DETAIL: Building Simply Two

As innovation and new developments in technology now follow each other faster and faster, making yesterday’s architectural fantasies today’s construction realities, there’s already a movement to return to the essential things in life: be it a quest for sustainability, which implies basic principles such as incorporating a region’s typologies and materials, or for reasons of expense, which often prompt a search for efficient designs or manufacturing technology, or even aesthetic requirements that allow people to step out of our increasingly noisy and heterogeneous environment.

Achieving simplicity in design belies the enormous amount of effort required to plan and realise these types of architectural designs. That’s why the publication “Building Simply Two” – just as volume one – aims to look behind the facade. Well-known authors who are experts in their fields investigate the particular solutions used in a construction project in terms of design and construction, including material selection, cost efficiency and sustainability.

Content

008 Building Simply – a mater of attitude or necessity / Christian Schittich
012 Simply constructed / Christian Sauer
024 Simply complex / Fabian Scheurer
034 Simply reasonable / Ansgar und Benedikt Schulz
042 Simply sustainable / Andrea Georgi-Tomas, Martin Zeumer
050 Simply local / Anna Heringer
056 Summary of projects
058 Restaurant on Teshima / Architects Atelier Ryo Abe, Tokyo
061 Schools in Mozambique / Ziegert ½ Roswag ½ Seiler Architekten Ingenieure, Berlin

066 “Slumtube” pallet house near Johannesburg / Andreas Claus Schnetzer & Gregor Pils, Viena
072 Museum and community centre in Johannesburg’s Alexandra township / Peter Rich Architects, Johannesburg
078 Hospital in Rwanda / MASS Design Group, Boston-Kigali
084 Accomodation for orphans in Noh Bo / TYIN tegnestue, Trodheim
088 Social housing in Iquique / Alejandro Aravena, Santiago de Chile
092 Social housing in Ceuta / MGM, Morales-Giles-Mariscal Architects, Sevilla
096 House in Oderbruch / HEIDE & VON BECKERATH, Berlin
100 Summer house near Saiki / Takao Shiotsuka Atelier, Oita
104 Summer cabin near Gothenburg / Johannes Norlander Arkitektur, Stockholm
108 Single-family home in Stuttgart / lohrmannarchiteckt, Stuttgart

112 Dwelling in Andalue / Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects, Concepción
117 Oyster farmer’s house in Brittany / RAUM, Nantes
120 Cowshed in Thankirchen / Florian Nagler Architekten, Munich
124 Open-air pool in Eichstätt / Kauffmann Theilig & Partner, Ostildern-Kemnat
128 Commercial Complex in Munich / bogevischs Buero, Munich
132 Print and media house in Augsburg / OTT ARCHITEKTEN, Augsburg
136 Mobile showroom / Jürke Architekten, Berlin
140 Joiner’s Workshops near Freising / Deppisch Architekten, Freising
145 School cafeteria in Berlin / ludolff + ludolff Architekten, Berlin
150 School in Berlin / AFF Architekten, Berlin
154 Day-care centre in Unterföhring / hirner & riehl architekten und stadtplaner, Munich
159 Day-care centres in Munich / schulz & schulz, Leipzig
164 Kids’ activity centre near Melbourne / PHOOEY Architects, Melbourne
168 Project data-architects
175 Authors
176 Illustration credits