Monday, August 6, 2012

Skin of Architecture: Pattern 7

Source: Luuk Kramer archdaily.com
Petting Farm, Almere, The Netherlands, 2008 designed by 70F Architecture
....a wooden box with an open facade system for the upper half of the building, allowing the wind to ventilate the whole farm continuously. Half of the building is stable; the other half consists of toilets, storage and on the second floor an office and storage. The stable itself has no second floor. As you walk lengthways through the building, you will pass the animals that are contained to the left and to the right behind fences. There are no doors in the building, but there are six shutters, two for the public on the short ends of the building and four for the animals, two on either long side of the building. One could say that the box, a building extensively reduced in aesthetic violence, wakes up and goes to sleep every day. -- ArchDaily

Source: Ashton Porter Architects archdaily.com
Suburban Studio, London Borough of Enfield, Greater London, UK, 2010 designed by Ashton Porter Architects 
The main studio facade that addresses the garden floats above a glass panel and forms a screen to separate the work-space of the studio from the domestic garden. The materials of the studio make reference to the suburban context; timber cladding echoes domestic fencing, corrugated aluminium refers to inter-war prefabricated garages and a former Anderson shelter. -- ArchDaily

Source: Juri Troy Architects archdaily.com
House J-T, Lochauer Straße, Hörbranz, Austria, 2011 designed by Juri Troy Architects 
The circumferential and vertical silver fir facade not only serves as a filter, but also almost imperceptibly directs views to the carefully selected outlooks. -- ArchDaily

Source:  Jeroen Musch archdaily.com
Water Villa, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2011 designed by Framework Architects + Studio Prototype
The relation between the water and house is central to the design. There is a subtle playfulness between open and closed. The vertically designed pattern, an abstract allusion to the water, provides not only optimal privacy but also a subtle play of light inside the residence itself. The inhabitants are able to regulate their privacy by, for example, an integrated folding window that can be opened and closed by remote control. The house is spacious with three levels, one of which is below the water, while living and work areas are located above the water. -- ArchDaily

Source: Paul Ott photografiert archdaily.com
Boat’s House at Millstätter Lake, Seeboden, Carinthia, Austria, 2012 designed by MHM architect
The key signature design feature is “hidden” in the wooden façades: on account of an authority ban, which prohibited an outside footbridge for docking on to the boathouse at the west facade (although there has always been footbridge in the past), a system of facade-integrated folding elements was developed. The uniqueness of these folding elements lays in the fact that in contrast to the usually available folding elements, they can form a completely horizontal, passable surface. In the open position these gates make up the by authority eliminated footbridge in the west façade. -- ArchDaily

Source: Thomas Mayer archdaily.com
Immanuel Church, Cologne, Germany, 2013 designed by Sauerbruch Hutton
The bell tower, church and chapel are clad externally with diagonally laid timber planks. Their character is de ned by simplicity of form in combination with straightforward construction and honest materiality. -- ArchDaily

Source: Filip Dujardin archdaily.com
Firestation Berendrecht, Kruisweg 22, 2040 Antwerpen, Belgium, 2014 designed by Bovenbouw
On top of the two utilitarian floors  there is a domestic floor with a living room, kitchen, fitness, sleeping rooms and an outdoor sports field, arranged around a patio. The sports field, located on the corner of the building, is covered with a semi-transparent wooden panelling and therefore stays in contact with outside. -- ArchDaily

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