Architecture

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Designer: Haobo Wei & Jingsong Xie Project Type: Training Center Tag: Architecture

Qian'nan Fire Station

Qian'nan Fire Station is a fire and rescue building set in a mountainous area of karst peaks in Guizhou, China. The design follows the topography of the site, which is bordered by hills on three sides. Two grids of order arrange the plan into unit groups that form continuous courtyards, recalling the traditional settlements of the region. Offices, training areas and logistics spaces are joined in one complex. Red split brick and white stone express the professional character of fire and rescue, while skylights bring daylight into the interior.

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Designer: Polina Nozdracheva Project Type: Equestrian Pavilion Tag: Architecture

Oat Wreath

Equestrian pavilion is a part of the newly creating equestrian center. Object is located on the cultural heritage and protected by cultural area of the historical ensemble of the exhibition. Main architectural concept is the exclusion of massive capital walls in favor of transparent wooden lace elements. The main motive of the facade ornament is a stylized rhythmic pattern in the form of wheat ears or oat. Thin metal columns almost imperceptibly support the light rays of the glued wooden roof, which lifted up, with the completion in the form of a stylized silhouette of the horse's head.

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Designer: Gronych + Dollega Architekten Project Type: Private House Tag: Architecture

Goethestrasse 1

Goethestrasse 1 is a private house in Bad Homburg, Germany. The design transforms a strict development plan into a calm architectural form shaped by its location. The building develops its own scale in relation to the landscape and the surrounding buildings. Generous relations between inside and outside are created on a small plot with valuable trees. Light, shade and the reflections of the water surface in front of the glazed facades shape the interior atmosphere. Concrete, steel supports and prefabricated wooden elements form the structure.

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Designer: REMAC TY Project Type: Hotel Tag: Architecture

Dajing Homestay

Dajing Homestay is a hotel built in Dajing Village, Shaoguan. The buildings face the streams and the old camphor trees, and also face the provincial highway, which makes the homestay visible and easy to reach. The buildings are arranged as an enclosed courtyard, following the basic structure of the village. Concrete, wood-like aluminum, glass and brick are used, so the new construction blends with the old village. The project covers 1914.57 square meters. The design aims to offer visitors a calm place among the mountains and forests.

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Designer: Svetoslav Stanislavov Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Royal River

Royal River is a high rise 75 meters tall residential building, located in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. RR uses has several integrated technologies that makes it a contemporary residential building sustainable ventilation and air conditioning system, waste collection system, high speed elevators, maximized glazing for each apartment and tight structure core with compact emergency staircases that is helping a maximum usage of floor area. The facade system uses composite aluminum panels that allows it usage of freeform and easy and quick installation methods.

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Designer: Yoshiaki　Tanaka Project Type: Clinic Tag: Architecture

Playful Child Care

TSC Architects has designed a distinctive roof with three layers in three design strategies. The first is to gently wrap the patient. Next, the space is divided into infectious diseases and non-infectious diseases, and the space is designed to feel the wholeness. Finally, the light from the windows in the gaps in the roof illuminates the eaves ceiling, giving a glimpse of the activities inside. Surrounded by the warmth of wood and picture books, the atrium waiting room is a place where patients and children can be energetic while taking precautions against infection.

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Designer: Constantinos Yanniotis Project Type: Yoga Shala Building Tag: Architecture

Metamorphosis

This project is about a Yoga Shala proposal submitted in an International Architecture Competition Call. The site is part of a mountain Yoga Retreat Complex located in a breathtaking forest region of central Portugal. The new Yoga Shala building is inspired from the Yoga philosophy, being a spiritual practice rather than a physical exercise. The new development apart from the Shala with an atrium space, consists of the Teahouse cave volume. Both buildings are framed by the biomorphic xeriscaping garden islands, the curvilinear walking concrete stone paths and the cultivation activities levels.

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Designer: Torres Arquitetos Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Arte Residence

Arte Residence is a residential building located on Torres beach, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the south of Brazil. The building has twenty floors, with two apartments per floor. Each apartment offers 200 square meters of private area, three suites and large social areas. The volume is a vertical monolith with horizontal planes arranged in half levels, where large balconies face the sea. Exposed concrete, wood and ceramic tiles form the finishes. The building also includes energy efficiency, careful water use, and thermal and acoustic comfort.

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Designer: Hangzhou Green Development Design Project Type: Experimental School Tag: Architecture

Jiyang Binhe

Jiyang Binhe is a school building designed for nine years of compulsory education in Jiyang District, Jinan, China. The campus has a gross floor area of 24,462 square meters and adjoins a landscape park overlooking the Yellow River. The plan follows one main axis with two courtyards and two auxiliary axes that hold functional zones. Ordinary classrooms are placed on a south to north orientation for daylight, and the library and functional classrooms stand at the ends of the auxiliary axes. External walls use thermal insulation mortar, and double glazing reduces outside noise.

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Designer: Junghee Lee Project Type: House Tag: Architecture

Fish Farm House

For the client, the sea means home, ground for living and life. So above all, architect the greatest focus was set on their relationship with the sea. Fish Farm House which represent a house greeting sea was made into structure open to the sea in order to be a shelter to keep in tune with the sea. As a one-storied house, reed field in the rear of house and mountain beyond were used as a background. In the case of exposed concrete, it is far unused material in this fishing village. However, 2m2 architects used combination of familiar materials e.g. stone and wood in order to look familiar.

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Designer: FLÁVIO MELO FRANCO Project Type: Single Family Residence Tag: Architecture

AD House

AD House is a single family residence located in Teresina, Brazil, a region with a very warm climate. The house offers 495 square meters of constructed space on a site of 814 square meters. The ground floor holds the kitchen, garage, living and dining rooms and a patio, while the bedrooms are placed on the first floor. A communal space for gathering and rest is set on the rooftop. The walls are made of ceramic bricks, the structure of concrete and the roof of thermo-acoustic aluminum tiles. Charred wood screens and integrated green spaces reduce the heat indoors.

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Designer: Stephan Maria Lang Project Type: Privat Residence Tag: Architecture

House L019

In the whole house it was used a simple but sophisticated material and color concept. White walls, wooden oak floors and local Limestone for bathrooms and chimneys. The precisely crafted detailing creates an atmosphere of sensitive luxury. Exactly composed vistas determines the free floating L-shaped living space.

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