Friday, August 16, 2013

Community Pavilions

Source: Scenic Architecture archdaily.com
Community Pavilion at Jintao Village, Shanghai, China, 2010 designed by Scenic Architecture
Since the environment has the spatial quality of openness and aggregation, we designed a hexagonal ring building for the village residence to rest, communicate and have recreation activities. 3 interior spaces contain a recreation room, a teahouse, and a stage facing the grain-sunny ground; whereas 3 semi-outdoor spaces face 3 different sceneries: the concrete bridge to the northwest, the river cross to the southwest, and the little stone bridge to the southeast. -- ArchDaily

Source: Tran Tuan Trung archdaily.com
Bes Pavilion, Ha Tinh, Hà Tĩnh, Vietnam, 2013 designed by H&P Architects
BES pavilion is a service space for an open community, focusing on the aspects of art and culture. Located in the central Ha Tinh city, BES (Bamboo + Earth + Stone) is set up from local materials and traditional building methods which based on the idea of centralizing the users. -- ArchDaily

Monday, August 5, 2013

Zig Zag 5

Source: Pedro Lobo archdaily.com
Living Foz, Porto, Portugal, 2010 designed by dEMM Arquitectura
The balcony angle articulation creates spaces enriched by contrasts of light and shade, exposure and protection, emphasized by the contrast between the white cast-in-place concrete and the dark Glass Reinforced Concrete -- ArchDaily

Source: NMPB Architekten archdaily.com
Department Building Waehringerstrasse 29, Währinger Straße 29, Vienna, Austria, 2010 designed by NMPB Architekten
The building at the Währingerstrasse fills a typical gap site, but operates as a L-form joint (with internal service- and supply core) around the courtyard. The reinterpretation element of the bow window at the Währingerstrasse connects the different alignments of the surrounding buildings and a caesura at the upper level the different heights. -- ArchDaily

Source: Luuk Kramer archdaily.com
Nieuw Leyden Block, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2013 designed by Arons en Gelauff Architecten
Special feature of this building is the sculptural balcony facade on the south side of the building. Because of it’s kinked form these balconies create different places. By shifting the position, the balconies always have a double-height at the place where people sit. -- ArchDaily

Source: Lu Hengzhong archdaily.com
Dingli Sculpture Art Museum, Quanzhou, Fujian, China, 2013 designed by ATR Atelier
The building of art museum looks like many huge stones stacking over the other, silent and generous. The facade implies the function of the building, meanwhile gives out a kind of natural, simple, but strong vision. The folding surfaces of stone wall create vivid shadow and the obtuse angle stone makes the corner look more firm and powerful. -- ArchDialy

Source: Robin Hill archdaily.com
Icon Bay, 460 Northeast 28th Street, Miami, FL 33137, USA, 2015 designed by Arquitectonica
The building balconies fold playfully along the facades. They create a pattern of light and shadow, reflection and opacity.  They appear to flutter in the wind or responding to the ripples of the bay waters. The textured façade breaks the tradition of vertical extrusions in high-rise design. -- ArchDaily

Source: DSD archdaily.com
Bayuquan Theatre, Shanghai, China designed by DSD
Bayuquan Baoli Theatre has 3 levels above the ground level. The main construction contains a large Dance Theatre which is specific for dancing and musical performaces with a capacity of 1600 people and a multi-functional theatre which can hold 800 people for drama play. -- ArchDaily

Source: Tim Griffith archdaily.com
Mission Bay Block 27 Parking Structure, San Francisco, California, USA designed by WRNS Studio
The north and east façades, which face public open space, are clad in perforated aluminum panels with pixelated imagery of California’s redwood forests. This imagery is intended to evoke the filigree of adjacent tree canopies and create a sense of pedestrian scale. -- ArchDaily