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- Chalet \ RBCH architects
- Factory Premises for Armoltec \ AH Asociados
- Carlos III Avenue \ AH Asociados
- Illyteca \ Metroarea
| Posted: 18 Mar 2012 07:30 AM PDT
Situated in a residential area in Château d'Oex, this new building was thought as a replacement for the former house whose size and outer layer failed to meet present day standards for a family home. The structure of this new building is made of poles and beams as a reference to the local traditional chalet. This structure also offers flexibility in the working of the outer layer as prefabricated wooden units fit into the pole structure. This is like a game and allows both a quick and cost-effective construction. Fir tree wood was mostly used as it is the main local building material. It allows a homogenous reading and emphasises the brightness of the inner structure.  Chalet, image courtesy RBCH architects | Photo by Lionel Henriod/mc2  Chalet, image courtesy RBCH architects | Photo by Lionel Henriod/mc2  Chalet, image courtesy RBCH architects | Photo by Lionel Henriod/mc2  Chalet, image courtesy RBCH architects | Photo by Lionel Henriod/mc2 + Project factsChalet in Château-d'Oex + About RBCH ArchitectesRBCH Architectes was created in 2005 when former fellow student architects of the Engineering and Architecture School of Fribourg decided to mingle their personal architectural views. Together, they aim at developing an experimental approach combining a close observation of the building site along with the analyses of a subject-matter. They dwell on interdisciplinary exchanges, innovative solutions and original practice. They want each project to be articulated as a coherent and clever composition responding to the client's need and budget. + All images and drawings courtesy RBCH Architectes               |
| Factory Premises for Armoltec \ AH Asociados Posted: 18 Mar 2012 06:59 AM PDT
The type of language adopted for the carrying out of work on this project aims to be a means capable of unifying criteria which are at times so difficult to harmonise, such as aesthetics, town planning, and conceptual and constructive ideas. A certain type of manufacturing based language, with an austerity of volume, with some expression; thus devising a highly functional building, easily understood and comprising a joint vocation within its constituent parts. This project aims for a spatial scheme, as simple and clear possible, which enables internal fluency, and global understanding between its areas, which articulate with the aim of creating a superior whole, versatile as far as usages and circulation are concerned, but static as far as structural configuration is concerned. In the project for this factory, the conception of the architectural object is defined from a technical standpoint, so both the formal expression of the building and its functional organization can not be separated from its materiality.  Factory Premises for Armoltec, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by Jorge Gambini Ons  Factory Premises for Armoltec, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by Jorge Gambini Ons The main objectives of this project twofold. The first intention conceives the whole of industrial activities as a unit, despite of different usages it houses. For that reason, the building has often been understood to be a unique categorical area where perforations are made around its perimeter where some light needs to be let in here, or some access point is required there. This aspect is also catered for by means of qualitative use of materials: concrete, sheet metal, and glass.  Factory Premises for Armoltec, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by Jorge Gambini Ons  Factory Premises for Armoltec, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by Jorge Gambini Ons In second place is the importance of natural lighting, in the office areas as well as in the production areas. The opening onto a patio, which simultaneously doubles as a chief office area access point and as the lantern lit deck area of the production zone, creates a very well lit work space.  Factory Premises for Armoltec - Elevations + Sections, drawing courtesy AH Asociados  Factory Premises for Armoltec - Floor plan, drawing courtesy AH Asociados + Project factsFACTORY PREMISES FOR ARMOLTEC Authors: Miguel A. Alonso del Val, Rufino J. Hernández Minguillón |
| Carlos III Avenue \ AH Asociados Posted: 18 Mar 2012 07:06 AM PDT
 Carlos III Avenue, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas The current urban area of the Carlos III and Roncesvalles avenues were designed for the flow of vehicular traffic. It is a strongly directional area, isotropic along its axes, whose job it is to deliver the greatest amount of traffic flow with the minimum of fuss, where the only difficulties presented along the length of its flow being those at crossroads, these congestions causing an even more neutral space to be created.  Carlos III Avenue, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas  Carlos III Avenue, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas Paradoxically, just as with pedestrian areas, vehicle spaces also rely on distance zoning, created out of the addition of cells with similar characteristics, along similar lines. It is as if the pedestrian broaches on this world with a feeling of guilt, causing him to retreat behind the walls of a building, seeking the shelter of shadows which shield him from the harsh reality of urban truth.  Carlos III Avenue, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas  Carlos III Avenue, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas The transformation of this area into one suitable for pedestrians includes analysis of the different patterns of movement in this regard in the first instance. The pedestrian represents unusual patterns since displacement from A to B is not in itself his sole objective, but rather without speeding up or slowing down, or suspending this altogether in resting areas, he can reject it, share it, turn it around or simply just enjoy it. With these key behavioural characteristics, urban design in these areas can incorporate a plethora of characteristics with hints coming from within the same. The row of trees, previously in the middle of the road, get turned into a large green canopy under which exchanges of movement take place. Here a roadway, there a lay-by, there a change of level. The sidewalks, formerly constrained to offer flight from the motor vehicle, themselves get turned into passageways of arbitrary movement, driven by commercial need, pressurised road users, or the appearance of shaded rest areas, or the discovery of unusual buildings, etc.  Carlos III Avenue - Plan, drawing courtesy AH Asociados + Project factsCARLOS III AVENUE |
| Posted: 18 Mar 2012 04:35 AM PDT
 Illyteca, image courtesy Metroarea Italian studio Metroarea has designed Illyteca in Illy home city Trieste, a prototype of a new colorful series of shop to be built worldwide.  Illyteca, image courtesy Metroarea It is designed to unify in a single shop the five brands owned by Illy: Illy coffee, Domori chocolate, Dammann Freres tea, Agrimontana jam and bakery products, Mastrojanni wine. Each of the brands is rapresented through its color in a wooden box inspired by transport boxes. The boxes are completely movable and on the backside have a fire-print logo so they can be turned in their shelves.  Illyteca, image courtesy Metroarea The boutique/jewelry feeling is contrasted by the naturality of the materials: aok wood, black granite, blackboard, introduced to recall the natural food products displayed. + Design: Metroarea  Illyteca - Layout plan, drawing courtesy Metroarea + All images courtesy Metroarea         |
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