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Kingston University Town House
Office: Grafton Architects
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Client: Kingston University
Year: 2014
Typology: Education
Building Type: University
Project Size: 110,000 SF
Project Cost: $62M
Location: Kingston-upon-Thames, London, UK
Kingston University Town House is an open-ended spatial framework offering both generosity and flexibility in allowing the culture of this building to grow and change.
In order to achieve this, passive strategies are prioritized to ensure comfortable thermal, visual and acoustic environment, where possible. Active/ mechanical servicing is employed only where spatial, architectural and contextual constraints demand.
While the building feels permeable and transparent, environmental control is achieved through the use of ‘colonnade’ and ‘ambulatory’ elements.
Recessed on three sides to form gardens and colonnades, the facades are open and transparent at the lower levels becoming more solid at the upper levels where shading is required.
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Ex-Casa 400 Tower
Office: VMX Architects
Client: Bouwinvest Real Estate
Year: 2014
Typology: Residential
Building Type: Multi-Family Housing
Project Size: 322,900 SF
Project Cost: XXXX
Location: Amsterdam, NL
Ex-Casa 400 addresses the potential of left-over spaces in cities for the creation of high-density apartment blocks for affordable housing.
The project, witch combines student dormitories with starter apartments, provides the city of Amsterdam with a new area for compact living. The remaining triangular plot, illustrative of the many residual spaces in the city, offered a great opportunity for densification. As an environment for starters who have outgrown the one room they lived in as a student, 130 two-room apartments have been created in a distinctive tower, coupling a vibrant, dense living environment with the quality of anonymity.
The shape of the plot has dictated the floor plan of the new building, but has also become the basis for the facade pattern.
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