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| Source: Takeshi Yamagishi archdaily.com |
Kanayama Community Center, Ota City, Gunma, Japan, 2009 designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates
The exterior wall is a thin and light screen, a transformation of the ‘stone wall’ that characterizes the historic spot. Stone is fit in the steel plate supporting the load of the entrance porch, so that a feel of calmness and strength can be added to the semi open-air space. There are two types of shapes in the stone, determined by the weight that can be carried by one person, and they are developed in a regular pattern to gain a sense of lightness, seeking a symbol born from the pattern. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Raimund Koch archdaily.com |
Urban Townhouse, New York City, New York, USA, 2009 designed by GLUCK+
The front façade engages the street with a custom water-cut aluminum
rain screen with brick-shaped openings relating to the solid bricks of
its neighbors and panel joints corresponding to the neighboring building
stories. During the day, it appears as a flat, patterned mass, marked
off from the adjacent houses by the tall glass slots on either side. The
horizontal joints of the aluminum panels break up the vertical surface
as a reference to the rhythm of the window spacing of the row houses. --
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| Source: Luis Asín Lapique archdaily.com |
Enterprise Park in Arte Sacro, Av. Ingeniería, s/n Sevilla 41091, Spain, 2010 designed by Suárez Santas Arquitectos
The production spaces are located behind a continuous enclosure built with a lattice of white concrete prefabricated pieces, modulated following a five-meter grid, and adaptable to each specific need. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Lucas Shaller archdaily.com |
BTV branch, Innsbruck, Austria, 2011 designed by Rainer Köberl
Black and white squares cover the building in a regular pattern. It suggests a chessboard, but also has something of the white snow-covered mountains that surround Innsbruck. The striking feature of this bank building is its steeply rising roof – Köberl wanted to make the building as tall as possible so it is not swamped by the surrounding urban architectural jumble. Underscoring the shape is the striking pattern of the facade. Like a chessboard, the outer skin consists of square, concrete-coloured panels made of fibre-reinforced concrete alternating with black air holes of the same size. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Adrià Goula archdaily.com |
Viviendas en Toulouse, Toulouse, France, 2013 designed by Mateo Arquitectura
A complex of four independent but conceptually connected volumes (A, B, C and D) arranged around a semi-private garden. ....finished in black and white brick, in varying but complementary proportions. A, on the street tarmac, is mainly black (80% black, 20% white). B,
designed to reflect, is its opposite (80% white, 20% black). C, at the
corner, is balanced (50% white, 50% black). --
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| Source: Alex Chan archdaily.com |
Library of South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, 2013 designed by Urbanus
GRC (Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete) was originally specified for the
library façade. With the consideration of façade scale, structural load,
sizes of fabricated structural components, local shading requirement,
and other factors, the GRC unitized component was designed into a light
and high-strength hollow module that had a dimension of 1,800*675*400mm;
its hollow core was then filled with insulating materials, with mold
release and curing treatment. --
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| Source: Derek Swalwell archdaily.com |
Fairbairn House, Melbourne VIC, Australia, 2013 designed by Inglis Architects
The house presents itself to the public and does not seek refuge behind a
fence. Whilst doing so it only hints of its inner workings through
materiality allowing a mounting of suspense. The breezeway brick screen
is a key device and creates these necessary layers. It serves multiple
purposes. The first being a strong idea of entry by creating a secondary
landscaped space which gives the property a sense of intimacy. --
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