SEDA Online Open House, Navrachana University
School of Enviornment Design and Architecture (SEDA) is organizing an Online Open House for all prospective students.
Restaurant Picheta | Quesnel Arqs, As Arquitectura, Reyes Ríos + Larraín Arquitectos
The intention was to restore the roof and the rooftop respecting the original colonial structure of 1639 and to exhibit it by removing all the added elements that rejected its historical value.
CAUKIN Studio
CAUKIN headed by Joshua Peasley, Harry Thorpe, and Harrison Marshall, is a design and build social enterprise based out of the UK. They are dedicated to creating skill exchange opportunities through design and construction. They enable this process through 3key strategies: Design Through Collaboration, Learn Through Building, Experience Through Immersion.
Sponsored
Bautista House | Productora
Bautista House, designed by the architectural firm Productora, is a residence powered by solar and wind energy. The house is raised on cross-shaped columns, so the impact on the environment is reduced and views are generated over the dune that separates the property from the sea. The entire project was cast in an organic blue color concrete, which reacts over time according to its exposure to the sun and its position in the house, creating tones that range from ocean blue to sunset pink.
Productora
Productora, headed by Abel Perles, Carlos Bedoya, Víctor Jaime, and Wonne Ickx, is an Architecture firm based out of Mexico City and LA.
Ronald McDonald House | Taller ACÁ + Little Coins
Ronald McDonald House, designed by architecture and urban design firm Taller Aca, has the characteristics of a home away from home. It contributes to the construction of a particular architectural language that reduces the perception of scale of the large program and conveys a sense of security and domestic warmth. The project recognizes the work and needs of all its occupants, identifying itself as a “house” and rather than a “building,” despite its dimensions. The staff’s operating protocols, program and space are conceptually designed to provide the families the warmth of a home with a sense of community.
Selected Interviews
Muangthongthani Carcare | Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
Muangthongthani Carcare, designed by the architectural firm Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated, is a project extension in Nonthaburi. The building consists of 4 small containers (2.34×2.40×6.00) and 4 large containers (2.34×2.40×12.00). The arrangement of these containers has harmony in design with different sizes of square holes that function as windows and doors. The west façade and the roof have metal sunshades to reflect sunlight and protect the building from the heat. Lighting design relies on 131 tubes fluorescent lamps that spread throughout the building on the customized metal railings.
Taller ACÁ
Taller ACÁ is a Guatemala City-based architecture and urban design firm headed by Jorge Villatoro and Hans Schwarz. ACÁ is an achronym for Architecture, City and Activism as they develop human-centered design that produces an improvement and well-being in the environment, community and society arround each project.
School of Alfa Omega | Realrich Architecture Workshop
Alfa Omega School, designed by the architectural firm Realrich Architecture Workshop, is an educational building with the spirit of locality. The site itself was chosen as part of design scheme, —corresponding to its natural surroundings, in order to give children sense of closeness to nature, thus invoking outdoor-learning experience. The solution to answer the brief of the project is to create an optimum collaboration, or bridge relationship in economic and creative process of construction in two important levels of masonry steel and bamboo construction which can enrich the economic impact of surrounding.
Selected Projects
Realrich Architecture Workshop
Realrich Architecture Workshop, an architectural firm, actively designs specific building approach with interest in locality & craftsmanship. The studio explores the root and progression of the social structure that cultivates the building tradition, manifested in generations of traditional Craftspeople. It is not limited to the debate of how we should preserve the form of modern architecture, but rather discusses the evolution of future architecture with the spirit of modern architecture by the introduction of a model of craftsmanship
Restaurante Tartuferia | mf+arquitetos
Restaurante Tartuferia SanPaolo, designed by the architectural firm mf+arquitetos, is a restaurant that integrates interior with exterior. The use of green in space is something we always use, to give life to the environment, it is necessary. The formal purity with straight lines and few volumes, planes that lengthen and at the same time unite the environments, natural materials like wood, concrete and stone are elements that characterize the project.
Casa Gozu | Opus Estudio
Casa Gozu, designed by the architectural firm Opus Arquitectura, is a residence that opens up sensitively toward the different landscapes. The house proposes fuzzy limits between the interior and exterior of the house. A succession of folds in the vegetation cover evoke the movements of the surrounding mountains and shape the interior spatiality.
Selected Academic Projects
LEnS House | Obra Arquitetos
Lens House, designed by architecture and design firm Obra Arquitetos, is built with the idea of providing a contemplative & reflective space. This theme was addressed in two ways: A more intimate, where the whole house is organized around a small patio and differences in levels. This internal patio allows a visual contact between the surroundings of the house, bringing the residents’ life together. Nature, on this small scale, can be observed according to the variations of the seasons.
Obra Arquitetos
Obra Arquitetos focuses on freedom and technique, serving as a tool to support human development by using the capacity of architecture to discover and solve design problems.
Patios House | Equipo de Arquitectura and José Cubilla
Patios House, designed by the architectural firm Equipo de Arquitectura, is a residence conceived as a system of places and relations. A continuous space that entangles the natural with the built, the public with the private, interior with exterior. The main concern belongs to a structural, and thus, spatial solution, that develops throughout the terrain. The structural scheme consists of beams that configure a progressive sequence of spaces, stratified according to is function, resting in two points each, attempting to reduce the number of foundations and excavation in the terrain.
Compilations
Adventurous Global School | Orient Occident Atelier
Adventorous Global School, designed by the architectural firm OOA, transforms the construction site itself into a learning kit. The building is not just classrooms but a social condenser where provide education, sanitation, retails, infrastructure and a gathering space for the daily life of locals. The school building is not only a traditional lecture space but a proactive space for learning design, construction and spatial creativity. During construction, students will take part in some manageable design. Local kids explore the new uses of space by action.
Orient Occident Atelier | OOA
OOA is an architectural studio headed by Magic Kwan and Kenrick Wong encompass modern interpretations of Eastern and Western aesthetics. The firm focuses on discovering, researching and utilizing the interdependence of “objects” and connections with surrounding space as design inspirations. The firm believes in the intrinsic local culture and technology found at the project site should be respected. Through the use of natural materials and synthetic materials, they focus on the research and development of new methods of architectural detail assembly.
Ranwas School | CAUKIN Studio
Ranwas School, designed by Caukin Studio, is a school classroom, library, & office space after Cyclone Pam caused devastation in Vanuatu. After 8 weeks of construction, the finished building combines a heavy-duty cyclone resistant timber frame, woven bamboo cladding, polycarbonate and metal roofing sheets to create a strong, bright and well ventilated learning environment. The library space tackles the extreme humidity through carefully considered passive design strategies, enabling the lifespan of the books to be prolonged.
Prachachuen House | Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
Prachachuen House, designed by the architectural firm Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated, is a residence with memory of modernity. It re-emerges as a driving force for making this house more beautiful and functional. As the house owner’s perception on physical appearance combines with the architect’s imaginative experimentation, the design aims to go beyond the boundary. The most outstanding feature of this house is a roof structure on the top with overhanging eave.
Studio Saheb
Studio Saheb is an architectural and design studio based in Tehran with innovation at its core in the design process. The firm tries to create a space to experience rather than just build a structure for protection, considering economic, technical and functionality constraint, seeking for a dialogue between the metropolis and important architectural elements, between people and space, in order to help the society to grow, having more communication and at the end a better life for everyone through architecture.
Kyoto House | 2m26
2m26 entirely renovated a hundred year-old Kyoto Nagaya House. In order to preserve the soul of the house, 2m26 paid great attention to its original typology, structure and use of materials. In order to preserve the soul of the house, 2m26 paid great attention to its original typology, structure and use of materials. Following these first points and inspired by traditional japanese nagaya planning, 2m26 organized the reconstruction of the space in two main parts using the original length of the house as a guide.
Mova-Teacher Innovation Centre | Opus Estudio
Mova, designed by Opus Arquitectura, is conceived as a meeting place, training, and development for the community of teachers. The strategy of loose volumes supported on piles and connected by bridges, dilutes the limits between the interior and the exterior to enjoy the climate and the landscape while taking advantage of the space of an existing parking lot on which it is built. Due to good design and construction practices, the building is LEED certified, gold category.
Earthbox | Equipo de Arquitectura
Earthbox, designed by the architectural firm Equipo de Arquitectura, is an office with the equation of materializing dreams over a bounded Budget. The exercise begins with the experimental transformation process of materials, such as earth, Wood and glass, configuring them between two existing trees: a flame tree, that stays outside but framed, and a guavirá tree, that stands in the middle of the space to share our company.
Bellary House | Gaurav Roy Choudhury Architects
Bellary House, designed by the architectural firm GRCA, is a residence that forms a microclimate by staving heat and creating cool currents. The outside walls wrap the house in this gesture of protection, pierced only with small and mass produced precast concrete windows that dot this exterior. The windows are kept small with heavy eaves to keep away the harsh sun.
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