Visual representation has become an indispensable tool driving innovation, communication, and decision-making in modern industries. This article by Aimee S. Marshall highlights the importance of 3D rendering and how it affects virtual realities, product designs, and architectural visions. In addition, the article also explores the factors influencing 3D rendering pricing.
‘The Tea Factory: Into The Spout’ is an interior design thesis by Jessie Chen from the School of Architecture, Building and Design – Taylor’s University that seeks to create an immersive space where guests can escape from daily life and enjoy the simple pleasure of tea. The project explores the tea world in a historic shophouse in Penang, Malaysia, blending cultural tapestry with an enchanted world. The design conveys a narrative through every angle, revealing different aspects of tea through each perspective.
Cream Affair Dessert Studio, an interior design project by Architecture_Interspace, aims to recreate the informal dessert-loving experience at the beach. The design features a galleria leading up to the mezzanine cube seating area. The galleria, along with the contemporary industrial finish for the interiors, creates an ideal space for interaction. The design includes a pastel palette of blue, yellow, and pink, replicating ice cream’s bright colours.
Auric Hall, designed by IMK Architects, is a landmark in Aurangabad, offering a timeless, inspirational office space that promotes innovation and social engagement. It fosters the interaction of ideas, enabling effective solutions and fostering a sense of community. The building also honors the city’s historical heritage by incorporating traditional features and elements, aiming to revive them through modern interpretation, repetition, and symmetry.
‘Houses for elderly people in Alcácer do Sal’ by Aires Mateus is an architectural project that features an expressive and clear design, with independent units aggregated into a unique form. The designed path, like a wall emerging organically from the terrain, defines and demarcates the open space while organizing the entire plot. The project aims to understand and interpret the balance between social and private aspects.
Libre House by Mário Martins Atelier features a contemporary design with clean, square lines revolving around a sheltered patio, open to the horizon. The house is a one-story concrete structure with clear, empty spaces, including shadowy or penumbra-like voids. The design utilizes natural and recyclable materials, with high standards of comfort and minimal use of energy resources.
Mário Martins Atelier is a practice based in Lagos and Lisbon that works in the fields of architecture and urban planning. Their work from the past decades consists of a considerable volume and diversity of built projects: single-family houses, collective housing, residential condominiums, touristic developments, private and public facilities, urban renewal, and urban planning.
Annar Ali Chowdhury Mosque designed by Vastushilpa is a project that blends traditional architectural elements with contemporary design. The mosque’s design aims to create a serene atmosphere and enhance spiritual elevation. It uses three light wheels to create a soft, ethereal light, enhancing the overall tranquility and inviting worshippers into a space of spiritual solace.
The Grand Théâtre de Québec underwent a creative and sustainable renovation by Lemay and Atelier 21, which included the integration of a glass curtain wall into the concrete structure. The glass casing acts as an extension of the original building, using the same structural logic and composition. It creates a secondary, tempered envelope housing a low-flow heat recovery and thermal mass system, which is energy-efficient and economical.
Atelier 21 is an architecture firm that provides high-quality conceptual design for large institutional, commercial, and urban buildings, ensuring their designs will endure through time. They promote harmonious, functional architecture, respect the environment and heritage, and prioritise user-centred design, ensuring functionality and comfort while maintaining a healthy environment.
SENAC Salvador by Obra Arquitetos and NNarq incorporates historic urban elements for contemporary construction. The blade building, with its staggered slabs, provides shaded garden areas. The facade panels, covered in CRF, offer thermal insulation, ensuring good thermal, acoustic, and lighting performance for internal spaces. These panels also create unity for the building’s facades and volumes.
Casa Coral by Alta Arquitectura is a unique house that combines elements of protection, privacy, and warmth. Its exterior features a solid shape, a large porch, and a reflecting pool, while the ground floor houses social areas connected to the garden. The interior façade uses transparency for ventilation and natural lighting, while vegetation surrounds and embraces the house’s perimeter spaces.
Alta Arquitectura is an architecture practice founded by architect Enrique Carlin.
Urban Infill Lofts by CHYBIK + KRISTOF is an architectural project that blends the industrial heritage of the area with modern design elements. The five-story building, featuring 14 modern residential and commercial spaces, offers panoramic city views. The architect’s urban design maximizes the limited area with an irregular polygon floor plan and geometric staircase. A site-specific light installation by artist Petr Dub adds to its appeal.
The Distillery – Social Reactor by KOGAA is an interior design project with multiple functions spread across different spaces, creating a dynamic and challenging working environment. The Distillery is an organic body with potential for expansion in different directions. The typology of the Social Reactors is designed as a hybrid, which is able to adapt in time to the needs of the entities using it.
Grid Coffee by B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio is a project that seeks to explore innovative approaches to communal public life. The project draws inspiration from the distinctive characteristics of the site and it seamlessly extends the spatial sequences and behavioral patterns inherent in the market, emphasizing functional operations by integrating the display, storage, and sale of goods within limited stalls.
The Twisted Brick Shell Concept Library by HCCH Studio is an architectural project that combines contemporary formal expression with vernacular material culture. The continuous surface of two semicircles blurs interior and exterior, creating a refreshing construction logic and visual expression. This stacked and interlocking masonry subverts the common tectonic structure of brick construction.
Founded in 2018 by Shanghai-based architects Hao Chen and Chenchen Hu, HCCH Studio is a multidisciplinary practice that produces work in the areas of public art, architecture, and interior design. In an effort to encourage long-lasting, beneficial environmental and societal engagement, they explore specified creative, and challenging actions which question conventions and push the boundaries of discipline.
Lan House by HoangGk Architecture is a project that challenges traditional residential concepts and introduces innovative design approaches. The house features rooms with voids that allow fresh air, sunlight, and wind to enter, enhancing the quality of life for residents. This peaceful environment provides comfortable living spaces, allowing users to enjoy life with family, away from busy work.
Santo by the sea Villa designed by Pham Huu Son Architects is a beautiful beachfront resort villa inspired by Mediterranean-style architecture. The villa, finished with white paint, rough walls, and yellow doorways, features large arches for natural light and open doors for stunning sea and landscape views. Thick walls and large doorways create a solid, proportioned appearance, enhancing its modern and youthful appearance.
Casa Manantial by Apaloosa Estudio de Arquitectura y Diseño is a spacious residence that opens from patios and internal areas, revealing all spaces through cancels and panels. The house is confined with old hollow block walls and an internal vault. From its construction, the villa behaves like a cone of absorption and distribution of light and wind, from the center there are its habitable areas, achieving optimal thermal comfort.
Ningbo International Conference Center by Tanghua Architects is a project conceived in the form of a covered bridge surrounded by picturesque mountain and river landscapes. The conference center, arranged overhead in a north-south belt-shaped area, preserves 36.7 hectares of agrarian landscape, allowing for future urban development and facilitating ecological transition zones, while preserving topography, water system, and ecosystem.
Founded in 2002 by Tang Hua, a scholar and professor at Chongqing University, Tanghua Architects is an award-winning architectural design practice based in Shenzhen. Tanghua Architects believes in the efficient use of resources and respects the rights and dignity of every individual. Under an appropriate and rigorous framework, a kind of regional modern architecture with a unique style is created in accordance with professionalism.
Archidiaries is excited to share the Project of the Week – La Casa De Papel | Bhoomija Creations. 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.
