Architecture

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Designer: Gabriela Herde Work: Facade Project Tag: Architecture

Riverside 01

Its base is the representation of the movement of the waters of the river, when they meet the waters of the sea! Rhythm and lightness, following the blow of the good winds! The body of the building receives three hundred and sixty degrees of differentiated treatment, that is, in its four facades, according to the solar positioning of each one, through mobile and fixed louvers, vegetation and suitable coatings. On the Rooftop, its green slabs serve as a connection between river, sea and sky.

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Designer: Kosuke Nishijima Work: Office and Residence Tag: Architecture

The Kaleidoscope

The Kaleidoscope is an office and residential building located at a factory site in central Vietnam. The building stands between a hill and the sea, and frames diverse views in different directions and at different times of day. The roof follows the form of the Non La, a traditional Vietnamese farmer's hat that blocks sun and rain while letting wind pass underneath. V-shaped solid walls create triangular private rooms and larger shared spaces between them. Custom perforated precast concrete blocks provide privacy and natural ventilation.

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Designer: Hiroki Watanabe Work: House Tag: Architecture

Murakoshi

An urban house integrating floodwaters into its design. This house with a monolithic facade and a drive-through garage with a high foundation is situated on a pentagonal corner lot that is expected to be crowded with pedestrians. The design features a planar and cross-sectional openness to allow light and wind to flow into the interior while also taking into account the convenience of people and cars while deflecting water. This work explores a simple and sensible approach to future urban housing with a focus on natural disasters.

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Designer: Krista Watanabe Work: Residential Villa Tag: Architecture

Oiso Hillside

Oiso Hillside is a residential villa located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The design follows the natural shape of the sloping site instead of leveling the ground for construction. Skipped floors, a two-story ceiling above a sunken conversation area and a three-level deck form a dynamic interior. Views of the surrounding hills and mountains can be enjoyed from the living spaces. A Japanese seismic-resistant method with a wooden rigid-frame structure allows wide open spaces. Wood is the main interior material, and a few antique pieces add accents.

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Designer: Pawel Lis Work: Single Family House Tag: Architecture

RB23

RB23 Boutique Residence is a two-story single family house built in a forest village near Warsaw. The form is composed of three rectangular solids, inspired by scattered wooden blocks. The facades are covered with clinker tiles, the walls are built of construction brick, and the ceilings are monolithic. A wide and narrow window is pressed into the front of the first floor and opens toward the surrounding forest. The usable area is 285 square meters. Each household member has a separate room, and the day and night zones are clearly separated.

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Designer: Mateusz Zajkowski Work: Residential Architecture Tag: Architecture

The Suburban House

The Suburban House is a house located in a heavily urbanized suburb of Warsaw. It is surrounded by various types of buildings that create spatial chaos. The designers' intention was to create a building that would improve the surrounding space. Due to the intensive development. Its terrace is surrounded by the walls of the building to ensure the privacy of the users, and on the north side it has only narrow windows, obscuring the surrounding intense development. The main openings are facing south, providing a view of the plot.

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Designer: Guanghai Cui Work: Protective Shelter Tag: Architecture

High Purity Taoist Palace on the Site

The architectural form of the shelter was designed to recall the classical Chinese architectural style with curved hip roofs and gable roofs with various volumes and other modern architectural features, clearly manifesting the hierarchic order of the historical buildings of the Taoist palace, which helps to recall the genius loci of this site. The spaces of the courtyard and the halls in history were built with modern architecture according to plan manifested by archaeological information to represent the sense of a traditional Taoist Palace.

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Designer: cre-te Work: Complex Cultural Space Tag: Architecture

I Park The Urban

The project is the largest business-commercial-cultural complex in Seoul and is the world's first project by a large Swedish furniture brand to enter the capital. The work facilities, which account for a large portion of the program, were conducted with the first live-office concept in line with the lifestyle change due to the pandemic. It is planned as an independent work and residential space, and one-stop all-around services such as culture, leisure, shopping, and food are possible, enabling independent life.

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Designer: Kazuhiro Yasufuku Work: Office Tag: Architecture

Oak Konan Shinagawa

Oak Konan Shinagawa is a 12-story office building located near the harbor in Tokyo, Japan. The white lattice-like exterior frame is an outer shell made of precast concrete that serves as both structural frame and sun-shading device. Combined with the steel construction of the core, this hybrid structure creates a column-free office space that allows flexible layouts. The precast columns and beams are produced off-site and lowered into place from above, which simplifies work on site. The exterior windows include natural ventilation units that open with a detachable handle.

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Designer: Keisuke Fukui Work: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

F House

F House is an architect's home and office. By turning the 1st-floor office and cafe into a place where townspeople can casually drop in, the project attempts to foster community connections. The idea was that by sharing parts of everyday life in a casual and enjoyable way, a more livable community could be fostered. The area has a network of plants to increase and share, and designers wanted to visualize this in the architecture and establish it as part of the local culture. The architecture is conscious of the network in every aspect.

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Designer: SHUNSUKE OHE Work: Residential House Tag: Architecture

Horizon

Horizon is a single storey timber framed house designed for comfortable long term living. The terrace eaves, the carport roof and the gable walls share the same visual depth, which creates a simple and clear silhouette. Careful structural design conceals all interior columns within the walls, so the interior remains open and spacious. Two bedrooms, a living room, a dining room, a kitchen and a guest room connect without corridors. Large south facing windows open onto a terrace and join indoor and outdoor space. Materials and colours were kept to a minimum.

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Designer: PROYECTO CAFEINA Work: Residence Tag: Architecture

Saint Peter House

Designed from the philosophy of participatory design low tech high customization, this house is conceived from bricks, a material widely used in San Pedro Cholula region in an ancestral way from the knowledge of the local workforce in the construction system. The main skin of the house has 3 formats for accommodating the bricks; double wall, lattice, and spike from where its expressiveness starts, which are distributed in a functional way to close, gain natural light or ventilate the interior spaces with windows in openings and other times through a double semi-solid facade.

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