Thursday, May 10, 2012

X

Source: Yury Palmin archdaily.com
Site Plan, Source: archdaily.com
Villa Rose and X-Park, Romashkovskiy park, Russia, 2004 designed by Project Meganom
The six houses present variations of the baseplan, where the four main spaces are arranged in an “X” shape: the swimming pool, the garage, the living and dining rooms, with the bedrooms located above. -- ArchDaily

Source: Andrea Lhotakova archdaily.com
Axo, Source: archdaily.com
Research Library, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, 2008 designed by Projektil Architekti
The five-storey building represents a concrete construction with the final visual in the form of a monolithic concrete façade. The original shape of the building is the precast concrete letter “X”. -- ArchDaily

Source: Alejo Bagué archdaily.com
Plan, Source: archdaily.com
Azahar Headquarters, Castellón, Spain, 2009 designed by OAB
Orientated on the east-west axis, the headquarters building is structured as two wings united by a central body around two open patios of a very different sort. The first as a “parade ground” or external reception area for users and visitors, and the rear one, landscaped and for more private use. -- ArchDaily
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Source: Toshiyuki Yano archdaily.com
Plan, Source: archdaily.com
Oshikamo, Toyota, Aichi, Japan, 2011 designed by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates
The family space is arranged at the center of the site. The private space is arranged at the edge of the site , and they connect gradually by the one volume. Distance among rooms and curved spaces provide adequate privacy. Each rooms are indistinctly connected to each other via central space. -- ArchDaily

Source: Sandra Pereznieto archdaily.com
Plans, Source: archdaily.com
X House, Cabrils, Barcelona, Spain, 2012 designed by Cadaval & Solà-Morales
Mainly, the project of the X House uses form to qualify spaces of very different nature and provide them with an individual character, always incorporating landscape as a main actor. Beyond the effective spatial arrangement at the front of the house, the views are the protagonist in each space. -- ArchDaily

Source: Walter G. Salcedo archdaily.com
Raigal House, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina designed by Marcelo Villafañe
It is a two storey-house: bedrooms upstairs and high ceilings, composing a broken plan with a double hook shape, generating different angles, some very sharp, always free in their movements. -- ArchDaily

Source: cmA Arquitectos archdaily.com

Plans, Source: archdaily.com
Studio Dwelling, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain designed by cmA Arquitectos
The proposal for a studio-dwelling generates volumes defined for uses other than housing and office, without breaking up the unity of the resulting architecture. The project aims for a dynamic space in close relation to the potential of the existing plot, both its steep slope and the existence of large trees of great natural value. -- ArchDaily

Source: Iwan Baan archdaily.com

Plan, Source: archdaily.com
Fogo Island Inn, Main Street, Fogo, NL A0G, Canada, 2013 designed by Saunders Architecture
The Fogo Island Inn is a public building for Fogo Island with 29 rooms for guests. The building, located between the communities of Joe Batt’s Arm and Barr’d Islands on the Back Western Shore, is an X in plan. The two storey west to east volume contains public spaces while the four storey south-west to north-east volume contains the remaining public spaces and all the guest rooms and is parallel to the coast. -- ArchDaily

Source: Tom Gustavsen archdaily.com

Plan, Source: archdaily.com
Cabin at Femunden, Femund, Norway, 2015 designed by Aslak Haanshuus Arkitekter
The project consists of the two old volumes, and a new addition. The new volume is connected to the old buildings through the use of the same traditional construction method, and using timber of the same dimensions. The three volumes are connected by the enlongated roof, professing that they all belong together in the new entity. -- ArchDaily

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