Archipendium 2014. Группа авторов
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| Guest House I Doisamaisv arquitetos São Paulo I Brasil I 2012 |
The building was conceived as an addition to a pre-existing weekend house. The guest house was placed between a maple tree and a cypress, inserted perpendicularly to the main construction. It is situated in the outskirts of São Paulo, inside a residential condo. The largest tree marks the site´s center and the most vertical one its limit. Preserving the inner garden space, the view from the main house was kept unobstructed. Each program has its own façade and each façade its view. The bedrooms open up to the neighboring golf court, the office faces the lake, circulation leads to the garden, and the living room has the maple tree as backdrop. The surrounding vegetation plays an important role to the house. Because of it, the house cannot be seen from the street. It protects and shadows the glass pane. And from the inside, the window frames the giant tree. The central core, with four suites, has a concrete structure. Around it, an independent timber structure delimits gathering places and circulation. The roof trusses are only visible at the edges. Steel cables held by gusset plates attached to the peripheral pillars and over the frames are responsible for keeping them slim. House circulation is always through the porches and there is no distinction between front and back doors. Inside the building, one can feel the tranquil atmosphere of isolation, even being so close to the neighbors. It is just like being in a tree house without leaving the ground.
| science park linz I caramel architekten Linz I Austria I 2012 |
This means establishing ties with the existing university campus, the adjacent residential buildings, and the natural surroundings and allowing a rapport between each of the new buildings as well as within the building units themselves. In a seemingly playful way the buildings interact both in plan and section with their surroundings and the adjacent residential buildings via height differences and bends and in this way avoid an inflexible building structure. By crouching into the slope and having the entrance area beneath the street level, they establish a ground-floor link to the existing university campus. The landscape flows into the grounds—between, over, and through the structures with their partially hovering office wings—and merges with the buildings, forming a new interpretation of the campus. The spacious interior atria tie the floors together and allow light to flood this space all the way down to the lower floors, in this way inspiring a new science-work climate of communication.
| Karmeliterhof I LOVE architecture and urbanism Graz I Austria I 2011 |
The project is situated in the heart of Graz’s old town. The goals were to adapt and renovate the building and to add annexes that met the following objectives: Upgrade the façades both architecturally and thermally; Modernize and adapt the existing buildings; Enhance the building components connecting the buildings to form a closed, functioning complex. The existing building complex consisted of three buildings of very different construction quality and from different time periods (early baroque, late baroque, 1950s and 1960s). The following goals guided the design of the new buildings and the modifications made to the existing structures: Uncover and expose the valuable old building structure; Develop a new design to replace or incorporate the modifications from the 50s and 60s, which would link with the new construction to restore the valuable closed layout of the earlier design. The renovation was based on the Graz tradition, with its characteristic three-dimensional, “dynamic facades” (a special plastering technique) and typical “Grazerstock” windows which were re-interpreted with contemporary methods.
| Headquarters of Helm AG I Störmer Murphy and Partners Hamburg I Germany I 2014 |
The headquarters of Helm AG are situated on Nordkanalstraße 28 in Hamburg. Together with the adjacent “Hanse-Haus” office block on Nordkanalstraße 29, the building forms an urban architectural ensemble. The buildings were constructed in 1964 respectively 1972 and are almost identical regarding the basic structure of their plan layout. The design principle of the existing façade as a window-band is largely maintained and accentuated with a new design motif. The contrast between the glass windows and the parapet strip is emphasised, whilst a newly added fold in the cladding adds an additional accentuation.
In the context of the reconstruction of the headquarters, a connecting bridge spanning across Nordkanalstraße will be constructed between both buildings on the second floor above the terrace level.
| St . Sebastian—A church becomes a kindergarten I BOLLES + WILSON Münster I Germany I 2013 |
Not heritage listed, already condemned, the St. Sebastian church built in 1962 and deconsecratedin 2008 has been revitalized with the most lively and positive function, i.e. with children. The elegant elliptical form of the nave physically anchors its surrounding neighborhood. Two levels of kindergarten group rooms are housed within, the roofs of these become an all-weather play deck. Grass green impact-protection flooring and street lights give the play decks the ambience of an “outdoor space“. A grid of 50 x 50 cm unglazed openings, the only originally glazed light source in the church, provide constant, natural ventilation. Cold in winter, comfortably temperate in summer, but always dry, this magical “inside/outside space” is flooded with light. Adjacent to the kindergarten nave, a new street facing extension houses the main entrance, kitchen, offices, technical rooms and one multipurpose room. This is available for neighborhood events.
| Seminar Building , University of Cologne I Architektubüro Paul Böhm Cologne I Germany I 2010 |
The new seminary building is located on campus the Cologne University Campus close to the auditorium and Albertus-Magnus-Square. Through the erecting of the building an urban space is created, which enhances the back warded situation around the auditorium area. The construction is set by open and closed structural components. Once you find the facilities seminary and effective in the more self-contained unit, there is be an open zone with core, waiting area and cafeteria. It also contains the student council and reading zone. These units are exposed by glass and define the buildings typical character. The edifice consists of four levels. Each floor is connected to the core by a central stairway and an elevator. Backwards the core one will find the emergency stairs. The main entrance on the lower level is located across the auditorium building in correspondence with the court yard and the neighboring buildings. An additional entrance to the auditorium this spot in the future is also being considered. On this level one can also find a conference room with an additional lobby, an information spot, seminary rooms, the student council and a cafeteria with outdoor terrace. The first and second floor layout is be erected in nearly similar shape. These floors contain each six seminary rooms, an area for pc-workstations and a reading zone. Some of the seminary rooms can be arranged in different size with partitions. The hall ways are being held as various waiting sectors for students.