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The facade of this single family house near Basel by Swiss architects andOFFICE steps back to frame a wooden terrace.

The two-storey LandyM house has four bedrooms and two bathrooms upstairs, with lightwells illuminating a further two bedrooms in the basement.

The house features a roof garden and glazed windows from floor to ceiling on two sides of the ground floor.

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The following information is from the architects:

Completion of LandyM – Single family home near Basel, Switzerland

The building made of solid wood construction combines compact, efficiently organised serving uses with a spatious and open living area.

A strong integration of the terraces generates an amply spatial feeling: a wooden deck partly enclosed by wall and ceiling enlarges the living zone into the garden while the facade loop, a horizontal extension of the greige-colored plaster surfaces, surrounds it in order to connect it with the interior and to link it with the roof garden.

The upper floor is super flexible with minimised supporting structures, 2 bathrooms and up to 4 bedrooms which can be arranged individually.

The high quality cladding consists of renewable resources and guarantees a low demand of thermal heat served by a wood stove with vision panel.

LandyM – maximising the felt living area

Main concept of the cost effective single family home consists of an innovative spatial organisation, interesting and sophisticated outside areas and high flexibilty during lifecycle to enable the inhabitants open future plans.

The building combines compact, efficiently organised serving area with a spatious and open living area. Soft zoning instead of sharp space borders maximise the felt living area as well as a strong integration of the terraces: a wooden deck partly enclosed by wall and ceiling enlarges the living zone on two whole building sides into the garden.

It generates an open morning terrace faced to Southeast while the main terrace towards Southwest is covered by the cantilevering upper floor.

The facade loop, a horizontal extension of the greige-colored plaster surfaces made of gravel, surrounds the terraces in order to connect it with the interior and to link it to the roof garden with its fantastic view towards Black Forrest and Vogese.

The 1st floors flexible plan enables the inhabitants open future plans. Up to 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms can be arranged individually and guarantee by minimised supporting structures a suitable configuration for every section of life. The fully insulated basement serves two additional bedrooms with comfortable lightwells.

The sustainable organisation corresponds with construction and services. The high quality cladding is built in solid wood construction and excellent wood fibre insulation and therefore consists of renewable resources. The combination with triple glazed windows in wood-aluminium construction leads to a low demand of thermal heat. An excellent interior climate is generate by the airtight but permeable wall construction that enables an easy interior completion with services on the clients own account.

Thermal energy is mainly served by a wood stove with vision panel and storage unit. It is the traditional family centre in the living zone. Heat-recovery ventilation, solar collector and usage of rain water complete the simple and ecological aware concept.

Simplicity is continued in terms of surfaces: Supporting elements are used as visible interior surfaces: The groundfloor is covered with waxed floor screed, prefabricated stairways in concrete contrast to uncovered wooden walls with a simple industrial finishing. Significant oak boards and furnitures as well as slick white plastered walls generate an exciting interplay of traditional and innovative materials.

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Outside the greige-colored plaster facade corresponds with bronze anodised aluminium and pregreyed irregular boards of  larch wood. It coveres terrace floors and adjoined facades and creates a haptic and visual experience of outside living.

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Credits

Architecture:
andOFFICE architecure and more
Dipl. Ing. Architekt Thorsten Blatter
Gaußstr. 39, D-70193 Stuttgart, Germany

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Copyrights: andOFFICE Thorsten Blatter

location: near Basel, Switzerland
completion: März march 2011
plot: 651 m2
living area: 199 m2
addtitional area: 34 m2
living area: 56 m2
felt living area:106 m2
felt area = living area x andOFFICE
construction: solid wood construction
insulation: wood fibre insulation 26 cm

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East-meets-West in Vietnam’s art celebration focused on growth

As the cultural center of Vietnam, Hanoi recently made the ideal location to kick off Tiger Beer’s latest event in its free art and music series, Tiger Translate. With more than half of the country’s population born after 1975, the theme focused on growth, providing a badly needed forum for local Asian artists to come together and show off their work on a bigger scale and international platform.

Overseas artists included Prefab77, a wheat-paste trio from Newcastle, England, and JabaOne, a street artist from Belgium who resides in Singapore. They were matched with locals Hoang Art, whose Western-influenced style earned him a first-prize award in Hanoi’s Long Bien Festival of Arts; Pham Huy Thong, a studio painter and teacher whose work doubles as social commentary; Linkfish, a name recognized for being one of the first pioneers of the street art movement in the country; and DungJoon, a painter who is also an architect and art director. “For us, the reason we have such shows is to create the exchange,” said Tiger Translate Global senior brand manager Patsy Lim, citing how the invitation of major-name international artists helps shine the spotlight on lesser-known ones.

Tiger Translate Hanoi unfolded on Hoa Lo, the same road where the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison is located. Although it took eight levels of approval by various city departments to close off the street for the event, the choice clearly worked to drive home the growth theme.

Under a cloudy sky, heavy heat, humidity and the never-ending honks of scooters and cars, the artists spent a few days before the event painting the wide walls installed along the block, occasionally switching their focus to six plywood trees. Nearby, workers installed pieces by international artists turned into mesmerizing 3-D by Tiger Translate. The final touches were made in front of more than 3,200 eventgoers on the evening of the show. While most of the Vietnamese artists already spoke a little bit of English, language wasn’t a problem. “Because it was all visual, it’s people who have sketchbooks,” said Marc Ross of Prefab77. “The language barrier doesn’t matter.”

While spray painting his own piece, Hoang Art observed Prefab77’s wheat-pasting technique and invited them to collaborate on an area of his piece. In fact, all of the collaborations worked similarly. Artists began their pieces, and as they checked out each other’s progress, they’d suggest how they could add their own signature.

For such a young street art scene—Linkfish told us it’s only about five years old, originating from hip-hop parties held in underground Hanoi locations—both Prefab77 and JabaOne were surprised with the art prowess of the Vietnamese. “They have a very good level for beginners,” said JabaOne. He was particularly impressed with their lack of access to more sophisticated types of spray paint. “When they move to the modern spray can, their technique will even be better,” he said. Prefab77 echoed the same sentiments about Hoang Art. “His style is incredible. I can’t imagine there’s many of that size of walls in Vietnam that you could paint and not get arrested,” Ross said.

The rapidity with which the Vietnamese artists did their work was also something Prefab77 found remarkable. Pham Huy Thong, who had never painted on outside canvases before, painted his tree with a picture of a baby—as a representation of the changing consumer habits of today’s youth—in under an hour and a half. Using brush and acrylic paint on top of Prefab77’s wheat-pasted posters, his piece ended up being the paradigm of the East-meets-West goal of Tiger Translate.

From the side of the local artists, they were most taken with Prefab77’s wheat-paste method, a style they had never seen. “We have spray cans, pens or brushes,” said Linkfish. “They have stickers and posters.” Whether it was a matter of tradition, the local artists said they never realized street art could be made outside of the use of conventional materials. Prefab77’s response was a little ironic, “They have the best glue we’ve ever used!”

Tiger Translate will run in other cities this year and continue exploring the themes of growth and metropolis.

A new book delves into the future of urban development through three of the world’s fastest growing cities

Among all the chatter about the future of urban development, “Living in the Endless City” stands out as a refreshing voice with its collection of clear-eyed info designed to help grapple with the some of the big questions facing today’s cities. Culled from the London School of Economics’ “Urban Age” conferences, the massive book may seem like a daunting academic read meant only for architects and city planners, but extraordinary photographs and comprehensive infographics make for a thoroughly engrossing book picking up where the ideas in “The Endless City“—which examined NYC, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg and Berlin—left off. “Living,” edited by the same team of London Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic and London School of Economics professor Ricky Burdett, continues with an in-depth look at the world’s three most rapidly expanding cities (Mumbai, São Paulo and Istanbul), using them as examples for a deeper discussion about urban sprawl and the value of the city in its potential to shape our culture and way of life.

The weighty book is filled with astonishing statistics, like that only 2% of the Earth’s surface is covered by cities but 53% of the world’s population currently occupies those areas (a number that will grow to 75% by 2050). Thoughtful essays on transportation, emergency aid and grave economic shifts detail how to prepare for these numbers.

A rational look at urban dwelling in the twenty-first century, the book is a gainful read for anyone interested in how the increasingly global world will fare during such rapidly developing times. “Living In The Endless City” sells from Phaidon and Amazon.

All images courtesy of Phaidon