Skin of Architecture: Cuts 2

Source: Diego Opazo archdaily.com

Servef Center in Novelda, Novelda, Spain, 2008 designed by Calatayud-Navarro Arquitectos

The configuration is set using two mass structures hosting the most significant parts of the project. Movement between these structures and the perimeter of the constructed building generates a series of interstices set as transitional spaces, which allow us not only to generate both the accesses and the patios, but also to highlight its autonomy. -- ArchDaily

Source: Enrico Iascone Architetti archdaily.com

Guest House, Bologna, Italy, 2009 designed by Enrico Iascone Architetti

The high-end design used prefabbricated wooden elements for the aboveground storeys on a concrete undergruond level. The whole architecture is a play on opposite: a large apparently monolitic volume whose more secluded sides have different size glazed lights giving glimpses into deep interiors and providing views onto the outside. -- ArchDaily

Source: Studio Erick Saillet archdaily.com

Rockfeller University Restaurant, Lyon, France, 2009 designed by XTO architectes

The building is a landmark on the site, highlighted by the main staircase. This principal component of the project is essential to manage the flow of people. Its volume translates its function: the physical link between levels. It works as a visual sign on the site. The vertical and horizontal lines reinforce the dynamic of its perception. -- ArchDaily

Source: Marc Tey archdaily.com

Kiarong House, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, 2010 designed by Moh Hack & Partners

The main theme of the house design is how to merge the ground floor of family common living space with surrounding greenery and nature. The design challenge is how to take away the isolation boundaries between the living space and nature. -- ArchDaily

Source; KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten archdaily.com

Nanjing Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 2010 designed by KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten

The travertine natural stone facing with its narrow window indentations obscures the sheer number of storeys and as such reinforces the overall monolithic impression of the museum building. Simultaneously, the alternation between vertical stone panels and window slits with sheet metal jutting out at the sides creates rhythm in the façade. -- ArchDaily

Source; Hugo Carvalho Araújo archdaily.com

Lar Casa de Magalhaes, Ponte de Lima, Portugal, 2010 designed by Atelier Carvalho Araújo

Outside, the rhythm of the facade refers to the tree trunks, a blending option, highlighting the existing houses, white-washed. -- ArchDaily

Source: A3 Luppi Ugalde Winter archdaily.com

Biotechnology Research Institute, Irigoyen, Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2011 designed by De La Fuente + Luppi + Pieroni + Ugalde + Winter

A quick drawing of horizontal stripes and a mysterious black box dialogue in a game of harmonious tension. Concrete becomes a plastic material, a tapestry drawn with the traces of the formwork, highlighting the texture of boards. -- ArchDaily

Source: Alisan Cirakoglu archdaily.com

Gallium Block, Ankara, Turkey designed by Cirakoglu Architecture

The exterior of the building is relatively silent compared to inner court. The vertical openings on the exterior facade provide controlled daylight into the offices. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jakub Certowicz archdaily.com

CINiBA, Bankowa, Katowice, Poland, 2011 designed by HS99

The facades, clad in a repetitious fabric of rich kahan red sandstone, relate to the raw clay bricks on the neighbouring buildings without the connotation of scale inherent to a singular brick element. The exterior treatment abstracts the building’s function of organized book storing while introducing a notion of mystery inseparably connected to books. The lack of discernible scale produces a monolith when seen from afar that is gradually familiarized. Details such as the decreasing proportions of the façade tiling, the irregular cut of the sandstone slabs, as well as the windows carefully nested inside become visible. -- ArchDaily

Source: Miguel de Guzmán archdaily.com

Archaeological Museum of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain, 2011 designed by PardoTapia Arquitectos

The program needs are solved through the use of “articulators” that give an identity to the museum. They become a recognized element that answers to the representative and symbolic needs of the institution. The new exposition rooms are designed as “modern cloisters”. Through the light flux work, the spatial continuity is guaranteed. The alabaster front plates and the trusses limestone recreate a Romanesque space. -- ArchDaily

Source: Benoit Wehrlé archdaily.com

Gymnase Clapiers, Montpellier, France, 2012 designed by MDR Architectes

.... the configuration of the buildings and the management of the protected or reduced openings on the facades, according to their orientation, play an important part in the energy performance of the building: the western bay windows are narrow and deep in order to limit the glaring sun from the west. -- ArchDaily

Source: 3dHelps archdaily.com

Juso Continuing Care Unit, Aldeia de Juso, Cascais, Portugal, 2012 designed by Saraiva & Asociados

.... the investment focused on the study of constructive solutions which would guarantee thermal insulation in facades, windows/ doors and roofs. The result is verified in the reduction of windows, creating openings which were enough to illuminate each compartment and which allowed the creation of facades that were rhythmically marked by ‘rips’. This game offered a harmonious and contemporary visual to the building. -- ArchDaily

Source: Igloomedia / Cosmin Dragomir archdaily.com

Monolit Office Building, Bucharest, Romania, 2012 designed by Igloo Architecture

The plasticity of the prism, with its clean cut lines, makes the monolith stand out among the other stones and lends its the strength to impose order, stability and rigor. This shape best reflects the identity and aspirations of the client-company and creates a suggestive image. One of the key-elements that supported the formation of this image was the use of black granite – a natural, precious mineral that highlights the degree of solidity, with the black, in this case, clearly contributing even on a conceptual level to the architectural solution. -- ArchDaily

Source: Díaz Paunetto Arquitectos archdaily.com

GELM Annex, Corozal, Puerto Rico, 2012 designed by Díaz Paunetto Arquitectos

....line the building in a weathering steel cladding, a high durability and low maintenance material, drilled with a pattern allusive of the bamboos surrounding it. This allows light to filter into the space and establishes a dialogue with the environment. Colored glass panes were incorporated into the sliding glass doors, alluding to the colors used in the nursery, which bathe the interior with color. -- ArchDaily

Source: Alcolea+Tárrago Arquitectos archdaily.com

Innova Local And Business Development Centre, Carrer Torres Quevedo, Pineda de Mar, Barcelona, Spain, 2013 designed by Alcolea+Tárrago Arquitectos

The project propose functional strips to the different programme areas in each floor. All the building is a big technological black box that tries to follow the idea of neutrality, elegance and expresiveness. -- ArchDaily

Source: Hisao Suzuki archdaily.com

Comisaría Provincial De Albacete, Albacete, Spain designed by Matos-Castillo Arquitectos

The two facades of the lattice correspond to public areas and main communications. Constructed in-situ, both sides, inner and outer are made of concrete. -- ArchDaily

Source: Yoshihiro Koitani archdaily.com

Zurita Box, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico, 2013 designed by Darkitectura

....at the front we managed to rescue the mega box purity with an ACM panel facade that boasts a design based on a rectangular holes pattern that multiplies itself as needed visibility , lighting and ventilation inside the house , this double facade also generates thermal and acoustic insulation properties that make the project more sustainable. -- ArchDaily

Source: Haruo Mikami archdaily.com

Casa LK, Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil, 2013 designed by Estúdio MRGB

....the main facade, open enough to allow for the passage of wind and light and closed enough to safeguard the residents in their daily activities. From the tension generated between these polarities sprang forth a remarkable visual element: the fence wall formed by different widths of reinforced concrete strips. While defining ideal permeability for the surface, the strips create a counterpoint to the preponderant horizontalness in the composition of the facade. -- ArchDaily

Source: John Edward Linden Photography archdaily.com

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 9390 North Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California, USA, 2013 designed by Studio Pali Fekete architects

.... re-utilize the historic post office without major alterations by inserting the ancillary programmatic elements within it and building an annex to house the new 500 seat Goldsmith Theatre.  -- ArchDaily