It’s a very popular place to live: where life unfolds out on the street and Muenster gains something of a big-city feel. Yet living space is very limited in the densely developed urban district that used to be home to port workers. This is due in part to the low-rise building style but also to the sometimes very spacious layouts of the dwellings.
Spanning three generations, the clients are a joint family that grew up in the old city of Ahmedabad. They now wanted a new, modern house for the growing family. Although most of their neighbours were moving to newer neighbourhoods, our clients were sure they didn’t want to be uprooted. This made the architect’s role very clear – to build a modern house that embodied the old city’s spirit.
Return to the origin. Back to stone and color. Back to artisanal. CASA XCUYUN is located in the town of the same name, to the northeast of Mérida City, Mexico. For the house’s design, it was essential to consider only 90 m2 of construction, those as a result of architectural program analysis and a fixed budget.
The goal of the project was to give a new identity to the administration of Etterbeek and bring together all the different functions in one building the city administration a public social action center and a local police station. We designed this particular shape to increase communication and flux between existing neighborhoods. The organic shapes flow around public spaces creating plazas, paths, and courtyards.
On Maarschalk Gerardstraat in Antwerp, Eagles of Architecture subdivided a large nineteenth-century house into studios. The façade was painted a uniform white, and the interior of the porte-cochère and its two classical columns were given the same treatment. The passage was obstructed by a third hollow column covered with pink plasterboard, the standard finishing for a pipe duct. The combination of a classical column with a pipe duct comes across as a laconic gesture comparable to Le Corbusier’s exclamation, ‘Pour Ledoux, c’était facile – pas de tubes’ (For Ledoux, it was easy – no tubes). But if the confrontation with the townhouse is in itself already a contest, then Eagles of Architecture lets its opponent have the choice of weapons.
Located in the beautiful condo called Quinta da Baroneza in Bragança Paulista, the residence was designed as a second home for a couple their guests such as sons, grandsons, and friends With a view of the mountains from the front façade and a preservation area at the back, the main level was settled at the highest point of the site.
The project involves the conversion a dilapidated industrial warehouse into a house for a young city professional. Located in the London Borough of Hackney, the palette of raw materials creates an industrial aesthetic in tune with the original building.
This retreat in Glen Spey, New York, composed of four semi-connected pavilions, focuses on spirituality and meditation. After years of intimate involvement with their Buddhist community in upstate New York, the spiritually-minded clients decided to plant roots closer to their Glen Spey temple. The expansive site, on 115 wooded acres, was chosen for its proximity to the temple, a short stroll away on the adjacent lot.
This home is set on a beautiful, semi-bushland, yet urban site on the edge of the harbour, with two mature Norfolk Pine trees standing guard to the North-West. This incredible location offered a truly unique setting for our client’s house – however the site’s shape and boundaries, significant setback controls and bushfire zoning presented challenges to the design and use of the site.
The Woodland Cabin continues a lineage of buildings and research that has been shaping the Architectural Association’s Hooke Park campus for the last decade. Each year the Design and Make studio is formed by a cohort of students who integrate with and play a fundamental role in shaping the campus. Hooke Park is a 110-hectare forest located in Dorset, England. Students form an architectural practice together in order to design, manage and construct an addition to the campus’ growing network of experimental structures that began in the 1980s with two structures by Frei Otto. The project brief for the Woodland Cabin stated the need for an informal domestic space that could be relocated if needed.
Copyright © 2024 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes
