Saturday, October 22, 2011

Floating Roofs 3

Source: Rob ‘t Hart archdaily.com
Sports Pavilion, Rotterdam, The Netherlands designed by MoederscheimMoonen Architects
The final piece of the building is the translucent cantilevered roof. This roof filters direct sunlight and illuminates like a lampoon in the evening thanks to the integration of LED powered lighting.
The building is iconic in its direct environment due to the continuous outline of the building and the illuminated roof. -- ArchDaily

Source: Oskar Da Riz archdaily.com
Rothoblaas limited Company, Kurtatsch, Italy, 2005 designed by monovolume
The Rothoblaas office is a large scale commercial operation specializing in assembling systems and power tools for the woodworking industry.
The building as corporate identity of the enterprise; contemporary and representative of the company. This has lead to a functional, compact structural shell, provided with a glass envelope. The main building material employed is wood in order to show the own products.  -- ArchDaily

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K:fem department store, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008 designed by Wingardh
the cutting edge 14-meter canopy works as a logotype for the new suburban centre.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Hassell archdaily.com
Harrington Grove Country Club, Camden, New South Wales, Australia, 2009 designed by Hassell
Expansive glass walls open onto large cantilevered balconies to ensure uninterrupted views across the woodland and grassy hills beyond.
Sustainability was integral to the design. The narrow floorplate of the clubhouse allows fresh air and daylight to penetrate all principal rooms. The building management system is connected to the lights and the mechanical ventilation, activating the adjustable sun shading and closing off air conditioning units as required. It also manages rainwater collection which is used for irrigation of the landscape.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
Marmelo Mill, Ferreira do Alentejo, Portugal, 2010 designed by Ricardo Bak Gordon
The mill was designed in a way that it is as close to the olive trees as possible, and it is easy to recognize two different horizontal layers. The one that attaches to the ground, which is dark and appears together with the peripherals walls of the property and the roads that involve the building. Then, another layer, light and white that stands on top of the lower one, and extends itself to both sides, creating two cantilever structures that correspond to the external protected areas. -- ArchDaIily

Source: architectmagazine.com
Twilight Epiphany, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, 2010 designed by artist James Turrell with Thomas Phifer and Partners
... it’s a 118-foot-square earthwork with grassy bermed walls enclosing a near-cubical bench-lined atrium, 28 feet square. Those berms form a truncated pyramid that slopes up at an unvarying 19 degrees towards a 72-foot-square white canopy that, perched on just eight 6-inch-diameter steel-tube columns paired at its corners, seemingly hovers 21 feet up in the air. That canopy is punctured at its center by a 14-foot-square skylight—the signature element of Turrell’s “skyspace” works, this being his 73rd. -- ARCHITECT Magazine

Source: Pablo Corradi archdaily.com
Ocasa, Long Island City, New York, USA, 2010 designed by JENDRETZKI
This re-imagining of an Ulrich Franzen masterpiece, delicately updates materials, and reconfigures its use adapting it for a corporate headquarters of a shipping company. The division of the individual spaces generates the creation of volumes stand distant enough to structure so that its original features are still primary to the whole. The use of wood louver cladding provides for privacy and warmth to an otherwise steril office environment. -- ArchDaily

Source: Paùl Rivera © Archphoto archdaily.com
The Bridge, Bridgehampton, New York, USA, 2010 designed by Roger Ferris + Partners
The curves of the roof capture prevailing winds and facilitate the collection of rainwater. While offering stunning hilltop views onto Long Island shoreline on three sides, the expansive double-wall glazed facades facilitate daylighting and convection ventilation. Shading deep roof overhangs mediate heat gain on each of the building facades. -- ArchDaily

Source: architectmagazine.com

Martin House Visitor’s Center and Restoration, Buffalo, New York, USA designed by Toshiko Mori Architects, Hamilton Houston Lownie Architects
A deceptively simple-looking glass pavilion, the visitor’s center is engineered to the hilt. To shield against Buffalo’s harsh winters while still maintaining clarity of views, the architects developed a triple-glazed curtain wall that was then manufactured in China. The roof forms an angular bowl with a skylight at the low point in the center of the interior, and it projects beyond the façade as a sunshade. A few central columns provide support, working in concert with thin stainless steel columns at the perimeter. -- ARCHITECT Magazine

Source: aoydesign archdaily.com
Naya, Saitama, Japan, 2012 designed by aoydesign
Under the large roof, the building is consisted of three functions; one is the entrance gate, another is the crop warehouse, and the other is flexible open space for parking and working. The big roof slanted one-way toward the road is aimed not only at redeucing the façade volume for passersby but also at using the inside effectively as loft space.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Franz Bourgeois archdaily.com
Pavilion Jean Baptiste Clément, Brou-sur-Chantereine, France, 2013 designed by Olivier Werner Architecte
The interior volume is composed by the superposition of three elements: the ground that folds up until the roofing, the exterior wall that surrounds the room and holds the sloping ceiling and the curtain walls boosted by a range of thin columns that frames a generous view on the landscape. -- ArchDaily

Source: Yorgis Yerolymbos – SNFCC SA archdaily.com
Visitors Center of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece, 2013 designed by BETAPLAN
The building creates its own ground due to a metal platform that seems to hover upon the esplanade. The roof is a slender metal construction, that seems to suspend, as it is supported by cylindrical metal columns. -- ArchDaily

Source: Stefan Mueller archdaily.com
Production Hall, Grüsch, Switzerland, 2013 designed by Barkow Leibinger
The flat roof is constructed by laying glu-laminated timber beams in two opposing directions on top of each other emphasizing the craft and logic of wood construction. The main beams are designed as twin beams (each 100 x 18cm), the purlins measure 60 x 12cm. -- ArchDaily

Source: Natalia Vial archdaily.com
Barbecue Place in Lampa, Lampa, Lampa, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile, 2013 designed by Rosario Illanes Feuerhake + Josefina Feuerhake Rodríguez
....make of  the grill-fireplace, the pillar master of the project. On top of  it would rest two trusses that would allow us to have a clear span of 10 mt. between pillars and bind efficiently  the interior space with the outside. The result was a volume of 30 m long, with 150 m2 inside and 150 m2 outside where all windows, using a rail system, can be deployed to the walls of the sides, leaving a free space of 300 m2 with a central pillar that is fire-grille. -- ArchDaily

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