Live Introduction Session | Grasshopper as a Tool

We spoke to the Tutor Adnan Makda regarding prerequisites, outcomes and what the participants will learn in the upcoming AUTUMN 2020 workshop.

Shades of Green: Sustainable Building Approaches

Live Interview Series

This Live Interview Series of Facebook bring about a conversation amongst the variety of approaches, to look at how they can feed into each other and enhance the idea of “sustainable design” even more.

La Habana: Sale Gallery | Openbox Architects

La Habana design inspired by “Eclectic design” of Classic Spanish Colonial architecture and the vibrant colours of Havana City in Cuba. The unique identity makes the project a “Remarkable” low-rise condominium in the Heart of Hua Hin.

“House of Silence“ | Damith Premathilake Architects

“The Kalalgoda House”, is a nature friendly abode and brings together nature and architecture to celebrate the beauty of its adjoining paddy field. Designing on a narrow site was challenging, yet the house is designed for its tropical context to achieve ideal orientation where the front of the land faces the entrance road while the rear faces the endless serene paddy field. It helps to capture natural ventilation that creates a comfortable and cool atmosphere inside the house.

Riverbend | CLB

A spectacular site, artistic freedom and clients with vision came together to create the perfect opportunity for CLB to design a modern art piece on the banks of the Snake River. The architects’ solution was to build platforms on site to study the river, the seasons, and the views, then elevate the home five feet above ground level to lift the main living area above the riverine meadow.

Protocol 12

Chance is the greatest novelist in the world, To be productive one only has to study it. – Balzac The transitory and unconscious are observed and directed. Anticipate landscape and political context, Read regional foams, patterns and communities, Let chance encounter the true and the beautiful. Send your intersecting thoughts, poems, questions, photographs, incidents, accidents […]

House in Orlandia | SPBR

The Architects suggested to remove the inclined Tile roof of the old Town House. The new flat roof suggested a floor. Up there the boundaries of the lot seemed to disappear, from that new platform one could look over the tiled roof of the low rise buildings spread out the city easily reaching the rural landscape surrounding the city toward east, south and west.

AlmaMater Restaurant | ALPHA, Arquitectura, Ingeniería y Servicios S.L.

The restaurant must function like clockwork, giving priority to the staff and also boosting the client’s experience. Working side by side with the Chef to arrange it’s operation: the program revolves around the central staircase, organizing all the spaces, with the kitchen as the core part of the restaurant. Facing a budget issue we propose to discover the constructive origins of the building and find a primal language, industrial, expressed by the material nudity: exposed concrete, corrugated bars, clean surfaces in ceilings, and walls.

ALPHA, Arquitectura, Ingeniería y Servicios S.L.

ALPHA-AIS anticipates the needs of its clients, maintaining a balanced and multidisciplinary staff with graduates in Engineering and Architecture, capable of addressing any type of situation, guaranteeing their professional independence with the objective of continuous improvement of the services provided. Their interest includes a wide type of projects: residential, offices, facilities, health, refurbishment, and infrastructure.

Conversation with Prof. V R Shah – Teaching Structure in Architecture

Join for a conversation on teaching of structure and construction based courses in Architecture

Adaptive Reuse Architecture Design Competition

This challenge is to reimagine an existing and underutilized building into a beautiful piece of architecture that positively impacts your community. To showcase your design, you’ll be creating up to 5 images and a written description explaining your reasoning and process. At DesignClass we are passionate about responding to the challenges of life through well-considered design.

Open International Competition for the Best Architectural and Urban Planning Concepts for the Integrated Development of Saratov’s City Centre

Solutions based on architectural and urban planning concepts will allow the city to expand its centre, develop public and business functionality, create new public spaces in the city centre and re-evaluate recreational areas in built-up areas. The competition’s goal is to choose a concept that can offer options for the use of this territory while accounting for the necessary environmental rehabilitation of green spaces and allowing for the creation of an exemplary residential district on the territory of the former airport.