Photographer: Matthieu Croizier | ArchDaily

Kantina / BARAKI

Hadir Al Koshta — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The Theater of Vidy is getting a facelift. According to its director Vincent Baudriller, « the new premises should enable the theater to continue to be a place of research, production, and creation, open to a wide audience, welcoming, accessible and inclusive». The building, originally constructed for the famous Expo 64 by Swiss architect and artist Max Bill, was part of a complex of buildings, of which only the Theater remains to this day.

Jajaffe Restaurant Transformation / BARAKI

Hadir Al Koshta — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Are cooking and architecture so different? The Jajaffe restaurant transformation project is not a simple space renovation, but rather the result of a collaborative and participatory approach between the construction trades and the culinary community. A collaboration between two seemingly distant worlds, but which are perhaps not so distant after all.

Merya Conversion Sanitary Building / BARAKI

Hadir Al Koshta — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 03:00:00 +0000

Built in the late 1980s, the Gruyère rest area was designed in the spirit of post-modernism, reconfiguring vernacular materials and architectural elements to form a complex of several buildings, including the public toilets building, which is the subject of this conversion. The existing building has a masonry base, mainly made with reinforced concrete, with a facing of local river pebbles visible from the outside. A glued-laminated timber frame forms a 2-slope roof. This triangular volume is laterally offset, creating a covered square in front of the entrance to the toilet blocks. To support the loads, four oblique beams are extended to the ground, providing impressive views of Lac de Gruyère and the Fribourg Pre-Alps.