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.
Jodi Mane by Int-Hab Architecture + Design Studio is a residential project that perfectly blends vernacular design with modern elements. The trapezoidal site features a linear house and another house, designed with a climatic response influenced by the surrounding area. The design ensures cross ventilation and daylighting through high volume ceilings, double height spaces, and sloped roofs with optimal waterproof treatment.
Sarzedela Chapel by Bruno Dias Arquitectura is an architectural project focused on revitalizing and creating a harmonious interior space. The program redefines spatial richness by incorporating lights, transparencies, and broad perspectives, transforming the existing white walls into a calm, light space, showcasing religious spatiality, respecting heritage, and reusing existing objects.
‘House with Hidden Gardens’ by Hrishikesh More Architects is a project that blends modern and traditional elements, adding rustic charm for intimate, landscaped spaces for each individual residing in the house. The design is characterized by natural light and fresh sea breezes, creating a cosy, bright, and inviting atmosphere. Large openings allow morning light to flood inside, creating a perfect setting for a relaxing and inviting atmosphere.
Hrishikesh More Architects is a design practice mainly focused on architecture, interiors, design+build, products, and furniture design. The practice focuses on architecture and its interrelated fields, aiming to develop design as its core strength. Its uniqueness lies in its diverse backgrounds and cultures, and it actively creates contextually appropriate solutions in an increasingly changing world.
ANOHA—The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin by Olson Kundig is an architecture project featuring a circular wooden ark that complements and contrasts with its surroundings. The warm, curvilinear ark offers a softening counterpoint to the rectilinear Brutalist structure of the existing hall, while the structural ribs within the ark echo the concrete ribbing that frames the skylights overhead.
ST International HQ and SONGEUN Art Space by Herzog & de Meuron is an architectural project that utilises various volumetric strategies to respond to the context. The triangular structure maximises floor area and explores the zoning law’s sculptural potential. Its tall front facade faces the main street, while its low back facade faces the garden, defining the surrounding neighbourhood on a more intimate scale.
TU, 1000 Trees by Tens Atelier is an interior design project that transforms indoor spaces into outdoor public spaces, reinterpreting TU’s inclusive brand concept. The design features a large outdoor step, sunken plaza, and corner coffee shop, creating an outdoor experience where customers can enjoy coffee and leisurely communication while walking around the city streets.
Casa Subtração by FGMF Arquitetos is a spacious, strategically placed residence on a square plot, showcasing its generous views and gently sloping topography. The residence was designed using a “occupation” between planes, creating walkways, voids for underground gardens, and light gaps while preserving the original planes’ limits, hence the name subtraction, a work of suppression.
FGMF Arquitetos is a practice based in São Paulo, Brazil, that aims to create contemporary architecture without limitations on materials, construction techniques, and scales. The practice does not follow any predefined or rigid formulas. With each challenge, they start from scratch and use drawing as their research instrument to develop a new vision of a building, an object, and a city.
‘The [Re]Construction Museum’ is an architecture thesis by Maream Merza from the School of Architecture and Environment – University of the West of England that seeks to revive a lost community in an abandoned historical site through adaptive reuse and modern design methods. The project aims to enable individuals unable to practise construction skills to create, display, and sell their work conventionally, enabling gradual reintegration into society through technological resources and transitional housing.
Exploring the concept of “Social Spaciousness” MVRDV’s new design study with HUB and Bridges highlights the influence of co-living on the future of housing. The study proposes solutions incorporating societal attitudes towards sharing, community, flexibility, mobility, and remote work. It addresses climate change, affordability, and poor management, expanding options for designers and builders of co-living projects for diverse demographics and communities.
Ikigai House by Studio Motley is an interior design project that allows for multiple readings and adapts itself to a variety of usage patterns. In response to the complexity of the brief, the design incorporates a luxurious material palette with thoughtful proportions and detailed detailing, akin to a tapestry that encourages a layered interaction. This intricately woven living canvas is the product of a dialogue involving clients, craftsmen, and architects.
Forest House by Faulkner Architects is a project that utilizes fenestrations and materiality to adapt to its climate and dense surroundings, minimizing impact on the site. The house features cut basalt stone floors, unfinished reclaimed teak ceilings, board-formed concrete, and white gypsum. Three-dimensional skylights provide nighttime views and reflect inhabitants’ images. Polished galvanized steel panels at fireplaces reflect daily movement.
Wild Echo by Architect Mahesh Naik is an architectural project that attempts to establish a relation between the built fabric and the topography of the site. The farmhouse was designed to encircle the existing Palmyra palms, serving as a focal point and protecting the structure, balconies, and deck area around the pool from heavy monsoon thrust and harsh afternoon sun rays.
Alosami Diwaniya, an architecture project by Illuminate Design + Build features an innovative contemporary traditional vernacular design. The project, inspired by an Arabian palm grove, features columns with abstracted palm tree shapes, forming a repetitive pattern. The façade uses modern technology and construction, covered with mocha cream limestone for durability and harmony in the harsh desert landscape, addressing the environment and culture.
Illuminate Design + Build is an architecture practice known for its minimalistic contemporary expressions with subtle references to Kuwait’s traditional vernacular. The vision is to preserve the identity of the past while expressing contemporary sensitivity towards culture and the environment. Their work aims to create a new architectural language that combines past principles with present functional needs, aiming for a sustainable future.
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