Posts Tagged as: Institutional Architecture

Daniels Building at One Spadina | NADAAA + Adamson Associates Architects

The Daniels Building at the University of Toronto embodies a holistic approach to urban design and sustainability. As the new home for the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, its purpose is to engage students and the broader community in dialogue about the built environment.

Harvard Artlab | Barkow Leibinger

Harvard University’s ArtLab, a cross-curriculum space for the arts, is located on the school’s Allston campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Designed to be curated and adapted by its users, the 9,000 square-foot space will be available to students, teachers, visiting artists, and the wider community.

Falaknuma mosque complex | Compartments4

Falaknuma mosque complex design proposal involved designing the shared common spaces in an apartment building in Sarkhej, Ahmedabad. The area is predominantly muslim dominated and the apartment was also specifically designed keeping that in mind.

Beaver Country Day School Research + Design Center | NADAAA

Beaver Country Day School is an independent school for grades 6-12 near Boston that boasts an innovative pedagogy based on student-centered design. A new Research + Design facility was commissioned to reflect the ambition of the faculty and students to expand the nature of their school.

The Momentary | Wheeler Kearns Architects

The Momentary is a new contemporary art space envisaged as a satellite to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Led by Chicago-based Wheeler Kearns A rchitects, the adaptive reuse project saw the 63,000-square-foot decommissioned cheese factory into a multidisciplinary space for visual, performing, and culinary artists.

Podcetrtek Sports Hall | Enota

The municipal sports hall is located next to the road leading into the small town of Podčetrtek with population around two thousand. To an extent, the appearance of the hall is a response to the role it has in the town, being the only large indoor venue.

Jinlong Prefab School | Crossboundaries

In 2018, Crossboundaries designed a 36-classroom school, to be located in the newly established Pingshan district in the Chinese metropolis Shenzhen. The venture was not only an attempt to maximize the potential of prefab architecture but also an opportunity to realize and to contribute to a project of significant social impact.

Technology School of Laayoune | Saad El Kabbaj + Driss Kettani + Siana Architects

The project of the Technology School of Laayoune in Morocco is part of the decentralization policy of universities centers in the different regions of the country. The program consists on teaching spaces, library, administrative offices, teacher’s offices and services.

Wall of knowledge | Tarik Zoubdi Architecte + Moubir Benchekroun Architect

“Wall of knowledge” is a construction project of a middle school in the city of El Jadida (100 km south of Casablanca). The school was built for the OCP employees’ children.

Taroudant University | Saad El Kabbaj + Driss Kettani + Mohamed Amine Siana Architects

The design of Taroudant University relies on a set of architectural and urban principles brought to life through a conception where the inward and the outward interpenetrate, the scales vary and where the user is one with architecture.The scale of the riad is blurred and diluted by a set of plots of various sizes, and a series of gardens that define different buildings.

Technology School of Guelmim | Saad El Kabbaj + Driss Ketani Architecte + Siana Architects

The project of the Technology School of Guelmim is part of the development policy of academic institutions in the southern regions of Morocco. The project consists of an amphitheater, classrooms, workshops, laboratories, administration, library, teacher’s offices and office staff housing.

Yingliang Stone Archive | Atelier Alter Architects

Yingliang Stone Archive project converts a storage space into a stone archive: to showcase the diversities of stone craft and to create a space for architects to contemplate their designs with stone.

WuliEpoch Culture Center | Atelier Alter Architects

WuliEpoch Culture Center attempts to create a triptych for architecture, landscape and interior design in the project. While the project is encompassed by the splendor Western Hills, the architecture and interior design put up an immersive show within the landscape.

National Institute for Faith Leadership | Archohm Consults

The breaking of the arch is synonymous with the opening of the mind from myths and traditions. The iconic entrance is celebrating just that; an arch in concrete removes the ‘key stone’ to liberate the form, allowing in light and space.

Museo Universitario del Chopo | TEN Arquitectos

Always having respect for the emblematic structure of the Chopo University Museum, the expansion took the form of a volume inside the original structure. The canopy remains intact and functions as a framework that wraps the added volume.

Museo Amparo | TEN Arquitectos

Museum Amparo has reaffirmed its position as a reference cultural center both in Puebla and in the rest of the country for its architectural avant-garde as a result of the careful renovation of its spaces.

Inside the box: Devise a classroom upgrade kit

The problem statement looks at a classroom upgrade kit that includes new furniture design, classroom layout methods, the inclusion of taught and DIY learning, with equipment that will help deliver a more robust and fun way of learning than today. The budget is not a constraint, but the size of the classroom is. Will it involve expert installation?

Naidi Community Hall | CAUKIN Studio

The design takes its form from theatre staging, crescendoing at its front facade, facing towards the centre of the village green.

Cankaya University Center For Congress And Culture | Erkal Architects

Cankaya University Center For Congress And Culture designed for a mid-size university campus, Congress and Culture Center is encircled by administrative facilities and situated on top of a central plot within the Çankaya University campus.

National Dance Theater | ZDA – Zoboki Design and Architecture

In an old industrial building that was once a flourishing hub for world-famous inventions, Hungarian dance has found a new home. The former Ganz factory, which had its heyday at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, was not just a symbol of Hungarian industry, but also a cradle for a generation of Hungarian scientists who lent extraordinary creative impetus to the world.

Institute of Quality Automotive – IQA | Firma Arquitetura

The main objective of the intervention was to transform a building in disuse of Neoclassical style built in the early 2000s into a building that aims at new occupation standards and a more contemporary and direct relationship with the city. The privileged location of the property, as it is located on a busy corner, results in a series of benefits that can be incorporated into the new IQA headquarters

Sandy Hook | Collaborative Architecture

The design of Sandy Hooks looks at Healing-Introspection-Community as the fundamental brief to be looked at as the architectural agenda of the Memorial. Fragile eco-system- Sustainability- Participative Building Process are the main agenda for implementation.

Live x Learn

The fundamental aspects of learning in the coming decades – with more open learning technology, this challenge engages with a skyscraper that serves as both – A University (Public) and Housing Tower (Private).

Hills Nursery | Essteam Design Services LLP

In 1979, a compassionate Parsi Couple, Shenaz and Hoshang Hilluwala founded Hills Nursery to offer to the Surat City, a playful mode of early year’s children education. In the forty years, it has grown into six successful schools with a vision to prepare children for the future and making education enjoyable with innovative methodologies.

Filux Lab | Workshop Diseño y Construcción

Filux Lab is the new art laboratory of the “International Festival of Lights Mexico – FILUX”. It works as an independent space destined to consolidate the “sense of artistic community”; it serves as a meeting point between artists, experts and the public.

Kindergarten Rodrigo Lara Bonilla | FP – Arquitectura

In order to integrate and dispose of nature in the educational spaces, the Kindergarten is implanted in the space available between the trees, allowing a large green area with trees to surround the project on all internal fronts.

UHP Synagogue | Equipo de Arquitectura

The project is the product of an international competition to restore an old construction that was used as a Synagogue at the Hebraic Union of Paraguay. The design includes locating two prisms, one as a threshold and the other as the holy enclosure. These two volumes converge at the union and they complement each other, structurally and morphologically.

Samaranch Memorial | Archiland

The Samaranch Memorial is designed to commemorate Samaranch and spread the Olympic spirit. It presents the image of the five rings of the Olympic Games. An infinity shaped building form contains a ramping loop and creates a natural flow sequence of entrance, exhibition, roof gardens and servicing functions in one generous gesture.

El Porvenir Children Center | Taller Sintesis

These vaulted pavilions house the classrooms that have a direct link with a series of courtyards. This allows adequate ventilation and lighting but also enables a direct relationship between the children and nature, giving the landscape a permanent presence in the educational spaces and enabling the effective integration of the classrooms with nature.

Meditation Space for Creation | JAM

At this meditation center the guests are freed from daily sensations and are prompted with various light experiences. Here, the human mind approaches the inner world of nothing.

BIT Sports Center in Beijing | Atelier Alter Architects

Located in Liangxiang, the satellite city of Beijing, the BIT Sports Center, along with the BIT Stadium, frame an entrance to the new BIT campus. The sports center adds about 15,692 square meters athletic space to the school, includes a 3000 seats basketball stadium, a 10 lanes swimming pool, a gymnasium, a martial art space, and rooms for boxing, taekwondo, table tennis, etc

Concrete phrontistery | Tarik Zoubdi Architecte & Mounir Benchekroun Architect

The OCP institute for socio-educational promotion is a high school project, emerged from a desire to provide a new teaching building, fit for the 21st century education, for the children of OCP group workers in El Jadida, following a growing number of primary and middle school students last few years.

Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum | Atelier Alter Architects

Over the years of stone mining, the manufacture has discovered numerous fossils. The manufacture decides to dedicate the headquarter building to a museum to tell the history of the fossils and the natural science of researching the fossil.

Mobiuseum | Kritikaa Architect

The metallisk hvit Möbius, meaning “metallic white” in Norwegian, resonates with the glowing white snow on top of the mountains and lake. Our proposal is conceived as a continuous never ending infinite Möbius loop, representing the concept of time where the visitor gets a feeling of “floating” in space.

Hacettepe University Museum And Centre For Biodiversity | Erkal Architects

Situated at the perimeter of the expanse of Hacettepe University’s Beytepe Campus in Ankara, Museum and Centre for Biodiversity building houses scientific research facilities and exhibition spaces devoted to scientific materials on the topic of biodiversity. Beytepe Campus is on the main development axis in Ankara, the westward highway to Eskişehir, which creates severe pressure of urbanization and land fragmentation.

Super Computer Centre | NAPUR Architects Ltd

“A world-level development was implemented in 2015 on the Kassai út campus of Debrecen University within the scope of the project entitled “Super Computing (HPC) in Higher Education”, as a result of collaboration between the National Information Infrastructure Development Institute (NIIFI) and the Debrecen University Faculties. The 400-m2, two-storey building includes a 150-m2 server room on the ground floor, and special electrical and engineering areas on the first floor.

DEM | NAPUR Architects Ltd.

The unique 300 m2 power engineering laboratory building realized in Hungary at the campus of the University of Debrecen explores and demonstrates the architectural and building power engineering connections of the climate change.

EB2/3 Taipas School | Pitagoras Group

The school is located near the center of Taipas village, in an already consolidated urban area and it was built from another existing school that was completely demolished.

Jublee School | Funktion Design

The design addresses the general requirements of a CBSE school keeping in view the existing structure. The entrance axis is shifted to create separate pedestrian entry, assembly point and bus bays. The doubly loaded corridors are lit and ventilated with skylights.

Benziger Hospice Home | Srijit Srinivas – Architects

The design remit was to deliver a place of temporary stay for cancer patients who sensitively address their special needs and emotional vulnerabilities. The built form is contained within a simple platonic geometry–aiming to be classy without the distracting clutter of accoutrements. The external façade utilizes a double-slanted louvered brickwork feature wall covering the Recreation Rooms across two floors and cantilevering over the ground floor, whilst poignantly showcasing the architectural possibilities of the humble brick.

Edificio Posead | Bloco Arquitetos

The building is of administrative headquarter of a distance education institution. All façade and services are provided in such way that connects interior with surrounding nature. The spaces between windows are used as cupboards and places for air conditioning machines in case of precise air conditioning.

[News] IIM Bodh Gaya to set up campus building inspired by Buddhist ideology

The new IIM campus, located in the sacred and historic and city of Bodhgaya, will be spread over 73 acres. The concept for the campus takes inspiration from Buddhist ideologies, evolving into a design which promotes a search for progression in the field of management studies, an official said on Saturday.