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Villa Savoye, Paris, 1929 Designed by Le Corbusier
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| Source: oma.eu |
VILLA DALL'AVA, Paris, France, 1991 designed by OMA(Rem Koolhaas).
Read a post from ArchDailyThe house is conceived as a glass pavilion containing living and dining areas, with two hovering, perpendicular apartments shifted in opposite directions to exploit the view. They are joined by the swimming pool which rests on the concrete structure encased by the glass pavilion.-- architect's website.
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Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein, Germany, 1994 designed by Zaha Hadid
Conceived as the end-note to existing factory buildings, the Vitra Fire Station defines rather than occupies space – emerging as a linear, layered series of walls, between which program elements are contained – a representation of ‘movement frozen’ – an ‘alert’ structure, ready to explode into action at any moment. -- architect's web site
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Groningen Stadsbalkon, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2003 designed by KCAP
A «forest of columns» supports the concrete roof of a parking facility for 3,000 bicycles underneath the Groningen Stadsbalkon by KCAP. Defining the necessary number of pillars as well as their exact location, diameter and inclination proved to be impossible using a top-down design approach.
designtoproduction developed a software based on artificial-life methods, which optimized the exact position, inclination and strength of some 150 irregularly placed columns according to functional and constructional requirements, and which could be utilized by the architects to generate alternative design solutions. -- designtoproduction
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| Source: Te-Ming Chang |
The Sharp Centre for Design Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada designed by Alsop Architects (Robbie/Young+Wright Architects - local architects) 2004.
It is a slab, two hundred and seventy feet long and raised nine stories into the air on huge, slanted legs. The legs—red and yellow and black and blue and purple and white—look like a bunch of gigantic colored pencils, or pick-up sticks mid-fall. The slab, which accommodates two floors of classrooms, studios, and offices, is covered in white corrugated metal and decorated with black squares. -- The New Yorker, October 22, 2007
Second Means of Egress -- Utile's Blog November 10, 2011
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| Source: José Hevia archdaily.com |
Faculty of Business Studies of Mondragon University, Oñati, Spain designed by Hoz Fontan Arquitectos
The library, the assembly hall and the teaching staff’s offices are arranged in a lifted volume that allows having view-points on the trees that surround the building, capturing a general view of Oñati. This lifting creates a great porch entry to the building and at the same time a generous hall, constituting both of them the building’s main relational areas. Areas that, seen as public squares and watchtowers from which admire the scenery, will allow the connection between students and surrounding environment, acting the university not only as knowledge media, but also as a mediation support between local culture, natural landscape and university life. -- ArchDaily
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de Plussenburgh, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2006 designed by Arons en Gelauff Architecten
The project embraces its target market’s denial of aging by proposing a playful, coloured apartment block. The building is an exciting configuration of a tower and an elevated slab. The slab volume is elevated 11 metres over the water and opens up a spectacular view onto the existing pond from the adjacent pre-existing nursing home. The minimum footprint of the tower creates space for a garden. -- ArchDaily
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Elementary School, Vicenza Quinto Vicentino (VI), Italy, 2007 designed by Gianluca Perottoni
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Loblolly House, Taylors Island, Maryland, USA 2007 designed by KieranTimberlake Associates
KieranTimberlake saw the three-story Loblolly House as a system made entirely of off-the-shelf elements and components fabricated off-site to be assembled atop a platform (or “foundation”) of wooden piles sunk into the sandy soil. Key components included so-called “smart cartridges” used to create floors, ceilings, and roof; “dumb cartridges” for the building’s skin; and “blocks” that house bathrooms or mechanical rooms. -- Record House 2007
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Darcons Headquarters, Chihuahua, Mexico, 2008 designed by Arquitectura en Proceso
The geometry of the volume is shaped according to a juxtaposition of three rotated orthogonal axis structures. This was primarily done in an effort to recreate the space complexity produced by a urban grid designed in the style of the 18th century. The west elevation also benefits from the rotated planes by casting shades onto itself and minimizing direct sun exposure. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Rene Fokkink archdaily.com |
KLM House, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2010 designed by Project.DWG ~ Architecture
Due to the complex urban context and privacy concerns the house is lifted from ground level and placed on concrete columns. Lifting the building ensures that the wall openings can be oversized, without affecting the privacy. The position of these openings creates interesting vistas over the surrounding cityscape. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre archdaily.com |
Bilbao Arena, Bilbao, Spain, 2010 designed by ACXT
The Bilbao Arena was designed as a tree, tree-pillars that brace the elements in the metal structure façade and painted steel sheets in various colors to build an air-permeable end that hides all the machines in room climate. -- ArchDaily
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| Source; Uytenhaak Architectenbureau |
Linnaeusborg, Centre for Life Sciences, Groningen, the Netherlands, 2010 designed by Rudy Uytenhaak Architectenbureau
The volume can be interpreted as a body that rises from the ground and partly vanishes in the perspective and the sloping ground level. The sightlines accentuate the open space rather than the mass of the building. A ‘gate’ effect means that one looks through the building rather than at it. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Taylor Deupree archdaily.com |
DPR Residence, Pound Ridge, New York, USA, 2010 designed by Method Design Architecture + Urbanism PLLC
Our response to these challenges entailed floating a new master suite on a forest of columns that reinforce an existing line of trees and create a procession towards the newly organized formal entry suspended underneath. The columns themselves operate as a sophisticated structural system where each tips towards a projected point at the center of gravity, giving an innovative balance, stability and equilibrium to the new addition. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Marc Tey archdaily.com |
Kiarong House, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, 2010 designed by Moh Hack & Partners
Instead of using big columns to support the slanted roof, the living and dining area roof are supported by a few slim slanted pipes to erase the weight visually. At the same time, these slim slanted pipes are also supporting the horizontal steel I-Beam, all along the sliding glass door and frameless glass window, to create a space with a lighter and more airy feeling. -- ArchDaily
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Kinderkrippe Kindergarten, Haus im Ennstal, Austria, 2011 designed by Kreiner architektur
With the creation of the clearance the topographic circumstances were optimally used and a covered free area was created which has a very high qualitative value. Because this is independent of weather. Another basic idea to the draught was to let flow through the scenery under the new building and to create no additional barrier in the anyway limited place offer. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Toshiyuki Yano archdaily.com |
Toda House, Hiroshima, Japan designed by Office of Kimihiko Okada
To respond to the requests, the house is lifted from the ground. Like a bird’s nest, it called up architecture’s primary function of relief from disturbance. The house is open to the view and yet protected from the fear and environment. Slab and roof consists of one continuous plate. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Markus Bollen archdaily.com |
The Tree House, Hechtel-Eksel, Belgium, 2012 designed by Baumraum
The major image of the design is a sheet of paper that is pleated and encloses both interior and exterior spaces. THE TREEHOUSE is based on five elements: two cabins on different levels, connecting terraces, a staircase and a connecting roof. The cabins and upper terraces rest on 19 angled steel stilts. Each steel stilt is connected to the ground below with foundation screws that have a minimal impact on the forest floor. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: NAKANIMAMASAKHLISI PHOTO LAB archdaily.com |
Lazika, Lazika, Georgia, 2012 designed by Architects of Invention
The architects explain that the building is a juxtaposition between a building and a sculpture. It is not divided into floors but is comprised of volumes – each volume of the building can function separately from the other. The architecture of this particular area (Mengrelia – West Georgia) reflects environmental considerations. The region has high level of humidity and dump soil, so local peoples traditionally built houses on stilts with no foundation to encourage ventilation from underneath and keep the structure dry. The site is almost at the existing mean sea-level and hence the client needed to be aware of the risks associated with anticipated global warming and subsequent sea level rises which could be in excess of 1m during the next century (based on climate modeling). The water table is between 1 and 1.5 m below ground level. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Fernando Stankuns archdaily.com |
Offset House, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2012 designed by Shieh Arquitetos Associados
The house is a direct result of the site’s complicated geometry. In plan, perimetral lines are given by the highest possible occupation of the property, discounting setbacks (restrained either by municipal legislation, or by the neighborhood regulation). Thus the nickname Offset House: a house that is the reflection of the sides of the lot. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Paul Warchol archdaily.com |
The Tower House, Upstate, New York, United States, 2012 designed by GLUCK+
This small vacation house is designed as a stairway to the treetops. Keeping the footprint to a minimum so as not to disturb the wooded site, each of the first three floors has only one small bedroom and bath, each a tiny private suite. The top floor, which contains the living spaces, spreads out from the tower like the surrounding forest canopy, providing views of the lake and mountains in the distance. An outdoor roof terrace deck above extends the living space above the treetops, offering a stunning lookout to the long view. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Katsuhisa Kida archdaily.com |
Nousfit Warehouse, Tokyo, Japan, 2013 designed by Hideo Horikawa Architect & Associates
A portion of each pillar penetrates the roof, supports the roof, or supports the shelves. Although one of the important functions of this building is that the design of the pillars support part of the structure, this building’s presentation exists where the pillars are a metaphor for hairs and evoke the image of the client’s brand: creating strong hair. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Iwan Baan archdaily.com |
Fogo Island Inn, Main Street, Fogo, NL A0G, Canada, 2013 designed by Saunders Architecture
The inn is completely tied to Fogo Island and traditional Newfoundland outport architecture by the way it sits in the landscape and the materials used throughout. The building hits the land directly without impacting the adjacent rocks, lichens and berries. The exterior cladding is locally sourced and milled Black Spruce. The knowledge and skill of local carpenters and craftspeople were essential for establishing the details used throughout the buildings. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Dietmar Hammerschmid archdaily.com |
House S, Vorderweißenbach, Austria, 2013 designed by HPSA
Initial situation was a steep, rather small plot of land with excellent views. .... the whole building on pillars. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Shigeo Ogawa archdaily.com |
Dig In the Sky, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan designed by Alphaville Architects
A part of the first floor is pilotis. The floating tube further crosses the courtyard diagonally and obstructs or reveals sights and noise between rooms, rooms and neighboring houses, rooms and street through pilotis. -- ArchDaily
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