Housing Complex Niigata | Takuyahosokai

Housing Complex Niigata, designed by Takuyahosokai, has a dialogue between built form and seasonal and daily changes to the sun’s altitude, weather patterns, and fluctuations in atmospheric conditions. This temporal cycle conspires to continuously transform and direct light and shadows, generating a form of architectural expression. The configuration of the facade has been determined by the efficiency and practicality of evacuation routes, service piping and to allow for re-use of the formwork, amongst other requirements

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Belife, Gabinetes de Saúde Integrada | Romulo Neto Arquitetos

Belife, Gabinetes de Saúde Integrada, designed by Arquitetos Romulo Neto, Integrates Medicine, Wellness and Dermatofunctional, Physiotherapy and Group Classes. Human Body is the central point of our project, the curve as an expression in the form, in a fluid way, with a present function of concealing the pillars. After this path, spaces appear, corresponding through color, to the four great elements, the intention is that those who visit the space, feel good, in communion with nature.

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Romulo Neto Arquitetos

Romulo Neto Arquitetos, is an architectural firm with projects diversified in location, size, and content with competence, quality & economy. They value the private customer and support a large company. They bet on innovation, service excellence, and an incessant search for solutions that generate value and functional and economic aesthetics. Our customers are the driving force of our existence.

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Darkwood Residence | Cumulus Studio

Darkwood Residence, designed by Cumulus Studio, is a family home with wilderness at heart that is Clever, not posh with a sustainable footprint. The response was relatively low tech, stripped back and simple. The designers prioritised the natural surrounds, natural light and hard-wearing natural materials to fit the brief. A stepped design and folded, sculptural roof lets light flood the living area. Built-in furniture fits the small footprint, with deep windows allowing you to sit, relax and feel part of the view.

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5 Element House | Studio PKA

5 Element House, designed by Studio PKA, is a weekend retreat and a reprieve from the city’s bustling life in a pristine landscape. The house on top of the hill, reminiscent of the forts in the horizon, reveals its ability to become one with the land and is a pure reflection of the realm surrounding it. The light cast reflections of rippling water from the pool against the walls. The shadows grow across the expanse of the house and along double-height walls as the day wears on. The world around had grown into the design the same way the design had grown into its surrounding.

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Weekly Highlights 2021 #22

Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – IHA Residence by Wallmakers. 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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Studio PKA

PKA is a design studio is a well-established practice providing complete design solutions in interior-architecture. With corporate interiors as its core strength, the studio has slowly expanded its horizons to designing other spaces as well and has a wide spectrum of projects from corporate to residential including bungalows and villas. The past two decades have seen the practice grow from a small design studio to one of the industry’s preferred practices.

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Desert wash | Kendle Design Collaborative

Desert wash, designed by Kendle Design Collaborative, is a unique modern home designed to celebrate nature and desert living. Rammed earth walls, expansive glass and floating steel and wood clad roofs shelter a family in modern beauty and provide the perfect backdrop for their extensive collection of art and Asian artifacts. Throughout the home you experience the site sensitivity of the project through its unique pallets and how the residence respects the natural qualities of the site.

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Sun house | Tetro Arquitetura

Sun house, designed by Tetro Arquitetura, is a residence that rises from the ground to reach stunning views of the mountains of Minas. The wooden deck with the pool is over the house, sunning the whole day and shading the rooms. The living room connects this leisure area with the upper part of the land, opening up to the lush native vegetation.

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Rane Vidyalaya | Shanmugam Associates

Rane Vidyalaya, designed by Shanmugam Associates, is an educational campus that creates an infrastructure that would have a positive social impact on the local community and also showcase the core values of Rane. The kindergarten classrooms are designed to have individual garden’s that encourage seamless outdoor and indoor integration of space. The overall design approach was to avoid sharp edges in walls, columns, slab edges and in every detail possible to ensure safety. Terracotta jalli has been used as secondary shading devices.

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Dussart Pedron Winery | CRUX arquitectos

Dussart Pedron Winery, designed by CRUX arquitectos, is the new space formed by rehabilitating an old structure with numerous former lives. The intervention uses the passing of time like another construction material without hiding the scars. In this ‘territory space,’ the new installations have been placed using easily identifiable materials of the times. The original structure has been revised, acting with each element personally. This intervention represents a layer upon construction, just skimming the surface, like a reversible installation that simultaneously provides a blank page from which to begin again.

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Teaseme Cafe | Wallmakers

Tease me Café by Wallmakers is a renovation of a café with a challenge to design a cramped, area-deficient space flanked by shops on all sides. The perfect answer arose in the form of using cloth as an incongruous partition that gave privacy, became comfortable seating, and was also aesthetically pleasing. The lighting of the café posed the next dilemma as it had to be dramatic yet subtle. The café is a poetic expression of the beauty of free-falling cloth manipulated cleverly to be of use, with an added sculptural quality.

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Five Story House | Stpmj

Five Story House, designed by Stpmj, is the vertically stacked result of a single-family house on a small site in a highly dense city, Seoul, Korea. Considering the economic value of flats through redevelopment and the familiarity of living infrastructure, a vertically stacked house with a small floor area is a provocative residential type in this culture. The stepped mass over 9 meters by the daylight setback regulation and the cantilever over the parking becomes a typical building shape in residential zoning areas in this city.

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Luanqing Hutong – “Quad of Gourd” | URBANUS

Luanqing Hutong – “Quad of Gourd,” designed by URBANUS, is a residence with a typical small courtyard that is very suitable for living at that time. Maintaining the original architectural texture of the courtyard, we attempted to renovate the original, traditional and vernacular layout patterns and historical features as much as possible, while the interior space can evolve into other unique spatial experiences. The small courtyard can be divided into three small units based on functionality.

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URBANUS

URBANUS is recognized as one of China’s most influential independent architecture practices and aims to formulate architectural strategy from the urban environment. Urbanus has always focused on the urban realities in China and seeks architectural solutions based on its research of emerging urban problems. Urbanus have completed numerous important architecture and urban design projects since its inception. The built works cover the range of culture & education, office buildings, residential & commercial buildings, landscape design, renovation/regeneration projects, public art installations, etc.

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Ubisoft | SCA Design

Ubisoft, designed by SCA Design, is an office interior that aim to reflect the company’s youthful zest and dynamic culture, leading to a thematic design concept that creatively reinterprets Singapore’s unique cultural spots into zonal areas across the office premises. Styled as a gamer’s playground, the room is characterised by a monochrome colour palette and is equipped with an impressive sound system for an optimal game testing and reviewing experience in keeping with the video game company’s field of expertise.

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SCA Design

SCA design has been one of Singapore’s leading corporate solution providers since 2001. They are a multi-disciplinary commercial interior design and office fit-out company, providing innovative and effective workspace solutions for the corporate business market.

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North Zone Silk Factory | OLI Architecture PLLC

North Zone Silk Factory, designed by OLI Architecture PLLC, uses construction techniques with elaborate concrete trusses carrying a traditional wooden roof frame. The economical process also dictated the use of natural lighting, with incremental differences in each building. The ancillary new buildings by DCA extend this vocabulary in a contemporary fashion. The spatial character of each hall emerges both from the relationship with the outside and from the craft of its construction.

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SHL The Serenity – Living in Delta | SHATOTTO architecture for green living

SHL The Serenity – Living in Delta, designed by SHATOTTO architecture for green living, creates a place for comfortable living but also a place for celebrating life with all the cinematic reflections of nature in every aspect inspired by the life of the celebrity. The philosophy behind designing the landscape of this building was to create a living room for the city by connecting the cityscape with the waterscape of the building. To create a deltaic impact, the building is positioned as far away from the road. The appropriately designed roof has made it a Rendezvous for social gathering and a space for grass, trees, birds and butterflies.

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SHATOTTO Architecture for Green Living

SHATOTTO is an architectural firm that intends to unearth Bengal’s lost history and heritage and recreate the missing link between its urban and rural culture. SHATOTTO architecture for green living is also trying to bridge the missing gaps between architectural values and the current crisis of responsible architecture to generate conversation between people, community, and nature for a healthy society. SHATOTTO architecture for a green living has developed into a Consultancy Organization providing Consultancy for detailed planning, design and engineering.

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Diyarbakir Yenisehir Municipality Building | Uygur Architects

Diyarbakir Yenisehir Municipality Building, designed by Uygur Architects, is a central district municipality famous for its rich cultural and historical background. The absolute concept of a municipality should be close to local communities, functionaries, and facilities. The main design principle was to enable the municipality building to be used as a “community center” with a humble and welcoming spatial quality while providing transparency and representing participatory democracy to the local citizenry.

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Byg Brewski | Mathew and Ghosh Architects

Byg Brewski, designed by Mathew and Ghosh Architects, captures the openness, dramatic scale of spectacle for events, and its ruined character to create the ambiance. A heady mix of enterprise, visual understanding, and who could feel the course of the narrative. The openness of the central area brings people together much like town squares / community village spaces / an oasis– somewhat making notions that are subconsciously felt as familiar. Many materials were recycled from old Mangalore tiles, stones from the site and surrounding including the boulders from the adjoining sites etc.

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