Avanto Architects

Avanto Architects is a Helsinki-based architectural firm that believes architecture is a powerful experience, just like jumping into ice-cold water. The high-quality architecture design has helped our clients create success stories and reach their goals in branding, visibility, and even economically. Architecture by Avanto makes a difference. With partners from different disciplines worldwide, we create new type of places where design, sustainability and personal experience are the key elements.

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Part 2 | Structures in Architecture, A PROCESS

In this interview Prof Gurdev elaborates on various teaching/learning methodologies for learning Structures under the title – Structures in Architecture, A Process. In this article, we present a summary of the discussion between the host Mohammed Ayazkhan, the Panelist Bhairav Patel and the Guest Prof. Gurdev Singh.

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Result Announcement | Our Neighborhood

As members of the design community, how do we present theory? Do we communicate with words and gestures towards lifelike images of our proposals? Or do we sketch before our clients, letting our hands lead the conversation? “Our Neighborhood ” invites you to present social experiences that highlight the present locality in the surrounding.

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De Oosterlingen | MVRDV

De Oosterlingen, designed by MVRDV, is a block of seven sustainable residential buildings in the ‘barcode’ composition, forming a clear family, and each has its character. At one end is the greenhouse, and then, in order, are the beekeeper, the lump, the garden, the house, the rock, and the birdhouse. The human dimension is a central consideration in the scheme; walking routes have been designed so that residents can easily meet each other, promoting a sense of community.

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SL House | Ben Walker Architects

SL House, designed by Ben Walker Architect, is a residence characterized by mature native Eucalypts and Acacias prevalent as street trees, parkland plantings and adjacent public reserve. This approach results in elevated living spaces which suits the primary ambition of engaging living areas with canopy views. The house sets high ambitions of providing a flexible living environment for the owners as well as a home that takes advantage of its incredible setting.

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Ben Walker Architects

Ben Walker Architects is formed to undertake small-scale residential and commercial projects and conceptual research projects into the city’s design. All projects are undertaken with design rigour and exploration with a focus on buildability and sustainability in all decisions. bwa is committed to high quality design outcomes that respond to the nuances of individual client brief requirements. bwa undertakes a diverse range of projects including work in the architecture, planning, urban design and landscape disciplines.

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Stoney Rise Wine Cellar Door | Cumulus Studio

Stoney Rise Wine Cellar Door, designed by Cumulus Studio, is a winery with a small footprint yet high-quality materials. The project was driven by the brief for a cellar door that could be staffed by one person yet enable a unique wine experience, as well as accommodate a range of functions, from the day-to-day of cellar door visitors and wine tastings to dinner parties and social gatherings. The conceptual approach puts the visitor experience at the forefront, enriched by material selection and simple architectural gestures such as plinths, edges and blade walls.

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Seaview Escape | Coates Design: Architecture & Interiors – Seattle Architects

Seaview Escape, designed by Coates Design: Architecture & Interiors | Seattle Architects, is a Northwest-style house anchored into a steep-sloped site. An open-concept living, dining, and kitchen area opens directly to the outdoors with a corner bi-fold door system. Each home includes a material palette of stone, concrete, wood, and metal, complimenting one another while defining the subtle differences in the siblings’ personal tastes.

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Coates Design: Architecture & Interiors – Seattle Architects

Coates Design: Architecture & Interiors | Seattle Architects, share a deep belief that when executed thoughtfully, architecture builds community and contributes to the fiber that elevates and holds society together. They believe that architecture itself is often shaped by its biological and inherent relationship to its environment. The desire is to create and advocate for responsible architecture; architecture that advances the quality of our world, our ability to perceive it and our relationship to it.

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Weekly Highlights 2021 #25

Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – The Mango House by Studio PKA. 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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Habitatge C13.2 | FFWD Arquitectes

Habitatge C13.2, designed by FFWD Arquitectes, is a total restructuring of the functional program of the house in the Badalona historical center. With this opearation we allowed light to enter generously in that area, while the outdoor space could be incorporated for it daily use as a part of the house. An open concept perception of the house is the goal, in spite of there is the option to use it as a conventional layout with closed rooms if wanted.

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Pizza 4P’s Phan Ke Binh | Takashi Niwa Architects

Pizza 4P’s Phan Ke Binh, designed by Takashi Niwa Architects, is a residence that combines both local culture and restaurant motto to create an appropriate dining atmosphere. Located at the center of Hanoi, the site features beautiful street plants with sufficient space for an open-space garden. In order to create a culturally-rich space, a range of local materials that represents Vietnam’s rich culture and resources was chosen, such as cast iron, fire bricks, cement tile, and brass-inlay concrete.

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Takashi Niwa Architects

Takashi Niwa Architects is an architectural firm with the motto “Visualize the Values” which can clearly be expressed as our goal by our working style, relationship, and achievement with clients and by our values contributing to society. Research and study are the first design process we need to start to determine which values we can get in terms of projects, site or function and clients.

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Udaan | Studio AVT

Udaan, designed by Studio AVT Architects Pvt Ltd, is a space for creative thinking, a source of inspiration, and a starting point for developing a sense of awareness and responsibility. The front facade greets you with bold, exposed bricks- a natural effect and blends with the vegetation around. The concrete texture finish on a few surfaces readily complements the bricks and gives a warm, vernacular feeling. The corridors also make learning fun and interactive, with part blackboard walls- to doodle, draw or write.

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Shades of Green 2.0

Do join us for a live interview on June 21, at 04:00 PM with P B Sajan, Joint Director, COSTFORD, as part of our interview Series Shades of Green-2.0

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Dr. PaneerSelvam Residence | Murali Architects

Dr. PaneerSelvam Residence, designed by Murali Architects, is a complete relaxing space with greenery around that refreshes his mind when he is back from work. Spaces are defined, creating a clear distinguish between the private family area which is an open concept, and the semi-public formal living area. There are perforated openings on the sides of the glass covered courtyard which creates Air draft to keep the interiors cool.

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POP-UP House | FIGR Architecture Studio

POP-UP House, designed by FIGR Architecture Studio, attempts to counter the status quo of a new family home in a predominantly heritage setting. A common approach with new homes is to occupy most of the site whilst retaining a minimal front setback with a fortified sheer built form that shuts itself off from the public realm interface. Flanked by existing neighbouring brick walls, that become internal edges which establish a dialogue between old and new.

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FIGR Architecture Studio

Figr is an architectural practice with an open, conversational experience with a personal, committed and driven methodology. The inclusive, friendly, focused attitude allows us to engage carefully with our clients’ desires, physical project constraints, budgets, time frames, compliance, and construction processes. This determined methodology gives us the scope to refine, process, and create the architecture we believe in – architecture that engages all our senses.

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Vibhavadi Office | Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated

Vibhavadi Office, designed by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated, is a commercial office in a revived 60-year-old, four-story building. The overall building bears the traces of an old modern-style building with a particular architectural language expressed through a combination of raw concrete and skim-coated concrete in the structure. This renovation project is expressed through the use of materials available in the market to “keep” and to “add” to the existing building structure.

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Barwon Heads House | Adam Kane Architects

Barwon Heads House, designed by Adam Kane Architects, transforms a run-down weatherboard cottage into a contemporary home through the careful use of textural tones and deep understanding of the sense of space. Textural, natural materials were critical to the home’s setting, as well as allowing a relaxed feeling of durability for the owners. The home’s play with light and dark, solid and void, and materiality, creates a unique experience for guests and occupants to enjoy for years to come.

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Adam Kane Architects

Adam Kane Architects is a Melbourne-based architecture and interior design practice that focuses primarily on single residential projects. Regardless of scale, setting or budget, Adam and his team work to design spaces that are specifically tailored to each client’s unique needs and desires. In successfully realising each project, the integration of a holistic approach is critical to ensuring a considered coherence between the architecture, interiors, and landscape.

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Faro Cosmos | Ten Arquitectos

Faro Cosmos, designed by Ten Arquitectos, preserve a natural interaction with the centenary Calzada México-Tacuba while integrating a modern façade. TEN Arquitectos has designed the renovation proposing part of the new program. As the main idea throughout the design process, a continuous circulation road that guides a tour among public spaces has been considered. A meeting point where history, art and creation dialogue with the individual, promoting social recreation at the same time.

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Kurien Philip Residence | Wallmakers

Kurien Philip Residence, designed by Wallmakers, is inspired to create a ‘Vault’ which was an umbrella to protect the shelter from the indomitable tropical sun. Thus the long catenary vault blocking the South-West sun made from more than 9000 CSEB bricks. Chain study method helps to stabilize the right shape of the arch before the execution begins. The structural study was first formulated by Antonio Gaudi in some of his structures. Which engineers posthumously found out. The same technique is employed to achieve stability in the Arches.

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