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A+Awards: next up in our collaboration with Architizer is this energy-efficient wooden home on the outskirts of a small village in the Czech Republic, which was one of the private houses recognised in this year’s A+Awards (+ slideshow).
Designed by Prague studio ASGK Design, Energy Efficient Wooden House Zilvar occupies a site surrounded by fields and forest on the outskirts of the village in the eastern Bohemia region.
The clients – a couple with a young child – asked the firm to create a low-energy house with an open-plan interior that would make its inhabitants feel more connected to the surrounding landscape. They also specified the use of wood.
In response, the architects created a house with a larch timber frame, completely clad in vertical planks of larch that have been burnt and stained to make them more hardwearing.
A large tiered garden forms the roof of this house in the coastal Vietnamese city Nha Trang, which architect Vo Trong Nghia designed in partnership with former colleague Masaaki Iwamoto (+ slideshow).
Vietnam-based Nghia and Tokyo architect Iwamoto worked in partnership on the design of House in Nha Trang, aiming to offer residents as much outdoor space as possible.
The lack of extra space on the site led the architects to create an expansive garden on the roof of the building, featuring a large assortment of trees, plants and flowers.
“The client wanted a large house with a large garden,” explained the duo.
“Answering this request, a single roof is designed as a hanging garden to plant numerous trees and plants on.”
This design led to a problem – local planning guidelines stipulate that houses in the area should have sloping roofs, with at least half covered in tiles.
To get around this, the architects divided the roof up into strips of terraces and planting, then created staggered levels.
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The forthcoming M+ museum has opened its first exhibition space in Hong Kong’s new cultural district: a mirror-clad pavilion that cantilevers out of a hillside
As the first permanent facility to open in the fast-developing West Kowloon Cultural District, the M+ Pavilion will provide a new exhibition gallery for showcasing visual art, design and architecture.
It will be run by M+, the major new museum of visual culture designed by Herzog & de Meuron, which is currently under construction nearby.
The pavilion is designed as a collaboration between three Hong Kong-based architects, Vincent Pang of VPANG, Tynnon Chow of JET and Lisa Cheung.
The trio won a competition for the project back in 2014.
The 878-square-metre structure contains two storeys, including 310 square metres of exhibition space.
By cantilevering the building out from the hillside, the architects aimed to create a gallery that “floats above the foliage”.
Polished concrete floors and white walls feature alongside large windows and a looped terrace, offering views of the Hong Kong Island skyline and Victoria Harbour.
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London Festival of Architecture 2016: architects Tomaso Boano and Jonas Prišmontas have created a small pop-up studio to raise awareness of how London‘s unaffordable rents and education is crippling its creative industries (+ slideshow).
Boano and Prišmontas sought to question whether London will still be a capital of art and design in 10 years time, as the cost of studios for both businesses and individuals rises. Their simple structure is intended as a model for what the affordable studio of the future might look like.
“London has always represented a hub for creative minds but recently these financial pressures have turned ‘creativity’ into an industry that can only be joined by people who are able to afford an education and pay the rent without a fixed work income,” said the pair.
“We believe that creativity should not be linked to a social status,” they added.
“It exists and flourishes inherently within people, and therefore anyone should be granted the opportunity to investigate, experiment, rehearse and play. To do this, we need more affordable spaces.”
The studio is named Minima Moralia after a text by German theorist Theodor Adorno, which aims to stimulate reflection on the “damaged lives” of London’s creative workforce. It has a steel frame with foldable walls made from panels of translucent channelled cladding and oriented stand board fittings.
Boano and Prišmontas propose the studio as a replicable model that could be make use of the capital’s disused yards and wasteland, giving designers, artists, and musicians an affordable space to experiment.
It has been installed on Dalston Roof Park throughout the month-long London Festival of Architecture and occupied by local artists.
“This project is a type of urban acupuncture that targets those [disused] places and effectively brings life into them,” explained the architects.
“Minima Moralia is more than an architectural installation, it’s a programme to target abandoned or misused spaces, effectively bringing life and creativity into them.”
The London Festival of Architecture has been running for the whole of June across the capital, but finishes today. Other projects on show include a fold-up market stall, a pavilion filled with spinning bamboo propellers and a photographic exhibition investigating whether post-war housing meets the needs of the 21st-century family.
Source: www.dezeen.com
In celebration of Canada Day, here’s a look at some of the best houses situated in the dramatic landscapes of the vast North American country. Our archive includes cliff-top retreats, mountain cabins and lakeside lodges.
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A swimming pool on the roof of this concrete residence by Brazilian office Studio MK27 sits within the dense canopy of a coastal rainforest in São Paulo state (+ slideshow).
Studio MK27 nestled Jungle House within a clearing in the dense vegetation covering the mountainous terrain of Sao Paulo’s coastline.
To take full advantage of the scenic landscape, the architects placed the primary living spaces alongside the pool on the building’s uppermost floor.
Bedrooms are set within the main volume of the house – a board-marked concrete block that is elevated over a wooden deck, but that rests one end on a stony step in the terrain.
“The introduction of this house to this landscape has the objective of optimising the connection between architecture and nature, privileging the view looking out to the ocean and the incidence of sunlight in the internal spaces,” said team, which is led by architect Marcio Kogan.
“The house, therefore, projects itself out from the mountain,” they added. “The contact elements between the slope and the construction were shaped to respect the existing land, thereby creating an organic interaction between nature and the architectural elements.”
The large wooden deck sheltered beneath the body of the house provides a shaded play area for the family’s children, and a small timber-clad block to one side houses an indoor playroom and utility rooms.
Leafy fronds from the adjacent jungle creep over the edge of the decking, softening its edges, while a flight of steps at the back of the space leads up over a stoney step into the house.
Inside the stairwell, the textured concrete walls are illuminated by an artwork by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson.
A television room is set at the top of the stairs in the centre of the volume, while six bedrooms with corresponding balconies face into the forest.
The balconies host hammocks and are shaded from the sun by slatted folding shutters.
The uppermost floor – a glazed box with an overhanging roof – contains the kitchen, dining room and lounge. It is surrounded by a patio with a pool on one side and a small circular hot tub on the other.
The pool is partially submerged into the floor but has a raised border that brings it slightly above the floor level of the deck. Glass balustrades frame the space, allowing swimmers to enjoy the view.
Conversely, the floor of the living area is slightly sunken – by 27 centimetres relative to the deck – to diminish its scale.
“This last floor offers a spatial sensation which synthesises the principles of the house: on one side, there is a deck which houses the hot tub and the sauna – where there is an intense relation between the architecture and the mountain and its vegetation,” said the studio.
“On the other side, a ground fireplace and the pool; in the centre – between these two free spaces – is the living room open to both sides and with cross-ventilation.”
The building’s raw concrete and timber construction is left exposed across the interiors, which are finished with neutral-coloured furnishings in a variety of textures.
Marcio Kogan founded Studio MK27 in São Paulo in the 1980s and now has a team of almost 30 architects. Recent projects include a book shop with a vast timber-lined reading room, a concrete photography studio with folding walls and a 65-metre-long house.
Photography is by Fernando Guerra.
Source: www.dezeen.com
Adjaye Associates, Henning Larsen Architects and Caruso St John are among the seven shortlisted teams whose designs for a major new art museum in the Latvian capital have been unveiled today (+ slideshow).
LA studio wHY, Helsinki firm Lahdelma & Mahlamäki, Berlin office Sauerbruch Hutton and Rotterdam practice Neutelings Riedijk also feature on the shortlist for the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art, proposed for Riga.
Adjaye Associates proposes a building with an angular roofscape
Set to open in 2021, the €30 million (£24 million) cultural building aims to become the “most-visited art museum in the Baltic states”. It will showcase art and visual culture from Latvia and the Baltic Sea region, from the 1960s to the present day.
Source: www.dezeen.com
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Golden Lion-winner Solano Benítez presents a brick and timber arch at the Venice Biennale as an example of how cheap materials and intensive labour could “transform scarcity into abundance”.
Benítez’s Paraguay-based studio Gabinete de Arquitectura created the installation in the Central Pavilion of the Giardini, to show how readily available materials and unskilled workman could provide a solution to the global need for rapid urban development.
“The world will need to build the equivalent of a city of one million inhabitants per week with only $10,000 (£7,000) per family,” estimates Alejandro Aravena in the project’s citation.
“Urbanisation will require building at a pace and with a scarcity of means never before seen in human history,” he added. “If we don’t do so, people will not stop coming to cities; they will come anyhow, but will live in appalling conditions. So what can we do?”
The studio created a large, arching structure to demonstrate how unskilled workers could use use low-tech building techniques to produce impressive urban architecture, as migration from rural communities towards cities increases.
Source: www.dezeen.com
The UK‘s first commercial spaceports could be developed with the introduction of the Modern Transport Bill, revealed during the Queen’s Speech today.
The Modern Transport Bill proposed by the UK government aims to “put Britain at the forefront of the modern transport revolution” by enabling the development of the nation’s first commercial spaceports.
The bill would also set out new laws to prepare the UK for driverless vehicles including cars and spaceplanes, and put in place safe-usage rules for both commercial and personal drones following a number of collisions.
Source: www.dezeen.com