invisiblegentleman shared with us their latest photography project of 4° n’ajuda, it is a refurbishment project designed by atelierBASE.

Image courtesy invisiblegentleman

Image courtesy invisiblegentleman

Image courtesy invisiblegentleman

Image courtesy invisiblegentleman

Image courtesy invisiblegentleman

+ Project statement

This project is very special to us.
First, because the client is special – enjoys architecture, understands our proposals and modifications, and above all, is enthusiastic with the project as much as we are!

The project builds:

• the spatial reorganization so as not to enter directly into the living-room, changing the entrance to walking through space, inside the kitchen space
• the adequacy of the minimum standards of hygiene for the current parameters increasing the area of the bathroom, endowing it with shower area, sink and natural light + ventilation
• the maintenance of the facade elements, in materials with higher thermal efficiency
• the correction of light through saturated color in the most interior spaces of the house – the kitchen and bathroom
• The possibility of changing the spaces through sliding doors in translucent polycarbonate, which adds to the house a greater diversity of ways of inhabit

+ Project facts

project: 4° n’ajuda
architects: atelierBASE | www.atelierbase.com
photography: invisiblegentleman | www.invisiblegentleman.com
function: housing
location: ajuda
year: 2010-12
built area: 70 sqm

+ All images courtesy invisiblegentleman

Ubicuo Diseño + Deriva Colectivo proposed the Architecture Pavilion for the competition of Arhitekton magazine.

Proposal of Architecture Pavilion, render courtesy Ubicuo Diseño + Deriva Colectivo

Proposal of Architecture Pavilion, render courtesy Ubicuo Diseño + Deriva Colectivo

Proposal of Architecture Pavilion, render courtesy Ubicuo Diseño + Deriva Colectivo

+ Project statement

Our intention was to forget about formal aspects of the skin of the pavilion, we were interested more in what could happen inside of that relatively small container (12.0 x 3.60 x 4.0 mts), in their surroundings and have a connection to its context.

Our idea was to create a versatile space, through various platforms consist of square PET bottles that are sold in our country (Mexico). These bottles have already a format to be assembled to each other, and because of the air contained and the compression of the same bottles we would have a solid platform and this would allow us to walk on and sit without any problem.

With this system we could create unlimited configurations and thereby achieve different purposes, either from a small auditorium, creating different topographies for exhibitions, creating places where you could sit down, see expositions of different types that may arise and thus have a non static space.
We were not given a particular site, the requirement was that it had to be on an open and flat place, that is why we decided to play and imagine how you could use the pavilion in several contexts in the world.

We begin to generate the images in contrasting social contexts, culturally and climatically, from an art exhibition in England to a film screening in Australia and many more places.

Knowing that we would use PET bottles, we decided to put lighting on the boards that were between the bottles and create a diaphanous platform to illuminate the entire pavilion inside and so create a carpet of light at the same time and that could be seen from the outside.

Proposal of Architecture Pavilion - Conceptual diagram , drawing courtesy Ubicuo Diseño + Deriva Colectivo

Proposal of Architecture Pavilion - Different configuration of platfroms, drawing courtesy Ubicuo Diseño + Deriva Colectivo

+ Project credits

Ubicuo Diseño + Deriva Colectivo
Project team: Ignacio Rodríguez and Alberto Hernández.
Competition organizer: Arhitekton Magazine

+ All images and drawings courtesy Ubicuo Diseño + Deriva Colectivo

House in Kyobate, image courtesy Naoko Horibe | Photo by Eiji Tomita

Japanese architect Naoko Horibe recently has completed the House in Kyobate, Japan.

This home for a family with young children centers around a Japanese-style mezzanine with tatami flooring.

House in Kyobate, image courtesy Naoko Horibe | Photo by Eiji Tomita

Extending out into the first floor living/dining/kitchen area, and with a view of both that room and the second floor children’s rooms, the mezzanine serves to link the various spaces within the home.

It also accents the building’s exterior, pushing out beyond the rest of the facade.

House in Kyobate, image courtesy Naoko Horibe | Photo by Eiji Tomita

From the central mezzanine to the linked children’s rooms and the living/dining/kitchen area with its vertical void, this home offers a diversity of living spaces that come together to provide a fun and stimulating environment for the residents.

House in Kyobate, image courtesy Naoko Horibe | Photo by Eiji Tomita

+ Project facts

House in Kyobate
Design to completion: March 2011-August 2011
Location: Nara-Shi,NARA
Primary usage: Residence
Structure: wooden construction, two stories above ground
Family structure: Couple with two children

Site area: 165.34 m2
Building area: 52.17 m2
Total floor space: 93.58 m2

Architect: Naoko Horibe
Photographer: Eiji Tomita

House in Kyobate - L1 floor plan, drawing courtesy Naoko Horibe

House in Kyobate - L2 floor plan, drawing courtesy Naoko Horibe

House in Kyobate - Section, drawing courtesy Naoko Horibe

+ All images and drawings courtesy Naoko Horibe