Thursday, October 23, 2014

Urban Spaces: Unorganised sports

Source: Helen & Hard archdaily.com
Geopark, Stavanger, Norway, 2008 designed by Helen & Hard
The park is a playful urban space on Stavanger’s waterfront, utilizing a vacant forecourt adjacent to the Oil Museum. We drew from three different local resources in the design process: first, the geological and seismic expertise of the oil industry; second, technology, materials and waste related to oil production; and third, the ideas of and collaboration with local youth groups for the programming and making of the new park. -- ArchDaily

Source: Antoine Espinasseau archdaily.com
Evolution Ground Alfortville, Alfortville, France, 2011 designed by NP2F 
Embedded within the boundaries of the ZAC (coordinated developed zone) Chantereine, the “evolution” grounds of Alfortville represent a qualitative approach to which we lay claim in this district’s public spaces, and more generally in today’s city. Thus, the playground becomes a truly architectural space, integrated in the urban structure and open to the city’s other practices. -- ArchDaily

Source: Doublespace archrecord.construction.com
Underpass Park, Toronto, Canada, 2012 designed by Paul Raff Studio
Below two elevated overpasses and a stone's throw from the Don River, Underpass Park encompasses 2.5 acres—enough room for swings and climbing structures for children on one side of a narrow road and basketball courts and a skateboarding terrain for teenagers on the other side. Designed by the Vancouver-based landscape architecture firm Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg (PFS) in collaboration with The Planning Partnership, a Toronto-based planning, urban design, and landscape architecture firm, the $9 million Underpass Park is part of an ongoing effort by the publicly funded agency Waterfront Toronto to reimagine public space below and around major transportation links. -- Archiectural Record

Source: Mikkel Frost / CEBRA archdaily.com
StreetDome, 6100 Haderslev, Denmark, 2014 designed by CEBRA + Glifberg + Lykke 
StreetDome is a vast and unique urban landscape for activity and recreation including a 4.500 square metre skate park, facilities street basket, parkour, boulder climbing, canoe polo etc. StreetDome’s overall ambition is to set new standards for urban arenas for unorganised sports. -- ArchDaily

Source: Adrià Goula archdaily.com
Skate Park Jardines de Aureà Cuadrado, Barcelona Spain, 2014 designed by Scob + Sergi Arenas
The project works with the limits of the area, taking advantage of the gradients and the containment of the slopes in order to place all the elements for skate. -- ArchDaily

Source: Played in Britain archdaily.com
‘The Rom’ Becomes Europe’s First Listed Skatepark
English Heritage has awarded a Grade-II listing to “The Rom,” a skatepark in Hornchurch on the outskirts of London. Built in 1978, the Rom was one of the UK’s first wave of purpose-built skateparks, and probably the most complete example found in the UK today.   -- ArchDaily

Friday, October 17, 2014

Skin of Architecture: Pattern 13

Source: Daici Ano archdaily.com
Louis Vuitton Matsuya Ginza Facade Renewal, Ginza, Chuo, Tokyo, Japan, 2013 designed by Jun Aoki & Associates
Gentle bulges and dents elaborate the façade of opal beige reliefs. With these pattern, the façade reveals various appearances in sunlight, and also during the night, the LED lights behind the reliefs lit the façade to render another expression reminiscent of Louis Vuitton’s monogram. -- ArchDaily

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

O6

Source: Edgard Cesar archdaily.com
Taquari House, Brasilia – Distrito Federal, Brasil, 2013 designed by Ney Lima
The transparent and circular elements are featured for the walls and bring a perspective of communication between the environments having as passing the tree and leisure area. -- ArchDaily

Source: Derek Swalwell archdaily.com
Westgarth House, Northcote VIC, Australia, 2013 designed by Kennedy Nolan Architects
The original house primarily accommodates the family’s own space; call it private. The new building is where day to day life is played out between kitchen and living. This public zone establishes a direct connection to the north lawn. The roughcast rendered garden wall sits somewhere between landscape, sculpture and building. It is both garden edge and entry wall. -- ArchDaily

Source: Marc Rifà-Rovira archdaily.com
NH House, 08569 Cantonigròs, Barcelona, Spain, 2013 designed by Marc Rifà-Rovira
This is a project with an extremely low budget, for a family with three young children. With a very definite program: house in a single level of about 170m2, which is complemented with a large porch, a 100m2 study, and a garage. -- ArchDaily

Thursday, October 9, 2014

T3

Source: Su Shengliang archdaily.com
Long Museum West Bund, Longteng Avenue, Xuhui, Shanghai, China, 2014 designed by Atelier Deshaus
Before the commencement of the design, a Coal-Hopper-Unloading-Bridge of about 110m in length, 10m in width and 8m in height, which was constructed in the 1950s, is remained with a two-storey underground parking completed as early as two years ago. The new design adopts the cantilever structure featuring “vault-umbrella” with independent walls while the shear walls with free layout are embedded into the original basement so as to be concreted with the original framework structure. -- ArchDaily