XTEN Architecture have designed Sapphire Gallery, an extension to a house for art collectors in Los Angeles, USA. Cantilevered above the existing 1960’s house, the structure is clad in perforated aluminium to protect the artwork from direct sun but allow views of the gardens beyond. Solar cells are arranged in a similar pattern on the south facade and sloping roof. Radiant heating and cooling sy..
Architect: Smiljan Radic Clarke Location: Los Lirios, Rancagua, Chile Collaborators: Danilo Lazcano, Gonzalo Torres Structural Engineer: Claudio Assar Olguín Technical Inspection: Smiljan Radic Contractor: Eugenio Durán Constructive System: Masonry Project Year: 2005 Construction Year: 2006 Site Area: 1600 sqm Constructed Area: 210 sqm Photographs: Gonzalo Puga These two houses -actually there´s..
Architects: Shuhei Endo Location: Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan Structure System: Suspended Steel Sheet Project year: 2005 Principal use: Public Lavatory Site Area: 580 sqm Constructed Area: 103 sqm Photographs: Shuhei Endo
Architects: KWK PROMES Location: Katowice, Poland Project Architect: Robert Konieczny, Marlena Wolnik Structural Engineer: Jaroslaw Kaminski Design Year: 2000 Construction Year: 2001-2002 Site Area: 3,500 sqm Constructed Area: 330 sqm Photographs: KWK PROMES The building is located on the outskirts of Katowice, near a forest, on land deteriorated by 4th category mining damage, where tectonic fau..
Client Helse Sør-Øst RHF Engineering Multiconsult AS SWECO AS Hjellnes COWI AS / Interconsult ASA Architect Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller Landscape Bjørbekk & Lindheim AS Schønherr Landskab A/S Artist Troels Wörsel, Gunilla Klingberg, Mari Slaattelid, Knut Henrik Henriksen, Jan Christensen, Tony Cragg, Birgir Andrésson, Petteri Nisunen, Tommi Grönlund, Julie Nord, Per Sundberg, Vesa Honkonen, Jan..
Artfarm Town of Clinton, New York, 2006 - 2008 , in collaboration with the artist Ai Weiwei Client private Team HERLACH HARTMANN FROMMENWILER with Tom Strub, Fumiko Takahama Photos by Iwan Baan, www.iwan.com The ARTFARM is located in upstate New York, on the site of a private residence. The building is designed as a gallery for a professional art collection. On the interior it is subdivided into..
ORDOS 100 #5 : HHF By Nico Saieh The physical context for the Ordos 100 project is limited to climatical conditions and some few regulations by the master plan done by FAKE Design. Within Ordos 100, this project is simply the HHF house. It’s making an issue out of the fact that 99 other architects are simultaneously and independently planning 99 houses with an identical program within the same m..
Architects: Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden architects + urbanistes Location: Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada Principal in charge: Bruce Haden Project Architect: Brady Dunlop Project Team: Norm Hotson, Stephanie Forsythe, Tina Hubert, Julie Bogdanowicza Project year: 2006 Site Area: 1,600 acre Constructed Area: 1,115 sqm Materials: Rammed Earth, Concrete, Bluestain Pine Cladding Structural Engine..
El pabellón está elevado sobre tres núcleos estructurales y de comunicación liberando el espacio de planta baja para crear una plaza y ceder un espacio libre al conjunto de la expo. A esa plaza se superponen cuatro niveles. Inicialmente se construyen únicamente dos, para la exposición, durante la cual funcionará el pabellón de Aragón. Para su uso posterior, como departamento del Gobierno de Arag..
Architects: Charles Pictet Architecte FAS SIA Location: Frontenex, France Collaborator: Philippe Le Roy, Architecte EPFZ Engineering: Jean Regad, Geneve Project Year: 2004-2006 Photographs: Francesca Giovanelli The construction is located on an old property that comprises several high-quality buildings, among which an orangery dating from the early 19th century. The project includes the building..
