Block 3 / ZZDP Architecten

Posted on mayo 14, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: ZZDP Architecten
Location: Almere Buiten, The Netherlands
Architects In Charge: Joris Deur, Adam Smit
Project Team: Lysann Theiler, Jeroen Nieuwenhuizen, Ramon Gianotten
Roofscape Design: Buro Sant en Co.
Area: 23,300 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of ZZDP Architecten

Through the last few years the city of Almere has undergone through a urban renewal. The masterplan for Almere Buiten consists of mixed use building blocks with housing, retail and other social services.

To make the blocks a more attractive living space the Quality Team Almere put an emphasis on “Extra Green” , so the project Block 3 introduced a roofscape over the commercial plinth inbetween the two residental blocks. The roofscape consists of green islands underlying on an linear barcode -pattern pathway. In this way the strict geometry of the apartment blocks and the natural forms of the roofscape are in contrast.

On one side the roofscape sinks into the ground level making itself visible from the street. It is also interacting with the residental blocks forming organically shaped balconies that merge with the green islands. Block 3 is consisted of an orthogonal plinth with commercial use under which there is a two – storey parking garage with 500 parking spaces.

The two residential blocks are placed above it, forming a microurban situation offering,together with the roofscape, their residents a private leisure area and park.

The facades facing of the residental blocks that face the street are a grid of textured white Croatian limestone. The appartments size varies from 55m2 to 110 m2 and all have spacious outdoor areas within the main volume of the block. The entrance is through the central core and through the entrances in the plinth. The different facade surfaces differentiate the commercial from the residental function.

Block 3 handles retail and modern living in an attractive manner offering a living quality for it’s users but also on a larger urban scale for the whole area.

Block 3 / ZZDP Architecten originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 14 May 2013.

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Fuyi River Housing Sales Center / Lab Modus

Posted on mayo 9, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Lab Modus
Location: Taipei City, Taiwan
Project Team: Kevin Chang (Principal), Jeanne Lin (Designer)
Area: 600 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Lab Modus

The curvilinear form, conceptualized from sea shell, provides a strong visual image to the neighborhood. The scheme consists of a three-story grey glazed volume and a sequence of double-curved white coated metallic panels.

This set of panels constantly shift both in width and pitch with a nonlinear rhythm to provide sunlight for interior space and as well to give perceptibility for users inside the building.

Giving maximum presence to the context, the overall massing of project applies advantage of the length of street front side to make a continuous extension to the back side of the project.

Fuyi River Housing Sales Center / Lab Modus originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 09 May 2013.

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Nanak Emporium / MACh Arquitetos

Posted on mayo 4, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: MACh Arquitetos
Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Architects In Charge: Fernando Maculan, Mariza Machado Coelho
Associated Architect: Gabriel Castro (MOBIO ARQUITETURA)
Area: 40 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Gabriel Castro

Construction: Armtec
Wood: Marcenaria Londrina

In the words of the owners, the Emporium Nanak born of a desire to support a lifestyle seated on the tripod: happy, healthy and holy. The inspiration comes from the name of Guru Nanak Dev, reference among practitioners of Sikhism. The emporium offers a variety of products for home and organic, vegan and gluten-free foods, around a small chai-café space.

Exposure and Concealment
The project adopts a strategy that combines exposure and concealment of the products. A fixed grid oblique in relation to the two side walls permits full vision of the products for the incoming people, and in view of its concealment inside out. This feature guarantees a certain tranquility and silence, making the space more enjoyable for those who want to have a tea in the center table, without losing the typical plural ambience of the emporiums.

Unity and Diversity
The exhibition adopts a grid as a similar feature used in the graphic design for the organization full and empty spaces in a page. It’s structure allows flexibility of use and adaptability, by adding horizontal supports subdividing the modules. This solution provides unity to products so diverse in size, shape and color.

Symbolic reference
The standards used in the drilling of the pannels were extracted from Nanak Emporium’s logo, which is in turn referenced in the iconography present at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, a shrine of Sikhism, which is the religion of the owners of the emporium.

Materials and Colors
Raw materials are prioritized: concrete floor and ceiling and wood paneling on shelves, doors and walls. The yellowish wood takes on a golden glow, and acts as a background common to all products.

Lighting
A simple system of LED highlights the walls, contributing to product visualization. General lighting is provided by an installation with metal tubes with light bulbs, with controlled intensity.

Spatial organization
In the center of the emporium, lies a multifunctional structure to accommodate the shopping baskets, up to six people in the chai-café table, plus spaces for products and equipments. The arrangement allows the fluid movement of the visitors.

Nanak Emporium / MACh Arquitetos originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 04 May 2013.

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H&M Seoul Hongdae Store / D·Lim Architects

Posted on mayo 4, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: D·Lim Architects
Location: Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Architect In Charge: Young Lim, Sun Kim
Design Team: Jea-Ok Kim, Ji-sun Park, Jung-ho Choi, Jeong-tae Kim
Area: 271.53 sqm
Photographs: Youngchae Park

Site Area: 554 sqm
Gross Floor Area: 1,575.90 sqm
Structure: R.C. Structure
Construction: OJ DESIGN
Electrical Engineering: Jungwon Eng

D·LIM Architects has designed the exterior façade and interior remodeling for the H&M special store in Seoul. The building is located in Hongdae area, a famous hot place of the northern side of Seoul. The design is based on the H&M’s global standard however, D·LIM Architects has input its own imagination on the facade with wire loped curtain walls. The 3mm wire ropes are vertically hung over 200mm off the curtain wall.

The H&M stores are almost identical anywhere in the world based on their manuals. But, D·LIM has specially chosen the wire ropes for the H&M Hongdae in order to express the ‘White’ and ‘Crisp’ brand image. The 3mm wire roped curtainwall on the façade also makes the positive cityscape on the Korean typical commercial street.

The original red-brick façade was torn down to fit with H&M standards and then the building was dressed with new two layered cladding, clear glass and wire ropes. The new layers produce different appearance of the building depending on its viewpoints. When you see the buildings across the road, the wire ropes are almost disappeared in your sight and the poster displays are shown clearly. When you see it on a roadside, you can see a crisp wall which is made by a number of the overlapped wire ropes. The closer you are to the building, the clearer the wire ropes are seen. The wire-roped curtainwall also shows different silhouettes according to the solar position. Depending on viewpoint, distance, and time, the visual and tactile senses of the wall are changed.

H&M Seoul Hongdae Store / D·Lim Architects originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 03 May 2013.

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HASE BLDG.8 / C+A Coelacanth and Associates

Posted on mayo 3, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: C+A Coelacanth and Associates
Location: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Area: 79.67 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Hiroshi Ueda, Courtesy of C+A Coelacanth and Associates

This building which makes a feeling of chaos of the town a building is a small lease building built on the outskirts of the Osu mall of Nagoya. The Osu mall is one of the success examples that is rare in Japan reproduced as an arcade type mall. By the success of this mall, the new store which did conversion in a store continues multiplying a private house and the office building of the neighborhood now. As for the example that I repaired to the multi-tenant building which constituted an office building in particular and an apartment at plural stores, plural stores coexist ambiguously on inside stairs running through the laminated floor, and charm of the chaos such as a laminated market attracts people. Though it was the new construction that emphasized a violent skeleton of the concrete to make use of a feeling of this chaos, I wanted to make quality of the space such as the ruins.

I am interested in the complicated world that a simple rule makes, and there is this thought to the undercurrent of the thought when I design this building. As for this building, approximately 80 square meters per one floor is four levels of laminated small building volume. “Stairs of ジグザク” run through these four levels of floors towards the depths from front road. This simple operation produces two effects. One is a visual expanse to a different floor appearing and disappearing over stairs covered with glass and a mirror. It is the display shelf where the stairs of two or three floors designed the complicated space of the efficiency in the center and the upper stairs step-like one more.

The operation of these stairs realizes space experience similar to the multi-tenant building of the town in new form. Furthermore, there was the demand from a client called the evocativeness that I wanted to go from symbol characteristics, the road surface as the lease building to the upper store for in the building appearance. With the wall of the north and south as two pieces of different “notched obstacles” of the form, I realize the above-mentioned symbol characteristics and evocativeness by simple operation giving a form to bind the top of both burrs together on the facade side facing the road. As a result, a building of the appearance to let you feel the visual dynamics which seemed to begin to work at any moment was born.

This table designed it for owner offices of the second floor. I lacked in four sides of parts of the table of the 70cm corner and took it and made a notched table as well as the outer wall of the building. I make use of this burr, and various table layouts are born. I named “LEAF” because I brought about various expressions so that tree leaves multiplied.

HASE BLDG.8 / C+A Coelacanth and Associates originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 03 May 2013.

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One Yonge / Hariri Pontarini Architects

Posted on mayo 2, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Located where the longest street in North America, Yonge Street, meets Lake Ontario, One Yonge will be a truly mixed-use development, re- defining the typical ratio between residential, commercial and retail space within a single city block. This landmark development will comprise six new buildings of varying height with a total of approximately 6.3 million square feet of accommodation including a 40-storey office tower, a 70-storey tower with a hotel and branded residence, and four residential towers surrounding a courtyard with a woonerf-style access.

With extensive retail, the master planned development will transform and re-vitalize the area acting as a gateway for the extensive re-development of the East Don Lands Waterfront area, directly east of the site. This iconic project will also bring a significant change to the public realm and connect to the climate-controlled path allowing users to access Union Station (Toronto’s central train station), the future regional bus terminal and the existing TTC transit stop at Union.

Architects: Hariri Pontarini Architects
Location: 1 Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada
Architect In Charge: David Pontarini
Design Team: Michael Attard, Jodi Buck, Ali Yarbakhti, Alan Wong, Raymond Chu, Matthew Hallett, Mark Azevedo
Client: Pinnacle International
Area: 6300000.0 ft2
Photographs: Courtesy of Hariri Pontarini Architects

One Yonge / Hariri Pontarini Architects originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 02 May 2013.

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Motisons Tower / Kothari Associates

Posted on mayo 1, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Kothari Associates
Location: Jaipur, India
Director: Utkarsh Kothari
Chief Architect: Ravindra Verma
Senior Architect: Rajesh Singh
Area: 50,000 sqft
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Kothari Associates

Client: Motisons Jewellers
Consultants: M/S V S Kukreja Associates P Ltd
Contractors: M/S Alumayer

How the idea germinated:
- Client is a renowned high profile jeweller in Jaipur.
- Client has a unique identity in their own field and were looking forward to their new corporate tower to also become an iconic element in the cityscape of Jaipur.
- Design should not be ‘regional’ but international, eye catching, talk of the town, a potential tourist destination.
- Architect was given a free hand, full freedom to come up with something unique in India, not tried before.
- Should be as appealing during daytime as in night time.

Based on the above parameters, Kothari Associates came up with a design that has turned out to be a masterpiece in itself, unique in all respects, never tried in India, appeals during day time and becomes as explosive night show on the street with crackling effects of the veins and color changing effects on the special glass .

The shape of the building has been derived from “lotus”. The building is square in plan symmetrical from all four sides. Leaves of the lotus flower spring out of the building. Each leaf is created with colored glass in extremely complicated geometry.

The drawing work could not have been achieved without revit software. Each leaf is crowned with peripheral gold color molded fibre glass.

- Ground floor – gold showroom
- First floor – diamond showroom
- Second floor – silver showroom
- Upper floors – corporate offices
- Last floor – private area of owners

The beauty of the design is in the selection of glass and its fixing system. All Glass facade is like a second skin to the main structure supported by SS spiders thus creating an insulated building. The space in between is mechanically ventilated. The laminated glasses ( outside – clear reflective, inside clear glass with acid washed internal surface for refraction during color wash with LED lights , sandwiches layers of PVB including one layer of a specific color, 1 specific color per leaf). Total 9 special colors were selected from the range of colors available in natural gem stones. LED wall washers wash the internal surface of the glass and create millions of colors at night.

Each leaf can be independently controlled and at night each leaf can change into any desired color. LED veins are stuck to the glass surface and are controlled by a central computer to achieve various “crackling effects”. The color changing is programmable as per desired effects and varies every day. Owners can also control the same with their mobile (For example, the colors of Indian flag can be created in the leaves on independence day).

This is probably the largest example of spider application in India
- This building has transformed the face of architecture in India.
- Success of this project can attributed to 3d technology that allowed the building to be simulated before a single brick was laid.
- Coordination of all architectural structural services and elevation detail elements of this unconventional building. Accuracy, glass cutting, each piece of glass cut with a plywood template.
- Next generation of architects are going to draw right on the machine, and that’s inevitable.

Motisons Tower / Kothari Associates originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 01 May 2013.

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From East Bookstore / Scenic Architecture

Posted on abril 30, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Scenic Architecture
Location: Shanghai, China
Architect In Charge: Scenic Architecture
Area: 726 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Scenic Architecture

The bookstore is located at the northeast corner of Ziqidonglai Central Park in Jiading, a new town in Shanghai. It is right besides the city streets to the east and the north, and faces the park to the south and west. Recognizing its location inbetween the city and the park, we take a strategy of courtyard settlement to establish the relationships among architecture, city and nature. The wall is the executant of the strategy who forms the front court at the northeast and backyard at the southwest, and wraps up in the middle to contain the interior space, the atrium and the terrace. We conceive the environment of the bookstore as a whole, which provide an even and merged interrelation between interior space and exterior space, and guide people to read, to relax and to promenade in spaces with both continuity and different atmosphere.

In different parts of the courtyards we creates multi-layered and enriched spatial sequences and experiences through various transformations of wall like continuous wall-height change, splits and merges of wall routes, and simple wall openings. Two “detoured” small gardens in the front court and the backyard further blur the property of the exterior spaces, and provide a sense of place with intimacy, security and openness.

We use the organization of court settlement to introduce the spatial experience from the city into the architecture, and finally lead it to the nature.