Building/Ground: Changing Topography 6

Source: David Frutos archdaily.com

Public Library and Reading Park, Torre-Pacheco, Murcia, Spain, 2007 designed by Martín Lejarraga

The folded terrain characterizes the design, in which the two facilities that occupy the site, Library and Park, adapt their relative position, forming sheltered reception, communication, and accommodation spaces. Public space contains and protects the building – two sides of the same coin. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jaime Sicilia archdaily.com

Sa Vinyeta Hostel, Menorca, Spain, 2008 designed by Ripolltizon

The project is developed simultaneously in both, a landscape and architectural scale. The aim is to create a new complex that integrates the existing elements with the new functions and buildings under a single logic. The reference elements to start the design were the main existing building and the two key elements of the landscape: the horizontal plane of the flat land and the dry stone walls. -- ArchDaily

Source: André Nullens archdaily.com

Library + Restaurant + Multifunctional Space, Dendermonde, Belgium, 2010 designed by BOB361 Architects

By shifting the parking onto the top of the building, the green area can become a pedestrian connection where the main entrance of the library is situated. The roof functions as a public and easily accessible square. The multifunctional hall (exhibitions, functions, lectures…) along the main road and meeting rooms on the “backside” are lifted and can function separately through the roofscape. The ‘roof- square’ acts as a transit space for the flux of cars and people. It folds to get natural light into the underlying spaces. -- ArchDaily

Source: Miguel Souto archdaily.com

Sede Geacam, Cuenca, Spain, 2010 designed by dra arquitectos

The project is part of a set of actions to get an attractive and sustainable space. On a plot in the steep terrain, we adapt to it with molded shapes as three volumes that save the unevenness. The landscape is introduced into the building through attractive elongated courtyards which could guide the various offices of the offices by a north-south orientation logic and save the terrain variations between the two access roads. -- ArchDaily

Source: Hisao Suzuki archdaily.com

Agora Sociocultural Center, San Pedro de Visma, A Coruña, Spain, 2011 designed by Rojo/Fernández-Shaw & Liliana Obal

....an architecture that is integrated with natural land topography and continuing with it. That’s why roof is modeled as landscape, with green and hydroponic systems, calling to a simulated and decorative fiction of a rural landscape associated with original.

....an architecture that balances architectonic and landscape configuration, integrating volumetric form and molded landscape. For that purpose, we are proposing a formal structure, spatially and structurally dense, in which geometric and transparent solids are integrated with continuous and fluid empty spaces that run between them. -- ArchDaily

Source: Iwan Baan archdaily.com

Auditorium in Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain, 2011 designed by Selgas Cano

....the immaculate straightness of the pier edge (straight), the invariably calm sea (flat), the artificially horizontal plane of the dock (flat), the sky as the variable background for this plane (plane on a plane?), all based on an artifice to represent the simplest -and by virtue of its simplicity, the most natural, the most immensely artificial- plane that equates to the most natural. -- ArchDaily

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Source: Adrià Goula Sardà archdaily.com

OKE, Ortuella, Vizcaya, Spain, 2011 designed by aq4 arquitectura

OKE is the new Ortuella Culture House, in the former mining area of Vizcaya. Connect Otxartaga Square, the most significant public space of the village with Catalina Gibaja Street. Use this opportunity to make the new house of culture “stretch” the plaza to the street and the street to the plaza. -- ArchDaily

Source: Philippe Ruault archdaily.com

Lycée Régional René Goscinny, Alpes, Maritimes, France, 2012 designed by José Morales & Rémy Marciano

The building is both layered and dynamic, stretched out and dense reminding us of very different pictures such as those of walled architectures surrounding fields or villages. It has a shape one can immediately recognize and therefore fulfills the basic condition to be identified as a public building. -- ArchDaily

Source: Werner Hutmacher archdaily.com

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Abbestraße 2, Berlin, Germany, 2012 designed by Huber Staudt Architekten

The new MRI Laboratory is part of the “physical park” of the PTB Institute. The MRI is located underground in the historic “crystal-controlled-clock cellar”, which lies projecting the basement of the observatory. A folded green roof marks the sculptural entrance, ” submerging” becomes readable, the laboratory thus turns into  an intrinsic element of this park. -- ArchDaily

Source: Eric Taylor archdaily.com

St. Elizabeths East Gateway Pavilion, Washington, DC, USA designed by Davis Brody Bond

The new G8WAY DC, formerly known as Saint Elizabeths East Gateway Pavilion, is a multi-purpose structure providing a venue for casual dining, a farmers’ market and other community, cultural and arts events. The Pavilion, spread over a two-acre plot of the campus, creates an instantly iconic, visible and welcoming view into the site, particularly from the vantage points that reflect the existing and anticipated movements of people from different areas of the neighborhood. Forming a dramatic backdrop to the plaza, the main area of the pavilion is a 24-foot high space filled with modular booths convenient to where food trucks access the site. -- ArchDaily

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Casa de las Ideas Library, Popocatépetl, Camino Verde, 22190 Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, 2012 designed by CROstudio

The slope generated by a different levels articulates a void on the outside at the back of the building, where an outdoor forum proposed. A sequential cascade of spaces makes the smooth and tight building fully open to the public even when outside business hours. The primary intention is to create and contribute to the city through the form of architecture that creates an initiative of civic life in its adjacent spaces. -- ArchDaily

Source: Oscar Hernandez archdaily.com

Borregos Stadium, Aguascalientes, Mexico, 2012 designed by Arkylab + Mauricio Ruiz

....the perceptual impact of an architectural object lies in its density on the contextual level, in this natural case we opt to defragment and spread it along its topography fulfilling its intrinsic functions, this is when it generates a new landscape hybridized from monolithic elements inserted in the site. -- ArchDaily

Source: Joonhwan Yoon archdaily.com

Nine Bridges “The Forum”, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do, South Korea, 2013 designed by D·Lim Architects

....the subterranean project avoids disrupting views of the surrounding forest and natural landscape. More than half of the volume is dug beneath the ground level, with a large hole subtracted from the roof to filter light through to the spaces below. -- ArchDaily

Source: FG +SG archdaily.com

Centro De Artes Nadir Afonso, Boticas, Portugal, 2013 designed by Louise Braverman

Merging architecture and landscape, Centro de Artes Nadir Afonso links an emerging urban center with its pastoral environs. The1858-square-meter single artist museum fuses a light, lucid contemporaneity with the rich materiality and sustainability of Portuguese design to honor one of Portugal’s most beloved native sons, the artist Nadir Afonso. -- ArchDaily

Source: Paul Warchol archdaily.com

Bushwick Inlet Park, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2013 designed by Kiss + Cathcart

Bushwick Inlet Park transforms the Brooklyn waterfront from a brownfield industrial strip into a public park. The Park wraps over the building on the west side, turning the building into a green hill so that 100% of the site is accessible to the public. -- ArchDaily

Source: Cemal Emden archdaily.com

Eyüp Cultural Center and Marriage Hall, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013 designed by Emre Arolat Architects

The building is considered as a kind of structural landscape component combining the level difference between the pedesterian way and the sea with a walking ramp. -- ArchDaily

Source: Joao Morgado archdaily.com

Pe no Monte – Rural Tourism, 7630-174 Odemira, Portugal, 2014 designed by [i]da arquitectos

In the lower level, the intervention results in a new independent building that adapts to the topography of the site and uses the slope of the ground to differentiate the owners’ house of the guest areas. This long volume, half-buried and perpendicular to the line of trees, preserves the scale of the house and reinforces the verticality of vegetation. -- ArchDaily

Source: Martin Schubert archdaily.com

Moesgaard Museum, Aarhus, Denmark, 2014 designed by Henning Larsen Architects

With its sloping roofscape of grass, moss and brightly-coloured wild flowers, the building is a powerful visual landmark perceptible even from the sea. -- ArchDaily

Source: Steven Ngu, Andy Lim archdaily.com

The Arc at Bandar Rimbayu, Periwinkle, Bandar Rimbayu, Selangor, Malaysia, 2014 designed by Garis Architects

The roof solution responds to the desire to keep itself and the space below cool by sustainable means: insulating with soil and greenery. In doing so it effectively ‘replaces’ the original greenery at ground plane with an new eco-system on elevated deck that not only provides open space for recreation but also offers higher vantage points to enjoy views across a fairly flat township and the activities below. -- ArchDaily

Source: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG archdaily.com

D. Diogo de Menezes Square, Cascais, Portugal designed by Miguel Arruda Arquitectos Associados

The exterior treatment plan of the parking lot in square D. Diogo de Menezes in Cascais, is projected as a roof surface platform with volumes that connect with the interior of the underground parking.  -- ArchDaily