Showing posts with label residential. Show all posts
Showing posts with label residential. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
"Portuguese architect Duarte Pape has combined a long stone wall with folding timber facades in this residential extension in northwestern Portugal...
Duarte Pape used timber cladding and blue limestone to extend the traditional Portuguese house located in a tiny rural village called Mação.
"The goal was to create a connection between the old structure and the surrounding nature," explains the architect..." to find out more...
Images & passage via Dezeen
Sunday, May 26, 2013
"The site is located on the edge of a residen- tial zone on the outskirts of Geneva, flanked on its southern border by a forest and opening out to fields to the west. It sits right on the line between the city and nature.
The building, backed by a paved access ramp, is placed in the north east corner of the site. The space between the building and the forest allows for a swimming pool and a large open garden.
The program includes two apartments of differing size, a continuous party wall sepa- rates the two.
A pitched roof over a diamond shaped plan, allows each apartment to have its own orien- tation. This distinct geometry allows for a greater degree of privacy for the residents and when viewed from the outside, gives the impression of a single unit..." to find out more...
Images & passage via Archdaily
Thursday, March 21, 2013
"The winning entries of the 2013 Housing Tomorrow competition have just been announced, awarding three prizes and sixteen special mentions to design concepts that "explore, document, analyze, transform, and deploy socially‐ and environmentally‐engaged approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects..." to find out more...
Image & passage via Bustler
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Stacking green / Vo Trong Nghia + Daisuke Sanuki + Shunri Nishizawa
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"Whoever wanders around Saigon, a chaotic city with the highest density of population in the world, can easily find flower-pots crampped and displayed here and there all around the streets. This interesting custom has formed the amused character of Saigon over a long period of time and Saigonese love their life with a large variety of tropical plants and flowers in their balconies, courtyards and streets...
The house, designed for a thirty-years-old couple and their mother, is a typical tube house constructed on the plot 4m wide and 20m deep. The front and back façades are entirely composed of layers of concrete planters cantilevered from two side walls..." to find out more...
images and passage via Archdaily
Monday, February 11, 2013
The project is based on a attentive reading of the life of a very specific kind of community, a sort of a micro-society with its own rules...
The project is based on a attentive reading of the life of a very specific kind of community, a sort of a micro-society with its own rules..." to find out more...
images & passage via Archdaily
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Area considered is situated just across the road to the city urban forest close to city centre. It is unique plot with great views around whole town, terrain too steep for comfortable traffic, sloping northward preventing proper insolation and in the southern part a small park is situated which is determined to remain as a park...
The most crucial question for us was how to propose asked high floor demand and at the same time to bring high quality public spaces into such a density. We distributed proposed volume along the edges of the site. It helped to solve insolation and gave us opportunity to place underground garages along the edge of the site leaving heart of the zone for grandiose and green public space connected with adjacent park..." to find out more...
Image & passage via Bustler
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
images & passage via dezeen
Monday, May 28, 2012
The Yongsan International Business District will set a new standard for an integrated global city. Situated on a high-profile site in the western side of the district, plot R5 houses a signature topend residential building, 320m in height, which will attract the most exclusive clientele from both Korea as well as the rest of the world. These Pentominium units will provide unsurpassed urban living experiences, with spatial and privacy features normally associated with individual houses.
In order to maximize window views and create a sense of exclusivity through minimizing the number of units per floor, two slender towers were chosen for the design. A simple square footprint provides the geometry basis for each tower floor. To take advantage of the desirable vistas to the southwest, the cores for the towers are shifted off center towards the northeast elevations. The resulting U-shaped usable areas can then be divided into one, two, three, or four units per floor, most with view access to the south
west..." to find out more...
images and passage via bustler
Monday, May 21, 2012
" Skyscrapers in Seoul: New York firm REX was another of the seventeen architects commissioned to design skyscrapers for the fast-growing Yongsan International Business District of Seoul, South Korea. They’ve proposed a tower that looks like like a filing cabinet with its drawers open...
series of compact apartments will overlook this courtyard from within the tower’s upper storeys, while shops will surround it on the lower levels..." to find out more...
images by Luxigon and passage by Dezeen
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
"Copenhagen darlings BIG have unveiled their design for the 490-foot-tall Beach and Howe tower in Vancouver, a collaboration with Westbank, Dialog, Cobalt, PFS, Buro Happold, Glotman Simpson and local architect James Cheng. The new mixed-use tower marks the entry point to downtown Vancouver, forming a welcoming gateway to the city, while adding another unique structure to the city's skyline...
The tower takes its shape after the site’s complex urban conditions aiming to optimize the conditions for its future inhabitants in the air as well as on the street level. At its base, the footprint of the tower is conditioned by concerns for two significant neighboring elements, including a 30-meter setback from the Granville bridge which ensures that no residents will have windows and balconies in the middle of heavy traffic as well as concerns for sunlight to an adjacent park which limits how far south the building can be constructed. As a result the footprint is restricted to a small triangle..."
image & passage via Bustler
Sunday, April 15, 2012
"Ladderstile House is a large modern new build family home directly bordering Richmond Park and adjacent to the Ladderstile Gate. The land is the last remaining pocket of a once larger site associated with the original Ladderstile House, and retains an historic right to ‘ride out’ across the park holding a key to a private gate associated only with the house. Stables have been incorporated into the new house in order that this may be continued...
The design seeks to create a contemporary courtyard home, the volumes are arranged on the site to exploit natural light throughout day, the plan sets up a central landscaped courtyard with a series of satellite courtyards spread around the site, to create a diverse range of connections to different external rooms, and views through and in between the building, into spaces beyond, through the glazing, the perforated steel and timber screens..." to find out more...
images & passage via Dezeen
Monday, April 2, 2012
"The winners of the 2012 Housing Tomorrow competition were just announced. The annual competition promotes the exploration of contextual, cultural, and life cycle flows that offer new housing strategies for living in the future.
Sponsored by New York-based d3, the competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects..."
images & passage via www.d3space.org
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