Fidalga 505 - Candida Tabet

July 31, 2015, 9:11 am

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This space in the neighborhood of Vila Madalena, São Paulo, Brazil used to be composed of two residential apartments on top of a wood shop warehouse.

Slowly Vila Madalena became the perfect place for photographers, artists and architects to establish their workspace as neighbourhoods became more urban and new uses for old buildings begun appearing over time. As I entered what seemed to be a secret area, with no direct interface with the street, I fell immediately in love. Only a small and ordinary entry door connected the street and the inside space. This door opened up to a long 20 steps stairway leading to a fragmented concrete slab with two apartments above the wood shop where the owners/brothers lived.

To transform this space into our new office, Candida Tabet Arquitetura, we removed all of the interior walls and dropped ceiling tiles; we closed a few windows and substituted other ones with frameless glass sheets. After completely opening up the space, the only elements allowed to interrupt its continuity were the restrooms with their slightly diminished height in order to allow a complete view of the newly exposed roof structure, composed by lovely wood scissor trusses under classic ceramic roof tiles, pointing to a new vocation of pure and simplistic finishes and solutions. The wood board slab above the restrooms became a small mezzanine connected to the space below by a stair made from stacked solid wood beams.

The larger area and what I call the creative laboratory were separated by a cozy double sided fireplace. Our new door was beautifully composed of solid rustic Garapeira wood slabs and opened up to the stairwell that leads you to our unexpected space. The door knob is made with a large playful sphere that reminds us of a clown’s nose communicating the space´s new vocation. Fixed onto the roof rafters, are bare lamps distributed around the ambiances.

Nothing is tinted. Elements are light or dark, white or black. Only the ceramic tiles carry a color that is inherited from the base material they are made from.

Photo by Fran Parente. © Candida Tabet Arquitetura. Published on July 31, 2015.

Floor plan and sections

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ECCD Centres - ASA studio

February 19, 2015, 10:43 pm

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The District of Bugesera is one of the seven Districts of the Easter Province of the Rwanda. It is situated to the South West of the Province, between 3005 of longitude and 2009 of latitude South.

Nkanga ECCD Centre

The designs for the eight ECCD centres in the Bugesera district aims to provide small rural villages with facilities that stimulate children holistically while engaging the whole community and it is the result of an extensive research on available resources and climate, the community’s social background and traditions.

Nkanga ECCD Centre

The efficiency, sustainability and self-reliance are achieved through the use of locally available materials, and the creation of successful meeting spaces. All the inhabitants, despite their strong culture of privacy, are able to use them all day long, in virtue of solar powered lights and access to water.

Ngeruka ECCD Centre - Construction phase

The main concept for the ECCD centres in the Bugesera district is to provide a safe and secure environment for holistic child development. The design is conceived of as an added educator, to engage in parenting education, after school homework, community meetings and women cooperatives. The scope is to give ownership of the facilities to its various stakeholders, making them socially sustainable and environmentally efficient.

ECCD General plans and elevations

One stimulation room, oriented in response to the prevailing wind and rain, is connected with a large front porch facing the main path leading to the village centre. The open demonstration kitchen and garden are located directly opposite, and the compost production and latrines are placed on the side, next to the playground. Overall the ensemble promotes nutrition, sustainable practices and hygiene education.

Nyabiondo ECCD Centre

The porch is the project’s core element. It fosters children relations and interaction among all inhabitants. From the outset parents, teachers and children have been excited by the preciousness of the space, that can be used throughout the year.

ECCD Centre - Cross Section

Progress is the result of a twofold approach. On the hand the entire constructions use a reinforced masonry technique aimed at minimizing use of cement, avoiding plastering, and teaching local labour the flemish bond. On the other, specific design decisions, such as the use of composting pit latrines, aim at minimizing the use of land and the excavation of deep septic tanks.

Tunda ECCD Centre - Construction Phase

Local materials are complemented by select technical improvements, such as the solar panel and rechargeable lamps. These provide the centres, only buildings in the villages, with artificial light, allowing for a variety of parallel functions. The rain water harvesting system and hand washing taps complete the environmental response of the project.

ECCD Centres - 3D bird view

The topographic insertion of the project in all the 8 sites it has been replicated and adapted to, is a testament to the operation’s proficiency. The buildings avoid any modification of the natural sites, where all existing trees have been preserved.

ECCD Centre - Contruction phase

Nkanga ECCD Centre

ECCD Centre - Construction phase

Nemba ECCD Centre - Cosntruction phase

Tunda and Nkanga ECCD Centres - Construction Phase

ECCD Centre - Construction Phase

Nyabiondo ECCD Centre

Nkanga ECCD Centre

Kampeka ECCD Centre

Nkanga ECCD Centre

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T-House - Onur Teke

August 5, 2015, 3:02 am

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The T-House is uniquely suited to the locale, letting the building intimately connected to its environment breathing with the nature.

Transparency of the building allows the users to be connected with the nature. Almost everywhere in the house you can see through to the outside, melting the barrier between exterior and interior reinforcing the sense of place.

The house integrates active and passive sustainable solutions into its architecture making these an un-detachable part of the whole design. Use of PV for producing energy, solar panels for water, ground source pumps for underfloor heating and cooling.

While openings in the glazed surfaces creates cross ventilation using local winds in different seasons, natural lighting decreases the energy use, timber shading elements creates ventilated and a shaded roof surface reducing the heat gain, raised building structure allows a naturally cooled underground storage area, and designed for the possibility of collecting rain water reducing the carbon footprint of the house.

Exterior envelope of the house is designed as continuous shear walls with exposed reinforced concrete, eliminating the need for a conventional frame structure.

Prefabricated glue-lam beams sits on the top of the walls with steel supports and tension cables, allowing a distinct separation between different exposed structural elements.

The house stands out as an example/proof in the village that a low cost sustainable living condition can be created working with local artisans, using technology, respecting the nature to create a contemporary architecture.

Site Plan

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Sishane Park - SANALarc

October 23, 2014, 10:52 pm

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Context and Geometry: Sishane Park is a bold shift regarding the public spaces in the center of Istanbul. Located between the southwestern edge of Beyoglu and Tarlabasi Road, the site used to be a park with a fire station that was connected to the water front before the road with a heavy traffic was built in the 70s. With reference to that, the geometry of Sishane Park is carefully crafted to give a 360 view of Istanbul’s past and future urban cultures. The design intention is to re-engage residents and visitors into the natural qualities of that unique urban environment as an alternative public space where people could enjoy together in the middle of a dense city. The park is in a dialogue with the sweeping views and flora of the Halic (Golden Horn); meanwhile it creates a large open public space for cultural programing as well as contrasting intimate spaces for resting, enjoying the shade of trees, playing and spending time as a group. Its geometry and terracing surpasses the negative perception of the underground parking. Besides, Sishane Park ascribes how the site has always been in-between and on the edge of the city and therefore needs a clearly identified place in Istanbul’s shared future. The park penetrates into the streets of the city with an alternative approach and unconventional elements considering the other parks in Istanbul. It is defined by three main features: the silhouette walk, the decks and the outdoor room. These elements are framed by a rich landscape of various species unique to the Halic in order to enhance the feeling of delight and comfort. It is aimed to have deep site lines, be attractive for quality social life and make people touch natural materials including wood rails to lean on and orient one-self within a complex city. There are unique places and experiences waiting for people of all ages to discover in Sishane Park.

Photo by Olivve.com. Published on October 24, 2014.

Sishane Market-Underground Parking: Animating the public space, Sishane Park has a multi-modal service both to the public and private transportation of Istanbul. Directly connected to the Sishane Metro, it links the pedestrians to the bus/dolmus hubs and Kasimpasa while the 1,000 capacity car park solves the parking problem. A system of motion sensor for lighting and LED for stair wells allow the parking to use energy on demand. The top level of parking is open to the air and natural light while the lower 5 levels are ventilated with cross ventilation and an automated fan system. A water recapture system allows the extensive green roof-scape and the 30% landscaped surface, wood decks and choice of light granite significantly reduce the negative impacts of heat island effect. The landscape, water recapture and the permeable pavers also minimize the projects impact to the storm water infrastructure in the historic area. The market place, on the other hand, will be a mix of services, retail and cultural platforms. Hence, meeting point for various transportation and other services will create a dynamic movement of people buzzing through the city in Sishane Park.

Photo by Olivve.com. Published on October 24, 2014.

Celebrating the city’s unique geography and nature Seasonal change, the choreography of the sun from dawn to night, cultural events and the spontaneity of people enjoying the park amenities are intended to create familiar but ever-changing experiences. To do so, materials are selected with the aim of offering acquaintance; yet alternative textures are added to the hardness of the city surfaces to trigger narratives on the surface design and engage people’s imagination to the city beyond.

Photo by Osman Cilsal. Published on October 24, 2014.

Challenging to the design and clarity of circulation there is a twelve-meter level difference from the upper urban entry to the lower under-pass road edge. The challenge is turned into a chance of creating terraces. The upper terrace creates a viewing deck through Halic enhancing the intense, noisy and polluted area of the six lane road of Tarlabasi, the middle creates a defined/protected outdoor space and the third allows a flood of natural light and ventilation to entrance level of the parking area. Both upper and lower amphi-seating is set up to face the equinox and summer solstice while the vegetation and terraces mitigate the noise pollution of the city center and the adjacent six-lane road.

The design team’s aim is that Sishane Park forms a gateway to Galata and to the other districts of Beyoglu as well as a link to the social life of Kasimpasa. It is envisioned as a place to experience the infamous spontaneous urban life of Galata to have a strong connection with the rich natural environment around while offering a new formal and informal platform for cultural venues to program and engage the public in public space. Reflection on design during the realization, there is already a collection of stories from social media sent to the design team after winter 2014: “First underground parking I felt safe as a women—especially at night. Thank you for this gift to Istanbul!” A. Uludag “It is so beautiful. I am going to bring my family.” Stone Master Ali

Cultural Program

Photo by Osman Cilsal. Published on October 24, 2014.

Photo by Olivve.com. Published on October 24, 2014.

Context Plan

Site Analysis

Photo by Olivve.com. Published on October 24, 2014.

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Progetto Cargo - Studio GUM, Valentina Giampiccolo, Giuseppe Minaldi

July 7, 2015, 2:13 am

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Nel luglio 2011 studio GUM insieme al grafico Carlo Scribano, realizzano la prima installazione sul prospetto del MET: il taglialegna e l’usignolo, composizione modulare di 80 casette in legno per uccelli, una per ogni supporto; dando origine al processo avviato l’anno prima con il concept progettuale. Nel luglio 2012, nasce CARGO, progetto d’arte urbana. L’omonimo collettivo programma un calendario di eventi espositivi con scadenza annuale. Il primo agosto 2012, le 80 case vengono personalizzate da altrettanti creativi selezionati tramite un bando, in occasione di un’estemporanea svoltasi sulla piazza antistante. Riappese sul prospetto, in esposizione per 20 giorni, le case decorate sono vendute all’asta. Il progetto è no-profit: il ricavato di ogni mostra è destinato a finanziare l’installazione successiva. Sotto il profilo sociale, si ritiene che questo meccanismo possa coinvolgere la comunità, sensibilizzandola a sostenere il progetto che sentirà in parte anche suo.

All’indomani della vendita delle casette, è stata installata la mostra successiva. Le creature marine realizzate in materiale riciclato dall’artista livornese Stefano Pilato, catturano ancora una volta la curiosità dei passanti. Contestualmente, al vincitore della prima edizione, il collettivo Uolter Project, è stata affidata l’intera facciata per l’installazione successiva: dal dicembre 2012 al maggio dell’anno successivo, la facciata si veste di 80 telecamere di cui 70 finte e 10, poste sulla diagonale, che riprendono simultaneamente l’intorno. Dal cielo, passando per il mare fino alla piazza, le immagini sono proiettate in diretta sul prospetto attiguo. Nel giugno del 2013 il collettivo propone la sua ultima installazione al met, ME36: un lavoro che affronta il tema dell’identità dando al progetto valore antropologico/sociologico e attraverso l’interpretazione estemporanea dà origine a inaspettate visioni e riflessioni, puri esercizi di stile, per dirla alla Queneau. METrentasei propone un input per evidenziare il concetto d’identità, concedendo al pubblico la possibilità di trovarne o ritrovarne o evidenziarne la propria. Identità e non individualità perché l’identità di un popolo è frutto di una moltitudine. 36 sagome incise su pannelli di legno sono state installate sul prospetto e come gli anni precedenti, poi elaborate da altrettanti creativi e vendute all’asta.

Quello che inizialmente era un vuoto urbano è divenuto piazza, luogo di aggregazione, con una propria identità e grande forza comunicativa. Uno spazio privato è stato reso fruibile per espressioni artistiche, è diventato un mezzo non convenzionale di comunicazione, capace di cambiare periodicamente immagine e contenuti. Questo, a prescindere dal luogo, è l’obiettivo di CARGO, che continua a operare altrove.

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Chicago Horizon - Ultramoderne

August 5, 2015, 12:13 am

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How much kiosk can you get for $75,000? Chicago Horizon probes this question through a quest to build the largest flat wood roof possible. Using Cross-Laminated Timber, a new carbon-negative engineered lumber product, in the largest dimensions commercially available, the kiosk aims to provide an excess of public space for the Architecture Biennial and Chicago beach-goers. The generous 56-foot square offers an architectural lending library and shelter from the elements during its time in Millennium Park, and later becomes a large shading canopy overlooking Lake Michigan with space for commercial vending within. Chicago Horizon expresses lightness at a variety of scales, from the 8-foot hovering roof plane to the viewing platform and vending kiosk, which are suspended from the roof using chain-link fencing without any additional supports. The lateral reach of the roof recalibrates the experience of two extremes of the Chicago landscape: at ground level, the Lake Michigan horizon dominates, forming a line of symmetry between ground and canopy. From the viewing platform, the roof becomes a new artificial horizon, shutting out the foreground and emphasizing the floating vertical Chicago skyline above an abstract floating plane.

The program of the kiosk is formulated around its multiple contexts: the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Lake Michigan beach, and, of course, the city of Chicago. During the Biennial, it will house an architectural lending library, designed both to facilitate the free exchange of books and as a venue for the exchange of new ideas: the large canopy extends well beyond the library enclosure, offering space for talks, events, and discussion, and for fair-goers to take refuge from the elements. Once the kiosk has been relocated to the Lake Michigan beach, the library transforms into a space for commercial vending, and the roof offers as much protection from the summer sun as it does from rain and snow. The lockable fence enclosures provide a secure environment for the library and commercial vendor alike, while also offering the potential for chair storage beneath the viewing platform.

At night the chain-link enclosures double as a lighting installation, each outfitted with a plane of programmable LED lighting and glowing with a different color temperature. The two pulsate in dialogue with each other throughout the night, alternating between the two poles of experience that the design sets up: ceiling and floor, day and night. LED strip lighting integrated into the fencing is used as signage for both library and commercial vendor.

Chicago Horizon is constructed almost entirely out of engineered timber products, including CLT for the roof canopy and glulam columns, making its total carbon impact negative due to the ability of wood to sequester atmospheric carbon. The canopy is to be fully protected by a roof membrane and an exterior grade plywood deck, ensuring its longevity. Interior enclosures are made from galvanized steel chain-link fencing, with steel grating for the viewing platform and wood shelving in the library enclosure. The fencing is suspended in tension from the canopy, providing the sole means of support for the platform and shelving. The kiosk emphasizes ease of construction, with most components fabricated off site and installation complete within a matter of days. The roof is constructed from the largest CLT panels commercially shippable in North America, and is assembled on the ground and hoisted up on glulam columns set on temporary helical pile foundations. Once the Biennial is complete, the roof can be lowered again and transported as a single piece the short distance to its final home on Lake Michigan.

Structural Narrative The pavilion roof structure represents the application of the principles of flat plate (typical to concrete construction) to the material of wood. Two layers of CLT panels—one layer oriented in each principal direction, and each outer layer oriented lengthwise to the 8-foot-wide by 56-foot-long panels—combine to form a two-way spanning plate supported at points by columns. Each layer carries bending in the direction of the panel, with the layer above or below providing shear transfer between adjacent panels (and vice versa in the other direction). The result is a surprisingly thin 8.25-inch roof structure that spans upward of 30 feet between columns.

The columns connect to the roof plate using steel tongue plate bolted to the columns, which passes up through a slot in the CLT to a horizontal plate that connects to the CLT panels from above, hidden below the roofing and waterproofing. The columns themselves are simple glued laminated sections, held off the ground by a similar tongue plate at the base. The observation platform is supported by a chain-link fence held in tension along the edge of the opening to the roof using tack welds to structural steel angle framing the opening. The overall system is simple in its detailing, use of materials, and conception of its performance as a two-way plate, and this underlying simplicity complements the efficiency of the system.

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Linha Collection - F.studio arquitetura + design

August 4, 2015, 11:06 am

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The furniture and objects collection developed by F studio arquitetura + design, office based in Rio de Janeiro, aims to explore the minimalism of details and the iron structure challenges. The structure as a starting point. The conception is entirely manual, experimental and dynamic. Formed by architects, the conception of the studio is based on the observation of the built and natural environments – from urban scale to objects. The city, the built and the furniture are always linked by proportions and scales.

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5 houses - Carlos Alejandro Ciravegna

January 23, 2015, 7:00 am

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5 houses that work together, using the natural topography of the site looking for the best views. The project is located in mountain environment, adjacent to the tail of the lake san roque. simplicity, formal and material synthesis are the foundation of the project.

Of this simplicity raised, emerge shadows play, visuals openings, and an insertion of low impact in an environment of lush vegetation.

Heterogeneity in the form to generate a villa with its own profile. homogeneity in the material, to generate a villa with its own language.

A modular system that allows accommodate the various functions, clearly dividing each house on two (public-private), collaborating with the idea of town-village-profile urban. altering the natural soil as little as possible and join the landscape through the views.