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- Incubadora Social ITESM-Bancomer \ SHINE Architecture
- Creations by William Lee
- Tracasa Offices Building \ AH Asociados
- La Villa’s Surroundings Urbanization \ AH Asociados
- Pergola in Echavacoiz Norte \ AH Asociados
- Wurzburg Housing Competition \ OOIIO Architecture
- UNAV Sports Centre \ AH Asociados
| Incubadora Social ITESM-Bancomer \ SHINE Architecture Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:54 AM PST
This refurbishment intends to offer a new quality-based, morphological-exploration for a social entrepreneurship incubator in a low-income area in León, Guanajuato, México.  Incubadora Social ITESM-Bancomer, image courtesy SHINE Architecture The initiative of these social interventions is lead by two main institutions: Tecnológico de Monterrey (one of the best private universities in México) and Bancomer (one of the main banks of the country). This projects has two aims: the first is to provide low income people with the best quality of higher education, thus, the same received by the students in university classrooms, just in a virtual way. The second is helping people to develop their own business, supported by experts.  Incubadora Social ITESM-Bancomer, image courtesy SHINE Architecture Having as canvas a prototypical house of the area, but being an innovative project for the community, the refurbishment intended to make a statement through an evident translation of the spatial concept to design: an envelope able to break the typological sequence of the area, still being inviting rather than aggressive; creating an expressive main façade within an open public space.  Incubadora Social ITESM-Bancomer, image courtesy SHINE Architecture As one of the core principles of the studio, sustainability is approached in this project through solar control strategies and passive ventilation. For instance, the wooden lattices angle in the south-east façade provides passive solar heating in winter (solar radiation penetration), and direct solar radiation protection in summer.  Incubadora Social ITESM-Bancomer, image courtesy SHINE Architecture To achieve a complex responsive morphology, several parametric tests where run in grasshopper, allowing the evaluation of the skin’s performance and select the best relationship between functioning and aesthetics.  Incubadora Social ITESM-Bancomer, image courtesy SHINE Architecture As most studio projects, materials are an honest expression of its nature. Wood is from local source with a basic treatment to be exposed outdoors. Many structural elements where recycled from a roof placed in the old garage area. The project proves how low budget implementations can offer spatial quality with innovation.  Incubadora Social ITESM-Bancomer - Level 1 floor plan, drawing courtesy SHINE Architecture  Incubadora Social ITESM-Bancomer - Level 2 floor plan, drawing courtesy SHINE Architecture + Project factsProject: “INCUBADORA SOCIAL ITESM-BANCOMER” social enterprenurship centre + All images and drawings courtesy SHINE Architecture                 |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2011 12:09 AM PST
Artist + Designer William Lee announces the release of his latest work in a geometrically inspired series completed this Fall. He is also the designer for LEAN, a multi-functional + sculptural piece released in June this Summer.  Image courtesy William Lee     Image courtesy William Lee  Image courtesy William Lee     Image courtesy William Lee  Image courtesy William Lee    |
| Tracasa Offices Building \ AH Asociados Posted: 16 Dec 2011 07:45 PM PST
The building has been planned as a well worked "pile" which rests on the terrain, adapting to its natural contours. It works from the precepts of superposition. It is placed on top of its supporting devices, and develops a layering, a coincidence and a meeting up with the natural and built environment.  Tracasa Offices Building, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas  Tracasa Offices Building, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas The solution allows the topography to be shown in its most natural and pure form, creating both meeting points and places of desertion. A building such as this, which attracts a large number of users, should consider its link to the rest of the city: which is the logical approaching sequence, the way the visitor or the worker should be received, what must be assigned to the town, and what must not. This way, an entrance hall is created which allows access on two levels, which is the public dimension of this architectural design. This entry is gained from the outside street, facing northwards, generating easy access, understated and managed, and created out of a piece of public land on its own plot, with a square caught and configured by its own building, blended in with the naturalness of its terrain, which serves as an overflow area for the buildings’ most public functions.  Tracasa Offices Building, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas  Tracasa Offices Building, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas Towards the eastern oriented side street, the sheer volume of the ground floor is offset, allowing for the creation of a public square offering wind shelter, which helps the social expansion of the building, thereby strengthening relations with its townsfolk. + Project factsTracasa Offices Building + All images and drawings courtesy AH Asociados            |
| La Villa’s Surroundings Urbanization \ AH Asociados Posted: 16 Dec 2011 07:12 PM PST
Designed by AH Asociados, this project, executed in two phases, was born of the overarching need to improve conditions of stability on the earthworks where the old parish church is tucked away. It is an item in the baroque tradition which constitutes practically the only historical reference to the town of San Adrián, whilst at the same time as consolidating itself as an important post in bringing about improved access to the environment, and taking advantage of its mountainous terrain conditions, is fittingly able to delineate the old parish at the same time as endowing it with an urban hallmark in keeping with its relevance and milestone condition in the La Villawhole.  La Villa's Surroundings Urbanization, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas  La Villa's Surroundings Urbanization, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas The overall treatment takes the adoption of a formal, constructive framework to its modern, logical conclusion, and relies on certain materials which, when used to the full extent of their potential, allow a variety of designs which are not only formal, but also superficial, according to its own inner qualities.  La Villa's Surroundings Urbanization, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas  La Villa's Surroundings Urbanization, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas The sequence of walls, their height, installation and format, has been studied in such a way as to allow their directions to recover and recreate different perspectives without ever losing sight of the church’s dominant silhouette. In this way, the appearance of large dimension walls has been avoided, seeking a harmonious staggered and concatenation, to recreate the profile of an historic quarter long since disappeared.  La Villa's Surroundings Urbanization, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas The walls were built with reinforced concrete dyed throughout with rust red oxides to fit in aesthetically with the large expanses of brickwork. The outline and texture created by the succession of walls, kerbs and level ramps is an attempt to offer visual variety, to safeguard existing unevenness, and to create places where the visual aspect, as the walker gains in height, gets more rewarding, through different levels and paved surfaces, and with views of San Adrián’s natural rolling town and countryside becoming superimposed on the viewer.  La Villa's Surroundings Urbanization - Phase 1 plan, drawing courtesy AH Asociados  La Villa's Surroundings Urbanization - Phase 2 plan, drawing courtesy AH Asociados  La Villa's Surroundings Urbanization - Elevation, drawing courtesy AH Asociados + Project factsLa Villa’s Surroundings Urbanization + All images and drawings courtesy AH Asociados               |
| Pergola in Echavacoiz Norte \ AH Asociados Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:34 PM PST
Pergola in Echavacoiz Norte is a project by AH Asociados. The urbanization responds to two basic objectives: to define areas of support, (infrastructures, pavements, etc.,) in an important residential area and to design a linear park, other border for the risen up city, which confirms its horizontal walkway character, supported at the edge of the cut by means of a prefabricated concrete wall, which clearly defines the boundaries between the walkway and natural embankment.  Pergola in Echavacoiz Norte, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas  Pergola in Echavacoiz Norte, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas Conceived as a longitudinal piece in keeping with other historical layouts of the town such as Half Moon Park, its chief value lay in discovering a new landscape towards the south of the city, with three urban links which form singular points in their linear layout.  Pergola in Echavacoiz Norte, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas In the middle of the space, a galvanised steel and aluminium pergola flies over the pavement to create a shadow, and to suggest rest, and taking a look towards the far horizon of Cuenca de Pamplona.  Pergola in Echavacoiz Norte, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas + Project factsPergola in Echavacoiz Norte  Pergola in Echavacoiz Norte, drawing courtesy AH Asociados  Pergola in Echavacoiz Norte, drawing courtesy AH Asociados |
| Wurzburg Housing Competition \ OOIIO Architecture Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:04 PM PST
OOIIO Architecture recently has designed a housing project in Wurzburg, Germany. It consists of 15 sustainable apartment blocks, with 6 floor high each one, placed in front of a Second World War runway. The buildings are related with a famous landscape exhibition in Germany called "Bundesgartenschau" and special gardens will cross all the development.  Courtesy OOIIO Architecture According to our observation that the individual is taking part in the public realm while being in a private place and the other way around being/acting private while lingering in public places, we propose a landscape of use that reflects this way of living of our contemporary society. These means that we basically take further the blur of the public and private and introduce it into the programmatic layer of the urban and architectural field. Therefore we take public functions into the house and private/housing functions into the urban field, placed randomly horizontal as well as vertical to create a spread web of happenings and overlapping platforms for the network society.  Courtesy OOIIO ArchitectureOOIIO The house becomes city and the city becomes a house. Based on individualization we propose a form of housing that combines today's aspects of the generic city with contemporary needs for individual housing. Therefore we start to look and to program the house from the individual to the public functions, zooming from the inside to the outside going along with Josef Frank's theory of a pluralism – non-standardized – housing typology. Therefore we develop a variety of housing plans to create the most possible diversity of ways of living. Thus intentionality build structures and our lived-relations exist in this correlation.  Courtesy OOIIO ArchitectureOOIIO To generate diverse program we mix public and private functions almost randomly and spread it according to the theory of the generic city, that there are 'huge amounts of evidence for and against each hypothesis' of programming and that exactly this inconsistency proves the richness of the Generic City. (Rem Koolhaas, The Genric City). This means we propose a spread field of happenings and sensations along the former runway and develop a network of public functions nesting in the housing. In this way a multi layered society will be create in addition to a density of the historic city centre but layout a contemporary way.  Plan, Courtesy OOIIO ArchitectureOOIIO Green Building Concept. Is our way to ask for more space quality in housing and in the city, we also have the need to make this buildings affordable – sustainable in the economic way as well as in the environmental way. So we chose first for more density for a more sustainable way of living in terms of using space. Further for our contemporary way of living – or even for our living of tomorrow – we have to rethinking of our way of living in terms of the use of our RESOURCES in relation to our demand for more. Since we, the more 'me' society , do not want to cut back on our comfort and even still ask for improvement, we need to define new ways of energy use to facilitate our treat in a sustainable way. To run the proposed urban landscape on a cero-energy-use we developed the illustrated green-housing concept. In our approach we understand green technologies as a technical tool to sustain our living. + Project credits / dataProject: Wurzburg Residential Project + About OOIIO ArchitectureOOIIO Architecture is an emerging international design team based in Madrid.Its mission is to create innovation and sophistication through Architecture. Its designs are highly contemporary and exclusive, providing answers to the complex needs of the XXIst century society. Founded by Joaquín Millán, OOIIO's team experience has been acquired throught several years of architectural and sociological research and innovation. The members of OOIIO´s team has been directors, managers and/or architects at Foster and Partners, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Abalos & Herreros, Campo Baeza or SOM. OOIIO Architecture is committed to an architecture that solves challenging needs, providing added value and offering new approaches to innovation in a global World. OOIIO's goal is to redefine architecture by bringing cutting-edge ideas and providing one-on-one attention to clients, with whom OOIIO's team shares friendship, taste and passion for the arts, the environment, sophistication and innovation. + All images and drawings courtesy OOIIO Architecture          |
| UNAV Sports Centre \ AH Asociados Posted: 16 Dec 2011 09:34 PM PST
In spite of a previous urban development which supported a spread of sporting programmes in a splintered isolation where management control was difficult, this time it has been a question of maintaining the unique flavour of the university campus, as a great civil park where free space covered in trees is the main feature, in a spot where the silhouettes of buildings can be seen.  UNAV Sports Centre, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by Hisao Suzuki  UNAV Sports Centre, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by Hisao Suzuki The idea of mixing the new facilities into a unifying, whole entity excavated on the slope is backed up by a shift in height on the hillside to avoid encroaching on the immediate environment of the current multipurpose sports complex. The new building with its sheltered courts, a multipurpose facility , – with tennis courts, pelota courts- is embedded in the hillside , to serve as a base construction for the new sporting installations, which are laid out in terrace form, and to underpin a great asymmetric structure facing the even light of the north.  UNAV Sports Centre, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by Hisao Suzuki  UNAV Sports Centre, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by Hisao Suzuki The newly constructed front opens on to the Campus, which is now depicted from a new perspective raised above the water course and the treed area, thus avoiding competition with other buildings, at the same time avoiding the creation of inevitable dead zones of pelota courts and closed multipurpose courts, whilst creating an important central park space to go hand in hand with the existing one.  UNAV Sports Centre, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by Hisao Suzuki The different widths and heights of the sporting enclosures are absorbed into the hillside by means of layered cuts -whose natural incline is taken care of by projections of concrete-, and comprise the background for the playing courts. On top of this contentious operation of displacement there arises a structure of pillars and joists, well illuminated at six metres intervals. The twenty six apertures are closed in at the top by a system of prefabricated sheets which contain rows of floodlights which ensure even illumination of the courts, whose rustic aspect at the base is in stark contrast to the lattice framework of the facade and the continuous U-glass front. Outside, a shaft of counterbalanced concrete protects the access road and helps define the double standard, distinguishing between a rigid plan of translucent glasswork and the transparent mesh of the shaded access area.  UNAV Sports Centre, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by Hisao Suzuki + Project factsProject: UNAV Sports Centre  UNAV Sports Centre - Floor plan, drawing courtesy AH Asociados  UNAV Sports Centre - Section & elevation, drawing courtesy AH Asociados  UNAV Sports Centre - Section, drawing courtesy AH Asociados |
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