main activity in architectural design, and is also present in other areas, namely in interior architecture, inspection, construction monitoring and consultancy.
Fireworks in white | fala
Fireworks in white, designed by fala, is a familiar exercise of fitting in ambiguous programs, correcting mistakes and introducing an insistent order. Almost pure interior, the space is an elaborate composition of fearless geometries. Three fluid walls are framed between a dotted marble floor and a white wavy ceiling. Proud doors suggest possible rooms and occasional mirrors simulate the missing windows. Curtains, doors, columns and cabinets complete the spatial parade that can be used as a house.
Selected Academic Projects
Mansueto High School | Wheeler Kearns Architecture
Mansueto High School, designed by Wheeler Kearns Architects, transformed 5.5 acres of industrial brownfield into a place of great opportunity for its students. The design of the school supports this goal, organized around a central green space which emulates a college quadrangle and allowing high-schoolers to envision a college future from day one. The use of masonry anchors the building’s identity, replicating the historical context of the site, providing a sense of protection, and shielding interior functions.
The Klotski | Graham Baba Architects
The Klotski, designed by Graham Baba Architects, is a three-story, mixed-use infill building that reflects the neighborhood’s eclectic vibrancy and gritty nature. Riffing on the idea of shifting uses and planes, the design takes its visual cue from a sliding tile puzzle, also known as a klotski, where the object is to rearrange tiles to solve the puzzle. Sustainable features include rainwater cisterns that collect and recycle all on-site rainwater, roof-top solar panels, energy-efficient radiant heating, and thermally efficient, operable windows encouraging cross ventilation.
Apartamento na Almirante Reis | BALA atelier
Apartamento na Almirante Reis, designed by BALA atelier, is a rehabilitation intervention to counter the weak pre-existing conditions of habitability. Efforts were made to preserve the historical legacy of this constructive typology, preserving the elements considered relevant to the characteristics of the time. A rigorous approach is defined, with a special focus on detail, choosing pine wood as the primary material, and valuing harmony and compatibility of the others. The new configuration of the space allows for a dynamic and flexible experience of home.
Compilations
Bala atelier
Bala atelier is an architectural firm based in Lisbon, Portugal.
Weekly Highlights 2021 #15
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Trapezioma by Andyrahman Architect. Along with this, the weekly highlight contains a few of the best projects, published throughout the week. These selected projects represent the best content curated and shared by the team at ArchiDiaries.
Ovoid | GreyScale Design Studio
Ovoid, designed by GreyScale Design Studio, is a holiday home with a contemporary adaptation of the local architecture with pitched roofing. The design stemmed from the basic brief of flowing with the land topography and creating the entire structure within the foliage height. The house is built in locally available laterite stone, which in its exposed form arrests all your senses along the passageway from living to bedroom. The house is constructed in the way that allows sunlight in every corner of it throughout the day. One can truly feel the serene outdoor all across inside the house.
Vinod Residence | Murali Architects
Vinod Residence, designed by Murali Architects, has a rustic yet futuristic parametric façade that brings out the bricks’ dynamic side. They unveil its frozen state in a new dimension; parallelly, its sturdiness is also set out by its genuine exposed skin. It is not just the façade that speaks out for itself, but also the well-ventilated interiors, where the play of light creates statements in every face of the inner brick walls. It is a balanced mix of contemporary and traditional architecture, conceiving new values that respond to regionalism and a new future.
Murali architects
Murali architects is one of the innovative design practices in Tamil Nadu, offering services in Architecture and Interior design. The team creates innovative, inspiring residential, commercial, institutional, and hospital projects. The projects are unique and possess qualitative architecture as an outcome of commitment to our core value of design excellence and are dedicated to research & development.
Result Announced: Architecture Illustration Competition
The result announced for Architecture illustration competition held by DesignClass
Comfort Town | Archimatika
Comfort Town, designed by Archimatika, is a housing project with a 40-hectare explosion of rainbow-colored concrete on the ground below. Children’s building blocks inspire Comfort Town’s 180 low-rise apartment buildings, a playful response to the sprawling 1950s and 60s communist-era housing that encircles them. The focus was on three techniques: silhouette: different turns and heights of dual-pitch roofs; window: using the French balcony and the window shifting system to avoid monotonous rows; color: the first daring color solution for a residential neighborhood in the country.
The Shop at The CAC | EskewDumezRipple
The Shop at The CAC, designed by EskewDumezRipple, is a comprehensive co-working development with technology, arts, and cultural-based businesses. The shop is a hub of entrepreneurship in the developing Downtown innovation corridor. This renovation preserves the classic Warehouse District architecture of the existing building while incorporating modern elements. The light-filled space features high ceilings with exposed beams, large windows, a contemporary art collection, and a flowing, open floor plan.
Six houses and a garden | fala
Six houses and a garden, designed by fala, has four identical and two exceptional houses around one common garden hidden inside a city block. One architecture tying the fragmented reality. The composition of each inner space combines orthogonal, diagonal and curved lines. Acting within a very small volume, this combination of ambivalent geometries achieves quite unconventional living rooms. The materiality of the awkward interiors follows their complexity.
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