Steyn Studio

Steyn Studio is a collaborative architecture practice that believes design has the power to solve problems, inspire, and improve lives and work hard every day to realize this ambition. They always aim to do this honestly and with the freedom to creatively explore meaningful design solutions. Designs that make a real difference to the end-user and the client; culturally and commercially.

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AR Studio | Apical Reform Studio

AR Studio, designed by Apical Reform Studio, is a studio that derives an architectural form that seamlessly merges two diversely functioning entities. It speaks of and adheres to our design sensibilities and evolves with us through the years. The designers had been playing with the idea of a fabric-like envelope for the core form. What was conceived, was abstracted through neat lines and clean details to reach a result that accentuates the beauty of the form and provides partial shade to the spaces inside.

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Monkey House | Atelier Marko Brajovic

Monkey House, designed by Atelier Marko Brajovic, is a cabin with solutions taken from nature that portray intelligence and simplicity. Plants were studied according to the topography to derive strategies for height growth stability. As well, conducting local plants’ growth around the house proposes a state of immersion of the house and the humans into the wild. The top floor of Casa Macaco is an observatory. A place of encounter and reunion, to observe Nature outside and inside us, to learn and relate regeneratively.

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Atelier Marko Brajovic

Atelier Marko Brajovic is a multidisciplinary practice based in Sao Paulo, with the idea of hybrid obsesses the eclectic works. That concept permeates all areas, formats, and aesthetics shaped as architecture, exhibition design, curatorship, creative direction, and interior and product design, with projects worldwide. For the development of projects, Atelier Marko Brajovic research and instrumentalize the design process in three main systematic areas: Behaviorology (how people do), Phenomenology (how physics does), Biomimicry (how alive nature do).

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Weekly Highlights 2021 #19

Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – House in Monsaraz by Aires Mateus. 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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Birds Nest | Kendle Design Collaborative

The Birds Nest Residence, designed by Kendle Design Collaborative, is characterized by strong geometric forms and materials reminiscent of mid-century modern architecture. The guiding principles of the modern masters are evident in the building’s clean simplicity and sophisticated integration into the site. The use of natural materials and the seamless relationship of interior to exterior spaces create an airy feeling of openness and an expansive quality.

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Malar’s Residence | Shanmugam Associates

Malar’s Residence, designed by Shanmugam Associates, is a private residence with a pool, lots of privacy, and green pockets, an extension of the client’s personality. Basic Vasthu compliance has been done by having bedrooms in the southwest, garden and lily pond in the northeast and a central courtyard, which is now the swimming pool, within the house. The façade has vertical louvres that gives privacy and yet provides ample ventilation. This project balances the requirements of an urban home with that of a farmhouse.

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Chokchairuammit Office | Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated

Chokchairuammit Office, designed by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated, is an office interior where individual workstations are placed linearly to access different directions. The cabinets are installed tightly in space to be the partitions and storage for documents and other appliances. There are several voids scattering between these cabinets as design gimmicks (they actually have a function as a see-through feature to resolve the cabinet’s solid characteristic).

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House in Estrela | Aires Mateus

House in Estrela, designed by Aires Mateus, revives the form of a traditional street front house, entirely in face concrete, both inside and outside. Thus, it opens up via the relationship between its constituent spaces. The top living room is a terrace that steers views through an opening produced by its intersection with a cylinder on the roof, defining the views on either side. The bowl-shaped pool on the terrace compresses the living room ceiling, organizing its space.

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St. Pius Chapel & Prayer Garden | EskewDumezRipple

St. Pius Chapel & Prayer Garden, designed by EskewDumezRipple, is an intimate sanctuary for quiet, individual prayer with a subtle sculptural addition to the landscape. The new chapel is a delicately-placed, quiet counterpoint to the adjacent church, contrasting in scale but similar in form and material. In order to create a serene, solitary experience within the chapel, the design emphasizes quality rather than quantity of glazing. The intent was to use reflected light exclusively in order to activate the surfaces without overlighting the space.

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Winter House | LAAR

Winter House, designed by LAAR, is a setting for enjoying the land property’s pristine privileged nature, such as the outdoors and the country lifestyle. These are the main reasons why the blueprint is organized into four blocks, linked through the occupants’ control of permeability from the inside-out of the residence. Towards the avenue arises a language of materials which holds the sincerity of the natural elements, such as stone and wood, and whose spans emphasize the different volumes that appear to be dancing one next to the other.

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Agora Space | Pablo Moreno Mansilla – Julián Zapata Jiménez

Agora Space, designed by Pablo Moreno Mansilla – Julián Zapata Jiménez, is an educational space resultant of a plastic, almost sculptural exercise where a new accessible ramp grows with a constant slope. A space excavated up to that level transforms a disused garden into the new school’s vital center. An access, passage, meeting, work, play, interaction, study or meditation space. The courtyard coverage organizes the space and irradiates light to all perimeter areas and uses that surround it.

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Pablo Moreno Mansilla – Julián Zapata Jiménez

Pablo Moreno Mansilla is an architectural practice that contemplates the possibility of being interpreted subjectively by all audiences. Above anything else, a project must be rational and pragmatic, although beautiful and harmonic at the same time; based on the poetic conceptualization of an idea. With the designs, they seek to transmit to the spectator a proposal’s uniqueness. They start from the simplicity of the forms and clear language to determine the workflow and the direct and dynamic image of the project.

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American School of Kosova | Maden Group

American School of Kosova, designed by Maden Group, is characterized by a multifunctional space where multipurpose is developed in one place, natural lighting in each space, various colors, and incorporation of green. Enlarged, horizontal and vertical elements characterize the school. The galleries and the auditorium are exposed by natural zenith lighting, which makes the school function as a whole. Each section has its own characteristic color, giving different identities to each of them.

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Dr. Oktay Duran Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School | Uygur Architects

Dr. Oktay Duran Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, designed by Uygur Architects, is an educational institution in Istanbul. 1-storey level difference from one end to the other of the corner parcel where the school building is located, played a major role in determining the building tectonics. Consideration has been given to the quantity and the quality of the access of natural light into the interior spaces, and accordingly the interior configuration has been examined in order for vertical and horizontal circulation areas to benefit from light.

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Uygur Architects

Uygur Architects is an urban and architectural practice with remarkable works on cultural and educational buildings. Uygur Architects also have notable experiences in large-scale prominent private and public office buildings. Interpretation of the requirements and the function is an important phase of the design process for Uygur Architects. According to Uygur Architects’ main approach, spatial design is for the users and the society around them. This is “Intermutual Architecture,” as they call it.

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Ghar se nikalte hi

‘Ghar se nikalte hi’ is the fifth article of the series ‘Har Ghar Kuch Kehta Hai’. This series of blog articles is centered around everyday life in traditional Indian homes. Using clues from Bollywood songs, regional poetry, TV advertisements and folk culture, the articles aim to highlight the various associations that people have with their homes, their neighbourhood and the city. What kinds of spaces and elements constituted traditional Indian homes before the living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen? What were these spaces called? What purposes did they serve? What meanings and values were associated with them? How was the home perceived in relation to the neighbourhood and the city? The tone of the articles is reflective and borrows from the authors’ personal experiences.

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Undercurrent | CLB

Undercurrent, designed by CLB, is a temporary exhibition that intends to bring moments of light and interest to long winter nights. The design manifests as a field of individual elements that create a singular, habitable form. The top of each piece is painted with reflective paint and rolled in fine glass beads that work together to create an illuminated canopy. The installation’s form is a response to power lines buried beneath it – the pathway through the center follows the path of the utilities, safely avoiding them while providing access to a central void.

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Karl Miller Center | SRG Partnership + Behnisch Architekten

Karl Miller Center, designed by SRG Partnership + Behnisch Architekten, is a new home of the School of Business at Portland State University. The building establishes a powerful identity for this business program, reflecting its aspirations and international prominence in sustainability while providing students, faculty, and the community with a much-needed place to hang out, study, and collaborate. Passive sustainable strategies minimize environmental impact, enhance human comfort and well-being, and reduce the total site EUI of the new building.

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Behnisch Architekten

Behnisch Architekten is an architectural practice driven by the belief that our surroundings directly influence the quality of our lives, whether in the work place, at home or in the public spaces. This emphasis on the social dimension is fundamental to our design philosophy, which takes as its starting point the acknowledgement that architecture is generated by the needs of people, needs that may be spiritual as well as being material.

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SRG Partnership

SRG Partnership is an architecture, interiors, and planning practice united by our purpose to invent a better future through design. They envision a future that is more just, equitable, and sustainable, created by and for communities. The mission and passion is to create innovative environments that enable our clients to achieve their highest aspirations. They design buildings and spaces that will readily adapt over time, serve our clients now and into the future, and inspire those who spend time there.

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Grandezza, Eco Sanctuary | ONG&ONG

Grandezza, Eco Sanctuary, designed by ONG&ONG, is conceptualized as a resort-style urban haven in the serene township comprising a cluster of housing units characterized by contemporary design aesthetics and touches of luxury. The major challenge involved incorporating a balance between privacy and social interaction. The homes are designed with a contemporary outlook, combining a warm, muted colour scheme, an orthogonal form and quality finishes to evoke sophistication and refinement whilst maintaining functionality.

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