GAD, Global Architectural Development designed this fish market that is located in one of Istanbul’s most populated neighborhoods. More pictures via Designboom
Located in one of Istanbul’s most populated and diverse neighborhoods, Besiktas is an eclectic area with a village-like atmosphere that is in the process of urban renewal. The Besiktas Fish Market is located on a triangular site. It is an iconic venue where many locals and visitors buy fresh fish daily. The construction of the old fish market was in very poor shape and needed to be replaced.
The design solution was to maintain its iconic neighborhood presence, while also reaffirming its welcoming feeling. GAD designed a triangular shaped concrete shell covering the entire site with large openings at street level. The concrete shell provides a column-free interior space, optimizing the project’s programmatic needs. The new design injects a contemporary and pragmatic solution, at once preserving the fish market’s history.
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Mount Fuji Architects Studio designed this residence called ‘PLUS’, that is located on mountainside of Izu-San in Shizuoka, Japan.
The villa that would be used for weekends, is realised by crossing two rectangular parallelepipeds at very right angles. The lower one contains private rooms and bathroom, and sticks half of the body out to existing narrow level ground. The upper one incorporates salon and kitchen, and lies astride the lower one and the mountain ridge. It almost seems like an off-centered cross pinned carefully on natural terrain.
I didn’t want to just form the undulating landscape dotted with great trees as normal, nor design an elaborate architecture bowing down to the complex topography. What sprang to my mind is a blueprint for an architecture which is perfectly autonomous itself, at the same time seems to emerge as an underlying shape that the natural environment has been hiding. It’s abstraction of nature, to say.
Plus, Shizuoka, Japan, by Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Photography by Ken’ichi Suzuki
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Naf Architect & Design is a firm established by two partners, Tetsuya Nakazono andAkio Nakasa. Recently they completed this single family residence in Yokohama, Japan.
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London architects Carmody Groarke, have recently completed a pavilion in London. The Regent’s Place Pavilion was the result of a competition run by The Architecture Foundation in 2007.
The original competition brief called for a new pavilion to mark the Osnaburgh Street entrance to Regent’s Place, that enriches and activates the public open space at street level. Carmody Groarke’s winning concept for the pavilion, presents a pavilion as an open field of slender columns which supports a canopy eight metres above the landscape of the street.
Visible from Euston Road, the pavilion reveals various clustered densities of the vertical columns beneath its canopy, that shimmer in sunlight by day and contain intense projected ‘gold’ light by night, generating a visual moiré effect for passers-by. Its dramatic form is visible from approaching each end of Triton Street intensifing the experience of movement between 10 and 20 Triton Street, two newly-developed office buildings at the Western entrance to British Land’s Regent’s Place.
The pavilion’s design has been the product of a architectural / engineering collaboration between Arup and Carmody Groarke. Holding the 3mm plate stainless steel canopy aloft 8m, extremely slender vertical elements stand without any cross-bracing, joined only at the top with a decorative structural lattice. Extensive testing of prototypes was undertaken on full size mock-ups at the Building Research Establishment as part of the design development process.
The pavilion forms a lightweight counterpoint to the architecture of the public colonnades flanking each side of the street, relating architecturally to the height of these adjacent structures, but also inviting views across the street from one side to the other. The grain of the pavilion, from the form of the lozenge shaped canopy to the alignment of the columns in their surrounding green-granite cobbled landscape base, is turned 45 degrees to its context to form a dynamic relationship between the buildings and the public realm.
Amongst the field of elements, bespoke LED lighting is set into the pattern of the cobbled surface to up-light the pavilion’s canopy, providing all the ambient external lighting to this end of Regent’s Place.
The creation of this new ornamental pavilion within Regent’s Place, examines how the public space is defined without enclosing it. It is the latest addition to the collection of public artworks and installations at Regent’s Place, which already features works by Antony Gormley, Ben Langlands & Nikki Bell, Liam Gillick and Edward Hodges Baily.
Photographs are made by Luke Hayes.
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Dutch interior architects i29 have completed a new project in Amsterdam, featuring one interior wall covered in plants. Called Home 06, the single-storey residence was designed for a Japanese client.
Some information from the designers:
This residence at the Singel, Amsterdam (NL) exists from one open space where several functions have been put into freestanding objects. The kitchen and wardrobe are placed near the entrance and combined into one single volume.
The bath- and bedroom is hided into a volume which is placed at back of the house. From the open living area you look alongside the volume towards the vertical garden and the entrance stairs to the roof terrace.
The view on the green wall holds a promise in itself which will be redeemed once you enter the bed/bathroom.
The small measurements of this combined bed and bathroom are in contrast with its spacioucesness, while containing a private and personal feeling.
The panorama on the overgrown plantwall and the contrast with the minimalistic white bed/bathroom provides an intense experience. Integration of nature is an important aspect of traditional culture in Japan, the homeland of the client.
The integrated in-house vertical garden is an example of this. Other features where simplicity and minimalist details.
The project is nominated for the Bathroom design awards 2010.
More projects of i29 on archide:
+ Panta Rhei college interiors by i29 Interior Architects, Amstelveem, Netherland
+ Gummo offices by i29 architects, Amsterdam, Netherland
+ Power Office by i29 interior architects, Amsterdam, Netherland
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A recent project by French firm Mikou Design Studio is Valmorel Water Sports and Spa located in Savoie, France. Built in to a mountain, the Sports and leisure centra aims to be an emblematic major public amenity to attract local people and tourists.
“An emblematic, attractive swimming pool that blends with the landscape”
The Valmorel water sports and leisure centre aims to be an emblematic major public amenity that attracts people from the city and the surrounding region, and which can be identified by both the local people and by tourists. Therefore it entails a major urban planning challenge of creating a high-quality public space set in Valmorel’s outstanding landscape and an architectural challenge as regards its expression and its visibility.
“A spectacular, poetic esplanade that opens onto the surrounding landscape”
To extend the existing public square in front of the cable car and to free the view of the landscape from the pedestrian passage, we set the building into the mountain, as close as possible to nature and blending with it, by freeing an identifiable public esplanade on the square that looks onto the panoramic view and onto the strips of hardscaping and greenery around the outside of the swimming pool hall.
This public esplanade is a strong feature that clearly identifies the project.
Glazed metal rooflights of the swimming pool hall emerge from all over the ground of the esplanade. Designed as light cones that open the view from the esplanade onto the swimming pool hall, these rooflights allow pedestrians to visually move through the entire swimming pool hall from sequenced viewpoints. The internal surfaces of these light cones are painted blue, suggesting the colour of water to viewers on the esplanade. At night, fluorescent lamps placed on the underside inside the cones project blue light onto the esplanade, creating a spectacular, poetic atmosphere.
In the proposed scheme, the public esplanade created in this way represents Valmorel’s major urban space, which has a strong contemporary image while being respectful of the outstanding landscape that it reveals.
It is a truly public space, both for local people and for tourists, which acts as a viewing point looking onto the landscape and onto the strips of hardscaping and greenery around the outside of the pool hall. With benches placed around the perimeter and ground lights fitted into the layout pattern, this exceptional public space can be used both by day and by night.
The gently curving oval form of the esplanade corresponds to the flat roof of the swimming pool. With this configuration, the landscape can be admired through 360°.
Architect: Mikou Design Studio
Salwa Mikou, Selma Mikou, Cécile Jalby, Iskra Pencheva, Samiel Musolino, Dan Vavassori, Lorenzo Donati, Mickael Courtay
Client: City of Avanchers-Valmorel
Program: Polyvalent pool, Olympic pool, fitness, relaxation, interior and exterior solarium
Budget: 7.5 M €
Surface: 2 640 sqm
Location: les Avanchers-Valmorel, Savoie, France
Date: competition 2009
More projects of Mikou Design Studio on ArchiDE:
+ House of Arts and Culture by Mikou Design Studio, Beirut
+ Place Florence by MIKOU Design Studio, Fez, Morocco
+ Ratzburg Schools Campus by MIKOU Design Studio, Germany
Special thanks to Selma for sharing!
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Awesome project by Spanish architect Julio Barreno. He designed a storage building for canoes next to a big reservoir in a small village in the south of Spain.
Zahara de la sierra is a small village in the south of Spain. It is situated on the top of a hill as a dense liquid falling down along the slope. At the bottom, there is a reservoir constructed with a concrete dam.
The town council plans construct a recreation area in the lower site of the hill which is next to the water reservoir. As we can see, the landscape in this area is formed by small white pieces of housing derived from the small size of the plots and the properties in this area define the green and white pixels of an aerial view of this landscape. This building for storing canoes is built as another white point in the landscape.
Three lines decide the exact situation in the site: - The narrow road going from the secondary one to the water level, the electrical aerial line (electrical installation) crossing above the site and the water level of a sudden increase (when it rains a lot, the rivers can grow up quickly and when this rain arrives into the reservoir, it can create waves making the water level grow up to this maximum level of the water).
These conditions along with others like the bad soil for foundations decide what the building becomes. With these conditions it was difficult to design something based on a perpendicular geometry, a regular volume.
So, it started to deform, it became a deformed geometry volume, that sums up the answers to the conditions that the site imposed. On the other hand, the building is a BY-PASS connecting the parking site, at the beginning of the secondary road, with the jetty, on the water level, the proposal designs a path between these two points; people get in through a pedestrian access with their everyday clothes, and go out through the other extreme exit with the canoe and sports clothes on their way to the water in the reservoir.
In this sense, the building becomes an INTERCHANGER, as a stop, a halt in the path. For the construction of this element we used the current materials of this area; the white colour as the main ingredient and inclined black tiled roof with some white disseminated skylights. These characteristics give the building a certain landscape character. It could be called a BUILDING-LANDSCAPE, a CANOES´S LANDSCAPE.
In this way the building emerges as another white element in the traditional landscape in this region. We developed the program with only one floor; the main one is a big space for storing the canoes, and another server spaces concentrated in a small red piece including showers, toilets and changing rooms.
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Belgian practice dmvA Architects realised this extension of an existing row house in Mechelen, Belgium. In responding to the light problem on the groundfloor, they created the concept of a central void with glass floors so light could enter the house. Photographs by Frederik Vercruysse
Central void – glass floors
“Following a new addition of the family, the owners decided to rebuild their house. The existing house was extended according to building regulations, 17 m groundfloor, 13 m first floor and 9 m saddle-roof.
Responding to the light problem on the groundfloor, a central void was created, cutting three floors, so light could enter the house via the huge dormer window. In order not to lose space, the void was filled in with glass floors. This light-shaft organises and connects all different living-functions.”
Open house - own space - “The concept of the central void with glass floors also bears an educational aspect. By means of the glass floors, a spatial transparency is created through which all spaces are connected. Children are brought up with the emphasis on ‘living together’, one of the main principals in education. At the same time everyone has the disposal of his own space.”
Street – garden, closed- open, dark- light, strict –sculptural - “The façade on street side is in every inch the opposite of the back façade. The design of the front is the result of the search for sunscreen, privacy, closeness, urbanism. Characteristic to the front façade is not only verticalism, but also the contemporary translation of roller-blinds, so often used in the past.
The back façade, on the contrary, is open, clear, white with large windows. The design-language applied gives this façade a sculptural character.”
Text by dmvA Architecten
Photographs by Frederik Vercruysse
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Via Playtime, (Agence D’architecture’) I found an interesting article about the new MAXXI (National Museum of 21st Century Art) Museum in Rome, Italy. It took 10 years and 150 million euros to build, but last year it completed. The official inauguration of the museum will take place in the spring of 2010.
The 27,000 square metre centre is Italy’s first national public museum of comtemporary arts and features two museums: MAXXI Art and MAXXI Architecture. It is constructued on the site of the former montello millitary barracks.
Check out the links below for more information and pictures on Playtime, Dezeen and Designboom.
+ Zaha Hadid – Maxxi Roma – An architectural experience – Playtime
+ Zaha Hadid: MAXXI, rome- complete – Designboom
+ MAXXI_National Museum of the XXI Century Arts by Zaha Hadid – Dezeen, Photographs by Luke Hayes
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Japanese architects Archivision Hirotani Studio have completed this copper building in Omotesando in Tokyo, Japan. Called Fujitsubo, the project incorporates skylights mounted in three pitched volumes on the roof. The coppers sheets that covers the roof and walls will change appearance over time. The architect used them here to express ‘time’ in an area where information and environments are ever rapidly changing.
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This beauty parlor stands in the Omote-sando area of Tokyo, which represents one of the trend setting centers for this metropolis.
The building has three roof openings which pours light into the interior and, which, by slit-like openings in the floor is led into the floors below, reaching the ground floor, which in turn can be seen from the street level through its large glass windows.
Thereby, expressing the image of a “vessel of light.” It is, also, a message of “nature” in an area where there is an abundance of “artificial” light. Structurally, the shape of a “barnacle” with its thin yet hard cladding being the image, the three four-cornered conical forms in reinforced concrete are the structural elements for the roof and walls.
Copper sheets cover the intricate shapes of the roof and walls as the finish material for the building, which has incorporated the exterior insulation construction method. The copper sheets, which change with the passing of time, have been used to express “Time” in an area where information and environments are ever rapidly changing. This small piece of architecture is an experimental expression of the universal theme of “light” and “time.”
Found at Dezeen_
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