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| Source: Norbert Miguletz archdaily.com |
New Synagogue, Dresden, Germany, 1997 designed by Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch
Exploring the implications of stabiliy and fragility the architecture of the synagogue is characterized by a material dualism: a monolithic structure of precast concrete stones and an interior structure of metallic textile . The twisting stone structure of the synagogue follows the geometry of the site and the requirement of an orientation towards the east. The complex, curvilinear volume is based on a simple, gradual shift of 41 orthogonal layers, formed by elements of 120x60x60 cm. -- ArchDaily
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Kursaal Concert Hall and Convention Center, San Sebastian, Spain, 1999 designed by Rafeal Moneo
Moneo approached the project as one in which "singular geographic conditions demand an intuitive architectural response." This is one of the architect's best known projects, completed in 1999: two skewed and sloping cubes sit atop a plinth by the mouth of the Urumea River overlooking San Sebastian Bay. Moneo "deliberately strove to avoid a conventional architectural solution ... [and] avoid any reference to the existing urban fabric. Thus two cubes emerged, two abstract volumes capable of fulfilling the program [and] fitting into the landscape." --
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| Source: Herzog & de Meuron |
Central Signal Box, Basel, Switzerland, 1999 designed by Herzog & de Meuron
The ground plan evolves from bottom to top into a rectangle. The copper strips cover the steps in the façade so that it becomes difficult to read the building‘s geometrical shape. It evokes something more organic and vulnerable, like a head or a brain, rather than a piece of technical equipment. --
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Camera Obscura, Trondheim, Norway, 2006 designed by Prof. Knut Einar Larsen, NTNU Trondheim
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Camera Obscura in Trondheim harbor is the materialized result of a graduate teaching project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). A group of 15 students developed this twisted cube in order to explore the potentials of digital design and fabrication in timber construction. It projects its surroundings onto the inside floor by means of a revolving mirror. --
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Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop, Kanagawa, Japan, 2008 designed by Junya Ishigami + Associates
Articulated with minimal means—exterior walls of thin glass and interior clusters of slender white columns—Ishigami’s ethereal structure is barely a building at all. While the transparent enclosure exposes everything inside, the delicate steel columns define scattered oases of open space, each one a different functional component.
Though Ishigami’s parallelogram-shaped building gently challenges the rectilinear grid of pathways uniting the campus, it fits comfortably within the existing walkways encircling its site. -- Architectural Record
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Parking Attendant’s Pavilion, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2010 designed by Jean-Luc Fugier
The apparently simple geometric form hides the kinetic game at play, influencing the way in which one perceives the building and making it difficult to understand. The contortion attempts to go along with the flux in circulation that surrounds it. It is in this simple distortion that a complex shape is generated, achieving the project’s objective: a discrete yet intriguing contemporary form found in the diversity of its perceptive approaches. --
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Blair Barn House, Blair, Wisconsin, USA designed by Alchemy Architects
Alchemy designed a house that takes all its clues from the 19th century but updates them for the 21st Century Featuring Barn siding with light filtering through a Few, but large openings, a sleeping loft and bedrooms in the cellar. And, of course, Barn Space an open 2-story room with two volumes inserted within. One in steel, the other in ash strips, they provide under-and over spaces like a hayloft. --
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| Source: E. Marchesi archdaily.com |
Flotane, Aurlandsfjellet, Norway, 2011 designed by L J B
The main structure has the shape of a tilted cube and this creates a covered entrance for the services and at the same time offers a perfect south exposition for the solar cells integrated in the main window. The toilet is 100 % energy self-sufficient. --
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| Source: Bent René Synnevåg archdaily.com |
Bridge Studio, Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada, 2011 designed by Saunders Architecture
From the side elevation, it ap- pears as a windowless wood-clad parallelogram, hovering above the landscape, propped up by four piers and connected by a sixteen-foot bridge to the adjacent hillside. As one approaches the three hundred and twenty square foot studio, it becomes more transparent – with a generous glass entry and a large square window at the other end of the room. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Marco Caselli Nirmal archdaily.com |
Auditorium, L’Aquila, Italy, 2012 designed by Renzo Piano
Creating an illusion of instability, the auditorium is formed by three interconnected cubes made entirely of wood (1.165 cubic meters in total) that ironically appears as they had “haphazardly tumbled down” and came to rest upon each other. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Broissin Architects archdaily.com |
Green Hills Kinder, Rancho San Juan, Ciudad López Mateos, Mexico, 2012 designed by Broissin Architects
....the idea of breaking up the buildings on the ground like toys in a garden intrigued us, and gave rise to the location of all the prisms, which playfully hide behind each other, producing framed views of the adjacent forest. The concrete parallelepipeds lean from one side to another encouraging the child to develop their creativity in the nursery and classrooms for activities.... -- ArchDaily
