EXHIBITION UNDERGROUND by TORAFU ARCHITECTS
The settings for the exhibition "Underground" was held in Miraikan, Odaiba. The purpose with this exhibition was to showcase the "the underground", which was one of the largest aspects in Miraikan's history. "We were required to make it possible for the visitors to deeply feel that the route starts from the earth surface and that it ends at the deepest part of earth". Read More...
HOUSE IN KOHOKU by TORAFU ARCHITECTS
This site is located in a quiet residential region reclaimed on a hill of Yokohama. With neighboring houses lined very close together, this flag-shaped site meets a road at a verge of no more than 3 meters in width.
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Y150 NISSAN PAVILION by TORAFU ARCHITECTS
Using Air as a Material
The NISSAN Y150 Dream Front pavilion was designed as part of the EXPO Y150 initiative commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of the Port of Yokohama.
"Stemming from Nissan’s vision for a future with clean air, our concept aimed to create a generous form of expression by allowing light and signs of presence to permeate the surroundings and by using air as a material itself." Read More...
HITECH ASIA HEADQUARTER by UAU office
The new Hitech Asia directional building takes as clear reference to Thai architecture and decorative art traditions. The aim of this architecture is to find deep relations with the environment and the surrounding site.
Chun Sen Bi An Masterplan & Housing in Chongqing, China
currently in design
The master plan and housing is situated just west of Chongqing’s newly developing Central Business District: This 13.8-hectare (30-acre) site has views to the south across the Jialing River to central Chongqing. Read More...
One of the local residents at Gudbrandsjuvet, is building a landscape hotel. The idea emerged at another site, Aurland, but it was never realized there.
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Grangegorman Master Plan by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners/DMOD Architects
This master plan creates a vibrant campus for Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and Health Service Executive (HSE) by responding to the site’s rich historical context and strengthening connections to the existing urban fabric. The project has received a “Highly Commended” Award at the World Architecture Festival 2009 in Barcelona, Spain, in the category "Future Projects—Masterplanning."
Parcel 9, HX Urban Centre by Chris Lee and Kapil Gupta /Serie Architects
Design Team: Chris Lee, Bolam Lee, Udayan Mazumdar, Kevin Hung
"Our proposal draws together two parallel ideas, one typological, and the other from the indigenous landscape of Guizhou. The project begins with the typological transformation of the Hakka/Tulou House. Drawing the intelligence of the circular courtyards, our proposal puts forth an organization that combines shared circular courtyard that binds together a series of smaller private courtyards."
Woo Nam Jai
The urban nature along with this site which is connected with the Woomyeon-mountain and an urban park (as the natural greenery area) is the ideal place for an environment that can satisfy a residential and recreational purpose which is desired by most urban people.
In order to secure the maximum area of the south-facing garden, in the irregular polygonal shaped site, the main building is laid on the northern part of the site along with the irregular boundary line.
Public markets have always been a primary site of complex commodity exchange, and yet, were also once known as vital cultural centers for social and political exchange within an urban setting.
FEED, a migratory exhibition presented by Fragmental Museum, seeks to experimentally explore the public space within the historic Essex Street Market through the installation and performance of visual arts and cultural projects. With the aim and process in dynamic unison, they do not necessarily seek to institute new connections, but to highlight and creatively bring into focus the relationships that are already at play. These interactions--between merchant and shopper, product and consumer, artist and audience--are fluid and ever-changing. Through fostering animated conversations and conscious experiences, FEED seeks to encourage these existing open connections; intending to better understand the patterns and implications of the myriad of ways we relate to ourselves, each other, and our environment as a whole.
The project does not simply concern itself with the construction of a commercial or railway link, nor a bridge connecting one continent to another. The amplitude, site, geopolitical context as well as the global ecological conscience entails a proposal far more audacious, an active project sensitive to the conditions of the site.
A threshold between the arctic and pacific oceans, the Strait manifests a highly fragile and sensitive climate, linked to the fabrication of ice, acting as a strategic zone for global climate. An incredibly particular ecosystem connected to the surrounding climate is composed of very rare and fragile species which includes belugas, walrus, polar bears, blue whales, dolphins, and orcas, to name a few.
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.
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