© Aitor Ortiz
Architects: ACXT
Location: Derio, Bizkaia, Spain
Project Architects: Gonzalo Carro & Javier Pérez Uribarri
Collaborator: Carlos Miguel Guimaraes
Project Development: Gonzalo Carro & ATHOS (Pedro Berroya, Aitziber Goikoetxea)
Structure: Javier Eskubi, Amaia Oyón, Ángel Gómez
Project Area: 2,600 sqm
Budget: 2,600 sqm
Design year: 2006–2007
Construction year: 2007–2009
Photographer: Aitor Ortiz
1:1 Architects shared their design idea for retro fitting high-rise buildings in Melbourne with a modular system of independent green roof structures. The new roof is designed to be installed, modified or even dismantled quite easily. “Our green roof concept is a flexible modular system, designed to adapt to varying scale rooftops and respond to differing site conditions and functional requirements,” explained the architects. The roof provides a new atmosphere for the existing buildings where a variety of activities, such as an informal meeting or a simple lunch break, can be held.
More about the roof after the break. read more »
Architect: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Krasnja, Slovenia
Competition Year: 2005
Construction Year: 2008-2009
Design Team: Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Andrej Gregoric, Janez martincic, Magdalena Lacka, Katja Aljaz, Martina Lipicer
Constructed Area: 135 sqm (70 sqm of inner space & 65 sqm of external space)
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric
Architects: EM2N
Location: Greifensee, Switzerland
Programme: new building: 3 childrens’ rooms, 1 bathroom, 2 patios, 1 home cinema/hobby room
Client: Private
Engineers: Tragwerk Bauingenieure GmbH, Zürich
Design year: 2003-2008
Constructed Area: new building: 67 sqm, conversion ground floor: 127 sqm
Photographs: Hannes Henz
Architects: f451 Arquitectura
Location: Cardedeu, Barcelona, Spain
Design team: Santiago Ibarra, Toni Montes, Lluis Ortega, Xavier Osarte, Esther Segura
Quantity Surveyor: Teresa Vivó
Structure: J.M. Riba de Palau
Mechanical: Prisotec
Landscape: Teresa Gali-Izard
Project Year: 2005
Photographs: José Hevia
Dutch practice, Sponge Architects sent us their latest residencial project: Villa Panorama, where you can “enjoy the country life in a home where your dream landscape reveals itself before your own eyes”, as they say.
See some more images and drawings after the break.
In late 2008 the City of Punta Umbria, located on the coast of Huelva, Spain, organized a Competition for a Congress, Exhibition and Fairs building. MRDP Arquitectos sent us the winning entry.
The results:
1st Prize: FARO; MRDP Arquitectos | María Romero y Daniel Pérez
2nd Prize: CÓNCAVO-CONVEXO; Joaquín Aramburu y Asociados
3rd Prize: BI.VALVO; JOSÉ ÁLVAREZ CHECA
Architects: RMJM
Location: Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA
Principal in Charge: Barbara Hillier
Civil Engineer: Owen, Little & Associates, Beachwood, NJ
Structural Engineer: Leslie E. Robertson Associates, RLLP, New York, NY
Mep engineering: Atkinson Korven Feinberg AKF Engineers, Princeton, NJ
Lighting design: Brandston Partnership, Inc., New York, NY
Construction Management: Gilbane, Inc., Lawrenceville, NJ
Landscape: RMJM, Janet Garwood, Senior Associate, Princeton, NJ
Constructed Area: 3,200 sqm
Photographs: Brad Feinknopf
The success of green roofs has driven Landscape Architects and Architects to explore alternative exterior and interior applications of green planting technology, such as green walls, and green screens. Vertical planting presents challenges to proper irrigation and climate control, requiring innovative solutions. This panel of experts will discuss the relevance of green walls and how can we improve their applications.
Moderator: Susannah Drake, dlandstudio, 2009 President of the New York Chapter ASLA
Panelists: Denise Hoffman Brandt, City College; Marni Horwitz, Alive Structures; Clare Miflin, Kiss + Cathcart, Architects
The Helfand Spotlight Series highlights competitions, work in progress, and recently completed projects that will have a far-reaching impact on New York City’s built environment. Projects are exhibited as a means of generating public interest as well as presenting in-depth information to the Center’s professional audience.
Tuesday, March 24, 5:30-8:00PM. This spotlight will be on view until April 11, 2009.
Organized by: AIA New York Chapter in partnership with the New York Chapter ASLA
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (Directions)
Sustainability has become a main issue over the past years. Many people believe that in a few years, no construction will be possible without being energy efficient. So today’s Round Up gathers previously featured works that have Green Roofs.
OS House / NOLASTER
The house is located in Spain. A new topography is defined in order to protect a rear south garden from the strong and persistent sea wind. The building is enclosed in a squared prism (22×22 m), measuring three and a half meters in height. The most exposed façade of the house is the green roof. The main program develops in the first floor, over a ground floor that consists of garage, facilities, storage, porch and south garden. None of the pieces over the roof is higher than the horizon line seen from the street (read more…)
Ecological Shelters at Finca El Retorno / G Ateliers
The project is located in Guatapé- Antioquia, a place with natural potential for ecological tourism development just two hours from Medellín. The design acknowledges the natural beauty of the site to create 8 ecological shelters that care to minimize the impact on the site and achieve a delicate fusion of architecture and place. These shelters emerge from the topography and enhance the surrounding nature without competing with it. The green roofs provide spaces for outdoors activities (read more…)
Oliver Kindergarden / Carroquino Finner Arquitectos
The site is situated in a typical Spanish present-day urban expansion surrounded by uniformed eight storey high residential buildings. Our small scale intervention is dominated by a green sloping roof which relates to the topography of the adjacent park. In its contrast to the neighboring buildings it orientates itself by the dynamic of the direct surrounding. A variety of volumes are combined underneath a multiple folded roof wherein spaces offer response to different usage. There are wide open areas (read more…)
Joanopolis House / UNA Arquitetos
Commonly encountered in these condos, lush houses with its constructions occupy almost all of their own sites, leaving no space between one another. Our attempt was to seek the opposite: get more integrated with the descending slope bringing about its attributes, as to keep the house protected from the surrounding constructions, searching for comfort. The process was realized in sections, using the balance of soil volume to fulfill the embankment. The condominium is located along the banks of Piracaia Lake (read more…)
Hanamidori Cultural Center / Atelier Bow-Wow
This is a facility that intensively combines various functions of information dissemination and exchange associated with the Green Culture Zone, newly opened within the Showa Memorial Park. The basic concept was for a “growing architecture”, in response to the developing activities of green culture, and for “parkitecture”: architecture integrating with landscape, in which interior and exterior are connected. Our intention was for a space as comfortable as in the shade of a tree that would provide support for park activities (read more…)
Architects: BIG Architects
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Partner in Charge: Bjarke Ingels
Project Architect: Jakob Lange
Project Leader: Finn Nørkjær
Project Manager: Jan Borgstrøm
Construction Manager: Henrick Poulsen
Contributors: Annette Jensen, Dariusz Bojarski, Dennis Rasmussen, Eva Hviid-Nielsen, Joao Vieira Costa, Jørn Jensen, Karsten V. Vestergaard, Karsten Hammer Hansen, Leon Rost, Louise Steffensen, Malte Rosenquist, Mia Frederiksen, Ole Elkjær-Larsen, Ole Nannberg, Roberto Rosales Salazar, Rong Bin, Sophus Søbye, Søren Lambertsen, Wataru Tanaka
Collaborators: JDS, Moe & Brødsgaard, Freddy Madsen Rådgivende Ingeniører ApS
Client: Høpfner A/S
Engineering: Moe & Brodsgaard
Construction: DS Elcobyg A/S /PH Montage
Project year: 2008
Constructed Area: 33,000 sqm
Photographs: Dragor Luft, Jacob Boserup, Jens Lindhe, Ulrik Jantzen
Architects: Studio Granda
Location: Skagafjörður fjord, Iceland
Client: Lilja Pálmadóttir & Baltasar Kormákur Baltasarsson
Structure & Environmental Engineers: Víðsjá
Electrical Services: VJÍ
Contractor: Trésmiðjan Borg
Constructed Area: 294 sqm
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Studio Granda
Architects: Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden architects + urbanistes
Location: Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada
Principal in charge: Bruce Haden
Project Architect: Brady Dunlop
Project Team: Norm Hotson, Stephanie Forsythe, Tina Hubert, Julie Bogdanowicza
Project year: 2006
Site Area: 1,600 acre
Constructed Area: 1,115 sqm
Materials: Rammed Earth, Concrete, Bluestain Pine Cladding
Structural Engineering: Equilibrium Consulting Inc.
Contractor: Greyback Construction
Lanscape Architecture: Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg
Client: Osoyoos Indian Band
Rammed Earth Wall Sub Contractor: Terra Firma Builders Ltd.
Photographs: Nic Lehoux Photography
Architects: TAMABI - Tatiana Letier
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Project Year: 2008
Two basic principles guided our project for the construction of a new penthouse foor to house a single 234-square-meter apartment, located at the base of the Corcovado Mountain in Rio de Janeiro’s forested Jardim Botânico neighborhood.
The first was a demand for an open space with the least possible amount of internal subdivisions, with the intent to provide good cross ventilation and establish continuity between the interior areas and the surrounding landscape, particularly the Atlantic Rainforest located right in front of the four-story building. Our solution was to group together personal and service areas (bedroom, bathrooms, laundry room) in one block that runs along the east façade, thus creating an open space for the rest of the apartment that connects the front terrace all the way to the back terrace. The open space accommodates the kitchen, dining room, living room, entrance stairs, and study.
Architects: Atelier Phileas (member of PLAN01)
Location: Bondy, France
Client: Town of Bondy – SODEDAT 93
Program: 15 classes, Youth center, Multifunction room, Library, canteen
Contractor: COLAS
Consultants: BETOM Ingénierie / CAP TERRE / AVEL Acoustique
Constructed Area: 3,100 sqm
Budget: 5.7M Euro + tax (US $7.18M + tax)
Project year: 2007
Photographer: Stephan Lucas
Architects: Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor
Location: Bad Gleichenberg, Austria
Design Period: 2005-2007
Construction period: 2005-2008
Client: HCC/Kappa
Project Architects: Olav Jensen(pl), Børre Skodvin (pl), Ane Forfang, Carl Patrik Larsson, Helge Lunder, Minna Riska, Dagfinn Sagen, Thomas Knigge, Torunn Golberg, Torstein Koch, AnneLise Bjerkan
Collaborating Local Architect: Domenig Wallner, Graz
Landscape: Kim Wilkie
Budget: 1.000.000 EURO (US $31.52 millions)
Constructed Area: 17,500 sqm
Photographs: JSA
Architect: Vector Architects
Location: Beijing, China
Project Year: 2008
Client: CR Land
Design Partner in Charge: Gong Dong
Managing Partner in Charge: Hongyu Zhang
Project Architect: Shuo Li
Site Area: 500 sqm
Photographs: Vector Architecture
Architects: Lavin Arquitectos – Alejandro Lavín della Ventura, Francisco Miguel Lavín della Ventura
Location: T.M. Los Silos, Isla de Tenerife, España
Collaborator: Alfredo Vilagut Capriles
Client: Cabildo Insular de Tenerife
Contractor: CLECE S.A.
Competition Year: 2002
Construction Year: 2005
Area: Construction: 310.26 sqm, Landscaping: 143.10 sqm
Rigger: Isabel Nichaldas Nazco
Graphic Design: Emilio Z. Estévez Fuentes
Fotografía: Miguel de Guzmán
Architects: KWK PROMES
Location: Ksiazenice, Poland
Project Architect: Robert Konieczny
Collaborator: Marcin Jojko
Structural Engineer: Jaroslaw Kaminski
Design Year: 2004
Construction Year: 2005-2007
Site Area: 1,440 sqm
Constructed Area: 180 sqm
Photographs: KWK PROMES
Architect: McBride Charles Ryan - Rob McBride & Debbie-Lyn Ryan
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Project year: 2007
Photographs: Trevor Mein
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