ARQUOTIDIANO

SIMETRIA

2011-07-01T10:13:00.000+01:00

Filmado inteiramente com um telemóvel, Splitscreen: A Love Story é um pequeno vídeo premiado na competição Nokia Shorts 2011.

Social housing, Mulhouse/ Habitação Social, Um verdadeiro laboratório experimental

2011-06-29T10:51:00.000+01:00

This project for 14 single-family houses is part of an operation for 61 dwellings created by five teams of architects* in the extended space of a housing estate in Mulhouse.
Our aim is to produce quality houses that are, for the same price, considerably larger than the standardized housing usually met with.
To begin with, the creating of a structure and a cheap and effective simple enveloppe enables us to define, on the loft principle, a maximum surface area and volume with contrasting, complementary and surprising spatial qualities.
On the ground floor a post/beam structure in concrete supports a platform at a height of 3 m, upon which horticultural greenhouses are fixed. The frame is in galvanized steel, the walls in transparent polycarbonate. Part of the greenhouse is isolated and heated. The other part constitutes a winter gardne, largely ventilated via the roof and facade. A horizontal sunshade unfurls inside the greenhouse.
The greenhouse principle, with its automated climate-control devices, has enabled solutions to the bioclimate to be developped.
Later on, we divide the volume into 14 dwellings**, set crosswise in duplex form, which profit from all the different qualities offered by the diversity of the spaces.

Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal, architects
with David Duchein, David Pradel, architects collaborators

with Loeb Ingénierie SA, Cesma, Inotec, Cardonnel, E2I, engineers

* Jean Nouvel, Poitevin &Raynaud, Lewis+Block, Lacaton & Vassal, Shigeru Ban & De Gastines
** 14 council houses for rent / 2 T5, 6 T4, 4 T3, 2 T2
Area : 2 262 m2 (including garages and winter gardens) - average surface area by type : T5 (175 m2), T4 (175 m2), T3 (128 m2), T2 (102 m2)
Cost : 1,05 M€ net (75 000 € net per house)

SUBurbios by James Howard Kunstler, 2007, Masterclass on TED

2011-06-29T01:53:00.000+01:00

Segundo James Howard Kunstler os espaços públicos deveriam ser inspirados em centros de convivência e manifestação concreta do bem comum. Em vez disso, ele explica, os EUA são uma nação repleta de lugares que não valem a pena cuidar.

Apartamentos de dimensões reduzidas

2011-05-26T01:32:00.000+01:00

Bike Lane in New York City

2011-05-25T23:17:00.000+01:00

Time for a Street Renaissance! (Video)

by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada on 05.24.11

Complete Streets Are About More Than Just Bike Lanes
This great video is a bit longer than what our friends at Streetfilms usually produce (it's about 11 minutes long), but it's worth watching. It shows how a "complete" street isn't just about adding a bike lane, but rather about making it function for the community - the people who live and work there and those who pass through - and keeping people safe. On one level it's about the transformation of New York City, but on another, it's about lessons that can be applied anywhere. Via Streetfilms. See also: The 'Sperm Bike' Carries Donor Samples to Fertility Clinics Around Copenhagen

MVRDV DESIGNS CREATIVE INDUSTRY HUB

2011-05-20T16:39:00.002+01:00

ALPHABET BUILDING AMSTERDAM
MVRDV DESIGNS CREATIVE INDUSTRY HUB

Amsterdam based project development corporation NIC started sale of the MVRDV designed Alphabet building. In Amsterdam small and mid-size creative companies have trouble finding suitable office space. The Alphabet building communicates through a clear exterior design which reveals on the East façade the house number and at the main façade its extension for each company, a letter of the alphabet. The interior is highly flexible and completed with a rough and pure finishing. The 3200m2 creative industry building will be completed in 2012 according to high energy efficiency standards.

On the East facade the house number, on the front facade its extension.

The creative industry has seemingly unrealistic demands when it comes to office locations: a incubator of creative ideas which is spacious and inspiring with a differentiating design at a great location with car access. The Alphabet building in the Amsterdam port refurbishment Minervahaven unites all these qualities. The former port is currently refurbished to become a creative hub.

Behind each letter is a flexible office unit

The building is on a relatively small site of 30 x 30 meters and consists of a transparent plinth with a compact office block on top. Behind each letter of the façade the building offers a flexible unit of 128m2, the units can be sold independently or as a series of letters. Design studio Thonik will occupy the top floor or the letters A to F. As it was impossible to put the entire alphabet on the façade the letters I and Q are missing: the IQ is inside the building.

Interior finishings are concrete, aluminium and steel

The interior finishing follows the demand of creative companies, large loft like spaces with a rough finishing: no double ceilings, exposed materials such as concrete, aluminium and steel. A number of sustainable technologies give the building an excellent energy profile. Parking is located inside the plinth, circulation and spacious outside areas at the back of the building.

Alphabet Building is located at Minervahaven Amsterdam

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MVRDV was set up in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) in 1993 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. MVRDV engages globally in providing solutions to contemporary architectural and urban issues. A research based and highly collaborative design method engages experts from all fields, clients and stakeholders in the creative process. The results are exemplary and outspoken buildings, urban plans, studies and objects, which enable our cities and landscapes to develop towards a better future.
Early projects such as the headquarters for the Dutch Public Broadcaster VPRO and housing for elderly WoZoCo in Amsterdam lead to international acclaim.
MVRDV develops its work in a conceptual way, the changing condition is visualised and discussed through designs, sometimes literally through the design and construction of a diagram. The office continues to pursue its fascination and methodical research on density using a method of shaping space through complex amounts of data that accompany contemporary building and design processes.
MVRDV first published a cross section of these study results in FARMAX (1998), followed by a.o. MetaCity/Datatown (1999), Costa Iberica (2000), Regionmaker (2002), 5 Minutes City (2003), KM3 (2005), and more recently Spacefighter (2007) and Skycar City (2007). MVRDV deals with global ecological issues in large scale studies such as Pig City as well as in small pragmatic solutions for devastated areas of New Orleans.
Current projects include various housing projects in the Netherlands, Spain, China, France, the United Kingdom, USA, India, Korea and other countries, a bank headquarter in Oslo, Norway, a public library for Spijkenisse , Netherlands, a central market hall for Rotterdam, a culture plaza in Nanjing, China, large scale urban plans include a plan for an eco-city in Logroño, Spain, an urban vision for the doubling in size of Almere, Netherlands and Grand Paris, the vision of a post-Kyoto Greater Paris region.
The work of MVRDV is exhibited and published world wide and receives international awards. The 60 architects, designers and staff members conceive projects in a multi-disciplinary collaborative design process and apply highest technological and sustainable standards.
Together with Delft University of Technology MVRDV runs The Why Factory, an independent think tank and research institute providing argument for architecture and urbanism by envisioning the city of the future.
For information please contact public relations at MVRDV, Jan Knikker / Isabel Pagel

+31 10 477 2860 or pr@mvrdv.nl – http://www.mvrdv.nl/

CVDB arquitectos, Vale do Coa, International Public Competition

2011-05-16T21:01:00.001+01:00

CVDB arquitectos

The project celebrates the territory character through a strong relation between landscape and built elements. The building is sited near the slope highest point. The Museum is a large stone body that inhabits the site as it projects itself above the landscape. The patio is the core of the museum, the public space where everything is crossed as it opens itself towards the landscape. At night, the weightlessness of the raised massive body is suspended by the light that comes from within the building glazed façade.

Art Museum, Vale do Coa, International Public Competition -2nd Prize europa concorsi

Memorial do Holocausto, Peter Eiseman

2011-05-14T01:15:00.000+01:00

HABITAÇÃO SOCIAL, PROJECTAR E CONSTRUIR COM QUALIDADE, PETER KIS

2011-05-08T21:53:00.000+01:00

Organization of inner spaces

A clear and uncomplicated longitudinal zone connects all the functions (apartments, parking, public spaces). This zone and the developed structural system allows the fexibility that appears in the organization of the functions, particularly in the layout of the apartments.

Sustainability and efficiency

Besides using contemporary building methods, we focused on the sustainability of the building by using durable and persistent materials. The building suggests elegance and balance by it’s proportion, scale and inner spaces, while it is functionally organized, frugal. The cost estimation and the consturction plan was continuously controlled during the design procedure.

Written by Péter Kis

2 Projectos de "Jovem Arquitecto" Fernando Romero [Museo Soumaya] & [Terminal de cruzeiros de Lisboa]

2011-05-08T17:17:00.002+01:00

Ver também http://www.soumaya.com.mx/

FREE Fernando Romero EnterprisE have completed this anvil-shaped museum in Mexico City, with a windowless facade composed of hexagonal aluminium tiles.

The Museo Soumaya is constructed of 28 steel curved columns with different diameters and geometries, which create its irregular form.

The building widens at the top, where a roof suspended from a cantilever allows natural daylight onto the top floor gallery.

The museum will house over 6,200 Latin American artworks in a continuous exhibition space spread across six storeys, as well as an auditorium for 350 people, a library, offices, a restaurant, a gift shop and a lounge.

Photography is by Adam Wiseman.

MVRDV transforming dijon mustard laboratory

2011-05-07T17:58:00.000+01:00

MVRDV: transformation of dijon mustard laboratory

new design of the 'dijon mustard laboratory' by MVRDV in dijon, france
all images courtesy MVRDV

dutch office MVRDV has been chosen to transform an old dijon mustard laboratory into a new call center
and an education center by the french city of dijon and teletech international. working with a low budget,
the project is a practice in re-use, aiming to stand as a model example for the future of other empty and
unused buildings throughout europe.

rendered exterior view

originally completed in 2004, the four-storey building is relatively simple in form and volume.
no major alterations are made to the structural make-up and the facade is not exchanged as a result of
the limited construction budget. instead, a new identity is assigned to the center by a simple print of
a flashcode, which covered the exterior surface of the volume. this finish not only clearly communicates
the activities of the company within, but also serves as a visual landmark in the area.

lobby

as a response to the irregular office hours of the new call center, the design is an opportunity in
creating a new and alternative work environment with flexible spaces. different qualities such as silent,
open or secluded places are offered. in the off-hours, the call operators can make use of a new
education center, gallery and projects incubator located within the buildling. many of the spaces are
arranged informally to encourage group interaction and open communication. a large atrium further
enlists a community feeling for the inhabitants.

work space

restaurant

Apartamento na Lapa | CHP Arquitectos | Lisboa, Portugal Client: CHP Arquitectos

2011-05-07T01:43:00.000+01:00

Apartamento na Lapa, Fotos de Francisco Nogueira

Máquina de teatro: WYLY THEATRE Dallas, Texas, REX | OMA

2011-05-06T12:54:00.000+01:00

T&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTERDEE AND CHARLES WYLY THEATRE
Dallas, Texas

China Comic & Animation Museum por MVRDV

2011-05-05T15:10:00.000+01:00

O Atelier MVRDV ganhou o concurso "China Comic and Animation Museum competition" 30.000m2 de museu em Hangzhou.

Dutch studio MVRDV have won a design competition to build a Comic and Animation Museum in Hangzhou, China, formed of eight giant balloon-shaped forms.

Each balloon will contain a different function within the museum, including two exhibition spaces that will display cartoons, comics and animations.

The permanent exhibition space will spiral out of its chamber and on through the building to connect with three auditoriums and a comic book library.

Where balloons touch an opening is created internally, allowing views between spaces.

More projects by MVRDV on Dezeen »
More museums on Dezeen »

Here are some more details from the architects:

MVRDV win competition for China Comic and Animation Museum, Hangzhou

Hangzhou urban planning bureau has announced MVRDV winner of the international design competition for the China Comic and Animation Museum (CCAM) in Hangzhou, China. MVRDV won with a design referring to the speech balloon: a series of eight balloon shaped volumes create an internally complex museum experience of in total 30.000m2.

Part of the project is also a series of parks on islands, a public plaza and a 13.000m2 expo centre. Construction start is envisioned for 2012, the total budget is 92 million Euro.

Comics and animations have long been considered a form of entertainment for the younger generations but develop more and more into a sophisticated art form. The initiative for a museum especially for this relatively recent art form creates a platform which will unite the worlds of art and entertainment. By using one of the cartoon’s prime characteristics – the speech balloon – the building will instantly be recognised as place for cartoons, comics and animations. The neutral speech balloon becomes 3d.

The 30.000m2 are distributed over eight volumes which are interconnected allowing for a circular tour of the entire program. Services such as the lobby, education, three theatres/cinemas with in total 1111 seats and a comic book library occupy each their own balloon. If two balloons touch in the interior a large opening allows access and views in-between the volumes. The balloon shape allows for versatile exhibitions, the permanent collection is presented in a chronological spiral whereas the temporary exhibition hall offers total flexibility. Amsterdam based exhibition architects Kossman deJong tested the spaces and designed exhibition configurations which appeal to different age groups and allow large crowds to visit the exhibition.

One of the balloons is devoted to interactive experience in which visitors can actively experiment with all sorts of animation techniques like blue screen, stop motion, drawing, creating emotions etc. The core attraction of this space is a gigantic 3D zoetrope. The routing of the museum permits short or long visits, visits to the cinema, the temporary exhibition or the roof terrace restaurant. The façade of the museum is covered in a cartoon relief referring to a Chinese vase. The monochrome white concrete façade allows the speech balloons to function: texts can be projected onto the façade. The relief was designed in collaboration with Amsterdam based graphic designers JongeMeesters.

Most of the 13.7 ha site is occupied by a new park on a series of islands in White Horse Lake. Reed beds are used to improve the water quality. Boat rides offer an added attraction. A separate expo building of 25.000m2 will house large fairs and the annual China International Comic and Animation Festival (CICAF). In-between expo and CCAM a public plaza will be the centre of this festival which is the county’s largest cartoon and animation event and has been held annually in Hangzhou since 2005.

Hangzhou is a metropolis with 6.4 million inhabitants 180 km southwest of Shanghai. The Museum will become a new focal point on the less populated southern side of Qiantang river. The CCAM will consolidate the city’s leading position as China’s capital of the animation industry. The new Museum will be the icon of a larger development, the Comic and Animation Centre. It comprises a series of hill-shaped buildings containing offices, a hotel and a conference centre of which the first phase is close to completion.

Arquitectura sustentável, Jardim-de-infância Popular, no Cacém (2002-2005)

2011-05-05T14:09:00.000+01:00

Nadir Bonaccorso e Sónia Silva, nbAA arquitectos.

Volume puro em betão branco aparente e caixas volumétricas salientes forradas a placas de Viroc cinza,com pequenas aberturas a norte e grandes vãos em consola a sul , consequência de uma procura de um comportamento térmico equilibrado.

salas de trabalho polivalentes

[Ideias no papel] ESQUIÇOS #2

2011-05-04T11:09:00.001+01:00

-Reconversão de habitação T2
-Unidade de Projecto de Sete Rios

Le Grand Pari(s), A visão da equipa liderada por Arq. Jean Nouvel

2011-05-04T01:09:00.000+01:00

18:12M= 3 [BIG] PROJECTS

2011-05-03T10:06:00.001+01:00

Aerotecture Wind Turbine/ Turbinas eólicas urbanas

2011-05-03T01:40:00.000+01:00

Vou pôr um dia na cobertura do meu prédio, umas seis destas. E existem diversos tipos para ambiente urbano.

Remember....Atelier Português MOOV, projecto Forwarding Dallas...

2011-05-03T01:34:00.001+01:00

+ Re:Vision Dallas

+ Atelier Data

+ Moov

Via Bustler

The winner of the extremely exciting Re:Vision Dallas competition to create a completely sustainable community on a run-down city block in downtown Dallas was just announced yesterday – and it’s incredible! “Fowarding Dallas,” submitted by Portuguese-based architectural firms Atelier Data and Moov took the grand prize with their hillside-inspired design that consists of a series of peaks and valleys, runs completely on renewable energy, is covered in vegetation, and can even grow its own food. The coolest part? This mixed-use eco-community won’t just a concept – it will actually be constructed in Dallas in 2011!

Last May, six entries in the competition were chosen as potential designs to further explore for construction and buildout. After analyzing the proposals with respect to the site, construction costs, review of engineering and architecture, as well as the realization of the sustainability goals, Forwarding Dallas emerged as the winner. John Greenan, Executive Director for Central Dallas CDC said, “Dallas would be a richer city to have the work of any of these architects represented, but as we went further into our review, we began to see the deep logic of the MOOV-Atelier Data design, Forwarding Dallas. Forwarding Dallas seemed to us to do the best job of incorporating concepts of sustainability into the foundation of the design.”

The design proposes a series of hillside structures, with public spaces and trees located in the valleys, and solar panels and building-integrated wind turbines on the peaks. Renewable energy will completely power the community, while rainwater will be collected and stored for use within the complex. Each hillside will be covered in vegetation with greenhouses located in southern areas. Construction of the community will be completely prefabricated and streamlined to be as cost effective as possible. Housing options range from studios to three bedroom flats. and there will be many public spaces for residents including a spiritual space, gymnasium, café, exhibition space and daycare facility.

The panel of jurors considered four major criteria when choosing the winner: sustainability and reality of intent; affordability/constructability; innovation and originality; and incorporation of sustainable materials and practices. Forwarding Dallas hit all of these marks. City officials and the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation are very excited about this project and what it can do to help revitalize the downtown area. They anticipate the community will also spur on more sustainable development. Construction is expected to begin in early 2011.

+ Re:Vision Dallas

+ Atelier Data

+ Moov

Via Bustler

[A LUZ] na Arquitectura

2011-05-01T00:03:00.000+01:00

Exemplo da Caixa em Granada de Alberto Campos Baeza 2002

Compreende-se o volume e a forma através da visão, mas o que interessa na arquitectura é o vazio que está dentro.

A forma como percebemos o limite, influencia o que sentimos quando estamos dentro do espaço arquitectónico.

Meditação de Rembrandt

A luz é usada para compreender o limite do espaço arquitectónico. A luz é quantificável, podendo medi-la em termos de densidade/intensidade, qualificando o espaço.

Catedral de Beauvais

Panteão de Roma

“Se o novo presidente do município de Roma, para que não entrassem chuva nem frio no Panteão, decidisse tapar o óculo de quase nove metros de diâmetro que o coroa, muitas coisas aconteceriam… ou deixariam de acontecer. A sua construção exemplar não se alteraria. Nem a sua perfeita composição. Nem a sua função universal deixaria de ser possível. Nem o seu contexto, a Roma antiga, se daria conta (pelo menos na primeira noite). Apenas a mais maravilhosa armadilha jamais feita pelo homem à Luz do Sol, e na qual o astro-rei cai gozosamente todos e em cada um dos dias, teria sido eliminada. O Sol começaria a chorar e, com ele, a Arquitectura (pois os dois são mais do que simples amigos).”

in “A ideia construída” de Alberto C. Baeza

Capela Ronchamp de Le Corbusier 1954

«A chave é a luz, e a luz ilumina as formas (…)»

Le Corbusier

Mosteiro La Tourette de Le Corbusier 1957

“Se, no convento de La Tourette, algum frade dominicano novo tapasse as fendas e as aberturas, raras mas precisas, da capela-mor do convento em busca de maior concentração, muitas coisas aconteceriam também… ou deixariam de acontecer. A robustez da sua construção não se alteraria. A sua composição livre permaneceria incólume. As suas funções sublimes poderiam continuar, um pouco mais “concentradas”, talvez à luz das velas. Em seu redor nada se alteraria. Ou seria necessário muito tempo para que isso acontecesse. Apenas a inquietante quietude das pombas que, deixando de voar, pousariam sobre o edifício, acabaria por denunciar aos camponeses o sacrilégio ali consumado. O espaço, mais do que concentrado, tornar-se-ia tenebroso. E os frades comprovariam, assustados, que o canto gregoriano, luminoso, se negava a sair de suas gargantas. O mosteiro, e com ele a Arquitectura, teriam entrado na noite escura.”

in “A ideia construída” de Alberto C. Baeza

Catedral de Brasília de Óscar Niemeyer em 1960

Box of Light and Shade em Cadiz de Alberto Campo Baeza 2001

Centro Cultural em Madrid de Alberto Campo Baeza

Caixa em em Granada de Alberto Campo Baeza 2002

A VERDADE DOS MATERIAIS/ TECTÓNICA

2011-04-28T23:09:00.003+01:00

“Trabalho um pouco como o escultor. Quando começo, a minha primeira ideia para um
edifício é o material. Acredito que a arquitectura é sobre isto. Não é sobre o papel, não é sobre as formas. É sobre o espaço e o material.”

Peter Zumthor

"Montanha, pedra, uma nascente quente. Para Peter Zumthor estava lá tudo. Só tinha de dar-lhe uma forma. Termas de Vals (1996), cantão de Graubünden, Suíça.
Finas lages de uma rocha vulcânica local cobrem as sólidas paredes de betão do volume paralelepipédico, pautado por aberturas vítreas e vazios geométricos. A água que brota da montanha percorre múltiplos espaços semiexteriores e interiores. Enquanto as pessoas usufruem das termas, a luz atravessa as paredes, através de pequenas fendas, desenhando focos diáfanos nas áreas cerradas. O bronze, que matiza finos corrimões, pequenas portas e enormes torneiras, contrasta com os cinzentos dominantes.
Quando os Alpes se cobrem de neve, a neblina desce até às piscinas descobertas, envolvendo quem aí se banha num cenário de mistério. A natureza sai aqui reforçada pelo toque de um homem."

Pesquisando para Dissertação de Mestrado em Arq. #1

2011-04-27T14:02:00.000+01:00

infrastructures / networks / environments

Ciclovias
:
LIGHT LANE - INSTANT BIKE LANES (SOFT + SMALL)
[Light Lane: Dynamic Lane creation]

BIXI BIKE (SOFT + LARGE)
[BixiBike Station in Montreal]

COPENHAGEN CYCLING RAILINGS (HARD + SMALL)
[Copenhagen Bike Rails - image by Zakka/Mikael on Flickr]

D.C. UNION STATION BICYCLE TRANSIT CENTER (HARD + LARGE)
[D.C. Union Station Bicycle Transit Center - KGP Design]

[EM CONSTRUÇÃO] Futuro Hospital de Loures

2011-04-27T10:41:00.000+01:00

"Segundo os dados do Ministério da Saúde, o hospital irá abrir portas em 2012 para servir 272 mil pessoas residentes nos concelhos de Loures, Mafra, Sobral de Monte Agraço e Odivelas, representando um investimento de 135 milhões de euros.

O hospital terá várias valências, entre as quais uma área de diagnóstico, oncologia, unidade de dor e diálise, um serviço de urgência médico-cirúrgica e uma maternidade com capacidade para a realização de mais de três mil partos por ano.

A área de internamento prevê 424 camas, com capacidade para aumentar para 453, sem necessidade de realizar obras, e a área de consulta externa, apetrechada com 44 gabinetes, está preparada para realizar, anualmente, cerca de 245 mil consultas de especialidade. O processo relativo à construção do hospital de Loures, o primeiro a ser lançado no modelo de parceria público-privada, arrasta-se há vários anos e só em Julho é que ficou decidido que vai ser construído e gerido pelo consórcio Consis, liderado pela Espírito Santo Saúde e constituído ainda pela Mota&Engil, Opway e a Dalkia Energia e Serviços."

JOGO DE PAZ MUNDIAL

2011-04-27T10:11:00.000+01:00

[R]evolução de mentalidades precisa-se. Vamos alterar o nosso posicionamento perante o mundo que nos rodeia e assim conseguiremos algo de extraordinário. Algo que pudemos ensinar e aprender com as futuras gerações.

John Hunter coloca todos os problemas do mundo num jogo de tabuleiro de madeira e deixa o quarto ano de escolaridade resolvê-los. No TED2011, ele explica como o seu Jogo de Paz Mundial envolve os alunos mais novos e porque as lições complexas que ele ensina de uma forma espontânea e sempre surpreendente vão mais longe do que as aulas normais de leitura.