Month: November 2022

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Originally designed to serve as a Mormon Meetinghouse in 1958 and later as an office building in the early 1980’s, Meetinghouse at 3080 is the new home to UEB. Referencing both the history of the Meetinghouse as well as the future of the company, the space assimilates and clarifies through the designed balance of hand and machine.

© Architekton

© Architekton

A fire that destroyed many of the structural elements as well as two building additions in the early 1980’s allowed for the new office space to capture moments of blending rather than the typical contrast. Realized by craftsmen’s familiar elements intrinsic to their craft, steel and glass became the medium in which to showcase old and new techniques to the building.

© Architekton

© Architekton

This didactic experience highlights conventional and nonconformist methods of construction while seamlessly bringing attention to the unscathed building

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THE SITE & BRIEF
The Skywalker House, a house design prototype that ‘skywalks’ on a 42 degree slope, minimising footprint & complementing the surrounding green at the same time, proofing the viability of the co-existence between nature and architecture.
The house, for a medium size family, is located at Bangsar, a hilly posh suburb near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

© S.PIN ARCHITECT

The site is at the least developed section of the suburb surrounded by green. The brief called for a 3-level modern house which has to sit comfortably on a steep 0.2 acre site overlooking the surrounding urban skyline. The only access is from the slope toe, 19 meter lower than the rear boundary.

© S.PIN ARCHITECT

The gentle profile at the hilltop is only 15% of the site area. This has prompted the architect to seek a new prototype design for this challenging

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This residential project involved the construction of three distinct structures, creating additional interior space and forming a private courtyard for an existing house that remains in place. The largest new structure, the Art House, is designed to house a burgeoning art collection, and accommodate occasional guests. When the lot adjacent to their house came on the market a few years ago, the owners saw an opportunity to expand beyond the small house where they had lived for twenty years, raising their four children.

© Buttrick Projects Architecture + Design

© Buttrick Projects Architecture + Design

The planning challenge was how to resolve the geometry of the trapezoidal site, while complying with the
scale of the neighborhood, and providing enough open space to satisfy the requirements of the program. Locating the art storage and studio structures against the rear setback, while keeping them low and

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The building site is located in uptown Tehran and is narrowed between two residential buildings. With, the passage of time and an exponential rise in property value the area has experienced a rapid transformation into an aggregation of high-rise structures for the wealthy.
Design Strategy: The proposal is derived from the idea of inhabiting the urban skin, or specifically, those undefined intermediate spaces which are neither specifically urban public spaces, nor completely within the private domain.

© Farshad MehdiZadeh Design | FMZD

© Farshad MehdiZadeh Design | FMZD

The building exterior is perceived as a habitable, semi-urban space, resulting in a structure that is void of any definite or obvious façade, but rather is a multi-layered, dynamic, and tactile façade system which creates depth and an external to internal spatial hierarchy. A very essential design principle was to enhance the skyscraper living experience beyond

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Our work at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, one of the world’s leading centres for neutron science, includes a new visitor centre, conference facilities, bookable lab space and healthcare support.
Designed in collaboration with local practice TKMT, the building is conceived as two halves, with the centre is split into public and private zones to balance accessibility with more secure functions.

© Benjamin Gremen

© Benjamin Gremen

The new building has a delicate appearance, underpinned by a solid, muscular structure.
Slender white perforated fins on the exterior modulate daylight and privacy.
A singular skylight pushes its way through the roof to provide natural light throughout the space.
The interiors are crisp, white and calm, featuring elements of timber joinery to offer moments of warmth and texture, alongside a large helical exposed concrete stair..

© Benjamin Gremen

© Benjamin Gremen

Institut Laue-Langevin Gallery