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DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
We are a landscape architecture studio that specializes in the design and construction of unique urban open spaces. The studio’s roster of German and international projects has ranged in scale from the master plan to the private garden. Each project strives to respond to site conditions and programmatic necessities with a compelling concept, high quality of design and efficient implementation. Pur central task is the design of urban open spaces. Based on a critical understanding of contemporary realities, the search for conceptual approaches leads us to decided statements concerning the urban context. Throughout design, planning, and construction we offer solutions for new parks, squares, sports-grounds, courtyards and gardens, whose designs answer to requirements for variability, communication and sensuality. The manifold experiences through a broad spectrum of national and international projects meanwhile capacitate an efficient realization, finely tuned to respective necessities. WYNWOOD GATEWAY PARK COMPETITION P.2
In the early stages of a project, the design teams search for conceptual approaches based on a critical understanding of the task. With digital drawing and physical models we test, revise, and communicate the initial design intent. We often collaborates with other creative consultants such as artists, lighting designers, and video programmers to enrich the experiential potential of a project. In parallel, we work closely with technical consultants such as civil and traffic engineers early in the design process to integrate site solutions with design innovation consistently throughout the project. All construction drawings are done in-house to the highest professional and environmental standards. As a project is transferred from the design team to the construction team, the project leader for design continues oversight of drawings, specifications and design revisions. This link ensures that the original conceptual intent stays intact throughout implementation.
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GOLD COAST CULTURAL PRECINCT
Gold Coast, Australia / 2014-2018 Change and unpredictably are essential components of our era, which our design strategy incorporates. These forces have been captured by unfolding a modular system of Voronoi cells over the entire site. As a network, it connects indoor and outdoor spaces and activities, envelopes existing structures and generates a heterogeneous mosaic of landscapes, eventually enhancing the local potential of the site.
WYNWOOD GATEWAY PARK COMPETITION P.3
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SUPERKILEN
Danemark, Copenhagen / 2012 Superkilen is a heterogeneous site-collage in a dense, centrally located neighborhood in Copenhagen. The strongly international district with a mix of different cultures is to be revitalized using open space as a physical framework. The concept aims at enhancing the diverse characters within the site, creating a black square, a red square and a green park.
WYNWOOD GATEWAY PARK COMPETITION P.4
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RAILWAY COVER BAHNDECKEL
Munich, Germany / 2010 An unusual open space project was opened in the district of Theresienhoehe in 2010. After a 10 year process, which took the design from an international competition through to the realized project, the new quarter is now endowed with the identity of a hybrid art-landscape space. Covering a length of 300m and 50m in width, it is an artificial landscape build over a pre-existing thin railway cover.
WYNWOOD GATEWAY PARK COMPETITION P.5
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FORTRESS EHRENBREITSTEIN
Koblenz, Germany / 2009 The impressive stronghold, overlooking the confluence of Rhine and Mosel rivers is an important national monument. In a comprehensive restructuring of the northern approach as a visitor’s facility, the historical plateau is developed as a museum park and the spatial qualities of the site brought into context with the wider surrounding.
WYNWOOD GATEWAY PARK COMPETITION P.6
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LAKE´S SHORE GARDEN
Schwerin, Germany / 2009 Water is the central issue in the design for the shore garden. A new layout of paths enables a variety of approaches to the water a multitude of possibilities to explore its qualities. Its assembled linear stretches form a dynamic motif: they bend slightly, open up and narrow down again. Along the way plantings of perennials, annuals and riparian vegetation enhance the general water theme of the garden.
WYNWOOD GATEWAY PARK COMPETITION P.7
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PARK EBERSWALDE
Eberswalde, Germany / 2002 Adjacent to a former industrial site dating from the early 19th century was cleared and converted into a new type of park. The concept for the transformation of this early industrial area focuses less on heightening the experience of industrial romanticism and more on offering orientation, mapping the site as a post-industrial landscape park.
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DESIGN PHILOSOPHY The design philosophy of This company is founded onto a comprehensive series of reflections between determinants of the brief and the methodology process of design, which is formally and aesthetically based in an artistic abstraction of geometries. We regard the design and construction of the project, both buildings and open spaces, as the implementation of techniques into an artistic approach to the matter of the subject, which is, ultimately the conclusion of the built environment. Under these general premises of design philosophy, we depart from a full understanding of the brief, the environment and requirements, we walk through the functional program challenging the traditional and most common ways of resolving scenarios and then we incorporate geometrization and abstraction as figurative references into the design process to finally materialize the idea into the built environment. The key of our design philosophy is based on the firm believe that conceiving architectures and open spaces is a fundamental part of the living reality of individuals and therefore we aim for the projects to have a solid base on the ground and an imaginative and creative soul in the sky.
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Jinan eco-city Residential Mixed-use Development Jinan,China type
MIXED RESIDENTIAL
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74 acres
completion 2013-
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Pudong Chuansha Airport-industrial Park Shanghai,China type
OFFICE
area
37 acres
completion 2011-
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Zhengzhou Hanjiacang Mixed-use Development Project Zhengzhou,China type
MIXED RESIDENTIAL
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57acres
completion 2012-
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Lianyungang Retail Center and Mixed-use Jinan,China type
MIXED RESIDENTIAL
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192 acres
completion 2009-
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Sanxiang Headquarters Office building Shanghai,China type
OFFICE
area
74 acres
completion 2012-
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Longqiwan Cultural Center Hainan,China type
Exhibition area , Library , Specialty workshop
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40 acres
completion 2013-
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TEAM 3
What interest me is progression, evolving and thriving. People, ideas, objects and materials are meant to evolve and grow. Evolution and growth are laws of nature! With nature there are many different types of processes like trial and error. The process of trial and error involves failure, but it leads to experience and knowledge… This mind set and philosophy is used to give value, originality and uniqueness to every project. Process is what gives life to a project… the ups and downs, the research, the changes, the discoveries, the joy… all leads to a tangible creation! For any given thing, creation or realization to be successful and utile it must never be finalized. This is what gives any project its value. A phase of a given project can be a completed creation, but it must always have something (usually its concept, method of construction or spatial volume) that carries on to a next step. The day something is finalized it dies. I use this way of thinking as a lifestyle. It’s my tool to challenge myself. It is my goal to provide opportunities and a change in people’s perspectives through architecture. It’s what I belief architecture should do!
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Mr. and Mrs. Sardinas Residence Type
Location Proposal
Client
5300 sw 97th Ave, Miami, FL 33165
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In Process
Mr. Diaz and Mrs. Sardinas
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1,800 SqFt
Site Background Tropical Estates is a community made mainly for war veterans in the 50’s. The community is divided into equal land lots with individual homes of 850sqft. Each home consist of a kitchen, living area, 3 bedrooms and a bathroom. These homes offer a small footprints but large land lots. Due the size of these land lots many owners have made additons to their homes while others have demolished them to build a completely new home.
Site
Design Approach The new home looks at context of surrounding homes and is developed from a rectangular prism by slicing and sliding each of its six faces individually. It responds to orientation and noise pollution created by an adjacent avenue. The home has four individual entrances defined by both interior circulation and exterior spaces. With a transparent corridor that has the only visual wall from the exterior through the corridor to the bed rooms and vise versa. The corridor can be closed off on both ends expanding the bedrooms and dividing the home in two; one just for habitants and to the habitants and their guest. The corridor is a beautiful feature that helps with noise pollution by placing the bedrooms in the center of the home. A green roof helps keep the house cool and adds a marvelously secluded roof top with views to surrounding trees and plans on the property.
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Gabel Home
Reg. Prism
Six Ind. Faces
Floor Plan 01
Floor Plan 02
Floor Plan 03
Floor Plan 03
Floor Plan 04
Facade 01
Facade 01
Facade 02
Facade 02
Facade 03
Facade 03
Facade 04
Facade 04
Roof Scape 01
Roof Scape 02
Roof Scape 03
Roof Scape 03
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Vertical Shipping Container
Walk through Access
Multiple Levels
Light and Ventilation
Circulation
Interactive Roating Book Shelves
Interactive Furniture
Metal Rolldown Doors
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Concept
Competition City of Providence, RI Peter Dean, Markus Berger 128 SqFt (Kennedy Plaza) Providence, RI Idea
The intentions were to create a new identity and trademark for illiteracy by using the presence of a vertical shipping container to display awareness of literacy and its importance. Using a shipping container vertically creates a visual landmark in its context and a trademark for illiteracy while exploiting its 64 sq. footprint. The container used is 20’ in height or length and it is designed as a module so that it can increase its area.
Transforming the shipping container is estimated at $20,000 total; $3,700 for the container and shipping costs, $1,000 for wind rated metal roll down doors, $500 for furniture and lighting and a $15,000 buffer for the structural engineering and material. The container relies on natural ventilation, and infrared light with PVC strip curtains for heating in winter making it extremely efficient and sustainable.
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Shelves Mechanics
Interior Rendering Axonometric Rendering
Sectional Rendering
Interior Rendering
Finished Shipping Container on Site One
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C Exit
Path Floor Plan Entrance
1/2” = 1’-0”
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Community Garden The prototype at 1:1 scale is a section of the entire project. The engagement of making fullscale architectural components are based upon ideas relating material behavior, structure, spatial definition, site and programmatic conditions. The challenge of a 1:1 prototype was to give shape to critical moments in the project like the construction joins, thresholds, program and assembly while keeping in mind all of their complete context. Three different parts of the project’s plan were selected and combined to show all program. It was decided to make the section in the shape of a Z, were the viewer could enter by the shed, the most important part of the program. Continue by making a right along the path while viewing and experiencing planters, grain and porosity. Then making a final left to get a sense of density and how it was applied differently to accommodate for the different needs of the program. A huge part of the project was to not waste material and be efficient. All the scraps left over from the construction were used as in fill.
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About us We are an architectural firm that seeks to meet the need of greening cities, creating a better quality of life with proposals of an urban landscape with sense, through the innovation of architecture, engineering and design of landscape we generate a new concept of life, by merging the nature with everyday life. Part of our vision for the future is to be a unique solution for improving the quality of life of human beings by optimizing and integrating the resources that offers nature to the process of urban growth, creating a sustainable culture.
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PROJECTS
8,600 SQ. FT HOUSE TIJUANA B.C.
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PROJECT HOUSE
PROJECT DEPARTMENT
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65 SQ. FT. VERTICAL GARDEN
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90 SQ. FT. VERTICAL GARDEN
120 SQ. FT. VERTICAL GARDEN
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WATER RESERVOIR IN AGROBAJA, MEXICALI B.C.
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ur promise is an architecture evidence of our material and immaterial existence, working as our third skin,it changes and reflects our different ways of life. Therefore we conceive an animated architecture that reacts emotionally toward the user who uses and inhabits the space.
time will turn into transformations, thus the creative process envisions those changes that can transform in long and short term the designed space, making it possible evolve with us during time.
We work with classic and contemporary tools in As living organisms that order to achieve our goal. Within the classical tools, we are our mind and the physical models are used to picture body suffers changthe many possibilities that an architectural solution can es during our and might face during time, also with model pictures life span, and computer-generated renderings we can share our which in thoughts so we can transmit those complex and future ideas with our peers. As contemporary tools we are implementing the crowdsourcing support from social network sites in order to comprehend the user’s needs, with this method we can obtain their cultural backgrounds, ways of expressions, how do they act and communicate and furthermore fix in their minds a specifically customized designed place for future reference.
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Harajuku Graffiti Pavillion Harajuku, Tokyo
This pavillion consists in a continuous reflection about the contemporary thinking expressed metaphysically in the web and materialized by the community.
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Restaurante Marea Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Located in the financial sector of Santo Domingo, this exclusive restaurant comprehends a reflection about luxury and maritime ethos.
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Fukushima hybrid housing solution fukushima, japan
Within a small group we prepared this carbon cero housing sollution, which currently is being researched, in order to reunite families divided by the 3/11 tsunami events.
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TEAM 6
Design Philosophy Creating users friendly & lively spaces/cities which can be functionally work out in sustainable manner. Spaces should have rhythm & harmony with local context, Culture & social structure. Creation to give positive energies to users , visitors in such a way they should feel designer's soul in space. While trying to meet all above aspects satisfaction within legal limits will be main focus. THE CREATION …. My creation will be Giving message of peace, equality, unity... My creation will be Full of colors & fragrance of happiness, enjoyment spreading all over the world My creation will
Sing for everybody, talk to everybody … Even with blind, deaf & mute. Full of five senses…the senses of joy & cheerfulness My creation will Keep humming , meandering, Lyrics & culture in the mind of everybody. My creation will be The symbol of Tranquility,Unity,Brotherhoodness With rhythm of joy & cheerfulness
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Work Done Project Site Area Project cost Project Status
Army Welfare Housing Organization (AWHO), Whitefield, Bangalore. India 29.9 Acres 600 Cr. Appx Completion Stage
Project Description Community living is designed for retired, serving. Army Officials & war widows etc. Club house ,swimming pool, Community hall, Seminar hall, CSD canteen, sports facilities, Bank. ATM etc are provided . Some facilities of club house partially open for public to generate revenue for maintenance & for making node of club house more active & lively.
Elevational & faรงade Treatment is done to coincide with local context & local architecture This prestigious project of AWHO consist of 29 towers having total 1526 dwelling units. Each tower is combination of Basement, stilt and 14 upper stories totaling to 45M height.
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Education Corridor & Spots Corridor Policy implementation in an urban fabric
Area Project cost Project Description UNO policies ,’Education For All & ‘Sports For all ‘ picked & efforts are done to implement it in an urban fabric. Proposal has been given to channelize existing growth pattern near existing educational facilities as well as existing sports facilities. Network between economical weaker institutes & well off institutes . Sharing facilities to form network in sustainable manner. Considering slum population as a strength for sports. Guidelines to mitigate loop holes in policies.
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Agriculture college at Kolhapur,Maharashtra,India 100Acres
Project Discription Highly uneven/ contoured land was main design challenge. 11 Different departments, sports facilities, library, auditorium, exhibitions centre, admin and other areas are designed beautifully. Campus is developed using natural levels and cutting filling method. Interesting walkways with shading devices like pergolas are used to connect departments.
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Work Done- Design stage Project Site Area
Housing complex atAmanora Park Town,Pune,India 2Acres
Project Discription High density High-rise development is achieved using floating FSI 2,00,000 sqft construction area is achieved 50% of open green area Designed for Gold rated green building
Green Building Consultancy Project Marvel Homes, Sector-61, NOIDA. India Client Manisha Keybee Housing Projects, NOIDA. Area 1,00,000 sqft. Project description Documentation has been done for green building rating system by Indian Green Building Council(IGBC)
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TEAM 7
Our studio operates in multiples fields: architecture, design, installation, curatorial works and questions through speculative processes and digital techniques the boundaries of architecture. The ambition of the studio does not rely on nor produce predictable outcomes. Its current research examines the question of hybrid environment and mobility merging architecture, transportation networks, landscape and collective spaces in a context of heterogeneous conditions of space and program. As a result, conflict-based situations generate new possibilities – spanning from reintegration to celebration of divergent interests. Based on sets of questions and critical understanding, each project is approached with an expanded agenda as design-based research. This crucial phase requires critical thinking, demonstration of an intellectual positioning and an ongoing investigation in order to: -put in perspective expectations of the consultation; -stimulate the identification of current issues and possibilities of transgression; -speculate on possibilities for the project to operate as a “connective tissue” within a complex context; -propose scenari for an unpredictable future in terms of program and mobility. Such a position involves challenging the typical part-to-whole relationship, whereby the organisation stems from collaborations between heterogeneous local agents. Specific techniques are tested and implemented in order to create a powerful system of situated and performative relationships, according to global rules and specific situations. Embracing heterogeneity as well as consistency, the complexity of the design proposal is expected to spread beyond the notion of typology. It is aiming at bringing together building, shelter, operative ground, networks, landscape, architectural installation and collective spaces.
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Ontario apartments Frank Minnaërt Privé / Private Commande directe 2006
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Floors
Ontario apartments (new residential blade-buidling in downtown Chicago with mixed & stacked typologies: 17 residential units, shop, carpark for18 cars. 150 East Ontario Street, Chicago IL 60611, USA Private 2840 m2 / Floors
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Frank Minnaërt Research project Sans / None Contre-projet 2006 Counter-project for the design of the new Alliance Française Building in Sydney. 247 Clarence St, Gross Sydney NSW 2000, Australia Research project 4200 m2 Gross
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Social housing, Paris 42 units, 4 townhouses, carpark for 51 cars 68-76 rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris Project manager (Full mission) for Catherine Furet architect SEMEA XV 4485 m2 Gross 4.2M euros
Private residence, Sydney Competition for an innovative conceptual residential project and to encourage higher standards in roof design
Projet / Project Adresse / Location Conception / Design team Maitre d’ouvrage / Client Procédure / Procedure
Operative roof Sydney Frank Minnaërt Boral Limited Concours d’architecture
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APS / Schematic Design 2008 Gross
PROJET LAUREAT du Concours Boral Design 2008 WINNER of the Boral Design Competition 2008
Concours d’architecture organisé par Boral Conception d’une maison individuelle innovante avec un intérêt particulier sur la question de la toiture
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PROJET Design Competition WINNER of the Boral LAUREAT Operative roof- Private residence BORAL Design Award Maison individuelle, Sydney Sydney Boral Limited 375 m2, Gross AU$ 950K
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Selected Project Crossing, Architectural installation Tamarama Beach, Sydney Festival “Sculpture by the Sea” Competition
changes of Orbi are derived from the local properties of water and air Research project
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Frank Minnaërt Research project Sur invitation / By invitation 2006
Projet de recherche Monument géostationnaire dont les caractéristiques et variations
morphologiques dérivent des propriétés de l’air et de l’eau Geostationary monument whose morphological changes arelocales derived from local properties of water and air. UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia Research project UTS Gallery, Sydney: Transcapes, Artificial Nature 1, Digitally mediated environments By invitation
TEAM 8
STATEMENT
The practice sustains the highest levels of artistic creativity combined with professional responsiveness, building projects that are as imaginative and dynamic as they are responsive to client needs, communication, schedule, deadlines, cost, feasibility and ease of implementation. Equipped with state-of-the-art computers, graphic imaging programs and model-making facilities, the practice produces not only the highest quality design documentation for plans and construction, but also powerful renderings, models, graphic designs and presentations useful for conveying design ideas to a wide range of audiences. The Practice belief is that the design of the external environment deserves the same strategic planning and attention to detail as the finest building or most intricate structure. Accordingly the best solution must arise from a symbiosis of site and user and encompass all aspects of the ecological and environmental conditions. To this end the natural resources of the site can be preserved and managed to create rich and diverse habitats, as well as being designed and managed to interact with the built form to enhance its environmental performance. However unlike the built form, the landscape will evolve subject to the forces beyond man’s direct control. If an environment is sensitively designed and managed it will harness these forces and mature with grace and elegance. To achieve this, an holistic approach to the scheme is required from the outset of the project to ensure the most effective use of space and form, as well as the most efficient use of the resources available.
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BAYER AG HEADQUARTERS, Leverkusen GE
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BAYER AG 1. Price Piet Oudlof
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2012 - 2013 / 1-8 4500 m2 / 0,8 Mio Euro
BERNEPARK, Botrop GE
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European Capital of Culture Gross.Max. / Piet Oudlof
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MURAYAMA PLANT MUSEUM, Tokyo JP
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Murayama City Council Gross.Max. / Piet Oudlof
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1-3 10 ha / 7,1 Mio USD
FREIRAUM BAHNSATDT WEST
Client: Competition:
DSK 1. Price
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2014 - 2017 / 1-8 4 ha / 4,2 Mio Euro
LGS 2017, Apolda GE
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Apolda City Council 1. Price
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2013 - 2017 / 12 ha / 5,4 Mio Euro
LANDHOF AREAL, Basel CH
Client: Competition: Prioject Partner:
Basel City Council Entry ringreiter Architectsf
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TEAM 10
Our philosophy introduces an integrated cultural and ecological vision through Urban space with landscape and ecology ; represents by its strategic position and historical importance,as a great opportunity to create an exceptional and lively metropolitan interface, able to link and gather both. New shared interface will encompasses new forms of accessibility and attracts people from all directions to have a great urban experience. Trees, plantings, land modulations greening, and shade structures are all key figures to shape a more pleasant environment and to increase a wide range of outdoor activities with great dedication to expression, with special spiritual significance for cultural and ecological passion, intelligence, artistic eye, and extraordinary level of energy for art, grace and beauty, with great dedication to expression. We believe in the sentece of Renzo Piano; arch.daily interviews /part II/: Architecture is the is the art of answering practical need ,in the same time is the art of answering desires ,it look almoust in contradiction, between real need , pure force of necessity and desire or dreams , they come together . Architecture is architecture only when it answer also to desire ,other wise it is to busy to flat.
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Competition /as autor/ Competition IGALO /Montenegro/- HOTEL IGALO -43000m2- year 2010 /Montenegro/
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Competition Petrovac /Montenegro/- business and residential complex 5500m2 -year2010 /as autor/ image courtesy of autor
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International Competitions as autor: international ideas competition for the Vltava River in Prague -exepted under /nmb: 00332 / Organized by reSITE Festival and ARCHIP/Sponsored by Skanska a.s./year 2012
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Call for Papers for issue #4:Transformation /studio-Arhitecture and urbanism magazine/Milano spring 2013/ PUBLICATION: April 1st 2012/ITALIA/as autor/
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Design Statement
Our collaborative work navigates urban trajectories on land and over water, revealing hidden layers of social and spatial networks that interconnect nature and city life. The combined performative experience and physical work link urban and architectural design with artistic production and social action, realized in collaboration with practitioners and local agencies, youth and volunteers. Through collaborative large scale public interventions that bring together heterogeneous participants in unlikely places, we seek to broaden the reach of what constitutes the story of the contemporary city. Our work threads the strands of practice, spun over a decade of practicing and teaching in Spain, back into the fabric of our native New York City. In Barcelona, we envisioned and led a series of on-site public installations, uniting university design students with at-risk youth in neighborhoods undergoing transformation. Back in New York, we are investigating how Nature transcends preconceived social and political boundaries to link neighborhoods and create new centers of interaction, engagement, and social life. Our projects envision new connections forged along urban waterways in distressed areas, divided by infrastructural rights-of-way, industry, abandonment, and contamination. We collect the everyday matter and flotsam of the city and bring meaning to the urban experience through the architectural transformation of these objects into a spatial system. Improvisation and tectonic invention are coupled with exacting fabrication and heterogeneous collaboration that breathes life into a moment of time in the city, and creates a visual and structural manifestation of the present. Our work is founded on productive collaboration with local partners. In New York we have worked with Urban Park Rangers and Public Art Program of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, MTA Arts-for-Transit, the Bronx River Alliance, Youth Ministries for Peace & Justice and Inwood Community Services among many others.
Evening, High-Tide at Inwood Hill Park Inlet (July 31, 2013)
Original and Dredged Ecologies of the Inwood Hill Park Inlet
Dawn, Low-Tide at Inwood Hill Park Inlet (August 24, 2013)
HARVEST DOME 2.0 (2013) Harvest Dome 2.0 is a giant diaphanous orb for the New York City waterways. A 24ft diameter cupola we designed and constructed from over 450 umbrellas frames, and made buoyant with a ring of 128 empty two-liter soda bottles, Harvest Dome transforms the eight-pointed steel frame, a quintessential piece of urban detritus, into the transcendent form of an architectural dome for the water, to float alongside and bring attention to the tidal salt-marshes of the City. Realized with NYC Department of Park & Recreation. Oculus (July 30, 2013)
Harvest Dome 2.0 arrives at the Gowanus Canal (November 22, 2013)
HARVEST DOME
HUNT’S POINT TO INWOOD HILL PARK OCTOBER 19, 2011
THE DOME MAROONS AT RIKERS ISLAND OCTOBER 19, 2011
HARVEST DOME 2.0
BROOKLYN NAVY YARDS TO INWOOD HILL JULY 31, 2013
INWOOD HILL PARK INLET TO GOVERNORS ISLAND SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
GOVERNORS ISLAND TO GOWANUS CANAL NOVEMBER 22, 2013
Trajectories of Harvest Dome 2.0
New York Harbor (November 22, 2013)
Inside, Dome Looking Up
Lift-off from Brooklyn Navy Yards (July 31, 2013)
Putting in Anchors at Inwood (July 31, 2013)
Kayak Panel and Bottles Panel
View Down Station Platform with Panels
CROSS-BRONX WATERWAY (2012-2014) Cross-Bronx Waterway reveals the Waterways of the Southeast Bronx with eight fluvial vignettes as seen from underwater.The ground plane of the water-a series of steel ribbons welded together to form waves--is flipped up vertically and becomes a screen from which to view the Bronx landscape from the Station. Floating on the water are boats, wildlife, and other quotidian objects found along the Bronx Waterways: crabs, egrets, fish, tires and plastic bottles. from the street, the objects are seen as if from above water. Client: MTA Arts-for-Transit, for Middletown Road Station, NYC Subway
Maiden Voyage of the Bronx River Crossing Watershed Raft (June 11, 2009)
Approaching Westchester Avenue (June 11, 2009)
BRONX RIVER CROSSING (2009) Bronx River Crossing brought together youth, enrolled in local high-schools and after-school programs, with university students in architecture and urban design, to study the Bronx beyond entrenched preconceptions of territory, by designing, constructing and floating a large-scale model of the ecology and human settlement of the Lower Bronx River Watershed. The Bronx River Crossing Watershed Raft juxtaposed riparian nature with architectural monuments and infrastructural networks in need of reclamation, laying the groundwork for a multilayered exploration of future sites requiring historic preservation and environmental justice. Bronx River Crossing was realized with the 2009 Van Alen Institute New York Prize Fellowship. Detail of the Raft as Seen from the 174th Street Bridge (June 11, 2009)
Bushkill Overflow Installed in the Third Street Arts Plaza (May 8, 2011)
Log Jam
Waterstrider
BUSHKILL OVERFLOW (2011) Bushkill Overflow invokes the power and ingenuity of the waterways coursing through Easton, Pennsylvania, recalling their flow and portage through the heart of Easton’s industrial heritage. We harvest a trove of storm-snapped umbrellas, habitually discarded in urban centers during gusty rains, remove their stretched fabric, and link the open metal frames into an abstract reconstruction of Bushkill Creek. The wending assembly of spindly eight-pointed frames is then suspended from the open-air trusswork at Arts Plaza on North 3rd Street, along the true course of the creek underfoot, as both a tangible revelation of the city’s accumulated waterborne debris and as a still-life embodiment of the water’s flow.
Detail, Bushkill Overflow (May 8, 2011)
View of the rehabilitated Westchester Avenue Station from the Whitlock Avenue 6 Train
BRONX RIVER RIGHT-OF-WAY (2012- )
View of the rehabilitated Westchester Avenue Station from the Bronx River
Photo of Westchester Avenue Station when it opened, 1912
BRONX RIVER RIGHT-OF-WAY (2012 -) Bronx River Right-of-Way proposes the relocation and adaptive reuse of the abandonned Westchester Avenue Station, currently off limits and in ruins along the Lower Bronx River. The building is one of thirteen station-stops designed between 1908 and 1916 by Cass Gilbert, for the defunct New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Bronx River Right of Way provides a strategic framework for resituating the Westchester Avenue station house as a vital node within the Bronx River network, by resiting it in adjacent Concrete Plant Park, linked to the waterways and waterfronts of Greater New York. Bronx River Rightof Way is being realized with 2011 and 2014 grants from the James Marston Fitch Foundation, and in collaboration with the Bronx River Alliance and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice.
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OUR APPROACH We believes and invest in cities considering them the best creation of human kind. From our perspective, what makes cities successful is their degree of “urbanity” that is actually the one feature that makes cities successful places rather than a seamless collection of anonymous buildings. We believe this degree of urbanity can be increased and introduced in places where there is none, through the right design. This is why every project we deliver, focuses on the “urbanity” of designed spaces. We continuously research those elements that can trigger the urban sense of the built environment. We valorize the existing, and articulate a network of open spaces through-out the city. Keeping this in mind, we have designed nodes, squares, symbolic landmarks, and mixed use buildings in order to create a public realm that acts as a connector for the different parts of the city but also as a stage for daily life activities and lastly as an identifiable icon for the city’s dwellers. The design is never too rigid, but always adaptable to variations. The buildings volume, the way they ground on the street level, the uses they host and the indoor and outdoor relationship they create, are the ingredients with which we shape the urban realm. We locate human beings at the center of its design, dimensioning the architectural elements to its scale. Parks and green spaces are designed to protect and accommodate leisure activities and to restore from the daily fatigues. Humans are the undisputed protagonist of our projects and approach to the urban world.
2011
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ON GOING
RONCELLO NEW TOWN CENTER The project focus is to recreate the lost town central square. In order to do so the project uses symbolic architectural elements such as the new municipal tower that stands as a landmark and point of reference for the whole town. This new square finally return to the city its lost central public space.
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2011
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IECOCINZAGO TY The project aims to design a new part of the city that avoids the anonymity of urban sprawl. The square, the park and the different buildings create a new central space with an urban character. The shape of the square dictates the orientation and the design of the buildings, augmenting the sense of urbanity.
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2011
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CASSI N A DE’ PECCHI NEW PUBLIC CENTER The renovation project of this farmhouse aims to become the central polarity that the town of Cassina, separated by agricultural land into two parts, never had. The venue for public events, the green park facilities, and the public square, create a mini center that is subtle and well integrated with the environmentally fragile surroundings.
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2014
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CASSANO D’aDDA From the historical centeR TO THE RIVER ADDA The project maximizes the urban qualities of the historic center extending them inside the ex-industrial area creating a new central node that presents urbanity. The central spine asset keeps together different functions and changes according to the context, once becoming an urban square, hence an residential street, lastly a green park.
2014
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HOUSTON DRILLING OUT THE ENERGY The project challenges the traditional American suburbs growth patterns that pivots around urban sprawl and dispersed office parks. The plan designs a central public space and a main street where a necklace of functions can be located, introducing elements of the urbanity realm key to increase the attractiveness of the area.
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2014
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ERBUSCO SME.UP HEADQUARTER
2014
The project aims to renovate an IT company headquarters. The design communicates the company values, its flexibility to clients and to technological progress. The whole working environment is thought as a public space were connection can be made between indoor and outdoor spaces but above all, between employees that can share ideas and knowledge.
MI543 AWASHI MI NGTON This project designs a central space between 3 residential units that works as a connectivity node between the different parts facing onto it. Materials, architectural elements and details, all refer to one another, creating a coherent and rhythmic shared space.
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ARCHITECTS Our Studio is a different kind of architect’s office. We have an experimental and artisanal attitude of mind - one alien to that found within most commercial offices. Established in 2006, the studio continues to produce complex and innovative structures, buildings and landscapes at a variety of scales. Currently, in addition to prototyping a new range of furniture and engaging in a number of experimental research projects the studio has recently delivered a new faculty of 21,000 square metres for Vienna Economics and Business University set within a brand new parkland campus and a new architectural school in Brisbane, Australia. The studio pursues all sorts of design challenges from pack-up-and-go inflatable to temporary structure and from culture, institution building to investigating the potential of urban areas. All design projects, as well as our exhibitions, moderately scaled pavilions, bridges, kiosks and smaller experimental projects are treated equally as opportunities to explore alternatives to the architecture of polite modernism with which everyone is familiar. At the studio, no configuration, combination of techniques or materials is creatively rejected without investigation. The studio is a tight-knit group of designers with a core of experienced architects from the UK, Germany, Taiwan and France.
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Awards & Recognitions
Vienna University, Law school and administration building Client: Christoph Sommer Address: Projektgesellschaft Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien Neu GmbH Hintere Zollamtsstrabe 1 1031 Wien Tel: +43 (1) 313364049 E-mail: Christoph.sommer@wu-wien.ac.at
2014 Awarded 2013 Shortlisted Shortlisted
Building Of The Year, ASA, Australian Institues of Architecs China Photographic Museum Gold Coast Cultural Precinct, Australia
2012 1st Prize Shortlisted
Peru London Pavilion, UK West Kowloon Culture District The Park Development, Hong Kong
2011
4th Prize
New Taiwan Tower, Taichung, Taiwan
Soheil Abedian School of Architecture, Bond University Client: John Le Lievre Address: Bond University Gold Coast, Queensland 4229 Australia Tel: +61 (0) 755951681 E-mail: jlelievr@bond.edu.au
2010
2nd Prize 1st Prize
New Taiwan Tower, Taichung,Taiwan Abedian School of Architecture, Australia
2009
4th Prize
Light House, Rakverre, Finland
2008 1st Prize 1st Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize
Verbania Municipal Theatre, Italy Law Faculties and Central Administration Buildings, Austria Skopje Footbridge, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia New Street Station, UK
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Law Faculties and Central Administration Buildings Location: Vienna, Austria Client: Projektgesellschaft Wirtschafts universitaet Wien GmbH 2007 - 2013 Date: Category: First Prize in competition, New building Services: Architectural and landscape design Mission: Initial and Detailed Design, Site supervision Area: 20, 500 m2 29,000,000 EURO Budget:
Just completed is a 200 meter long pair of buildings snaking west to east in a series of brightly coloured streaks that cheer up the often grey skies of Vienna’s Prater district. They fold out to form a series of roof decks, they zig in and out to create ‘sunshine corners’ and are occasionally eaten out to create balconies for smokers or others who are needing a break. There are routes under that run from the University courtyard to the Prater Park on the south - diving through the red base.
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Kunsthaus Graz Location: Client: Date: Category: Services: Mission: Area: budget:
Graz, Austria Landesmuseum Joanneum 2004 First Prize in competition, New building Architectural design Initial and Detailed Design, Site supervision 10,000m2 40,000,000 euro
The predominant characteristic of the studios work is of liveliness and cheerfulness : an innate sense of the ‘theatre’ of life. So that the Graz Kunsthaus has become both an icon of the city and an endearing asset so that it’s nickname ‘the friendly alien’ is liberally and lovingly quoted by all. Commissioned by the City of Graz as featured building for the city’s role as European City of Culture 2003, the brief reflects the city’s reputation for experimental design which has encouraged the development of a scheme that explores new materials and morphologies and doesn’t hesitate to insert within the baroque pitchroofed fabric of the town a somewhat alien architectural creature that is nevertheless friendly to its users. While it is certainly not shy in displaying its singularity, the Kunsthaus Graz actually takes pains to engage with the street life, scale and alignment of the buildings along the river Mur and, through the openness and flexibility of its internal organization, it should also prove to be a malleable object of desire. It is also noteworthy as a pioneer example of integrated responsive facade illumination.
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Abedian School of Architecture Location: Queensland, Australia Client: Bond University Date: 2010 - 2013 Category: First Prize in competition, New building Services: Architectural and landscape design Mission: Initial and Detailed Design, Site supervision 2.500 m2 Area: $16,200,000 AUD Budget: The Bond University architecture school is eyecatching and conspicuously framed to make the street, the studios and the ‘scoops’ (special teaching pockets) sculpturally memorable – but extremely clear for the user. The building is a long, airy loft on two to three levels articulated by a series of ‘scoops’: defining structureenclosures that can be used for casual meetings and ‘crit’ sessions. These line the central street that gently rises up the hilltop site. As befits a hot and sometimes sticky climate, the building is airy and folds over upon itself in a series of fan-like roofs and slits with advantage is taken of the east-west axis to clarify a very climatecontrolled development of the building envelope that includes sunshade ‘eyebrows’ on the sundrenched north side.
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Drawing Studio Arts University Bournemouth Location: Bournemouth, UK Client: Arts University Bournemouth Date: 2012 - 2015 Category: Invited, New building Services: Architectural and landscape design Mission: Initial and Detailed Design, Site supervision 191 m2 Area: 1,400,000 GBP Budget:
The building was a direct commission through a recognition within the AUB campus a need to rediscover the fundamental nature of drawing and the way in which it stimulates thought. The building is an iconic, free-standing pavilion with one large naturally lit and ventilated drawing studio that shall be available to all sections in the university.
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Vallecas Housing
Location: Vallecas, Madrid, Spain Client: EMVS Date: Completed 2011 Category: Invited, New building Services: Architectural and landscape design Mission: Initial and Detailed Design, Site supervision Size: TBC - 97 apartments 9,000,000 Euro Budget: The Vallecas Housing develops a wide range of apartment-types around a reciprocal system of lift/stair zones and large internal light and ventilation tubes. The periphery of the building (a 70m x 1 m x 9 floor strip) is modeled to allow the maximum exploitation of view and cooling lines. The undulation of form thus created is percolated by careful grouping of a single window opening type. This in turn is modulated by a ‘double eyelash’ of shutters that can augment the breeze-catching, sun-shading potential of the layout.
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Gold Coast Cultural Precinct Location: Queensland, Australia Client: City of Gold Coast Date: 2013 Category: Shortlisted, new cultural precinct Services: Architectural and landscape design Mission: Initial Design Size: TBC 300,000,000 AUD Budget: Located on a bend of the Nerang River that forms a penicula – which clasps a lake – we create a garden of surprises, yet with a simple basic organization. A central Plaza is flanked by the Theatres and the New Art Museum which, upon reaching the edge of the Lake, is proscribed by a Promenade that has continued the line of the Bridge. The scheme is spiritually and physically a collage of events – inspired by the overlaying of creative experiences of every genre and every level of formality. Layering them first, with large forms that are then carved into by the release of caves and ‘scoops’. Entwined with paths, pads, meadows and thickets that lyrically engage with each other whilst at the same time enjoying the gentle audacity of local incidents: such as pockets that open up from hidden car parking, or hedges, ramps and arms that sometimes delve, sometimes encircle and sometimes even fly out over the water.
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Design philosophy
natural elements
urban elements i. Division
ii. Mixture
iii. Expansion
The past urban development strategy, based on gray infrastructures ignored nature and its ecosystem. As a result, it drew a bold division line between nature and everyday human lives. Ecotonelu has as its core a single overriding concern ; transition area between culture and the environment and between the land and people. Our design will bring nature and human lives into single space. It would be a cultural ecotone - a human habitat with a large degree of diversity and health between artificial and ecological environment. The projects will perform a role to change the surrounded environment gradually beyond simply producing a necessary place.
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Hanwha Life Insurance Training Center Collaboration with an effort to develop a fluid plan, the circular shapes are echoed in various landscape elements at human scale of the user such as plaza, lawn, parking, open natural area and forests . Location Role Status
Yongin-si, Kyunggi-do, Korea Site Area Landscape Design from competition to construction Awards In-progress
Nature
Fluidity
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84,938 sqm 2013 Design Competiton Winner
Tension
GATEWAY PARK
Shift Competition Finalist _to preserve habitats -- expansion of wetland _to reduce flood risk -- change of topography _hard edge -- soft edge _connection of natural materials and urban materials according to the layered fields
Location Site Area Awards
NewYork, USA 26,607 acre Finalist, Schiff competition
existing plan
cutting
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expansion
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MANAZEL After researching desert environment, ‘wadi’ , the system collecting water, is applyed for the structure of masterplan.
Location Site Area Role
Abu Dhabi, UAE 3,478 ha Project Manager
GEUMGANG PARK RENOVATION Nature and humans lives were created to interact in a single space bringing harmonization.
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Busan, Korea 3,089,682sqm Project Designer Competition Winner Under Construction
GUADUCDO International Design Competiton To retain and advance its natural resources as well as to efficiently support new urban demands from adjacent development, 4 interconnected edge cities are planned between the mountain and the Sourthern Korean Ocean. Location Role
Guaducdo, Busan, Korea Project Designer
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5.518 sqkm 2nd Prize
International Ice Rink & Incheon Asian Games Handball Arena The massive and dynamic ICE-ROCK floating on the ocean is a theme of expressing shinning crystalloid of athletes dream. As the ice burgs melts into water, the theme park conceptualises the changes of an iceburg to become a landmark during 2014 Incheon Asian Games. Location Role Status
Sunhak-dong, Incheon, Korea Landscape Design from concept to construction Under Construction
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21,075 sqm 2011 Design Competiton Winner
C CENTER
This project is a combination between old traditional Korean landscape and contemporary design. Location Site Area Status
Seoul, Korea 2,512sqm Under Construction
BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ART This project is a threshold - defined as an amalgam of old, new, green, grey, private, public and radically other forms of experience.
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Boston, USA 3.4 acres honorable mention
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Design Philisophy Statement We conceive of architecture as a continuous and collective effort whose goal is the transformation of our cities into welcoming and sustainable built environments. Our work is dedicated to the promotion of harmonious spaces that successfully blend into their contexts, fulfilling their local as well as larger global responsibilities. We are always on the lookout for solutions that have rethought the traditional methods of production, approaches that have sought to stretch the limits in energy choices. Engaged in the conception and direct production of projects of all architectural scales, we remain attentive and responsive to the constantly changing social and economic realities. We look toward the future with a feeling combining confidence, pragmatism, and a sense of freedom. Our confidence comes from our diverse experience, while our conviction that the task of architecture is to respond to specific demands has strengthened the pragmatic side of our approach. Not wishing to deprive ourselves of the spirit of invention, we continue to rethink and reexamine principles considered as given. In this way, we aspire to contribute to the renewal and improvement of architectural practices.
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Bouncing Bridge Inflatable bridge equipped with giant trampolines
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Paris 2013
Peace Pavillon Temporary inflatable structure
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London 2013
Salford Meadows bridge Pedestrian bridge
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Salford 2013
Battersea Power Station Architecture museum—ArchTriumph 1st prize
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London 2013
ZAC Claude Bernard Residential building—Mipim Award
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Paris 2012
Evolo Tower Mixed use tower—Special Mention for “Tour Evolo 10”
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Paris 2010
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L+M Design studio
Miami, Florida
DESIGN APPROACH Our design approach is simple and straight forward. Naturally, each project has its own requirements and needs according to the program in question. Therefore each project can have a unique Design approach according to the required program and the clients’ needs. The environmental impact is our first and foremost consideration on the project site. We start by analysing the site of the project, looking at the importance of daylight and the daily movement of the sun on the site itself. Light and shadow play a major part in a climate such as Miami’s, based on its hot and humid environment. It is essential to look at the overall natural elements on the site before creating any artificial environment. The movement of the sun gives us clues of how to direct any new building structure towards its optimal favorable position. One must also consider the changes of climate and the rainy season. Therefore covered exterior spaces play an important role in this type of climate in Miami. Enclosed or sunken gardens can create a cooler oasis in this climate. We favor atriums, enclosed patios, and shaded walkways with covered seating areas overlooking open spaces for contemplation. Creating green spaces and buildings are essential goals in our design approach. We favor vertical gardens and water walls within the perimeters of a given site in order to recreate a cooler atmosphere within the parameters of the year-round climate, the hot gazing sun of the long summers and the constant heavy rainfall in rainy seasons, with our hot and humid tropical weather. The seasonal wind factors play a major role in our designs. It is a primordial fact to study good water drainage and wind resistant structures in a building design. The flood zone is always a main consideration, due to the considerable climate change and global warming. The hurricane season teaches us important lessons in optimal cases and conditions, and gives way to the implementation and creation of more sustainable and functionally healthy environments.
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In the beginning there was Chaos. Our studio was a tumultuous state of diverse ideas, perceptions, utopias, backgrounds and worlds. (…) And within this Chaos was Power, a common ground in the middle of a maelstrom, with a desire for the material, the spatial, the sensorial and the social dimension. This point of departure provides unique opportunities to design and redefine the overlaps and intersections between architecture and its context as a way to reinvent new possibilities for space. Our work incorporates a wide range of typologies and scales in architecture and urban design with a mix of built work and winning proposals for open design competitions. Our explorations look at the juxtaposition of the public and private space found in the urban context and the analysis of how this overlap can improve the level of comfort in our cities. Giving shape and context to the public space as an urban element is essential in the formation of the city, the life of the citizen and the continued construction of the collective memory. Following Jane Jacobs´s philosophy: “The cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody”.
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The Waterfall 1º Prize: XYZ Pont Penjant d´Amposta {BUILT} The installation on the suspension bridge of Amposta makes reference to the constant movement of the Ebro river. The sound of the falling water transforms the bridge into a space of transition, an audible threshold between two worlds: the urban and the natural. The waterfall invites the spectator to explore the visual, audible, ambient and material dimensions.
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MUDEM Museum of the Archeological Wall Murcia {IN PROGRESS}
The project generates an overlap between the public and the private. The roof as a plaza integrates an historical boundary within the urban context. The plaza/roof creates a transition through an open space filled with clues about what it is covering, allowing for an active spatial and visual interaction between above and below.
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CIV Jumilla Wine Museum, Jumilla Murcia {BUILT} The design proposes the restoration of one of the only remaining examples of industrial architecture from early twentieth century in Jumilla. In addition, a new volume has been inserted to connect the existing structures and to mark the new entrance to the museum. The new entrance is a formal exploration that reflects the action of separation during the wine production process.
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A.W.E. Art Wind Energy Finalist: Land Art Generator Iniciative {COMPETITION}
Gazebo combines "gaze" with the latin suffix ebo, meaning "I shall", refering to a structure, made up of an open or lattice work pavilion, built on a site with a view and provides a space for encounter, relaxation, reflection and entertainment. A.W.E. combines sculpture, engineering and wind to generate clean energy and a space for reflection and interaction at Freshkills.
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Reimagining Red Hook 1ยบ prize: Reimagining Red Hook - FFUD {COMPETITION} This project proposes the bycicle as the pricincipal means of transportation in and around Red Hook, Brooklyn. The design is divided into three specific parts consisting of a new network of bike lanes that conects a series of information nodes and a bike loft. The bike loft is grafted into the existing structure of the elevated subway, as a means of sustainability and adaptive reuse.
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PooL LooP 2ยบ prize: Water Works Gowanus by Design {COMPETITION}
What if a building was able to help re-oxygenate the water and at the same time make this process visible? The PooL Loop uses a perimeter waterwall to wrap a CSO facility that is covered by a public park and community center. The waterwall is a new urban typology that generates a park border and waterscape while it cleans an re-oxygenates storm water before releasing into the local ecosystem.
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Our partnership was established in 1996 with offices in New York and Tokyo. Our projects range in type and size from small residential works to large scale urban interventions. This wide variety of projects has allowed us to work with many types of programs and clients. We have developed innovative uses of under-utilized materials for private residences as well as large scale institutions that change the urban character of the city. Our working relationship started during the construction of the Tokyo International Forum, a cultural complex in Tokyo. Since that time we have been working and traveling together, between offices in New York and Tokyo. Through our work we strive to understand the differences and similarities of perception, materiality and space between western and eastern culture. We approach each project as a unique opportunity to collaborate on issues of culture, the environment, and materiality. Every project is different and provides new challenges. We provide full architectural services from feasibility studies through to the final commissioning of the project, with the understanding that construction administration is a vital stage in implementing the design. We continue to test our architectural ideas in the theoretical world of competitions, and we also enjoy the process of seeing our projects being built.
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MINAMIGAWA RESIDENCE
Osaka-Sayama, Japan - 2001
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DAEGU GOSAN PUBLIC LIBRARY
Daegu, Korea - 2012
Our proposal for the library in this new area integrates cultural activities and the library’s traditional function as a community center. Open raised platforms encourage people to meet and exchange ideas. Spaces that are highly visible allow active and wide ranging reading, for casual surfing of information that leads to inspiration, and also enclosed quiet spaces foster contemplation and deep thinking.
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FOLDED PAVILION
New York, NY - 2011
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TEA SHOP
Oshima, Japan - 2006
Our response was to add a lofty lighted faรงade illuminated from the interior. For the display of products we used natural light through a large glazed opening and a screened facade. A kitchen and restroom are organized and efficiently tucked into the rear of the shop. This approach maximized exposure and floor area. The project was awarded an AIA Small Practice Practitioners design award.
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TOWNSCHOOL THEATER
New York, NY - 2010
The project was awarded a New York State AIA merit award.
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BROADWAY RIVER
New York, NY - 2009
The imagery associated with this path through the city; the islands, the floods of people, reinforce our idea of Broadway as a river of humanity that travels daily through the canyons of Time Square. Within this river it is vital to provide rest as well as passage. There are areas to sit and enjoy the sights and sounds of being in the center of this dynamic environment.
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