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Deepthi and Hemanth's Home / Biome Environmental Solutions

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:00:00 +0000

The project is an addition-extension project in a building housing multiple families. Deepthi and Hemanth lived on the lower floor with their parents. The upper floor previously consisted of a small home for Hemanth's uncle and an open terrace.

VAY, Coonoor Retreat Lodge / Biome Environmental Solutions

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0000

Located in an old tea estate in the Nilgiris, the project is a Vedanta, Ayurveda, and Yoga Retreat with 39 rooms, a reception, and a restaurant on a steeply sloping land. Each building's orientation was decided on-site to maximize the views of the valley and hills to the north.

Breathing Enclosure / A Threshold

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The site for this multifamily housing is located in JP Nagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, and it measures 60'x40', constituting a tight urban plot. The housing is designed to accommodate five families. The initial brief was to create the outer skin or facade for the building. However, we went beyond the given brief and proposed a building screen that transcended the concept of a mere facade. We deemed it essential to envision the facade as a living element - "a breathing enclosure," and convinced the clients to share this perspective.

House on 46 / Kumar La Noce

Hana Abdel — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

House on 46 is a multi-generation house on a tight urban plot in south Bangalore. The intent was to understand how domesticity, nature, and privacy can be layered within compact urban plots while offering dynamic and generous layouts that can be adapted by the inhabitants. On the street-side facade, a system of operable metal screens creates the outermost 'skin' or exoskeleton and starts blurring the boundaries between private and public. It creates a dynamic connection with the street spectator, with a fluid porousness according to the angle of visual engagement. Made using slim mild-steel fins of varying sizes and thicknesses, the panels are stiffened through the pattern, at the same time minimizing waste owing to the varying lengths.

Materials to Build India's Identity

Ankitha Gattupalli — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 04:00:00 +0000

Upon becoming a sovereign country, free from British Rule, the people of India found themselves faced with questions they had never needed to answer before. Coming from different cultures and origins, the citizens began to wonder what post-independence India would stand for. The nation-builders now had the choice to carve out their own future, along with the responsibility to reclaim its identity - but what was India's identity? Was it the temples and huts of the indigenous folk, the lofty palaces of the Mughal era, or the debris of British rule? There began a search for a contemporary Indian sensibility that would carry the collective histories of citizens towards a future of hope.

International Women’s Day 2022: On Rebalancing Forces and Adjusting the Narratives

Christele Harrouk — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 09:30:00 +0000

While women make up an equal part of the population, they are not equally represented when imagining, planning, designing, and constructing the built environment around the globe. Thriving to rebalance forces and close the gap of gender inequality, the world is moving slowly but surely into a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive future. Looking back at 2021, this year has seen the selection of Lesley Lokko as curator of the 2023 Venice Biennale, Anne Lacaton winning with her partner Jean-Philippe Vassal the 2021 Pritzker Prize, the 6th woman to ever receive the award, and the MAXXI Museum celebrating the transformative role of female architects in the profession's evolution over the last century.

JP House / Kumar La Noce

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 22:00:00 +0000

Built on a compact 180 sqm site, the house is distributed on three levels and includes two interconnected apartments; living, working and studio spaces for the family of an illustrator on two levels, and the ground floor housing their elderly parents. The street-facing front side of the house is sheathed by a light blue perforated screen. Incorporating a system of openable panels this screen allows the house to breathe and respond to the flows of nature, daylight and conditions outside.

My First School / Biome Environmental Solutions

Hana Abdel — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000

Vaishnavi and Raja established “My first school” with a zeal to improve the quality of education in their hometown of Tiruvanamalai. The school progressed rapidly and needed a larger campus setup-a place which reflected the philosophy espoused. The site chosen is in the outskirts of the city and is surrounded by rice fields and coconut grove. The famous Arunachala Hill of the town Tiruvannamalai is visible from the land.

How to Design Schools and Interiors Based on Waldorf Pedagogy

Audrey Migliani — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:30:00 +0000

Introduced by Rudolf Steiner, Waldorf pedagogy draws on the principles of anthroposophical philosophy. One of the theory's foundational characteristics is its holistic approach to the human being: feelings, imagination, spirit, and intellect are considered unique to every individual, and thoughts, feelings, and actions are understood to always be linked.

ArchDaily's Sustainability Glossary : A-B-C

Dima Stouhi — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:00:00 +0000

It is expected that within the next couple of decades, Earth will have absolutely nothing left to offer whoever/whatever is capable of surviving on it. Although the human race is solely responsible for the damages done to the planet, a thin silver lining can still be seen if radical changes were to be done to the way we live on Earth and how we sustain it.

How to Design for Visual Comfort Using Natural Light

José Tomás Franco — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Architects are increasingly aware of our influence on the well-being and good health of the users of our projects. Natural lighting –and how it should be complemented with artificial lighting– is an essential factor to consider for the visual comfort of interior spaces. But, do we know how to handle it correctly?

Office at #15 / Biome Environmental Solutions

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 22:00:00 +0000

The office for Biome is built over an older building. The owners had found the use of the upper floor to be redundant for them and were seeking to rent it out. An additional floor was added for this purpose. The project presented an opportunity to apply and test some new ideas in space, technique and material.

Cardamom Club / Kumar La Noce

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Set amidst expansive Cardamom plantations on steep terrain area in Thekkady, Kerala, a set of cabins have been designed to nestle within a sea of green. Responding to a brief for a boutique resort, the project includes five independent cabins, an outdoor pool with adjacent stepped decks and a spa block divided into three interconnected volumes all raised on stilts.

The Atelier / Biome Environmental Solutions

Florencia Mena — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:00:00 +0000

The school sits in a neighbourhood with constant construction activity and a godown is in its immediate vicinity. Creating a learning space for a young age group on such a site required that the school be an enclosed and protective space. The site factor played a key role in the design, along with the Reggio-Emilia education approach itself, on which the school is based.

Arvindh and Priya's House / Biome Environmental Solutions

Fernanda Castro — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 19:00:00 +0000

The house sits in the context of a densely built residential area in North Bangalore. A substantial area of the plot along the road edge is occupied by the expansive canopy of a beautiful African Tulip.

Yellow Train School / Biome Environmental Solutions

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 22:00:00 +0000

The brief was to follow the intent of Waldorf system of Education but be within the bye laws laid by the Tamil Nadu Board of education. Waldorf system stresses hugely on child centric education wherein more impetus is given on mental, spiritual, physical and psychological than only the academics.

Residence for Charis / Biome Environmental Solutions

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:00:00 +0000

The home is located in the outskirt of Bangalore at the edge of the garden around the park adjoining a lake. Since the plot is a corner one the home is designed so that it can be viewed from both the sides. As one walks around the building it reveals its characters, punctured wall with windows of various size and hues, telescopic vaults and sloping roofs at jaunty angles.

Hamsa's House / Biome Environmental Solutions

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:00:00 +0000

A dense urban context, a small site of 140 square meters, and a brief requiring individual multipurpose studio spaces for a brother and sister required that the building be tall.