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- Amagalma Apartment \ Kois Associated Architects
- Atelier Bardill \ Valerio Olgiati
- The Butler: The Impeccable Bin with Character \ Jangir Maddadi
- Liberty Promenade \ Vivid Architects
- HOUSE 804 \ H arquitectes
- Exhibition of Tom Sheehan
- Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Park \ PQNK
| Amagalma Apartment \ Kois Associated Architects Posted: 25 Mar 2012 05:53 AM PDT
 Amagalma Apartment, image courtesy Kois Associated Architects | Photo by GIORGOS SFAKIANAKIS The design is the renovation and the union of two separate neighbouring apartments located in the seaside suburb of Alimos in south east Athens metropolitan area.  Amagalma Apartment, image courtesy Kois Associated Architects | Photo by GIORGOS SFAKIANAKIS The design process initiated with extensive talks with the client regarding his life style habits, desires, goals and attitude. The client is an Athenian bachelor with many professional obligations and a busy everyday program. The discussion informed the programmatic and hierarchical decisions. The user has limited free time during the day and usually he spends it in social activities. The scattered functions of the existing apartments did not serve him efficiently and withhold him from social events and activities. Having in mind these facts we began draw a programmatic model, a diagram of the desired functions and the existing opportunities. In this model the social communal activity is placed higher hierarchically compared with the activities of resting, preparing food, exercising.  Amagalma Apartment, image courtesy Kois Associated Architects | Photo by GIORGOS SFAKIANAKIS The diagrammatical hierarchy acquired was transmuted to a spatial one by giving the living area the most prominent position within the flat. The living area is directly accessed by the main entrance and divides the space into four zones. Private quarters, social space, dinning space, exercise space. The exercise space and private quarters are two independent enclosures connected to the main living area by the use of the two diametrically opposite black mahogany doors. These doors besides separating spatial and programmatic areas they also form a strong axial relationship with each other as identical facing features and with the central space as the circulation from the one to the other divides the space into two zones.  Amagalma Apartment, image courtesy Kois Associated Architects | Photo by GIORGOS SFAKIANAKIS  Amagalma Apartment, image courtesy Kois Associated Architects | Photo by GIORGOS SFAKIANAKIS These zones are the living- social space and the dinning space. A further division but not an isolation of these two areas was needed. This separation was achieved with the deployment of a screen formed by an array of translucent light tubes. This screen is semi transparent due to the gaps of the arrayed elements and translucent at the same time due to the sandblasted material. The result was an almost immaterial screen that accomplishes a spatial and visual division and is capable to illuminate the space on demand due to the dimming lighting fixtures it contains. The final result is a residence of effortless luxury and unobstructed clarity that combines functionality with formal unity. It is an ideal space for social gathering, personal relaxation and self reflection. + Project factsAMAGALMA APPARTMENT TYPE: RESIDENTIAL PRINCIPAL ARCHIECT: KOIS STELIOS + About KOIS ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTSStelios Kois , the principal architect and founder of Kois Associated Architects, was born in the vicinity of Mount Athos in Greece in 1978. He studied in Universita degli studi di Roma and in the national technical university of Athens. During his studies was awarded first prize from Kansai Foundation, Osaka, Japan. He has worked as an architect and creative dirrectorin Italy and Athens. Kois Associated Architects work encompasses all fields of design, ranging from urban scale to private buildings, interiors, furniture and products. The design ethos of the collaboration is the synchronized engagement in practice and research that leads to the evaluation and generation of new solutions. Research topics are drawn from natural formal and social sciences in an attempt to form an interdisciplinary network of information that will inform the decision making process. The practice's view is that only through diversity and antithesis true innovative solution emerges and manifests its self. + All images courtesy KOIS ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS | Photo by GIORGOS SFAKIANAKIS             |
| Atelier Bardill \ Valerio Olgiati Posted: 25 Mar 2012 05:24 AM PDT
 Atelier Bardill, image courtesy archiv olgiati  Atelier Bardill, image courtesy archiv olgiati The Bardill Studio building has replaced an old barn in the protected centre of the village of Scharans. Building permission was granted by the local authorities on the condition that the new building would have exactly the same volume as the old barn.  Atelier Bardill, image courtesy archiv olgiati  Atelier Bardill, image courtesy archiv olgiati The client, Linard Bardill, who lives in a house a very short walking distance away from the site, required only a single space to work in. This working space occupies less than a third of the stipulated volume. The rest of it is taken up by an atrium that is lent a monumental character by a large, round opening to the sky. It is this element that invests the building with its grandeur and clarity in contrast to the arbitrary geometry of its external appearance and the small dimensions of its village surroundings. Atelier Bardill is open for the public on Fridays between 1pm and 5pm.  Atelier Bardill, image courtesy archiv olgiati  Atelier Bardill, image courtesy archiv olgiati + Project factsAtelier Bardill object: private atelier – one working space architect: Valerio Olgiati, prof. dipl. architect ETH/SIA, Senda Stretga 1, 7017 Flims materials: red in-situ concrete, steel, copper  Atelier Bardill - Location plan, drawing courtesy archiv olgiati  Atelier Bardill - Floor plan, drawing courtesy archiv olgiati  Atelier Bardill - Section, drawing courtesy archiv olgiati |
| The Butler: The Impeccable Bin with Character \ Jangir Maddadi Posted: 25 Mar 2012 05:02 AM PDT
 Butler, image courtesy Jonas Lindström Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau has come out with a new product, The Butler: The Impeccable Bin with Character. Only Jangir Maddadi could design a waste bin that can truly be described as elegant. But that is exactly what he has done. Elegant and unassuming, a butler provides all your needs before you even have to ask. Always well-dressed, the butler is a long-standing traditional symbol of service and good taste. Our Butler is inspired by this very idea. It is not only a waste bin, but an impeccable design with an identity and character. It serves us both as users but also as a modern and environmentally conscious society. Butler should not be hidden from view, but displayed elegantly with the intention to serve people’s needs.  Butler, image courtesy Jonas Lindström Every detail of Butler was designed to emphasize environmental sustainability. All of its features consider the needs of both the people filling it and the people emptying it. Butler is available for both indoor and outdoor use. + Project factsPhoto credit: Jonas Lindström | www.jonaslindstrom.se Design: Jangir Maddadi | www.jangirmaddadi.se |
| Liberty Promenade \ Vivid Architects Posted: 25 Mar 2012 04:37 AM PDT
 Liberty Promenade, image courtesy Vivid Architects + BRIEFLiberty Promenade was purchased by Liberty Properties in 2004. The existing development consisted of a number of separate buildings on a 22.9 hectare site bounded by AZ Berman Drive to the east and Morgenster road to the north, with the railway line forming the western boundary. The existing shopping centre had a GLA of 44000sqm on a single level with open surface parking. The peripheral buildings consisted of medical suites, a training centre, and a few stand-alone fast food drive-through outlets, adding an additional 6000sqm GLA to the original precinct. The client's brief was to add 25 000sqm to the existing centre, with the aim of making Liberty Promenade the largest shopping centre in a previously disadvantaged area in the country, at over 75 000sqm. The expansion included enlarged stores for a number of existing National tenants, a new food court and entertainment section that includes cinemas, a bowling alley, fast food outlets and restaurants.  Liberty Promenade, image courtesy Vivid Architects In addition to the retail area increase, the client proposed the complete upgrade to the existing air-conditioning and electrical systems, to bring the centre on par with other properties in the Liberty portfolio. However, the practicality of upgrading the building services required a complete replacement of the existing mall ceilings. + THE DESIGN CONCEPTEXTERNAL ENVELOPE Vivid Architects saw the opportunity to completely re-image the centre as the extensions to the envelope of the existing building made a complete building facade upgrade possible.  Liberty Promenade, image courtesy Vivid Architects A contemporary design aesthetic has been used, with clean lines and attention to key areas such as entrances and external canopy structures over public walkways. It is a vast improvement on the art deco theme of the existing building.  Liberty Promenade, image courtesy Vivid Architects The existing lead-in malls were lengthened and expressed with new entrance features, skylights and porte cochere structures. These clearly identify the entry points from the external parking area and from the main vehicular road (AZ Berman Drive). Additional shops that face onto the parking were also included and a continuous canopy has been added along the main elevation to provide a pedestrian-friendly edge and weather protection between entrances. A total parking upgrade has been completed that includes new lighting, landscaping and paving. Additional refuse areas, stand-by generator rooms, new AC chilled water plant rooms and other support building facilities have been added.  Liberty Promenade, image courtesy Vivid Architects FOOD COURT Although the existing mall had a large food court, Liberty Properties decided to relocate and enlarge the food court offering. This was enhanced by the inclusion of an eight screen cinema complex and entertainment component. The new food court provides a new heart to the centre with a large promotions court, and extensive public seating where volume and natural light has been maximised. The position of the food court provides an additional entry to the centre with extra parking on an underutilised area of the site bordered by the railway line. This new parking area provides safe and secure parking with convenient access to the food court, particularly during the evening trading hours. The new food court is of a contemporary design, using a combination of natural materials and high quality contemporary finishes. Extensive natural light is introduced via centrally positioned skylights culminating in the large central skylight and articulated ceiling at over 14m in height. Shading over the seating area is created with the use of steel’ tree like’ structures that introduce a counterpoint to the overall scale and volume of the space. The food court is anchored by an eight screen Ster Kinekor cinema on one side and an entertainment centre on the other. National food brands line the mall either side of the central concession area.  Liberty Promenade - Plan, drawing courtesy Vivid Architects EXISTING MALL In addition to the extension of the existing centre, Liberty Properties' brief was to upgrade and, in many instances, replace the existing HVAC and electrical systems in order to bring the building in line with similar properties in the Liberty portfolio. However, as the majority of the existing mall ceiling would have to be demolished to gain access to the existing systems and to replace with new equipment, Vivid Architects proposed a completely new mall ceiling design. A significant increase in ceiling height was possible within the existing structural constraints. The existing ceiling was very low with bulkheads at 2.4m above the floor level. After analysing the structure and co-ordinating the new service run locations and zones, considerable height was achieved in the new ceiling design that has had a major impact on the overall feel of the mall. A new lighting design has further enhanced the high quality feel of the new mall areas. The existing centre had an irregular shopfront line with varying mall widths as well as disparate tenant shopfront designs. Vivid Architects rationalised the shopfront line and gained considerable rentable area justifying the complete replacement of the existing shopfronts. The existing very low shopfronts, some as low at 2.2m, were replaced with shopfronts with a height in excess of 3.8m. The colour and profile of the new shopfronts were kept consistent and signage positions and sizes of tenant signs were rigidly controlled to ensure that there was a clean, refined and consistent overall image to the new mall areas. Large format porcelain tiles laid in a contemporary pattern were installed throughout the mall. New directory boards, information kiosk, bench seating and bins were designed to complement the overall aesthetic. The result has been the creation of a contemporary, sophisticated, aspirational retail centre, equivalent to the best malls in the country. + About Vivid ArchitectsVivid Architects was founded in 1998 by Paolo Viotti and Trevor Versfeld. Imraan Ho-Yee joined the practice as a partner in 2000. Vivid Architects is an established award winning medium sized design practice that concentrates predominately on medium to large scale commercial developments both locally and internationally. The practice also enjoys a good reputation in designing selected up market private residential homes. Vivid Architects takes great pride in providing an holistic and comprehensive professional service delivering appropriate and cost effective architectural solutions within the strict parameters of client brief, economic realities, programme and budget. Vivid Architects believes firmly in the ethic and importance of a team based philosophy throughout the design and implementation process and encourages close collaboration of all the disciplines involved. The practices focuses on encouraging transparent and open communication within the studio as a way of actively ensuring the successful transfer of the skills base that is constantly being researched and developed. Vivid Architects adheres to a design philosophy that expresses in its architecture an appropriate response to site, context and first principles of passive design as well as appropriate technology and material specification. The resultant form is an architecture that is timeless, elegant and well proportioned. Human scale and comfort for the end user is also an essential design informant. |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2012 03:21 AM PDT
 HOUSE 804, image courtesy H arquitectes | Photo © Pedro Antonio Pérez  HOUSE 804, image courtesy H arquitectes | Photo © Pedro Antonio Pérez Located in a pleasant residential neighbourhood, the house is a compact building (almost a cube) surrounded by a 3 meters wide perimeter necessary courtyard, which is the minimum mandatory gap based on current regulations. The pre-existing yard, the swimming-pool and the shed set at the back of the plot are preserved by the express wish of the owners.  HOUSE 804 - Floor plans, drawing courtesy H arquitectes The perimeter courtyard, which completely surrounds the house, it is like an outside lounge connected in different ways and intensities with the main interior pieces of the ground floor, giving different qualities and uses to each façade: on the south, a sunny garden is connected with the kitchen; on the west, with the main entrance; on the east, an uncovered parking place with direct access to the kitchen and finally, on the north, a large terrace links the house with the upper garden level and the pre-existing swimming pool.  HOUSE 804, image courtesy H arquitectes | Photo © Pedro Antonio Pérez The house is made of black concrete block, a material used to solve the load-bearing wall structure and the façades. All the surrounding courtyard elements (fences, pavements, benches, etc.) are also built with the same concrete block working as a unit. Vegetation will finally stamp in time to reach the pretended ambience and character.  HOUSE 804, image courtesy H arquitectes | Photo © Pedro Antonio Pérez The structure of the house is a load-bearing wall system with three concentric walls, one for each floor, working only under compression. As a consequence, the inner wall ends at the ground floor level, the intermediate at the first floor and the façade reaches the roof floor.  HOUSE 804, image courtesy H arquitectes | Photo © Pedro Antonio Pérez Inside the house, in the main rooms, the concrete block walls are not covered. For the stairs pavement we used recycled hydraulic pieces coming from the old house of the plot. Under the stairs, where the block walls are wider (30cm), a central fire place faces both the living room and the kitchen. + Project factsHOUSE 804 Author: H ARQUITECTES (David Lorente, Josep Ricart, Xavier Ros, Roger Tudó) | www.harquitectes.com + All images and drawings courtesy H ARQUITECTES | Photo by Pedro Antonio Pérez                    |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2012 02:42 AM PDT
Tom Sheehan  Immeuble de Grande Hauteur, Pont d'Issy-Les-Moulineaux © Tom Sheehan Excerpts of his sketchbooks, Tom Sheehan exhibits a selection of drawings from 1997 to 2012. Sketches as notes, as research or as a condition, are the datum of the carrier of a Parisian creator open to the world.
A collection of works is also presented to illustrate that, contrary to a sketch, a project is never made alone, but is the product of encounters and camaraderie. These few works testify of the richness and complexity of collaboration. The sharing of ideas and their transformation into projects is the unique test that allows a draftsman to be architect. For the occasion of the expo, Tom has invited a few video artists and friends to collaborate on the theme, the origin of projects. Five ephemeral portraits are projected onto the verso of five tangible projects to reveal a certain relationship between the means and their ends, but also endorse the promiscuity of the creative process. The pleasures of making are ends in themselves. Tom Sheehan, born in San Francisco in 1963, and resident of Paris since 1989, invites you to share the intimacy of his visual notes and to enjoy a few amiable works conceived in good company. + BIOGRAPHYTom SHEEHAN, was born in San Francisco (California), in 1963. "I started on a building site". His father, self-taught architect, is the author of numerous outstanding houses around the bay area that he conceived and built himself. From San Francisco in 1967, he moved into Santa Monica, beach town in the heart of the Los Angeles beatnik movement. Artists, philosophers and tramps marked the end of an unforgettable time. In 1979, he attended High School in Hong Kong where he received his degree in 1981. Contrary to the Californian relaxed rhythm, Tom realized that, in Hong Kong, "the more you work, the luckier you are". Back to California in 1981, Tom starts his engineering studies in Lajola University. He obtains good results, but nevertheless he decides to carry on with architecture studies. Accepted to the Cincinnati University in Ohio, in 1982, he studies for 6 years and discovered the treasures of Middle West America. In the course of his second year in architecture, he follows his older brother's advice, John, also architect, who suggests to him to register at the American Fontainebleau Art Schools. During the 1985 session he was awarded the First Prize. It entitles him to be accommodated in the Paris International City of Arts during one year. He works in the Archives Department of the Academy of Architecture and prepares drawings for this own exhibition, in 1986, titled "the found object". Back to Ohio, he passed his diploma with distinction in 1988. Determined to further his French experience, he has only one idea into his head, to get back to France. In 1989, he obtained an Assistant job in Fontainebleau with Marion Tournon-Branley and settled down with the intention of staying only three months. From Fontainebleau to Paris, he worked in the office of Aymeric Zublena for 8 and a half years. Several important projects were confided to him, such as: the Ilkirche Technopole (Science and technology Park), the School of Mining Engineering in Nantes, the Grand Stadium of France and the Suwan Stadium in South Korea. These experiences with those large institutions, particularly sports equipments, give him confidence. In 1997, he left the agency in order to start his own business. Together, with Franco-Finnish associates, they design the first Football Stadium in Finland, the Finnair Stadium, site of the World Soccer Junior Cup in 2001. In 2005, the Sports Centre in Issy-les-Moulineaux is inaugurated, the third biggest sports surface in Europe in this time. Realized with Claude and Didier Girardet, the Sports Centre was the first public venue on the scale of the Arc de Seine "Communauté de Communes". In 2003, Tom started an association with the architect, Anthony BECHU, which brought about several important successes, such as the China Executive Leadership Academy of Pudong, CHINA, The Moscow Hippodrome, the Expansion of the Monaco Bay, the D² Tower in La Defense. In 2005, in association with Salah Saïdoune, they create the ATSP agency and join with Christian Bonnaud, in 2007. With about 20 collaborators in France and more than one hundred in Algeria, they realized studies intended to big sports and cultural facilities, numerous tertiary projects, as well as thousands of affordable housing units. Most recently, they have worked together with Pierre Parat and Aydin Guvan on the renovation of the POPB (Palais Omniports de Paris Bercy). + Project listsSports Center Partner : Didier & Claude Girardet  © Fernando Urquijo photographe ### ### ### Client : Agence Nationale de Réalisation et de Gestion de la Mosquée d'Alger  © Labtop Rendering ### ### ### Association with A. Béchu  © Fernando Urquijo photographe ### ### ### Association with A. Béchu  © Agence ABTS ### ### ### Client : Chengdu Longhao real estate co. ltd  © ATSP ### ### ### Client : LUXINVEST  © ATSP
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| Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Park \ PQNK Posted: 25 Mar 2012 01:34 AM PDT
 Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Park, courtesy PQNK Most of people, except Korean, may not be familiar with the name of Ahn Chang Ho (1878-1938), also known as Dosan, who was one of many Korean independence activists during Colonial Era. However, the small city in east of USA, Riverside commemorate him along with Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. by providing statues of these three great men and small memorial parks around them in downtown Riverside. This project is to redesign existing small memorial park around the statue of Ahn Chang Ho.  Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Park, courtesy PQNK Ahn Chang Ho was a famous Korean independence activist, but he also was a farm worker, an entrepreneur, an educator, a diplomat, a leader and a global pioneer. PQNK paid attention to his unprecedented world-wide sphere of independence actions. From 1902 to 1932 until arrested and transported to Korea, he traveled more than 10 countries and 60 cities for Korean independence actions.  Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Park, courtesy PQNK The memorial begins with charting Ahn Chang Ho's travel destination. Ahn Chang Ho's travels to 10 different countries and 60 cities are organized on six rings that radiate outward from the center; these countries include Korea, Japan, USA, China, Mexico and Russia. His travels are organized chronologically moving counter-clockwise until his death in Korea in during his return 1938. Each line represents a specific time period and the extent of the line represents the country and the city to which he traveled. The outer points of each ray are collected to create a faceted geometry. An organic loop was then imbued inside the polygonal shape to generate a shape that specifically tells the story of An Chang Ho's travels.  Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Park, courtesy PQNK Unlike the conventional concept of memorial park that provide memorial figures only as a monolithic object, the simple but creative concept was proposed to make memorial park to be responsive to urban context. The road-facing side of the loop is raised from the ground to create more spatial and formal qualities. As a result, the loop becomes more visible from the other block and drivers moving along University avenue while occupying minimum area on the ground, which allows the ground level to be almost free of structure. The ground level is widely open and has no directed circulation to accommodate diverse pedestrian activities. There coexist two qualities to the loop. A visually enclosed form and an openness to outer world at the same time.  Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Park, courtesy PQNK + Project factsThe loop of a pioneering journey – Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Park in Riverside, CA Architect: PQNK | http://www.pqnk.com/ |
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