Zahara de la Sierra is a small village in the south of Spain. It is situated on the top of a hill like a dense liquid flowing down along the slope. At its bottom, a concrete dam forms a reservoir. The town council plans to establish a recreation area embedded in a lower hill site which is next to the water reservoir. The landscape is shaped by small white pieces of housing based on the small size of the plots. The aerial view of this landscape is...
Sculptured in wood and fitting in with the topography of the orchards, this house reminds the world of a hangar and of a barn. It also preserves the rural characteristics of the surroundings and the organisation of the surface area around the positioning of the space it follows the distinctive typology of a farmhouse. Highlighting the different components of the site, the Jura, the village cemetery, the pastures and the lake, further reinforcing the...
Brazilian house design by Vazio S/A Arquitetura e Urbanismo. Residence built with mixed structure: glued laminated eucalyptus in the center, reinforced concrete on the perimeter. The two structures are mixed and create a certain excess of pilars througout the house. The central element is a 9m high stairway; whereas the rooms are located about the void. The furniture was designed by Casa Design Brasileiro.
On a very small site of 33 square meters of frontage 3.3m / 10m deep, I planned a building of frontage 2.7m / about 9m deep. I draw the biggest curve on there with width and depth of a building, I distributed a place of a roof and a place of a sky with the curve. And I planned the stairs which went up from the first floor to the second floor with this curve. The main space of the building which these created, it is it with the space that it “is...
The Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation (PHRF) today announced plans for its Center for Human Rights Education. PHRF has secured a long-term lease/sublease for the 10,000 square foot parcel of land at 16th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, which is the site of North America’s first Holocaust Monument – The Monument to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs. Mayor Michael Nutter was instrumental in producing the 80-year lease for the historic...
A central space with double high, where there are a balcony and a dinner room, divide the house in two blocks. It is crossed by a ground that marks a transversal axis to the house volume, relating the external areas of different functions. To this vertical balcony it still turns: the living room, the library and more two balconies at the superior floor. It is from these balconies, designed like a continuous space that the araucarias forest is completely...
The house is hided behind a harmonious sculptural set of curved walls made of stone dark granite and marble travertino that seem to emerge from a big water plate arranged in the house entry. In addition to the beauty of this structure, it offers a high grade of privacy and tact between the exterior (street) and the house. Other more, this structure goes to the back part, as a front, where is a natural, clear and kind scenery. This block disposition...
In an area of new housing development Blok Kats van Veen realised this triangular shaped villa in big contrast to the traditional housing around it. This private house is located along the edge of the Homeruskwartier neighbourhood and is facing the Almere forest stroke. The triangular shape of the plot was leading for the design. The triangle opens itself towards the garden at the south west with a great view on the forest stroke. The living space...
A large exhibition area, facing students, occupies a shed built in the early twentieth century that housed a textile mill. The factory had built railway lines and platforms 140 meters associated with buildings, for input and output supplies. The set, which is under consideration for tipping bodies of historical, still houses one seconds parallel shed that serves as the center of activities to people with special needs. Between the two brick buildings...
Until recently, the first thing visitors noticed upon arriving at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein was the Vitra Design Museum, a building designed by Frank Gehry. Now a new building, which has been erected next to the museum, is destined to attract just as much attention: the VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron. In close proximity to the Swiss border and the furniture manufacture’s Basel headquarters, Vitra has created a new domicile for...
East Village Studio by Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture
Economy, functionality and privacy were the primary drivers in the design of this sixth floor...
Datong Sports Park by Populous
The win for Populous, which has its Asian base in Queensland, comes as its first sports park...
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