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Terra Verde House, designed by Rishit Shroff Architects, explores the aesthetic character of the countryside and uses human intervention to nature as a backdrop to view the rural scenery. The house has been designed as a simple, strong silhouette to provide the setting to frame and enjoy the surroundings. The planning of the house is structured along a longitudinal axis running parallel to the length of the plot but also coinciding with the best sun orientation, winds and views.
Practice1 year ago
Rishit Shroff Architects, a firm based in Ahmedabad, has a design ideology based on sustainability, plenty of natural light, and wide spaces that connect the inside with the outside, as seen in the courtyards, patios, and overhanging terraces. The firm also specialises in Animal Habitat & Enclosure Designs, having designed Reptile Enclosures, Aquariums, Aviaries and Feline Enclosures for various zoos and nature parks across Gujarat.
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Atelier Gardens is an old film studio campus, redesigned by MVRDV, which preserves and enhances spatial diversity: a series of sustainable transformations that take advantage of the existing structures, rather than demolishing them, for maximising the potential of the spaces between. The film studio campus provides an ecologically focused landscape, like water permeability and biodiversity with rooftop gardens and green plazas.
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Achioté is a twin villa, designed by Formafatal, based on the genius loci – concept, oriented towards the endless view of the Pacific Ocean and the morphology of the terrain. The architecture of villas is deliberate with its thin and sharp lines in contrast to lush tropical vegetation, comprising materials like rammed earth and colors for perfectly coinciding with the surroundings.
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Twin Family House, designed by Manoj Patel Design Studio, has an evolving volume with unique spatial planning that caters to connections internally with foyers, balconies and common areas, having an interesting hierarchy of open, semi-open and closed spaces. Linear planning of these residences, mirrors from the central common stairs leading to each resident’s private space for staying. The living typology exhibits clusters of settlements in the built environment.
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Riverstone Holiday Home, designed by COLLAGE Architecture Studio, has a double height volume, which flows into the living, and dining area and subsequently into the outdoor decks. The volume opens up towards the Northeastern side to bring in ambient daylight and look out towards the river. The spaces, materials and details exist in tandem to form a synergy with the lush landscape and the flowing Kaveri.
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De-Hostel is an old Dexing Rice Factory, redesigned by Studio APL, preserving the old atmosphere and reimagining and recreating the new neighborhood relationship. This reuse and redesign of the old industrial buildings in Zhutian Township, Taiwan, shape the new courtyard housing space. The new exterior wall creates 51 voids with different functions such as; window openings, wind openings, light openings, plant openings and memory voids.
Practice1 year ago
Studio APL, a practice based in China, combines aspects such as environment, culture, and materiality to create unique possibilities and unified space. Studio explores the diverse development of modern spaces in the field of residential, commercial, and public spaces.
Compilation1 year ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the Project of the Week – Tainan Market | MVRDV. 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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Freedom Museum, designed by Architectural Studio ZJA, houses a Shaded Dome as its roof, being a distinctive and recognizable shape with its fluid form and skin, fits into the green, hilly landscape of Groesbeek, Netherlands. The shape of the Shaded Dome in the Museum is an elongated cupola of light fabric, alluding to the parachutes that filled the sky during Operation Market Garden, a recognizable symbol of liberation at the end of the second world war.
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Casa Forte is a house, designed by Pema Studio, composed of a complex balance between the creation of a dense and closed fortress and the reinterpretation of the typical patio house; looking for a protected oasis, in its intimate relationship with the sky. The volumetric design reveals the essential strategy of capturing light and ventilation for the space, inspired by Islamic culture.
Practice1 year ago
Pema Studio, an architectural firm based in Portugal, is a nonconformist architecture studio that believes in a creative approach that turns dreams into architecture through an inclusive interpretation. Studio also believes in sharing free of egos and in the value generated by constant collaborations.
Selected Academic Projects
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Casa Toquilla, designed by RAMA ESTUDIO, is a project in which the traditional construction technique is optimized to the maximum without neglecting quality or safety. The structure provides open, flexible and adaptable spaces with high thermal quality, built in renewable materials like bamboo and toquilla straw.
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Rosenthaler Strasse 43-45, designed by Tchoban Voss Architekten, is a modern, three-part, new building having varied, detailed façades. Building facades are a direct reference to the historical parcelling of the building site. The designed complex complements the surrounding neighbourhood’s mix of residential, commercial, and office functions with the appearance of distinct and disconnected works of architecture.
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Villa BW, designed by Mecanoo, has a building volume characterised by a double-curved roof coupled with a tiled expression of the facade. The twisting roof structure establishes a strong connection between the landscape and the house that translates into the expression of the facade and roof cladding with the application of a single natural material. The hue of these tiles forms a coherent whole, making a connection and blending the building into the transformative landscape.
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RED PLUS Studio, designed by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, is an adaptive reuse of the upper floor of an old factory building. The design approach reuses existing concrete structural framework forms to convert into flexible working spaces, with a series of existing skylights remaining a key source of natural light.
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Jadgal Elementary School, designed by Daaz Office, makes an effort to change the villagers’ intellectual and social layers, empower rural women, and create public participation through an educational institution & communities’ development center. The circular form of the schoolyard, surrounded by playful punctured walls, is arranged with the focal concept of education, meaning “learning together” in a democratic style.
Practice1 year ago
DAAZ Office, a practice based in Iran, was founded by Arash Aliabadi in 2018 with activities in the field of architecture and urban design. The Office works and researches different projects from furniture design to Architecture, Landscape and urban design.
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Pergola is a residential extension, designed by Takayuki Kuzushima and Associates, which floats softly in response to the mountain range, passing under the tall trees and embracing the shrubs, and blending in with the trees. The under-roof space is divided by walls and lined up with different spaces. These spaces are the approach to the building, a place to store farm equipment, a bench on the edge of a shaded area, a workspace, and a space for drying out in the sun.
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Love at First Sight is an old Tel Aviv house, redesigned by Studio Dulu, which creates a connection and continuity between old and new elements. The design concept is to minimize visual clutter and create a homogenous flow between the ground and top level through an appropriate design approach.
Practice1 year ago
Studio-dulu, a practice based in Israel, specialises in collaborations with architectural offices that are looking for an interior design department of interior experts – who research and breathe details. Studio works in a very creative way as a team, which is rewarding and brings excellence into practice.
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Future Artspace H, designed by AD Architecture, is a place with undefined possibilities, to allow for more effective use of space and support the commercial operations of the venue. The design creates interaction between interior and outside, architecture and environment, architecture and people, and produces a truly people-oriented art space. A simple building, featuring common steel structures and large white wall surfaces, ensures the perfect execution of minimalist aesthetics.
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House on the Hills, designed by INI Design Studio, is a beaming white mass that spans strikingly against the lush green backdrop of the hills, with a strong structural presence and a modernist architectural language. The white exterior of the horizontally disposed structure, punctuated by the black stone flooring along the balconies, sets off the natural hues of the plateau and valley in stark contrast.
Practice1 year ago
INI Design Studio, a practice based in Ahmedabad is a multi-disciplinary, independently owned, collaborative design practice. Studio works on planning, architecture, engineering and design-built services for many sectors that cut across the sustainable built environment.
