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House for green, breeze and light / Yaita and Associates

© Shigeo Ogawa
Architects: Yaita and Associates
Location: Ota, Tokyo,
Architect In Charge: Hisaaki Yaita , Naoko Yaita
Area: 145.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Shigeo Ogawa

How Do Mysterious “Memory” Materials Work?

Decker Yeadon’s Homeostatic Facade System. Image Courtesy of Design Curial
Imagine a material that shifts and moves according to the temperature of the outside air - like a flower opening up for sunlight and closing its petals at night. New high-tech smart have allowed this idea to thrive and the possibilities are endless. Originally posted on Design Curial, the designer and smart material guru Chris Leferti answers a few questions behind these mysterious materials.
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 .
Find out more about these amazing materials after the break

3 of The New Yorker’s Best Architecture Reads

The National September 11 Memorial Museum by Snøhetta in New York. Image © Joe Woolhead
If you like magazines, then you’ll love this: the New Yorker, celebrating their recent redesign, have made their archive free for a limited period only. And, making up for their hiatus as they wait for a redesign of their own, Places Journal has gone to the effort of rounding up the best architecture reads from the last few years. Here are our top three:

Yoga House / WMR Arquitectos

© Sergio Pirrone
Architects: WMR Arquitectos
Location: Matanzas, Navidad, Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins Region,
Area: 170.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Sergio Pirrone

Users Create the Color in this Super-Sized Kaleidoscope

Courtesy of Shirane-Miyazaki
2013 KOBE Biennale visitors had the opportunity to experience the magic of a kaleidoscope in a whole new way thanks to Saya Miyazaki and Masakazu Shiranes’ award-winning . The psychedelic polyhedral was designed for the Art Container Contest, which challenged participants to create interesting environments within the confines of a single . As visitors meandered through the installation, they became active participants – rather than passive observers – in the kaleidoscope’s constantly changing appearance. For more images and information, continue after the break.

Case Study: The Unspoken Rules of Favela Construction

© Solène Veysseyre
“Building a house takes time and money,“ said Marcio, a local resident of Complexo do Alemão, one of ’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 are used?

79 Building / Pedro Mendes Arquitectos

© Jorge Lopez Conde
Architects: Pedro Mendes Arquitectos
Location: Rua Nossa Senhora Fátima 384, 4050-428 ,
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
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© Nico Saieh

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

© Toshihisa Ishii
Architects: Architect Show
Location: , Nagasaki Prefecture,
Architect In Charge: Masahiko Sato
Area: 120.0 sqm
Photographs: Toshihisa Ishii

Barking Central / Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

© Timothy Soar
Architects: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Location: , 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

© Ernesta Caviola
Architects: 5+1AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo
Location: 36030 Vicenza,
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

SP Setia Headquarter / Shatotto

Courtesy of Shatotto
Architects: Shatotto
Location: , Selangor,
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Shatotto

AD Classics: Thorncrown Chapel / E Fay Jones

© Flickr User Anirban Ray
Hidden in the middle of the forests surrounding Arkansas’ Ozark Mountains, Thorncrown Chapel rests amongst the oaks, pines and maples. The humble chapel, designed by Euine Fay Jones, is less than 35 years old – yet it’s on the U.S. Historic register, has been named one of the AIA’s top ten buildings of the 20th century, and has even been called the best American building since 1980.

Renovation of an apartment in Eixample / Sergi Pons

© Adrià Goula
Architects: Sergi Pons
Location: , ,
Year: 2014
Photographs: Adrià Goula
Filmstill from the exhibition . Image © Tapio Snellman

“Lina Bo Bardi: Together” at the DAZ Berlin

If you are in Berlin in August, make sure to check out the exhibition “Lina Bo Bardi: Together” at The Deutsche Architecture Zentrum, dedicated to the legacy of the famed Italian-born Brazilian architect, and focusing on her “capacity to engage with every facet of culture and to see the potential in all manner of people.” More on the exhibition after the break.

Unified Architectural Theory: Chapter 7

Jyvaskyla University, designed by Alvar Aalto, is commonly cited as an example of "Critical Regionalism." However, according to Salingaros
We will be publishing ’ 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

© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Architects: ColectivArquitectura
Location: Avenida Engenheiro Duarte Pacheco 26, 1070-103 Lisbon,
Architects: Vera Martins Alves and Cristóvão Fonseca Ferreira
Area: 5.330 sqft
Year: 2012
Photography: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

AATU Wins Competition to Design ‘From Field to Kitchen’ Industrial Park

Courtesy of
The Tianjin University Research Institute of Architectural Design and Urban Planning (AATU) recently won an international competition to design a hub for Chinese food-processing and stock-breeding company Luoniushan in Sanya, Hainan. With expectations to break ground this year, the 42-hectare multi-functional park will house the company’s new headquarters as well as warehouses, serviced apartments, a tourism and exhibition center, and more. For more images and information, continue after the break.
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