Archipendium 2014. Группа авторов
living quality for guests during their stay as well as functionality and therefore excellent orientation, providing an ambience of well-being with its modern design, natural building materials and great comfort.
| New Synagogue I kister scheithauer gross Ulm I Germany I 2012 |
In 2009, the Israelite Religious Community in Württemberg (IRGW) decided to build a new synagogue for its orthodox community in Ulm and, together with the city of Ulm, initiated a competition. The city placed the building site in the middle of the Weinhof, just a stone’s throw from the former synagogue, which was destroyed during Kristallnacht. In the completed build, the cuboid is lower and shorter than initially planned during the competition. It is now 24 meters wide, 16 deep and at17 meters high, much lower than the nearby Schwörhaus. All the spaces of the community centre and the synagogue are joined in the smooth structure: foyer, synagogue, Mikvah (ritual bath), meeting hall, school and administrative rooms as well as the child day care centre with an enclosed outdoor playing area, which is directly above the sacral room. The rooms are arranged orthogonally. Only the synagogue follows the line of the only, free-standing support in the building, in a diagonal direction. The direction facing south-east has an overlying religious meaning behind it: ist geographical direction is directly towards Jerusalem, the spiritual and religious centre of Judaism. The diagonal room layout creates a corner window in the sacral room, which plays with a pattern of the Star of David as a space framework. With 600 openings, the synagogue is illuminated from many points, with the focal point being the liturgical centrepiece; the Torah shrine. The perforations in the façade created with a high-pressure water jet, illuminate the shrine inside and project the idea of the synagogue outwards.
| House MAR I n - lab architects , Frédéric Nosbusch Luxembourg I Luxembourg I 2013 |
This single-family house in a suburb of Luxembourg-City is based on views—interior and exterior. The relationship between the different spaces inside and outside the building create asymmetric plans and different angles trough out the whole house. The facade is covered in aluminum-panels. The main interior materials are stone, oak and glass.
| Orchard House I Studio Octopi Calne I UK I 2011 |
Orchard House was commissioned to create a lasting piece of responsive architecture that was not defined by the client’s use of a wheelchair. The courtyard house was designed to Level 4 of the Code for Sustainable Homes. Located on the site of a former walled kitchen garden, landlocked and accessed only by a track from the main road, the house and gardens form a sequence of enclosures that unfold revealing a private interior world. The house is of timber frame construction super insulated with sheep’s wool insulation. The shallow plan, careful alignment of windows and a double height gallery allow views to cut across the building to the various gardens enabling multiple readings of the space. In the orchard, three old fruit trees are planted in an arrangement that suggests a fourth once stood between them. The missing tree now forms the focal point of the central courtyard.
| Rax ahoy! I ARTEC Architekten Vienna I Austria I 2013 |
A building complex with flexible use was to be created. The two main entrances look onto the road connected with halls and corridors that possess natural light. A super-elevated glass staircase dominates Vienna’s corner Raxstraße/Gußriegelstraße. The single-storey apartments are endued with loggias along the whole façade as privacy shield. Because of the translucent metal fabric of the façade the building complex appears light and textile. A large part of the ground-floor is flex space, mostly used for commercial purposes. The viewing platform available for all residents is located at the level of Wiener berg.
| Auditorium PPS , RWTH University I Hentrup Heyers + Fuhrmann Aachen I Germany I 2012 |
The Auditorium Centre was finished in autumn 2012. The building stands on Professor-Pirlet-Straße in a triangular area south-west of a multi-storey car park belonging to the university. It includes two lecture halls, 5 CIP pools and one lecture room. The handicapped accessible centre is designed for 1,074 students. The building lies on a hillside with up to 4 meters in height variation. This and the steep slope leading down to the car park were significant factors in the design. A visual dominance in comparison to the multi-storey car park is achieved by increasing the height of the right part of the building. The front face of the building and the street form a triangular square. In addition, a small, tree-lined area leading to Turmstraße was created. The building front consists of sand colored bricks laid. The classrooms are light and friendly designed. A guidance system was created inside of the building by painting selected walls with warm bright colours.
| Movie Theater Weltspiegel I SAF Studio Alexander Fehre Cottbus I Germany I 2012 |
With more than 100-year-old history, the movie theater “Weltspiegel Cottbus” is one of the oldest cinema buildings of Germany and has stamped many childhood memories. A local enthusiast asked Studio Alexander Fehre to conceive a new overall concept for the former single-hall cinema and to give it a coherent interior design. Now two additional film halls with 80 places in each and a film bar belong in the annexe to the building. The historical hall with 520 places and a golden ceiling was utilised by a retractable platform also for events. By an exciting and universal interior design with references to the early film history an exciting merging of history and modern age succeeded.
| Karuizawa Museum Complex I Yasui Hideo Atelier Karuizawa I Japan I 2011 |
The traditional element of Japan like origami and the artist’s modern side were harmonized with the line of a sharp ridgeline like Mt. Yatsugatake and Asama-yama of Japanese famous mountains which wraps in a site, and designed the new architectural type in response to environment. The construction which imitates a sharp ridgeline and consists of geometrical forms like origami is realized in the form where both the heterogeneous things of a straight line and a curve face nature, contrasted with the art museum which united with nature of the author who is a Japanese-style painter itself. The shade of the light with which it is reflected to the wall and roof of the titanium alloyed zinc variously bent from the ground while the glass with which the façade of the architecture built in Nature inclined in all the directions reflects the surrounding green responds to the surrounding mountain range.
| Bar La Bohème I AVA |