Architecture

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Designer: SUIADR Design Type: Welfare Center Tag: Architecture

Shenzhen Social

Shenzhen Social Welfare Center is a comprehensive care complex in Longhua District, Shenzhen. The complex houses a children's home and an old people's home on a site of 32,269 square meters. The two residences are independent yet share resources, and are linked by corridors. A medical building sits at the center and is easily reached from both homes. The multi-story buildings face south for daylight and good ventilation. Courtyards and red brick follow the Lingnan tradition. The design aims to control cost and to create a bright, spacious and warm environment.

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Designer: Vu Hoang Kha Design Type: Homestay Tag: Architecture

Nha Nhim

Nha Nhim is a homestay building in Da Lat, Viet Nam. The narrow site is about 8 metres wide and much longer, with uneven terrain and weak soil. All elements are lifted to widen the living space and to open views toward the valley. Waste materials from the area are collected and reused throughout the building. Bark, branches and test concrete blocks are given a new life, and offcuts from local textile factories are recycled into different parts. A large sloping roof blocks cold night wind and lets cool breezes pass during the day.

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Designer: Parti Architecture Architecture Office Design Type: Residential House Tag: Architecture

Nus

Nus is a residential house located in Crete, Greece. A U shaped main volume is combined with an underground guest house. Both volumes maximize southeast exposure and respond to the changing angle of the sun through the seasons. Two solar spaces, one with fixed shading and one with rotating blinds and a mass wall, allow natural heating and cooling. A green roof, water surfaces, a ventilation shaft and controlled roof openings improve thermal comfort. Photovoltaic panels, solar water heaters and a geothermal system reduce the energy footprint.

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Designer: THAD Design Type: Hospital Tag: Architecture

Connection

Reconstruction in Pudong Shanghai is the reconstruction and expansion of an outpatient and emergency medical technology complex at a public hospital in Shanghai, China. The design joins new construction with the complexity of rebuilding an active site. The work is divided into four stages: demolition, transition, reconstruction and restoration. Temporary and converted existing buildings keep medical services running during the transition stage. The facade uses white aluminum panels, with wood grain aluminum panels at the corners, and floor-to-ceiling windows.

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Designer: THAD Design Type: Campus Coffee Shop and Study Room Tag: Architecture

Lakeshore Learning Center

Lakeshore Learning Center is a campus coffee shop and study room in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. The project renovated two unfinished buildings that had stood in the center of a valley campus for decades. The existing structures were preserved and clad with light-colored ceramic panels and glass curtain walls. Roof overhangs and double skins form a sunshade system that improves the indoor environment. Existing vegetation was kept, and steep lakeshore slopes were turned into small plazas. The building area is 899 square meters.

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Designer: WATARU OMAMEUDA Design Type: Hotel Tag: Architecture

Bay Tokyo Hamamatucho

This is the hybrid hotel which has capsule beds and guest rooms for various accommodation styles in Tokyo. You can stay here not just for business trips but sightseeing and foreign tourists visiting Japan too. All guest rooms have big window to feel opened and look out over the town. Enjoy relaxing, cooking, eating, daydreaming at common spaces of kitchen and rooftop and so on.

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Designer: Hans-Petter Bjørnådal Design Type: Cabin Tag: Architecture

Senja

Senja is a family cabin built near a small fishing village in northern Norway. The design draws on the Sami tradition of Heller, in which shelters were made under large rocks. The building envelope is shaped like a stone, with lines that follow the nearby mountains, and it holds a large panoramic window facing the landscape. The wooden facade is painted dark grey to blend with the surroundings. The main entrance is carved into the building mass and forms a sheltered outdoor space. Inside, pine walls, oak floors and a slatted wooden ceiling surround a fireplace.

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Designer: Nima Keivani Design Type: Villa Tag: Architecture

Kabootar Khaneh

A pure cube to minimize the impact on their surroundings that a sloping roof is installed hidden behind the walls, a part of interior space was dedicated for birds, inspired by historical dovecotes. The interior spaces is formed around the patio where the birds live, created cross-sectional play and level differences in the spaces, as well as design of the stairs inside it. Even the windows of the building were arranged according to the interior section game. Also inside the building, wood material has been used to create a sense of nature.

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Designer: EgoHouse Architects Design Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

X House

X House is a residential building set in a mixed forest within the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine. Respect for the site and preservation of the existing green spaces guided the design and the construction. Large areas of panoramic glazing connect the interior with the surrounding trees, making nature an accent of the living space. Cantilevered roof projections and second floor terraces are made of reinforced concrete and form broken lines around the main volume. The exterior uses porcelain stoneware, metal, wood and fiber-cement panels. The total area is 460 square meters.

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Designer: Andrea Brunazzi Design Type: Single Family Villa Tag: Architecture

Casa Della Quercia

Casa Della Quercia is a single family villa built on a panoramic hillside site with a centuries-old oak tree. The single above-ground floor covers 105 square meters and holds two bedrooms, a kitchen, a large living room and two bathrooms. The swimming pool sits in a sheltered rear patio with a microclimate suitable for mid-season, so the front lawn stays open. A central shaft brings light and air to the basement rooms. Walls are 53 centimeters thick with 16 centimeters of insulation, and a heat pump serves underfloor heating and cooling. The flat roof simplifies maintenance.

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Designer: sanzpont [arquitectura] Design Type: Villas Tag: Architecture

Living the Gardens

Living the Gardens is a residential complex of nine villas in Cancun, Mexico, built on a site of 2,373 square meters. Each villa has three levels and covers 216 to 275 square meters. The ground floor holds a living room, dining room, kitchen, terrace, half bathroom and an interior garden. The upper floor holds a master bedroom and two secondary bedrooms. Each villa also has a roof garden. Local materials and passive bioclimatic design reduce energy use, while wooden louvers and native vegetation give solar protection.

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Designer: William Price Design Type: Residential House Tag: Architecture

Shotgun Over and Under

Shotgun Over and Under is located in the Lower Heights neighborhood of Downtown Houston, Texas. The site is bound by an industrial zone to the south and the first African American cemetery in the Houston city limits. The project references Houston's Shotgun Houses located in Freedman's Town in the Fourth Ward which are long narrow one-story houses with rooms placed end-to-end. Shotgun Over and Under is a deviation from the theme of Shotgun House and is conceived as two Shotgun houses stacked atop of one another, one private and one public.

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