The concept of the project was based on the design of two bodies with independent volumetric characteristics in order to associate them with the specific themes of the architectural programme (classrooms and administrative areas). It was fundamental that these two bodies relate to each other, through situations of coexistence for the internal population of [...]
FROM THE ARCHITECTS: I designed this apartment complex, consisting of about 100 units, in Montpellier in the south of France. In this city with a Mediterranean climate, it is warm enough to eat outside even in the winter, so the local residents spend a lot of time on their balconies and outdoor terraces. The [...]
Originally meant for a place of meeting and rest, the Tea House designed by Oscar Niemeyer at Praça dos tres poderes Square was one of the busiest points in Brasilia in the '70s and '80s. The semi-buried construction with 250 m2 near the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, was a scene of festivities in the [...]
The building is a new typology for community-based urban development that includes diverse social and affordable housing programs. The porous, pedestrian-oriented urban Campus features a public plaza and a series of courtyards that unify various social services as well as cultural and institutional programs, all located directly across the street from another Center facility, [...]
The Urbo Business Centre is a building for offices and services located in Matosinhos, in the Metropolitan Area of Porto. Characterized by the single volume, with detached implantation of rectangular geometry, the building is inserted in a corner plot with about 6000m2. With a total construction area of 25600m2, the building comprises a total [...]
Aberrant Architecture proposes the creation of an installation devoted to free play in Intermediæ. Inspired by the architectural language of the great Dutch playground designer Aldo van Eyck (1918-99), Landscape for Play is a leisure-based proposal that shifts the shapes of the surrounding city to an interior space. To the question of how we can transform the [...]
Maintain the coherence of the original building of the architect D. Javier Fontán Gamarra without resignations. Or at least with the minimum renunciations. Amplitude of the volume, natural lighting, where there is no direct access to the façade, wide and visually related circulation spaces. The clarity of the circulations and the use of color [...]
Hybrid and holistic, Social House by Xintiandi is a multifunctional space comprising retail, F&B, and lifestyle elements. Positioned across two floors of the recently renovated Xintiandi Plaza in Shanghai’s central business district, the venue has been designed for openness and exchange, bringing the vitality of outside, in. Elegant and feminine in aesthetic, it takes visitors [...]
Manhattan Loft Gardens offers a new residential paradigm by re-envisioning high-rise living and how London’s rich variety of residential typologies can be brought into a vertically stacked building, creating homes that are not only generous in the area but also in volume. The brief centered on people and how they interact with each other in [...]
A constraint based form: mixed-use building in Moscow residential district. The tomahawk-like form of this mixed-use building in Moscow (Russia) is a result of the technical limitations of the plot. The complex form is based on the constraints and requirements of the site: the KPLN architects view these constraints and restrictions as opportunities to create a new [...]
