Le photographe finlandais Miemo Penttinen parcourt Hong-Kong et prend en photo les façades colorées de la ville. Il s’en dégage des motifs abstraits et une multiplicité d’immeubles à la taille vertigineuse où se superposent des milliers d’appartements. Une très belle série de photos à découvrir en images.
L’artiste russe Nikolay Polissky rend un très bel hommage au Centre Pompidou de Paris avec sa dernière création : Beaubourg, une tour de 22 mètres de haut faite de tubes en bouleau tissé. Elle surplombe un champs et une forêt, destinés à devenir un espace culturel voué aux performances artistiques.
Slender columns support a canopy that sweeps around the front of this family residence in Japan’s Tokushima prefecture by Japanese firm Horibe Associates (+ slideshow).
Horibe Associates raised the single-storey wooden House in Naruto off the ground on concrete foundations to protect it against flooding, a common issue in the neighbourhood.
“The clients requested a design that dealt with the problem, as well as providing security, privacy, good natural light and air circulation, and a space that their children could run around in,” said the architects.
Access to the chunky wooden front door is via steps around one side of the curved facade or a ramp from the other, both covered by the porch.
The entrance leads through to a combined kitchen, dining and living room at the west side of the property, while bedrooms are positioned to the east.
Full-height sliding windows lead from these zones into a rectangular outdoor space.
A single tree is planted in the middle of this central courtyard, which is decked with the same wooden slats that run throughout the house.
“[We] proposed locating a large courtyard in the centre of the house that would let in light and air without sacrificing privacy,” the architects added.
The low window on the north wall leads into a play area with softer tatami flooring so the children can access the room directly from outside.
Storage space and a bathroom are accessed by a narrow corridor that buffers the ancillary rooms from communal space and completes the loop around the house.
Horibe Associates founder Naoko Horibe has also designed a house with a protruding, timber-clad mezzanine.
Popular Japanese houses we’ve posted recently include a family home that’s only 2.7 metres wide and a white shed-like abode raised up on pilotis.
Photography is by Kaori Ichikawa.
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Drawings key:
1. Entrance
2. Shoe closet
3. Dining & Kitchen
4. Living room
5. Japanese-style room
6. Lavatory & Washroom
7. Room 1
8. Room 2
9. Free space
10. Room 3
11. Bathroom
12. Washroom
13. Walk-in closet
14. Courtyard
15. Approach
16. Car parking space
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News: architecture firm Aedas has won a competition to design a twisting 33-storey skyscraper for Shanghai, China (+ slideshow).
The Xuhui Binjian Media City 188S-G-1 Tower will rise to a height of 155 metres. The rectangular building will gradually twist from its central axis as it rises.
“It begins with an extruded rectangular plan,” Aedas architects said. “Going upward, the west wall is gradually warped to accommodate the subway setback that cuts off the corner of the otherwise square project site; and the north wall is warped to the east.”
The facade will comprise groups of three glass panels, angled in four different directions, to reflect light and mimic a media screen.
“Curtain wall details were then developed to accommodate small differences in glass sizes and the four different aluminium mullion angles to minimise costs and fabrication time,” said Aedas.
A separate podium platform at the base of the tower will be used as a public green space, floating above a number of glass boxes housing retail, restaurant and cafe units. A large warped canopy on the podium will be designed to mimic the skewed shape of the nearby skyscraper and will serve as a cover for outdoor events.
The project will be located within a nine-block development in Shanghai. “The whole development contains nine square blocks and DreamWorks [Animation] will occupy three blocks in the middle,” Aedas told Dezeen.
“The Xuhui Binjian Media City 188S-G-1 Tower and Podium will occupy one block, with a view over the DreamWorks blocks. The developer will take up 20% of the tower space and lease out the rest (80%) to media industry tenants.”
The project is scheduled for completion in 2015.
Last month we featured a roundup of our featured twisted skyscrapers, which included The Grove at Grand Bay, a 20-storey residential development for Miami by BIG and the curvaceous and twisting Absolute Towers in Canada by Beijing firm MAD.
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AISIDI, principal revendeur de produit et service mobile en Chine, s’associe avec Coordination Asia, un cabinet de design et d’architecture, pour le lancement d’une nouvelle série de magasins, AER. Slogan publicitaire inscrit sur le chemin noir au sol, comptoir Lego, jeu sur les typographies, le résultat est très réussi.
This apartment block in Seoul by South Korean designers OBBA has a semi-outdoor stairwell screened behind a section of open brickwork in the centre.
The Beyond the Screen project by OBBA (Office for Beyond Boundaries Architecture) is located on a corner plot in the Naebalsan-dong neighbourhood of Seoul.
The five-storey building comprises two volumes bridged by the stairwell, and its volume is sliced externally by regulations such as setback lines and natural light requirements.
“The outer appearance is a single mass, however, it is actually two masses bridged by a semi-exterior central stairwell with a unique brick screen to the front and back, forming an H-shaped plan,” said the architects.
The upper four floors are divided into 14 residential units in four types, arranged on split levels so that each apartment is accessed directly from a stair landing.
The brick screen allows each apartment to have natural ventilation on three sides.
The pattern continues over the roof and covers selected apartment windows that would otherwise be severely overlooked by adjacent buildings.
“This screen filters the view into the building from the front, while allowing for the right amount of natural light and ventilation, creating a far more pleasant atmosphere in and around a stairwell,” the architects added.
A roof garden at the top provides communal outdoor space tucked behind a parapet wall, while the ground floor comprises a parking place on one side and a cafe on the other.
Seoul studio OBBA was founded in 2012 by Sojung Lee and Sangjoon Kwak, who previously worked at Dutch firm OMA and Korean firm Mass Studies.
For more projects with interesting brickwork in South Korea, check out the perforated brickwork facade of a house, cafe and gallery building in Seoul or a house with a curved grey-brick facade that its architects compare to the body of a fish.
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Photographs are by Kyungsub Shin.
Here’s some more information from OBBA:
Beyond the Screen
Beyond the Screen is a new type of residential complex, located in Naebalsan-dong, Seoul. The existing condition of this residential neighbourhood is no different from most other neighbourhoods, with multiplex housing having held the majority.
The aim of this project was to offer a compact spatial richness for living, while finding new architectural solutions in satisfying the specific needs of the user, client, as well as contributing to the improvement of the typically generic townscape so familiar in Korea.
The building sits at a corner condition and is formed by a cutting and shaping of the volume by influences of the site regulations such as setback lines and natural light requirements.
The outer appearance is a single mass, however, it is actually two masses bridged by a semi-exterior central stairwell with a unique brick screen to the front and back, forming an H-shaped plan, with a skipped floor structure from the east to west.
This five-story building incorporates both residential and commercial functions – the first floor with a café and a piloti parking space, and from the second to fifth floors, four different unit types making up 14 different units in total.
From a user’s perspective, the design took into consideration the following four points:
Courtyard
Upon entering the building, one encounters the courtyard with a semi-exterior stairwell that provides access to each of the 14 units, with a unique brick screen to the front and back. This screen filters the view into the building from the front, while allowing for the right amount of natural light and ventilation, creating a far more pleasant atmosphere in and around a stairwell.
The sunlight that filters through the bricks makes for a lovely courtyard, allowing for an atmospheric transformation throughout the day, every day.
Natural ventilation
By splitting the building into two volumes, it allows all of the units to have three open sides, maximising the natural cross-ventilation throughout.
Roof garden
The roof garden is open to the sky, with a parapet wall at full-floor height, creating a private communal space for the residents.
Privacy
The brick screen walls, in their orderly staggered stacking construction, allows for privacy from the exterior gaze of the adjacent buildings into the semi-exterior, semi-public core of the building. This filter is applied, not only in the central core zone, but at specific moments where the building closely faces adjacent buildings. This adds to the privacy of each unit, while allowing for the residents of each unit the flexibility in ventilation, allowing each unit to breathe naturally.
The design also takes into consideration the client’s point of view, with an attempt to satisfy cost efficiency and profitability through quality design:
Area
The skipped floor structure allows residents to enter their units directly from the stair landings, eliminating unnecessary, dead public hallway space, and maximizing the area for exclusive use.
Cost Efficiency
With a limited construction budget, but aiming to satisfy all of the essentials for living, the design of the building and the units focused on only the absolute necessities, without being superfluous with custom materials and built-in furniture, but with quality materials and fixtures that were economical.
Uniqueness
In order to provide the client with something new and different from the monotonous characteristics of the area, their needs were met through a quality of design that allows the building to stand apart within the existing streetscape of multi-family housing, both formally and in function, resulting in a new type of residential experience and use.
As designers, there was a need to find a new architectural solution for the unexpected and unplanned, such as the following:
Equipment
It is quite common for residential buildings to attach and expose air conditioning equipment on the exterior of the building. In order to keep to the intended design of all four elevations of the building, spaces were allotted for such equipment into the overall plan of the building, as well as an application of the brick screen system for ventilation and air circulation for HVAC.
Ad-hoc expansion
To avoid illegal additions and extensions to the original design of the building in the future, which is a common practice in Korea, especially to buildings lacking a specific logic, there was a great focus in efficient spatial planning and design to allow for longevity in the initial design intentions and the spatial organization of the building.
Harmonized distinction
A unique design calls attention from its surrounding neighbours and residents in sparking an interest in a new design sensibility, and to form and awareness and appreciation for beautiful buildings and well designed spaces for living. Due to the changes of living patterns in the city, the number of single to double occupancy living units has grown. Rather than contribute to the increase of thoughtless and monotonous residential typology, the focus of Beyond the Screen was to provide new architectural design solutions to improve the quality of compact living through and enrichment of spatial qualities and functions.
Project: Beyond the Screen
Building name: NBS71510
Design period: 2012.06 – 2012.08
Construction period: 2012.09 – 2013.02
Type: residential, commercial
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Site area: 215 square metres
Site coverage area: 128.08 square metres
Building-to-land ratio: 59.57% (max. 60%)
Total floor area: 427.24 square metres
Floor area ratio: 198.72% (max. 200%)
Building scope: 5F
Structure: RC
Finish: brick, Dryvit
Architects: OBBA (Sojung Lee & Sangjoon Kwak)
Structural Engineer: TEO Structure
MEP Engineer: Wonwoo Engineering
Construction: YIINSIGAK
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How about a taxi stand that offers a waiting lounge, office space, personal cabins for drivers, lavatory, changing room, storage area, kitchen and resting area! Sounds utopia but plausible, thanks to the universal language and modern architecture incorporated. Electrical and lighting systems are assembled within the installation floor, which is hidden, between ceiling and the roof. Moreover a system is in place to collect rainwater and use it within the infrastructure. Very Impressive!
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Leader dans la vente de meuble en Californie du Nord, One Workplace fait appel à l’agence d’architectes Design Blitz pour créer son siège à San Francisco. Ils créent un espace hybride très design destiné aux employés comme aux consommateurs. Une très belle et innovante collaboration à découvrir en images.
Architect Alison Brooks talks about how residents come together in the streets of her firm’s Be housing project in Essex, UK, in this movie produced by Living Projects.
Alison Brooks Architects designed 85 homes in a variety of typologies as part of Newhall masterplan on the eastern edge of the Essex town of Harlow.
Nominated for the 2013 RIBA Stirling Prize and announced overall winner at this year’s Housing Design Awards, the houses at the development, formerly named South Chase, reference the traditional local architecture.
“We were able to achieve narrower urban blocks, because they’re back to back and they’re terraced, and a denser overall masterplan,” Brooks says.
Keeping to the original masterplan, terraces create east-west streets and detached dwellings line north-south avenues, with apartment blocks at the corners of the site.
For the terraced houses, the firm cut courtyards and front gardens into each square plan. “We were able to develop a T-shaped plan, which means you enter the house at the centre and that central hole is the hub of the house,” says Brooks.
She also explains that the apartment blocks connect the scheme together: “They help the masterplan turn the corners in a slightly softer, more organic manner.”
Finally, she comments on how residents use the outdoor spaces to socialise. “They use the streets for street parties in the summer,” Brooks says. “Everybody opens up their kitchens on to their front courtyard… the street itself becomes a big party room, and that I think is a big achievement.” Read more about the project in our earlier post.
Living Projects also created a movie about the Church Walk residences in north London by David Mikhail and Annalise Riches.
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In this movie by producers Living Projects, architects David Mikhail and Annalie Riches explain how their Church Walk housing project created four compact but light and airy homes on the small awkward site of a former junkyard in north London.
Mikhail and Riches live in the Church Walk scheme they designed and developed themselves, which has been shortlisted for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize and recently triumphed at the Housing Design Awards.
The terraced brick building contains three houses spilt over different levels and one apartment, each with access to outdoor space.
In the movie, Mikhail talks about the issues of building on a tight plot: “The proximity of the site to our neighbours meant that the building stepped down to be only two metres high.”
He also explains how the zig-zagging geometry of the plan prevents overlooking from a nearby building that sits at a 45-degree angle to the site.
Riches discusses how they maximised the amount of accommodation on the small area of land by varying ceiling heights. “Whilst there are some low spaces where you sit down like living rooms and bedrooms, those are contrasted with having spaces like kitchens and dining rooms with very tall ceilings.”
“The scheme is about trying to grab light and views where you can find them,” she adds. “Small tight sites are where architects can really add value because we do have the skills to make the most of whatever assets are there. I don’t see any reason why the principles here – the use of light, building up to the street edge – couldn’t apply to lots of brownfield sites.”
The homes were built on a brownfield site in Stoke Newington, the north London neighbourhood where Dezeen’s office is based – read more about the project in our previous story.
In other recent architecture movies we’ve published, take a tour of Zaha Hadid’s Galaxy Soho complex in Beijing and listen to Richard Rogers’ thoughts on his design for the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Living Projects has also produced movies about the hexagonal Canada Water Library by CZWG and Maggie’s Nottingham cancer care centre by the same architects.
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