Mecenat Art Museum by Naf Architect. Project: Mecenat Art Museum Designed by Naf Architect & Design Design Team: Tetsuya Nakazono Project Area: 99,55 sqm Site Area: 344, 57 sqm Total Floor Area: 191, 24 sqm Location: Heroshima, Japan Website: naf-aad.com Naf Architect & Design creates the impressive Mecenat Art Museum for a location in Heroshima.
Discover more of their solution after the jump: From the Architects: The works of Mr. Goami give striking image of various lights, thus, I decided to design the building focusing on natural light. Soft diffused light from top light, direct light pouring from top light through white cylinder for condensation of light spreading on the first floor, soft light from slits on the walls reflecting on the exterior green, fragments of graphical lights pouring through 432 plate glasses on the concrete walls; the space is filled with various kinds of lights. As an exhibition space, there was no need for structure such as columns and beams but as large wall as possible. Residential and Nursing Home Simmering / Josef Weichenbrger Architects + Partner. Architects: Josef Weichenberger Architects + Partner Location: Vienna, Austria Architect In Charge: Mark Steinmetz, Benno Wutzl Photographs: Paul Ott, Mark Steinmetz, Armin Plankensteiner Project Area: 5,800 sqm Floor Space: 30,000 sqm In the heart of Vienna’s 11th district, on a lot densely vegetated by an old tree population, a new game-changing geriatrics center was to be realized.
Central idea: High-quality dwelling for care-dependent senior citizens in the comforting atmosphere of a green oasis – rather then the common, sterile, hospital-style atmosphere of geriatrics centers as they used to be. The individual wards of the center are designed to conceptually resemble an organic city center, with all its varying and diversified spatial characteristics. They are articulated into common rooms and lounges on the “squares”, and small dwelling units lining the “alleys”
. * Location to be used only as a reference. Greenhouse at Grüningen Botanical Garden by Buehrer Wuest Architekten. Steel trees with sprawling branches support the glass roof of this greenhouse in Switzerland by Buehrer Wuest Architekten (+ slideshow). Located in a botanical garden outside the village of Grüningen, the greenhouse is used for growing subtropical plants such as banana and papaya. The architects borrowed structural patterns found in nature, like the membranes of a leaf, to create the geometric structure of the roof.
Glass screens subdivide the space to create different planting areas. Other greenhouses we've featured include one made from Lego and another with a temporary restaurant inside. Photography is by Markus Bertschi. Here are a few words from the architects: The new pavilion at the botanical garden at Grueningen relates strongly to its context. Both the formal vocabulary and the structural concept derive from nature. Site plan - click above for larger image The form was developed using Voronoi tessellation, also known as natural neighbor interpolation. House in Kitaoji by Torafu Architects. Every room inside this concrete house in Kyoto by Torafu Architects is accessible for a resident in a wheelchair (+ slideshow). Both a lift and staircase connect the ground floor with the central living room and kitchen on the floor above, where worktops are set at a reduced height.
Smaller rooms surround this living/dining room on every side and feature sloping ceilings that don't all correspond with the shape of the roof outside. A large square aperture reveals the location of a courtyard along one side of the house, with openings that let natural light into the rooms beyond and below. Other recent projects by Torafu Architects include a shelf with a secret drawer and a skincare shop with stained wooden surfaces that look like marble. See all our stories about Torafu Architects » See more Japanese houses on Dezeen » Photography is by Daici Ano. Here's a project description from Torafu Architects: House in Kitaoji This compact formation also eliminated the need for passageways in this house.
Nowoczesny hotel w czeskich Beskidach - zdjęcie. Rural Retreat by Mancini. Mancini Enterprises designed a rural retreat in Sikkim, India. Design: Mancini Enterprises. The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia's Brilliant, Passively Sun-Aware Endesa Pavilion. Last November an odd-looking wooden structure went up at the Olympic Port in Barcelona. Called the Endesa Pavilion, or Solar House 2.0, it was designed by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, a Spanish education and research center. The Pavilion was ingeniously designed and sited for the exact position it occupies on Earth. The sun's seasonal path was mapped, and all of the house's odd angles you see are purposefully calculated rather than being architectural whimsy: The windows provide illumination all year 'round, but allow no direct sunlight during hot summer months, and plenty during winter months. Overhangs placed directly in the sun's line of sight are bristling with solar panels.
In addition to the clever and observant design, CNC fabrication is what makes houses like these feasible. What's most surprising is the way the inside of the house looks. Watch, listen and learn as an IAAC representative breaks the house down: Writer's Studio by Cooper Joseph Studio. Budding novelists will lust after this writer's hideaway in upstate New York designed by New York City architects Cooper Joseph Studio (+ slideshow).
The exterior is clad in black stained cedar to absorb sunlight during the cold winters, and a built-in ladder leads up to the roof. The interior is sparsely furnished with custom-made pieces made from walnut, including a desk, a magazine table and even the sink in the bathroom. See more dreamy places to work on Dezeen » Photographs are by Elliott Kaufman. Here's some more information about the project: Writer’s Studio Ghent, New York The writer’s studio is a place for one person to work, read and listen to music. Design solution Minimalist detailing, open glazed corners and transparency running the length of the structure challenge the simplicity of the “box”. The studio volume is a small, rectilinear and restrained single-room space in the woods.
Energy and sustainability Interior finishes: Bathroom: Furniture: Ljubljana Puppet Theater, Slovenia | Ant-house / mA-style architects. Architects: mA-style architects Location: Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan Design Team: Atsushi Kawamoto, Mayumi Kawamoto Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Kai Nakamura Project Area: 66.24 sqm Plot Area: 241.13 sqm The outer wall of black covers whole cube, and that screens visual field completely. Inside of heavy door, the space turns to vivid yellow covered by larch plywood.
It seems that the world changed. It looks like hiding place. This is the house which lives married couple and their three sons. We planned ambiguous space without partition a room. First of all, we drew simple rectangle without any daring idea on the ground for suiting the cost. The space also enable us to see each other. In the cube which was covered by black wall, very free world becomes larger like ant’s nest. Meadows@Peirce. Les Terrasses Cap-á-l’aigle: Where Architecture and Nature Connect / MU Architecture. Architects: MU Architecture Location: Charlevoix Region, Quebec, Canada Client’s Name: Florent Moser Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Ulysse Lemerise Bouchard The residential development project Les Terrasses Cap-à-l’Aigle was born from a passion for the great open spaces and natural beauty of the Charlevoix region in 2009. Florent Moser and Alain Rajotte, both entrepreneurs as well as ardent lovers of the region, have created a unique residential development project that unites nature and architecture to provide a haven of peace and rejuvenation for its future owners and tenants.
With respect for the environment and the desire to harmonize with nature as the driving forces behind the project, the developers conceived modern, luxury homes that blend seamlessly into the landscape. This major residential development offers hillside lots with panoramic views, surrounding mature forest, privacy, tranquility, abundant natural light, and quality infrastructures. Nature: A one-of-a-kind canvas.
La Roche House in France by Archiplein. Archiplein is a young international architecture office composed by 5 partners who aim reinterpret classic Chinese culture and marry it with globalization and sustainability. Their La Roche house project, located in the Drome region of southern France, existed already as a stone building that was once a tobacco house. The challenge was to use the existing exterior, modernize it and create a livable interior for their client. The focal point of the home is a nest-like floating staircase. From the architects: The goal, here, is to sublimate qualities and the feelings already present on the spot.
Project Name: La Roche houseClient: Private familyLocation: Rochebaudin, South FranceArchitecture Team: Archiplein (Feng Yang, Fang Weiyi, Francis Jacquier, Marlene Leroux and Mingbo Wang)Staircase Realization: Pierre Derimay WorkshopSize: 220 sqm / 2370 sq feet. Archdaily. Architects: bureau SLA & Overtreders W Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Project Team: Peter van Assche, Reinder Bakker, Hester van Dijk, Mathijs Cremers, Jorrit Vijn, Sara Postkart, Ronna Gardner, Jiri Masek, Ninja Zurheide, Monique Philippo, volonteers and about 80 employees of Marktplaats Structural Engineering: Pensera, Amsterdam Builders: bureau SLA, Overtreders W & Jorrit Vijn Financing: Ymere (housing corporation), e-Bay, crowd funding (99 donations) Project Area: 36 sqm Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Jeroen Musch & Shinji Otani Bureau SLA and Overtreders W have now completed the Noorderparkbar: the first 100% ‘market place construction in The Netherlands.
All the materials used to build this tiny coffee bar were bought second-hand at marktplaats.nl, a Dutch eBay type site, from around a hundred individuals and small traders. Yet, the pavilion looks brand new. The process of creating the bar was in itself somewhat unusual. Pedestrian Bridge - Ribeira de Carpinteira. Micro Cabin in Finland. Built overlooking a lake in Finland, this Micro Cabin, nicknamed “Nido,” was designed and built by Robin Falck to enjoy once out of the military. It took a while to design and Falck consulted with a couple of architects to get everything right, but the results are phenomenal. Finland has regulations that restrict cabins and small houses from being larger than 96-128 square feet if they are being built without a permit.
Falck was able to build a 96-square-foot cabin with a 50-square-foot loft space that houses the bed and stores clothing. Using mostly recycled materials, the entire cabin was built for around $10,500 plus the labor. [via Tiny House Listings]