The Collective Loop: Snaefellsstofa Visitor Center. I don't know how to pronounce this visitor center but it is definitely eye catching in design. It's located in the eastern part of the national park that surrounds Europe's largest glacier. The Snaefellsstofa building is shaped in an X design and was designed by Arkis. The materials are as usual concrete and beautiful untreated wood. I'm a sucker for these types of materials. If I'm ever in Europe I would surely visit this visitor center. Location: Skriðuklaustur, IcelandType: Visitor centerYear: 2010:Architecs: Arkís source: belowtheclouds. Renovated Warehouse Wrapped in a Flowing Cinderblock Skin Shanghai Gallery Conversion.
Endemico Resguardo Silvestre / graciastudio. Architects: graciastudio, Arq. Jorge Gracia Location: Valle de Guadalupe, Ensenada, México Collaborators: Javier Gracia, Jonathan Castellón, Braulio Lozano, Valeria Peraza Construction: graciastudio Surface: 20 rooms of 20 square meters each. Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Luís García Located in Valle de Guadalupe «Mexico’s Wine Country», Baja California,Endémico Resguardo Silvestre is a set of twenty independent rooms of twenty square meters each, operated by Grupo Habita, a Design Hotels member; established within a surface of 99 hectares, part of the Encuentro Guadalupe development, which includes a winery as well as a residential area. One of the principal premises was not to interfere directly the land, as part of the philosophy of the project is to respect nature in every possible way.
The availability of steel by our client lead to the design of the clean structure with this material, which elevates the skeleton of the room, named EcoLoft, to avoid contact with the soil. Snaefellsstofa Visitor Center / ARKÍS architects. Architects: ARKÍS architects Location: Egilsstaðir, Iceland Owner: Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður – Vatnajökull galcier Project area: 750 sqm Project year: 2010 Photographs: Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson Snæfellsstofa Visitor Center communicates the dignity of the surrounding nature and is closely connected to its immediate surroundings.
It attracts visitors to its unique appearance and simultaneously works as an attractor for indoor and outdoor activities. The building is divided into three parts so that it can be utilized in different ways, depending on the season. The visitor center is placed on the site at the location of a pronounced change in elevation, so that the building gently glides over the terrain. The location is selected to ensure shelter from winds, ample daylight and mountain views. The building form is inspired by the eternal creative force of the glacier; how it breaks its way through terrains or retreats and carves new, ever changing natural wonders into the landscape. The Building. Shoal Bay Bach / Parsonson Architects. Architects: Parsonson Architects Location: Shoal Bay, New Zealand Project Team: Gerald Parsonson, Craig Burt Structural Engineer: Spencer Holmes Consulting Engineers Builder: Phil Davidson Construction Project Area: 220 sqm Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Paul McCredie Shoal Bay is a remote settlement on the rugged east coast of southern Hawkes Bay.
The building is designed to be part of the rural setting, it is raised off the ground and sits beside the original woolshed, which has served the bay since the early 1900′s. The bach is rugged yet welcoming and offers unpretentious shelter, it is the type of place where you kick off your shoes and don’t need to worry whether you walk sand through the house. The bach is formed of two slightly off-set pavilions, one housing the bedrooms and the other the main living space. Decks are located at each end of the living pavilion allowing the sun to be followed throughout the day. Whatarchitecture - Projects. Tangga House by Guz Architects. By Eric • Mar 23, 2011 • Selected Work The Tangga House is another Singapore’s dream home designed by Guz Architects.
Completed in 2009, the 7,663 square foot residence is located in Holland Village, an elite district of Singapore that is famous amongst the expatriate community. The luxury single-family home gives the owners the opportunity to live in harmony and comfort with nature, in Singapore’s hot tropical climate. Tangga House by Guz Architects: “The house is a contemporary interpretation of a traditional courtyard house, laid out around a central green courtyard with a double height stair and entry area forming the focal point of the project. The L-shaped plan creates open spaces which encourage natural ventilation and offer resident’s views over the courtyard to the veranda, roof gardens and beyond. The large roof above the courtyard creates an indoor and outdoor space leading to the gardens and swimming pool which wraps around two sides of the house. Photos by: Patrick Bingham-Hall. Zagreb Pavilion / njiric+ arhitekti. Architects: njiric+ arhitekti doo Location: Zagreb, Croatia Architects in Charge: Hrvoje Njirić, Vedran Škopac, Nikola Fabijanic Lighting: LUMENART doo, Pula Scientific Support: Ivan Rupnik, Zagreb–Harvard Steel Consultant: TOM dd, Uskoplje-G.Vakuf, BiH Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Matko Stankovic & Domagoj Blazevic Criticism In-Progress “It may seem, in fact, incomprehensible or even contradictory to denounce a lack of criticism in a situation that seems, on the other hand, caught in inextricable intellectual knots.”
Manfredo Tafuri (1980) Hrvoje Njiric and Vedran Skopac’s pavilion proposal for this year’s Salon clearly seeks to critique contemporary material culture in Croatia. The discourse around the possibility of a critical architecture reached its peak around 1980, the year when Kenneth Frampton, in his work Modern Architecture: a Critical History, attempted to construct a historical framework for contemporary “critical” architecture. Ivan Rupnik. Sliding House / MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. The house is sited on an agrarian hillside, along a 250 year old existing stone wall so as to cultivate rather than consume the field. Its sliding axis is eastward, down the hillside to the lake. In the historic village below there are three houses, corresponding to three sons of the original settlers.
There are three barns, three chicken houses, etc. The third barn was demolished in the 1970s. The Sliding House adds back this lost barn. It is sited orthogonally to the other village buildings. It is both of its place and radically modern – testing the limits of a critical regionalist position. Architects: MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Photographs: Brian MacKay-Lyons, Courtesy of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects The Sliding House sets up a tension between a ‘plumb’ interior and a ‘crooked exterior.’