제 주도 서귀포 핀크스 골프 클럽 가까이 조성된 비오토피아는 이타미 준과 유이화가 설계한 연립주택, 생태공원, 미술관, 교회 등으로 구성된다. 기존의 황폐한 자연을 개조해 자연과 함께할 수 있는 적극적인 건축 프로그램을 만들었다는 것이 특징이다. 2004년에 시작해 2005년부터 계획된 연립주택은 2010년에 완성된다. 비오토피아는 제주도가 지닌 휴양 요소를 충분히 도입한 저층 집합 주택이다. 자연에 대한 개념은 독일의 뒤셀도르프에서 실험된 예를 적용했다. 이는 황무지에 가까운 자연을 인공적으로 개조하면 10~20년 후에 새로운 자연으로서 다시 태어난다는 점을 확인하는 실험이다. 우리는 자연에 광범위하게 손을 대는 것이 아니라, 인공 요소를 최소한으로 가미하고 인프라를 정비해 미개척 벌판을 새로운 자연으..
Designer: Johnston Marklee & Associates Location: Rosario, Argentina Partnership with Diego Arraigada Arquitecto - AIA Next LA Citation Award 2004 from johnstonmarklee
Spanish practice XPIRAL shared with us this nice urban residence in a very narrow site in Murcia, Spain. With a very tight budget, they decided to built a concrete structure house attached to the party walls that creates a central courtyard facing west to the neighbors. from archdaily
Architects: Akihisa Hirata Location: Nigata, Japan Program: Showroom, Office Design Year: 2005 Construction Year: 2006 Site Area: 824 sqm Constructed Area: 294.2 sqm Photographer: Akihisa Hirata This is the building for a showroom exhibiting small agricultural equipments. I tried to create a place similar to natural environment in an artificial way. People are invited to go deep into the continu..
Architects: Kleinfeldt Mychajlowycz Architects Location: Brampton, Ontario, Canada Architects in Charge: Carol Kleinfeldt & Roman Mychajlowycz Associate Consultant: Quadrangle Architects Limited Landscape Consultant: MBTW Group Civil Engineering: Stantec Consulting Ltd. Electrical Engineering: Moon-Matz Engineering Structural Engineering: Halsall Associates Limited Builder: Bird Construction Pro..
147 Laidley was designed and built by the Architect owners, Jim Zack and Lise de Vito, and they now occupy it along with their two children. Design was carried out by the couples architecture firm, Zack/de Vito Architecture, with Lise taking on the role of lead designer. Construction was completed by their companion construction company, BuiltForm Construction. The house is a new, ground up sing..
Designer: stoosarchitekten Location: Switzerland Image Credits: Reinhard Zimmermann, Adliswil from spaceinvading
wHY Architecture has shown us their expertise on cultural projects at different scales: the Grand Rapids Art Museum (the first LEED Gold certified museum) on the large scale in one side and the Royal/T Gallery on a smaller scale, among other cultural projects shown on their website. And now they share with us a cultural project on the infrastructure scale that I had the chance to see when I visi..
description: Arena Zagreb is multifunctonal hall with the footprint of 90340 m2. It is located in the southwestern part of Zagreb, Croatia, at one of the main city entrances. Also it lies opposite of popular Zagreb recreation and sports center Jarun. Arena Zagreb became a new city emblem in one of its main axes, offering to the citizens a large palette of amusement events. The shell shape is fol..
Architects: SeARCH & CMA Location: Vals, Switzerland Design: Bjarne Mastenbroek & Christian Müller Interior design cardboard bedroom: Studio JVM, Jeroen van Mechelen Interior design excluding cardboard bedroom: Bjarne Mastenbroek Interior advises: Christian Müller, Monica Ketting & Thomas Eyck Contractor main structure: Kurt Schnyder Bauunternehmung, Vals, CH Structural engineering: Alex Kilchma..