07
Jun 2009
Architects: Sou Fujimoto Architects
Location: Hokkaido, Japan
Principal Use: Group home for elderly with dementia
Project Year: 2006
Structure material: Wood
Site Area: 1,637 sqm
Constructed Area: 745 sqm
Photographer: Daici Ano
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02
Jun 2009
Our friends from Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter sent us their latest project, a first prize in an invited housing competition in Sweden.
You can see some more images and drawings after the break.
29
May 2009
Uploaded by Ethel Baraona Pohl — Filed under: Housing ,Selected , California, Glass, LOHA, USA, Wood
Architects: LOHA Architects
Location: West Hollywood, California, USA
Principal in Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy
Project Team: Kevin Southerland, Tracy Smith, Franka Diehnelt
Contractor: Archetype, Inc.
Client: Habitat Group Los Angeles, LLC
Project year: 2006
Photographs: Lawrence Anderson
16
May 2009
Architects: Paulo César Lourenço and Bruno Sarmento
Location: Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
Structural Engineering: Protec Engenharia
Construction: Suport Engenharia
Electrical & Sanitary Services: Primus Engenharia
Site Area: 600 sqm
Constructed Area: 3,300 sqm
Project year: 2005-2007
Photographs: Marcio Brigatto
15
May 2009
Dutch architects MVRDV strike another one with a new mixed use project in the new inner city heart for the Laurens Quarter, the pre-war centre of Rotterdam.
The project, comissioned by Provast, includes an open air market, that due to new hygienic constraints of dutch laws has to be covered. It also includes 246 residences, that form an arc that covers the open market area.
This results on a 3,000sqm retail area, with a 1,600sqm catering area on the ground level and first floor, a 1,800sqm supermarket and an underground car park for 1,100 cars.
The interior face of the arc will be covered with LEDs for an ever changing interior. The front and backside are covered with a flexible suspended glass facade, allowing for maximum transparency and a minimum of structure.
This new icon for Rotterdam is expected to be completed in 2014. More images after the break.
09
May 2009
Uploaded by Nico Saieh — Filed under: Educational ,Housing ,Selected , Arons en Gelauff, Concrete, Residential, The Netherlands
Two student housing buildings present Arons en Gelauff Architecten in the University of Twente. A 3 stories building with a great contrast between its exterior and interior and the other one, with an amazing climbing wall on the north-west elevation.
Take a look at the photographs, drawings and descriptions after the break.
08
May 2009
By David Basulto — Filed under: Housing ,Urban Planning , Filipe Balestra, India, Sara Goransson, Social Housing
Aerial collage: the new archipelago of incremented kaccha houses rising from a context of well built permanent homes in a typical slum.
The problem with social housing has been how to give the most with less money. We have very good examples in Europe, but the constrains are way different than the ones in developing countries. In these countries, almost all the constructions are done by anyone but architects. Clearly, in these countries architects can do something way better than just designing or constructing, developing strategies together with communities to achieve housing solutions that not only address today´s necessities, but that can also be extended over time as families grow, once again by themselves and without architects.
A good example on this is Elemental, lead by Alejandro Aravena, which has been changing not only design aspects of social housing, but also public policy. Currently, they have built and on going projects in Chile, Mexico and more countries.
But also, there´s the work that Filipe Balestra and Sara Göransson have been doing in India, invited by Sheela Patel and Jockin Arputham from SPARC to develop an Incremental Housing Strategy that could be implemented anywhere.
read more »
07
May 2009
Architects: Pb Elemental Architecture
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Constructed Area: 650 sqm
Construction year: 2008
Photographs: Pb Elemental Architecture
06
May 2009
Architects: BIG Architects
Landscape Architects: Topotek1
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Partner in Charge: Bjarke Ingels
Project Leader: Ole Schrøder
Collaborators: Mitarbeiter – Kai-Uwe Bergmann, Oana Simionescu, Christian Alvarez Gomez, Alex Cozma, Karsten Hammer Hansen, Todd Bennett, Gabrielle Nadeau, Frederik Lyng, Ole Storjohann, Hanna Johansson, Sebastian Latz
Topotek1 team: Martin Rein-Cano, Lorenz Dexler, Anna Lundquist, Christian Bohne, Lisa Oregioni, Alexandre Mellier, Danielle Choi, Karoline Liedtke
Client: IBA Hamburg
Project year: 2013
Constructed Area: 33,350 sqm
25
Apr 2009
Architect: Loadingdock5 Architecture
Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Project Team: Harry Knoll, Werner Morath and Sam Bargetz
Project Year: 2005-2008
Photographs: Marc Lins
21
Apr 2009
British practice Mackay & Partners shared with us this nice residencial building in London, England. You can see some more images after the break.
20
Apr 2009
Uploaded by Ethel Baraona Pohl — Filed under: Housing ,Selected , California, LOHA, Steel, USA, Wood
Architects: LOHA Architects
Location: West Hollywood, California, USA
Principal in Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy
Project Team: Pierre De Angelis (PM), David Thompson, Franka Diehnelt
Client: Habitat Group Los Angeles, LLC
Contractor: Archetype, Inc.
Structure Engineer: Brian L. Cochran and Associate
Landscape: Katie Spitz & Associates
Program: 19 apartments
Project year: 2007
Constructed Area: 4,924 sqm
Photographs: LOHA
18
Apr 2009
Architects: Kann Finch, UAE
Location: Meydan city, Dubai UAE
Project Team: Jean-Sebastien Herr (associate/design architect), Damian Lambkin (Project architect), Claudio Nunez , Ulysses Lalu, Francis Contreras, Milica Vukasinovic, Clinton Bull, Jamie Madrazo, Mauricio Zulueta, Alaleh S
Interiors: Nicholas Tedford
Structure: E-construct
MEP: Jain Consultants
Building Envelope: MFT
Landscape: Kann Finch
Acoustics: WSP
Client: District development
Contractor: DCC, Dubai Contracting company
Project year: 2010
Construction area: 45,980 sqm
17
Apr 2009
Architect: Loadingdock5 Architecture
Location: Brooklin, New York, USA
Project Team: Harry Knoll, Werner Morath and Sam Bargetz
Structural Engineering: Murray Engineering
MEP: Klein, Levin Engineering
Expediting: Joseph Fellner
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Marc Lins
12
Apr 2009
Uploaded by Nico Saieh — Filed under: Housing ,Selected , Argentina, Concrete, Dieguez Fridman, Glass
Architects: Dieguez Fridman Arqutectos & Asociados
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Project Team: Tristán Dieguez, Axel Fridman, Brenda Levi, Maria Carranza, Odile L’Hardy
Contractor: Brunetta SA
Structural Engineering: Sebastián Berdichevsky
Lighting Consultant: Pablo Pizarro
Landscape: Cora Burgin
Client: Premier SRL
Project year: 2007
Photographs: Dieguez Fridman
11
Apr 2009
Uploaded by Nico Saieh — Filed under: Housing ,Offices ,Retail ,Selected , Brick, KPMB, Mixed Use, USA
Architects: KPMB – Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Location: Denver, USA
Project Team: Bruce Kuwabara (design partner), Shirley Blumberg (partner-in-charge), Bruno Weber (project architect), Myriam Tawadros, Javier Uribe, Bill Colaco, Jose Emila, Richard Wong, Roland Ulfig
Structure: Halcrow Yolles
MEP: ABS Consultants
Civil Engineering: MB Consulting
Building Envelope: Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates
Landscape: MP Consulting
Acoustics: D.I. Adams Associates Inc.
Client: Urban Villages, LLC
Project year: 2008
Construction area: 13,460 sqm
Photographs: © Tom Arban
10
Apr 2009
The Tulou affordable housing project by Urbanus was the subject of the 5th Solos Exhibition at New York’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.
This 245 apartment structure is currently being built in Guangzhou, China. Besides the normal residential programming, the building also has a dormitory, hotel, retail space, gym, library, and a variety of communal and public spaces.
Seen at designboom. More images after the break. read more »
09
Apr 2009
By Amber P — Filed under: Housing ,Refurbishment , Belgium, BURO II, Golf, Mixed Use, Parking, restaurant
Belgian practice BURO II designed some new projects around this historic site with a great importance to the city of Ostend. This is, amongst others, determined by its location: the proximity to the sea the Royal Galleries and the historically important Thermae Palace. The former racecourse for horse racing was turned into a collection of projects, and a crossroads of activities, which bring a new urban dynamic to ‘the queen of seaside resorts’.
07
Apr 2009
Architects: Pavol Pokorny | Pokorny architekti
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Collaborators: Maria Richterova, Jozef Bator
Project year: 2006-2007
Construction year: 2008
Interior Designers: Pavol Pokorny, Maria Richterova | Pokorny architekti
Client: Apartments s.r.o.
Photographs: Lubo Stacho
07
Apr 2009
Housing may come in different ways, different forms, and different places. So to start this week of Round Up, we bring you previously featured “Housing” works on ArchDaily.
Carabanchel Housing / Foreign Office Architects
The site is a 100×45 parallelogram oriented north-south and limiting on the west with a new urban park and on the north, east and south with similar housing blocks, located in the south of Madrid. The regulation sets the number and type of units, that have to meet certain percentages of larger and smaller areas, and have a maximum height, but not the alignment within the rectangular plot. The units become a sort of 13,40m long “tubes” that connect both façades and avoid any type of structure in the partitions between apartments (read more…)
De Rokade / Arons en Gelauff Architecten
In 2003, Groningen municipal council launched a project “The Intense City” to keep the city compact by increasing the building density of districts around the Centre. The Rokade Residential Tower Block is situated on one of the first increased density locations, and marks the corner of the Corpus den Hoorn Laan and the Sportlaan, the avenue providing access to the Hoornse Meer district. De Rokade is immediately adjacent to the nursing and care home, Maartenshof, which has been extensively renovated (read more…)
VM Houses / PLOT = BIG + JDS
The VM Houses, located in Copenhagen, Denmark, are two residential blocks formed as the letters V and M. The blocks are formed as such to allow for daylight, privacy and views. The vis-à-vis with the neighbour is eliminated by pushing the slab in its centre, ensuring diagonal views to the vast and open, surrounding fields. All apartments have a double-height space to the north and wide panoramic views to the south. The logic of the diagonal slab utilized in the V house is broken down in smaller portions for the M house (read more…)
Signalhuset / NOBEL
The Signal House has a central location in Ørestad City, oriented directly towards the curved canal along Arne Jacobsens Allé. The building is elevated on a number of concrete elements lifting the 288 housing units hover above the ground. The building facades are composed of an external transparent screen of galvanised stretch metal frames that define the building’s outer shape. Together with the external screen, the coloured facade areas create a lively, varied structure that adds presence and identity to the building (read more…)
House for architects and artists / AFGH
The task was to create reasonably-priced residential space with high standards of living comfort for four differently sized parties. In the processs, each party was to profit as much as possible on the one hand from the 3,000 m2 south-facing environs, and on the other from the north-facing view of the city. This determined an unconventional and complex internal organisation of the building. All four apartments are accessible via a two-storey entrance hall, each of them having their own internal staircase of one or two floors (read more…)
