Interview3 years ago
In this interview Enrico Daffonchio describes two typical projects, by his firm Daffonchio Architects with sustainable architecture approach. While being sustainable and winning awards, these projects have given a great return to their investors and hopefully they seek to inspire these conversations to galvanize more developers to this movement – besides the obvious ethical and scientific reasons for the sustainable architecture, besides the immense return for society, there is the selfish return for the developer.
Interview3 years ago
Over the years ZedLab has experimented with transition spaces in different kinds of projects ranging from residential to institutional. In this Talk, Sachin Rastogi, founder director and design principal at ZedLab, reflects on this approach to introduce transition spaces at the periphery that creates a protected external environment for the users and the building itself.
Project3 years ago
LAD HQ, designed by MVRDV, is an 11-story terraced office building that combines high and low-tech sustainability strategies under a swooping technological roof to create a showcase for the agriculture technology company. Viewed from above, the building is rectangular in plan, yet it is given a striking curved shape by the series of terraces that step down to a courtyard and the main pedestrian entrance on the north side. The “agricultural oasis” concept even extends below ground thanks to several voids which allow light, fresh air, and greenery to make their presence felt.
Project3 years ago
Odhani, designed by Playball studio, revamps an existing boutique by increasing the qualitative display area to expand its site. Forms, shapes, textures, colours, etc., from this palette were assembled silently to ensure that the Client’s designs get highlighted and not the re-designed space. Materials like locally sourced stone and handmade terrazzo tiles were used to accentuate the overall design sensibility of respecting local materials and craft.
Project3 years ago
Casa Rampa, designed by Estudio PKa, is implanted and coexists with the environment that communicates seamlessly with the interior. It has an introverted relationship towards the street and through different internal patios we constantly recirculate the air. The relationship with the outside is one of the most important questions. We study the way to link ourselves directly with the environment, generating foci and light collectors in both spatial, horizontal and zenith directions.
Compilation3 years ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Shahrasb farm villa by Hajm.e.sabz. 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.
News3 years ago
Playground- E briefed to develop a model playground that has the ability for children to play in the times of today. The winning entry “Metatopia” is a modular system with interchangeable ply elements. These elements are categorized into playing, farming, resting, and connecting contents.
Project3 years ago
SF18 Apartment is an interior design project designed by FFWD Arquitectes in Barcelona, Spain. The project sets two main areas of activity, a lounge and outdoor dining, that provide comfort and extra solar control to the inner housing units.
Project3 years ago
Botha’s Halte Primary School, designed by Meyer & Associates, has sustainability principles while respecting the area’s cultural heritage. A didactic design approach was followed, demonstrating these aspects throughout the complex as part of the teaching and educational processes. The school buildings demonstrate how contemporary technologies and inventive architectural design, can be employed to benefit rural South Africa.
News3 years ago
“Millennial House Unit” challenge was to design a basic housing prototype, conceptualized for students of 1 to 3 people with private spaces and shared services.
Project3 years ago
House in Sumiregaoka, designed by Design Associates Nakamura, is a residence where each roof is varied to create a continuity with the cityscape. Galvalume was used as the exterior material. By doing so, they can enjoy the various textures and rhythms of wood and steel plates.
Project3 years ago
The Courtyard House, designed by FIGR Architecture Studio, is a nod to the Italian Palazzo and Australian courtyard house tradition, celebrating the constant connection between outdoor and indoor spaces. A utilitarian material which sits comfortably within its context is also a reminder of this once working class suburb. The brick is also used inside, creating a series of colonnades which are broken by windows, allowing the light of the courtyard to spill into the corridor.
Selected Academic Projects
Project3 years ago
Filson NYC Flagship, designed by Heliotrope Architects, is a retail interior showcasing the product line in an immersive experience that brings the brand to life in the city’s heart. Inspired by the ethos, the Heliotrope design team, in collaboration with Filson, and an elite team of builders, craftspeople, and fabricators, focused on creating a retail space that shared the same level of quality and integrity as the product Filson sells.
News3 years ago
A Floating House will be conceptualized as an individual element that can be combined in a set of 10 units, adding aesthetic value to the natural environment.
News3 years ago
The start and the finishing parts of the project however are indeed the most creative ones. “Residence Rush” design challenge looks at this specific part where we push to solve a design challenge in a limited timeframe. The competition focused on residence design only as a theme with fixed minimum deliverables in 5 days.
News3 years ago
Do join us for a live interview on July 07, at 11:00 AM with Rafiq Azam from Bangladesh, as part of our interview Series Shades of Green-2.0
Project3 years ago
EH – 458, designed by Parada Cantilo Estudio, is a residence with a need for expansion on a single-family home that gave origin to this idea in Argentina. The module responds directly to the optimization and good use of the chosen metal materials. The program intervenes in its interaction with the existing elements through a flexible and light articulation, which acts as an intermediary between the rest areas, harmonizing the relationship between the most introverted spaces.
Project3 years ago
Mit Chit House, designed by Looklen Architects, is designed and constructed to provide additional living quarters and a larger common area for a growing family’s needs. Open spaces, wide halls, and numerous windows take advantage of the natural light, inspiring feelings of freedom and closeness to nature. No matter where you stand, a gorgeous view of greenery and the house’s interior keep family members connected to the outside world as well as the inside.
Practice3 years ago
Looklen Architects is a Bangkok-based architectural studio that concerns itself with matters of architectural design, concept development and strategic spatial transformations. As a young and emerging team, the body of work spans a broad range of scales and typologies, from private residences, gyms, art galleries, libraries, and a office complex.
News3 years ago
Between November 2020 and May 2021 arkitekturo challenged architecture students from all around the world to imagine how the Bauhaus Campus would look like if the iconic school from early 1900 were to re-open its doors a century after it was first established.
Project3 years ago
Al-Ansar Mosque, designed by ONG&ONG, is focused on creating an open and inclusive atmosphere that is inviting to worshippers and the community. Elements like the minaret and main prayer hall’s dome are retained from the past and integrated with new structures like the floating podium, which will house classrooms and auditoriums. A mosque has to embody particular symbolic elements that represent the core beliefs and values of the Muslim community, while at the same time taking account of the multi-cultural environment.
Project3 years ago
Shuoji kindergarten, designed by Crossboundaries, delivers child-centered spaces anchored in the values of a “village,” the responsibility of family, community, and society to offer the richest concern on raising a child. The complexity of this inner courtyard arrangement attracts and motivates children to explore the surroundings with their natural curiosity and it encourages them to create games, help them feel intimate and connected with people and ease their loneliness, in a micro village modeling the real world beyond.
Project3 years ago
Shahrasb farm villa, designed by Hajm.e.sabz, is a residence with low maintenance costs, low energy consumption, and usage of environmental energy to deal with the hot and dry climate in Iran. Thus, the project is designed with load-bearing pressed brick walls and smooth rough arches, which was the native workers’ skills, these brick walls also are thermal mass for dry climates.
Practice3 years ago
Hajm.e.sabz is an architectural, engineering and construction firm seeking sustainable and energy efficient solutions for their projects and designs. The firm’s portfolio involve a wide range of projects from design and construction and renovation of residential buildings, as the primary specialty of the group, to educational, health care, recreational and office buildings.
