Project4 years ago
The Screen House, designed by tHE gRID Architects, is a beautifully integrated development comprising three discrete spaces, each one serving the needs of sub-sets of the unit yet linked in spirit and design. Water-bodies, semi-open spaces and vegetation articulate the connectivity of the three homes. The architecture explores the interplay of alliances between plant life, water, sky, built-form and humans. The building comprises of sections interlocked with the functionality of the spaces to create a balanced whole.
Article4 years ago
Prof. Surya Kakani talks about ‘Material Pragmatism’ at his practice – Kakani associates, Ahmedabad. The practice explores architectural resolutions within a resource conscious framework by reusing existing buildings, reducing carbon footprint by using energy efficient materials, recycling materials and harnessing construction technologies that involve skill and craft.
News4 years ago
With the Campus of Religions in aspern Seestadt, an interreligious center and a new location for the Church Educational University of Vienna / Krems is being created. The Viennese architecture firm Burtscher-Durig ZT GmbH emerged as the winner of the urban planning competition and was able to prevail with its architecture. All 42 submissions will now be presented in a one-week exhibition.
Project4 years ago
Bardales – Urban Training Center, designed by Natura Futura Arquitectura, integrates needs within the urban area, providing spatial possibilities and strengthening a community. They proposed to use part of the existing infrastructure of their current one-story home in the city’s urban center, partially exchanging their residential space to make it productive, living alongside it. Bardales reflects on the way in which urban facilities are developed in cities and the usual conditions in which people exercise.
Project4 years ago
Hosne Aziz Villa, designed by In Quest Design Studio, is a multi-family dwelling unit with an idea of long lasting regional expression. So basically it’s a vertical impression of the traditional village joint family house format. The public and private spaces are designed in such a way that they can be merged together to form a larger periphery. Alongside ample natural light and ventilation inside individual apartment, we paid special attention towards glare free light.
Practice4 years ago
In Quest Design Studio aims to respond appropriately to often difficult and conflicting requirements rather than specializing in a particular building type or architectural style. Our attribute to architecture is based on principles of truth to materials; close relationship with nature; user and maintenance-friendly environment; honesty of expression; glorifying local craftsmanship; adaptation of latest technology; respecting the social pattern; achieving sustainability through proper design decision; careful use of land, water, sun & wind.
Project4 years ago
The Canaletto Tower, designed by UNStudio, employs the concept of clustering several floors together to establish a group of vertical communities. The project incorporates the remodeling of the facade, a streamlining of the building’s mass and a contrasting of scale and detail untypical of a residential tower. The facade for the Canaletto tower was designed to emphasise its residential character and to define a distinct ‘Islington’ response.
Project4 years ago
Floating Walls, designed by Crest Architects, promises an escape from the city life finding an intimate space in the crowd and arriving at a visually engaging structure amidst the chaotic background. An introverted open plan layout has been adopted to create a seamless flow of spaces and to ensure connectivity across the floors. Skylights and multiple slits integrated in the design keep the interiors well lit, accentuates the spatial experience and makes certain of a connection with nature that largely lacks in today’s urban world.
Practice4 years ago
Crest architects is a pragmatic and holistic design practice that provides a scope for a wide range of experimentation and exploration in architecture of various kinds of projects. The firm has ventured into redefining residential design of single and multi-dwelling houses, institutional, commercial and hospitality projects while providing purpose built interior spaces and landscape designs that complement the architecture.
Pedagogy4 years ago
In these sessions of the workshop – Grasshopper as a Tool, students were given the introduction of GRASSHOPPER- a plug in of Rhino software.
News4 years ago
The ‘Architecture Thesis of the Year | ATY 2020’ is an international architecture thesis competition organized by theCharette. The aim of the competition is to extend appreciation to the tireless effort and exceptional creativity of student thesis in the fields of Architecture, Urban Design, Landscape and Restoration. The competition received over 1000 entries from 104 nations across the world.
Project4 years ago
Place for Community Living, designed by UA LAB, provides opportunities for people from different places and cultures to come together and interact. This place becomes a common platform for the entire community to meet. It might help to enhance/induce richer social interaction between the people. Proposed community space is designed as a park. A park in which, activity of seating, walking and playing is central and enjoyed to the fullest by the people.
Selected Academic Projects
Project4 years ago
Lookout House, designed by Faulkner Architects, stands upright at an angle to the slope providing a constant reference to the perpendicular horizon in the distance. The enclosed and darkened exterior entry provides relief from the visual noise of the neighbourhood. Red-orange glass suggests the colour of cooling magma, referencing the site’s geology and offering a warm approach. The glow extends to the interior, bathing the entry and central stair in light.
Project4 years ago
Casa RA, designed by Oficina Conceito Arquitetura, is exactly the same height as the tallest neighbor and closely relates to its surroundings. Swings and hammocks make residents enjoy the freshness of having a home garden connected to nature, and this relationship ends up awakening in children a sense of important preservation. The entire RA house was erected with apparent ecological bricks and received dark pigmentation on the base and white paint on the upper volume, making it lighter.
Project4 years ago
Studio Retreat, designed by MODO Design, is a weekend retreat formed as a cascading one having interplay of volumes. Designed as an L-type layout comprising of living area, dining area, kitchen, a work space and a bedroom at lower level and one bedroom on the upper level. It also houses office space for work purpose.
Practice4 years ago
Modo Designs’ is an architecture firm in Ahmedabad, India, involved in residential, institutional, and corporate projects. The firm derives its name from a latin word ‘MODO’ which means ‘of its time.’ An essential concern has been developing an architectural environment of qualitative character. Also integrated planning and thinking out of the box are a crucial emphasis. The firm’s vision is to develop a sensible, imaginative and innovative architecture in India with an emphasis on construction finesse.
Project4 years ago
Rethinking Notredame, designed by The Red Studio, attempts to resurrect the Spire like a phoenix arising from the ashes of its destruction. A glass cone reminiscent of the original spire caps the void left by its absence. Further a system of scaffolding pixellates gradually as it encircles the cone creating a blurred silhouette of the spire visible across the Paris skyline. A cascade of green integrated with the scaffolding simulates the organic and ephemeral feel of the existing rose window.
Project4 years ago
Shiv Temple, designed by Sameep Padora & Associates, is a collaborative effort through a dialogue with the priest and the people from surrounding villages. Adhering to the planning logic of traditional temple architecture, the form of the temple chosen evokes, in memory, the traditional shikhara temple silhouette. Only embellishments integral to the essence of temple architecture in memory appear in the finished temple.
Pedagogy4 years ago
In these sessions of the workshop – Grasshopper as a Tool, students were given the introduction of GRASSHOPPER- a plug in of Rhino software.
Project4 years ago
Creek House, designed by Faulkner Architects, is a family retreat set amidst a volcanic boulder field in a pine and fir forest. The mass heavy house is designed as a long thin rectangle that faces the sun to maximize solar exposure during winter and minimize heat gain from the west and east in summer. A rectangular basin captures snow melt to create a protective and ephemeral pool of water around this most private area of the house.
Project4 years ago
Arnhem Central OV terminal, designed by UNStudio, features a dramatic twisting structural roof geometry, which enables column-free spans of up to 60m. Taking references from the continuous inside/outside surface of a Klein Bottle, UNStudio aimed to blur distinctions between the inside and outside of the terminal by continuing the urban landscape into the interior of the transfer hall.
Practice4 years ago
UNStudio is an international architectural design network, specializing in architecture, interior architecture, product design, urban development, and infrastructural projects. Over 270 staffs from 27 countries are spread throughout the network in a streamlined structure that enables us to spend less time organizing and more time designing and collaborating.
News4 years ago
Winners of the 2020 Phil Freelon Design Competition by Perkins and Will have been announced. Winning projects imagine unique co-living strategies to combat housing crises in America through case studies in New York, Los Angeles, and Denver.
Project4 years ago
Benziger Hospice Home, designed by Srijit Srinivas – ARCHITECTS, has a vision of providing free accommodation for cancer patients visiting local hospitals. The natural texture and color of brick, enhanced by the deliberate proportioning of spaces, and accentuated by the interplay of light and shadows (through brick louvers), endows the Lobby area with a sense of warmth and calmness, which is simultaneously welcoming and cathartic for patients.
