L’altre dia a l’ETSAB, al mig de la correcció, es va parlar d’aquest complex d’edificis residencials de David Chipperfield. Es va parlar de la relació entre les les peces, i de l’espai públic que aconseguien en els espais intersticials, de la façana construida a partir d’una terrassa que resegueix tot el perímetre i va agafant fondàries diferents, però sobretot varem parlar de la t

Fuente: David Kohn Architects Fotografía: Ioana Marinescu New house, Norfolk 2008-9 The project is conceived as an agglomeration of houses from the scale of an aedicule to that of the landscape. The house is entered through two small brick pavilions built within the ruins of a 19thcentury stable block. Precast concrete aedicules at each door evoke the memories of household Gods and mark the beginning of a sequence of

Fuente: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Fotografía: Bas Princen House extension The expansion of a 19th century town house in the heart of Ghent resulted in two houses. In the irregular outdoor space alongside the existing ‘winter house’ a ‘summer house’ was marked out by a precise modular frame of steel sections, overgrown with grapevines . A narrow strip of this frame, right against the winter house, was roo

Source: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Photography: © Bas Princen The center of Brussels has a periphery inside. A piece of landscape, green, open, idyllic, as if it were on the fringes of the city (where it touches the forest) is to be found in the midst of it. This particular condition is easy to destroy. In order to double the surface of a seemingly freestanding house in this strangely lush environment, it

Source: David Chipperfield Architects | afasia Photography: Simon Menges Founded in 1768, the Royal Academy of Arts is the oldest arts institution in Britain. Since 1868 it has been based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, in central London. In 1998 the RA acquired 6 Burlington Gardens, an Italianate building of comparable size located immediately to the north of Burlington House and oriented in the opposite directio

Fuente: Afasia Fotografía: © Simon Menges, e-architect The new MBA Building for the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) is located on the school’s campus near the historic Paris suburb of Jouy-en-Josas. The existing 1964 campus consists of a series of pavilions in a wooded landscape. The original design intent had been compromised over the years, resulting in a campus which lacked focus and was in need of a cl

Fuente: Afasia Fotografía: © David Chipperfield Architects The west bank of Lake Garda is characterised by its mild climate and richly cultivated landscape. David Chipperfield Architects has built two villas on the hillside looking over the resort town of Gardone Riviera. Both buildings are carefully inserted into the landscape with its olive groves and cypress trees. Their volumes are divided into individual one or