aquatic_complex_paisajes_emergentes
" The new aquatic complex should meet needs for future competitions and, at the same, time serve as a new swimming training center. It required four new swimming pools.
The proposal was to link these four pools through a system of gardens with typical vegetation of wetland edges. A system of water landscape would serve to separate the public areas and sports areas. The architecture is always permeated by live elements in constant tension and dependence by the gardens.
The program required a complex of baths and dressing rooms for swimmers and public gardens are planted over the covered technical areas, while a set of yards below the earth’s natural level illuminates these areas and works naturally as a meeting place and warming up for athletes.
The only building that exceeds the level of the pools is an elongated and permeable piece for the administrative areas. The building works at the same time as a stage for synchronized swimming pool, as a public terrace and as the main entrance."
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weilburg_terraces_ACME
" The city council of Weilburg, Germany, a dense medieval city, organized a design competition upon the demolition of an existing parking structure. ACME’s terrace design is a contemporary spin on the Baroque terraced-landscape building typology found nearby in the Weilburg Castle Gardens. The form becomes an integrated part of the landscape, allowing the project to blend into the surrounding context while inviting inhabitation and managing to create “specific urban character towards some if its city context”.
The proposal, with a required program of 19,200 sqm, combines large format retail with higher value housing and more parking. Vertical routes are created at specific moments to provide “connective visual sight lines and public routes between the city center and river.” Housing is dispersed across the overall massing and access is provided via new pedestrian cross-routes and lifts from the proposed public park landscape; retail spaces face the city center to attract passersby.
The building envelope is structured in horizontal layers which gradually change into different forms of use. Layers of horizontal stone “fins” filter daylight, provide natural ventilation to open areas, and provide sun shading for needed functions. Externally, the fins are used as steps, planters, benches and circulation spaces to create public routes and parks within the project. Variations in the thickness, spacing and position allow the fins to form larger openings like entrances, balconies and windows so they can drive the overall aesthetic of the project."
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the_calls_fletcher_crane_architects
" The design approach will enable the scheme to have iconic status both locally and throughout Yorkshire giving local business’ a wider presence throughout the region. The proposed waterfront cafe on site, along with the retention of the existing restaurant will complement the business hub providing an alternative venue for meeting, networking and relaxing. Opening up the water front will provide a destination and meeting place for Leeds, attracting people to the area and facilitating exposure for the local business’.
The initial brief called for an iconic building, and delivering a commercially viable scheme that was able to meet that criteria whilst responding to the city urban design agenda, historic context presented a great challenge. The proposed scheme has been carefully developed to be appropriate to the site, but also be uniquely crafted, providing a presence at local, regional and national level. The proposals look to marry the external architecture with that of the interior environment, making the most of the fantastic site and location whilst providing the best possible working environment for the building’s owners and occupiers. The design sets out to be environmentally and socially sustainable whilst creating prime office space within a format that is efficient yet flexible.
The building design aims to deliver a dramatic river front facade, utilizing the expanse of the river and adjacent sheer faced wharf buildings of the south bank as a canvas. The proposal responds to the immediate vernacular, whereby the structural form continues the subtle contortion of the Calls wharf side roofscape. Recognizing that the local area was made up of many small businesses, often in sub divided premises, the proposals seek to provide a section of the building as a local business support hub and business / social meeting space. The intention is that by providing a visual focus to the area local businesses will be able to utilize the premises for networking, entertaining and improved identity.
One of the key aspects of the proposal is to deliver a fantastic new public space for the city, a place that will provide extended use throughout the day beyond that of a conventional office development. In section the level changes from the street level through to riverside provide an opportunity to allow the proposed open space to be lower and therefore more immediate to the river, allowing the public to engage with and touch the water – something currently lacking with the Calls."
women_at_war_charlotte_wilson
corinth_hut_RAA
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"Women . War . Peace will be a new and exciting war museum with the pure focus of Women and War. Journeying through the exhibition will illustrate the compassion, realism, horrors and bravery seen and felt through the eyes of women during war time, both on the front-line and behind the scenes. This museum interrogates the creativity of learning through emotional and experiential spaces and details.
By breaking out of the bunker from it’s central pit space, the architectural language conveys the juxtaposition between the protective shell of the bunker and it’s contrasting dangerous subject matter. Through this process the bunker’s thick 3.3 metre walls are revealed and with this, external underground courtyards are created, allowing for pause and contemplation throughout the experience. The whole experience will be of constant enlightenment, with natural light increasingly puncturing underground and views being progressively exposed. The bunker accommodates four main stages, Past, Present, Reflection and Remembrance."
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museum_of_image&sound_ds+r
" The architecture of the Museum of Image and Sound takes Copacabana Beach as its inspiration: its coastline, its wraparound building wall, its mountains, and its distinctive beach promenade designed by Roberto Burle Marx. The promenade captures the key element of the beach – a space of the public in motion – in foot, bicycle or automobile. The building is conceived as an extension of that boulevard, stretched vertically to the museum. The “vertical boulevard” gestures toward inclusiveness: it gently traverses indoor and outdoor spaces and braches to make galleries, education programs, spaces of public leisure and entertainment. The building inherits the DNA of Burle Marx but radically reorients his public surface upward into a thickened façade for the new museum.
The vertical circulation sequence connects the street with the building’s entertainment programs – from the clerestory view into the auditorium at the street level, to the elevated terrace bar and café, the piano bar at the third level, the restaurant at the sixth, and outdoor cinema at the roof. The building is also conceived as an instrument to observe the city in a new way. The panoramic view before it, overexposed to tourists in the hotels and restaurants of Copacabana Beach while restricted for many residents, is perhaps the central image at stake. Through framing strategies, the skin curates this view for the visitor moving through the gallery sequence."
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dunescapes_shop_architects
" Sponsored by The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the Young Architects Program is an annual competition that gives emerging architects the opportunity to build projects conceived for P.S.1’s outdoor courtyard in Long Island City. Selected as the winner in 2000 to create a structure for P.S.1’s courtyard, SHoP designed a dunescape for the art center’s summer music series event, Warm Up 2000.
Designed to provide a variety of ways to enjoy the summer weather, visitors can lounge, socialize, sunbathe, wade in pools, or walk through a spray of water mist to cool off. Five design elements, the cabana, beach chair, umbrella, boogie board, and surf, are placed along a continuous wood structure, comprised of over 6,000 individual 2”x2” cedar strips with a vinyl surface that bends and folds to accommodate various spatial configurations. When the surface is high in the air, it provides shade, when it is lower it provides inclined seating areas. When it is on its side, it becomes a thickened translucent wall, creating individual “cabanas” where visitors may change their clothing. As it twists onto the ground “lifeguard” stands also serve as “dancing” platforms. Water runs along the entire surface collecting in pools throughout the courtyard where the surface touches the ground. A mist garden disperses water throughout the air."
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" Rryuichi Ashizawa Architects designed a series of temporary wooden buildings for the Aqua Metropolis Osaka Event. While visitors can meander through the delicate wooden open structures, other wooden pods provide more shelter for varying activities. Extending past the small island, a geometric, almost folding, form provides the perfect setting to take in the panoramic view of the city."
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aonni_mineral_water_plant_bebin&saxton
" Chilean Patagonia has a particularity that is distinguished and exclusively of that place: THE DETACHMENT.
We can notice disunity, a separation of what was linked before, the surrounding elements live in constant alteration. This detachment produces cracks, isolations, torsions, new tensions. The glaciers detach from the massive ice fields, the trees get inclined by winds, the islands live separated from the land surrounded by water, and the geography is the result of energic erosions.
Therefore, the project is generated from the interactions of natural environment forces, revealing the elements detachment. The project also makes use of the natural elements as vital energy expressing particular characteristics of a territory.
Sustainable design principles as natural lighting, high internal gains and a good daylight factor can be recognized in the project. Furthermore, the structure can be reutilized, guarantying a long life cycle for the materials used in this building. We can also notice The Water in their different phases harvesting one of them: the iced water produce a unique single structure, recognized in that specific location. These forms are materialized on the large glass areas of the windows and the shape of the floors."
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huntington_urban_farm_tim_stephens
" The farm responds to the lack of support for the sustainable practice of growing and cultivating one’s own food source, an important issue Stephens sees as becoming more prevalent as our population increases. The farm provides convenient access to individualized plots of land where users can produce their own food right in the middle of the town.
”In providing these farming plots for the community to use, the precinct will become a hub for social activity and interaction, something sorely missing in many existing communities,” explained Stephens.
This farm is viewed as a model that can be integrated into existing communities on other sites in different Long Island townships. Within this particular design, the farm includes winding paths and changing levels to provide a “sense of adventure and discovery as one moves through the precinct.” Stephens sees the design as promoting social interaction, especially with its converging paths which can lead users to happen upon one another while walking through the garden.
“The Huntington Urban Farm is to pave the way for fresh thinking in terms of how communities interact with each other and how a common, productive bond can be achieved through sustainable practices,” added Stephens."
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AW10_fashion_show_aquili_alberg
" AquiliAlberg’s installation – an innovative interpretation of space – is a variation on the design studio’s work for “The Fragile City” exhibition at Triennale di Milano. AquiliAlberg studio’s designs are open to different interpretations. A series of sliced surfaces generate a complex, yet controlled volume, obtained through three-dimensional digitalization.
The configuration gives the sculpture character, and wraparound lines create multi-faceted volume. Individual perception of the space, which has a kaleidoscope feel, differs according to physical position. This search for spatial complexity has its roots in Optical Art."
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