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House for green, breeze and light / Yaita and Associates
Architects: Yaita and Associates
Location: Ota, Tokyo, Japan
Architect In Charge: Hisaaki Yaita , Naoko Yaita
Area: 145.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Shigeo Ogawa
Location: Ota, Tokyo, Japan
Architect In Charge: Hisaaki Yaita , Naoko Yaita
Area: 145.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Shigeo Ogawa
How Do Mysterious “Memory” Materials Work?
There are many materials that are defining the future: renewable resources, completely new materials such as graphene, but one of the biggest and most fascinating groups — that continues to grow — is smart materials.
Find out more about these amazing materials after the break
3 of The New Yorker’s Best Architecture Reads
- High Rise, an irresistible profile of Bjarke Ingels from 2012 which reveals Ingels’ famed mischievous side but also his outright ambition (apparently his reaction to the Pritzker Prize announcements is usually “Why not me?”)
- The Psychology of Space, a profile of Snøhetta from early last year that details their work on the Oslo Opera House, The National September 11 Memorial Museum and in Times Square, and how they aim to create architecture that is “like a sheepdog at a party.”
- and A Life-Altering Sock Drawer, a hilarious account of a writer whose chance encounter with Richard Rogers‘ super-tidy sock drawer caused her to re-evaluate some basic principles about organization.
Yoga House / WMR Arquitectos
Architects: WMR Arquitectos
Location: Matanzas, Navidad, Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins Region, Chile
Area: 170.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Sergio Pirrone
Location: Matanzas, Navidad, Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins Region, Chile
Area: 170.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Sergio Pirrone
Users Create the Color in this Super-Sized Kaleidoscope
Case Study: The Unspoken Rules of Favela Construction
“Building a house takes time and money,“ said Marcio, a local resident of Complexo do Alemão, one of Rio de Janeiro’s numerous favelas,
as he showed me around his house. This is why a house is often built
over several generations: a floor may be laid, columns erected (rebar
protruding), and a thin tin roof placed, but this is just to mark
where the next builder should finish the job. “Constructing a roof with
tiles is not a sign of wealth here — rather, it means that there’s not
enough money to continue constructing the house,” explains Manoe Ruhe, a
Dutch urban planner who has lived in the favela for the last six
months.
An architect who has always been fascinated by the way people live, I had come to do a residency at Barraco # 55,
a cultural center in Complexo do Alemão, in order to learn how its
citizens went about building their communities. I had many questions:
are there rules of construction? What are the common characteristics of
each house? Do they follow the same typology? How are the interiors of
the homes? What construction techniques and what materials are used?
79 Building / Pedro Mendes Arquitectos
Architects: Pedro Mendes Arquitectos
Location: Rua Nossa Senhora Fátima 384, 4050-428 Porto, Portugal
Architect In Charge: Luis Diaz-Mauriño, Pedro Mendes
Design Team: Patrícia Costa Horta, Pedro Marques Alves, Tiago Marcelino Cruz e Pablo Martín Palomeque
Area: 2855.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Jorge Lopez Conde, André Martins
Location: Rua Nossa Senhora Fátima 384, 4050-428 Porto, Portugal
Architect In Charge: Luis Diaz-Mauriño, Pedro Mendes
Design Team: Patrícia Costa Horta, Pedro Marques Alves, Tiago Marcelino Cruz e Pablo Martín Palomeque
Area: 2855.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Jorge Lopez Conde, André Martins
Infrastructure, Data and Progress: Ireland’s Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale
The Irish pavilion’s response to the theme of the 2014 Venice Biennale captures the tumultuous history of the Ireland‘s past hundred years through ten infrastructural projects which highlight the country’s progress. Ireland’s relationship to the theme of “Absorbing Modernity” was colored by their independence from the United Kingdom in the early 1920s, with modernism and infrastructure seen as the way to leave this past behind. The pavilion examines the outcomes of this approach, with Ireland treated as “a launch-pad and testing ground” for everything from concrete infrastructure to data centers. Read the curators’ take on their pavilion after the break.M4 House / Architect Show
Architects: Architect Show
Location: Higashisonogi District, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Architect In Charge: Masahiko Sato
Area: 120.0 sqm
Photographs: Toshihisa Ishii
Location: Higashisonogi District, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Architect In Charge: Masahiko Sato
Area: 120.0 sqm
Photographs: Toshihisa Ishii
Barking Central / Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Architects: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Location: London, UK
Design Team: Redrow Regeneration Ltd, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
Project Manager: Gill Associates
Area: 376.0 ft2
Year: 2010
Photographs: Timothy Soar
Location: London, UK
Design Team: Redrow Regeneration Ltd, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
Project Manager: Gill Associates
Area: 376.0 ft2
Year: 2010
Photographs: Timothy Soar
New Zugliano School / 5+1AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo
Architects: 5+1AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo
Location: 36030 Zugliano Vicenza, Italy
Architect In Charge: Alfonso Femia, Gianluca Peluffo, Diego Peruzzo, Alessandro Cavaleri
Design Team: Alessandro Bellus, Luca Bonsignorio, Marco Corazza, Gabriele Filippi, Sara Gottardo, Sara Massa, Valeria Parodi, Nicola Spinetto, Sara Traverso, Simonetta Cenci
Area: 3500.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Ernesta Caviola
Location: 36030 Zugliano Vicenza, Italy
Architect In Charge: Alfonso Femia, Gianluca Peluffo, Diego Peruzzo, Alessandro Cavaleri
Design Team: Alessandro Bellus, Luca Bonsignorio, Marco Corazza, Gabriele Filippi, Sara Gottardo, Sara Massa, Valeria Parodi, Nicola Spinetto, Sara Traverso, Simonetta Cenci
Area: 3500.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Ernesta Caviola
Unified Architectural Theory: Chapter 7
We will be publishing Nikos Salingaros’ book, Unified Architectural Theory,
in a series of installments, making it digitally, freely available for
students and architects around the world. The following chapter, written
by Salingaros and Kenneth G. Masden II, delves deeper into the
limitations of current architectural philosophies, including “Critical
Regionalism,” and justifies the creation of Intelligence-Based Design.
If you missed them, make sure to read the previous installments here.
As the architects of tomorrow, today’s students must come
to understand the role and responsibility of their profession as
something intrinsically tied to human existence and the lived
experience. A new suggested educational system provides a direct means
to design adaptive environments, in response to growing needs of the
marketplace (client demand). Nevertheless, most architectural
institutions continue to propagate a curricular model that has sustained
an image-based method and its peculiar ideology for decades. We can
trace this support to early twentieth-century anti-traditional
movements. Reform is impossible without addressing the system’s
long-forgotten ideological roots.
TBWA\LISBON office / ColectivArquitectura
Architects: ColectivArquitectura
Location: Avenida Engenheiro Duarte Pacheco 26, 1070-103 Lisbon, Portugal
Architects: Vera Martins Alves and Cristóvão Fonseca Ferreira
Area: 5.330 sqft
Year: 2012
Photography: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Location: Avenida Engenheiro Duarte Pacheco 26, 1070-103 Lisbon, Portugal
Architects: Vera Martins Alves and Cristóvão Fonseca Ferreira
Area: 5.330 sqft
Year: 2012
Photography: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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