Source: Dezeen Photography: Eckhart Matthäus, Felix Friedmann, John Pawson A small path leads to the chapel’s entrance, located at the transitional point between woodland and open ground. The architecture is framed as the simplest of gestures. From certain perspectives its mass appears as a pile of logs stacked up to dry; from others the considered placement of the elements on a concrete plinth creates a more fo

Fuente: El croquis, Herzog & de Meuron by Wilfried Wang. Ediciones: StudioPaperback La casa se sitúa en un promontorio, sobre un ondulado paisaje de olivares abandonados, formando parte de una terraza natural de piedra. El concepto del diseño de la casa se basa en la fusión de planta, sección y alzado. El edificio queda caracterizado por una cruz que se hace visible en las paredes laterales, donde la piedra,

| Pascal Deschenaux and Simon Zemp | 2015 | Spring Semester | ETH  | Professor: Adam Caruso  Starting from Martin Heidegger’s text ‘Building Dwelling Thinking’ the studio investigated how we can design new coherent neighborhoods with coherent spaces and clear identities. Nowadays city planning often limits itself to demarcating areas in different colors and the market takes the lead from there. Especially at the

Source: Dominique Coulon & associés Schiltigheim is the third largest town in the Bas-Rhin département (eastern France) in terms of population, and is the most densely populated town in the Strasbourg metropolis. It developed in the nineteenth century, centred on brewing and related industrial activities. These activities declined in the late twentieth century, leaving much industrial land lying waste. The r

E2A Architecture. Piet Eckert & Wim Eckert Hatje Cantz Available online at La Capell This volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the Swiss architects E2A. Brothers Piet and Wim Eckert see their work as an interpretation of contemporary living conditions. In today@2019s context, expectations, experiences, and ambitions characterize places and clash with reality. The incompatible becomes the platform o

Source : afasia Photography by Helène Binet, Georg Aerni and Kuster Frey This project won first prize in the invited competition for a 30,000sq m mixed use building of commercial space and housing. The project is located on a key site within the masterplan for the redevelopment of former railway land on the south side of Zurich Hauptbahnhof by the SBB (Swiss National Railways). The project is one of several larg

Source : afasia Photo : assemble + aj Assemble were commissioned by Goldsmiths, University of London, to create a new public art gallery within the Grade II listed former Victorian bathhouse at Laurie Grove, New Cross. The 1000m2 building accommodates seven new gallery spaces, a café, curators’ studio and event space. As a critical testing ground for exploration and discussion, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary

| Eugenio Cappuccio | 2018 | Diploma year 1 | Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow | Professor: Mark Baines Food is the most universal and accessible of cultural manifestations, as we all need to eat to live. Like dialect and architecture, food traditions are a main component in the intricate and impulsive system that joins culture and geography into regional character. The proposal is a building that cele

fuente: muller van severen texto: Jonathan Barrie With both Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen being artists, it’s natural that the collection sits somewhere between design and art – it’s obviously ‘furniture’ but the emphasis is not completely concentrated on function and suggests different ways of living and use of space… an uncanny twist on universal forms. Fien Muller’s photography is suggestive of someone w

Source: afasia Photography: Mikael Olsson Brf Solsidan is a unique housing project at Brunstorp in the northern part of Huskvarna, right on the waterfront of Vättern. The building, with its three main parts, is located in the relatively new residential area between Vättern in the west and Sweden’s most beautiful part of the E4 in the east. Today there are a number of chain houses and punk houses in the same loca

  Fuente: RICARDO BOFILL. TALLER DE ARQUITECTURA. Edificios y Proyectos 1960-1985, Ed. Gustavo Gili. Páginas 23-25. Fotografía: Oriol Gómez Este edificio de siete plantas de altura se levanta en un barrio típicamente residencial de Barcelona. Tiene dos accesos diferenciados que se abren respectivamente a las calles Juan Sebastián Bach y Maestro Pérez Cabrero; la curvatura de la fachada ayuda a definir la forma c

Source: + az awards Photography: Pedro Pegenaute The chapel is a feature building within the larger Village zone. As such, it occupies a prime location visible from the main road and along the waterfront. Its architectural language is derived from similar elements found elsewhere in the project, such as the undulating brick walls and floating white volume—but they are here, taken to another level of articulation

| Jack Huang | 2016 | Master Course | TU Wien  | Professor: Ines Nizic The Kulturhaus, to me, is an institution of man; as it holds the aspiration of man. Culture exists through people, different people, new and old. It requires a simple unified space, a concentrated space; where men relives, reinterpret, and creates culture. Friedrichshafen, like the other ports, share the lake, Bodensee. They also share the sa

Source : afasia Photograph by Johan Dehlin 6a architects has completed the conversion and restoration of the oldest surviving purpose-built fire station in London, now an annexe to the South London Gallery. The project is the latest in a series of projects for the SLG, following the initial works to the main gallery site in 2010, and the Orozco Garden in 2016.               &nb