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Some writers state that relations between variables of centralization and arch. creativity are negative. Both are not related in all cases. On the contrary decentralization can lead to
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innovations because the centralized systems will guide architectural design towards results that are compatible. It will decrease the rate of variation of each innovation to diversity of paradigms.
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Results show that following lines of pioneers might limit boundaries of imagination. The strict following of rules might limit freedom of creations. This brings to foreground the strict and centralized Mesian version of the structural approach as the only truth in architecture. This theory was well respected and followed all over international architectural schools in the ďŹ rst rational third of the 20th C.
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These tendencies went for more innovations and beauty and freedom in forms reaching postmodern levels. They moved for social, environmental and recreational functions in “cite’ – contemporaine� by Le Corbusier.
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Expected decentralization followed by diversity and complexity in 2nd third in late modern architecture motivated by Venturi and Le Corbusier. These brought to surface the new Brutalism in texture & form and social consciousness. Complexity extended to diversity of functions in one building.
Varity in materials and functions reached to the limit of a “City within a building� .In theory it went as far as saying “No� to all rules in “Deconstruction� and “fractal� compositions. the center of controversy
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This decentralized period followed centuries of centralized ones: Pharaonic, Classic and Medieval Paradigms. Each one freed itself from the cage of centralization by deviations to varied details, in textures and forms shifting to the unmeasurable ways to reach their targets.
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IN THE WORLD Designing a home will always be the true challenge for an architect. With these projects, the architect needs to fulfill the user's wishes, while simultaneously reinvent new ways of living the day-to-day. Therefore, it is no surprise that residential works are the most popular project category on FUZED. With the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2019, and already, we've published more than 1,000 houses Over eight years, offering projects with a variety of scales, contexts, and typologies.
An immense diversity of possibilities that showcase the creativity of architects and serve as a great source of inspiration for those seeking references for their own residential project. In the list, you'll find the houses that arouse the most interest in our audience. Check out the 25 most popular homes of 2019 (so far).
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The design emerged from a desire to translate the construct of a single sound wave into an overarching architectural gesture that will deďŹ ne the interior and exterior spatial qualities of the house.
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his 3 bedroom home for a musician-composer, holds a 150 m2 loft space as it's 2nd oor, overlooking its lush, surrounding of green rice paddies and coconut trees. The minimal shell of the house ampliďŹ es the panoramic experience of its surrounding landscape.
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Through an iterative process of manipulating the curve of single a line, both in plan and elevation, begins to articulate a multi-planar space in which the ground plane and roof scape are directly intertwined.
'As feeling like being inside of an instrument' most inside surfaces are rendered as wood patterned surfaces. The ceiling drops down in equal manner to improve acoustics and to indicate the entrance as a gesture. This element adds to the sculpted, interior experience of the space that is free of structural excess.
Throughout several months of the year, House O operates as a ‘Artist-in-residence’ initiative, hosting selected artists from across the world for short periods of artistic retreat.
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Key to the clients’ brief was to provide a home that matched their lifestyle through better connections between indoor and outdoor spaces and to enhance the use of natural light, encouraging improved passive heating and cooling.
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The Sydney-based clients
approached Modscape after working alongside local architects, Fox Johnston, who developed a clear design brief ďŹ t for the growing family.
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Directed by the architect’s concept, the Modscape team reďŹ ned the design while honouring the architect’s design intent.
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Bedroom The resulting design beautifully complements the existing elements of the site, connecting the front and rear garden through the house and optimising the connection between indoor and outdoor.
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Given its prominent positioning above a
relatively developed neighborhood, the motivation behind the design of the home was to create a residence that could meld into its surroundings while maximizing views. The three-story structure, which takes on the shape of a three-winged propeller, is wrapped in glass that mirrors its sweeping views of the Los Angeles Basin, which are unobstructed from the Getty Center to Long Beach, Century City, and Downtown.
Outdoor “The client wanted a luxurious house where she could throw large events and host her extended family, but she also wanted it to feel welcoming,â€? says SPF:a Founder and Design Principal, Zoltan E. Pali, FAIA. “To make this work, we needed the home’s spaces ow into one another with ease. Our answer was distribute the program across three ‘blades’ that radiate from a central node.â€?
The outcome of the conuence—a dynamic glass and steel staircase stretching through the core of the structure—was in fact twofold: practically, it provided a very straightforward answer to the vast home’s circulation; visually, it joined what would otherwise be disparate areas in one’s line of sight. “In spite of the scale, I feel we were able to achieve a home that is both warm and functional,â€? says Pali. 51
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As a whole, Orum rises two stories above ground with its third floor burrowed into the hill. Programmatically, the residence has been split into three levels each consisting of three wings. The ground floor provides the entry and communal spaces for gathering, while the top floor is dedicated to the home’s private spaces. The upper southwest and southeast wings of the home hold the master and mini-master suites, both of which are afforded 270-degree views of the city and ocean, thanks to their slim profiles. In contrast, the two smaller bedrooms contained within the northern wing and embraced by the site’s adjacent hillside and rear garden, giving them an intimate feel akin to a tree house.
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"The light in Los Angeles is very dynamic and can be both calming and energizing,” says SPF:a Founder and Creative Director, Judit M. Fekete, “As the site is positioned quite high above the city with almost no impediments, we wanted the house to capture the spirit of these dualities. The huge panels of glass provide the home’s inhabitants with a strong connection to nature and the daily and seasonal arcs of light..”
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The glass curtain wall wrapping the third floor home is a highly sophisticated system custom developed in part with Schuco/Glasbox, a leading fenestration company based in Germany. The structure utilizes five different widths of four different opacities—reflective, opaque, translucent, and clear—that as an ensemble give the structure an infinite, visually shifting, shimmering façade. The outdoor area includes a kitchen, two fire pits, and an LED-lit pool. All roof, balcony, and hardscape water is directed to a 7,000-gallon underground tank for landscape irrigation.
The main garage also serves as an event space and can be completely opened on two sides for through views. The basement level has been outfitted with a home theater, gym, spa, cedar sauna, service kitchen, and a wine room big enough to hold a thousand bottles. Also accessible from this floor is the Cube, an attached guesthouse designed for family and staff. The Cube is outfitted with four bedrooms, four baths, a kitchenette, and dedicated access and garage. A highly custom residence steeped with intricacies, Orum took four years to construct.
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Outdoor The design intent for this house was to create a comfortable open plan living arrangement with great connection to its surroundings; moving the house forward and in line with the natural contours of the site aided in creating the illusion of the bedrooms 'oating' above the forests canopy whilst also setting up a natural amphitheatre protected from the wind.
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Floating over the trees in one of
Durban’s exclusive housing estates ‘The Tree House’ is set amongst one of the North Coast’s precious few remaining indigenous coastal forests. This modern contemporary home seeks to seamlessly blend indoor and outdoor living and was designed around the sub-tropical Durban climate.
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The sea views over the trees to the east and picturesque views of the forests green belt to the south west are maximised by the main façades use of glazing, ensuring a view of the natural surroundings is captured from every room in the house. All glass
sliding doors to the first floor disappear seamlessly into cavities giving the home a sense of openness and serenity with plenty of natural light and ventilation. The large expanse of glazing to the ground floor further emphasizes the open plan living.
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The planter around the front elevation of the house completes the immersion with nature. The high and low level windows to the west façade create a beautiful gallery space for the clients personal art collection.
A restrained raw material palette of timber, concrete and stone have been used to complement the natural beauty of the site.
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The AW House is situated
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Here the house sits in a busy intersection, from which the house is then designed as an element of the landscape that dissolves with its surroundings.
within a convenient neighborhood with plenty of tall trees.
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Bricks as the local material for the facade serves as the utility of a sound barried from the street noise, to minimize visual access from the surrounding and as the screen from direct sunlight into the house.
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The building is made of black painted bricks to emphasize the space, not the walls nor glasses as the partitions.
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The basement has the capacity for seven cars, with a central courtyard for natural light and ventilation. The main entrance begins here, following a ramp through this open space ďŹ lled with greenery, leading up to the upper level with the open living, kitchen and dining space.
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Inspired by Villa Savoye and the
openness of vernacular architecture, the house is a steel box sitting resting above columns, freeing up the ground oor space. The design is an answer to the minimal contemporary lifestyle of the young professional, who possesses an extensive collection of cars in the tropical climate of Ho Chi Minh City. 67
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Pool The ground oor is open and completely transparent, without any dividing wall, giving a visual connection across the whole site. The functional space is designed to be directly opened to the courtyard and the surrounding landscape. From this oor, residents can have a direct view of the automobile collection. The structure is minimized, utilizing long spanning beam, giving the space its openness and elegance.
With the backyard as the main private space for the family, the pool is located, directly accessed through the kitchen and dinning space. The space is covered with an expansive canopy to protect the space from the harsh tropical sun and monsoon, while allowing users to experience these natural elements.
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The design is inspired by the act of layering present in Vietnamese tradition. Traditional clothes are combinations of layered thin fabric, graceful yet revealing, an answer to both the climate condition and traditional courtesy. Vietnamese vernacular architecture reects the same ethos.
Buildings are covered with layers of skins, made of timber or natural materials, or strategically covered through layers of awnings, corridors, and halls. These gestures simply a graceful answer to the local climate with an abundance of sunlight and rain and a culture that values privacy and connection between man and nature.
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A path of stones in the front garden invites the visitor to the entrance. On the ground oor, the program was distributed in two sectors. The left-hand extension of the plot houses the entrance garden, the balcony, the living room, the dining room, a new garden and the music studio. The right side accommodates the service areas and, at the back, a patio that gives access to the guest suite. Garden patios are important because every room in the house opens to them.
The use of the wooden slatted in all the walls of the social and leisure spaces, as well as the system of total recollection of the glass frames of the rooms, generate continuity and transform the covered area into a large balcony. This feature also allowed to camouage the accesses of the kitchen and music studio, which, when necessary, open and conďŹ gure a unique space. One of the locals is a music lover and uses the studio for classes or private party performances in the house.
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With camouaged openings, C + C
House is a balanced game between full and empty. Its land, located in a very leafy neighborhood in the city of SĂŁo Paulo, has a narrow and long way with buildings on the sides, and guided the project openings forwards and back. This solution was chosen not only to guarantee the best use of the terrain, but also to guarantee the views, ventilation and insolation in the interiors. 71
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Bathroom The 12-meter long sideboard, which has been thought since the initial design of the architecture project, is another element that connects the living and dining environments and receives various uses, from special music equipment to personal items and the bar. The furniture is a mix of antique pieces, reprints of modern international and Brazilian furniture, which creates a classic and cozy atmosphere.
The balance between built spaces and open spaces provides natural lighting and ventilation for the whole house. The volume of the upper oor, where the suites are and the TV room, is set back from the street and leaning against one of the currencies to obey legislative issues, but also to guarantee sunshine to the rooms and provide visuals for the wooded surroundings.
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Living The volume of the intimate areas is also covered by wood, but with another treatment. The system of this facade is self-supporting with pivoting windows that are imperceptible when closed and function as a ďŹ lter, allowing a controlled transparency. The whole project revolves around this dilution of the boundaries between interior and exterior, creating an intense spatial dynamics.
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This is a small parallelepiped, in order to preserve natural and permeable light, reinforces the idea of an isolated pavilion that tries
to dissolve the limits with the exterior and the occasion of the invitation to contemplate the surrounding landscape.
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This house is located in the upper
part of a subdivision in the municipality of La Estrella, Antioquia.
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This pavilion of glazed metal structure has two horizontal oors intercepted by a vacuum, towards which the spaces of the house are turned.
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Architect Marilia Pellegrini presents the
CASA CONTĂŠINER ( The container house) at the 2019 Casacor exhibition in SĂŁo Paulo, showing how is possible to transform shipping containers into a modern and functional house. The concept of this type of project is based on the sustainability and reuse of materials.
The time-frame for elaboration and execution of this model of construction is inďŹ nitely smaller, cleaner, faster, dry and with 100% reuse. Despite the many advantages, there is still a certain mistrust created, motivated especially by the popularization of industrial and simple ďŹ nishes for this type of building, creating cold and impersonal environments due to the physical ďŹ nal aspects of construction. Her ďŹ rst mission was to prove the opposite.
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The 60 square meter house was made from two 40 feet containers attached alongside to side and has a living, kitchen, and laundry integrated, in addition to an ensuite with a comfortable bathroom. The spaces were taken by shades of white that has a protagonist role in the function of expanding the space and composing the minimalist climate with an impeccable ďŹ nish so that the container itself and all its industrial and corrugated structure would be imperceptible to the eyes.
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The Japanese atmosphere of space rationalization and intelligent design is present in the concept evoked by Kenya Hara (creative director of MUJI) in his "design of emptiness" that was a great inspiration to the architect. Within this logic, pieces of the acclaimed designer Oki Sato of Studio Nendo are present.
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In spite of this highly desirable location, this particular piece of land had never been built due to its steep cliff. The clients commissioned the architects to design their house in such a way that it would blend in the hill and cause as little disruption as possible to its surroundings.
This light-ďŹ lled house, an hour and a
half from Montreal, is literally hanging from a cliff as its name, "Dans l’Escarpement", implies in French. It is located on land pertaining to an estate started over a hundred years ago and known for its remarkable landscapes and pristine lakes.
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Kitchen The prevailing material used inside is mahogany, selected for its enduring qualities and for its rich hues. In the living dining area, floors, ceilings, beams, window frames and kitchen cabinets are all finished with this rich dark wood recalling the trees just beyond. With light constantly shifting, interiors and exteriors seem to mesh. Keeping within the same color palette, Corten steel was introduced for the fireplace and for outdoor sheathing.
Dinning table To keep the house’s imprint on the ground to a minimum, the architects designed the house around two concrete “boxes”, the first one, vertical, and the second one, horizontal. A totally glassed-in volume was anchored to both. The main entrance and the owners’ private suite are on the upper level of the 3-storey volume. One level down, one finds a small office/library area, adjacent to the kitchen dining area. The lowest level of this vertical “box” features a sauna/spa facility.
The one-level horizontal “box” was set a few meters away from the first volume. Planned as guest accommodation, it gives direct access to the forest floor and connects to the sauna/spa area from the outside. The intermediate level is the true heart of this house with its windowed walls opening up to the surrounding forest. The living dining area expands outdoors with a terrace built on the roof of the guests’ suite.
Exposed concrete was used extensively on exterior walls; symbolically, it refers to the huge boulders, which are characteristic of the territory.Access to the house is walking down a metallic gangway stretching from a concrete garage near the parking area. As one progresses on the light bridge structure, particularly on a misty day, there is a sensation of going towards a tree house floating in mid-air.
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That’s how the social media’s booming designer
describes herself! She’s gained this +55K follower base by offering tips that help anyone design their homes on their own, while avoiding common mistakes. After graduating from Fine Arts’ Interior Design Department in 2001 and working privately and in partnerships for 16 years; Fikry launched Decoroo in 2017; after being inspired for the brand name while on the beach and writing it on sand. The dreamer artist takes interior design by passion and passes that through her videos. Let’s see more of what she has in mind... How far are you from achieving these goals?
I’m like 70-80% there. I haven’t reached out to all people or developed all tastes, but my followers say they apply my advice and learn from the videos. I still want to reach the maximum.
How did the videos impact your business? I reached out to many people; who ask me things like shall we put this oven here or there; showing me their simple homes. This is my goal, reaching out to all egyptian homes; proving that interior design is necessary and doesn’t have to be costly. When my clients delegate me to design their homes, they say “consider it yours�. This is what I reach with my clients; I visualize their vision and they trust that I’ll bring it out as they wish. They learn through the videos, so when they call me; they know who I am and what I do, so I don’t exert huge effort in convincing them to shift to what’s better.
House Theme: In the ceiling & wall - Powder pink with greyish beige
Rasha Fikry By Iman El-Ashry
Summing Up Rasha Fikry’s Goals...
Raising Public Taste & Artistic Sense Proving Interior Design Isn’t Costly Spreading The Motto: The Simpler The Better Highlighting Women Designers’ Special Touch Saving families from Errors of The Unspecialized Expanding/Developing Decoroo towards Globalization
Groves of light from tip to toe; a welcoming gesture black & natural wood elegance
Fikry’s signature outlining ceiling light binding the artistic modern space
What types of projects and interior styles do you work with? Variable; residential and commercial design and execution, as well as landscaping, for small-sized and mega-scale projects. Style-wise, I’m mostly distinguished with modern hospitality design. People think it’s easy; it’s not. Making something elegant and comfortable? To know when to take off your pen, when to stop adding elements? My clients say I care for the little details. It’s not just about ceilings, oors, and walls; furniture is important and what’s even more important are the accessories, paintings, and linens!
How do you decide what topics to talk about in your videos? That’s based on what people need to know, the obstacles they face, or the mistakes they trip in. I send surveys asking them what they want me to talk about. This is added to common topics; like colors, oors, stairs, balconies, or how to organize your kitchen. My topics come from the work I do; kitchens, bathrooms, kids’ rooms, girls’ and boys’ rooms; everything I design brings me topics to talk about.
Now enjoy exploring Fikry’s design for this 200 m2 apartment in Sodic Eastown‌
Earth tones & textures in a minimalist design with soothing back light
What’s Next Projects
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Apartments Maadi 5th Settlement Heliopolis Diar Compound [6th of October] Dunes Compound/Continental Gardens [El Sheikh Zayed]
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Therefore, the approach of the house on the hillside is implanted in an inclined base plane with more than 30% of an unparalleled view,
The Hillside House is located in
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an exuberant vegetation, a lake as the lanscape end, inserted in an protagonist environment.
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A guest house with two bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen and living area, the structure was built within narrow constraints: it was required
to sit atop the footprint of an existing cabin, and to be integrated within the landscape while remaining under 115 m2.
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Set on a plot that slopes gently
toward a lake, this pavilion is surrounded by the exceptional ora of an old growth forest.
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The completed pavilion is framed between floor and ceiling, both structures cantilevered out toward the water, highlighting the horizontality of the construction and magnifying the views of the lake and the forest. Reflective surfaces mirror
the surrounding vegetation by day and become completely transparent at night. Every part of the pavilion is marked by precise detailing, from the clarity of the glazed exterior corners, to the expression of the floor and ceiling as single continuous planes.
To meet these demands, the design created a transparent glass volume, with a vegetated roof that appears continuous with the land above, and a floating floor slab, elevated to tread lightly on the earth below.
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House A
The sustainable apartment-house hybrid is designed for small lots and uses commercial materials in an innovative way to achieve a tight footprint and carbon neutral status.
Whispering Smith’s House A is a
challenge to the status quo of housing in Perth.
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Bedroom The brief was to take a 175m2 block under Perth’s single bedroom dwelling code and make an affordable and sustainable home for Whispering Smith’s Director, Kate and her partner Matt. House A is 70m2 of compact, flexible and delightful spaces which are capable of hosting a dinner party for 30 guests, illustrating that small can be big.
House A was the first house of three in development by feminist architecture firm, Whispering Smith, in partnership with Kate’s father. The diminutive footprint of the house was designed to maintain the existing mature trees and 1950’s house on site, with House A being allocated to the land left over.
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The house is divided in three parts: the rectangular base and the triangular superior volume
Peninsula House, a weekend home
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in a coastal city close to SĂŁo Paulo, is composed of three stacked abstract volumes which have been delicately positioned on a steep slope overlooking the Atlantic Ocean for minimum topographic impact.
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which have more private areas; and the transparent space in-between them where the common areas are located. The suspended triangular volume creates shaded balconies protected from direct sunlight, while the more enclosed and monolithic base provides more intimate spaces.
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The tension between the two creates negative transparent spaces that visually connect with the landscape.
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However, apart from being on the exterior, this architectural language never appears in the interior of those buildings which are still mostly dominated by an ordinary perpendicular and parallel layout.
That being the case, we are curious to see if it is possible to apply this language to other design aspects rather than just for a decorative purpose.
We received only a simple brief from the
owners who gave us “a boundless freedom to design a unique house as if it were our own.� Liberated from external constraints, we were free to study and develop a style of architecture that we were personally interested in. Over the last 5-10 years, we have seen that a certain architectural language, in which the external wall and the ceiling converge into an oblique angle, is becoming popular, especially in commercial buildings of real estate projects.
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To achieve the ideal version of our architectural language, we need a courtyard, where sunlight is allowed to pass through and rain to fall through, as the center of the building. The diagonal wall line serves to connect the frame of the building and the frame of the courtyard, as well as the roof.
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With the frame of the building being higher than the frame of the courtyard, the rain will fall from the roof into the courtyard like a curtain of a waterfall. We complete the roof with valley rafters that naturally suit the structure. The ceiling is also parallel to the roof. We have applied this architectural language to appropriately serve different functions in the 3 main parts of the building.
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Bathroom From our perspective, to make an architecture express the language as clearly as possible, we have to start from the plan design and the structure. Once the language has been successfully integrated into these two areas, the other elements such as the oor, the wall, the roof, the exterior, and the interior will naturally conform in unison to the style.
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About Future Ventures
Eng. Mohamed Adel - Sales Engineer TILES
Eng. Karim Wally - Owner/Chief Designer The Studio
Eng. Mohamed Desouki - Owner/Chief Designer Inspire
Eng. Mohamed Badr - Founder/Chief Designer MB Designs
Eng. Fouad Mirza - Principal/Creative Director Tawa Zen Interiors
Eng. Amgad Saad - Consultant [Ceramic Line] Mapei Egypt
On the 20th - 21st of October, TILES; the renowned brand for marble, porcelain, and mosaic tiles, held a fruitful event led by founders Yasser and Wessam Samy; under the title of “Future Ventures�. The event featured different speakers from TILES and collaborative companies and was held at TILES’ newly-renovated Zamalek showroom which acts as an actual application of tiles utility among the different spaces; bathroom, kitchen, reception, and rooms; through an innovative approach and a must-try actual tiles experience!
About TILES
Founded in 2011 by Yasser, Wessam, and Ahmed Samy, with 3 showrooms now as we speak; in Heliopolis, New Cairo and Zamalek; TILES has served the Egyptian market by supplying and applying different marble, mosaic, and porcelain tiles as well as variable materials of countertops for a miscellaneous list of highly-acknowledged brands. These include Emaar, Orascom, Dorra, Sodic, Movenpick, Fairmont, and Conrad; among others.
Yasser Samy
Founder & Partner
Wessam Samy
Managing Director & Partner
Yasser Samy - Wessam Samy Background Knowledge: Business Administration Studies - Real Estate Development Family Business Field Experience: 25 years [General Construction, Landscape Architecture / Hardscaping, and Supply / Trading] By Iman El-Ashry The company’s project list features a variety of administrative, commercial, and hospitality projects including Capital Business Park promenade, Al-Ahly Bank main branch in downtown, and Madinaty gateway / mini mall, to name a few.
Mr. Emanuele Barbetti - Regional Product Line Manager [Ceramic Line] - Mapei Construction Chemicals
Dr. Osama Mashaly - Head of The Marble & Granite Unit - The National Research Center
Throughout the event, over both days, TILES’ latest products and projects were demonstrated by different members of the TILES team; who also explained techniques of Terrazzo and Porcelain handling, cutting, and installation. Further information was also introduced by Das Egypt regarding tile leveling techniques and the tools and accessories used. Dr. Osama Mashaly - Head of The Marble and Granite Unit at The National Research Center - also spoke on the best practices for marble and granite processing and treatment, as well as stone and tile cleaning, sealing, and problem solving by Aquamix products. Thorough sessions offered by Mapei Egypt and Mapei International provided the audience with details on the types and speciďŹ cations of grouts, adhesives, and sealers, and their choice with respect to types of substrates. Egyptian and foreign architects avoured the technical info with impressive designs. Mohamed Bader proposed unconventional material usage through different international projects, and Fouad Mirza explained the integration between design concepts on the one hand and material, circulation, and lighting on the other. Karim Wally also showcased his commercial, administrative, and residential portfolio in a variety of styles; while explaining the relation between design and execution. Mohamed Desouki showed us different work samples of ooring, stairs, and wall cladding; in porcelain and marble tiles, while explaining textures, sizes and installation details.The Grand Egyptian Museum was demonstrated, added to other major projects, by Ayman El Masry - Head of Design & Engineering Development of Haz Group - while explaining the processes of Haz Stone design and installation. A different angle was even presented by Philips Egypt; explaining concepts of lighting design indoors and outdoors, while considering surface materials. The event - overall - was a warm and cozy gathering of architects and engineers from different specializations; all welcomed by TILES’ friendly team. Interactive conversations spiced up the rich truly-informative sessions, and a great chance for networking was present for everyone, as we chatted over delicious snacks and coffee. Head OfďŹ ce & Heliopolis Showroom:
Eng. Ahmed Shawky - Executive Director Das Egypt
Eng. Ayman El Masry - Head of Design & Engineering Development - Haz Group
Mr. Karim Mosaad - Marketing Manager Philips Lighting
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brand Belotti Tiles; bringing us herein the trendy Terrazzo slabs which feature a mix of marble chips or stone aggregates with white or dyed cement.
A variety of other international brands are also demonstrated throughout TILES’ showroom; including Cevica; the Spanish brand for ceramic The products offered by TILES are immensely decorative tiles, Modulo for French gypsum-based variable; making it impossible to not ďŹ nd what bricks, and Compac for solid surfaces; featuring you’re looking for. TILES originally offers its own engineered marble and the deďŹ nitely-worth-excuts and ďŹ nishes of limestone, marble, and ploring quartz which is Spanish engineered stone granite tiles, as well as a special mosaic collec- that’s most suitable for countertops; even more tion in marble, metal, and stone. Being the sole durable and shapeable than Corian! When you agent in Egypt for the Italian brand Mirage; TILES visit the showroom you’ll be quite dazzled too offers the brand’s endless variety of porcelain and I promise - with the Turkish swimming pool tiles with their different effects of bluestone, glass mosaic by Betas, and you might ďŹ nd yourself marble, wood, granite, and concrete; among meditating while watching the cement decoraothers. TILES is also the sole agent for the Italian tive tiles; now being trendy.
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The brief for this home also had the requirement that it be a multi-generational home with the ability for it to provide independent and shared accommodation for the family and their grandparents together.
As such it was important that each person have a sense of space, both shared and private. Equality of access is provided throughout the home, and there is a spatial allowance for a lift should that be needed in the future.
Yarrbat Avenue in Balwyn is like many streets in
Melbourne’s inner eastern suburbs. It is a quiet residential street that reects no particular historical period, but has ďŹ ne examples of the various housing styles built throughout the last 100 years. Also, like many streets in Melbourne’s inner eastern suburbs, it is lined with European deciduous trees that map the changes of seasons. The brief from the client sought to exploit the opportunities found on this site from its location. The site is on the side of a hill which has excellent views to the Dandenong Ranges, and it was important to allow the building to capture these distant views, as well as to strategically engage with the established trees lining the streets. 119
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Kitchen The house with its confident formal expression is intensely private. Its windows to the street are narrow, or screened – just sufficient to engage with the immediate surrounding greenery. The facade openings to the street form part of an animated timber façade where the upper floor is clad in highly durable Australian hardwood – Spotted Gum.
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This is part of a simple expression of local raw materials with the solid base of the ground floor clad in local bluestone panels. This subtle animated gesture can also be seen referenced in joinery elements throughout the home.
The homes interiors, while extremely private, are flooded with natural light through strategically placed windows and large skylights. Natural timbers and stone throughout reflect the ever-changing landscape and create a strong connection between the interiors, landscape and architecture. A neutral palette throughout the home allows the framed views of the changing seasons to act as artwork, evolving throughout the years with the home.The landscape is expressed in a more tangible form internally through the large central green stone column. Connecting the three floors of the home, the commanding feature is wrapped by the floating staircase, allowing a more intimate interaction with the material as you move throughout the home.
The stone clad basement form grounds the home within the landscape and houses an all white garage with wash station, celebrating the clients love for cars and creating the perfect backdrop for their collection. There has been great care in detailing the material finishes to the facades, where the primacy of the form is dominant – the stone surface continues seamlessly to timber then to a sheer glass corner window, then back to stone. The success of this building is because of its difference from its neighbours. It has quite subtle but almost heroic gestures in its form, and with its extended family accommodation requirements, sets a sound contemporary reference point in the history of this well-established street in Balwyn.
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They hope that the house will be a place where their close friends and families would come and gather on the weekend. These needs are the main idea for the designer in order to design the house. We took a different approach while designed this house. While many regular houses place the private areas on a higher level, we consciously have the private areas such as bedroom areas on the lower level. This decision made simply because of the daily activities of the owners and their children. So they can access their bedrooms directly after a long tiring day.
This tropical modern abode stands on 560
m2 corner plot in a townhouse complex, in South Jakarta. Located in a densely populated area and immediately adjacent to a busy road, with no interesting views on its surrounding, were the main challenges for the architect in designing this house. It is the wish of the owner to have a house that has a strong interaction with the natural surrounding environment and natural landscapes, just like a holiday resort.
Entering this house, people will be brought directly to an open stair located next to a garden and a reection pool. The entrance stair then leads to the Main Entrance area. The craftsmanship-which considered as the architectural practice in Indonesia- is strongly applied in this Entrance area, which is all covered with re-used waste teak woods. The usage of this material gives more depth and texture to the space. It creates a strong visual effect, producing a new experience from a wasted good treated in a new way.
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The living room and dining room, along with other public areas which designed on the upper level, interestingly creates a more open and wide-feel space. This might help the usage of this area as a public space, to have a communal and gathering area. The Upper level which is surrounded with clear glass and partly covered with wood lattices also creates interspatial relations between the inside-the building and the natural surroundings.
On the lower level, the wood lattices on the corridor leading to bedrooms, allows natural air to breeze into this area. The sound of the water from the reflection pond next to the semi-outdoor corridor creates a strong resort-feel to this area. It helps people to calm their senses after tiring daily routines, leading them to their own resting areas.
The children’s bedrooms are designed with connecting courtyards. These wooden-deck courtyards are filled with trees which grow through the void connected to the upper level. The presence of this courtyard is essential to the main concept of this building. On the other side, the main bedroom also has a courtyard with its own reflection pool and a vertical garden. This courtyard helps to give a non-formal feeling to the bedroom area while creating a serene atmosphere.
The courtyards and the natural surroundings which integrated to some rooms and the material selection of this building, fulfills the client’s need to have a house with Resort feel and Tropical touch in the middle of a densely populated area. The courtyards and the landscapes not only become the main orientation of this house but also become an extension function space from the inside area.
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CafĂŠ designed the residence for his own use, a challenge he faced in an attempt to surpass the visual sense of the project in order to approach it as a continuous recombination of spaces formed by multiple relations and ambivalences. The mismatched slab levels allow unexpected appropriations that are ampliďŹ ed by the free visual communication among levels.
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terrain resulting from the demolition of a previously existing construction. The house resulted from the accumulation of images and references of it authors Carlos CafĂŠ and Horia Georgescu, who proposed a volume formed by a succession of planes with sealings that offers a delightful play of volumetric balance where opaque and open surfaces alternate.
Ambients are developed around three internal empty spaces, each related to one of the levels. On the ground oor, the surface is duplicated to delineate the living room and the kitchen. The metallic stairway reaches the middle oor that connects the studio underground and bedrooms in the upper oor. The terrace is formed by a garden that, along with the empty volumes of the patios, forms a permeable projection of the whole house.
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Construction faced structural challenges, such as vibration resulting from the intense flow of buses on the street just outside and the intrinsic connection between the structures of the adjoining building. It was necessary to cut beams and preserve part of the original foundation during the excavation of the underground in order to avoid compromising the stability of the adjacent building. Café and Georgescu also had in mind the flexibility of the plan as they proposed an arrangement that allowed erecting walls to delineate spaces, as in the case of the antechamber in the upper floor, which may be converted into a bedroom.
Bedroom Carlos Café is also a visual artist and the human body plays a central role in his work. For that reason it is not surprising that his house was imagined according to that fact. When he photographs bodies, the artist builds and rebuilds the anatomy using intense chiaroscuro contrast - something similar to the arrangement of unexpected open spaces in the ambient of House XXX.
It is up to the passage of time and seasons to tone surfaces as days and months go by. In order to solve the contradictions between visual dimensions and the intrinsic needs of a home, the architect created a dynamic space that fits his dreams and those of whoever come to integrate their own experiences or their particular way of habitation to that place, therefore continuously rebuilding its space.
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The sparse, untamed and dramatic landscape was the starting point for the design. Every manmade alteration would be visible in this unique lot with its jagged, textured cliffs that descend into the grand Aegean Sea. The question became how to introduce a foreign object – a house – into this spectacular landscape, enhancing its qualities without altering its character. Rather than trying to mimic the landscape,
the house is gently placed on the site as an object, leaving the surrounding landscape as untouched as possible. Landscape and building are perceived as two distinct elements that together create a new entity – much in the way a perfect shell merges with a rock over time and gradually becomes part of the rock formation. Two contrasting objects, living in symbiosis, enhancing and complementing each other.
After having travelled to Greece for
many years to windsurf, a Paris-based French-Swedish couple ďŹ nally found their dream spot on the windy island of Karpathos. The search for the perfect site was long, but the minute they saw this amazing property they knew that they had found their place: a dramatic plot of land with open views of the Aegean Sea and direct views of the windsurfers on the beach of AďŹ arti.
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The site has two natural plateaus, one higher and one lower. In order to take full advantage of the views and reach closer to the sea, the building extends beyond the higher plateau, hovering over the landscape. This cantilever effect has a strong presence that augments the full experience of the site both from the inside and out. From the inside, it creates the illusion that the house is hovering over the sea
A series of different voids blur the limits between inside and out, and an open void through the building connects the house with a large outdoor terrace on the lower plateau of the site. Part of the single-storey-volume is raised to accommodate height differences on the site, creating an independent wing for guests. The building's structure is cast in-situ reinforced concrete.
The cantilevered portion of the building communists of Vierendeel trusses. The exposed concrete exterior is contrasted with a soft and light interior. The interior makes clear references to traditional Karpathian architecture combined with Scandinavian furniture and a wide palette of materials. The windows, which are of different sizes and character, are carefully placed to frame unique views of the sea and the surrounding landscape.
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whilst from the exterior it further accentuates the contrast between the manmade and the natural. The owners dreamt of a sanctuary in this beautiful yet rough landscape; a place where they could fully experience the magniďŹ cent surroundings and a shelter from the strong Karpathian winds. The main programme is arranged in a single story around an inner patio.
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Designed as a house for a retired couple who are passionate in growing foods, the plants ďŹ lled Planter Box House appears less deďŹ ned, as its appearance oscillates between garden, farm and house, anticipating for a redeďŹ nition of contemporary tropical house.
Outdoor The house with its cascading concrete planter boxes occupied with more than 40 types of edible plants on every oor
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creates a strong visual contrast with the surrounding buildings. Its recessed frontage provides additional public spaces for inter-neighborhood interaction.
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Beyond the boundary, the ďŹ rst planter box is built around an existing jasmine tree. This planter serves an urban furniture, a connection between the couple and their neighbor.
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HDL for home automation solutions and building management systems was also at ICEC, as brought to the Egyptian market by Arabat Properties; offering their own bus pro system in wired and wireless versions, added to other systems operating with the universal KNX protocol. HDL’s smart mirror which comes with a health kit, for daily health checks; while acting as a home automation control device was an interesting addition too.
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On the 23rd - 24th of October; ROOT Technologies brought us a new round of ICEC, bringing together - through a conference and an exhibition - many companies, decision-makers, and market-shapers in one zone; Hilton Cairo Heliopolis. Held under the auspices of The Ministries of Housing, and that of Electricity and Communication, the event featured variable entities involved in the development, optimization, and management of intelligent cities. The conference opening was by Ahmed Issa; CEO of Root Technologies while several important industry ďŹ gures spoke on the means of generating ROI from intelligent and sustainable cities’ development; sharing knowledge on different related topics, including - but not limited to - smart buildings, wiring devices, IOT, optical and surveillance networks, building intelligence, and BIM.
SAS - by Al-Gawda Group - showed LED
lighting items in classic and modern designs, spotlights of both yellow and white light, speaker/mic devices, doorbells with lifetime guarantees, and different sockets including the Tube; which features easy altering according to cable direction. This is added to usb switches with mobile shelves, smart switches connected to the mobile phone, full touch switches and the pampering touch soft click; made of leather-coated rubber!
Dr. Mohamed Nofal CEO - HITEKNOFAL Solutions
On display at the exhibition, were different products, solutions, and systems that help integrate smart technologies in urban and infrastructure planning, building construction, and home design; such as Cabling Systems, Home Automation, Facilities Management, Surveying Systems, Access Control, Data Centers, BMS, and Fire/Security/Surveillance Systems; among others.
The luxury line by iHome Future displayed Google Home and Alexa devices along with different styles of smart control panels offered by Fibaro Smart Home Devices. DSL-based video-calling devices for social communication and business meetings, were interesting to explore at Smart Integrated Solutions’, smart HIKVISION video intercom solutions for residential buildings and villas were offered by Speed Trading Co, and a smartly-automated booth was fun to explore, as presented by Trend Advanced Technology with try-it-out smart shutters and lighting.
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ECG announced the deployment of
smart city planning and building integration through Egypt’s New Capital, New Mansoura, Sheikh Zayed extension, Al-Alamein Old City, and Abraj Al-Alamein in cooperation with Shaker Group, who also announced their new projects; King Abdullah Financial Center in Riyadh, and New Qena/New Assyut smart cities.
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Legrand
Legrand proposed different home automation solutions; added to a collection of Uninterrupted Power Supply [UPS] devices for power problem-solving; serving hospitals, data centers, and shopping malls. Data racks, data centers, and infrastructure ďŹ ber networks were also demonstrated, as well as new innovations of bticino’s motion sensors and light dimming systems.
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From a different angle, Multi-M Group warmly showed us their Hady Meiser brand for steel grating; used in ooring and maintenance platforms, and the innovative Metal-X brand for expanded metal lath; used in false ceilings/oorings/out & in wall-cladding. Health & Safety Home, in addition to their ďŹ re alarm/ďŹ ghting/protection systems, showed us their “Solar Panels Cleaning Robotâ€?; the ďŹ rst Egyptian product of its kind which is expected to land in the market 2-3 months from now.
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Clients and Architects agreed to use brick as the main material of the Flick House, because it seemed to have a humble and warm philosophy. According to the owner, the brick has the power to make a big house welcoming. Starting with the main material, then the Architect chose Green Architecture as the main concept to be applied in the Flick House.
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client's past in the birthplace of the owner in Central Java, clients wanted us to design a house that seems humble and warm.
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Flick House has 4 gardens: Main Garden, Private Garden, Floating Garden and Inner Court. The main Garden is directly adjacent to the family room and is limited by a large sliding door that can be opened and closed easily.
The existence of this large sliding door makes it easy for the air to enter and flow to all rooms on the first floor, especially the family lounge.
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When designing a home for my family, I had in mind the idea of a quiet place away from chaos, a fortress against the constant agitation of everyday life.
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Source of light and fresh air, the patio is also a peaceful and luminous counterbalance of the narrow streets typical of the ancient Medinas.
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Contemplating care between
generations, a family comprising of two households decides to build a house together.
While the younger couple already lives in the city, the grandparents live in the countryside and are keen to move back to the proximity of urban amenities.
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This apartment has an elevator and level oors, making it very suitable for the elderly. The bottom apartment has an ofďŹ ce and a direct relationship with the garden, making it ideal for a working family with young children.
Adapting with time. For this mini-apartment building, a concept was devised capable of accommodating changing spatial demands over time. The elderly couple occupies the top apartment with generous views across the cityscape.
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With a footprint of only 55 m2 this house still has a luxurious feel of space, and all around panoramas to the surrounding nature. This compact home is built for a family of four, including a living room, a kitchen/dining room, a patio, three bedrooms, one bathroom and two toilets. The layout is developed from the inside-out, the smart arrangement of functions make use of every cm2.
Outdoor Situated on a elongated island plot close to the lake, the positioning of the building volume is related to the views on the surrounding water and the orientation on the sun. By dividing the volume into four parts, the panoramic views and the invading sunlight become very speciďŹ c. On the outside the diversity in size and the interconnected positioning create a sculptural image, looking different from every angle.
In order to intensify this sculptural quality, all facades have a minimal design with invisible roof endings and window frames detailled behind the wood facade. All volumes have big windows or sliding doors which can be opened completely to fully merge the inside with the outside. On the inside, the dimensions and ceiling heights of the different volumes clearly articulate the separate area’s and functions in the house. 153
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Long sightlines crossing the outside patio provide a visual connection. By opening up large sliding doors of the patio the volumes of the kitchen and living are physically connected.
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Custom furniture and integrated cabinets accentuate the graphical quality on the inside. We made use of simple materials like natural oak wooden panels -or stained black to combine with the rough pinewood facade- and a continuing polished concrete floor. We strived for a design strategy in which architecture and interior come together in a model combination. Each volume has its own program. By linking interior components to the architecture and vice versa, the result is a high quality project not dependent of expensive materials or technical show.
In every detail we aimed for the ultimate space efficient solution. Every aspect of the design is approached to produce a pure and unified experience to leave a strong impression. Making quality projects is, in our opinion, not always ‘the bigger the better’. With simple yet smart interventions this project is of the highest standard and at the same time energy efficient, eco-friendly, and built with a small footprint. In this sense it’s a model example of a tiny house; smart, comfortable but with no consessions to quality in both the interior and architectural design; small is beautiful.
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The same as a life of human in Mekong Delta of Viet Nam, the enviroment with a variety of insects adversely affects their daily activities, they have to live depend on mosquito net. That challenge creates an opportunity for architect to design a place adapt to the surrounding environment.
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ANHS House is located in the
newly developed residental area in the suburb of HCM City surrounded by weeds and canal, is the place of many insects impacts on community.
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The priority of architects is always not only design a fully equipped accommodation but also the experience of space, light and wind inside the house.
Our concept presents an open space for both the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the house to take advantage of natural light and wind, is essential in green and airy environment.
The house is the family of 3 generations ( grandparents live with their children and grandchildren ), in the midst of quite and fesh residental area, our design need a ventilation to take advantage of the airow but also avoid insects.
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This seating feature, simple or high tech, insures ďŹ rstly the comfort of the passersby and animates the area consequently, through the addition of the missing human aspect. Sometimes, this is all it takes to revive a space that became a dull passage. The most basic urban design component can take many forms and can be created from different materials, always generating a statement and serving its purpose.
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Ten architecture students from Columbia University GSAPP have recently completed Polymorphic, a kinetic installation utilizing an innovative design and engineering solution inspired by the kinetic action of a see-saw and the reverberating motion of a slinky. The installation is comprised of a double-sided bench which transforms through a series of 119 unique and interconnected sections into a chaise lounge and ďŹ nally an interactive balance board. These sections are connected via an inventive pivot and bolt system which allows the vertical movement of one section to be picked up by others down the line. Together, this motion allows the installation to transform from a series of leveled sections into an undulating form that becomes activated through interaction with its occupants.
Root Bench is the reinterpretation of winning proposal in Hangang Art Competition. This is circle-shaped public furniture with diameter of 30m, installed in grass, which shows dynamic shape of root spreading throughout the park. It provides visual stimulus creating strong contrast to the background of spacious outdoor park. And people can take a rest with it while sitting and leaning on its different height. The main concept continued from the winning proposal is that the organic shape sprawling out from the center creates spatial connectivity. The design of Polymorphic was inherently sustainable, due to the ďŹ nancial constraint of a one thousand dollar budget. The design was broken down into small and linear pieces that maximized the quantity ďŹ t on a sheet of plywood. In total, the entire installation only used 18 sheets of plywood, which were utilized at over 90% efďŹ ciency.
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Design practice White Arkitekter has created a 65 meter-long ‘sofa’ for Forumtorget Square in Uppsala, Sweden. Designed to provide space for rest and social interaction, the linear outdoor seating is the centerpiece of wider improvements to the large square. The project aims to attract more visitors to Forumtorget and its surrounding shopping area by building on the area’s character as a gathering place.
Uppsala is the fourth largest city in Sweden, with a population of 150,000 people. As the design team states, the Forumtorget project is the result of a seven-year development process following White’s successful entry in a 2011 design competition organised by Uppsala Municipality. The project consists of three elements: a continuous multilevel sofa, dark granite paving, and a circular plateau for sitting, playing and informal performances. Together, the elements were made to create a new identity for the square and reinforce East-West connections through the city.
Cocksedge has transformed Broadgate with one of the most ambitious of British Land’s Landmark installations to date. Made from scaffolding planks, Paul Cocksedge has collaborated with ARUP and high-end interiors company, White & White, to re-imagine and re-use the building wood. “Every single aspect of the installation is tailored to its environment as well as the function it serves. The curves raise up to create backrests and places to sit, as well as space for people to walk under, or pause and ďŹ nd some shade. It walks the line between a craft object and a design solution. It occupies the square without blocking itâ€? says Cocksedge.
Commissioned by Broadgate, the large-scale structure responds to the changing rhythm of the community: its design features curves for people to sit on and walk under, further enhancing London's largest pedestrianized neighborhood. Initially established in 2003 by Sir John Sorrell and Ben Evans, London Design Festival is an annual citywide celebration that brings together a global community of designers, artists, architects and the creative industries
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•Use: Bathroom and spa, showers •Applications: Residential, hospitality, health and wellness •Characteristics: Three scenarios with different effects, wide and flat rain panel, fragrance functions, Smart Water technology, products can be browsed via app
Independent Workspace - MICROOFFICE QUADRIO | SilentLab •Use: Workspaces •Applications: Corporate •Characteristics: Standalone unit, acoustic materials, can be configured to requirements, fits up to 8 people, provides privacy
Interna Rail Aluminum Railing | Hollaender •Use: Handrails, guardrails, balconies •Applications: Multifamily residential, industrial, hospitality, educational, institutional, commercial •Characteristics: Easy installation, durable, uninterrupted infill panel railing, non-corrosive, ideal in commercial projects •Sizes: Height of top rail above walking surface: 42" •Certification: Meets IBC and ADA codes, U.S. International Building Code 2009/2012/2015 standards specific to guardrails, handrails and infill panel materials.
Textured Glass | Bendheim •Use: Doors, windows, wall systems •Applications: Hospitality, educational, commercial, residential, corporate •Characteristics: Maintenance-friendly, low-iron textures, flexible design options, durable wall cladding
Vertically Folding Operable Walls – Zenith® Premium Series | Skyfold •Use: Interior operable walls •Applications: Hospitality, airports, function centres, corporate, education, hospitality, health, defence, retail, government, theatres •Characteristics: Acoustics, flexibility, vertical motion, clean design, premium product, fully automated, quiet operation, easy to use, no floor or wall tracks, flat, rigid, lightweight, conserves floor space, low maintenance, LCD Touch Screen Operator Station, Pocket Closure •Sizes: Unlimited length. Max height up to 14 feet (4.2m) •Guarantee: 2-Year (5000-cycle) Parts & Labor Warranty as well as a 10-year (5000 cycle) Acoustical Performance Warranty 171
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