Posts Tagged as: Temperate Architecture

Round Hill Pavilions | Spatial Affairs Bureau

Round Hill Pavilions is a collection of new structures responds to existing markers and creates new ones in this building and landscape masterplan in Orange, Virginia.

Cortina | Heliotrope

Cortina is a modern Italian restaurant designed by Heliotrope Architects for James Beard-recognized chef Ethan Stowell. Located at the base of Two Union Square, one of Seattle’s most prominent commercial office towers, the restaurant occupies a long L-shaped space, with the lobby and bar in one leg, a dining lounge at the corner, and booth seating and private dining in the other leg.

Alaska Airlines Flagship Lounge | Graham Baba Architects

at SeaTac International Airport North Satellite

Alaska Airlines sought to transform the lounge typology by providing a warm, welcoming space where all guests could find refuge – to relax, work, refuel, and connect – a home-away-from-home with a sense of place deeply rooted in the Pacific Northwest.

Calçada House | Ren Ito Arq.

Calçada House is located in Vila de Paraíso in the north of Portugal. There were existing house from 18th century and several annex buildings with several trees in old manor with 5000m2.

Columbia Building | Sky Lab

The Columbia Building supports the City of Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services. Housing workspace, a visitor reception area, and public meeting spaces, the 11,640-square-foot building not only supports the engineering department of the wastewater treatment facility but also functions as an immersive educational experience, all integrated within a sustainable landscape.

Studio Dot Office | Studio Dot

Idealised and executed with the ultimate precision, Architect Anmol Arora and Architect Shubhit Khurana have achieved excellence in the design of their own workspace, which is at par with the quality they offer to their clients ensuring their confidence in the studio.

House in fontaínhas | fala

House in fontaínhas is structured within overlapping antagonistic spatial structures. The ground floor is conceived as one uninterrupted space defined by a free curved wall. It is a volatile room with only one corner and two continuous white surfaces opening up to the vivid garden.

Markthalle Salzburg | Smartvoll

The Markthalle Salzburg, located on the outskirts of Salzburg, once churned out tanks and materials for the war effort. Its rebirth as a market hall required two distinct aspects: embracing the industrial charm and reinterpreting market typology.

Aneto & Table Restaurante | Just an Architect

Located in REFER’s former railway warehouse, in the city of Peso da Régua, which once opened its doors to the Alto Douro Wine Region, the Aneto restaurant takes Wine as a connecting element for the proposed intervention.

Fireworks in white | fala

Fireworks in white designed by fala in Porto, Portugal. The project is a familiar exercise of fitting in ambiguous programs, correcting mistakes and introducing an insistent order. Almost pure interior, the space is an elaborate composition of fearless geometries.

The Klotski | Graham Baba Architects

The Klotski is a three-story, mixed-use infill building situated in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Close to downtown, the area is noted for its dynamic mix of commercial, manufacturing, and residential uses.

Apartamento na Almirante Reis | BALA atelier

Apartamento na Almirante Reis designed by BALA atelier in Lisboa, Portugal. The genesis of the rehabilitation intervention for this 90 m2 apartment, in addition to to counter the weak pre-existing conditions of habitability, efforts were also made to preserve the historical legacy of this constructive typology.

The Shop at The CAC | EskewDumezRipple

The Shop at The CAC is a comprehensive co-working development that is located on the third and forth floors of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in downtown New Orleans, one of New Orleans’ most important cultural institutions.

Six houses and a garden | fala

Two buildings with a similar appearance, one very long and another very short. Six houses – four identical and two exceptional – around one common garden, hidden inside a city block.

Trianglo Lounge Bar | Maden Group

Located in a newly developed part of the city that has become an important part of the urban structure in a very short time, TRIANGLO is an attractive point for a youthful and premium fashion audience.

Small house with a monumental shower | fala

Small house with a monumental shower designed by fala is a tall tower is standing in paradoxical independence, refusing to be serious, making a courageous formal statement. A monumental object for a non-monumental program.

Garden House | Austin Maynard Architects

Garden House was designed by Austin Maynard Architects in Melbourne, Australia to function off grid. The house is completely self-powered, all-electric with no connection to the gas network. Hot water, space heating and cooling, hydronic heating, pool heating – is all supplied by highly efficient heat pumps.

Casa em Santarém | dp Arquitectos

Casa em Santarém is located on the perimeter of an allotment, overlooking the countryside. It is organized with service area on the North side, social area in the center, and a bedroom area on the other end, all facing the generous patio with swimming pool.

Uneven house | fala

Uneven house designd by fala in Porto, Portugal is a ground floor shop and its basement were to be converted into an apartment. An extension in the back was demolished to provide a garden, from which the new house would become the plinth to a cheerless 1960’s housing block.

The Concrete Home | Dan and Hila Israelevitz Architects

The Concrete Home which brings together opposites, the combination of enclosing opacity with airy open spaces and the drama created by different masses and volumes is only part of this home by Hila and Dan Israelevitz, owners of Israelevitz Architects.

Folly for Sun and Sound | fala

Folly for sun and sound designed by fala is in Brussels, Belgium. The structure doesn’t exactly decide between being a stage, a room or a plaza. It is made of a series of plateaux and four façades with distinct characters.

Casa Martinez | BHY arquitectos

This project consists on the refurbishment and extension of a “Casa Chorizo”, a traditional housing typology that arose in Buenos Aires in the late 20th century, representative of the urban middle class and the immigration waves of the time.

House along a wall | fala

House along a wall designed by fala in Porto, Portugal. The program for a former garage of a housing block was kept in limbo: maybe an apartment, a shop, a cafe or an art gallery. A freely curved wall solves the existing spatial inconsistencies and creates one long continuous room connecting the street with the garden. The main living area and a set of potential secondary programs are separated by the wavy white surface and light flows freely through the living gallery.

The Beacon at South Market | EskewDumezRipple

The Beacon is a 172,000-square-foot, seven-story residential building that takes it’s inspiration from the city’s historic French Quarter courtyard buildings. In contrast to the typical residential courtyard block accessible only to the residents of the building, this courtyard opens directly onto Girod Street.

The Abbey Cronulla | AJH+

The Abbey Cronulla is located 300m from Shelley Beach. The project consists of an amalgamation of two lots containing a heritage listed community Church, Church support buildings and 2 dwellings sold by the Church establishment.

Xerolithi | Sinas Architects

The main focus of the Xerolithi design was to create a house that blends in its natural environment. An environment comprised of steep dirt and gravel slopes, dressed with scattered wild thorny bushes, and beautiful large rock formations.

Takenoyama House 3 | Tomoaki Uno Architects

Takenoyama House 3 is designed by Tomoaki Uno Architects in Aichi, Japan. It was very difficult to come up with a plan to take advantage of this location after resolving landslide structures, their laws and possible construction methods.

Spa pavilion | Smartvoll

The spa pavilion is located at the back of the grounds, across from the old villa. The slope from the main house is very slight—just enough to create a visual separation between the bathhouse and the turn-of-the-century villa.

House with a curved wall | Fala

House with a curved wall designed by Fala Architects is a project within an extremely low budget, the decrepit original construction was reset to the bare structural existence of its perimeter walls. The inner space was solved with the precise placement of a gently curved wall as a separation between the public and private programs under a new light roof.

Cassina Innovation House | Laurent Troost Architectures

The Cassina Innovation House is the newest digital technology center in Brazil and the inaugural landmark of the Manaus Digital Pole now under development in Manaus Historical Center. It is composed of several types of spaces to foster creativity and formal/informal meetings for the development of this new economy: multifunctional areas, lounges, meeting rooms, laboratories, training rooms, as well as a cafe / restaurant on the top floor with privileged views of the Historic Center and the Rio Negro.

Quintana Apartment | Taller David Dana Arquitectura

Quintana Apartment developed in a 263m2 space, where it was decided to opt for a design with contemporary accents that are responsible for creating a sophisticated and quality feeling.

Whidbey Island Farm Retreat | mwworks

Located on a rural site on Whidbey Island, the home tucks into the edge of a densely forested hillside out of respect for turn-of-the-century agricultural buildings located on this rural site, overlooking chicken sheds, a weathered red barn, cattle fields and a fishing pond.

House in Melides II | Aires Mateus

House in Melides II Breaks the program, veils of intimacy are created between the various spaces. A modern house with three small houses are drawn. The main construction shelters the kitchen, living room and master suite.

RISD North Hall | NADAAA

One of the most characteristic spaces of Providence is the RISD Beach with Pietro Belluschi’s perforated brick façade giving an abstract perforated front to the one public space that ties the Quad to the downtown sphere.

Mu Xin Art Museum | OLI Architecture PLLC

Mu Xin Art Museum, is not only inspired by the complexity of the artist’s work but also his writing which was deeply impacted by the consecutive imprisonment he experienced during the Cultural Revolution in the early 1970’s and his ultimate exiling to the West.

Sands Point Residence | HMA2 Architects

On a dramatic bluff overlooking Long Island Sound, an 8,000 square foot Sands Point Residencewelcomes family and friends to enjoy good views, good food, and good company.

Flash Battery Headquarters | Studio Bocchi

The new headquarters built by Studio Bocchi for Flash Battery in Sant’Ilario d’Enza, in the province of Reggio Emilia, in Northern Italy, support the young company in its rapid and lively growth.

WERK12 | MVRDV

The design of WERK12 by MVRDV combines a simple form, honest materials, and transparent façades. Users can move around the building in multiple ways: the design’s external circulation core on the building’s northeastern side is supplemented by 3.25-metre-wide terraces that surround each floor of the building.

Campo Alegre | Costa Lima Arquitectos

Campo Alegre is located on a collective housing building from the early 70s and oriented to the east, south and west, enjoying a remarkable sun exposure and a privileged view over the river.

Cork Oak House | Hugo Pereira Arquitetos

The objective of the Cork Oak House was the construction of a single family house on a plot of extraordinary morphological characteristics, which remained almost intact and unchanged.

House in Famalicao | Pedro Lima da Costa, Arquitectura

The organization of the House in Famalicao’s spaces developed from the street, with the pedestrian entrance, garage and kitchen, and reserving the rooms and living room for a more interior plan, with orientation mostly to the south.

The Lap Pool House | Aristides Dallas Architects

The Lap Pool House in Tinos, inspired by the cavities and ledges of the rocks, emerges from the natural landscape as a man-made cave, re-creating spatial points of exposure and introversion.

Marble Arch Hill | MVRDV

MVRDV’s proposal for Marble Arch Hill takes inspiration from the history of the site. Marble Arch once marked the corner of Hyde Park, but in the 1960s new roads were added that turned the arch into a traffic island, disconnected from the rest of the park.

A Hill Side House | Abramson Architects

The layered design of A Hill Side House caters to the homeowners’ need for a full-time residence and part-time wellness retreat. Supporting these goals, a “show garage” doubles as an open-air yoga studio and stepped pathways provide full access to distant parts of the steep site.

Camilo Apartment | Taller David Dana Arquitectura

Camilo Apartment is a residential project where the selection of materials and furniture broadens the user’s perception, in which lighting is not a separate element, but implies the spirit of the space.

Ecological house | Dan and Hila Israelevitz Architects

Ecological house, which is located in the northern part of Israel, is built on about 10000 square meters land, 3000 out of which has been processed for construction (the rest being agricultural land). The built area of the house spans across an area of about 500 m2 and includes 7 rooms.

Bradco | Em Paralelo

The Bradco Industrial Unit is located in the industrial area of Felgueiras, in the municipality of Castelo de Paiva. The company finds its genesis in the leather goods area, however over the years it has also expanded its activity to bracelets and in the leather goods area: belts, bags, briefcases, purses, wallets, shoes, etc.

Takahashi – Harb Loft and Library | Naomi Darling Architecture LLC

The Takahashi-Harb Loft and Library is an interior renovation and conversion of an existing ground floor walk-out basement and two-car garage into one-bedroom loft-style mother-in-law apartment and separate library workspace.

Balmoral House | Chrofi

The Balmoral House is located within the lower north-shore suburb of Balmoral. The site presents many difficulties being wedged shaped, on the low side of the street, hemmed in by two substantial existing houses and with just half the land area of its neighbours.

Lar Familiar | Paulo Moreira Architectures

Lar Familiar was renovated during the COVID-19 pandemic. This meant that the construction process had to be adapted for safety reasons, especially as the site had no outside space. In the hall, an area of transition from outdoors to indoors, a small sink and a shoe rack were installed to encourage new domestic habits.

Casa Ocoxal | A-001 Taller de Arquitectura

Casa Ocoxal sits in a forest neighboring the town of Valle de Bravo, approximately 160 kilometers away from Mexico City, in a piece of land of 9,000 m2 that works as a productive microsystem into which the house respectfully integrates itself.

Powell Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects

Occupying a compact site in South Yarra, Powell Street House 1930’s duplex comprised a ground floor and first floor apartment, each with its own external access. The owners wished to unite these two dwellings to form a single residence.

Inayoshi Office & House | TSC Architects

Inayoshi Office & House is a complex use building of office and housing in Nissin city, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The client is a construction company specializing in “wooden house” while long rooted in local.

Church Point House | Chrofi

Church Point House’s design responds to a steep one directional Western facing site overlooking Sydney’s Pittwater. A large sunken courtyard is cut into the escarpment at the rear of the dwelling, providing a meditative and calming outlook from adjoining spaces, a juxtaposition to the site’s expansive and sometimes extreme primary aspect. Transparency within the dwelling’s core provides an interconnectivity between these contrasting edges allowing the habitants to experience an ever-changing quality of light and atmosphere, whilst connecting to the landscape.

Wellness Hotel Sotelia | Enota

Wellness Hotel Sotelia fills the gap between the spa complex’s two existing hotels, which do not hide their different architectural origins. The new hotel consequently makes no attempt at referencing the characteristics of the surrounding structures but rather distances itself from the built environment and establishes a connection with the nature that surrounds it.

Paracaima | Perez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados

Casa Paracaima is a private residence in Mexico City. The 360m2 house consists of two concrete volumes in a 400 m2 site. As the location had a number of restrictions in its front and sides, we used those restrictions to shape the house and establish its orientation and the maximum amount of open areas in the plan.

L House | Alexander Symes Architect

The L-shaped house formed a new western entry to the property to curate the appreciation of the natural bushland setting as you enter the site. The low window-to-wall ratio on the west enabled a celebration of the sleek zincalume cladding.

The Bowery | AJH+

The Bowery addresses a gateway urban corner announcing the commencement of the retail & commercial precinct along Willoughby road and establishes the next evolution of considered buildings in the precinct.

Barril Restaurant | Paulo Merlini Arquitetos

With the problems well defined, Paulo Merlini Architects began by analyzing the corporate identity of the company, and quickly concluded that it should be designed so as to be able to transport the client to the gloomy environment of a wine cellar.

Steelform | Atelier d’Arquitectura Lopes da Costa

Steel Form consists of expanding the existing factory unit to the west and south, with the construction of a new pavilion and an administrative building.

Courtyard House for FABPREFAB | Chrofi

Courtyard House is a prefabricated, off grid, modern interpretation of the traditional Australian rural home, developed in collaboration with FABPREFAB. The verandah is enlarged to become an outdoor room, whilst a sliding screen to the rear of the dwelling allows flexibility between providing an intimate courtyard or opening up to the expansive landscape.

Villa G01 | Mask Architects

Öznur Pınar ÇER and Danilo PETTA, the founders of Mask Architects designed the “Villa G01” “Rock and Cave” special, unique luxury villa with panoramic sea view, located in one of the most exclusive areas of Northern Sardinia.

Casa Mais Linda | Leo Romano

Located in the Condominium Terras de São José, in Itu, São Paulo, the 1100m2 residence received from the owners the affectionate name of “The most beautiful house”. The wide sloping terrain protects a portion of native forest. In this way, the project appropriates these characteristics for the definition of the architectural party.

Artist Residence | Heliotrope Architects

When a young couple approached Heliotrope Architects and asked them to design a home with an art studio inside, all parties sat around the table contributing ideas – some atypical. The couple, an artist and an engineer, listed several additional criteria for their new home: a contemporary style, but not out of place with the rest of the Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Japanese Cuisine Tokiwa | Fumihiko Sano Studio

Japanese Cuisine Tokiwa is a new store reopened by a chef who has been operating a Japanese restaurant in Ginza for about 20 years. The interior design is a Sukiya style to reflect the chef’s personal fondness of tea ceremonies.

Regatta Foreshore Walk Pavilion | Day Bukh Architects

The Regatta Foreshore Walk project develops an existing public recreation space at the southern end of a foreshore reserve. The lakeside project presented an opportunity to redevelop a unique cultural and historical recreational area.

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.

Upside Down Akubra House | Alexander Symes Architect

Located in the middle of a bull paddock sits an off-grid home inspired by the iconic Australian Akubra hat. This inspiration came about at the first meeting with the clients on their bull farm, around 50mins south east of Tamworth.

Takenaka Clinic | TSC Architects

The site is located in the north part in Nagoya city, where is known a good residential area and has a large population. We set the large wood eaves extended from inside of the building to a tangent between the town that has traffic laden street.

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.

Urania | Studio 3LHD

Urania Cinema/Theatre is one of numerous old cinema buildings built in the city of Zagreb in the early 20th century. With the opening of new and modern multiplex theatres 20 years ago, the old Zagreb cinemas have gradually started to die out, and the buildings, neglected and empty, started to deteriorate. The ceilings are a special example as one of the first concrete structures with longitudinal repetitive narrow structural ribs from that period. That beautiful example of early concrete engineer technology was worth preserving, restoring and renovating.

Seoul Photographic Art Museum | MASK Architects

Turkish Architect Öznur Pınar Çer’s firm MASK Architects has designed The First Art and Photograpy Museum in the World which has taken a picture by itself in Seoul. Named ‘’ The First Camera Obscura Photographic Art Museum , we can think about this installation in a simple and fun way: it is the museum itself, with its roof-top camera and pinholes in exhibition rooms, who are taking a picture of the present skyline of Seoul and showing it to the visitor.

Lune de Sang Pavilion | Chrofi

Lune de Sang is a unique multi-generational venture that will see a former dairying property transformed into a sustainably-harvested forest, bringing back a pocket of subtropical rainforest to the Byron Bay hinterland.

InStone | Atelier DRK

In an early seventies building, Atelier DRK found an uncharacterized apartment, too compartmentalized and with little natural light. The challenge was to bring a contemporary language ensuring the comfort of modern living under controlled costs.

Green House Green | Anderman Architects

On one side of the Green House Green, Anderman Architects designed a vertical garden, high and narrow, rising from the basement up to the sky, And on the other side, the main garden. Horizontal and conventional. They planned the two walls dividing the house and the gardens as transparent walls

Villa Agava | Driss Kettani Architecte

Villa Agava is a semi-detached villa and is projected on a north-south facing plot and plays on a facade on a blind street by opening completely to the side and the garden to the south. The obligation to fit on the existing neighboring house and the rules of forced setbacks predefine the plan silhouette.

Grand Park Hotel Rovinj | Studio 3LHD

Grand Park Hotel Rovinj is a viewpoint for the most beautiful stage on the Adriatic. No matter where he is in the hotel, the guest gets the impression he is staying in a park overlooking Rovinj, St. Euphemia, the island of St. Catherine and the most beautiful sea sunset.

Maitland Riverlink | Chrofi

Maitland Riverlink acts as a kind of ‘public living room’ for the community, reactivating an unused part of town and drawing locals back to the river that is a fundamental part of Maitland’s heritage, whilst bringing tourists and visitors to the town.

Santo Tirso House | Hous3

From the road you can see the Santo Tirso House, on a small hill, with a dark silhouette in sharp contrast to its natural environment, offering a wide view over Santo Tirso. Its simple lines are the reinterpretation of the stereotype of the traditional Portuguese house, gable roof.

Uala Office | Hitzig Militello Arquitectos

Uala Office is organized in two large spaces joined together by a connecting corridor and a courtyard as a lung. Based on the programmatic requirements of the client and the inherent conditions of the space to intervene – a shed in the middle of Palermo – the decision was to segment the total surface according to needs of use.

Pachuca | Perez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados

The project Pachuca was developed in a lot where two apartments where projected as private houses. They wanted them to not have any neighbours, that’s why the lot is surrounded by three main axes, taking the longest one as reference.

Casa Rio | Paulo Merlini Arquitetos

Casa Rio results from the remodeling of an old farmhouse located in a yet very rural city. By disassembling the poor materials of the old facade we discovered that the house was actually made up of three small houses built according to the needs of the former owner.

Marsden Park Amenities | Chrofi

Marsden Park Amenities will provide change rooms for sports teams, a covered outdoor community space, a small kiosk and public toilet facilities for a new suburban community in Marsden Park.

Shenzhen Investment Office | The Office as a Project + Architects Collective

Shenzhen Investment Office is a workspace for a brand new team of stock traders and analysts, comprising of 4,000 SF of a single floor in a Shenzhen super-tall skyscraper. It was a collaboration between The Office as a Project and Architects Collective (Archix.co).

Tybold House | Landmak Architecture, JSC

TYBOLD HOUSE is located in a high-class urban area in Cau Giay district, Hanoi. It is a typical shophouse in the urban areas of Vietnam. This house has a facade which is designed in the same way as the others, therefore we cannot re-design it.

East Village Karrinyup | Hames Sharley

Hames Sharley is proud to have designed the first stage of the East Village Karrinyup residences for Blackburne. This important milestone starts to complete the picture of this $800 million mixed-use activity centre development with AMP.

TTSWTRS clothing buffet | Aisel architects

At the beginning of 2020, TTSWTRS showroom and a coffee shop opened in the historic quarter of Odesa. The new space was created on the site of office space. The architects needed to place a coffee shop with a bar, a pastry display case, and a small number of seats, as well as a showroom area with rails, a cash desk, and a large fitting room.

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.

CH house | ODDO Architects

CH house is designed for three family generation who wanted to create a harmonious space in the hectic city in order to enhance traditional family ’s life.The site of the house is a typical plot for long and narrow local tube houses, in case of CH house – 4,2 m width by 35 m length.

Leaf and Bean Coffee Co. Pavilion | Mask Architects

Mask Architects and Design has designed a sustainable pavilion nestled in Waldspielpark Heinrich-Kraft-Park, German Forest. Designed for Leaf & Bean Coffee Co. Company, Named `Leaf & Bean Coffee Co´ pavilion uses innovative, sustainable, and contemporary approaches to integrate nature with architecture.

Valley | MVRDV

Valley’s three peaks of varied heights reach up to a maximum of 100 meters at which the publicly accessible Sky- bar sits, spread out over the top two stories, offering panoramic views over Amsterdam.

Hishiya | Fumihiko Sano Studio

This project is a renovation of an 80 year old folk house built in a castle town founded by Akechi Mitsuhide, located in Fukuchiyama City, Kyoto.

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.

Folkart Blu hotel and residences | Dilekci Architects (DDA)

A special design language has been created for Folkart Blu hotel and residences by Dilekci Architects/ DDA. At the same time, while trying to manage the mass density given by the zoning permit by evaluating it together with environmental factors.

Villa Z | Siana Architecte

The Villa Z is a product of very strict city regulations, ones that ultimately confined the building into a 15m distance in a tight square. Their principal intention was to go out from the cube perception to answer to the client program.

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.

Edificio Turin | C2D

The Edificio Turin consists of four apartments, one per floor, each one having its own unique typology. It adds to the larger renovation of the city fabric through a subtle integration into a particularly historically-rich area.