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Architects: TOOB STUDIO
Location: tt. Kỳ Sơn, Hoà Bình, Vietnam
Architect In Charge: Nguyễn Hồng Quang
Area: 120.0 sqm
Year: 2014
From the architect. Hillside House project is located among an area of about 1000sqm which is a part of a resort beside Bùi brook, Hòa Bình; that takes 55km from Hà Nội to the west. This place is where Mường ethnic people habit.
The murmur all year of Bùi brook along the 45 degree sloped hillside is considered to be the most marvellous scene of the area. However, there was a limitation in construction here. So, this was a tough challenge for the architect in planning overall traffic.
The owner of house works in construction field, and he desires a place not only for his whole family to relax during weekends but also a house that friendly to the nature, suitable to the native architecture, saving energy and low cost.
From all above elements, the architects design “Hillside House” which is inspired of Mường ethic traditional house on stilts. Constructed materials are mostly from nearby area like quarry stone, bamboo, palm leaves, etc…combines with specific Vietnamese northern materials such as slate stone, yellow laterite. Structure of the house is made by steel frame, which is quickly constructed, light and durable. Construction workers mostly are Mường people, that’s why the architects try to give a simple but useful solution.
There are a ground floor and an attic. The ground floor is about 70sqmarea which includes living-dining-kitchen space, one standard bathroom. The 1st floor is 1,2m higher than the ground land around so that people could have the best view of the scene, and to stay away from insects.
Moreover, the atmospheric convection creates comfortable atmosphere, reduces endosmosis from the ground. Surrounding pool is an interesting highlight, it makes the air cooler before flowing through the house. The cover solution is the bamboo curtain system. Each time the curtains are rolled up, the scenery can be enjoyed through the I shaped steel column system, and the bamboo curtains accidently become a romantic nature picture frame.
The second floor is 50sqm area includes multipurpose space and bedroom, covered by glass not to limit the view. The roof is made of bamboo resigned frame and covered with 50cm thick palm leaves to make it cool inside the house even if during the hottest day of summer.
The construction of the house and the landscape of green are done at the same time. In which there are varieties type of plant such as big tree, fruit tree, and vegetables…
Irrigation and clean water is supplied enough from the underground water stream and rain water which was filtered by natural materials, so tap-water is no longer required.
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Acclaimed photographer cristobal palma, of santiago-based estudio palma, has produced a film which documents a great number of the buildings he has captured over the past four years. the movie, entitled ‘cristobal palma: architecture film work 2010-2014′ compiles palma’s short architectural videos, offering the viewer a deeper understanding of the various works.
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Architects: Spaces Architects@ka
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
Architect In Charge: Kapil Aggarwal
Design Team: Kapil Aggarwal, Pawan Sharma, Shankar Vignesh, Heebok
Area: 20000.0 ft2
Photographs: Akhil bakshi
From the architect. The sprawling farmhouse has a built-up area of 20,000 sq ft on a 2.5 acre site. With a contemporary vocabulary enhanced by attention to detailing, the layout of the structure ensures views of the pool or the lawn from all parts of the house.
Farmhouse is certainly a euphemism for this home. ‘Mansion’ or ‘luxury hotel’ might be more appropriate word to define the design. Enormous rooms and bathrooms, Jacuzzis, sunken bathtubs, steam rooms, a card room and a spa are all par for the course.The geometry of the structure is composed of a cluster of perpendicular blocks, with a zinc- clad protruding cantilevered box over the entrance various architectural compositions present themselves, when viewed from different sides. A ‘fire room’ to house a fireplace for those cold days in Delhi, has a water body on its periphery. This unusual twist combines the dual imagery of fire and water.
The building, a modern structure, sits at the rear end of the rectangular plot, with a landscaped garden in front. Its geometry is composed of a cluster of perpendicular blocks, with a protruding cantilevered box over the entrance. A pergola casts interesting shadows, which change with the time of the day. Various architectural compositions present themselves, when viewed from different sides. The approach through the driveway provides a view of the cantilevered block, which is clad with zinc from a European company, (for the first time in India), giving it a distinctive character. The rest of the exterior is a combination of glass, and rough tile cladding.
Two storeys house the private and semi private areas. There are two units- guest space which face the gardens, and the main areas which overlook the poolside. The ground floor has the lobby, drawing and dining rooms, two bedrooms and a bar area, whereas the upper floor has three bedrooms with a master bedroom. At the pool side, at right angles to the drawing room, is the home theatre and gym. The spa is at right angles to the dining room, creating a closed, private space. Special attention has been paid to the treatment of the ceilings in every room, offering a fresh design and lighting option everywhere.
Entering the house through tall entrance doors leads to the double- height lobby, with office space alongside. Further inside, the staircase on one side leads to the first floor, its encasing glass panels allowing light into the interior space and also giving a view of the front garden. The space is dramatised by the rough Indian stone cladding on its side walls.
Further on, there is a glimpse of the pool from the lobby and many of the internal spaces look onto it. However, the most spectacular view of the home is from the pool. The drawing and dining rooms are placed at right angles to each other, while a glass lift in the lobby has a water body around it. This connectsOuter and inner spaces, bringing nature close to the living space and also allowing light into the family lounge. The two bedrooms are alongside the glass lift and the family lounge connects to the kitchen (which also has an approach from the dining room), and to the bar area at the end.The glass lift in the lobby has a water body around it. This connects outer and inner spaces, bringing nature close to the living space and also allowing light into the family lounge.
The staircase leads to the upper floor, where a lobby overlooks the double- height drawing and dining rooms below. Two bedrooms are place precisely above the ones below, one of which extends above the entrance lobby on the lower floor. The master bedroom at the other end has balconies opening towards the front garden and the pool area. Its attached bathroom with a view of the pool and the terrace of the gym has floor- to- ceiling glass wrapping around the wash basin area, with a wall to screen the sunken tub.
The pool area with private spaces embracing it is the most interesting part of the house, the space changing with the sunlight at different times of the day. The gym (which extends into a party space) and spa are at a lower level, with steps leading to terrace garden above the gym.A wooden pergola cast’s criss cross shadows on the terrace.
The design is an attempt to create an eagerness to explore the spaces, while walking through them. It involved working with numerous scale models, testing form and spatial relationships and then refining them. The project also emphasised detail in terms of materials and forms. The attention to detail has created perfect transitions between different spaces. The connections between different areas were studied, so that they functioned optimally;
Special attention has been paid to the treatment of the ceilings in every room, offering a fresh design and lighting option everywhere. A wooden screen alongside the corridor adds visual interest, its lines echoing the pergola outside. The master bath has a view of the pool as well as the terrace of the gym. With floor- to- ceiling glass wrapping around the wash basin area, and a wall screens the sunken tub.
Sachdeva Farmhouse / Spaces Architects@ka originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 23 Jan 2015.
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.
George Lucas announces architects for lakefront museum | Are the ‘Star’ Architects Ruining Cities? | Medellín made urban escalators famous, but have they had any impact? | David Adjaye interview: ‘I’m not always looking at the usual references’ | David Adjaye designs a new boutique for Couturiere Roksanda Ilincic | Never Too Young; 15 Librarian-Recommended Architecture Books for Young Children |
last word: Build communities, not just home units
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.
George Lucas announces architects for lakefront museum | Are the ‘Star’ Architects Ruining Cities? | Medellín made urban escalators famous, but have they had any impact? | David Adjaye interview: ‘I’m not always looking at the usual references’ | David Adjaye designs a new boutique for Couturiere Roksanda Ilincic | Never Too Young; 15 Librarian-Recommended Architecture Books for Young Children |
last word: Build communities, not just home units
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Gingerbread houses are one of the easiest ways to get a taste of architecture, whether at an early age or later in life — we don’t judge. Of course, like any art form, there are those who take it way too far (not far enough?). Bergen,, Norway claims that their Pepperkakebyen is the largest gingerbread village, while New York’s Jon Lovitch claims that his 2.5 ton cookie city is the king. Museo Soumaya, Mexico City. Images © Henry Hargreaves. Photographer Henry Hargreaves and Food Styist Caitlin Levin have definitely taken Modernist gingerbreading to the extreme. They designed confectionary versions of iconic museums by architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Herzog + de Meuron, which were display at Dylan’s Candy Bar during Art Basel/Design Miami last year. MAXXI, Rome. The Louvre, Paris. The buildings are made form materials that match each building’s distinct character. Rather than render them in traditional gingerbread sheets with candy canes and icing, the mouthwatering models are made with a variety of sweets. For example, The Louvre is crafted form crystallized sugar glass, while Antwerp’s Museum Aan de Stroom is …
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The Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Investimenti Sgr has recently acquired the former Precision Electrical Components Factory in Flaminio, located between Via Guido Reni and Viale del Vignola, that will now be transformed into the new City of Science district.
Signaling the debut of a course of urban developments near Rome’s historic neighborhoods, the area is marked by such iconic landmarks as Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI Museum, Renzo Piano’s Parco della Musica, and the Foro Italico and Olympic Village of 1960. The competition calls for a master plan for a neighborhood “integrated within the context of contemporary Rome.” Covering an area of 5.1 hectares, the neighborhood should work in tandem with the City of Science, and feature landscaping, public areas that attract local residents as well as outside visitors, and residential spaces (including apartments and social housing) serving 1,500 to 2,000 people. Six participants will be chosen to move onto the second phase of the competition.
The competition is open to registered architects, engineers, and engineering companies from the European Union and Switzerland. Both group and individual participation is encouraged, and collaborators and consultants are welcome. The winner will be chosen by five official jurors and two substitutes, and will receive the commission to develop their proposal for the redesign.
Learn more and see how you can participate, here.
Progetto Flaminio Announces Competition for Rome's New City of Science District originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 25 Dec 2014.
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ARCKIT® is a freeform model building tool that allows architects and everyone to physically explore designs and bring their projects to life. The interconnecting components use no glue and are completely modular, making it possible to create a diverse range of scaled structures that can be used as working models to communicate ideas to clients and to showcase finished projects.
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Architects: Studio GAON
Location: Imjung-ri, Janggi-myeon, Nam-gu, Pohang-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
Architects In Charge: Hyoungnam Lim, Eunjoo Roh in studio GAON
Area: 198.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Young-chae Park, Courtesy of Studio GAON
Project Team: Seongwon Son, Minjung Choi, Sangwoo Yi, Sungpil Lee, Hanmoe Lee, Joowon Moon
Construction: Starsis (Inil Hhang, Jonguk Ahn)
From the architect. This project is a ‘House within a house’, which is built in a 20-year-old warehouse. A year ago in October, a young couple in their late 20s, visited our studio to build their house to live after their wedding. They were the youngest clients who required our design.
The couple was about to get married next year (2014), and they were thinking of renovating the concrete warehouse in the bride’s hometown as their new house. They said they want to fix it and take it as the starting point of their new life.
Her hometown was a small town next to East Sea, between Pohang and Gampo, which is 380km far from Seoul. Listening to their story, we could foresee the difficulties of the project and trying to come up with excuses to refuse politely. But when we saw the photographs of the old concrete warehouse standing inside the rice paddy and field, like a magic, it was like hearing the sound of a Pied Piper. We already answered that we’ll take the project.
The warehouse was built 20 years ago by the bride’s father. He bought some property to start a new business in his hometown, and the very warehouse was an animal feed factory for a chicken farm. To let some big machineries in, the height became 5 meters high with a reinforced concrete structure, and exterior was finished with mortar on cement blocks.
Her father had been planning to build a two story house beside the warehouse when the business became stable. By bad fortune, after a year, her father passed away on a rainy day in a car accident. The business halted too soon and the building became farming tools storage for neighbors. Meanwhile, the warehouse became old with small and big holes in the wall. If it rained, water stayed on the rooftop and ran down inside.
Most of the young people in Korea start their newly-married life in an apartment, whether it is small or big. Considering economic value, or for convenience sake, it was a very special plan to make an inherited old warehouse to their new marriage home. Many people said that they were burning their money into the air if they invested on the old warehouse, instead of buying or renting an apartment. But the couple said to the people who were dissuading them that they don’t need to worry because they are going to live in the house for their entire life.
Listening to their both wise and reckless thought, we felt burdened. The project to blow warmth into a warehouse with large blank was a task; it was like putting solid color into a black-and-white photograph and make it high-definition natural color picture, to make a strong cover for the young couple as a background for life.
The budget was prepared to cover about one third of the whole area. We started from the concept of inserting a house within a house, to provide enough area as they needed. There was enough height for two floors, so we put a kitchen, dining, living room and a small hidden library on the first floor, and put family room, bathroom, dress room, and bedroom on the second floor. They decided to fill the remaining space portion by portion as they live.
The admirable young couple got married on 4th of October, which is a year after we met them. By the courageous constructor’s favor who decided to work despite the far distance from Seoul, the house was finished according to plan.
The house within the house was built in steel structure. Wall in the common space was finished with plywood and lightings were designed to accentuate the warmth of wood, and other spaces were finished by white paint to induce calm atmosphere. Floor was finished with white tile to make a gorgeous and bright space.
Since the budget was scarce, there was no spare to fix the rough concrete exterior wall. We promised to draw a mural ourselves. We got the design idea from the bar code. Each of the codes becomes a tree and the trees become a forest. So that the information read by the bar code represents the love of the family.
All members of our firm went in a car to the site to draw the mural for an overnight schedule. It was the first time for us to draw a mural, so it wasn’t an easy task. But all staff enjoyed the pleasure of labor by drawing lines and rough sketches and coloring it. On the wall that reaches the rooftop, which has an outside stairs on it, we drew some drawings to represent the warmth of house and family. Drawing of Sugeun Park, who’s the famous painter of Korea, became the model of our drawings.
The towering warehouse surrounded by rice paddy and field was finally reformed in 20 years into a storage to put people as well as the young couple’s love and living inside.
It’s just like Natalie Cole singing the song ‘Unforgettable’, which was sung by her father Nat King Cole, after several decades her father passed away. The daughter put the two story house inside the warehouse, not unlike a snail’s shell made by her father. So the life and house continues again, and we decided to call this house ‘Unforgettable’.
Unforgettable-House in Pohang / Studio GAON originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 25 Nov 2014.
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