Base4Work Bratislava, designed by Studio Perspektiv, is a modern coworking centre which has been opened to the public after a three-year renovation. The developer’s vision was to create an inspiring and diverse workspace that would provide a background to connect different user groups – from corporate clients to start-ups and freelancers, in a unique environment of a national cultural monument.
Studio Perspektiv has been creating innovative solutions for office, residential, and community projects, with more than 35 collaborating architects from offices in Prague and Bratislava. The proposals are primarily based on an understanding of client’s needs and professional management. In each design, we strive to achieve a symbiosis between the client’s vision, respect for architecture, and design. Our approach combines timeless design, premium quality, sustainable materials, and smart technologies.
The Ascend House, designed by VPA Architects, derives its name from the massing of this project, where each floor plate decreases as one ascends vertically. The material palette is that of exposed concrete, exposed brick, texture paint, glass facades, metal screens and the foliage around. The exterior reflects in the interior as well. The clients being lovers of contemporary design, we played around with colours, textures and materials in the interiors. The floor is vitrified tiles that look like concrete, to compliment the use of exposed concrete and exposed brick.
Tower Río 436 is developed in a corner, which shows two behaviors, two main facades that act according to the perspectives. Volumes that correspond to a structural module begin to tuck into blocks that group the levels to generate terraces and lighten their height. The building groups all the services and circulations in a central nucleus, which allows an open plan around it, as well as variations in the general volume through subtractions that create terraces, conferring its characteristic volumetry, likewise, the open plan is completely adaptable to any requirement.
Taller David Dana Arquitectura aspires to create high-quality spaces through a creative interaction of materiality, form, and structure. Driven by a passion for design, TDDA implements innovative ideas across diverse lines of business.
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – PM House by architects Office Architect9kampanad. 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.
Casa BE, designed by Spaceworkers, is precisely this idea of “gravitational lightness” that fascinates us and in which the concept of this project lies. Generally, the proposal refers to a tripartite according to the vernacular elements: the Base, with an image of the static and megalithic unibody, where the functions of a nonpublic space are located; the open area, where all the public spaces of the house are, and that explores the visual and physical relationship with the outside; and, finally, the “gravitational” block, where private spaces are located.
Casa Odyssia, designed by konstantinos stathopoulos | KRAK. architects, is like the rocks that emerge from the wild landscape, like an “anchorage”, a station of rest, meditation, hospitality, a rescue “raft” from the urban life. It aspires to rest, and to inspire the user in the search for his own Ithaca … only then, the concrete blocks, are transformed into a home with spatial qualities, with reason and with a dream.
Read & Rest Hotel, designed by Office AIO, is an attempt at promoting a quality lifestyle that is balanced between feeding one’s curiosity (Read) and bringing calmness to one’s senses (Rest). OFFICE AIO’s spatial design aims to prime one’s state of mind into a calm and leisurely state, pertinent for knowledge and inspirations to be absorbed and exchanged between rests. A dramatic telescopic portal is designed to allow guests to slowly progress into the humble hotel entrance, across the intimate lobby, and into the library.
MVRDV has revealed Sun Rock, an operations facility containing offices, a maintenance workshop, storage spaces, and a public gallery for Taiwan’s government-owned power company Taipower. Anticipating Taiwan’s planned transition to green energy, the features of the Sun Rock building, from its shape to its façade, are focused on generating solar energy as efficiently as possible. The building, therefore, acts as a definitive statement of intention, and a “manifesto in a building” to communicate Taipower’s goals to the public.
Cove, designed by Studio IAAD, is a vacation abode for three friends in North Goa that harnesses the true sentiment of comfort entwined with elevated living. This 5,000 sq ft residence is conceptualised with three distinct clients at its nucleus, ensuring that each end-user felt tethered to the overall design narrative. A second home for the clients, this residence had to conjure a stark contrast from their lifestyle in the bustling city of Delhi.
Studio IAAD is an architecture and interior design firm located in India’s millennium city, Gurugram, founded in 2007 by Rachna Agarwal. We are a multi-disciplinary practise committed to creating memorable spatial experiences. The studio follows design philosophy centred around seamlessly blending function and aesthetics, and evolving our designs’ past established paradigms to best fulfil our clients’ visions.
Cornival is the renovation and extension of a traditional Scottish cottage and byre, in the Aberdeenshire countryside. Our approach was to create a visually quiet refurb, with modern elements clad in blackened vertical timber narrow boards, forming a clear language with the traditional stonework of the cottage and byre. The brief was to create a sensitive but contemporary renovation and extension of the existing building, while making it more suitable for modern family living, and creating a stronger connection to both the site and the surrounding landscape.
The Kingfisher’s Nest, designed by Marco Ghilotti Architetto, involves the transformation and expansion of the rural building originally used as a stable and barn into an educational classroom along the Valtellina path: a cycle-pedestrian itinerary that winds along the entire valley. The small extension was made of prefabricated wood panels, was insulated and clad with burnt larch wood planks. The intervention aims to safeguard the simple architecture of the building by inserting a new wooden shell inside the volume, defined by the stone walls.
Marco Ghilotti Architetto aims to develop projects for the construction of man’s living space in the contemporary territory, aware that the latter is a limited asset and must therefore be used responsibly. The program turns into a volume. The shape of the latter relates to the context by interpreting it and arranging itself within the assigned area so that the void it generates becomes the protagonist of the project.
Het Gymlokaal, designed by Kevin Veenhuizen Architects, is a new place in Amsterdam-Noord where people can sport together in a personal and intimate atmosphere. The designers transformed two units in this former shipyard, located at the Ij waterfront, into a gym where the industrial characteristics of the building are further accentuated. Furthermore, the industrial character of the interior is enhanced by stripping the construction literally naked until the concrete, steel and timber is visible.
Entheogenic Design, designed by The Vrindavan Project, where spirit is in the process of unfolding through matter, by its involved complexity. Ours may not even necessarily be the ‘only’ manifest of Divine joy, for it is believed that there have been many cycles of creation, and will be many more. Moreover, should our linear conceptions of temporal and spatial evolution be cast aside, we may notice that every possible reality could be occurring simultaneously, for history itself would be but a flicker, when measured up against an Infinite and Eternal canvas of creativity.
Designed by DS2 architecture, the Davis road apartment in Bangalore is a seamless amalgamation of aesthetics and functions, of cultures and contexts, construction nuances, and impeccable user experiences. Here Indian aesthetics interplay with modern sensibilities. From often-overlooked details to large voluminous forms, every element is a pursuit in sculpting an enriching and intuitive experience.
DS2 Architecture’s design principles are driven from the context and client aspirations. All the design propositions are well informed by the place, functionally resolved and aesthetically blended or muted. They believe that architecture should be more about the spatial experience rather than the visual impact.
Lucky Land, designed by Archimatika, is a city within a city. Six blocks have 23 residential buildings with various architectural solutions and height capability, corresponding to the general concept. The project also includes underground and surface car parks, active mixed-use ground floors, a medical centre, a school, and a park. While conceiving a new urban centre, the designers tried to re-discover and rethink local architectural and urban planning traditions.
PM House, designed by Office Architect9kampanad., Ltd, has a concept to build a new family home on the same land where they have been living for generations. In consideration of the older generation’s lifestyle as a simple Thai way of life, the design team decided to carry on with the contemporary-style architecture to still keep up with modern life. Despite the strong geometrical-shaped exterior, the interior presents an open floor plan to maximize the light atmosphere and indoor ventilation.
Office Architect9kampanad., Ltd. is an architectural firm based in Bangkok, Thailand.
Sněžka post office, designed by HAMR Huť Architektury Martin Rajniš, is a building that could be easily dismantled but would also be able to withstand the harsh winds. We developed our experimental SSBS system and built a wooden timber that could be dismantled. The structure has a shell consisting of three layers: the outer layer is composed of hydraulically operated protective plates, then there is a layer of glazing, and the inner wooden boards provide additional insulation.
Coopworth, designed by FMD Architects, is a contemporary interpretation of a country farmhouse. The footprint of the house is consciously constrained to maximise arable land yet maintains generosity in its thoughtful internal arrangement. Internally, the contrast of lofty volumes and snug spaces are accentuated by a utilitarian palette of plywood linings and concrete floors, drawing focus to a dramatic ceiling lined with Coopworth wool from the property. Sealed with clear, polycarbonate corrugated sheeting, the wool adds to the thermal performance, while celebrating the agricultural connections as an abstract wool fresco.
