Stone Clubhouse | GRAS Reynés Arquitectos

Stone Clubhouse, designed by GRAS Arquitectos, maximizes the combination of social interaction, a “ club,” and landscape in Spain. The Project consists of a series of rocks, stones that lay in the middle of the landscape, offering that presence and visibility disguised in a natural context: Planning requirement originally demanded sloping roofs based on the local vernacular. The project offers an alternative interpretation, creating irregular angled forms that give the building a contemporary character.

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Zapoteco ONCE13 | Háptica Lab

Zapoteco ONCE13, designed by Háptica Lab, is an exercise to generate housing under the premise of a minimum living area. The fusion of architecture and furniture makes the flats an interactive space with the user. Zapoteco ONCE13 celebrates and respects today’s cities’ industrial aspects using only the space and materials necessary. Moreover, it opens the possibilities for users who seek to invest in a residence without the hassles and costs of building and maintaining a traditional home.

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Háptica Lab

Háptica Lab is a multidisciplinary design laboratory offering architecture, construction, and interior design solutions. They emerged as the result of questioning, exploring, and redefining architecture through experiences that promote man’s intimacy with his space perceived by the body and his senses. Inhabiting the world means feeling it and organizing it.

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Casa Ferrum | Miró Rivera Architects

Casa Ferrum, designed by Miró Rivera Architects, recalls the industrial origins and metallurgical history of the old town of San Pedro Garza García. The home and site were designed around an existing tree, which serves as the focal point of the private garden and outdoor living space. Throughout the interiors, the material palette creates a dialogue with the outside: natural stone flooring continues from interior to exterior; windows and partition glass provide natural light and visual connections; and vertical wood paneling echoes the pattern of the exterior pipe screen.

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Majimaya confectionery tool shop | KAMITOPEN Co., Ltd.

Majimaya confectionery tool shop, designed by KAMITOPEN Co., Ltd., is the oldest confectionery tool shop with a concept of “Molds of happiness.” During the planning of the building, all floors were connected by split-level floors. While choosing molds, customers were guided to move up and down subconsciously. This solved the unique problem of arcade area.

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Binary Boarding house | Andyrahman Architect

Binary Boarding house, designed by Andyrahman Architect, sets three main priorities: user, craftsmen, and client. The design process of these two boarding houses (Volume 4 and 5) shows that architect nowadays needs more than just cognitive (ideas) and motor (action) abilities, but they also need affective abilities (attitude and value) to treat others around his/her project area properly, more than just respect and sympathy.

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Pengbu Central Commons | PLAT Studio

Pengbu Central Commons, designed by PLAT Studio, is a landscape design focusing on cultural and ecological relevance. Pengbu Central Commons is divided into zones to meet the community’s social needs. The central core is an active open space that serves the community with wide open space to accommodate large events and gatherings. The design provides significant canopy cover and other elements supporting health and wellness: a large activity lawn, strolling gardens, a playground and a sports area.

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PLAT Studio

PLAT Studio brings sustainable and timeless places to life by integrating landscape architecture, urbanism, and research in our process and by thinking about the designs as a part of a larger environmental and societal framework. They strive to instill the site’s historical and cultural assets into the designs to create meaningful places for clients, visitors, and community. By seeking innovative approaches to site limitations, they are able to create progressive, innovative places for all.

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Weekly Highlights 2021 #44

Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Intermediate House by Equipo de Arquitectura. 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.

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Naji | Architecture Discipline

Naji, designed by Architecture Discipline, is a high-end, distinctive office space for a client engaged in manufacturing non-avionic components for the airline industry. While experimenting with inexpensive finishes and in an attempt to not overdo the materials, a dramatic palette is achieved by manipulating regular enamel paint to benefit an expensive and easy-to-maintain finish. The space was conceived primarily with the intent of augmenting natural Light and enhancing views through Technique & Technology.

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Suitcase House | Melling Architects

Suitcase House, designed by Melling Architects, has a single sloping roof that approximately follows the pitch of the site. It creates a lofty and largely glazed volume at the living end, the effect of which makes a compact space feel larger than what it is. This is further increased by an outdoor patio on the glazed northern edge of the building.

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Melling Architects

Melling Architects is a design-focused practice benefiting from hands-on experience with building that informs material choices, details and methods. The approach to design is one of simplicity. The simpler we can make things, the better they will be. The team is focused on efficiency and eliminating waste – which means good planning and clever design. They want the designs to have a story behind them or a ‘narrative’.

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Cohuatichan | Cafeina Design

Cohuatichan, designed by Cafeina Design, has an exuberant context that guided the design of this holiday residence extension. The house’s aesthetics and materials were kept light and clean in contrast to the breathtaking surroundings to foster a unique experience of outdoor living while being in the comfort of a contemporary structure.

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Double Cube House | Carlos Zwick Architekten BDA

Double Cube House, designed by Carlos Zwick Architekten BDA, combines maximum proximity to nature, family privacy, and a sense of community. Gnarled tall pines paint a picture here, as well as a less obvious, but all the rarer geological peculiarity. Through the huge glazed patio doors and windows of the house it is present in every room. Only the side facing the street is closed off. A walkway covered with wooden planks leads from here into the house, which is divided into two separate residential units.

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Cafeina

Cafeina is an international architecture firm that focuses on creating and transforming authentic and inclusive spaces through a multidisciplinary, human, innovative and positive approach. Currently, Cafeina is focused on the realization of creative projects that promote positive impact for real estate developers, urban and architectural design for governmental projects, and office and restaurant design for Mexico, the United States and Latin America.

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Intermediate House | Equipo de Arquitectura

Intermediate House, designed by Equipo de Arquitectura, attempts to find the synthesis between the project and its construction. The functional flexibility of the house is adjusted to the interchangeable condition of the ways of living, where the user of the house becomes the architect of these transformations. Finding a middle point between the industrial and craftsmanship is part of the recognition of the available resources, where the balance between the two produces a technological amalgam that generates alternatives to conventional construction techniques.

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MP House | TIES

MP House, designed by TIES, has a working environment that is an integral part of their daily routine in this house. The use of breeze block for this house’s exterior is intended to let enough sunlight enter and fill the room inside. With the intention of getting an additional dry garden, the breeze block is elevated enough to a level where people can get out onto the concrete roof just above the carport. The roof design uses a gable roof type, considering its identical shape to the classic design of a house roof.

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TIES

TIES is an architecture, interior design, and construction practice that provides consultation and construction supervision. TIES believes that a healthy and aesthetic architectural design could exist together and support one another. In its contribution to society, architecture should be able to accommodate the needs of its users and improve their quality of life. On the other hand, architectural design need to be able to minimize its negative impact on nature.

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House in Tamatsukuri | Reiichi Ikeda Design

House in Tamatsukuri, designed by Reiichi Ikeda Design, is a renovation project of a 3-story steel frame single-family house in Tamatsukuri, Osaka. As it is on a corner plot facing northeast, we focused on external insulation to reduce room temperature fluctuations by adding layers of urethane to the external wall. Furthermore, the vertical structure of the building that is composed of 3 levels+rooftop allows the “layers” to naturally “partition” and “connect” the living spaces at the same time on a compact plot of land, essentially separating different life activities by vertical movement.

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House among trees | Berson Arquitectura

House among trees, designed by Berson Arquitectura, wraps around the trees on the site, which would organize the architecture by providing the “time” element through their bark and its wrinkles. Spaces are suggested by opacities and transparencies that ensure privacy and allow a full family life. Space was structured as a grid of modulated and continuous columns, a system that arises from the exploration of connectivity between domestic space and nature.

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Berson Arquitectura

Berson Arquitectura is an architectural practice headed by Barbara Berson with projects of various scales done individually and together with associated colleagues. She performs individual and group art exhibitions with concerns about sustainability and environment issues. She integrates various groups with concerns about local identity, bioclimatic issues and gender perspective.

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Tennis Terraces | GRAS Reynés Arquitectos

Tennis Terraces, designed by GRAS arquitectos, is a new tennis club in the middle of the nature that combines a social building together with tennis courts. The clubhouse is designed not just as a social building, also as a viewing platform to watch the tennis games at the Centre Court. The building leans out to the court in order to enjoy views from all floors. White exposed concrete slabs cantilevers are created to maximize those views. In connection with the deck utility, the rooftop is also accessible offering extensive views of all the courts and surroundings.

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