Tree House 2021 | Winners Announced
Tree House 2021 Architecture competition a way of living in the lap of nature, suspended amongst a magnificent tree and under the starry sky.
Render Challenge 2 | Winners Announced
Render Challenge 2 is a rendering competition organized by archiol in association with artuminate. The competition received 106 entries from around the world.
34 Restaurant | REM’A
34 Restaurant, designed by REM’A, has characteristics of the old venue – intimate, with green and wooden elements that confer the restaurant its own identity. This condition drove the team to explore an aesthetic-spatial concept that implied a deconstructed approach from the “art nouveau” movement. From chromatic characteristics to the curved/ondulating and asymmetric forms that shape the spaces, instead of the “intertwined” elements so typical of this artistic movement, as well as the use of plants, all of which are detached from the project’s structural elements.
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REM’A
REM’A is an architectural practice based in Rua da Arcela headed by Romeo Ribeiro, José Pedro Marques & Pavlo Dobrovolskyi.
The Ledge | Wallmakers
The Ledge, designed by Wallmakers, is a residence based on a dream sequence as an extension of the mountain into the air. Camouflaged within the natural landscape, the roof and the external walls are made out of treated Casuarina poles, a fast-growing tree whose wood is considered waste and used only for scaffolding and fencing.
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center in Dongbangtou Village | y.ad studio
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center, designed by y.ad studio, is a multi-functional complex that aims to attract talents and promote rural revitalization and development. The design task of this project was to turn an old factory into Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center, making it an important destination for gatherings and cultural activities. For this project, we planned to retain the old textures of the existing walls, so as to form a contrast with the new folding display walls.
Selected Interviews
y.ad studio
y.ad studio is a comprehensive design studio focusing on space/site planning, urban renewal, architectural design, and space design. With a restrained, simple, integrated, authentic and connotative design orientation, y.ad studio has been practicing designs in a moderate way. Taking the actual situation, site and environment as the starting point, y.ad studio tries to use simple but effective ways to create spaces that are integrated with exquisite textures, rich levels, functions, time, culture, regional characteristics and appeal.
Weekly Highlights 2021 #47
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Cube by The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd.(UAD). 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.
AP Apartment | Noname Studio
AP Apartment, designed by Noname Studio, is a home interior renovated to adopt the new character of this residence with compact dimensions. The apartment has no clear divisions between one functional area and another. The furnishings do not follow a single stylistic line, but belong to distant “worlds”. Many objects from clients’ travels have been placed in the apartment: a Thonet rocking chair takes up the detail of the Vienna straw of the bespoke furniture.
Selected Projects
Rise Coffee | Space + craft
Rise Coffee, designed by Space + Craft, aimed to make specialty coffee more accessible for everyone under his concept, “#RISEwithTHEPEOPLE. Rise coffee’s aimed to serve coffee to fit city people’s lifestyle, mainly grapping a cup of coffee before work or during break time. The team focused on design coffee bar delicately, including all functions in one piece, espresso bar, slow bar, POS, bakery display, and washing area. We used an ‘angle metal bar’ as the main material to construct the whole counter, as they are very simple and cheap.
Space + Craft
Space + Craft is a forward-thinking architecture and interior design professional offering premium services to many discerning clients.
House M | Elphick Proome Architecture
House M, designed by Elphick Proome Architecture, intends to create a truly African home with a sensitive contextual integration. Simple sustainability methods were deployed in an appreciation of the local microclimate, orientation and rectangular plan form. A strategy to use large over-sailing roofs with a suspended elevated veranda structure and sliding folding shutters generated the basis of the passive climatic response.
Selected Academic Projects
Man Chao Hui | Various Associates
Man Chao Hui, designed by Various Associates, is based on the concept of “a wooden boat hidden in the sea”, trying to lead diners on an immersive journey. Various Associates conceived each space by drawing on traditional Chinese gold, red, green and purple colors, which have different connotations. The mix of the four strong colors with different materials form a unique world of color. Elements full of contrasting tension are matched in a playful manner, presenting strong characteristics and creating unique identity for each space.
Various Associates
Various Associates is an architecture and interior design practice working regionally and internationally on research-based design projects.VA was founded in 2017 as a team of designers from an international background with professional expertise in architecture, interior design, material design, graphic and interaction design. The studio is developing ambitious high-end projects including boutique hotels, restaurants, retail spaces, workspaces and galleries.
Park and Polk | Jonathan Segal FAIA
Park and Polk, designed by Jonathan Segal FAIA, has dynamic mix of uses throughout the building engages tenants, creating community in both living and working. This mixed-use project contains 43 residential lofts, 4 very low-income affordable units, 7 office studios, and ground floor retail spaces. Unlike most buildings with very low income affordable housing. When viewing the building from a distance on Washington Street or along Park Boulevard, the glass and concrete object stands above its surroundings.
Compilations
Cube | UAD
Cube is an architectural project designed by The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd. in China. The design widely employs energy-saving techniques to create a good interior environment. The workspace of the tower draws inspiration from traditional Hui-style architecture that features an open-air courtyard enclosed by rooms on four sides.
UAD
The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd. (UAD) is one of the earliest first-class design institutes. The mission of UAD is to “seek a harmonious environment, an international outlook, design-teaching-research integration and innovation, and the highest professionalism.” As a leading large-scale engineering design & consulting company, UAD focuses on architectural design practices and delivers quality design services with cutting-edge thinking. UAD works to offer one-stop consulting and services for construction projects.
Kwong Hing Building | Littlemore Interior Design
Kwong Hing Building, designed by Littlemore Interior Design, transforms a 2-bedroom apartment into an open-planned studio flat. With around 260 square feet of usable area, the existing rooms are small & tight and also limit the natural light from flooding into the living spaces. With the partition walls of the existing rooms taken down, natural light can now brighten up the spaces through the big windows around the apartment.
Original Chicken | Nature Times Art Design
Original Chicken, designed by Nature Times Art Design, responds to the brand’s philosophy of providing ecological and organic food and draws inspiration from nature and soil. The restaurant features the theme of “returning to farm” and explores an experimental reform of traditional Chinese food experience. The designers adopted a low saturated color palette extracted from soil, and applied it to interior surfaces made of natural materials like soil, wood, stone, cotton and hemp, in a hope to lead a new, healthy and sustainable lifestyle and guide people in the bustling city to follow their heart.
Nature Times Art Design
Nature Times Art Design provides a diverse range of services, including boutique architectural design, interior design, furniture & furnishings. The designs embody the East’s essence, using nature’s philosophy as a source to create spaces that sit in harmony with their environment. Approaching each project as a work of art, they draw inspiration from both eastern and western elements, and constantly break away from tradition and convention to create contemporary design concepts that are unique and original.
Weekly Highlights 2021 #46
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Megapark by Architectkidd. 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.
Punta Prima Mallorca | GRAS Reynés Arquitectos
Punta Prima Mallorca, designed by GRAS Arquitectos, keeps the right balance with the natural values of the plot. The Project has diverse strategies to achieve these objectives, assuming that the landscape and nature are as important as the buildings and the commercial product. The villas echo the traditional Mallorcan Mediterranean patio house, a long heritage starting with the roman Domus. The inspiration comes both from the geometry of the house and the use of material.
Apartment Casa do Arco | Arquitectura Viva
Apartment Casa do Arco, designed by Arquitectura Viva, is a home interior trying to make the smallest possible external intervention. In renovating the 135m2 apartment, there was a need to have all the formal areas that a dwelling requires, and they had all the openness on the client’s part to work on an open plan, with all the flexibility that this allows.
Arquitectura Viva
Arquitectura Viva is a multidisciplinary design firm focusing on Architecture, Landscape, Interiors and Urbanism in Portugal.