Standing tall among the treetops in a forested area of Portland, Oregon, the Wilkinson Residence feels like a refined, playful treehouse for adults (a marvel that we at Architizer know well). To mitigate the site’s steep slope, Robert Harvey Oshatz perched the home’s living areas on top of a pedestal-like wood shingle foundation that gives the residences the …Continue Reading
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This Home Is Like A Refined Treehouse For Adults!
Standing tall among the treetops in a forested area of Portland, Oregon, the Wilkinson Residence feels like a refined, playful treehouse for adults (a marvel that we at Architizer know well). To mitigate the site’s steep slope, Robert Harvey Oshatz perched the home’s living areas on top of a pedestal-like wood shingle foundation that gives the residences the …Continue Reading
Ooh La La: Toyo Ito Creates Elegant Pop-Up Pavilion For Hermès
Designed by Toyo Ito for Baselworld 2013, the new La Montre Pavilion for the luxury label Hermès conveys an openness and lightness worthy of the brand’s name. A two-story box covered in a façade of criss-crossing wood lattice, the pavilion consists of a steel framework with an inner structure made of wood, glass, and metal. The 1,040m² …Continue Reading
BA 105 / Lacoudre Architectures
Architects: Lacoudre Architectures
Location: Evreux, France
Area: 40,000 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: 11h45
As part of the grouping of different services on 105 Air Base, the project involves creating a unique place which shares competences and developing energy.
The logistic building has been initially designed from the “efficiency” of the process, which took the form of an industrial lobby (52 meters large and 800 meters long) able to develop interactions and chains of different flows.
The BBC office building is a “monolith” covered with wood which surfaces open to create fixed sun-breakers. The built volumes get dressed such a “camouflage” of wood and cladding in the greens tones.
BA 105 / Lacoudre Architectures originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 22 Apr 2013.
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St-Zotique Residence / NatureHumaine
Architects: NatureHumaine
Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Team: Stephane Rasselet, Marc-Andre Plasse, Olivier Lajeunesse-Travers
Year: 2012
Photographs: Adrien Williams
Concerned with architectural quality, we were hired in the hopes of constructing a multi-unit residential building that would stand proudly on the block. Situated in the historic industrial district of Marconi, the project comprises of 10 units spread over 3 floors, crowned by 4 mezzanines separated by a network of green roofs.
The 11 000 sqft project consists in 2 volumes of units split by an internal core of vertical circulation. The street-side façades are articulated with 3 horizontal layers; chocolate-brown brick at street level, speckled sand-coloured brick covering the 2nd and 3rd stories, and a cladding of torrefied wood slats at the top. The random play of large windows and balconies, give the building a dynamic feel.
St-Zotique Residence / NatureHumaine originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 22 Apr 2013.
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Woodskin: The Flexible Timber Skin
Have you ever wanted to create delicate, complex shapes from plywood, but can’t because it’s too stiff and unforgiving? Well all that might soon change, thanks to Milan-based design studio MammaFotogramma. They have created a type of flexible, ‘Woodskin‘ triangular tiles of Russian plywood.
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Woodskin originated from a submission the studio made to open source design competition, Autoprogettazione 2.0. Inspired by the potential they saw in the material, team-members Giulio Masotti and Gianluca Lo Presti incorporated the material into the design of a rock-climbing gym in Montreal, which they were working on. However, while the material was there in concept, the exact manufacturing technique had still to be worked out. To do this, the two moved to Montreal and lived near the site of the gym, so they could experiment with different materials and compounds to perfect the design. The result is a sheet of Russian plywood, routed into a series of a series of triangular tiles, held together by a vinyl mesh.
“At that time we were looking for a solution that would fulfill our need to create complex shapes” says Masotti. “What we created was a skin that would allow us to focus on the structure and would adapt to it, leaving the builder the total control with the flexibility to change the forms at any moment during the whole process.”
At the moment, the design of Woodskin is patent pending and the group are pressing forward with developing it. The team have begun a collaboration with Biffi carpentry in Milan; they hope to investigate other possible uses for the materials such as cladding and flexible walls.
“Thanks to new technologies, structures are getting much like our own bodies,” Masotti says. “Here is the skeleton, its joints and muscles expanding and contracting behind our skin, defining our movements and posture. WoodSkin is simply a convenient and innovative way of rendering these visible.”
via MammaFotogramma, Wired
Woodskin: The Flexible Timber Skin originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 21 Apr 2013.
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Billon / Vincent Kohler
This stunning installation, created by Swiss sculpter Vincent Kohler, beautifully deconstructs the log. Titled “Billon”, the 110 x 100 x 300 cm piece is made of wood, polystyrène, and résine.
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Billon / Vincent Kohler originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 20 Apr 2013.
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Featured Project: Cylindrical Museum In A Historic Setting
Project: Alésia Museum and Archaeological Park
Architect: Bernard Tschumi
Location: Alise-Sainte-Reine, France
Consisting of two cylindrical buildings, the Alésia Museum and Archaeological Park sits in the countryside of a small town with a storied past. The museum is positioned on top of a hill exactly at the point where the Gauls stood during a siege, while the interpretive center is located at the Roman position in the fields below. The museum is built of stones, similar in look to the town buildings but with contemporary technology, and is buried partially into the hill so that from above it appears as an extension of the landscape. The interpretive center is made of wood, as the Roman fortifications would have been at the time of the siege. An awareness of the surrounding landscape as it pertains to the historic battle is integral to the visitors’ experience.
Read more about this project in the Architizer database.
Photos: Christian Richters