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Architects: Rozana Montiel | Estudio de Arquitectura
- Area: 230 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Saint-Gobain, Porcewol by Alfher
albino ortega house / Rozana Montiel | Estudio de Arquitectura
Why Designing a Person's Home is the Most Challenging, Thrilling Task an Architect Can Face
This article was originally published by Common Edge as "Why Homes Are the Original Architecture."
Homes may be the most powerful projection of architectural value. Because shelter is essential for all of us, the home is architecture’s universal function. We’re all experts on what our own home must be, to us.
But architects often have a different view of home. Twenty years ago—during the recession before the last recession—I remember hearing an architect declare that he could earn a living designing houses until “real work came along.” Another architectural meme is the classic first job: designing a house for your parents.
Uppsala University Main Building / AIX Arkitekter
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Interior Designers: AIX Arkitekter
- Area: 7700 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Cembrit, Grynna, Kahrs, Martinsons, Martisons, +3
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Professionals: Audio Data Lab, Bjerking and Sweco Systems in Uppsala, Bjerking AB, Tyréns, White Arkitekter
Forensic Architecture to Create a 3D Simulation of the Grenfell Tower Fire with Crowdsourced Video
Since the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, the people of London have been searching for an answer to the exact cause of the fire that killed 71 people. Now Forensic Architecture—the Goldsmiths, University of London-based research group headed by Eyal Weizman—seeks to aid in the search for answers with their new Grenfell Media Archive. This online crowdsourcing database intended to collect people's first-person accounts in order to map them onto a 3D model of the tower and analyze exactly what happened to the tower.
ETH Zurich Uses Robots To Construct Three-Story Timber-Framed House
Digital technology has broken into the timber construction scene at ETH Zurich, where a research team is using programmed robots to construct load-bearing timber modules. These modules are being used to stabilize the top two levels of their DFAB HOUSE project, a three-story residential unit located in Dübendorf, which aims to bring a variety of digital construction methods together under one roof.
Interior ILL / INT2architecture
Bite to Eat / HAO Design
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Interior Designers: HAO Design
- Area: 556 m²
- Year: 2017
Pangyo H Residence / Kim Seunghoy (Seoul National University) + KYWC Architects
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Architects: KYWC Architects, Kim Seunghoy (Seoul National University)
- Area: 298 m²
- Year: 2012
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Professionals: Ean R&C, Yoon Koojo Structural Engineering Co.
Yu Qingcheng Gallery / Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tianjin University
Bookshelf House / Shinsuke Fujii Architects
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Architects: Shinsuke Fujii Architects
- Area: 86 m²
- Year: 2014
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Manufacturers: Acor, Koizumi, Lixil Corporation, Toto
Artron Arts Center / Atelier Deshaus
Call for Entries: CTBUH 2018 International Student Tall Building Design Competition
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is pleased to announce its 7th International Student Tall Building Design Competition. The goal of the competition is to shed new light on the meaning and value of tall buildings in modern society. The deadline for submission is July 23, 2018.
The age of the tall building as a single iconic piece of sculpture, standing in isolation from its surroundings, is coming to an end. Designers have a responsibility to ensure that these permanent urban structures engender a future-oriented urban response to the greatest challenges of our time: unprecedented population growth; mass
Dovecote / Atelier Andy Carson
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Architects: Atelier Andy Carson
- Area: 612 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Focus, Brodware, PREFA, Victoria & Albert
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Professionals: Allen, Price & Scarratts, Peter Glass & Associates, Bellevarde Constructions
Intuit Marine Way Building / WRNS Studio + Clive Wilkinson Architects
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Architects: Clive Wilkinson Architects, WRNS Studio
- Area: 185400 ft²
- Year: 2016
Meandering Skydeck Features in HASSELL's Competition-Winning Shenzhen District Masterplan
HASSELL has won a competition for the design of the Qianhai Mawan Mile, a business district for the Chinese “gateway city" of Shenzhen. Stretching over one mile (1.6 kilometers), the masterplan seeks to combine “lush parklands, new cultural buildings, and a meandering skydeck” in a vision centered on human-wellbeing.
Aimed particularly at attracting young, mobile residents in a rapidly-changing urban environment, the Mawan masterplan consists of integrated public spaces, neighborhood zones, pavilion buildings, and a mile-long (1.6-kilometer-long) skydeck weaving throughout the development.
Casa Bogavante / Riofrio Arquitectos
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Architects: Riofrio Arquitectos
- Area: 258 m²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: Artco, KERLITE, KingBlock, Luminárias, Vidrios y Mamparas
Venice Biennale 2018: Collateral Events Announced
The Venice Biennale has released a list of 13 Collateral Events that will take place alongside the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, FREESPACE, curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara and chaired by Paolo Baratta. Previews of the main event begin May 24th and 25th, with the exhibition open to the public from May 26th to November 25th, 2018.
The collateral events, each promoted by a non-profit sponsor, will take place across the city in an attempt to enrich the diversity of voices that characterize the Biennale.
The complete list of events can be found below, and make sure to follow ArchDaily's complete coverage of the Venice Biennale.