Highlighting and promoting architecture and design that impacts the educational field, the Design that Educates Awards revealed its list of winners for 2020. A collaboration between Laka Foundation and Solarlux GmbH, this year’s competition theme was inspired by the “Educating Buildings” research paper of Dr. Peter Kuczia.
Design that Educates Awards Reveals Winners of 2020 Edition
Paris House / Casa14 Arquitetura
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Arquitetos: Casa14 Arquitetura
- Area: 210 m²
- Year: 2009
SIM + Simões de Assis Gallery / Arquea Arquitetos
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Architects: Arquea Arquitetos
- Area: 495 m²
- Year: 2018
How Artificial Lighting can Improve (or Worsen) Architecture
Of the varying aspects of architectural and interior design, lighting is one element that can visually enhance or destroy a space. This influence stems from the wide range of artificial lighting designed for the most widely differing tasks, environments, and purposes, including internal and even external spaces such as facades and landscape projects. Think of two environments with the same dimensions and layout. Suppose that in the first, only one point of light was applied - a general, unspecified point of light in this case - while in the second a light project was performed considering the use of space and valuing certain aspects of the architectural design. Undoubtedly, the second option is a more pleasant space. In the same way, poor lighting design can ruin an environment. But how is it possible to achieve these different results?
In a previous article, we already showed how to calculate the correct light intensity required for each environment. Here, we compile a list of some of the key types of lighting systems.
Claudia Andujar Art Gallery / Arquitetos Associados
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Architects: Arquitetos Associados
- Area: 1683 m²
- Year: 2015
Wave House / Mareines Arquitetura
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Architects: Mareines Arquitetura, Patalano Arquitetura
- Area: 1000 m²
- Year: 2016
Pinhão House / Mareines Arquitetura + Patalano Arquitetura
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Architects: Mareines Arquitetura, Patalano Arquitetura
- Area: 1300 m²
- Year: 2016
Aldeia III House / O Norte – Oficina de Criação
Avaré House / Sergio Sampaio Archi + Tectônica
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Architects: Sergio Sampaio Archi + Tectônica
- Area: 5489 ft²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: Crosslam, Hunter Douglas, Way pvc
Spotlight: Paulo Mendes da Rocha
All space must be attached to a value, to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space that you can imagine is the human mind.
– Paulo Mendes da Rocha, May 26, 2004
Paulo Mendes da Rocha is one of Brazil's greatest architects and urbanists. Born in Vitória, Espírito Santo in 1928, Mendes da Rocha won the 2006 Pritzker Prize, and is one of the most representative architects of the Brazilian Paulista School, also known as "Paulista Brutalism" that utilizes more geometric lines, rougher finishes and bulkier massing than other Brazilian Modernists such as Oscar Niemeyer.
Bacopari House / UNA Arquitetos
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Architects: UNA Arquitetos
Greenhouse Felissimo Exclusive Hotel / Jobim Carlevaro Arquitetos
Concrete Architecture: 20 Outstanding Projects in Mexico
Concrete, a material commonly used in the construction industry, is made of a binder combined with aggregates (or gravels), water, and certain additives. Its origins reach back as far as Ancient Egypt, when the construction of large structures created the need for a new kind of material: one which was liquid, featured properties of natural stones, could be molded, and communicated a sense of nobility and grandeur.
Is Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) the Concrete of the Future?
Concrete, an essential building material, has for decades offered us the possibility of shaping our cities quickly and effectively, allowing them to rapidly expand into urban peripheries and reach heights previously unimagined by mankind. Today, new timber technologies are beginning to deliver similar opportunities – and even superior ones – through materials like Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT).
To better understand the properties and benefits of CLT, we talked with Jorge Calderón, Industrial Designer and CRULAMM Manager. He discusses some of the promising opportunities that CLT could provide architecture in the future.
GN Chapel / Miguel Pinto Guimarães Arquitetos Associados
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Architects: Miguel Pinto Guimarães Arquitetos Associados
- Area: 32 m²
- Year: 2016