Abu Dhabi International Airport / KPF

Posted on febrero 9, 2012 by socializarq

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The new Midfield Terminal Complex at Abu Dhabi International Airport was just approved by the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi. Within master plan, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), the terminal is conceived as a gateway to the city. The design creates large, unimpeded internal zones that will enhance the passenger experience, and can accommodate long?term adaptability to industry demands. More images and architects’ description after the break.

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With ground works already commenced on site, a contractor will now be appointed to commence work on the construction of the terminal complex. The decision to approve the terminal complex is critical to consolidate Abu Dhabi’s position as a transport hub and tourist destination. Other approved schemes, such as the cultural projects on Saadiyat Island, are also integral in this strategy. The architects are excited by the approval, which enables them to move forward in realizing this important piece of infrastructure. The terminal complex is designed to form part of a memorable experience for the millions passengers who will use it each year.

Courtesy of KPF

Uniquely engineered, long?span arches support a soaring roof and reach 50 meters at their highest point. Conversely, the internal scale of the departure hall endows the building with an openness that allows for meaningful connectivity between the outdoor landscaping and the indoor civic space. The terminal complex is designed to serve Abu Dhabi and Etihad Airways well into the 21st century and act as a key driver for the UAE’s economy and growth for decades to come.”

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The Midfield Terminal Complex is integral to Plan Abu Dhabi 2030, a framework for the Emirate’s future development and projected population growth. The ultimate capacity will exceed 50 million travelers and 2 million tons of cargo per year.

Abu Dhabi International Airport / KPF originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 08 Feb 2012.

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Le Connestable / Jean Paul Viguier Architecture

Posted on febrero 7, 2012 by socializarq

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Architect: Jean Paul Viguier Architecture
Location: ZAC de Bonne, Grenoble, France
Contractor: Nexity / Vinci Immobilier
Architect of operations: Tomasini Design
Technical Design Engineering: IBSE ( structure, VRD), GECC AICC (fluides) / Adret ( HQE)
Project Surface Area: 12 100 sq.m . net
Project Date: 2011
Cost: 20 M € HT
Photographs: Renaud Chaignet

Redevelopment of the former De Bonne barracks was an important step int he drive to launch sustainable housing in France. Originally designed to extend the city centre towards the Grands Boulevards, the estate combines social diversity and multiple functions – housing, retail space, amenities and parks, with easy access and environmental quality. Its carbon footprint – building insulated on the outside (for this building for example) equivalent to the energy-efficient building (BBC) standard, is several years ahead of existing rules in France. The project of urban redevelopment won the 2009 Grand Prix National for eco-neighbourhoods sponsored by the Ministry of Planning Sustainable Development.

122 housings, completed in 2011

This building comprises four blocks surrounding an internal park visible from the streets through vertical openings between the blocks. There are seven storeys of apartments with commercial activities at ground-floor level

Five fundamental points orientated the conception of the project : environmental quality, comfort, architectural and urban quality, the treatment of the external spaces, and the modernity of the architecture. As a result, the study of the compact nature and depth of building led to proposing three principle apartment types:

TYPE 1 – TYPICAL FLOOR LEVEL WITH HANGING GARDEN

The street-facing apartments between first- and fifth-floor levels open on to the exterior through the temporal space of a miniature garden and wooden terrace area ( in the style of a Japanese garden ) enclosed behind a series of glazed screens. This typology provides a system which is both efficient in climatic and acoustic terms and which creates a vibrant and animated street facade; the articulation of the brise-soleils being dependant on the individual choice, usage and comfort.

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TYPE 2 – DUPLEX OVERLOOKING INTERNAL GARDEN

Duplex apartments are organised over 4 floor levels around the internal garden. The facades open on to the landscaping through loggias cantilevered over the gardens or through large glazed bays set within the building line. Through these double-height glazed openings, the landscaping is enabled to penetrate visually within the living areas. The whole at a domestic scale evoking the image of a human community with common values.

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TYPE 3 – ROOFTOP VILLA

The apartments on the last two levels are treated as large single-storey villas, leading off landscaped patios. Transversal voids, isolate these apartments from each other and imbue them with the status of individual houses. The roofs of the upper-level villas are shaped to allow a higher ceiling height for the living areas and provide views towards the mountain ranges of the Vercors, the Chartreuse and the Belle Donne.

Le Connestable / Jean Paul Viguier Architecture originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 07 Feb 2012.

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Lik House / Satoru Hirota Architects

Posted on febrero 3, 2012 by socializarq

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Architect: Satoru Hirota Architects – Satoru Hirota
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Client: Private
Program: Single family house
Structural Design: nieda+hisaeda architects / Taizen Nieda+Taizo Komatsu
Contractor: Eiger Co. Ltd, / Noriaki Fujii+Masakazu Sasaki+Koji Misaki
Site Area: 294.90 sqm
Built-up Area: 108.21 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Satoru Hirota Architects

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Lik house is located in the place which went into the residential section from the business district. It was rebuilding in the land in which it was born and the client grew up. It was expected of the residence with a feeling of a resort which can be relaxed, securing privacy, since medium-rise collective housing is also scattered around besides the single-family house of a low layer.

Although it was a site comparatively calm as a residential section in the city of Tokyo, having considered balance with a surrounding residence, it was thought that not much big volume was not suitable. Three small common stores have been mostly arranged along a site boundary, and the residual part made by it became the exterior space whose character is different.

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Each volume made wall thickness the shape of a tube of the monocoque by the comparatively thin concrete of 150-mm thickness so that the presence of a building might not become superfluous too much, and so that the boundary between an inside and the exterior might continue vaguely. While slender one-room space is sometimes bent, the president of a university amounts to about 50m continuously. It is dotted in space like this tunnel as a unit with a small function called a kitchen wine cellar toilet closet.

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Tasting a peculiar feeling of a trip by diffusion of a soft light, or change of a field of view, if it is wandering about the inside and outside of the building freely by the purpose and feeling at that time — it becomes.

Lik House / Satoru Hirota Architects originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 02 Feb 2012.

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Flashback: Posbank Pavilion / de architectegroep, rijnboutt ruijssenaars hendriks van gamerenmastenbroek bv

Posted on febrero 2, 2012 by socializarq

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Architect: de architectegroep, rijnboutt ruijssenaars hendriks van gamerenmastenbroek bv
Location: National Park Veluwe Zoom, Rheden, The Netherlands
Project Design: Bjarne Mastenbroek [now SeARCH]
Assistants: Geert Vennix, Alexandra Bonazzi, Willmar Groenendijk, Mark Sloof, Pien Linssen, Michael Davis
Client: Vereniging Natuurmonumenten ’s-Gravezand
Contractor: BAM utiliteitsbouw, Arnhem
Project Area: 640 sqm
Photographs: Christian Richters

The aim was to make this tea house a model of energy efficiency and at the same time completely transparent to the surrounding natural environment. The pavilion lies at the end of a range of hills formed in the last ice age, when the earth was pushed more than 100 metres above see level (quite an achievement by Dutch standards). From the entrance the floor rises in a continuous spiral that wraps itself around a group of trees and cantilevers over 14 metres. The construction, enabling this cantilever, is made out of steel for tension forces and out of unprocessed solid oak for pressure forces. At the most pivotal point a big moraine supports the construction.

The building emphasises the ‘value and power’ of natural resources and demonstrates continued dominance of nature over culture. At the same time, what is left of nature can’t be experienced anymore without cultural intervention. We can intervene by buying land for conservation, as the Dutch Nature Conservancy continues to do. A much more important challenge is to change human behaviour – by raising awareness of both the power and vulnerability of nature through different media, including the (at first impression) dichotomous media of building.

Environmental Concept

The sustainable aspects of the Posbank pavilion can be recognized in both the building’s material selection and its use of energy. With regard to the choice of materials we have tried to be environmentally friendly. Concrete, plaster based on natural stone granulates, sheeps wool for insulation, sustainably produced woods (no hard woods), columns of (European) oak tree trunks, steel trusses easily recyclable after demolition, a vegetation roof and an accacia parquet for the restaurant floor are the materials used. The insulation underground is partly provided by expanded clay pebbles (as found in hydroculture potted plants).

The building is also characterised by its efficient use of energy. Solar panels are provided on the roof to power the hot water system. A heat pump is used to heat the water for both the underfloor and air heating systems. Water at a temperature of 8 degrees Celsius is pumped up from a depth of 120 meters before being cooled to 6 degrees and returned back to the ground. With this temperature difference and the large amounts of water used, enough energy is generated to heat the building. Furthermore, there is no active cooling system necessary. The large sliding doors in the facade provide ventilation and cooling and the grass roof absorbs a significant amount of the heat generated in hot weather. The glass facades are finished with a heat reflectant coating to further reduce solar gain. Rainwater is accumulated on the roof and stored for use in the water closets. Some of this collected rainwater flows over the indoor rock formation near the entrance to make the external climatological conditions perceivable inside.

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Flashback: Posbank Pavilion / de architectegroep, rijnboutt ruijssenaars hendriks van gamerenmastenbroek bv originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 02 Feb 2012.

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Farm House In Dutch Betuwe / reSET architecture

Posted on febrero 2, 2012 by socializarq

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Architect: reSET architecture
Location: Betuwe, The Netherlands
Project Team: Theo Mathijssen (architect), Pieter Bardoel
Floor Area (sqm): 280 sqm
Completion: 2011
Contractor: Rosmalenbouw
Photographs: Huub Smits

The office ‘reSET architecture’ designed the renovation and extension of a small decaying farmhouse with a beautiful apple orchard, located in an idyllic location in the Dutch Betuwe region. The simplicity and sobriety of the farmhouse is revealing much about life in the past in this area and how a peasant family and their livestock must have lived here under one roof. This narrative quality does not make the building a monument which must be preserved as it is. It’s the self-evident presence in its surroundings that make the farmhouse distinctive and worth preserving. Therefore the design strategy for the renovation of the derelict farmhouse aimes to maximise the connection with the landscape, direct and metaphorical.

A new annex is placed in the second line, behind the existing farmhouse, inferior in height but with a strong presence, providing a backdrop for the farmhouse. In its updated context the old building becomes more prominent in its surroundings. The contrast in architecture between the farmhouse and its new added wing results in an ambiguous synergy. The character of the separate elements is easy to read yet this does not mean their relationship is simple: recognize new changes to the old farm and local historical references to elements in the new volume provide a multiple relationship between the two parts of the whole. The two main volumes are clearly recognizable, old and new, but in function, detailing and materials linked.

In function the differences reinforce each other. The annex generates space for a redistribution of programme to the most appropriate place. Two different housing archetypes are combined; a landscape-oriented ‘loft-like’ open-plan living space and a more private plan, arranged in rooms, in the existing farmhouse. In both cases, the openings in the wall are arranged in a way that they provide optimum views of the surrounding landscape. In the old building these are just small peepholes and in the new section large windows provide a clear visual connection with the orchard. The facades of the extension have an identical structure, there is a steel base and top edge separated by a glass facade or timber infill. The black wooden slats infill refer to the traditional barn facades in the region. The wooden infill has a predetermined pattern with slats of different heights so that the rural character gets an elegant refinement.

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This renovation clearly shows that it is possible to reuse a derelict farmhouse and preserve it well without loss of its original rural character. Simultaneously the updated ensemble is enhanced it with a bold contemporary architecture that creates additional qualities fitting today’s living standards and expressing the mindset of the new residents.

Farm House In Dutch Betuwe / reSET architecture originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 01 Feb 2012.

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Linnaeusborg, Centre for Life Sciences / Rudy Uytenhaak Architectenbureau

Posted on enero 27, 2012 by socializarq

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Architect: Rudy Uytenhaak Architectenbureau bv
Location: Nijenborg 7, Groningen, the Netherlands
Client: Property and Investment Projects, University of Groningen
Contractor: Sternike Partnership (Strukton, Voortman, GTI)
Project Area: 36,000 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Rudy Uytenhaak Architectenbureau

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‘Linnaeusborg’ is the new building for the Centre for Life Sciences of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Groningen. The design forms a component of the WEST8 urban development plan, in which Zernike College will be transformed from a technocratic outpost of the university into an Arcadian campus in a leafy setting. The building is situated on the eastern periphery of the Zernike complex, directly adjacent to the moat and the nature area beyond. Housing for animals is situated on the north side, with greenhouses and test beds to the south.

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In relation to the extensive project as a whole, Linnaeusborg is a functionally determined building that, while it is large in scale, does not form an impenetrable mass. It opens up onto the campus, and is transparent and logical in its structure. The volume can be interpreted as a body that rises from the ground and partly vanishes in the perspective and the sloping ground level. The sightlines accentuate the open space rather than the mass of the building. A ‘gate’ effect means that one looks through the building rather than at it. The three research fields of the Centre for Life Sciences are housed in two wings and a bridge that together form the upper part of the building. From the ground floor arises a zoology wing connected with the animal housing. The south wing, linked with the glasshouses, is dedicated to botany. Between them, on the building’s upper floors, the wings are ‘bridged’ by the microbiology and biotechnology departments.

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Interaction, dynamism, flexibility. The basic principles for the internal organisation of the building are interaction, dynamism and flexibility. The upper part of the building is zoned, with laboratories and offices located in two facing areas. The efficiency and flexibility of this model are enhanced by the addition of a third zone incorporating a range of ancillary areas. Because ‘corridors’ are important in places where people work together, it is beneficial to construct the building in such a way that users can traverse it through a variety of circuits. With the addition of open areas and lateral connections in the centre of the relatively deep wings, vertical circuits between the storeys are also created.

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Light from above through the open areas and views of the sky, ground or water connect the interiors of the corridors with the outside world. The mix of laboratories, ancillary areas and offices in combination with the spatial and functional qualities of the circuits results in a practical, light and dynamic whole that is highly efficient in both architectural and technical terms. In this way Linnaeusborg expresses the relationship between form and context, the building and the campus, the landscape and the water, hospitality and collaboration.

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A sustainable building – ample space with relatively small exterior walls Linnaeusborg scores high on sustainability criteria. The building is compact, with a very favourable exterior wall to floor ratio, and it is sustainable in terms of materials used and energy consumption. Flexible use through consistently applied floor plan zoning and installations also make the building future-proof in terms of its usage.

Linnaeusborg, Centre for Life Sciences / Rudy Uytenhaak Architectenbureau originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 27 Jan 2012.

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Spa House / Metropolis Design

Posted on enero 23, 2012 by socializarq

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Architect: Metropolis Design
Location: Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa
Project Team: Jon Jacobson, Jenny Bath, Shani Schabort
Client: Cape Dream Stay
Structural Engineer: Sutherland and Associates-Michael Bennet, Justin Arendse
Contractor: Batir Construction
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Metropolis Design

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Building: A multi-functional building with residential, recreational and spa facilities, annexed to a larger residence.
Spa House: Mountainside home integrated into its powerful natural surroundings
Set on the mountainside on the urban edge of Hout Bay, overlooking the bay and harbour, surrounded by weathered sandstone formative. The primary design intention was to integrate the building with the powerful landscape and to derive its poetics from the qualities of its surroundings. The Spa House is separated from the principal residence by a berm, and is connected to it by foot paths.

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The brief called for a place of entertainment and relaxation both for the client and his occasional guests, who would also be accommodated there. It incorporates swimming pools, guest accommodation, spa facilities and general living and poolside areas. The house is conceived of as a hovering set of elements, suspended over a large waterscape, which forms an extended terrace on the mountainside.

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Water constitutes the primary experience of the building. The floor planes are arranged to provide contrasting experiences of water, and the underwater spa with large viewing windows into the pool has a sense of stillness and mystery. The guest accommodation block hovers dramatically over the water and projects into space towards the mountain and sea. The dining area is submerged below water level, and pool decks are arranged as islands in a sea of water, connected by a bridge.

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The building masses are arranged in a dynamic composition, across and counter to the contours of the landscape. The building acts as a windbreak, protecting the pool from the south-easterly winds raking down the mountainside in summer. The ground floor opens up entirely to the landscape and the interior and exterior finishes are continuous, to minimise the distinction between inside and outside and enhance the experience of the building as a light platform in a vast landscape. Formally, the building comprises a number of separate sculptural forms in a dynamic composition. The base of the building, incorporating pools, relaxation rooms and guest accommodation is entirely of concrete. The superstructure is of steel construction, which is clad in afromosia shiplap boards on timber studwork.

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Spa House / Metropolis Design originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 23 Jan 2012.

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K3 House / Bruce Stafford Architects

Posted on enero 23, 2012 by socializarq

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Architect: Bruce Stafford Architects
Location: Sydney, Australia
Project Team: Bruce Stafford, Anna Antoniades, Rachel Kayode
Structural Engineer: Northern Beaches Consulting Engineers
Landscaping Consultant: Nicholas Bray Landscapes & Richard Allen Landscapes
Contractor: Horizon Habitats
Quantity Surveyor: Heymann-Cohen
Photographs: Karl Beath

This dramatic renovation centers around a spacious internal courtyard defined by natural rock face and lush vegetation. Large sliding glass doors in the main living area enable a seamless flow between inside and outside.

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The living areas also have the added benefit of glazing on the north façade, which opens up the house to the view. The master suite pavilion, perched on the highest portion of the rock face, has been designed as a sanctuary for the parents, whilst maintaining a bird’s eye view over the living areas.