Aaron’s courtyard | The Design Room

Aaron’s courtyard, designed by The Design Room, is a residence bounded by numerous fruit trees that seamlessly blends with the surroundings. The vision was to design an energy-efficient house that would benefit from natural phenomena like cross ventilation, passive cooling and day lighting. Thereby, the plan and volume of the spaces were carefully worked out to improve the built spaces’ efficiency.

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The Design Room

The Design Room is an architectural firm that believes nature and natural processes should be seamlessly acknowledged and integrated with design. The team understands that vernacular materials, crafts, and construction techniques have evolved with environment, culture, and context.

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Mind Matters | Winner Announcement

The Brief of “Mind Matters” challenge is to make a poster/artwork – that either promotes mental health awareness OR visualizes the effects of poor mental health on our daily lives through metaphorical/surreal illustrations.

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Villa Backyard | Touch Architects

Villa Backyard, designed by Touch Architects, is a single-family residence considered small, affordable, useful house and sustainable. The design originated from a simple cube diagonally slashed in half to provide the largest slanted cantilevered surface, which acts as a roof and wall for draining water. An open-plan living space that is arrangeable for multipurpose use, such as family gatherings, dining, and extension sleeping area, connects to both private and semi-public area.

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Drift Bridge | Volkan Alkanoglu

Drift Bridge, designed by Volkan Alkanoglu, is a timber-and-steel pedestrian bridge with an affordable design strategy that proposes building infrastructural elements off site and dropping them into place. The resulting 62-foot-long bridge resembles a smooth, curving branch of driftwood or a bowed bentwood splint, arcing over the creek and providing pedestrian connectivity between two parts of a neighborhood.

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Volkan Alkanoglu

Volkan Alkanoglu is a designer focused on pursuing novel forms through spatial, material, and technological explorations. The works are in re-appropriating paradigms of design typology through creative interventions. The designer wants to inspire a discourse on how to occupy the public domain by forming opportunities for social inhabitation. This mission to investigate and transform the built environment is to implement innovative techniques, new methods, and sustainable systems.

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Picturing: Human and Nature | Winner Announced

Picturing Awards – aims to promote photography and photographers. Our idea is to create new opportunities to present valuable work to audiences all over the world. We aim to build a place where photographers can show different points of view and thrive through online exchanges

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Saxum Vineyard Equipment Barn | Clayton Korte

Saxum Vineyard Equipment Barn, designed by Clayton Korte, is a self-sufficient structure and operates independently from the energy grid, maximizing its survivability and resilience. Designed as a modern pole barn, the reclaimed oil field drill stem pipe structure’s primary objectives are to provide an armature for a photovoltaic roof system. Sitting sentry as the foremost structure present upon entering the vineyard-lined property, the barn and its renewable energy system speak to the winery’s commitment to sustainability and subservience to the natural landscape.

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Rebuilding Neuropsychiatry Hospital | Wooyo Architecture

Rebuilding Neuropsychiatry Hospital, designed by Wooyo Architecture, re-interpret neuropsychiatry with modern medical point of view, and elevate the psychological dimension of the design. In response to the concept of modern neuropsychiatry, the semi-opaque skin of the hospital acts as the filter/receptor between the outside and the inside, allow for the landscape to blend with the interior geometry. The old wall and new mesh form a new skin for the building, It defines the old and the new, the outside and the inside, and appears differently during day and night.

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SRG Partnership Portland Studio | SRG Partnership

SRG Partnership Portland Studio, designed by SRG Partnership, effortlessly connects people, the firm’s work, and their creative resources by encouraging spontaneous interactions and accessible views of each other’s current, in-the-moment projects. The workplace exemplifies the firm’s values of openness, collaboration, and the way an environment can foster innovation and inspire excellence.

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The Drawing Board 2021 | Know more about the Wari

This year’s design challenge for “The Drawing Board” is much more than an architecture contest. Immerse yourself in the study of Wari and discover the higher calling that pilgrims submit to each year. This challenge is to give young architects and design students an opportunity to explore, invent and be creative with challenging architectural problems.

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Infinity Villa | APOLLO Architects & Associates Ltd

Infinity Villa, designed by APOLLO Architects & Associates Co., Ltd, serves as a weekend and vacation home for a client whose primary residence is in Hokkaido. The long-dominant model of the single-purpose “private home” may well be giving way to a new kind of multi-purpose “public home” along the lines of what we have conceived in this project.

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Seoul Yeoul Naru Ferry Terminal | Sasaki Architecture

Seoul Yeoul Naru Ferry Terminal, designed by Sasaki Architecture, creates a central cultural spot by providing a variety of spaces that are not uniform. To induce active transportation and tourism by connecting the city, park and river in a continuous flow. In addition, by positioning the main facility slightly off the axis of the existing park, the current breathtaking panoramic view from the street over the river has been maintained.

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Reverse Tree Change House | Mitsuori Architects

Reverse Tree Change House, designed by Mitsuori Architects, renovation and extension to a narrow single fronted terrace house. This project demonstrates that a small footprint is no barrier to creating a functional family home that is both unexpected and deceptively spacious. Approach to this compact renovation was to preserve the character of the original building as much as possible and make sure that any new additions became synomous with the original fabric.

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Krushi Bhawan | Studio Lotus

Krushi Bhawan, a public building designed by Studio Lotus befits the climatic conditions of the region & the design scheme consists of a central courtyard that opens through a series of colonnades into the Public Plaza, which consists of a garden with native Flora, featuring an informal amphitheatre and a pond that cools the forecourt.

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Studio Lotus

Studio Lotus is a multidisciplinary architectural firm with Conscious design principles, an approach that celebrates local resources, cultural influences, keen attention to detail and an inclusive process. The team follows an iterative and incremental innovation methodology and roots our learning in history and local context. They aim to craft benchmark solutions addressing society’s changing lifestyles and working.

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Supergartern | Winner Announcement

The “Supergartern” design challenge is to conceive a Kindergarten for 75 children + 75 children in an expansion plan – based on the design theme above. The problem not only expands to the spatiality of the Kindergarten but explores new learning models/frameworks that help teachers to employ a different type of teachings in day to day life effortlessly.

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Gau-Ghar | Compartment S4

Gau-Ghar, designed by Compartment S4, is sensitive to the cattle with efficient space management, circulation, drainage, and ventilation systems and is an integral part of cattle’s health and milk yield. This is a cowshed with ancillary facilities for 80-85 cows. The existing site condition and the cows’ divisions guided the gaushala’s layout. Along with technical detailing, major efforts have been put to make the building with sensitive details that make a friendly environment for the cows to live in.

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T-SL | Trung tran studio

T-SL, designed by Trung tran studio, is a residence considering trees, light, and plenty of play space as its major consideration for his four children. The house is designed with different floors to create a high difference, which allows more cool air to be circulated to every part of the house. The outside of the house is an entire planter that is simulated by hands that are cherishing each fragile green patch but bringing a lot of value to life.

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The bohemian design style | Winner Announcement

The bohemian design style is a 2021 design and writing competition organized by artuminate. Lack of structure, carefree layering of patterns, colors, and textures are the principles composing this design style. It is a free-spirited design style with personal touches, suiting individual needs.

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Weekly Highlights 2021 #32

Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Phu Yen House by Story Architecture. 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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