Year: 2022

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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.

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© 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.

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© 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

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Design Team:Cherene Hui,Daewook LeeJennifer YipConcept – New Way of LearningIn a rapidly changing world, architecture must adapt and respond to the change in cultural and educational needs. We believe that a library is no longer a building to merely read books; it should be a place where knowledge gets attracted, created, shared, and evolved.

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© DJC design

It should not be bound by a physical form, but evolve into a new mode of existence, a new way of learning.Site – the HubIn a smart city with an extensive education network like Songdo, the library should serve as a hub where knowledge nourishes and evolves through promoting wellness, connection and interaction among different individuals.Wellness – Landscape Corridor While the current site implies conventional “fronts” facing streets, a landscape corridor that branches away from the streets is introduced to the project, creating an

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The newly completed electrical switchgear building is the first Net Zero Energy (NZE) targeted electrical substation building in the United States.  Tucked midblock on Eddy Street between Larkin and Hyde, the steel frame concrete structure is a modern addition to the existing historic 1962 substation building designed by PG&E to supply power to the northeastern part of the city. 

The constrained property and need to accommodate crane and equipment lift access prescribed the expansion’s perpendicular orientation to the existing substation.

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© TEF Design

The utilitarian structure features street-facing façades that integrate three types of GFRP panels – sloped, perforated, and ribbed – to form a faceted surface that belies its otherwise modest materiality.  Each panel is individually crafted and unique, with ribs that cast linear shadow patterns in sunlight, creating an ever-changing surface throughout the day and year. 

Sloped panels embedded