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Waiting rooms inside this red-striped health centre by architects Miguel Barahona and Luis Castillo overlook the Sierra de Gardor mountains in southern Spain.
The two-storey Consultorio en La Envía is set into the sloping landscape beside a housing development.
The red panelled exterior of the centre contrasts with the earthy tones of the surrounding vernacular architecture.
A glass-walled courtyard creates a light well at the heart of the building.
Consulting rooms for GPs, paediatricians and nurses are located at the back of the building whilst storage areas are provided in the basement.
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Photography is by Fernando Alda – see more photographs on his website.
Here are some more details from Barahona:
La Envía Health Center in La Envía
La Envia Golf is a housing development lying in the foothills of the Sierra of Gádor. Leaving behind the Sea of Plastic, the great expanses of plastic-cloaked greenhouses of Western Almería, the road slopes up towards 2,000-metershigh mountains through a rugged landscape with barely trace of vegetation. In such an overpowering environment, the reference of the project could be no other than landscape itself: sea, plastic, desert, mountains. A landscape that is the result not only of unique natural conditions, but of the extraordinary action of man.
In opposition to the adjacent constructions, lande with a nostalgic iconography, the Health Center, though small in size, stands both as a landmark and a viewing point of the surrounding landscape. The means used are those of abstraction. The Health Center lies on the plot as an object without any compositional or iconographic references posed. This object is then subjected to a process of complexification through the use of color, randomness, reflection, and superposition, so as to make the building space- and placesensitive.
The standard, rigid functional scheme suggested by the Health authorities, (entrance-hall-waiting rooms-consulting rooms) is inverted (entrance-consulting rooms-hall-waiting rooms) so that public areas can be defined with a higher degree of freedom. In this way, the waiting areas face the landscape and the views can be devolved to the patients. The blurring of the distinction between circulation and standing spaces allows for the creation of a fluid space with its own rules. The autonomy of the layout is enhanced by the freedom in the disposition of windows and openings and the internal views created across the entrance patio and the hall that separates the adult and children areas. Transparencies, reflections, oblique views, and exterior perspectives shape a conceptual space that in spite of its simplicity, fluctuates between clarity and indetermination, contemplation and introversion.
Location: c/ Los Castaños, s/n, Urbanización La Envía Golf, Vícar, Almería, España
Project: septiembre 2005
Completion: diciembre 2006
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Architects: Miguel Barahona, Luis Castillo
Responsible contractor: Luis Castillo
Technical arquitect: Luis Hervás
Structure: satec ingenieros s.l.
Engineer: estingal
Developers: ayuntamiento de Vícar, consejería de salud, junta de Andalucía.
Contractor: jarquil andalucia s.a.
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Functional programme: Health center, 295 m2
1 consulting room for adults.
1 pediatric consulting room
1 lab, waitings rooms, toilets, possible extension
almacén municipal, local warehouse 243 m2
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Each Renegade Fair has its own flavour—being outside really creates a different experience. We’re under a really big tent, which provides nice shade and it is much cooler in here. The images above are from early Saturday before the crowds arrived.
And below: pictures of our LA helpers, April and Stephen. Thank you guys, you’re doing a terrific job!
We’ll be here at Renegade LA Sunday from 11am – 7pm. We’re having a big last-day sale at our table since I’d much rather see the magazines and books go to nice customers than have to ship everything home again. If you can’t make it to the fair, you can use the discount code “renegade” for 10% off in the online shop.
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Mist cools the courtyard of this house in Kuwait City while also shielding it from prying neighbours (photos: Nelson Garrido).
Named Secret House, the detached residence by Kuwaiti firm AGi Architects is located in the densely developed Shuwaikh district.
The mist operates on a timer, surging up around the house both to keep it cool and to mask it from the street.
Living areas and bedrooms inside the house are distributed across the ground and first floors while a garage occupies the basement.
The body of the house circles the steaming garden while bridges and staircases cross it from the first floor.
A covered terrace on the second floor overlooks the Kuwait City skyline.
Architecture and mist have been popular partners lately on Dezeen – see our earlier story about a mist-releasing water feature by Tadao Ando.
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The following information is provided by the architects:
Secret House
Kuwait’s urban fabric mostly consists of detached single-family homes highlighting a clear example of city-sprawl. To adapt to the desert climate, the distances between the built volumes are minimal, resulting in shaded spaces between houses. These spaces that work well as temperature regulators result in facades with little privacy and limited views. This creates an added challenge to create projects with personality that are not based purely on an exercise in façade design.
Given these circumstances, our focus was to design a home that expresses the clients’ needs, clearly marking the buffers and transitions that any guest could understand. There are guided routes, hidden areas, exposed areas that are all expressed through the architecture, rather than signage. We want the house from the street to be seen as a resounding permeable volume, that is not transparent, however friendly yet private.
Physical barriers can be seen in varying degrees impeding passage or vision to reach the large opening on the upper terrace that allows you to see through the house. From the inside, the barriers become the volumes that open onto the guests, the rooms that dominate the spaces on the upper levels, defining the spaces below them.
The search for an understanding of the nature of an Islamic family culture living with a Western lifestyle has shaped the overlap of concepts and is reflected in the relevance of the major pieces in the facade, privacy and sun protection.
This house was a very peculiar request. Typically the client has a specific program and an actual site, and our job is to make the two complement one another. In the case of the Secret House, the client was occupying the given site in a house that neither met their aesthetic desires, nor their programmatic needs. This design thus becomes a personal expression of their present conditions, and at the same time creates a space capable of holding their hopes for the future.
It is a place with great potential, with wonderful views of the city, and a family who wants privacy. We plan to design a system that would unify these requirements: a house that looks towards the inside and only at the top level opens up to views towards the skyline of the city.
In this case we had only one street-facing facade, and only from there could one look onto the horizon without being seen. We have placed more public activities on the ground floor, where as you enter, you find a guest living area that is away from the other rooms. On the other side, after a circulation buffer, you find access to a family living area that connects the backyard with the central garden.
On the upper floor, rooms are positioned according to privacy and importance, alternating with areas for daily family use. From this level, a staircase runs through the courtyard and leads up to a more private space with a large covered terrace that opens out on the main façade. This allows you to enjoy both the city skyline and the sea view at the horizon in a private, shaded and lush landscaped area.
Type: Housing | 2600 sqm
Location: Shuwaikh B, Kuwait
Date: 2010
Client: Private
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This is so cool.
For decades it lay in the bottom of a secretary’s desk drawer, its purpose unknown.
But now, 123 year after it was made, the secret of this bent metal ring, which was found in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, has finally been uncovered.
Scientists have found that the microscopic grooves on the ring make up the tune of ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’ and mark the world’s first attempt at a talking doll and the dawn of America’s recording industry.
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Voici “Hitch”, le projet vidéo de fin d’études de Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco et Torsten Strer : 3 étudiants à l’Université Of Applied Sciences and Arts de Hanovre. Cette création représente un livre animé contenant les recettes des films d’Alfred Hitchcock.
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Architecture graduate Stephan Sobl has designed an upside-down skyscraper to hang over the Colorado River in Nevada, right beside the Hoover Dam.
Entitled Vertical Strip, the conceptual tower would provide a casino, a hotel, a boxing ring and a concert hall, like the nearby Las Vegas Strip.
The lightweight carbon-fibre structure would be suspended from a concrete cantilever and supported by a spiralling metal shell.
Located between the dam and the bypass bridge, the tower would be accessible to both cars and pedestrians from the adjoining road.
Sobl developed the project whilst studying at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
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The following information is provided by the designer.
Vertical Strip – A Hanging Tower
My Diploma is about the interplay of opaque massive surfaces capable of incorporating poché and lightweight, fragile structure.
The resulting environments developed by these distinct architectural languages are exploited and distributed vertically to create extreme spatial sequences.
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The project is a casino resort, a satellite alternative to Las Vegas, located on a dramatic site between the Hoover Dam and the Bypass Bridge. The resort caters to various 21st century vices including entertainment (concert venues, MMA Fighting), gambling and luxury living. The architectural challenges I dealt with were taking the convential vertical tower, including its plynth and orientation, and turning it upside down.
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Architectural elements: The massing layout is construed by the event space on top with a framed view of the Hoover Dam; the casino underneath leading to the hotel lobby and the hotel itself. At the bottom of the tower there is a dramatic area for happenings and ceremonial occasions. It also includes a breakfast room and high end dining with the elevator core floating above the space; a glass floor providing views to the ground; and terraced floor slabs.
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In terms of circulation, there are several ways leading into the plynth of the tower, including car circulation; and viewing platforms. The bridge circulation focuses on 3 elements:
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Once you arrive at the entrance of the tower, you enter the hanging structure through the supportive strings leading you down through the casino into the hotel lobby.
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The structural system is divided into 3 tectonics: – a massive concrete structure building the cantelivar for the hanging tower – a lightweight hanging tower – a metal shell embracing the structure
The way I generated the tower is with a partical simulation based on gravity. In order to achieve structural logic the stings are rotated clockwise and counter clockwise.
The metal shell provides shading and natural wind cicrulation for the tower of which its panels are orientating themselves according to changing wind conditions.
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