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Arribe Ataio town hall and pelota court
Designer: Vaumm
Location: Navarra, Spain
The project looks for a continuity on the architecture and the arrangement of the surrounding, from an up-to-date architectural language, both material formalizing and its insertion in a certain kind of landscape. This way, the pelota court volume sinks, taking the opportunity that the two walls are solid, required for the pelota game as retaining walls, and using the difference of level as stands for the spectators, having as a result a less visual impact volume, which roof has a dialog with the tradicional roofs of the farm houses of the valley.
→ www.dezeen.com
Posted: 01/09/2009
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Systematic Landscapes
Designer: Maya Lin
Location: n/a
Maya Ying Lin is an American artist and architect who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art.
→ fabrikproject.com.mx
Posted: 01/08/2009
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Media Plaza at the Jaarbeurs Complex, Utrecht
Designer: 123DV
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Located in the Jaarbeurs complex, Utrecht, Netherlands, this congress facility with 8 meeting rooms has been designed to offer flexibility for clients who are looking for non-conformist meeting space and is a cacophony of light, space and interactive projections. The main congress hall, which can hold 700 people, is designed with a 100% transparent ETFE roof to provide the experience of having a congress meeting under the open sky whilst elsewhere LED walls and light ceilings made of fabric can change in colour to create multiple different atmospheres and moods. Throughout two tunnels which lead to the Media Plaza, moving images are projected onto the floor and respond to the movement of people.
→ www.weheartstuff.co.uk
Posted: 01/08/2009
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OS House
Designer: NOLASTER
Location: Loredo, Ribamontán al Mar, Cantabria, España
Image Credits: Jan Bitter
The architecture project is presented under the following conditions. A couple bought one of the few available plots on the Bay of Biscay coastline. After scouting every seaside village from Plentzia to San Vicente de la Barquera for nearly a year, they found the place they where looking for in a residential estate from the 1970’s near Loredo, a summer resort outside of Santander. The plot slopes downwards and is cut by a 30 meter-high cliff against which the waves break. The Northern sea wind is very rough, making it hard for trees to grow by the coastline. Whenever someone new to the area arrives, they wonder why the house faces south and gives its back to the sea. Southern orientation and the sun are most appreciated by people from the highlands who come around to buy a holiday house, while the sea is just obvious. “We, on the contrary, came from far away looking for the sea, the wind, the waves, and therefore decided to get plot number 21, even if going against the tide”.
→ archdaily.com
Posted: 01/08/2009
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ORDOS 100 #3
Designer: nArchitects
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Conceived as an Inner House within an Outer House, our villa combines two distinct spatial and thermal conditions. The Inner House is designed as a compact, essential house, containing 60% of the project’s total volume and 75% of its area. Outer House provides a protective enclosure, and a unique series of interconnected, voluminous, sky-lit spaces. This layered strategy responds to the extreme swings of the Ordos desert climate with efficiencies in climatic and material strategies. At the same time, Villa-Villa provides its inhabitants with a variety of modes of living, as they occupy a house that expands and contracts according to the seasons.
→ archdaily.com
Posted: 01/08/2009
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