Home_2121 | Winner Announcement

Home_2121 is a design architecture competition organized by Archiol in association with Artuminate. The most significant architectural space that we experience throughout our life is our home, what will be the idea of home in the year 2121?

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Weekly Highlights 2021 #37

Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Casa Rodney by BAAG – Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal. 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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Songzhuang Micro Community Park | Crossboundaries

Songzhuang Micro Community Park, designed by Crossboundaries, helps grow the largest gathering place for artists in China in a symbiotic relationship with the community. The space is created to suit the site environment with a proper choice of material and plantation, combined with carefully designed spatial configuration, sequence, and atmosphere. This project is the first realized vibrant design of many to come that will follow the lead of the new communal spirit.

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Mothimahal Gold & Diamonds | ENVID Atelier

Mothimahal Gold & Diamonds, designed by ENVID Atelier, is a retail where the facade & interiors align with the ideology of creating an unconventional design exclusively developed for the specific client. A dark theme was chosen for the jewelry interiors to develop a unique experience different from conventional well-lit interiors, which are usually the norm. Shopping under the starry desert sky was the main theme that came into play, gaining inspiration from the middle eastern roots of the client.

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ENVID Atelier

ENVID; Environmental Design Studio is a collaborative platform with its origins in Kochi, where architects, designers, and professionals who believe in creating contextually appropriate solutions merge their expertise. The studio’s work perceives the interrelationship between the environment and design in unconventional ways to meet the user’s stipulations.

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Villa City | Story Architecture

Villa City, designed by Story Architecture, organizes a reasonable living, working, and resting space and relieves the inhibitory mentality. The narrowing of the living room, eliminating bedrooms and making bunk beds for the children to share a room leads to plenty of space to plant trees, swimming pools, and tree houses for the babies to play.

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26 IVY Park House | Alkhemist Architects

26 IVY Park House, designed by Alkhemist Architects, is a residence with a private, open, and calm atmosphere in an expatriate community on the outskirts of Bangkok. With this strong intention, it is clear from the beginning that the design must focus on creating a dialogue and cultivating an atmosphere between interior public spaces and the outdoor living area. By connecting indoors & outdoors seamlessly, the owners can enjoy the sequences of spatial experiences that encourage them to reach nature all year long in this tropical climate of Thailand.

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Alkhemist Architects

Alkhemist Architects is a research and design studio providing architecture, interior, branding identity, and graphic design. We strongly believe that design can help society re-embrace the values of tangible materials within our constantly changing world. We embrace tradition as well as are excited by evolution. We are constantly in search of a balance in preservation and progression.

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Vårbergstoppen Playground Spheres | AndrénFogelström

Vårbergstoppen Playground Spheres, designed by AndrénFogelström, is an installation series of spheres for playing, climbing, and hiding in a public park in Stockholm. The perfect geometries of the constructed landscape worked as inspiration for the work, designing a bird-watching tower, viewing platforms, signs, and playground equipment for the public park. The project is made in collaboration with Land Arkitektur, who has been responsible for the overall landscape architecture of the playground.

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Audrey Irmas Pavilion | OMA

Audrey Irmas Pavilion, designed by OMA, is designed to be a machine for gathering, forging new connections with the existing campus activities, and inviting the urban realm to create a new civic anchor. They wanted the building to be iconic enough to be recognized as a new civic entity but subtle enough to complement the iconicism of the existing temple. The facade draws from the geometries of the temple’s dome interior. It is both enigmatic and familiar, creating a counterpoint to the temple that is at once deferential and forward-looking.

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OMA

OMA is an international practice operating within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism. AMO, a research and design studio, applies architectural thinking to domains beyond. OMA-designed buildings currently under construction are Taipei Performing Arts Centre, Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) renovation in Berlin, The Factory in Manchester, and the CMG Qianhai Global Trade Center in Shenzhen.

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Village Underground Lisbon | ARTE TECTóNiCA

Village Underground Lisbon, designed by ARTE TECTóNiCA, uses containers and buses as primary parts to go from an ephemeral to an “ethernal” long-lasting building. The provided existentialist architecture makes good use of every euro spent, in a really multifunctional building, that evens net office rental space with communitarian circulation/living space.

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Castle of Morella Restoration | Carquero Arquitectura

Castle of Morella Restoration, designed by Carquero Arquitectura, is a historical restoration and consolidation of the existing masonry, maintaining its ruinous physiognomy. The main work has focused on the structural consolidation, being at risk of collapse, and cleaning and restoration. Four buttresses have been placed outside the walls, reinforcing the foundation, recovering the exported land and sealing and consolidating cracks.

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House in Rua de São Mamede | Aires Mateus

House in Rua de São Mamede, designed by Aires Mateus, elected spatial values, geometric affinities, and precision concerning exterior windows. The garden made it possible to enhance the depth of the view over the Baixa rooftops and the river. The unexpected discovery of a cistern crosses the depth horizontally and connects with the sky, the most protected space of the house.

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Casa Rodney | BAAG – Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal

Casa Rodney, designed by BAAG – Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal, is developed between the horizontal mediations and the two formal systems, closing towards one of its sides and opening towards the north, generating a containment and an interior landscape of its own. From the interior, the baseboards, the walls and the sequences of the vaults compose and configure the spaces, providing different degrees of use and privacy..

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BAAG, Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal

BAAG, Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal, is an office that seeks to employ collective work to contribute to the discipline, understanding architecture as a practice and an opportunity to build critical thinking. BAAG has conducted institutional and housing projects, research projects, cultural facilities, and public competitions. BAAG has been invited to conferences and participates in panels and workshops in national and international institutions and universities.

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Veranda Offices | MVRDV

Veranda Offices, designed by MVRDV, looks to both the past and the future, combining elements of historic Sri Lankan culture with the developing needs of a modern office, and thus responding sensitively in a city undergoing rapid change. The design uses a variety of strategies to accommodate current expectations for offices in Sri Lanka while remaining future-proof and flexible, adapting to more sustainable ways of living in the near future.

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Yuno Apartments | ARQMOV WORKSHOP

Yuno Apartments, designed by ARQMOV WORKSHOP, seeks to highlight the verticality and slenderness of the building, emphasizing a monolithic concrete design, where the color and texture of each element represent the total essence of the building. One of the most critical challenges of this project was the irregularity of the property dimensions, coupled with the responsibility to design a building in such a high profile area of the city, with an impact at the urban level.

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ARQMOV WORKSHOP

ARQMOV Workshop creates a different type of architecture. Based on a twenty-five-year journey of experimentation and innovative proposals, the main aim is to question how spaces are defined. The result changes how people experience and live in the spaces, modifies the meaning of inhabiting, and how they use commercial spaces or enjoy leisure.

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Cape Horn | M3H

Cape Horn, designed by M3H Architects, consists of two buildings and is part of a large-scale housing project in the city of Hoorn in the province of North Holland. These are the first buildings where the new Dry stack technique has been applied on such a large scale. Several works of art by visual artist Nynke Koster have been placed in the facades. These refer to Hoorn’s historical connection with Cape Horn, one of the first settlements in Manhattan, named after the hometown of its first inhabitants.

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Kids Smile Labo Nursery | HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro

Kids Smile Labo Nursery, designed by HIBINOSEKKEI and Youji no Shiro, considers many elements of forests in Atsugi that are taken into interior designs. Low walls surround the atelier so children can concentrate on drawing while blocking adults’ eyes. The inside wall is a blackboard to display children’s works, draw with chalk, and play with a magnet. This nursery is the place to spread children’s plays and learning and grow up their rich mindset and health.

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Youji No Shiro

Youji no Shiro, a branch of Hibinosekkei, is a practice that designs and surveillances buildings, renovation, and interiors of preschools. The team also provide branding consultation services for preschools. ‘Youji no Shiro’, which means ‘The Castle for Children’ in Japanese, is the name of a section of Hibino Sekkei Architecture, based in Kanagawa, Japan.

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