Maden Group is an architecture studio, based in Kosova, that gives comfort, spreads friendly vibes, and works with creativity. The designers always try to integrate new elements according to the evolution of technology and materials, giving different dimensions and colors to our creations but never losing the identity. The main attention is the environment and the atmosphere where we work in.
‘Yeh inth patharon ka ghar’ is the second 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.
PLAA-GUT restaurant, designed by Touch Architects, transforms two existing houses into a restaurant with a semi-outdoor area and step-like dining under mango trees. The space between generates a transition route between the restaurant and the café building by a rectangular tunnel made of wooden trellis. The space under and around this mango tree will be used as a “co-outdoor space” for both restaurant and cafe.
A home for the Guptas, designed by Raghuveer Kathpalia, is an inquiry into what it means to settle, one of the many ways to do that. It began with how one will perceive the site’s landscape once occupied and conditioned. The clients, in their brief, wanted a house that would change their relationship with the outdoors. In some ways, the project disaggregates their current home in a fairly dense urban setting. The layers of verandahs courtyards and the possibility to connect and disconnect all of these by the movement of the doors enable this phenomenon.
Raghuveer Kathpalia is a practicing architect with an ideation of lived experience of space, of how one sees architecture within the built environment. They happen everywhere in the city through a process of accretion and negotiation of adjacency. A home is what makes the city happen, it is that which holds all settlements. That is why my present pre-occupation is about settling in a landscape. Such as how one experiences a piece of land once it has been occupied vis a vis how one did before occupation.
T House, designed by CTA | Creative Architects, is a multi-generational family home focusing on visual connectivity and ventilation. The project was created by two blocks stay about two corners of the house, two void spaces between two functional blocks, combining garden and common activities to ensure that all spaces are illuminated by natural light. Arranging spaces with ventilation and lighting also creates a space to connect, encourage members to leave the rooms, join in common activities, enjoy nature or seeing each other.
@BATUBATA, designed by Studio Air Putih, has the main concept of following the environmental context located in scattered and disorganized surroundings. Using bricks as the main building materials indicates a humble character since it blends well with the surroundings. Furthermore, bricks are a local material typically low maintenance and environmentally friendly. The ‘Architecture in the Box’ concept is applied where the bricks surround the office glass wall.
Studio Air Putih (SAP) is an architecture and interior design studio with projects ranging from residential to hospitality designs, establishing a distinguished design brand.
This project in Mussoorie by architecture firm ‘The Vrindavan Project’ challenged the architects to a four year long design and construction process. Integrating modern systems, services and amenities they built a form that would restore the original structure while adding value to it.
Small house with a monumental shower, designed by fala, is a house within a very old and small granite shack, with a slightly distorted plan and a prominent sloped roof, at the edge of a beautiful garden. The only added volume is an exuberant tower bluntly attached to the main volume. The new object is a superimposed element that fits a small bathroom downstairs and a strikingly tall shower above. The interior has its complexities and circumstances.
Banh Cam’s Country House, designed by Plus Idea Studio, responds to Vietnam‘s hot tropical climate with this multi-generational family home. In response to the challenging site, the studio organized the program on a linear layout, along which a lush garden runs parallel. A low wall at the entrance provides privacy and separates the house from a covered carport. This wall also affords surprise as it conceals the lush green garden that awaits. The open architecture is also a strategy by plus idea studio to utilize natural light and ventilation, hopefully reducing energy costs for the family.
Plus Design Studio is an innovative Urban planning, Architecture, and Interior Design studio with determination, Enthusiasm, and unlimited passion of a group of young architects. Plus Design Studio is a design-oriented architecture firm and an experienced constructor. The team combines rigorous design with construction management experience, leading to a unique design process and aesthetic end product.
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Brickly Affair by GreyScale Design Studio. 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.
Scaffold House, designed by Gaurav Roy Choudhury Architects, is a low-cost renovation project in which the original load-bearing building has been converted into two duplex houses. The idea of the Scaffold house stems from a pragmatic approach towards renovation, clarifying the understanding of the ‘new’ in context to the ‘old.’ Structure, site, and budget concerns needed a bold intervention that changed the project from a finicky renovation to a motivated architectural intervention in making a family house.
Trapezioma (Trapezoidal Brick + Omah (house)), designed by Andyrahman Architect, is an inseparable part of the neighborhood that stands as an “individual house.” Conceptually, it is a house that has a double existence: as itself and at the same time as a unit with the other houses in this village. In addition, this house still provides spatial distance on the side and the back of the house (backyard) to facilitate air circulation and maximize natural lighting. A basic principle of architectural design in the tropics in addressing the current pandemic issue.
Garden House, designed by Austin Maynard Architects, is a high-performing, hi-tech, inner-city oasis that illustrates the future of sustainable energy. The house is a sustainable, super modern, long-term family home that could change and adapt over time. A pretty, white shingled cottage with a perfect pitched roof. Internally, concealed doors allow spaces to be opened up or sealed off. Large openings connect the inside with the garden, with seasonal outdoor spots such as the fire pit, shaded outdoor table, sunny lawn, and heated pool.
Austin Maynard Architects is an architectural practice that navigates residential, retail, and commercial arenas and is rich in envelope-pushing conceptual designs. Austin Maynard Architects explore the architecture of enthusiasm. Treating each project as a unique challenge and working directly with clients and occupants, the team offers individual possibilities and thoughtful responses to people, briefs, and places. The team embraces deliberative design and looks to issues of liveability, culture, heritage, community connection, mental health, and cures to modern isolation.
Rock House – weekend villa, designed by The Grid Architects, is an intimate weekend home birthed from the desire to be one with nature. The built-form is articulated as a modest single-storey two-bay structure whose one-foot-thick stone walls retain the material’s original raw form both inside and outside. The floor-to-ceiling glazing strengthens the home’s connection with nature. The internal programme tries to balance spaces for solitude and congregation, sound and silence.
Casa em Santarém, designed by dp Arquitectos, works with privacy in the demanding task of harmonizing the built in the territory. The volumes and elevations are organized as a visual reference on the main road axis of the allotment. Comfort and simplicity of living are desired, without hurting the will of the design. The search for simplicity is a complex process.
“In this presentation Riyaz Tayyibji describes the evolution of a practice that has varied interests from building design, documentation (excuses to draw!), architectural research, restoration, publication, theoretical speculation, exhibition curation, some sort of advocacy and more recently policy formulation.
dp Arquitectos is an architectural practice, based in Portugal, that believes architectural intervention solves problems. It needs innovation as a factor of human and natural adaptation to reality. It will always be an unfinished search, shaped by time, environment, and culture, present in new circumstances and programmatic densities, working theory and reality with boldness to try new paths and perspectives.
The winners of the Iceland Cave Tower Competition have been selected. This was the fourth Bee Breeders competition set in the extraordinary landscape of northern Iceland.
Uneven house, designed by fala, is a transformation of a ground-floor shop and its basement into an apartment. The longitudinal spaces are defined by a straight white wall on one side, and a composite wall on the opposite (comprising three massive plywood doors to the secondary programs). While the walls play their own formal game, the position of the doors and the finishes remain the same on both levels.
Brickly Affair, designed by Greyscale Design Studio, is a residence with the language of the rawness of material by emphasizing it and letting it speak. The diagonally placed brick structure forms the facade of the house. The interiors are created using concrete, mild steel, wood and terracotta. All these materials interact with each other very well and lends its beauty seamlessly to one another. The focal-point of the house is the open kitchen which overlooks the garden on one side and internal green courtyard on the other.
