Spinning Objects by TORAFU ARCHITECTS
This is a renovation project for a hotel fixture showroom. The showroom displays a huge amount of goods and if the numbers are ever increased, the space is designed to be spatially and visually pleasing.
S Clinic + Residence by Office of Kenji Tagashira
The S Clinic was not the easiest project in the world to construct as it’s located in the core of Osaka. As it’s facing the national road, there’s a great number of traffic existing in this area. The streets are lined with big and small stores, banks and medical facilities, and innumerable signboards are placed out miscellaneously. A disorderly row of buildings along the street is formed with them.
Visiondivision decided to design one specific shoebox that can be multiplied and stacked into nearly any form, allowing different store-layouts, but at the same time being easily identifiable as a Mangrolia Shoe store.
This house is made "only" by slits, there are no windows. The wall of 105 m lengths with 60 slits surrounding the site realizes the architectural space in this narrow and long site. No other architecture has ever been realized by such a method.
The essence of this architecture lies in an inner court. The site is located in Sumizome, Fushimi, Kyoto. It’s a small town with a long and distinguished history, situated south of the Tofukuji temple. Facing to south, the building is built on a gentle slope.
The Horizontal House by Anna Nakamura + Taiyo Jinno / EASTERN design office
The Horizontal House is located in a small village in Japan. The old appearance of the village consists only of six houses. This particular house is located on the north edge of the village and therefore makes puts it in a prominent place. It was EASTERN design’s intention to form the scenery from there.
When you enter the house, you will be surprised at the sequence of the view, where the slits cut out, and also the amount of space. Because of the horizontal slits that surrounds the entire house there is scenery wherever you look.
You see different sceneries through the horizontal slit by moving the position of your vision, even when you’re standing on equal heights. The river and the village in the other side are seen when standing, the mountain is seen when sitting, and the sky is seen when lying down. You will find another slit through the slit.
Great Wall of Los Angeles Interpretive Green Bridge – Art Bridge, by wHY-Architecture
The site in which the house is created faces the sea and inclines toward it by a vertical distance. TAKAO SHIOTSUKA ATELIER arranged the residence to be in the center of the site. They constructed the house in a plane shape so that all it’s focus is towards the sea.
Infiniski works only with eco-friendly houses and buildings based on the use of Recycled, Reused and Non polluting (green) materials and the integration of alternative and Renewable energy.
James & Mau has put their focus on innovative and contemporary designs based on bioclimatic (sustainable design that mainly addresses comfort through design adaptations, site-specific and regional climate conditions.) and modular architecture.
As usual, the Adams Mohler Ghillino Architects takes the site into a lot of consideration, here they have built a residence that has a livability on a tight urban lot. This is enhanced through creative, efficient and flexible use of space. The shed-roofed upper floor of the main house rests above an open ground floor living space while a detached accessory structure serves as garage, office, playspace or guest quarters.
The planned mixed-use development of the new building "Sonnenhof" provides for an allocation of land in industrial, office and residential use. This accounts for approximately 15% commercial, 40% on office and 45% on residential areas. The basic idea of the courtyard as a vibrant urban area, following, are in the ground floor areas of all commercial buildings provided by the public. Building 2 will include the ground floor of the premises advising customers of the WG Carl Zeiss.
Adris Group Building project by Randic&Turato is a competition entry for the new headquarters of the company in Zagreb from 2007.
The directional building has been designed to abstract itself from the common building scheme, rejecting analogies and mimesis, while intended to assume technology and innovation as its essence.
The 30th Street by LSarc.
The renovation of this mid-century box in San Francisco expands the envelope to capture panoramic views of the city while also embracing a sustainable design approach. The addition, located behind the existing structure and set slightly lower than the original floor levels, responds to the down sloping terrain and creates dynamic intersections between the two volumes. The original rooms were preserved on the upper level as bedrooms allowing for continuity between the Kitchen, Living, and Dining areas on the main level. Planning for the future, the roof is outfitted with racks and conduit sufficient for solar panel installation.
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