morfoLL-blog

425 Park Avenue - Presentation of Purposals

2012-12-19T13:18:00.000+00:00

I here we can see the differnt ways to approach the problematic of building in a city like NY. And here we can as well see, the type of person who's lead certain team. Thumbs up for the gentleman...Mr. Foster!

Gensler-Office Building of the Future

2012-12-14T16:21:00.001+00:00

NAIOP '12 Ideas Competition - Office Building of the Future from Gensler LA on Vimeo.

Oscar Niemeyer dies at the age of 104.

2012-12-06T00:38:00.001+00:00

Brazilian architect dies at 104.

The brazilian architect died yesterday in the hospital following a long period in observation.

Oscar will be missed by his friends, colleagues, admirors and everyone in Brazil.

La Fabrique - TETRARC

2012-12-04T20:29:00.003+00:00

Tetrarc architects turned an old industrial site in an inspiration.

From an industrial inspiration of metal pavillions and old ship yards, TETRARC builds a very interesting Fabrique Concert Hall.

GKTFK - GAD architects

2012-12-04T20:20:00.000+00:00

"GKTFK is a residential project, that will be built in Gokturk, Istanbul in collaboration with DK.

The intent of the project is twofold; one was to create modern and beautiful living spaces and second was to challenge the typical modernist housing blocks that consume the most of the suburban landscape of Istanbul. Consequently, this strategy introduces a new residential typology to the area. A process of deforming the typical block is used with various software techniques. Input data directed the forms to response to programmatic and contextual needs. The residential complex has 3 individual buildings and a ground level park / green zone as community space."

GAD architects

Pauline Van Dongen - Stereopsis

2012-11-22T13:27:00.001+00:00

§tereop§i§ from Champagne Valentine on Vimeo.

Parasite Office - Za Bor Architects

2012-11-21T22:09:00.004+00:00

"The Parasite office is a concept created by za bor architects while designing their own studio. This design uses free spaces between buildings forming original and economically viable offices which do not block the court yard access. The project provides a three-floor volume with an accessible roof area, divided with modular floor panels. The framework which shapes it, is a single structural unit clamped between the blind facades of the houses. The polygonal main facade solved in dynamical volumes, is made from light and durable cellular polycarbonate; the facade turned to the court yard is flat and completely glazed."
Za Bor Architects

all images ©Za Bor Architects

Pushkinsky cinema - Za Bor Architects

2012-11-21T22:06:00.000+00:00

"The main idea of the offered solution is transformation of Pushkinsky cinema while preserving its original historical volume. Modern expressive elements ‘sprout’ through the semicentennial structure, symbolically connecting the old and the new by means of the shape and materials. Such interpretation turns the cinema from an ordinary architectural object into a real place of interest — a bright communicative dominant which evidences by its effective non-trivial appearance that inside a modern eyeful — the product of digital technologies — is awaiting cinema connoisseurs. In the project the original building’s facades and galleries are blanketed with a metal structure covered with white polymer Corian. Thin slots are glazed with transparent material SentryGlas. From the side of the main facade the whole structure is supported with openwork treelike pillars." Za_Bor Architects

all images ©Za Bor Architects

Bicentennial Civic Center - Córdoba GGMPU+LUCIO MORINI

2012-11-20T11:43:00.001+00:00

Imponent "governamental" shape. Very monumental and 3d facade, designed by Lucio Morini & GGMPU Arquitectos for the Bicentenial Civic Center.

" The first building houses the ministries and takes the figure of a faceted prism. Made from concrete, it is intersected by a pattern of rhomboid openings. Based on a square cuboid, the architects rotated the shape to generate ‘a more complex morphology based on triangles, which in turn produces a very particular play of shadows and light.’ Continuing to state how ‘tri-dimensionality’ was an important part of the façade, the architects set the main building into a pool of water showing interesting reflective qualities of the exterior."

via FRAME

all images ©GGMPU

Research laboratory-Groningen UNStudio

2012-11-20T11:21:00.002+00:00

How do you work in a building project for a program that almost forbids exterior light? How do you make that building detach from the "normailty" of have no windows, and still have a presence?
UNStudio gave us a clue.

Through color and facade pattern, UNStudio created a "personality" for the building in it's natural surroundings, making it to gain life and a certain rhythm as well. Giving the important facade an dinamic look, and the "less seen" facade, an almost cirurgical and clean look.

Although, the building interior, receives daylight in order to enlighten the communication spaces and gathering places.

all images ©UN STUDIO

Stone Spray Project

2012-11-20T10:39:00.001+00:00

Stone Spray Project from Stone Spray on Vimeo.

Holo Magazine

2012-11-20T10:35:00.001+00:00

Hotel Lone - 3LHD architects

2012-11-16T13:23:00.002+00:00

3LHD Hotel Lone from 3LHD Architects on Vimeo.

Hongzhu Housing Sales Center - Lab Modus

2012-11-16T13:21:00.000+00:00

“Two-story lifted glass box and a sequence of double layered perforated metal panels. Resonating with the form of ancient Chinese lucky animal, the form of the project takes inspiration from the dragon, a symbol of success and luck“ Lab Modus Architects

New National Stadium Japan - Zaha Hadid Architects (Competition winner)

2012-11-15T13:52:00.001+00:00

It as just been announced that ZH Architects are the winners for the new National Stadium in Japan.
Geting ahead of Populous, Azusa Sekkei, GMP and others...
The year is finishing up with great news for Ms. Hadid and her team!

Zhengzhou Mixed Use Develpment - Trahan Architects

2012-11-14T20:37:00.000+00:00

A wonderful way to detach the a typical program from the typical urban approach. The building leaves it's boundaries opened up for the entrance and sidewalks and marks it's place in the urban fabric by it's dynamic facade.

Louisiana Sports Hall Museum - Trahan Architects

2012-11-14T20:23:00.001+00:00

An excellent proposal by Trahan Architects, which with a fluid form gather all the spaces of the program, making a unique space.
To be seen here.

all images ©Trahan Architects

VILLA AT AL-MEZHAR - Young & Ayata

2012-11-14T20:04:00.004+00:00

"The project re-imagines the courtyard typology for the arid climate of the Arabian Desert, on a site located in a typically walled-in residential neighborhood of the city.

The villa initially presents itself to the street as a levitating single volume perched on a solid stone plinth. The plinth is organized around a 25 meter swimming pool which extends out into the backyard. It holds all the service and living spaces around a 2 storey high courtyard, which performs as the center of the house. Numerous light wells provide light into the depths of the plinth.

The upper volume consists of two generic boxes for sleeping quarters at each end. The solid boxes ‘soften’ in the middle and dissolve into a double layered trellis made of single sized beams to sculpt the courtyard space below. The layers of the trellis are connected with 5 standard length vertical steel rods to allow the structure to span a greater distance, while creating a shaded courtyard below. The varying distance of the layers create moiré fields as light filters through the trellis. The quality and the nature of the moiré fields evolve through the day with the movement of the sun, evolving different shaded zones in the courtyard."

Busan Opera - Young & Ayata

2012-11-14T19:57:00.001+00:00

"Operatic performance seeks to compress a multitude of specific art mediums into a single temporal experience; poetic narrative, dramatic performance, music (both vocal and orchestral), costume, lighting, stage and scenery design. But, to go to the opera is much more than just the performance itself. It involves all of the preliminary anticipatory experiences of the opera house. The entries, lobbies, stairways, foyers, bars and restaurants are an integral part of the opera event."

"This is where the architecture of the opera house becomes a crucial piece in a larger performance; a social, cultural and aesthetic performance. Cultural institutions such as theaters, performance halls, museums, and operas provide and provoke much more than just a functional display of artwork. They are participatory pieces in the complexity of societal relations, both in the direct experiences of each patron, and through the larger urban and cultural conditions that surround the building. The opera, as a cultural hub, becomes a beacon that simultaneously draws people in while projecting identity out.

We have responded to this challenge by making three specific interventions into the opera house organization: First, the hierarchically striated auditorium seating staggers and compresses to become more intimate, egalitarian and experiential; second, the promenade of foyer/circulation is elongated into a mediating space for the participatory act of anticipatory congregation; and lastly the pragmatic cruciform of performance stage and side stages become permeable, editable and adaptable by taking on exhibition programs as seasons and schedules permit."

House in Belas golf course-CHP Arquitectos

2012-11-11T19:03:00.002+00:00

A very interesting family house in the outskirts of Lisbon. A very interesting intrepretation of the portuguese vernacular houses with a intelligent "touch" of contemporary architecture.

Designed by CHP Arquitectos, this house as five nuclear spaces of different functions gathered by passageways and patios "painted" with green bushes and other plants.

Monte Rosa Hut

2012-11-11T18:45:00.002+00:00

An almost self sufficient Hut in the middle of...nowhere!!

Like an Iceberg or even a glaciar, from the rocky snow mountains rises a very special hut, a shelter for adventurers. Recovering an old and ruined hut, students of ETH Zurich and Swiss architecture firm Bearth & Deplazes Architekten, have designed a completely new hut with tools to achieve a very significant sustainability in such a delicate environment.

"This facility is 90 percent self-sufficient and offers hikers protection from the elements in a new-style alpine hut that rises dramatically out of the snow-covered terrain. At first glance, the Monte Rosa Hut looks like the kind of place Snow Miser might live, a large glacial formation rising out from the snowy peak. In reality, however, it’s a high-altitude mountain shelter that sets new milestones in sustainability and innovative design. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich)—a top technology and science university—teamed up Swiss firm Bearth & Deplazes Architekten, the legendary Swiss Alpine Club (SAC), and Vectorworks® software to design and build the “hut”, which sits 2,883 meters high in the Swiss alpine sky near Zermatt. The facility houses a state-of-the-art research lab which measures the building’s efficiency as a self-sufficient entity. Vectorworks Architect software files served as input and output for the energy design.

The asymmetrical angles of the five story hut minimize exposure to snow and wind and provide more room for guests.
Studio Monte Rosa, a combined group of selected ETH students and Swiss architecture firm Bearth & Deplazes Architekten, designed a structure that would replace the original hut, which was in great need of repair. The new lodging serves two important purposes: to provide alpinists and hikers protection from the elements as well as a comfortable, clean space to eat, rest, and commune with fellow travelers; and to provide ETH Zürich with valuable research on effective sustainable practices."

The facility can accommodate up to 120 guests. It contains a simple kitchen and dining area—both fashioned from spruce and fir, which were chosen for their sustainability quotients. A large common room provides a spot for socialization. The bedrooms feature trapezoidal mattresses in various sizes made to minimize wasted space by matching the shape of the human body (broader at the top and tapering for the legs). During the specialty research phase, the ETH students used Vectorworks software to maximize the placement and number of beds within the given space. By simulating many different scenarios for the beds and other building elements, the design team optimized the hut’s entire design―which saved a great amount of development time and significantly reduced building costs.

The design team used Vectorworks Architect software to create the complex geometry of the Monte Rosa Hut, designing 420 different wall and ceiling elements that were pieced together. A big task was handling the different geometries while keeping the detailed solutions as similar as possible, as was done with the ribbon glazing/window strip, the timber construction/woodwork, and the furnishing of the bedrooms. The program’s accurate, flexible symbol libraries were very helpful to the team because the designers did not have to create the components from scratch.
The software also provided the basis for calculating project costs according to Swiss standards and enabled the students to employ a “digital chain” methodology to fine-tune the hut’s components at each step of the project and move their data seamlessly from concept to design, to development, to fabrication, and finally to construction. The end result: precisely-manufactured building elements and smooth collaboration with numerous other project teams. By using the digital chain to address complexities and efficiencies, they were able to reduce the number of building elements by 30 percent and the weight by 40 percent, and also adjust design elements throughout the process."

all images Holcim Foundation and the Wikimedia Commons

Autodesk 123D Design

2012-11-11T18:07:00.002+00:00

Autodesk launches their already famous Autodesk 123D in the form of 123D Design, a free software that enables designers to create 3d forms in an easy fluid way, and then printed in any given printing service.
This time, Autodesk, launches some apps to go with the rising demand of phone and tab apps.
A very interesting FREE app.

ZoomIn Visionaries: HP + Edgar Gonzalez

2012-11-10T23:47:00.001+00:00

Theo Jansen 3d printed.

2012-11-10T23:39:00.002+00:00

3d printing meets Theo Jansen!

Walking architecture-Andreas Angelidakis

2012-11-10T23:34:00.001+00:00

An alternative scenario by architect Andreas Angelidakis, for an industrial building that is about to become a contemporary art museum, in Athens Greece.