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| Myllypuro Wooden Urban Village I Tengbom Eriksson Architects Myllypuro I Finland I 2008 |
The City of Helsinki arranged in 2008 an Open Design and Build Architectural Competition for the Myllypuro area north of Helsinki City centre. The competition was won by Eriksson Architects in co-operation with Finndomo Rakennus Oy. The aim of this co-operation was to create an area with a wooden village atmosphere with flexible apartments in an ecological fashion using the Finndomo pre-fabricated wooden structured houses. The houses are pre-fabricated containing 4–6 building blocks which are assembled on the building site. In this way the construction is very energy efficient and the construction work on the site is minimized. The finished area is 17 500 sq ms and will contain approximately 125 apartments.
| Quinta dos Alcoutins Lt.4 I GGLLatelier Lisbon I Portugal I 2011 |
The House is inserted on an estate situated at the northern limit of Lisbon, the lot is north-facing with an accentuated decline. A grey volume draws the exterior spaces of the house and rectifies the inclined nature of the terrain, allowing the social areas a better solar exposure, the slanting white volume floats over it, turned away from the exterior limits of the lot and opening over the garden and the swimming pool. The distribution is pragmatic and very clear: The grey volume is filled with complementary spaces of the house, illuminated by a patio carved in it (Shower room, Spa, Cinema room, Wine cellar and Garage) the white volume is occupied by the main spaces of the house (Lounge, Library, Kitchen and Bedrooms) privileged by the transparency towards the garden and swimming pool. The rooftop is torn by a white terrace overlooking the Golf-course and the city skyline.
| House H I Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects Chiba I Japan I 2012 |
This is a house for young couple and their child, located in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture. Matsudo City has a background that has developed as a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo from the 1960s. This house was planned rebuilding of the house, which was built at that time. I seemed to have been asked to build a house as a new symbol in this place by a young family with the hope of the future. So, I proposed the house as living symbol by utilizing a big roof and structural member actually in their daily life rather than just image. At first I placed a big roof in the site, and arranged the eight Y-shaped wooden frames in it. I planned to each space by hanging second floors and loft floors from them. Like a bunch of attic beams of traditional wooden architecture, Y-shaped frames made of bonded wood run through the entire house. And the six floorboards are hung from them at different level. Depending on the level and location of floorboards, the distance from big roof and other living space will be changed, the space of under the floorboards as well. Although whole house is just one space under big roof, it divided loosely with Y-shaped frames and floorboards, so that people stay each space feeling each other. I hope that the family uses the structure of house in their daily life and that the structure related to their daily life. For example people hanging pictures and figures from Y-shaped frames and marking height of child along his growth on it. And they will leave the trail of their life on the house like a well thumbed book.
| Spain’s Cultural Center I JSª in collab. with Arquitectura 911 sc Mexico City I Mexico I 2012 |
The Cultural Center Expansion totals an approximate of 4,000 qm of program distributed over 5 levels and 2 basements, providing new spaces for activities hardly enforceable within the original facility. The new program focuses on 4 main activities; performance space, exhibition gallery, seminar rooms, screenings and workshops. These programs are complemented with an archaeological museum located in the basement. The ruins of a pre-Hispanic house found during excavation remain on site. The project takes advantage of its location in Mexico City’s historic center by generating an urban passage through the Cultural center, allowing pedestrians to cross from Guatemala Street to Donceles Street.
The building’s volume negotiates the context’s morphological conditions. The façade, made of concrete and Corten steel louvers, seeks to create a dialogue with the environment by reinterpreting the colonial proportion vain—empty and generating height transitions between immediate adjacencies. A series of terraces and ramps connect to the existing building consolidating the Spain’s cultural center as a single entity with great vitality and multiplicity of activities. Spain’s Cultural Center (CCE), is one of most active training spaces of Mexico City’s Historic Center, such was the case of the colonial house that since 2002 serves as headquarters for the CCE.
| Luxury Residences in “Golden Quarter” I landau+kindelbacher Vienna I Austria I 2013 |
Stylish, Viennese, exclusive and cosmopolitan, with contemporary architecture in the listed and heritage-protected ambience. In the upper floors of the historic buildings “Am Hof” and “Tuchlauben”, not only exclusive office and retail areas but also twelve superlative penthouse dwellings are being created. Each of the generously proportioned and light-flooded apartments is fitted with elegant materials and the latest technology. Velvet and leather, white marble on the walls, and smoked oak on the floors dominate the individually designed living areas. These are complemented by a magnificent panoramic view of the city of Vienna from the roof terrace.
Classical and well-proportioned room suites characterise the freely selectable apartment sizes between 150 and 700 qm. Whether split-level or open living and dining spaces, private courtyards, your own spa areas or the 360 degree rooftop terraces—the space available leaves nothing to be desired.
| House in Zuidzande I MJose Van Hee Arquitects Zuidzande I The Netherlands I 2011 |
… The site, an orchard surrounded by a ditch, was purchased in 2007. Non-native trees were removed and the ditch as cleaned before construction started two years later. The house has a minimal footprint on the terrain. It consists of a 13.5-metre-high horizontally boardmarked concrete tower joined with two timber-framed wings cloaked with black-stained Thermowood. The play of geometries is reconciled at ground level in the concrete hearth and above by the chimney that rises through the house to top off the tower. The house presents different faces to each side of the orchard. Large glazed sliding doors, protected by a steel and timber canopy, open up the interior to the south. The concrete body appears thick and thin from different aspects. From the agricultural fields that surround the orchard, it looks like a dovecote rising above the canopy of the trees. It feels mythical yet present, real...
| House in El Ramal I mutarestudio/Cristian Axl Valdés Maule I Talca I Chile I 2011 |
Ancient and abandoned stations next to some useless railway lines are some of the vestiges of what previously were important railway lines that connected the valley with the coast of Chile. The house is located next to the unique