Project5 months ago
Secure Sanand Factory, designed by Studio Saar, is an architectural project that creates an uplifting work environment and promotes staff wellbeing while reducing energy. The buildings in the masterplan feature distinctive sawtooth façades that reference early industrial architecture, as well as a playful recreation hub with a functional appearance of the manufacturing and utility buildings.
Practice5 months ago
Studio Saar is an architecture practice that works with the aim to create sustainable solutions for society, achieved through cross-cultural sharing of emerging ideas, methodologies, and technologies. The studio’s approach interprets vernacular traditions through a contemporary lens to deliver innovative, relevant, and beautiful design solutions across a range of typologies.
Project5 months ago
Shenzhen 31 by Wuhan 101 Design is an interior design project that blends the qualities of homes—characterized by coziness, serenity, and privacy—with the features of hotels—involving a sense of grandeur, luxury, and ceremony as well as the functionality for socializing—to create a new kind of living environment. Based on a deep understanding of the demands of urban elites, the designers produced a classic design that embodies serenity, coziness, enrichment, and privacy.
Project5 months ago
The architectural project Muraba Residences, designed by RCR Arquitectes, is a quality residential complex organized with a taut, vibrant aspect to its concept. With the aim for each unit and the complex to share the individual and the collective, narrow units are arranged in a z-shape plan. Each unit looks seaward, prow-like as a complex, and prow-like as a unit, leaving slits and air to join the various components.
Practice5 months ago
RCR Arquitectes is a practice that is not just limited to architecture as a discipline but also integrates landscape, design, art, and thought. It is also a transversal laboratory for ideas and a cultural space. The strength of RCR’s architecture lies in its ability to transcend its roots with a universal language resulting from a profound search for the essential. This architecture, born of shared creativity, refers to relational values and processes in all senses.
Project5 months ago
Tour & Taxis Lake Side by MVRDV is a mixed use architectural project that comprises a collection of varying building profiles and heights that step up to a denser, more lively neighbourhood, while also maintaining views and a high proportion of green space. The site offers a wide range of workspaces and venues for conferences and events, plus a nine-hectare park that creates a car-free and communal neighbourhood forming a bridge to the city.
Project5 months ago
Wild Back by Pig Design is an interior design project that strives to establish an unspoiled natural haven within the urban landscape and seeks to make necessary adjustments to the overly refined and polished aspects of modern living. The wilderness represents an unaltered state, showcasing the true essence of nature. The project emphasizes the innate human desire to connect with nature and cohabitation.
Practice5 months ago
Pig Design is an architectural design studio founded in 2015, based in Hangzhou. The studio conceives spatial structures in a way similar to literary creation, emphasizes the practical value of art in design applications, and opposes the free breeding of conventional aesthetics in space.
Article5 months ago
Building a new home gives you almost unlimited freedom to create a space you’ll love for decades. That comes with an additional challenge though – when the sky’s the limit , what should you include in your building? The article elaborates on some of the most popular new build features and how they can make a difference to your new home!
Project5 months ago
Salem Public Library Renovation by Hacker Architects focuses on a community-oriented vision and centers the experience of patrons and staff. The vision was to create a space that is welcoming, safe, and flexible while enriching a connection between people and their community. The final design is a large, fortress-like building, transforming an inward-facing brutalist-era building into a bright, voluminous space that invites the community in.
Project5 months ago
NR Pharmacy by Esquissos – Arquitectura e Consultoria is an architectural expansion with a contemporary and linear design and simple geometry. The original building demarcates itself from the expansion, bringing back the original construction to the urban imaginary of the place. The intervention also focuses on rebuilding the pre-existing façade and preserving the original architectural elements.
Project5 months ago
Mo Jasmine by LDH Architectural Design Firm creates a space that reflects the beauty and ambiance of jasmine with a meticulous design language. LDH Design places its focus on multiple aspects, including the spatial impression, the experiential journey within the space, and the overall comfort experienced during moments of relaxation. It creates an environment where one feels as if surrounded by the scent of flowers, leading to a sense of comfort, relaxation, and joy.
Selected Academic Projects
Project5 months ago
Aumann Japanese cuisine by Funun Lab is an interior design project that seamlessly integrates food and culture through the design of spatial structure, materials, and scenes to create a unique space. Instead of restoring the cultural icon directly, its design contains a contemporary silhouette formed by minimalistic lines. With just a few strokes, it evokes a serene and ethereal atmosphere.
Project5 months ago
Wilson Residence by Entre Quatre Murs is an interior design project for a home, focusing on softness, simplicity, brightness, and uniformity. The project consists of the complete renovation of a small townhouse with a simple, functional approach to space optimisation, the use of custom-made cabinetry in each room, and a soft, luminous materiality, which played a pivotal role in shaping the identity of the house.
Practice5 months ago
Entre Quatre Murs is a design and interior architecture firm whose primary goal is to enhance the comfort of their clients’ lives, to evoke deep emotions, and to translate their clients’ identities into spaces that truly reflect them. Using a human-centered and collaborative approach, combined with meticulous attention to detail and an unwavering quest for the best resources available on the market, the EQM team consistently creates spaces imbued with a sense of well-being and authenticity.
Project5 months ago
Laguna House by Tetro Arquitetura was designed as a response to the interpretation of its context, with a sensitive and subjective reading of the site and the needs of the people who will inhabit the space. To enhance and explore the view, and to promote necessary protection from direct sunlight on openings facing West, the house features a large cantilevered slab, which serves as a shield to control solar incidence.
Project5 months ago
The architecture project Cool Shed by Vaissnavi Shukl occupies a small amount of land and creates intimate spaces with views of the lake, garden, and plantations while taking into account the meticulously maintained vegetation surrounding the site. The project was built as a load-bearing structure with brick masonry and exposed RCC whose textures blend in with the natural setting.
Practice5 months ago
Vaissnavi Shukl is an architecture practice that works with the goal of creating new contours of living that integrate the local culture through architecture. Currently championed by an all-women team, the practice works as a tight-knit family that draws upon the strength of its collaborators and approaches architecture through the lens of tradition, comfort, and sustainability.
Compilation5 months ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the Project of the Week – Nha Be House | Tropical Space. 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.
Project5 months ago
‘The Loop’ designed by Alexis Dornier is a residence that breaks free from conventional living and embraces the spirit of freedom in the lush jungle. The project draws inspiration from the beauty of nature and challenges architectural norms, with its design concept taking shape as a mesmerizing figure 8 spiral, offering continuous fluid movement and ever-changing vantage points.
Project5 months ago
‘Nowsee’ by Informal Design is an interior design project featuring a retail space that is harmonious and concise, with an open vibe and flexible layout. Irregular modular units combined with few walls, structural columns and low display racks create an open space realm for daily life. The fluid circulations allow people to explore freely throughout the multi-layered space.
Practice5 months ago
Informal Design is an architecture and interior design practice advocating a creative artistic atmosphere with the spirit of independence and innovation. Founded in 2018, the company has a young design team full of inspiration, vision, and creativity. With many years of design experience, Informal Design has rich design experience.
Project5 months ago
Pingüino House by Estudio Galera is a project that seeks to respond to complex and changing demands. The residence explores contemporary aesthetics while suggesting certain references to the history of the place. This is a house that ‘proposes’ rather than ‘imposes’ uses and that changes according to the needs of the user, in times where the pace of social transformations far exceeds the building’s shelf life.
Project5 months ago
Owyang House by Swatt Miers Architects features carefully designed landscape paths, gardens, and interior spaces with abundant natural light. The interiors of the house are aligned with its exteriors, with glass walls connecting to beautiful gardens. The ground floor level includes all of the ‘public’ spaces while the upper level includes an office and guest bedrooms in two wings connected by a floating bridge.