Architecture

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Designer: Makoto Furihata Project Type: Japanese inn Tag: Architecture

Ryouriyado Yamazaki

Ryouriyado Yamazaki is a Japanese inn located in Echizen town, Fukui prefecture, Japan. The former reinforced concrete building was replaced by a wooden structure. A robust private house built about 120 years ago in the same Hokuriku area was relocated and revived as the main building. Existing fittings and interior materials were reused to keep the historic atmosphere intact. Wood, stucco and reclaimed wooden fittings were applied by traditional craftsmen. The two-storey inn is designed to harmonize with the severe coastal climate.

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

Shui

Located in China in Southern Guizhou Province, Shui Cultural Center is a gateway to Sandu County, the land of the Shui ethnic minority. West-line studio’s goal with this building was to turn the Shui’s ritual elements and atmosphere into a public space. A thin bronze skin creates a contrast with the heavy concrete structure, breaking the sunlight to create a dramatic effect once inside. After visitors pass the open water square the Cultural Center presents a succession of three spaces, strongly characterized by pitched roofs, which evoke the Shui’s mountain pictogram.

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Designer: WEI-CHENG LIN Project Type: Educational Institute Tag: Architecture

Colorful Palette

Colorful Palette is a kindergarten designed in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. The building has a streamlined volume with curved walls and irregular classrooms that allow the layout to be changed at any time. A rainbow trail leads to a central square framed by colorful stairs, where a large camphor tree stands as the core. An ecological farm, a natural planting area, activity zones and a sandpit support learning through hearing, seeing and touching. The structure is reinforced concrete, and floors and walls are finished with weather-resistant stone paint in colors chosen for children.

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Designer: Prashant Chauhan Project Type: Multi Storey Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Molten High

Molten High is a multi storey residential building located in a hot and dry town in India where pottery was a traditional profession. The design recalls a clay container deformed during making and then baked. A parametric skin covers the southwest staircase and brings filtered light and ventilation to the stairs, forming a contrast with the simple array of windows and balconies. The molten appearance of the facade is created with custom made recycled plastic ribs. The building measures 20 by 4 metres in plan and rises to a height of 50 metres.

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Designer: cocoon architecture ltd. Project Type: Residential Tag: Architecture

Soleil 88 Phnom Penh

Soleil 88 Phnom Penh is a residential development of 88 row houses in Cambodia. Row houses are common in Phnom Penh, where large groups of similar units are hard to tell apart. The project keeps the existing structure and reworks a facade zone of 1.5 metres. Staggered balconies are recessed at different levels, creating buffer zones between neighbouring houses. The mix of solid and void allows light and shadow to change across the elevation. Each house becomes distinguishable, connected to the others yet separate.

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Designer: Aico Ltd Project Type: Community Shopping Center Tag: Architecture

Uni-park Daxing

Uni-park Daxing is a five-story community shopping center in the south of Beijing. A co-living space occupies the third to fifth floors in the northwest corner and serves as a public place to rest and meet others. The three-story-tall space opens to the street through a large glass wall. Stepping terraces on the west facade create several outdoor activity areas. A rooftop garden is reached from the terraces and from the co-living space. A steel structure carries the upper floors, which overhang the main entrance by five meters.

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Designer: Adel Badrawy Project Type: Residential House Tag: Architecture

U Villa

The U-shaped house was inspired by the horseshoe and the outer envelope was inspired by the Burqa’a. Two essential but different elements in the Saudi culture. Elements that resemble both pride and humbleness, strength and privacy, beauty and mystery. Quite an interesting formula. Which is what this house is all about.

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Designer: Aico Ltd Project Type: Mixed Use Tag: Architecture

CR Land Linyi MiXC

CR Land Linyi MiXC is a mixed-use complex located in the historical district of Linyi, China. The project includes a retail podium with five floors above ground, an office tower and six apartment towers. A three dimensional park stretches across the blocks, unifying the surrounding urban landscape with nearby cultural spaces. The facade pattern is inspired by the local culture of kite flying and uses a collage of diamond shapes. Green materials improve the thermal performance of the building envelope, and the landscape follows sponge city planning requirements.

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Designer: Liudmila Shurygina Project Type: Metro Station Tag: Architecture

Michurinsky Prospect

The station "Michurinsky Prospect" is a part of the Moscow Metro system. It has a 3 level semi-underground structure. Patterns on the walls of the facade, interior space and columns facing the movement of the passengers accompany them from the entrance of the subway to the coach. They form a solid visual row in all parts of the structure. Red and orange intersecting elements of flowering branches and ripe fruit trees symbolize the abundance in the gardens, due to the achievements in the field of plant breeding of the famous Russian biologist I.V. Michurin.

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Designer: Hardik Shah Project Type: Residence Tag: Architecture

Skewed House

Skewed is a standalone villa located in Surat, India. The house covers 11,000 square feet and is planned as a series of interconnected vistas. Elements are shifted slightly off the straight line, which creates varied perspectives within the three-dimensional form. Simple aesthetics, a minimal material palette and close connections to nature guide the design. Black granite flooring, concrete and plaster walls, and teak windows and interior woodwork are used throughout. A garden on the first floor is carried by a post tensioned slab and connects with the whole house.

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Designer: Nischal Abhaykumar Project Type: Recreational Space Tag: Architecture

The Courtyard

The Courtyard is a recreational and event building designed for community gatherings. The two-storey structure is rectangular in plan, with a flat roof, corrugated metal walls and a mild steel frame. A corrugated polycarbonate facade encloses the multi-purpose event space on the first floor and brings natural light into the interior. Textured drapes line the facade to control light during shows. Inside, black painted steel beams, exposed deck sheet ceilings and floors of concrete and timber are left visible. Mass-produced components kept the cost low and the construction period to 75 days.

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Designer: Tarek Ibrahim Project Type: Villa Tag: Architecture

Identity

Identity Villa is set on a small plot with lots of constrains,it is an experiment for modern extensions,to express the spirit and characteristics of the old building with modern language. The concept is to strongly and obviously separate yet link the extension from the existing structure. The imperfection of craftsmanship and the way people circulate and interact with the old house should be echoed in the new addition,answering the modern lifestyle needs. The resulting villa holds the identity of the past with modern language. It holds new approaches and different perspectives for extensions.

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