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Architects: Montalba Architects
- Area: 1800 ft²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Concrete Collaborative, Hevi-Lite, Pacific Westline
Studio Dental / Montalba Architects
Cabin at Longbranch / Olson Kundig
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Architects: Olson Kundig
- Area: 1200 ft²
- Year: 2003
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Manufacturers: Eileen Fisher
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Professionals: MCE Structural Consultants
The Key Architectural Elements Required to Design Yoga and Meditation Spaces
For several decades, a set of oriental practices and techniques have strongly infiltrated the western world. A new program that, as architects, we must start solving more often, and that poses interesting challenges from the point of functional, environmental, and aesthetic.
These disciplines are completely focused on the human being, as they seek to work and satisfy their physical, psychological and spiritual needs, and that's why it seems important to analyze how these needs are being met spatially by architects. Many of the operations taken in these spaces create enabling environments for reflection, introspection, healing, and therefore could also be applied in other relevant programs, such as housing, educational, hospital, and even office spaces.
This article seeks to draw lessons from some projects already published on our site, in order to perform a kind of guide for designs that helps our community of readers to find inspiration more effectively.
AIA Announces Winners of the 2016 Small Project Awards
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected seven recipients of the 2016 Small Project Awards. This is the 13th edition of the program, which was established to recognize firms for their excellence in small-project design. This year the winners have been placed into two categories: Category 1, which awards “a small project construction, object, work of environmental art or architectural design element up to $150,000 in construction cost,” and Category 2, given to “A small project construction, up to $1,500,000 in construction cost.”
This year’s winners include a wide variety of program types and sites. Continue after the break for the list and descriptions of the projects.
Oiselle Flagship Store / goCstudio
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Architects: goCstudio
- Area: 625 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: Turnstyle, Dolan Built, J Welch Engineering, K|B Architectural Services, KMJ-Design, +1
Ritual House of Yoga / goCstudio
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Architects: goCstudio
- Area: 1350 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: J Welch Engineering, Coruscate Lighting Consulting
Shadowboxx / Olson Kundig Architects
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Architects: Olson Kundig
- Year: 2009