Kita Göttingen / Despang Architekten
Architects: Despang Architekten
Location: Göttingen, Germany
Architects In Charge: Günther Despang/Martin Despang
Project Architects: Philip Hogrebe/Jörg Steveker
Area: 512 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Jochen Stüber, Olaf Baumann
AD Round Up: Green Roof Part IX
For today’s AD Round Up we’ve compiled previously featured Green Roof projects. You must see, Villa Topoject by korean practice, AND. Don’t miss, Ciel Rouge’s Villa Ronde or Seongbuk Gate Hills located in Seoul by Joel Sanders and Haeahn Architecture. Take a closer look to Marcel Sembat High School designed by archi5 and Borja Huidobro. Last but not least in today’s AD Round Up, you can visit House at León by ALARCÓN + ASOCIADOS.
AD Round Up: Green Roof Part VIII
Five amazing green roof projects from earlier this year. Check them all after the break.
Sky Garden House / Guz Architects
This house is located on a new housing estate on the island of Sentosa adjacent to Singapore. The plots are not large and neighbouring buildings are built close to the sides of each house. Thus our strategy was to build a solid wall to each side neighbor to provide privacy where possible, while creating a central light and stair well which would funnel the sea breeze through the centre of the building (read more…)
Villa Topoject / AND
Architects: Architecture of Novel Differentiation (AND)
Location: Gyeonggido, Korea
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 199 sqm
Photographs: Byun, Jong Suk
Marcel Sembat High School / archi5 with B. Huidobro
Architects: archi5 with B. Huidobro
Location: Sotteville lès Rouen, France
Project Year: 2011
Acoustic Engineer: ABC Décibel Steel
Steel Structure Contractor: Constructions métalliques Charondière
Main Contractor: Millery Colas
Project Area: 12,764 sqm
Photographs: Thomas Jorion
Villa Ronde / Ciel Rouge
Architects: Ciel Rouge
Location: Japan
Project area: 1800 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Iishii Toshihisa
VIAS Space / estudioSIC
Architects: estudioSIC – Esaú Acosta, Mauro Gil-Fournier, Miguel jaenicke, estudiosic
Location: Leon, Spain
Collaborators: Alfredo Borgui, Nieves Valle, Albert Pérez
Co-authors: Pedro Colón, Raquel Buj
Project Team: Take Away Media, Jorge Pellitero
Project area: 1,450 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: estudioSIC, Esaú Acosta
AD Round Up: St. Patrick’s Special Part II
St. Patrick’s today, and it’s all about green! So for today’s Round Up, we have our sixth selection of previously featured green roofs! Check them all after the break.
Welham Studios / Mark Merer
Welham Studios started with the study of placement, watching objects in clay and sand creating shapes through the interaction of the wind and rain. The work is looking for a union of object and environment (read more…)
Cluny House / Guz Architects
Architects: Guz Architects
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Project area: 1,505 sqm
Project year: 2006-2009
Photographs: Patrick Bingham Hall
Sky Garden House / Guz Architects
Architects: Guz Architects – Guz Wilkinson
Project architects: Caroline Witzke, Szymon Goździkowski
Location: Sentosa Island, Singapore
Project area: 852 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Patrick Bingham Hall
Costa Brava Gran Casino / b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos
Architects: b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos
Location: Lloret de Mar, Spain
Competition Team: Fermín Vázquez, Sebastián Khourian, Juan Pablo Porta, Markus Jacoby, Paulo Moreira
Project Team: Fermín Vázquez, Peco Mulet, Sebastián Khourian, Juan Pablo Porta, Andrés Gorini, Nicolás Perfumo, Leonardo Novelo, Giusy Ottonelly, Valeria Merola, Ana Vicente-Arche, Paulo Moreira, Zelia Alvés, Carles Martínez-Almoyna, Laura Marticorena
Interiors: David Pablo, Zelia Alvés, Gaëlle Lauxerrois, Anaïs Blanc, Sandra Palou, Diana Singla
Digital Model: Oriol Roig, Magdalena Ostornol, Iván Arellano
Model: Miquel Lluch, Omar Vejar and Ángel Gaspar
Client: Gran Casino Costa Brava, S.L.
Contractor: Proinosa
Structure: BOMA
Services: JG Asociados
Rigger: Técnics G3
Lighting Consultor: Artec3
Landscape: Arquitectura Agronomía
Project Area: 31,123.38 sqm
Project Year: 2007–2010
Photographs: Adriá Goula
AD Round Up: Green Roof Part VI
Two houses, two schools and one tennis club. All of the with amazing eco-friendly green roofs. Check them all after the break.
Mill Valley Hillside / McGlashan Architecture
The Mill Valley Hillside project is a residence for three generations, in two separate dwellings, under one green roof. It brings the grandparents closer to their children and grandchildren, yet carves out spaces tailored to each generation. Upstairs is formal, quiet and dramatic (read more…)
Hsiangshan Visitor Center / Norihiko Dan
Enta Yang shared with us the photographs he took of the Hsiangshan Visitor Center by Japan architect Norihiko Dan in Taiwan, winner project from the Sun Moon Lake Tourist Route International competition, featuring a really nice concrete work and a green roof cover to keep under control internal temperatures.
Take a look at the complete photoset after the break.
Houses In Rybnik / Jojko+Nawrocki Architekci
Architects: Jojko+Nawrocki Architekci
Location: Rybnik, Poland
Project year: 2007 – 2010
Photographs: Juliusz Sokolowski
Bovernier Primary School Extension / Bonnard Woeffray Architectes
Architects: Bonnard Woeffray Architectes
Location: Bovernier, Switzerland
Collaborator: Nuno Ferreira
Client: Commune de Bovernier
Project Area: 1,630 sqm
Project Year: 2008-2010
Photographs: Hannes Henz
First Principle: Earth as Material / Freeform + Deform
Freeform + Deform, a creative collective from New York, shared with us their project ‘First Principle: Earth as Material”, presented at the Input_Output: Adaptive Materials and Mediated Environments symposium hosted by Temple University. More images and architect’s description after the break.
AD Round Up: Green Roof Part V
A lot of amazing projects are designed now with green roofs. And for our 5th selection, we even have a Building of the Year 2009 by ACXT. Check them all after the break.
BTEK – Technology Interpretation Center / ACXT
BTEK is an interpretation centre for new technologies, aimed at student visitors. The site’s location, on one of the highest points of the Vizcaya Technology Park and close to the Bilbao airport’s flight path for takeoffs and landings, helps with the aim of making the building a landmark in its landscape (read more…)
Large Home Tree / Ignatov Architects
Architects: Ignatov Architects
Location: Varna, Bulgaria
Client: George Bonin
Project Area: 780 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Ignatov Architects
Welham Studios / Mark Merer
Designer: Mark Merer
Location: Welham, Somerton, Somerset, England
Consultant Architect: Art Peterson
Engineering: John Beverage
Budget: £350,000
Project Year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Louis Porter
