Clayton Korte

Clayton Korte is an architecture firm with interior design and brand services that creates rich places that respond to the local context, connect to their environment, highlight craft, and celebrate the human experience. Since 2005, we have offered a humanist approach to architecture and design from our offices in Austin and San Antonio. Clayton Korte’s portfolio is balanced with a mix of residential and commercial projects including restaurants, hotels, hospitality, retail, public, and institutional work.

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The Loft | Studio PKA

The Loft, designed by Studio PKA, is an office with a strong affinity for natural light that would be easily accessible by public transit and could also respond to its needs. It is a poetic expression wherein the existing structure’s creation and nature are allowed to take the reins and drive the design forward. Therefore, the need for a critical response to the inherited space, an honest reflection of the context, and a pragmatic functional design order would be true to the space at hand. The transformation of the space alludes to a journey through time – remembering the past, living the present and looking out to the future.

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Snowpeak Landstation Hakuba | Kengo Kuma and Associates

Snowpeak Landstation Hakuba, designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates, integrates a store, restaurant, café and outdoor activities to stimulate economic development of Hakuba Village in Nagano Prefecture. The space is divided into sections using the same type of fabric that is used for tarps, and wooden louvers with the bark left on are lined up along the walls in order to create space that make it feels like you are on an “outdoor outing” even though you are inside.

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Kengo Kuma and Associates

Kengo Kuma and Associates is an internationally renowned architectural practice based in Tokyo, Paris, Beijing, and Shanghai. Aiming for architecture that blends in with the local environment and culture, we are proposing a human-scale, gentle and soft design. In addition, through the search for new materials to replace concrete and iron, we are pursuing the ideal form of architecture after an industrialized society.

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Housing Complex Niigata III | Takuyahosokai

Housing Complex Niigata III, designed by Takuyahosokai, is an aggregate composed of 34 types of dwellings that cater to differing lifestyles. It is the relationship between inside and outside spaces in collective housing in an urbanized context. The relationship between the columns of the structural frame and the slab (in plan) allows the internal space to be divided softly, causing a gradual spatial change from the inside to the outside. They envisage this structure as archival architecture, inheriting fragments of the historical cityscape and expressing memories in the future.

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Office in Sakurazaka | Design Associates Nakamura

Office in Sakurazaka, designed by Design Associates Nakamura, has 2 different characters an open office with an atrium and a warm office surrounded by wood. An outdoor terrace with deep eaves welcomes people. ”One large roof” connects the office space and seminar room together with a semi-outdoor terrace to create a building where people can gather.

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Design Associates Nakamura

Design Associates Nakamura has keywords: “architecture using wood” and “architecture that harmonizes with nature.” They would like to propose architecture close to nature, unique and rich, comfortable, and unique to the area.

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Building in Context | A Chat with DCOOP Architects | Part 2

In this talk Quaid Doongerwala and Shilpa Ranade Talk about their practice, DCOOP Architects. DCOOP aims towards bridging the gap that exists between concerns of ‘pure’ design, the contingencies of execution, and sensitivity to the requirements of the user, to produce an environment that is at once contemporary and sustainable.

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Midway Point House | Cumulus Studio

Midway Point House, designed by Cumulus Studio, works within the ‘Tardis’ concept and prioritizes a sense of place, allowing water views and light to define the cliff-top living experience. The response seeks to address three key challenges: how to build within a tight building envelope’; how to provide privacy from the street while also capturing northern sun, and how to make the most of the western views while minimising glare and heat gain/loss.

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Printemps Haussmann Verticalite | UUfie

Printemps Haussmann Verticalite, designed by UUfie, is a new vertical circulation space in the renowned department store in Paris, France. The project was a part of the revitalization of Printemps Haussmann to introduce a circulation from the lower ground floor up to the 9th floor. The space features a delicate three-dimensional form based on a concept of a vertical dome, also called a veil. The progression up and down provides a different perspective and moments to experience the transformation of colors.

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Weekly Highlights 2021 #23

Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Rane Vidyalaya by Shanmugam Associates. 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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Painted Sky Residence | Kendle Design Collaborative

Painted Sky Residence, designed by Kendle Design Collaborative, is a home of modern simplicity, void of cliché ornament or stylistic language, a home that is as timeless as its natural desert surrounding. Our response was to organize the home about an enclosed courtyard. This traditional southwestern architype provides privacy and shelter from the elements while drawing light to the interior. Materials including natural field stone, earth-toned stucco, naturally weathered copper and cold-rolled steel forming a pleasing composition of color and form.

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Atic DT | FFWD Arquitectes

Atic DT, designed by FFWD Arquitectes, interlinks the spaces of the house with the terrace, achieving luminous and vibrant environments. Conceptually, it was necessary to flip the way of using spaces to stop giving the back to outer space. The house was sought to live in light, outdoor activity, and the magnificent views seen throughout the city. The project’s colors and materials palette is a risky and powerful ode to spring. The inclusion of vegetation in all the spaces completes this contemporary shelter to enjoy the city of Barcelona.

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FFWD Arquitectes

FFWD Arquitectes is a team of architects and interior designers who carry out all kinds of space design-related projects.

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The Northstar Nest | Shanmugam Associates

The Northstar Nest, designed by Shanmugam Associates, is a kindergarten campus that intends not to have sharp edges to make the building child-friendly. Focussing on sensory perception, colorful handmade cement tiles have been introduced in the classrooms and common areas. A child-friendly color palette, simple geometrical patterns on the pergolas in each floor, and simple building form have been intentionally planned to introduce colours, shapes and patterns to children using architecture as a learning medium.

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Viter House | Sergey Makhno Architects

Viter House, designed by Sergey Makhno Architects, was created in collaboration with the elements of nature and inspired by the winds. Its graceful monolith stands firmly on the ground, stretches to the sky, breathes along with the winds, and reminds us that the true essence is in harmony, and harmony is where the house is. The space was organized in a way for the couple to be comfortable alone, for the children to have a place to return with their own families, and for the guests to have a place to sleep, eat and rest.

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Rebelo House | Ren Ito Arq.

Rebelo House, designed Ren Ito Arq, is an apartment remodelation project that created visual connections between each space to feel the other member of family. Though the same design language was used for furniture, walls, and doors, proper details, illuminations and materials were used for each elements. It makes the design more human and accessible. An illumination that projects light for the ceiling and the table was installed above the dining table.

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Part 1 | Structures in Architecture, A PROCESS

In this interview Prof Gurdev elaborates on various teaching/learning methodologies for learning Structures under the title – Structures in Architecture, A Process. In this article, we present a summary of his talk with images from students’ works, done under mentorship of Prof Gurdev.

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