Fuente: Meck Architekten, Afasia Fotografía: Michael Heinrich, Uli Benz El diseño urbano debe entenderse como una respuesta a las estructuras existentes de Campus Garching: al igual que la masa del edificio, que se establece con referencia a la estructura de cuadrícula existente y los edificios existentes circundantes, el nuevo edificio está vinculado a su entorno inmediato y lo ubica en este inmueble. Con el desmant

Source: KAAN Architecten Photography: Brigida Gonzalez KAAN Architecten is proud to present the Geo- and Environmental Centre (GUZ), their first project built in Germany. As the winning entry of an international competition, the building is a state of the art facility for interdisciplinary research into solutions for environmental problems, particularly water, soil and the atmosphere. With its prominent location, the

Source: KAAN Architecten Photography: Sebastian van Damme Bottière Chénaie is a compact mixed-use building nestled within the eponymous district in the north-eastern Nantes, encircled by major traffic infrastructures. The project proposes a balanced composition of volumes with simple massing, enriched by concrete post-and-beam facades that generate large openings and fully glazed corners. The building structure featu

Source: KAAN Photography: Sebastian van Damme De Walvis: an intruder becomes a pleasant neighbour In historical Amsterdam, the office building De Walvis on Bickerseiland has been stripped down to its bones and completely revitalised by KAAN Architecten. The client Maarsen Groep requested a «hip and industrial feel» that would leave everyone in awe and fit with their envisaged future tenants from the advertising, medi

Source: Ensamble Studio Photography: Iwan Baan & Ensamble Studio Ca’n Terra is the house of the earth. The fruit that nature gives us, as a found space; which requires tillage and cultivation to imbue the received offering with domesticity. If the history of civilization has greatly evolved transforming ideas into built work, in Ca’n Terra, the process is inverted and history interpreted to transform

source: Valerio Olgiati photography: Bas Princen House-shaped columns carry horizontal slabs and form an earthy stone shelf, made of concrete. The center of the building is illuminated by an atrium. Four massive pillars form the building’s foundation in it. All parts of the building form an indivisible structure. On the ground floor there is a foyer surrounded by walls. It is not visible from the outside. Here

Source: KAAN architecten Photography: Simone Bossi KAAN Architecten has designed the new Crematorium Siesegem on the outskirts of Aalst (Belgium), as an entry for an international competition that the Dutch firm won in 2012. The building is a comforting sequence of spaces in symbiotic relationship with its tranquil surroundings. Located in the countryside bordering the western ring road of the Belgian city, the crema