Project2 years ago
The Story of Gardening Museum, designed by Stonewood Design, intends to encourage visitors to explore further afield than the nucleus of visitor facilities around the historic walled garden. The experience of approaching the The Story of Gardening is dramatic. The woodland floor descends from the museum forming a dell at a lower level. The exhibition considers the history of gardening from biblical Eden through to today’s popular culture of gardening.
Practice2 years ago
Stonewood Design’s unusual beginning as part of a building company has helped shape its philosophy and development.
Project2 years ago
Yuanshe · Hezhou, designed by y.ad studio, focuses on spatial scale, density, comfort, and functions to create a villa-style living space. Poetry and nature are injected into the space, to bring enjoyable strolling, touring and living experiences. A walkable circulation route links various spaces, which creates varying experiences at every step and strengthen a sense of ritual.
Project2 years ago
Lone Madrone, designed by Heliotrope Architects, is a vacation retreat for a family of four, who desired a low-impact home with a strong connection to land and sea. The design solution utilizes a simple ‘wedge’ shape geometry, mimicking the hillside slope beyond, and is tucked into a natural depression in the shoreline in order to diminish its visual impact. The firm worked to satisfy the program requirements as efficiently as possible in order to minimize structural footprint and massing.
Project2 years ago
204- Linear House, designed by Int-Hab architecture+design Studio, is a multi-dwelling 6-bedroom residence designed keeping the mandate standards defined by the gated community. The interiors of the residence is an extension of the architectural aesthetics of the building. The unique features like the mezzanine spaces, double heights and the skylight capturing natural light from all angles become the identity of the house.
Compilation2 years ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the “Project of the Week”. Along with this, the weekly highlight contains few of the best projects, published throughout the week. These selected projects represent the best content curated and shared by the team at ArchiDiaries.
Project2 years ago
UAD Campus in Zitown is an architectural project designed by The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd. (UAD) in China. The project is an office building (Building B1) of the Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd. (UAD). It’s located in Zitown, a base of R&D company headquarters jointly developed by the government of Xihu District in Hangzhou and Zhejiang University.
Project2 years ago
Fuego Camina Conmigo, designed by Isern Serra, consists of the refurbishment of an office on the third floor of a building located in the industrial neighborhood of Gracia, Barcelona. A dynamic and multipurpose space, where the architecture and the geometric forms take center stage. That evoke a playful atmosphere, and emphasizes art and creativity. The goal for the design was to create an open and dynamic space, steering away from the typical glass enclosures, found in the office design world.
Practice2 years ago
Isern Serra, based in Barcelona, delves into interior design projects, exhibition installations and industrial design. They believe in being able to carry out projects from different points of view, scales and nationalities improves the final result.
Project2 years ago
Aether Showroom, designed by OUTIN DESIGN, created a new way of the exhibition by organically using the spatial form. Organic asymmetrical layouts and interweaving blocks define a polygonal space and endow it with architectural beauty and strength. The design emphasizes the symbiosis of architectural space and nature. The rectangular atrium incorporates the tension of light and shadows, creates a soft atmosphere with indirect light sources, and increases the spatial scale.
Project2 years ago
House in Baião, designed by Traço Alternativo Arquitectos Associados, with an ambition to blend the house into the land’s morphology, building it in slopes, taking advantage of the landscape while preserving the memory of the preexisting house. The solution found intends to be the exception among the other constructions, but in a quiet, circumscribed way, where nature and what is man built coexist in perfect balance.
Practice2 years ago
TRAÇO ALTERNATIVO arquitectos associados provides services in the areas of Architecture, Rehabilitation, Consulting and Construction. It is constituted by a multidisciplinary work team with extensive professional experience. It brings together a wide range of specialities capable of satisfying a generalised market of services, thus making it competitive and innovative.
Selected Academic Projects
Interview2 years ago
Apical Reform Co-founder Darshan Soni is an architect and an avid photographer, with a keen interest in the pedagogy of design. Soni’s parametric approach to design is rooted in his curiosity of naturally occurring multiplicity and reflection, and his quest to transform the abstract into the tangible.
Interview2 years ago
Shivani Gour is a multi-disciplinary architect, focused on people-centric designs. Through her work, she continues to explore the influence of design on the way people experience and interact with the environment.
News2 years ago
Architecture for Healing, competition aims for participants to explore the connection of elements of architecture and how it establishes a healing envelope in the healthcare setting.
Project2 years ago
RAAS Chhatrasagar, designed by Studio Lotus, is a hospitality project with a system of low-impact foundations and lightweight superstructures in India. The design team sought to reveal the site in layers, weaving in the experience of discovery with an element of surprise. This was achieved by working in harmony with the context and tying numerous touchpoints to establish meaningful and immersive connections.
Project2 years ago
Pla 2, designed by Dersyn Studio Co. Ltd., is a hospitality project considering Passive Activity+Private = Active Activity+Group planning. in Bangkok. The main structure will be a balloon frame to make the construction more dispersed and lighter in weight. Based on the design criteria, material selections and construction techniques, the owner and the designer believe that Pla2 project will offer new destination with eye-catching architectural design outcomes.
Practice2 years ago
Dersyn Studio Co. is an architectural firm inspired by 2 words, “Design + Synchronization,” which refers to an above expectation design outside the office. The design concept of Dersyn Studio is “creating a positive architecture that is valuable in the architectural aspect that shows the identity of the owner to respond to use and strengthening the conservation of energy and the environment to adapt to the current lifestyles.
News2 years ago
‘Respites’ is an architecture competition that invites sensitive design ideas for hospices for children.
Project2 years ago
Bulgari Shanghai, designed by MVRDV, is innovative and sustainable yet remains true to the heritage of both Bulgari and Shanghai. The Shanghai project makes use of a visual motif inspired by the portals and cornices of Bulgari’s first original boutique on Rome’s Via dei Condotti, adopting the recognisable visual identity that now distinguishes their stores worldwide. Bulgari Shanghai is the third flagship store façade in MVRDV’s ongoing partnership with the luxury Italian jewellery brand.
Project2 years ago
Sohelou St.Marc Catholic Chapel, designed by Only Human, has a theme of weight developed into the design by placing the first huge dark cross, as if it is falling, onto the roof to give its weight down onto the people inside in Thailand. This coffin-like chapel, seen from heaven’s eye-view, provides an experiential journey from the dark and heavy to the light and weightlessness guided by the cross as a solemn reminder to us all of the Jesus’s sacrifice.
Practice2 years ago
Only Human is an architectural firm believing that good space has vibrations which could elevate humans both physically and metaphysically. This kind of spaces come from concept-forming through observation and experimentation while co-operating with the users to understand their behaviors and needs.
News2 years ago
SAKHALIN URBAN PLANNING CONCEPT THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW CITY IN THE SAKHALIN REGION HAS CHOSEN ITS WINNER.
News2 years ago
Solace a challenge to design a pod that can be used to create a silent and isolated environment for individuals to spend time in it by reading, working, or sleeping.
