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| Source: MAMO archdaily.com |
Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse Rooftop to Host Contemporary Art Center
When the gym and solarium on the 20-century’s most famous rooftop terrace – elevated 18-stories above Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse - went up for sale in 2010, French designer Ito Morabito of Ora-ïto immediately jumped on the opportunity and purchased the space. With the support of the Foundation Le Corbusier, Ora-ïto initiated a campaign to restore the 1950‘s structure to its original state, by removing an addition that blocked the spaces 360-degree views of the city, and transform it into a contemporary art center, named the MAMO for “Marseille Modulor” – as a nod to New York’s MOMA. -- ArchDaily
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Rooftop remodelling, Falkestrasse, Vienna, Austria, 1988 designed by CoopHimmelb(l)au
The space-creating taut arc - an element of our architecture that since 1980 has progressively become more important - is both the steel backbone of the project and its posture. The open, glazed surfaces and the closed, folded or linear surfaces of the outer shell control the light and allow or restrict the view. --
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The Porter House Condominiums, New York City, New York, USA, 2003 designed by SHoP Architects
A new 20,000 sq. ft. addition added four stories to the existing building and an 8 ft. cantilever over the building's southern exposure. -- architect's web site
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| Source: Boris Becker archdaily.com |
Legal / Illegal, Cologne, Germany, 2004 designed by Manuel Herz Architects
It took two years of negotiation with the local planning administration to get the plans approved. The fact that the building violates certain rules was never hidden. In fact, the title of the project ‘Legal / Illegal’ was printed on every plan submitted. Instead of a subversive approach which hides deviations of rules and attempts to use loopholes in the law, a very blunt approach of openly confronting the administration with the digressions was chosen by the architect. The project thereby attempts to reveal the absurdities of the surplus of planning regulations rather than weaving its way around it. The project also thereby attempts to create unique spaces for living and working in a neglected building site. --
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Ozuluama Residence, Mexico City, Mexico, 2004 designed by Architects Collective & at103
...a penthouse with two terraces and a lookout on top of an existing 3-story building. The new structure appears like a nomadic structure floating above the diverse urban topography of Mexico City. The structure was designed to reflect the movements of its transient inhabitants in an origami-like morphology. The folding dynamic form creates a seemingly temporary habitat with continuous inside and outside spaces on two levels and generous views of the city. --
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Mochen Office, Beijing, China, 2005 designed by Mochen Architects & Engineers
wish to sustain the order that has formed in the area, not to destroy original diverse street spatial forms, tolerate every fragment, treat them as sections of history, as opposed to conducting so-called selective repair. New building is still quietly sitting a distance from the street; a courtyard separates the office from the urban space; original entrance mass is retained while simple treatments are used to enhance the sense of entering a place. --
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| Source: PLASMA Studio archdaily.com |
Esker house, Innichen, San Candido, Italy, 2006 designed by PLASMA Studio
Esker Haus (esker=stratified geological formation) is a self-contained residential unit placed on top of an existing house from the 1960s.
The project has been developed as a parasite which started from adopting the structure of the host and gradually differentiated into its own unique organization and morphology. -- ArchDaily
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Didden Village, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2006 designed by MVRDV
The attic storey of the house below is extended by a sky-blue parapet. Behind it two gables of the same colour can be seen. It creates a crown on top of the monument. The extension is an example of the growing trend to exploit the urban roofscape for new living and working spaces. --
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| Source: Benthem Crouwel Architekten |
Penthouse Las Palmas, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2008 designed by Benthem Crouwel Architekten
The Penthouse floats a good three metres above the Las Palmas building, held aloft on thin steel columns. This two-story office volume is rounded off vertically at the head ends, in deliberate contrast with all other buildings on Wilhelmina Pier. --
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| Source: Roland Halbe Fotografie archdaily.com |
Moritzburg Museum Extension, Halle, Saale, Germany, 2008 designed by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
It involves a new roof, conceived as a large folded platform, which rises and breaks to allow natural light to enter, and from which the new exhibition areas hang. The result of this operation is to free completely the floor of the ancient ruin, providing a unique space that allows a range of exhibition possibilities. -- ArchDaily
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Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland, 2010 designed by Herzog & de Meuron
Instead the Vischer building of 1917 has been given a new roof. Consisting of irregular folds clad in blackish green ceramic tiles, the roof resonates with the medieval roofscape in which it is embedded while functioning at the same time as a clear sign of renewal in the heart of the neighborhood. --
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| Source: Urlich Egger archdaily.com |
Hans Klotz, Linkes Etschufer 12, 39100 Bozen (BZ), Italy, 2010 designed by monovolume architecture + design
To confer an independent character, the necessary spaces were added as an autonomous, two storey volume above the existing ground floor as a kind of architectural parasite. The new building takes up the roof lines of the old, then distorting them to open the volume on the north and west side, towards huge apple plantations. Hence the new construction allows an optimal orientation of the office spaces to the north, combined with a great outlook. --
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| Source: JDS Architects archdaily.com |
Penthouses and Rooftop Terrace, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011 designed by JDS Architects
The driving concept is to create the ‘missing garden’ at the top of the existing housing block in association with 3 new penthouses, so all residents gain access to a genuine outdoor garden. --
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Nautilus Sky Borne Buildings, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2011 designed by Archipelontwerpers
By renovating the warehouses and placing steel penthouses on their rooftops, the harbour is given a new lease of life. These projects in Scheveningen led to the discussion about rooftop housing (sky borne buildings) in Europe. The themes developed here in connection with type, technology and impact on urban design were later elaborated in several other projects. --
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| Source: Ed Massery archdaily.com |
Urban Biophillic Pavilion, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA designed by studio d’ARC
The pavilion is a reconstruction of a rooftop greenhouse originally built in 1978. The new pavilion serves as both a garden and common room with indoor and outdoor areas including deck platforms with spectacular views. --
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| Source: Andrea Martiradonna archdaily.com |
The Cube, Milano, via Foscolo n.1 (Piazza Duomo), Italy designed by Park Associati
The idea is to build a small piece of architecture, a cabin, perhaps a nest, on high, at the top of a cliff, on a monument, on a public building, it doesn’t matter where but in a beautiful place and with a beautiful and original view. The idea is then to create a restaurant and welcome clients in an enchanting, unique place with sophisticated dishes cooked in Electrolux kitchens. The idea is to keep it open for six months and then change location, change city, nation, continent and reinstate this restaurant-type object on some other roof for new surprises, new menus, new clients. --
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| Source: Project Orange archdaily.com |
Shoreham Street, Shoreham, UK, 2012 designed by Project Orange
.... to provide mixed use combining a desirable double height restaurant/bar within the original shell (capitalising on the raw industrial character of the existing building) with duplex studio office units above. These are accommodated in an upward extension of the existing building in a contrasting but complementary volume, a replacement for the original pitched roof. The new extension is contemporary yet laconic in form and an abstract evocation of the industrial roofscapes that used to dominate this part of the city. -- ArchDaily
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Falling Star, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, California, USA 2012 art installtion by Do Ho Suh
.... a full-size house precariously hanging off the edge of a 100-feet building in the middle of a university campus in San Diego. Fallen Star is modeled after a New England cottage, complete with detailed furnishings and a manicured lawn and garden in front. All these details are meant to create a sense of familiarity and comfort. However, the floor is sloped five degrees, which is subtle but just enough to produce a disorienting effect in visitors. This effect is further augmented by the unconventional and seemingly unstable location of the house. It provokes one to ponder the concept of home. -- The Pop-Up City
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| Source: Paul Raftery archdaily.com |
Urban Collage, Champigny-sur-Marne, France, 2012 designed by Edouard François
Assuming that the city is a complex body, we superimposed elements found
on site: townhouses at the base, a housing block from the 1950′s in the
middle, and on the roof, single family homes. We organized them as
archetypes to be read from bottom to top. The complexity of this project
lies in the vertical superposition of these structural elements,
shifting the three typologies independently. --
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| Source: Ken’ichi Suzuki archdaily.com |
House in Yamasaki, Hyogo, Japan, 2012 art designed by Tato Architects
This is a house in the northern part of Hyogo Prefecture for a couple and their two children. The construction site is a part of a place surrounded by mountains and the sky is overcast most of the days. I wanted to create light, stable indoor climate and came up with a plan of three sheds of house type arranged on a 1.8 m high, grey foundation platform. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: SKEW Collaborative archdaily.com |
Wulumuqi Road Apartment, Shanghai, China, 2012 designed by SKEW Collaborative
In the re-design of this top-floor apartment, the original flat roof was
partially demolished to give way to an attic addition. This attic took
reference from the vernacular form of the dormer window found in the
neighborhood. The triangular form of the dormer window roof served as an
archetypal form that was rigorously applied to this project.... --
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| Source: Thierry Lagrange archdaily.com |
Pakhuis Clemmen, Veldstraat 82, Ghent, Belgium, 2012 designed by ALT Architectuur
In order to ensure that the architecture communicates directly with the city, an explicit language of forms was used.
The new bay windows on the roof level facing different directions,
and the transparency of the ground floor layout are intended to
stimulate this communication. --
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| Source: Régis Gola archdaily.com |
Wood in the Sky, Rue Daubin 25, 1203 Genève, Switzerland, 2012 designed by group8
The raised building is based on the concept of a wooden elevated
structure. Merged with the existing construction thanks to consistency
between horizontal and vertical lines as well as similarity of colour
scheme, the two constructions form a unified whole. --
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| Source: popupcity.net |
Houses Pop Up On Roof Of Chinese Shopping Mall, Zhuzhou, China
In the city of Zhuzhou a real estate developer decided to build four
large, single homes on the roof of a several stories high mall.
This idea might seem odd at first sight but it provides a solution to
many problems the rapidly urbanizing cities and towns of China have to
cope with these days. Using commercial roofspace for residential
purposes will allow people to have a garden with a nice view and a
single house in the centre of the city. --
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| Source: Michael Pezzei archdaily.com |
Schäfer Roofscape, 39038 San Candido Bolzano, Italy, 2014 designed by Plasma Studio
This west-facing elevation explores how slicing and folding can be
employed to expand the limits of the ubiquitous pitch roof typology:
large glazed balcony slots produce bright, contemporary living
conditions and generous exterior expansion space within this dense urban
situation. A marked departure from the neighboring vernacular
buildings. --
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