On a generous site at the base of a mountain, FREE was invited to design a weekend house overlooking a soccer pitch that multiple families could use as a clubhouse. The concept began with the idea of having a large structure that hovers above the house. This wooden surface seems to float, while acting as a green roof that captures rainwater. An extremely rational plan creates generous interior spaces that accommodate events for many guests. The house contains a living room, dining room, play area, movie projection room, spa, kitchen, and a vast terrace where one can watch and admire one of the owner’s passions: soccer, the national sport of Mexico.
Client: Private
Location: Toluca, Mexico
Program: Housing / Sports
Size: 622 m2
Design team: Fernando Romero, Mauricio Ceballos, Raymundo Zamora
Estructura/Structural design: Muñoz y asociados
Diseño de paisaje/Landscape design: Ambiente arquitectos
Diseño de iluminación/Ligthing design: Luz en arquitectura
Mobiliario/Furniture: Ezequiel Farca
Muros verdes/Green walls: Verde vertical
Acústica/acoustics: Saad acústica
Photographer: Adam Wiseman
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Casa Toluca / Soccer Villa
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Geo Metria
On the crest of Hakone´s mountain range along the Odawara plain is a site. It´s sunny rolling hillside was once planted with fruit trees.
On the south side you have a clear view of the distant Sagami Bay, north of the site a mountain gives shelter from the north wind.
Deciduous broad-leaved trees cast soothing shadow in summer, in winter they shed their leaves and allow weak sunlight to warm up the moist mountain soil.
The perfect living environment was there, waiting quietly to be found.
Rather than bringing a new priciple that is not derived from the land in order to complete a „normal“ house, a place of habitability should be established here.
My mission as an architect is to draw out the latent “habitability” of the land, adjust and amplify it, so that it provides just enough for a man to live.
In short, we aimed to construct an architecture completely organized by the land.
The resolution is to reduce the designing step and leave only fundamental constructive factors, setting frames and building a roof, then we “listen to the land” and make a decision.
Two sets of portal frames (about 12m in length) are combined in an angle to fit the slight curve of the place and form a rack assembly with truss structure at the center.
The material used as frame is laminated veneer lumber (38 x 286mm).
The thin structure is being achieved by efficiently distributing horizontal force on weak axes to the back core through a ridge-jointed truss underneath the ceiling.
(The cross points in the middle part prevent a deflection of the 6-meter-long beams.)
These fin-like columns with shelf plates also play a role of semi-transparent partition that separates the space loosely.
Each beams slant is in a northward direction to support the roof that has enough pitch to handle the rainy weather and differentiate the ceiling height.
Together with the tilted ground, this gives the spatial “variation” that complex life requires.
As you see, the features of this site (geomorphic characteristics, amount of rain) add a special “geometry” to this architecture.
It determines the structure and the resulting dwelling space and brings harmony amongst them.
If you, as the origin of the word indicates, decide the order of an architecture (=geometry) by taking a close survey (=metria) of the land (=geo), the consequent architecture will have clear order while retaining the continuity of the land.
“Observing the site closely and finding its hidden geometry.”
That accounts for almost all of our design works and, is essence of it.
architecture: MASAHIRO HARADA + MAO / MOUNT FUJI ARCHITECTS STUDIO
http://www.14.plala.or.jp/mfas/fuji.htm
principal use: private residence
site area: 429.40m2
building area: 123.95m2
total floor area: 155.66m2
number of stories: 1 story, 1 basement
structure: wood frame, partly reinforced concrete
design: 2010.1 - 2011.3
construction: 2011.4 - 2011.12
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Technikzentrale - E.ON Avacon
Das Verwaltungsgebäude der e.on Avacon in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt
Das Gebäude liegt im Zentrum von Salzgitter-Lebenstedt. Es definiert mit seiner Lage den städtischen Raum um das Rathaus am Ende der zentralen Einkaufszone neu und markiert gleichzeitig den Übergang vom Stadtzentrums in einen Grünzug, der sich bis an den Stadtrand erstreckt. Landschaftsgestaltung und Architektur gehen hier eine Einheit ein.
Am Ende des Grünzuges wird die Rasenfläche auf eine höhere Ebene geführt, die den Park erweitert. Darunter ist eine Parkgarage für PKW der Mitarbeiter von e.on-Avacon und der Stadt untergebracht, die vor allem im Rathaus beschäftigt sind. Durch ihre offenen Struktur erhält die Garage soviel Tageslicht, dass sie auch Bäume aufnehmen kann, die den auf ihrem Dach angelegten Park prägen. Damit konnte der Übergang zum Grünzug attraktiv gestaltet und die erforderlichen Stellplätze stadträumlich verträglich bereitgestellt werden. Gleichzeitig bestimmt der künstliche Geländeversprung auch die Architektur des Gebäudes. Städtebaulich bietet er ihm einen gestalterischen Rückhalt und fasst außerdem den städtischen Raum zwischen dem E.on Avacon-Bau und dem Rathaus. Architektonisch prägt er auch den Eingangsbereich des neuen Verwaltungsgebäudes.
Die Eingangshalle hat zwei Ebenen. Der in Stein und Holz gefasste untere Bereich empfängt Mitarbeiter und Besucher in einer ruhigen, hellen Atmosphäre und gibt ihm die Möglichkeit zur Orientierung. Den höher gelegenen Zugangsbereich zu den Büros dominiert ein großes Pflanzenbeet, das sich wiederum auf gleicher Ebene mit dem Parks befindet.
Das Erdgeschoss nimmt außer dem Empfang, den Übergang von der Parkgarage und den Zugang zu den Büros, Konferenzräume und das Mitarbeiterrestaurant auf. Dessen Außenterrasse liegt wiederum auf der Parkebene und ist von der Strasse schützend abgehoben. Außen und Innen korrespondieren im Erdgeschoss des Gebäudes in räumlichen Bezügen, aber auch durch eine sorgfältige Materialwahl: Die geschosshohe Verglasung der Außenwände ermöglicht weitreichende Durch- und Überblicke, Treppen sind Außen und Innen parallel geführt und unterscheiden sich lediglich in der Materialwahl. Ähnliches gilt für die Bodenbeläge.
Die Büros sind in jeweils vier etwa 400 Quadratmeter große Einheiten in den beiden Obergeschossen aufgeteilt, die über zwei Treppenhäuser erschlossen werden. Die Etagen sind nach dem Prinzip eines Kombibüros aufgeteilt: Den Mitarbeitern stehen einzelne, verschließbare, aber transparente Büros zur Verfügung. In den breiten Mittelzonen sind Bereiche für kurze Zusammenkünfte, Pausen und Besprechungen eingerichtet. Hier gibt es außerdem Kopiergeräte und die zentrale Aktenverwahrung. Die geräumigen Teeküchen sind jeweils so konzipiert, dass Einblicke in den inneren Hof des Gebäudes möglich sind. Aus den Einzelbüros ergeben sich sowohl Einblicke in den zentralen Bereich des Kombibüros als auch kontemplative Ausblicke entweder in den Innenhof oder durch die großen Fenster nach draußen in die Stadt. Zum Sonnenschutz sind davor von außen geschosshohe Elemente aus Streckmetall angebracht worden, die von innen für die jeweilige Nutzung optimal eingestellt werden können, so dass die Sonne nicht blenden kann, aber ein weiter Ausblick möglich ist. Außen unterstützen diese variablen Fassadenelemente, die allein an den Obergeschossen angebracht sind, den solitären Charakter des Gebäudes – am Tage! Des Nachts löst das von innen nach außen dringende Licht diese Wirkung spielerisch auf.
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Holiday Apartment, Föhr
The project is located on Föhr, a small island in the North Sea.
In the village of Alkersum, Inside a former hay storage of a traditional farmhouse, we redefine the whole space with a wood structure covered by 3.200 tiles, each with a hand-made circular hole, 500 mt of polypropylene blue rope and treated pine wood.
Due to its geographical location, Föhr is very much in the hands of natural forces. The area has a big tide. When the water is low you walk over to other islands. It is a flat island where 60 % of the island is under sea level. To protect the island man made grass-walls surrounds half of the island. Still, every autumn when the big storm-floods arrive, the island go on alert. 1634 an enormous flood erased most of the houses on the island and reshaped the map. It is a though climate for permanent inhabitants; at the same time the island changes completely in the summer months when the population raise from 8500 to 40 000 due to tourism. Föhr is an island belonging to Germany but first and foremost to Nordfriesland. The Friesians have their own language and culture. In the 17th century a school of navigation was founded on Föhr and many people became sea captains sailing on Asia and North America. Sailing on other countries brought back the tradition of ceramics and tiles from Asia. Being rich was to have as many painted Friesian tiles as possible on your dining room walls. Wood used inside was painted in Friesian colors, which are different nuances of blue-green. Beds were traditionally in bed-boxes. Houses were always in brick with thatched roofs. The rooms were small, dark and all the same size.
The space as been re-opened by taking down all dividing walls except for the ones surrounding the bathroom.
A new volume is added which becomes the central wall going through and unifying the space. It is covered in ceramic tile with a simple pattern given by the blue cement holding them. Light is brought through the reflective ceramics and the translucent doors. Threads frame the staircase creating a transparent threshold The bedrooms are dark bed-boxes, private like nests.
Often you only realize after what it is that you have done; we returned in the summer and we realize what we had build.
A stranded ship.
Project: Francesco Di Gregorio & Karin Matz
Construction: NCE Bygg AB
Electrician: Jörg Kottke dba Elektro Kottke
Plants: Heizungsbau Domeyer
Built area: 85 sqm
Photography: Francesco Di Gregorio
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+ POOL
+ POOL will filter bacteria and contaminants through the walls of the pool itself - like a giant strainer dropped into the rivers - leaving only clean, safe and swimmable river water. The Olympicsize pool will filter over 500,000 gallons of river water daily, making a measurable contribution towards cleaning the city’s waterways. EVERYBODY + POOL is raising $1 million to bring the design and engineering of + POOL closer to approvals and construction.
The campaign will make the central idea of cleaning the rivers tangible and exciting to the greater public by also funding a live test pool and pavilion next summer. The pavilion will be home to the in-situ testing of innovative filtration systems and will host a three-month forum including exhibitions, discussions and events that will make topics typically reserved for architects, engineers, scientists and policy makers open to everybody.
EVERYBODY + POOL has created an extensive project timeline that outlines all the steps, meetings, tests, presentations and developments that have happened so far, as well as what’s yet to come (see: pluspool.org/timeline). We worked with engineers at Arup to study the structural, mechanical and filtration systems and ecological consultants at One Nature to maximize the Pool’s benefit to the environment. We spent six weeks on a pier in the East River testing different filtration materials and learned about enterococci and fecal coliform from professors at Columbia University. We gained the support of city and state agencies, open-water swimmers, waterfront advocacy organizations and over 1,200 incredible supporters who pledged money through Kickstarter.
And now, we are taking the next big step with EVERYBODY + POOL. Over the next six months, events, discussions, videos and the timeline will invite everybody to be a part of making a new architectural, ecological, recreational and social icon for New York City. Donations to the campaign are tax-deductible thanks to the invaluable support and fiscal sponsorship of Storefront for Art and Architecture. We’re proud to reach more of everybody with the help of our media sponsor, Architizer.
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Mehrfamilienhaus Prenzlauer Welle
Neubau eines Mehrfamilienhauses mit 38 hochwertigen Wohnungen in nachhaltiger, barrierefreier und familienfreundlicher Bauweise.
Die Materialwahl ist bestimmt durch Ressourcenschonung, Verwendung nachwachsender Rohstoffe und Recyclingfähigkeit. Dies beeinflusst und verlängert den gesamten Lebenszyklus des Gebäudes.
Der Entwurf zeichnet sich durch das ausgefallene Design der Straßenansicht aus. Große, südorientierte, wellenförmige Balkone fügen sich zu einer dreidimensionalen Fassade, welche den Bewohnern als Aufenthaltszone mit besonderer Qualität dient.
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Bryghusprojektet
Bryghusprojektet is the missing link between the city centre, the historic waterfront and the culturally rich Slotsholmen district of Copenhagen. Located at the intersection of these disparate quarters, this project formally and programmatically mediates between them, drawing them together. The Bryghusprojektet consists of a mix of homes, offices, shops, restaurants and a new headquarters for the Danish Architecture Centre.
Situated among landmarks in the history of Danish architecture, Bryghusprojektet shares with the indigenous modernism tenets of simplicity, monumentality and urbanity. The site is bound by a cluster of historic monuments, including the Christiansborg Palace and the Old Brewery, but shares the riverside with many other bold, contemporary interventions. This architectural and historical complexity became an important influence on OMA’s design.
For Bryghusprojektet, OMA rejected a familiar stacked section in favour of a heaped organisation. This allows the programmatic elements to intertwine and interact, fostering a strong community within. At an urban level, the unpredictable mass oscillates between the heterogeneity of its neighbours and the large rectilinear industrial buildings on the opposite riverbank. Allowing such variety permits limitless readings depending on one’s location. The programme has also been adjusted for permeability at street level – encouraging visitors to the social and cultural amenities, embedding Bryghusprojektet in the life of the city.
The design for Bryghusprojektet is governed by a conscientious and thorough sustainability manifesto, ensuring that the final building consumes only minimal resources during construction and use. A target for energy consumption has been set at 52 kWhrs/m2, which is significantly below the Danish average. OMA’s plan for sustainability encompasses societal and economic factors, such as long-term financial viability for Bryghusprojektet’s commercial tenants. The public programme, urban routes and the Danish Architecture Centre within will encourage a cohesive atmosphere both for residents and visitors. Such a mix of program within the building is unique – for the first time an architecture centre will be embedded within its own key subjects of study and research – housing, offices, public space and parking.
When completed, Bryghusprojektet will be an important catalyst in the invigoration of this otherwise underused part of Copenhagen. The mix of private spaces and cultural institutions infuses the area with a new economic and civic vitality for the benefit of the whole city.
Status: Design development
Client: Realdania / Realea
Location: Copenhagen DK
Site: Bryghusgrunden, Copenhagen
Program: 27,000sqm Mixed Use building: Housing, Offices, DAC Danish Architecture Centre, Museum, Restaurant, Mechanical parking
Collaborators Financial Management: Davis Langdon
Engineering: ARUP, COWI
Façade: van SANTEN & Associés
Traffic consultant: ARUP, COWI, Gehl Arkitekter
Sustainability: ARUP, EnPlus Tech
Landscape: Inside Outside
Scenography: dUCKS Sceno
Accoustics: DHV
Renderings/Visualisation: Bloomimages
Animation: Neutral
Others: DAC Danish Architecture Centre
Partners in charge: Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon
Project manager: Chris van Duijn
Local project manager: Mette Lyng Hansen
Concept design team: Adrianne Fisher, Dirk Peters, Mark Balzar, Andrea Bertassi, Marc Dahmen, Ludwig Godefroy, Carmen Jimenez, Hyoeun Kim, Ana Martins, Konrad Milton, Gabriele Pitacco, Daniel Rabin, Joana Sa Lima, Koen Stockbroekx, Ola Strandell
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Community health center “Het Zand”
In beginning 2013 the last community health center of Leidsche Rijn opened its doors in the neighborhood of “Het Zand” and is currently operating successfully in the neighborhood. Community health centers are an important node in the social infrastructure of a new neighborhood. Versseput Architects made a design for the community health center while maintaining a strong dialogue with city planner Hans Ebberink. The horticulture past of Het Zand has been the starting point of the new building. The archetypical basic shape of the new building refers to the lines of the former greenhouses and sheds in the area. Besides general practitioners, physiotherapists and a pharmacy, the centre also houses the Centre for Youth and Family.
Architecture
The architecture of the building is an abstraction of the traditional wooden barn. This abstraction is created by minimising the interruptions in the outer design of the facade, giving the building as much of a closed outer skin as possible. The facades are covered with plates of weathering steel in a tight grid of 1,200 x 1,200 mm, which emphasizes the simple appearance of the covering, like a wooden barn. Because the future use of the building was not the starting point in the design, an inscription at the entrance clarifies its function. Because of this, every future function of this building gets a full opportunity to unfold. Another view on sustainability.
Interior
The interior and routing are based on an optimal orientation for the visitor. The waiting rooms have a central place in the building. A glass wall separates the waiting rooms from a surrounding hallway that provides access to the consulting and treatment rooms. The glass is printed with pictures of medicinal herbs. Pictures of fields of flowers have been designed for the walls of the treatment rooms. The flowers are made of fingerprints, a reference to the unity of mankind. The waiting room gives the waiting visitors a perfect panoramic view. Because of the several overlapping layers of prints, the visitors experience the waiting room as a leafy, sunny courtyard. The interior, made of white plastic and dark coated plywood, also designed by Versseput Architects, completes the overall design.
Sustainability
A health centre asks for a natural and energy saving design. All the installations of the health centre are designed to collectively accomplish a 60% saving of energy compared to conventional installations. The lighting consists of high-grade digital CFLs, supplemented with LED-lighting. The building uses concrete core temperature control while additional heating and cooling takes place using a ground source heat pump (GSHP). The mechanical ventilation is fit with CO2-filtering.
PROJECT INFORMATION
Principal
GG&GD Utrecht / Municipality of Utrecht
Program
Community health centre with treatment and consulting rooms for primary health care, such as general practitioners, physiotherapists, podiatrists, speech therapists, game therapy, psycho-social pharmacy.
Architect
Versseput Architecten, Utrecht
Project team: Peter Versseput, Inge Schultz, Lotte Rijpstra, Jan Schouten
Advisors
Constructions: Boerkoel Utrecht, Utrecht
Installations: SchreuderGroep Ingenieurs/adviseurs, Apeldoorn
Furniture design: Versseput Architecten, Utrecht
Graphic design: Volta_ontwerpers, Utrecht
Contractor: Blanksma Bouw, Alphen aan den Rijn
Furniture building: Meubelmakerij Het Woud, Weesp
Photographs: Corné Bastiaansen photography
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Audi Terminal
Standing eight-storeys high, Audi Singapore's newly unveiled flagship store is the first ever high-rise Audi Terminal, and at 1,350 square metres per floor, is also the largest Audi showroom in Southeast Asia. The façade is clad in aluminium with hexagonal cut-outs forming a honeycomb pattern, while full-height glass windows for the lower floors make the building appear to float off the ground.
This one-stop terminal offers a variety of services in a single location, housing showrooms, workshops, offices and even a café and waiting lounge for visitors. As many as 35 of Audi's latest models are displayed in the showrooms on the 2nd and 4th floors. The cars are arranged in a "power curve", making the formation seem as if they are zooming by on a race track. A specially designed lift carries cars to the servicing workshop that spans from the 5th to the 7th floor, while the offices take up the building's top level. Within the three basement floors are an Audi Cafe, quattro shop, customer waiting lounge, reception areas as well as a carpark.
Team Director
Ong Tze Boon
Team Member
Chin Yoon Han
Structural & Civil
J S Tan & Associates Pte Ltd
Mechanical & Electrical
Rankine&Hill (S) Pte Ltd
Quantity Surveyor
Rodney Chng & Associates Pte Ltd
Completion
2013
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013
The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 designed by Sou Fujimoto will be open 8 June – 20 October 2013.
The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 is designed by multi award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. He is the thirteenth and, at 41, the youngest architect to accept the invitation to design a temporary structure for the Serpentine Gallery. The most ambitious architectural programme of its kind worldwide, the Serpentine’s annual Pavilion commission is one of the most anticipated events on the cultural calendar. Past Pavilions have included designs by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei (2012), Frank Gehry (2008), Oscar Niemeyer (2003) and Zaha Hadid, who designed the inaugural structure in 2000.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most important architects coming to prominence worldwide, Sou Fujimoto is the leading light of an exciting generation of architects who are re-inventing our relationship with the built environment. Inspired by organic structures, such as the forest, Fujimoto’s signature buildings inhabit a space between nature and artificiality. Fujimoto has completed the majority of his buildings in Japan, with commissions ranging from the domestic, such as Final Wooden House, T House and House N, to the institutional, such as the Musashino Art Museum and Library at Musashino Art University.
Occupying some 357 square-metres of lawn in front of the Serpentine Gallery, Sou Fujimoto’s delicate, latticed structure of 20mm steel poles has a lightweight and semi-transparent appearance that allows it to blend, cloud-like, into the landscape against the classical backdrop of the Gallery’s colonnaded East wing. Designed as a flexible, multi-purpose social space – with a café run for the first time by Fortnum and Mason inside – visitors will be encouraged to enter and interact with the Pavilion in different ways throughout its four-month tenure in London's Kensington Gardens.
Fujimoto is the third Japanese architect to accept the invitation to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, following Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito in 2002 and Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA in 2009.
AECOM have provided engineering and technical design services for the Pavilion for 2013. David Glover, AECOM’s global chief executive for building engineering, has worked on the designs of many previous Pavilions.
Julia Peyton-Jones, Director, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery, said:
“Art and architecture is always experienced within the context of nature at the Serpentine. Like the park that surrounds the Gallery, Sou Fujimoto’s extraordinary design for our new Pavilion inhabits a space between nature and artificiality. While the structure blends, cloud-like into its natural surroundings, the intricate matrix of interlinking grids suggests a digital aesthetic that resonates with our age. This harmonious combination of architecture, technology and nature makes it the perfect landmark for the Serpentine Gallery, for Kensington Gardens and for London this summer. We are thrilled with the result and hope everyone who can, will come and see it.”
Describing his design concept, Sou Fujimoto said:
“For the 2013 Pavilion I propose an architectural landscape: a transparent terrain that encourages people to interact with and explore the site in diverse ways. Within the pastoral context of Kensington Gardens, I envisage the vivid greenery of the surrounding plant life woven together with a constructed geometry. A new form of environment has been created, where the natural and the man-made merge; not solely architectural or solely natural, but a unique meeting of the two.
The Pavilion is a delicate, three-dimensional structure; each unit comprises fine steel bars of 800 and 400 mm rectangles. It will form a semi-transparent, irregular canopy, simultaneously protecting visitors from the elements while allowing them to remain part of the landscape. The footprint of the structure will be 350 square-metres and the Pavilion will have two entrances. A series of stepped terraces will provide seating areas that will allow the Pavilion to be used as a flexible, multi-purpose social space.
The delicate quality of the structure, enhanced by its semi-transparency, will create a geometric, cloud-like form, as if it were mist rising from the undulations of the park. From certain vantage points, the Pavilion will appear to merge with the classical structure of the Serpentine Gallery, with visitors suspended in space.”
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion History
The Pavilion architects to date are: Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, 2012; Peter Zumthor, 2011; Jean Nouvel, 2010; Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, SANAA, 2009; Frank Gehry, 2008; Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen, 2007; Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond, with Arup, 2006; Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura with Cecil Balmond, Arup, 2005; MVRDV with Arup, 2004 (un-realised); Oscar Niemeyer, 2003; Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond - with Arup, 2002; Daniel Libeskind with Arup, 2001; and Zaha Hadid, 2000.
Sponsored by HP
With: Hiscox
Media Partner: The Independent
Advisors: AECOM
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Musée Lalique
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Museu do Douro
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The 5 house
Located on the hill foot, looking to one of the most beautiful sea sides of Vietnam, the private residence is composed of a series of five units tied together by a gabled roof reflecting a loose relationship of functional spaces. This weak connection generates the flows of activities and various senses of distances. On the other words, the space between units becomes as important as the unit itself. Wood and rock, local materials, are used to bring the rural feelings for the house, while all rooms are designed to have private views to garden or sea.
Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki, a21studio
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Neugestaltung Hüttenplatz Lauscha
Lauscha gilt als Zentrum der Kunstglasbläserei in Deutschland. Der im Stadtzentrum gelegene Hüttenplatz wurde zurückliegend durch Abbrüche und partielle Eingriffe seiner ursprünglichen Wahrnehmung beraubt. Im Rahmen der Stadtsanierung sollte der historisch bedeutsame Platz, an dem 1597 die erste Lauschaer Glashütte errichtet wurde, als attraktiver Stadtraum und markanter Ort entlang der Thüringer Glasstraße neu gestaltet werden.
Das langgestreckte und gestufte „Band“ aus Theumaer Schiefer und Lauschaer Glas gibt der heterogenen Platz- und Bebauungsstruktur einen neuen formalen Halt und verbindet die verschiedenen Teilbereiche des Ortskerns miteinander. Der glühende Fluss aus Glas, der sich in den Schiefer schneidet, wurde durch einen Lauschaer Künstler gestaltet. Holzbelegte breite Sitzblöcke und lineare Pflanzungen bieten zusätzliche Aufenthaltsqualitäten für Bewohner und Besucher der Stadt. Die vorhandenen Brachflächen wurden zu multifunktional nutzbaren Stadträumen umgewidmet.
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Church Street
Westminster City Council has commissioned Grant Associates, UK landscape architects, and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, urban designers and architects, as part of a multidisciplinary team to devise a twenty-year infrastructure and public realm plan for Church Street, London, to support the council’s housing renewal strategy. Residents have just voted in favour of proceeding with the first phase of regeneration plans for Church Street in a ward-wide referendum.
Westminster City Council has commissioned Grant Associates, UK landscape architects, and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, urban designers and architects, as part of a multidisciplinary team to devise a twenty-year infrastructure and public realm plan for Church Street, London, to support the council’s housing renewal strategy. Residents have just voted in favour of proceeding with the first phase of regeneration plans for Church Street in a ward-wide referendum.
London’s Most Liveable Neighbourhood Adapted for Climate Change
The bold Infrastructure and Public Realm Plan will see Church Street and Paddington Green set new standards in the UK as a retro-fitted climate change adapted neighbourhood. Key climate issues such as clean air, drainage, flood and drought have all been addressed in the plan. The final design will feature a rich mix of open spaces for play and nature, comfort and health, arts and culture, economy and infrastructure to create one of London’s most ‘liveable neighbourhood’.
New Green Spaces
The existing neighbourhood is deficient in informal play provision, natural open space and low in tree cover. Underused estate gardens will be brought into the Public Realm and enriched as productive gardens, play spaces, rain gardens and green infrastructure. A new green corridor running north-south through the neighbourhood will connect and enhance existing pocket parks and engage residents and schools through informal play and an ‘edible landscape’ of fruit and vegetable gardens.
New Civic Street and Square with Vibrant Market
A revamped civic street and squares are proposed for Church Street, connecting new and proposed civic buildings such as the college, health centre, library and market. The form and maintenance of the market will be addressed to reinforce its identity and value to the community. And a new civic square is envisaged at the crossing of civic street and green corridor to become a focal point for the market, community events and festivals.
Multidisciplinary Team
Implementation of Phase One of the Infrastructure and Public Realm Plan is estimated to take 5 years to complete with a budget of £16-18m. Alongside lead designers Grant Associates and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios the multi-disciplinary team includes Buro Happold (engineers); Biodiversity by Design (ecologists and ecourbanists) and Davis Langdon (quantity surveyors), Ackroyd and Harvey (artist) and Thomas Lister (financial model consultant).
Peter Chmiel, director, Grant Associates said: "Our brief is to enhance the existing area and reconnect it with wider Westminster. By aiming for an exemplar climate change adapted neighbourhood with open spaces for play and nature, economy and infrastructure we have the potential to create London’s most ‘liveable neighbourhood’ as well as an enduring legacy for residents, London and UK cities."
Councillor Jonathan Glanz, Westminster Council’s Cabinet Member for Housing said: “I am delighted with the incredibly positive outcomes of the vote in Church Street, which is a result of the council working incredibly hard alongside residents over a number of years to develop plans which will deliver sustainable regeneration.
“Work can now begin on building new homes for those on housing lists, but also on creating better homes for existing residents, building new community facilities, and improving open spaces and the public realm of the area, helping to improve lives in Westminster.
“This project is a real example of local people taking responsibility for shaping their communities, and we will continue to work with residents throughout our regeneration programme.”
Sara Grohmann, Partner, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios said: “The Church Street project offers a unique opportunity for the regeneration of a key London central neighbourhood. The provision of new open spaces, community infrastructure and a revitalised streets network has the potential of transforming this area in a new exemplar sustainable “London Village".
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"Our brief is to enhance the existing area and reconnect it with wider Westminster. By aiming for an exemplar retro-fitted, climate change adapted neighbourhood with open spaces for play and nature, economy and infrastructure we have the potential to create London’s most ‘liveable neighbourhood’ as well as an enduring legacy for residents, London and UK cities."
— Peter Chmiel, director, Grant Associates
"I am delighted with the incredibly positive outcomes of the vote in Church Street, which is a result of the council working incredibly hard alongside residents over a number of years to develop plans which will deliver sustainable regeneration. Work can now begin on building new homes for those on housing lists, but also on creating better homes for existing residents, building new community facilities, and improving open spaces and the public realm of the area, helping to improve lives in Westminster. This project is a real example of local people taking responsibility for shaping their communities, and we will continue to work with residents throughout our regeneration programme."
— Councillor Jonathan Glanz, Westminster Council’s Cabinet Member for Housing
"The Church Street project offers a unique opportunity for the regeneration of a key London central neighbourhood. The provision of new open spaces, community infrastructure and a revitalised streets network has the potential of transforming this area in a new exemplar sustainable “London Village"."
— Sara Grohmann, Partner, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
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