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Green BIM: Successful Sustainable Design with Building Information Modeling

May 19, 2014May 19, 2014 Foamboards

Meet the challenge of integrating Building Information Modeling and sustainability with this in-depth guide, which pairs these two revolutionary movements to create environmentally friendly design through a streamlined process. Written by an award-winning team that has gone beyond theory to lead the implementation of Green BIM projects, this comprehensive reference features practical strategies, techniques, and real-world expertise so that you can create sustainable BIM projects, no matter what their scale.

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Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation

May 12, 2014May 12, 2014 Foamboards

Effective building performance simulation can reduce the environmental impact of the built environment, improve indoor quality and productivity, and facilitate future innovation and technological progress in construction. It draws on many disciplines, including physics, mathematics, material science, biophysics and human behavioural, environmental and computational sciences. The discipline itself is continuously evolving and maturing, and improvements in model robustness and fidelity are constantly being made. This has sparked a new agenda focusing on the effectiveness of simulation in building life-cycle processes.

Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation begins with an introduction to the concepts of performance indicators and targets, followed by a discussion on the role of building simulation in performance-based building design and operation. This sets the ground for in-depth discussion of performance prediction for energy demand, indoor environmental quality (including thermal, visual, indoor air quality and moisture phenomena), HVAC and renewable system performance, urban level modelling, building operational optimization and automation.

Produced in cooperation with the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), and featuring contributions from fourteen internationally recognised experts in this field, this book provides a unique and comprehensive overview of building performance simulation for the complete building life-cycle from conception to demolition. It is primarily intended for advanced students in building services engineering, and in architectural, environmental or mechanical engineering; and will be useful for building and systems designers and operators.

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Pak Loh Times Square Restaurant / NC Design & Architecture

April 21, 2014April 21, 2014 Foamboards

Architects: NC Design & Architecture
Location: Times Square Car Park, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Area: 6,000 sqft
Photographs: Nathaniel McMahon

Interior Design: NC Design & Architecture
Design Team: Nelson Chow, Chris Lam, Yazh Yip, Pierre Wu
Furniture Designer: Bridge Lam
Contractor: Kin Wah Decoration Limited
Custom Lighting Supplier: Ricardo Lighting Limited

From the architect. Prominently located on the 10th floor of the Times Square Shopping Center in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, Pak Loh Chiu Chow Restaurant by NCDA is the latest addition to the multi-outpost Family owned Restaurant Group. Established in 1967, Pak Loh is locally renowned for its traditional Chiu Chow cuisine, which originates from the coastal region of Guangdong Province. To cater to the evolving tastes of the newest generation of Hong Kong diners, Pak Loh’s mission is to bring new elements to popular conventional dishes using innovative techniques and premium seasonal ingredients. As a design strategy, NCDA interpreted the mission statement and created a 6000 SF restaurant that represents the convergence of the old and the new through a synthesis of vintage references and streamlined modern details.

Arriving at the restaurant, diners pass through a curved passageway comprised of faceted brass vertical screens which leads to the main wood covered dining room. Placed on either side of the entrance, two curvilinear VIP rooms allow for a gradual passage from the bustling mall into the cocoon like wood interior of the main dining space. The compressed entryway accentuates the generous volume of the main dining room beyond, and in turn the transition provides a calm yet discreet experience for the patrons as they enter and leave the restaurant.

Dominating the main dining room, the vaulted walnut veneer ceiling structure references the spirit of 1960’s Hong Kong in a futuristic cutting-edge manner. The ribbed CNC milled ceiling structure consists of 20 half arches, which are rotated and repeated at angular increments to cover the entire ceiling. The ceiling geometry results in a cost effective and relatively simple installation that yields a unique and complex form. The wood clad structure offers good sound absorption properties which helps to reduce noise level in an otherwise loud space. Bespoke wall sconces and suspended light fixtures are being placed strategically to create a rythmical pattern that further highlights the delicate framework of the ribbed structure.

While the vaulted structure of the main dining room appears airy and larger than life, attention to small details and materials offer a comfortable and intimate scale at each of the dining zones. For instance, custom upholstered burgundy leather banquettes with horizontal mirrors and 60’s geometric print wallpaper define individual table groupings. Furthermore, custom olive green velour chairs with curved legs are design to echo the vaulted ceiling and to break the scale of the space down to more intimate components.

Efficiently located at the back of the restaurant, the bathroom is divided into male and female halves using a large central communal sink. Custom backlit male and female WC indicators are placed above each door in the manner of an aircraft installation, and leads the patrons to the corresponding toilet compartment where each one is cladded with a distinct color tiles.

In the design of Pak Loh, NCDA sought to avoid any direct links to the Chinese vernacular, while mixing modern and classic materials to create a comfortable and refined dining space that respects the 60’s Hong Kong manner of dining. Pah Lok Chiu Chow Restaurant showcases a holistic approach to restaurant design, seamlessly integrating the interior design, furniture, lighting fixtures, graphics, and staff uniforms. By defining an aesthetic from the mood and lighting of a space right down to its detailed ceiling construction, the end result is a visually striking yet highly functional contemporary restaurant.

Pak Loh Times Square Restaurant / NC Design & Architecture originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 21 Apr 2014.

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San Vicente House by McClean Design

April 18, 2014April 18, 2014 Foamboards

McClean Design completed the San Vicente House in California.

Project description

Designed for a family with three small girls this house needed to respond to the busy street it is located on. We came up with a sequence of entry which uses several devices to separate the occupants from the noise beyond. The drive court is screened from the street by high gates and tall landscaped elements. This area connects to an inner courtyard through a curving glass screen designed to allow the light to pass through but shield from the cars and noise. The courtyard contains a waterfall and an infinity edge pool both of which help to instill a feeling of calm as you approach the house. Our hope is by the time you enter into the two story entry hall you have left the rest of the world behind. The L shaped plan of the house maximizes the expansive back yard while further screening potential noise such that the rear yard is extremely quiet and peaceful. The garden also contains a pool and guest house.

The house consists of master plus four bedrooms on the upper level with a family room, art room and gym. The lower level has formal living and dining rooms, family room, media and office plus associated secondary spaces. The house is finished in cool grey and cream limestone with light plaster and paint tones and bronze metal accents.

Design: McClean Design

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The Art of Network Architecture: Business-Driven Design (Networking Technology)

April 18, 2014April 18, 2014 Foamboards

The Art of Network Architecture

Business-Driven Design

The business-centered, business-driven guide to architecting and evolving networks

The Art of Network Architecture is the first book that places business needs and capabilities at the center of the process of architecting and evolving networks. Two leading enterprise network architects help you craft solutions that are fully aligned with business strategy, smoothly accommodate change, and maximize future flexibility.

Russ White and Denise Donohue guide network designers in asking and answering the crucial questions that lead to elegant, high-value solutions. Carefully blending business and technical concerns, they show how to optimize all network interactions involving flow, time, and people.

The authors review important links between business requirements and network design, helping you capture the information you need to design effectively. They introduce today’s most useful models and frameworks, fully addressing modularity, resilience, security, and management. Next, they drill down into network structure and topology, covering virtualization, overlays, modern routing choices, and highly complex network environments.

In the final section, the authors integrate all these ideas to consider four realistic design challenges: user mobility, cloud services, Software Defined Networking (SDN), and today’s radically new data center environments.

• Understand how your choices of technologies and design paradigms will impact your business

• Customize designs to improve workflows, support BYOD, and ensure business continuity

• Use modularity, simplicity, and network management to prepare for rapid change

• Build resilience by addressing human factors and redundancy

• Design for security, hardening networks without making them brittle

• Minimize network management pain, and maximize gain

• Compare topologies and their tradeoffs

• Consider the implications of network virtualization, and walk through an MPLS-based L3VPN example

• Choose routing protocols in the context of business and IT requirements

• Maximize mobility via ILNP, LISP, Mobile IP, host routing, MANET, and/or DDNS

• Learn about the challenges of removing and changing services hosted in cloud environments

• Understand the opportunities and risks presented by SDNs

• Effectively design data center control planes and topologies

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The Top Architect-Designed Products of Milan Design Week 2014

April 12, 2014April 12, 2014 Foamboards

This week marked the 53rd edition of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. Hundreds of exhibitors showcased an endless display of the latest international design products and home-furnishings. Among them included a variety of designed items envisioned by some of our favorite architects. Continue after the break to preview some of the most talked about architect-designed products featured this week at the Milan Design Week 2014.

Benedetta Tagliabue for Passoni Nature: Sofa ‘BOTAN’

A comfortable wood and fabric seat whose components join like the petals of a flower, producing endlessly harmonious, balanced combinations, inspired by nature.

David Adjaye for Knoll: The Washington Skeleton and Skin

David Adjaye’s cantilevered chairs establish a play between propping and balancing, so that they are simultaneously functional and sculptural. Washington Skeleton is reduced to a fine geometric lattice while its inverted counterpoint, Skin, offers a colorful envelope to the same form.

Zaha Hadid for Citco: Tela Shelving

According to design aficionado Lisa Roberts, Zaha Hadid’s new shelving collection with Citco “blurs the boundaries of art and design.”

UNStudio for Artifort: Gemini

Gemini comprises two asymmetrically-designed seat elements and a small matching table to offer plenty of scope for variation.

Daniel Libeskind for Poliform: Web

Just like the Internet allows users to browse and use a collection of contents which are connected to each other by links, WEB – with its alternating blocks and voids – presents a brand new bookcase concept with a strong visual impact and devised for the most disparate uses.

Nendo for Emeco: The SU Collection

Su, a traditional Japanese concept meaning minimal, served as the primary inspiration for this new collection of stools and tables made from reclaimed materials.

MVRDV for Sixinch: Vertical Village

The Vertical Village: a self-organized and initiated manner of city building inspired by richness of informality found in East Asian settlements prior to being overcome by economically-driven block towers.

Charles & Ray Eames (1958) for Vitra: Aluminium Chair EA 101, EA 103, EA 104

Vitra has now launched models EA 101, 103 and 104 that belonged to the original 1958 product family and was first marketed as the Aluminium Dining Chairs, expanding the selection of chairs in the Aluminium Group with models that are smaller, lighter and brighter.

Nendo: print-chair

A chair whose surface mixes two different patterns, created by printing woodgrain patterns onto wood with an already distinctive grain.

Daniel Libeskind for Lasvit: ICE

A bold, geometric chandelier that achieves a ‘one-of-a-kind’ luminosity through the delicate and fluid quality of hand-blown glass.

Compare this year’s participation with the top architect-designed products of the Milan Design Week 2013.

The Top Architect-Designed Products of Milan Design Week 2014 originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 11 Apr 2014.

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Architecture: Residential Drafting and Design

April 6, 2014April 6, 2014 Foamboards

Architecture: Residential Drafting and Design provides comprehensive instruction for preparing architectural working drawings using traditional and computer-based methods. The text also serves as a reference for design and construction principles and methods. Its exciting format organizes content around the design-building process, making the text easy to understand and appealing to students. Content is up-to-date, with coverage of state-of-the-art technology.

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Annual Ranking Lists the Top Architecture & Design Exhibitions of 2013

April 5, 2014April 5, 2014 Foamboards

What was the most popular architecture or design exhibition in 2013? If you guessed MoMA’s Le Corbusier spectacular or SFMOMA’s landmark Lebbeus Woods: Architect (coming to New York’s Drawing Center April 15) you’re close but off the mark. In fact the most popular architecture exhibition in the world, according to The Art Newspaper‘s 2013 Visitors […]

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17John: Design New York City’s First Crowdsourced Hotel and Win $50,000 in Prizes!

March 31, 2014March 31, 2014 Foamboards

Heads up architects, designers, and creatives – Prodigy Design Lab just launched a groundbreaking competition where you can contribute to the design of 17John – New York City’s first crowdsourced hotel – and they’re giving away $50,000 in prizes! They’re looking for innovative designs for collaborative common spaces, fully furnished guest suites, and digital services that provide comfort, community, and connectivity. 17John will be the first “Cotel” – a collaborative hotel where modern day business travelers can come together to network and share ideas. The deadline for entry is April 21st, so submit your ideas today!

ENTER THE 17JOHN COTEL DESIGN COMPETITION >

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Design Drawing

January 26, 2014January 26, 2014 Foamboards

Get the completely revised edition to mastering the visual language of architecture.

In his distinctive graphic style, world-renowned author and architecture educator Francis D.K. Ching takes us on another exciting journey through the process of creation. In Design Drawing, Second Edition, he unmasks the basic cognitive processes that drive visual perception and expression, incorporating observation, memory, and rendering into a creative whole. This edition unites imaginative vision with fundamental architectural principles to cover the traditional basics of drawing, including line, shape, tone, and space. Guiding the reader step-by-step through the entire drawing process, Design Drawing also examines different types of drawing techniques such as multiview, paraline, and perspective drawings — and how they can be applied to achieve stunning results. In addition, this edition:

Goes beyond basic drawing books—Ching not only covers the principles, media, and techniques of drawing, but also places these within the context of what and why designers draw.Features more than 1,500 hand-rendered drawings—beautiful illustrations that reinforce the concepts and lessons of each chapter.Includes a supplemental CD-ROM—viewers will gain a greater appreciation of the techniques presented in this book through the power of animation, video, and 3D models. Twelve new modules are included, as is a video of the author demonstrating freehand techniques in a step-by-step manner.

For professional architects, designers, fine artists, illustrators, teachers and students alike, this all-in-one package is both an effective tool and an outstanding value, demonstrating concepts and techniques in a visually stimulating format that transends comparable works in the field.

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