Architekt Maciej Franta
Architekt Maciej Franta is an architectural pactice based in Katowice, Poland.
Results Announced | Sunlight in Architecture
Archiol announced the result for competition “Sunlight in Architecture”
Green without changing your lifestyle
Architect Hiten Chavda talks about his take on sustainability in the Indian context, calling it Green- without changing your lifestyle. Issues of sustainability were raised long back in India, but he realized that if they were to be implemented, they had to be economical for Indian population. From this understanding emerged the Idea of Green- without changing your lifestyle. The talk is centered on this idea, and all of his work has been a quest to find the solutions to the problems that sustainability poses in an Indian lifestyle.
Sponsored
Understory at The Spheres | Graham Baba Architects
Understory at The Spheres, designed by Graham Baba Architects, is a multifunctional exhibit and visitor center created to tell the story of The Spheres, Amazon’s iconic and wholly unique insertion into the heart of Seattle. Arrayed around the perimeter of the space is a series of five displays, each providing a deep-dive into different aspects of The Spheres’ story, such as biophilia, the idea behind The Spheres, and the design and engineering of the buildings. Modular cubes are assembled into a variety of forms to display architectural models, three-dimensional interactives, and a changing array of small-scale plants.
AA House | HORMA Estudio
AA House, designed by HORMA Estudio, is a residence that aims to respond to a corner where a continuous elevation, without edges, is offered to be seen from all angles without prioritizing one look over another. Brick, vegetation and curves are the elements in charge of materializing a house that apparently it does not follow specific rhythms, but it is undoubtedly thought out and designed for its new inhabitants.
HORMA Estudio
HORMA is an architecture office that bases its practice on the development of custom architecture; fitted to each user, each place, each landscape and each context. Matter, geometry and light are the tools that allow us to give the space the character that makes it a unique atmosphere. The team is interested in thinking and working by hand, both in the studio and on the job, introducing experimentation as part of the development. The trajectory, mainly focused on the residential and multi-residential area, has allowed us to understand that each project must be unique.
Selected Interviews
Student Prize Winner Announced for CLT Induction in India – Design Competition
Aakar Design Private Ltd with the partnership of Mitsubishi announced the student prize winner and special mention of the competition workshop “CLT Induction-in India”.
Shades of Green | Live Interview with Architect Sanjay Prakash | India
“Sanjay Prakash, B. Arch., A.I.I.A., is an architect with a commitment to energy-conscious architecture, eco-friendly design, people’s participation in planning, music and production design. In this talk he points out that mainstream architecture, which stresses on code compliance, safety, and value for money, became green, with a stress on efficiency and substitution of fossil resources with renewable ones. He then goes on to explain how green is leading to sustainable (blue) architecture, which includes the concerns of sufficiency, equity, identity, and resilience, not covered by merely green architecture, with visual examples from Sanjay Prakash’s own experience over the last 40 years in the field.
Entrepreneurial Pathways to Sustainability | Live Interview with Keyur Sarda | India
Keyur Sarda, co-founder of Kesarjan Building Center, is a graduate of School of Building Science & Technology, CEPT university and exploring building materials is his passion. This talk is about his journey as an entrepreneur, more of learning from experiments, a commercial try given to main streaming the Appropriate Technologies.
Selected Projects
Integrating the Opposites | Live Interview with Dharmesh Jadeja | India
Over last 29 years, Dharmesh Jadeja has lived & worked in Auroville. This conversation aims to share experiences, thoughts and enquiries at his practice – Dustudio, and an opportunity to redefine the profession, by the process of unlearning, as well as relook at our own timeless traditions.
Dementia-Friendly Wayfinding System | Immortal
Dementia-Friendly Wayfinding System’s objective was to create a system that assists seniors and those afflicted with dementia in navigating around their neighbourhood safely and independently. This was achieved by formulating wayfinding strategies that support easy navigation between residential blocks and key amenities around the estates, especially within high-traffic zones.
Immortal
Immortal is an architectural design firm based in Singapore.
Selected Academic Projects
Akravi Disha | Within n Without Architects
Akravi Disha, designed by Within n Without Architects, is a penthouse with a brief seeking desired solution for a drama writer and chartered accountant. Being at an elevation of sixty feet above ground level, the possibility of exploring physical connections of sheltered indoors with the ground and landscape was another concern. Views, privacy, light quality and good ventilation were some of potential aspects onto the platter to work.
Within n Without Architects
Studio ‘Within N Without’ is an architectural firm that believes in its ideas and emphasizes evolving innovative architectural processes. The studio has extensive experience in varied-scale projects from private to public sector, including temples, masjid and gurudwara, Artist studio, Office buildings, residential, farmhouses, etc. They aim in dedication and passionately working in architecture and socially contribute towards society through architecture.
Result Announced | Metaphysics in Architecture Competition
Result announced for the competition “Metaphysics in Architecture” which was a 2021 Architecture Essay Competition, organized by Archiol.
Compilations
House COVE(R) | Touch Architect
House COVE(R), designed by Touch Architect, is a two-story single-detached house with a small curve-triangular land shape located at the corner. An extension shape is similar to a cove which parallels with the curve of the land, to use the space to its full potential. Double space between the stairs and skylight allows natural sunlight through downstairs, instead of creating vertical voids that lack privacy. Vertical aluminium trellis together with perforated metal are used to cover all cove, continuing to an existing house, to harmonize both buildings.
The Night Ministry | Wheeler Kearns Architects
The Night Ministry, designed by Wheeler Kearns Architects, provides an oasis for security, independence, and safety for young adults facing adversity. The new headquarters is located in the “Mural Building” – a prominent manufacturing building known for its large murals that cover the North, East, and South Elevations along a busy Chicago expressway. Three floors of the heavy-timber building are renovated to include “The Crib” – an overnight shelter, a serving kitchen and dining space, administrative offices, meeting rooms, and multi-purpose programming space for social services, job assistance, and social activities.
Result Announced | Sustainability in Architecture
Archiol announced winners of architecture writing competition “Sustainability in architecture”
Weekly Highlights 2021 #20
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – House in Estrela 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.
Bridge view | Kendle Design Collaborative
Bridge view, designed by Kendle Design Collaborative, is a family home with mountain and valley views similar to a hillside location. Part foyer, part gallery, the split-level entry hall acts as a social and spatial connector between formal and informal living spaces while reducing the perceived separation between levels. Millwork at the kitchen, as throughout the home, is an extension of the architecture and conceived as sculptural form as well as functional storage. The scale is modulated between cozy and dramatic via the inclusion of floating ceiling clouds and light coves that define the spaces below.
Marcomonde Shibuya | UUfie
Marcomonde Shibuya, designed by UUfie, represents the first permanent retail space for the Japanese fashion brand, Marcomonde. The apparel line is a fusion of culture and fashion. The space—composed of stairs, millwork, and floor—has been conceived as a free-standing, abstract, geometric sculpture. The overall design gives the appearance of a staircase, but this is an illusion, as the staircase leads nowhere. In relationship to the main building, the store creates an intriguing physical disorientation by suggesting a stairway leading to a secret place.
Uufie
Uufie is a multidisciplinary design practice with the philosophy to find a specific natural characteristic and strength within each project to bond people with the natural world. They believe that physical structures have the power to inspire wonderment and discovery but also a sense of connection to a natural world that sometimes feels as if it has slipped our grasp. At heart, the work aims to make architecture a sensory and visceral experience.
Winners Announced for CLT Induction in India – Design Competition
Aakar Design Private Ltd with the partnership of Mitsubishi announced the frst three winners of the competition workshop “CLT Induction-in India”.
Architecture Faculty in Tournai | Aires Mateus
Architecture Faculty in Tournai, designed by Aires Mateus, is positioned to bond the structures and define new external spaces. The project occupies the interior of a historical city block where buildings from different identities and periods coexist. There are two industrial buildings and a convent that has been used as a hospital. Inside, public functions are sheltered, operating not only as passage spaces and meeting places but also as a part of a new identity.
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