Dezeen Screen: Bas Princen

Dezeen Screen: Bas Princen

Dezeen Screen: in this final movie from our series filmed at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, academy graduate Bas Princen talks about his work as a photographer. Watch the movie »

Garden Studio in Slough, UK

The Garden Room is the latest of designs by in.it.studios, whom are setting the way forward for sustainable timber construction across the UK. Other ..

Museum in Palmiry by WXCA

Museum in Palmiry by WXCA

Each bullet-sized hole piercing the skin of this museum by architects WXCA in Palmiry, Poland, represents a Polish civilian murdered there during the holocaust.

Museum in Palmiry by WXCA

The punctured panels surrounding the exterior of the Palmiry Museum are made of rusted steel.

Museum in Palmiry by WXCA

The museum showcases photographs, documents and memorabilia connected with victims of Nazi executions during World War II.

Museum in Palmiry by WXCA

A glass wall at the rear of the building overlooks a cemetery where each of the 2252 memorialised victims are buried.

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Museum in Palmiry by WXCA

Photography is by Rafał Kłos.

Museum in Palmiry by WXCA

The following text is from WXCA:


Museum – A Place of Memory Palmiry

The Palmiry Museum Place of Memory lies in a pine-birch forest surrounding the cemetery.

Museum in Palmiry by WXCA

The building is a part of the Kampinos National Park, with glass and steel walls, and a green roof.

Museum in Palmiry by WXCA

The exhibition space lies among trees – witnesses of past tragedies.

Museum in Palmiry by WXCA

During the Second World War, in Palmir woods, Nazis murdered over two thousand Polish civilians including intellectual elite.

Museum in Palmiry by WXCA

The building, ascetic in form and materials, tells a story, and forms a background for the exhibition.

Museum in Palmiry by WXCA

The exhibition part is surrounded by a wall with holes symbolizing bullets.

Museum in Palmiry by WXCA

The relation between the building and the surroundings is stressed by greenery inside the building and the patios.

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The facility opens to the cemetery and three crosses.

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The idea was to create an architecture of remembrance.

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Architects: WXCA
Location: Palmiry, Poland
Design: 2009-2010

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Site area: 8738 sqm
Total area: 1133 sqm
Usable floor area: 998,30 sqm
Volume: 4400 m3


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Museo Casa de la
Memoria
Memorial for Tree
of Knowledge
Yehiam Memorial Hall
by SO Architecture

ShiftBoston: WHY STOP Competition

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ShiftBoston, of the recent barge competition, has announced their latest competition: Why Stop. The competition asks for designs for locations and programming for a railroad line along Massachusetts’s southeast corridor between Boston and New Bedford/Fall River.

Options for entries include designing New Bedford and Fall River end-of-the-line stops, creating programming around local resources and industries, and considering the railroad’s relationship with the landscape and wetlands it would pass through.

Deadline for the competition is September 16, 2011.

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House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates

House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

Japanese firm Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates have completed a concrete house in Fukuoka that resembles a half-submerged submarine.

House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

House in Ropponmatsu has an L-shaped profile, with the first and second storeys set back so as not to overshadow neighbouring properties.

House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

Outward-facing windows were rejected on the ground floor of the bunker-like house in favour of glazed walls that overlook two enclosed courtyards.

House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

Instead, the only outwardly visible windows are placed at the top of the three-storey turret, which resembles a conning tower.

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House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

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House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

Photography is by Kazunori Fujimoto.

Here are some more details from the architect:


House in Ropponmatsu

This house is located in the city area near by the center of Fukuoka city. The shape of the site is long and narrow, 6m x 18m.

House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

We designed this house not to make the shade on the north house next door, as a result, the house with three floors shaped like ”L”.

House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

In contrast to closed outside like a silent sculptural volume, the interior is designed well-lighted and well-opened.

House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

At the ground floor level, we can look whole the long distance of the site through from entrance court to bedroom.

House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

Each room is filled with light and breeze from the two courts.

House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

The storage and bathroom are placed in the second floor, and another bedroom is in the third floor.

House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

At third floor level, keeping a distance from the road, we can get wide range of view, from near the garden tree in the next door, to the faraway mountains.

House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

The simple form, found by the condition of the site, has been transformed into an affluent space for living.

House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Main use: house

House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto

Site area: 121m2
Building area: 71.99m2
Total floor area: 99.16m2
Design term: 2010
Construction term: 2011

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Safe House by Robert
Konieczny
Himeji Observatory House
by KINO architects
Hiedaira House by Thomas
Daniell Studio

Buildings We Love: Brown University Center for the Creative Arts by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

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Completed in 2010, the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University in Providence, RI plays with levels and divisions. The building has 10 floors, or rather 5 floors and 5 floors, each alternating by half a floor. This shift is visible from the front, such that half of the building is visibly taller than the other half.

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Perhaps the most interesting part of the Center’s exterior shell are the pinched walls on either side that really distort one’s depth perception of the building. The walls also seem like playful window blinds, with bits of glass peeking out of the corners.

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Casa Paz by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

Casa Paz by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

This metal house on stilts by Spanish architect Arturo Franco projects over a river valley in central Spain.

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Named Casa Paz, the house perches over the valley on steel legs and can only be accessed from the top of the valley where it almost touches the ground.

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The house was completed back in 2006.

Casa Paz by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

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Casa Paz by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

Photography is by Carlos Fernandez Piñar.

The following information is from the architects:


Casa Paz is located in a housing development built in the 60’s, approximately 70Km. outside of Madrid. The area is considered a conventional residential zone, of no specific architectural interest, built using heterogeneous topologies and materials. The housing development, called Rio Cofio, is located on the outskirts of the village Robledo de Chavela; there at the edge of a cliff, a 1,400 m2 steeply sloped lot overlooks a small river. The property is accessed by a road that runs right above it. Directly in front, facing west over the valley, the mountain rises again, creating a natural park that is especially protected.

Casa Paz by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

When we first saw this lot, we felt it essential to be able to reach this area with the house; to be able to hang in the middle of the valley, suspended at the top of a tree, almost at the other side, listening the murmur of Cofio River directly below. From here, we had to resolve a technical, functional and, mainly, economical problem. The need to work practically without any resources led us to sharpen our wits and to administer the work ourselves, subcontracting all of the professionals one-by-one. None of them (all local trade professionals), nor any of us, had run into such a structural problem as this one when building a house before.

Casa Paz by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

How could we build this there without financial backing and achieve a unique space for the two people that were to live there? We began to think: an iron structure like those of the visionary Russian Constructivists, a work by Tony Carr, a chair by Shapiro, a piece by Max Hill; something heavy and light at the same time; gravity, an issue; the scale, an instrument to work with; a large table or a small ship.

Casa Paz by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

In the end, we were searching for a linear house with a rise to it. The straight line and an interior staircase with 90 cm. deep steps as in a garden, reuniting all functions. Below it, a small therapeutic pool, 2 m. wide by 10 m. long.

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The entire design is developed inside a metal, “cubic like” structure (parallelepiped) clad with a skin stretched sheet metal (deployé), resting on a reinforced concrete base – the container for the pool water and for the gas, heater, water treatment tanks, etc. The guts of this iron artifact, where all vital fluids are concentrated. All of this, more than 15 meters above the river. Nine HEB 300 carry the load the ground. These columns are the only contact the house has with the ground.

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To maintain structural equilibrium and a certain gravitational logic, the house is suspended 5.5 m. over the river without any support, and the same amount is projected towards the road, where there it ends up being only 40 cm. above ground at the entrance. By doing this, a balance in weight is achieved; apart from placing the heavy elements over the cement frame, thus lowering the center of gravity.

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The crane that was available only reached 18 m., that is only as far as the concrete box. We were not going to be able to construct the cantilever that projected out towards the river. The solution consisted in erecting the entire metal cage and then sliding it into position over rails using manual winches, as if it were a train.

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In short, this house in which Paz and her husband Tomas presently live was an adventure and we are grateful to them for their trust and courage. It is a home with which, according to them, they wholly identify.

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Arturo Franco, as architect of the team, working with Fabrice van Teslaar, architect, and Diego Castellano, interior architect and work coordinator, had projected and constructed this dwelling. Casa Paz. Río Cofio Housing Development, Robledo de Chavela, Madrid.

Location: C/ DEL RIO, 591. URB. RIO COFIO. ROBLEDO DE CHAVELA. 28294 MADRID.
Preparation of the project and completion of construction schedule: January 2004-April 2006.

Project’s authorship: Arturo Franco. (architect), Fabrice van Teslaar. (architect)
Project’s collaborators: Diego Castellanos (interior architect)
Site Supervisor and Quantity Surveyor: Salvador Baños.
Developer/Owner: Paz Fernandez/Tomas Rodríguez

Cost per Square Meter: 280,000 euros. – 771 euros/sq m
Area or volume constructed: 363 sq m


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Torreagüera Vivienda
Atresada by Xpiral
Ty Hedfan by
Featherstone Young
Balancing Barn by MVRDV
and Mole Architects

Life Stand by Wojciech Nowak and Martynika Bielawska

Life Stand by Wojciech Nowak and Martynika Bielawska

This bright green pavilion by Polish students Wojciech Nowak and Martynika Bielawska provides spectator stands for a football pitch and a basketball court in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Life Stand by Wojciech Nowak and Martynika Bielawska

The rectangular green pavilion frames two sets of cascading staircases, allowing spectators to face either direction.

Life Stand by Wojciech Nowak and Martynika Bielawska

The Life Stand pavilion was the winning design in a student competition entitled Trimo Urban Crash 2011, organised by building-materials firm Trimo.

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Life Stand by Wojciech Nowak and Martynika Bielawska

Here are some more details from the competition organisers:


Opening of the winning project for the Trimo Urban Crash 2011

The workshop for finalists was mentored by Professor Cyril Shinga from the Chelsea College of Art and Design from the University of Arts – Trimo Research Awards were also granted.

Trimo officially handed over a public architectural installation “Life Stand” – the winning project of the Trimo Urban Crash competition for students of architecture and design which was created by Polish students, Wojciech Nowak from an architectural faculty in Gliwice, and Martynika Bielawska, from an art and design academy in Wroclaw.

The opening event was held in the centre of the residential neighbourhood of Fužine in the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana. The event was opened by the General Manager of Trimo, Tatjana Fink, and the Deputy Mayor of Ljubljana prof. Janez Koželj. A rich accompanying program with the Dunking Devils acrobatic team, the Bast dance group, and the performance of rapper, Adam Velić, ended with a banquet at the Museum of Architecture and Design, where it was the second day of the Trimo Urban Crash workshop for students whose projects were shortlisted in this year’s competition.

The creative workshop entitled “Responsible Architecture”, which was held by Professor Cyril Shing from the Chelsea College of Arts and Design, University of Arts London, and a former associate in the architectural bureau, Zaha Hadid Architects Ltd, London, was attended by 47 finalists from 16 different countries. The three-day workshop at which participants explored the importance of sustainable thinking in architecture and design creativity came to its end one day after the opening event with joint presentations of the finished products at the symposium and one-day excursion across Slovenia.

Trimo Urban Crash

The international Trimo Urban Crash competition for students of architecture and design was, for the third time, organised by Trimo. The competition, which encourages a creative transformation of the urban environment with the help of advanced building materials and technologies, was held between 15 October 2010 and 31 January 2011. The students of architecture and design, from 56 countries from all over the world, presented their ideas and submitted a total of 363 proposals for an urban multi-purpose facility at a location in Fužine.


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Rubber House by Zeinstra
van Gelderen architecten
Trail House by
Anne Holtrop
Hiroshima Park Restrooms
by Future Studios

Dezeen archive: markets

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Nomad by 1/100

Nomad by 1/100

This disco-cum-caravan is one of five timber-clad cabins installed by Swiss architects 1/100 in the garden of the Quai Branly Museum, Paris.

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Each mobile pavilion folds open to reveal a different function, offering a sheltered information point, an ice cream vendor, a sound-system, a kindergarten and a stage.

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Scattered across the site, the Nomad caravans are decorated with disco lights and surrounded by carpets, stools and chairs to encourage social gatherings.

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At the end of the summer each caravan will be folded up and towed to a new location.

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Photography is by Thomas Mailaender.

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Here are some more details from the architects:


NOMAD
Museum Quai Branly, Paris

The installation NOMAD squats the garden of the Museum Quai Branly for the summer months. It inhabits the site from the 4th of June to the 4th of September, before continuing its journey.

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The installation NOMAD chooses to inject programm into a hyperarchitectural environment. This programmatic occupation of the site will last the summer months, taking advantage of the highly frequented garden. Caravans, tents, carpets and stools: informal architecture, assemblage of recycled and transformed objects, the installation enables the domestication and the appropriation of a garden originally thought to be admired. Lightweight and mobile, five informal settlements provide spaces for events, refreshments and subsistence. Spread along the paths, in the glades and under the museum ship, they trigger interactions and create a new field of relationships. In the heart of the city, the dense vegetation is the set of a temporary occupation. Without fences nore measurements, this territory is redefined, held, inhabited for a time.

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Second-hand caravans, transformed and tuned, build the heart of those mobile units. They offer shelter to an info point, a sound-system, an ice cream van, a kindergarden and a stage, programs chosen for they capacity to generate interactions. Agricultural canvas, tight to the caravans, offer shade to an inviting floor of colorful carpets. Lightweight foldable wood furniture, inspired from the museum collections, can be spread according to needs. Detached from their context and aesthetized by the museography, many domestic objects presented in the musem exhibitions have lost any relation with their original function. Inspired by the collections, the furniture created for NOMAD desacralizes and reintegrates those objects to where they belong, everyday life. The whole deployement can be removed in no time and leave the site without any marks. An architecture without bonds, but not without history or territory: the caravans and their inhabitants, removed for a while from the national landscape, are integral part of the European culture – and way before this summer of 2010, when France hunted them down.

Nomad by 1/100

Museum of Arts and Civilisations, museum of Primal Arts, museum of Africa, Asia, Oceania and Americas? Let’s call it Museum of Quai Branly, this would avoid any ambiguity and misunderstanding. Beyond a polemic of designation, this is an institution which chooses to focus on extra-european cultures, however defining itself as a place where cultures are in dialogue. But the monologue is not a variant of the dialogue. This fixation on the exotic risks to block any parallels, any cultural exchanges and, above all, to impede any reflexion on occidental practices and cultures. The project chooses then to fight against an euro-centrist vision of culture and its bigoted evolutionism. Indeed, if it is far from being absurd to expose those fascinating objects coming from cultures that we definitively know too less, their display should jeopardize our position – otherwise it is purely aesthetics.

Nomad by 1/100

At a time when a billion humans are migrating throughout the world, often involuntary, nomadism becomes the horizon of art and society. It is about not looking away, about doing an humble autocritic, as from now on we recognize nomadism as part of our own culture, integrated in globalization.

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NOMAD stops in the garden of the Museum Quai Branly to affirm contextualization against esthetization, diffusion against centralization, emancipation against homogeneization.


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Opera by Axel
Enthoven
Rolling Huts by Olson
Sundberg Kundig Allen
Vostok Cabin by Atelier
Van Lieshout