Erik Slagter

Erik Slagter http://www.erikslagter.com/site The Official Site Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:47:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 TheOfficialSiteForErikSlagterhttp://feedburner.google.com London Aquatics Centre 2012 by Zaha Hadid http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheOfficialSiteForErikSlagter/~3/F8KqcP0eZf4/532 http://www.erikslagter.com/site/archives/532#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:26:54 +0000 Erik Slagter http://www.erikslagter.com/site/?p=532 London 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects

London 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects

London 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects

The 17,500-seat centre is the final permanent venue to be completed at the Olympic Park, one year ahead of the games.

London 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects

The aquatics centre features an undulating wave-like roof that critics originally speculated would be too complex to build on time.

London 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects

The competition and diving pools are sheltered below this steel roof, enclosed within the main hall.

London 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects

Above photograph is by Anthony Charlton / Getty

A third pool to be used for training is located beneath the Stratford City Bridge, which is also sheltered by the curving canopy.

London 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects

Above photograph is by Anthony Charlton / Getty

Wings on each side of the building provide additional seating but will be removed once the games are over.

London 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects

Above photograph is by Anthony Charlton / Getty

London 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects

London 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects

Photography is by David Poultney/Getty, apart from where otherwise stated.

London 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects

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Architecture graduate Stephan Sobl has designed an upside-down skyscraper to hang over the Colorado River in Nevada, right beside the Hoover Dam.

Vertical Strip by Stephen Sobl

Entitled Vertical Strip, the conceptual tower would provide a casino, a hotel, a boxing ring and a concert hall, like the nearby Las Vegas Strip.

Vertical Strip by Stephen Sobl

The lightweight carbon-fibre structure would be suspended from a concrete cantilever and supported by a spiralling metal shell.

Vertical Strip by Stephen Sobl

Located between the dam and the bypass bridge, the tower would be accessible to both cars and pedestrians from the adjoining road.

Vertical Strip by Stephen Sobl

Sobl developed the project whilst studying at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Vertical Strip by Stephen Sobl

The following information is provided by the designer.

Vertical Strip – A Hanging Tower

My Diploma is about the interplay of opaque massive surfaces capable of incorporating poché and lightweight, fragile structure.

Vertical Strip by Stephen Sobl

The resulting environments developed by these distinct architectural languages are exploited and distributed vertically to create extreme spatial sequences.

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The project is a casino resort, a satellite alternative to Las Vegas, located on a dramatic site between the Hoover Dam and the Bypass Bridge. The resort caters to various 21st century vices including entertainment (concert venues, MMA Fighting), gambling and luxury living. The architectural challenges I dealt with were taking the convential vertical tower, including its plynth and orientation, and turning it upside down.

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Architectural elements: The massing layout is construed by the event space on top with a framed view of the Hoover Dam; the casino underneath leading to the hotel lobby and the hotel itself. At the bottom of the tower there is a dramatic area for happenings and ceremonial occasions. It also includes a breakfast room and high end dining with the elevator core floating above the space; a glass floor providing views to the ground; and terraced floor slabs.

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In terms of circulation, there are several ways leading into the plynth of the tower, including car circulation; and viewing platforms. The bridge circulation focuses on 3 elements:

structural details of the Bypass Bridge
openings to the Hoover Dam
breathtaking diagonal views of the hanging tower with a constant interplay of plunging and emerging.

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Once you arrive at the entrance of the tower, you enter the hanging structure through the supportive strings leading you down through the casino into the hotel lobby.

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The structural system is divided into 3 tectonics: – a massive concrete structure building the cantelivar for the hanging tower – a lightweight hanging tower – a metal shell embracing the structure

The way I generated the tower is with a partical simulation based on gravity. In order to achieve structural logic the stings are rotated clockwise and counter clockwise.

The metal shell provides shading and natural wind cicrulation for the tower of which its panels are orientating themselves according to changing wind conditions.

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Tom Ryaboi

Impressive Photography by Tom Ryaboi, a Photographer from Canada.

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Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

This house in Zellerndorf, Austria, by Vienna studio Franz Architekten comprises three separate units linked by glass passages.

Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

Called Streckhof Reloaded, the single-story house has a garage and storage in the volume nearest to the road, kitchen, living and dining areas in the next unit and bedrooms in the furthest, most private unit.

Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

A terrace and pool nestle between the two furthest volumes, accessible through the kitchen, living room, hallway or parents’ room.

Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

A kitchen garden is located at the rear and vines grow either side of the glass walkways.

Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

Photographs are by Lisa Rastl.

Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

Function

Different functions are summarized in three structures similar to container. The main entrance from the street is marked by a canopy which leads to the fully glazed passageway and ends in an overhang at the garden side. Garages and storage space are located in the first of three containers. The connecting passage to the second container acts as porch. The living space, gets natural light from three sides and is situated in the second container. A vegetable garden is connected directly to the kitchen.

Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

The third container implies the intimate areas, far off the street and the entrance area. Two east-orientated children’s bedrooms share one bathroom lying in between. There’s the parents bedroom orientated to the west.

Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

The terrace with the elongated pool is framed by the last two buildings and thereby wind and privacy protected. Access is possible from the kitchen, the living room the hallway as well as the parents’ bedroom.

Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

Construction

To make sure that the client can build as much as he is able to on his own, the outside walls are planned as brick construction. Even the insulation and the facade made of acryl glass has been installed by the client’s family. The roof construction consists of prefabricated timber elements with a foil sealing. The connecting passageway, also made of timber, acts as a bridge. Its facade consists of structural glazing without any mechanical fixing.

Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

Facility engineering

All living rooms are equipped with underfloor heating. The water is heated through a geothermic heating collector and two heat pumps. The walkway consists of open and closed sequences that allow constant views into the half-open courtyards and each container. By planting both sides of the glazed passageway with vine the client, who is a hobby wine grower, gets his own piece of vineyard into his house.

Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

The fresh air is supplied via controlled ventilation with heat recovery. The swimming pool is heated by a solar collector on the rooftop.

Streckhof Reloaded by Franz Architekten

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Casal de la Juventud de Novelda by Crystalzoo

Spanish studio CrystalZoo have renovated this former school in Novelda, Spain, to create a youth center for the area.

Casal de la Juventud de Novelda by Crystalzoo

Top photograph is by David Frutos

Called Casal de la Juventud de Novelda, the upper part of the building has been wrapped with a skin of polycarbonate panels, causing it to overhang the lower part.

Casal de la Juventud de Novelda by Crystalzoo

The architects have created a new plaza at the entrance of the building, featuring little grassy mounds and a zig-zag pattern on the paving that creeps up onto the wall of the centre.

Casal de la Juventud de Novelda by Crystalzoo

The windows are slightly recessed in the façade and highlighted in bright colours.

Casal de la Juventud de Novelda by Crystalzoo

Casal de la Juventud de Novelda by Crystalzoo

Casal de la Juventud de Novelda by Crystalzoo

This building is placed in Novelda, a small town near Alicante (Spain).

Casal de la Juventud de Novelda by Crystalzoo

It consists in a renovation of an old school building ant its yard to allow new public uses.

Casal de la Juventud de Novelda by Crystalzoo

This proposal is a work about the reuse of old buildings and their adaptation to contemporary needs.

Casal de la Juventud de Novelda by Crystalzoo

In this sense the Casal de la Juventud reinvents itself and establishes a dialogue between each stage of its evolution.

Casal de la Juventud de Novelda by Crystalzoo

Life opens up, in this case, creating a new wrapper able to equip the building and the plaza with new technologies and services.

Casal de la Juventud de Novelda by Crystalzoo

The plaza is raised as a hub of social activity in Novelda.

Casal de la Juventud de Novelda by Crystalzoo

Above: existing building

This system consists in connecting paths that also define soft areas that can adapt and establish links with what is happening inside the building.

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Working with an old school offers the opportunity to have the yard, which is a valuable open space within the dense urban fabric.

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This courtyard is a place that complements and makes possible the use of this new building.

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Materiality and lighting are the way this proposal establishes new links and relationships between the building and the public space.

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We try to provide complete and sophisticated equipment to this building and its plaza, through the installation of a new structure that surrounds the old school, with its own program, and also the support for the new activities.

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This structure provides lighting, energy and information systems, that define the specific environments for all the different situations that may happen.

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Impressive ConnectedDrive Vision by BMW.

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Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

This faceted stone building by Hungarian architects Építész Stúdió contains a concert hall and conference centre in Pécs, Hungary.

Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

The Kodály Centre houses the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra.

Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

It was designed in accordance with the mathematical principles of the golden ratio and visitors can walk up a ramped part of the building to a stepped courtyard area.

Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

Photographs are by Tamás Bujnovszky.

Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

Kodaly Centre by Epitesz Studio

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Google office by Scott Brownrigg Interior Design

Architecture firm Scott Brownrigg have completed the London office of internet search engine Google, with a giant logo in the lobby forming doorways through the two Os.

Google office by Scott Brownrigg Interior Design

Google office by Scott Brownrigg Interior Design

Wallpaper in the meeting rooms and video conference booths is printed with seaside imagery.

Google office by Scott Brownrigg Interior Design

The space also includes a gym, spa center and restaurant offering free meals for the 300 strong staff.

Google office by Scott Brownrigg Interior Design

Google office by Scott Brownrigg Interior Design

Google office by Scott Brownrigg Interior Design

Google office by Scott Brownrigg Interior Design

Google office by Scott Brownrigg Interior Design

Google office by Scott Brownrigg Interior Design

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