The requirements for this project were boldly defined from the beginning: the construction should be fast, cost effective and changeable over time, which prompted the studio to use prefabricated elements and to leave parts of the project undefined, assuming the immediacy, flexibility and resources optimization as core themes.
Project name
1000 m² Prefabricated
Architecture firm
SUMMARY
Location
Vale de Cambra, Portugal
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Principal architect
Samuel Gonçalves
Design team
Inês Vieira Rodrigues (project manager), Gonçalo Vaz de Carvalho, Maria João Freitas
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
Concrete, glass, steel
Typology
Residential › Apartments
The Quito-based architect and designer Aquiles Jarrín has recently completed A Forest apartment, an intervention in an apartment of the 70s in the historical center of Quito, Ecuador.
Project description by architect:
The intervention was carried out in a modern apartment of the 70s, located...
Saro Gallery, designed by Iranian architects Mehdi Qanavati and Amin Qorbani, is a showroom space with an area of 35 m², located in the port city of Mahshahr in Iran.
Project description by architect:
The elementary process of formation: The reconstruction of a half-finished shop and turning i...
Inspired by the beauty of free-flowing curves, Stiletto House is a fusion of sculpture and building, a blending of form and function to create living spaces that inspire. It embraces traditional concepts of tropical architecture while reinterpreting them in contemporary forms. It explores what a house could be like for an avid collector of antiques...
Project name
Stiletto House
Architecture firm
EHKA Studio
Location
50 Jalan Seaview, Singapore
Photography
Studio Periphery
Design team
Hsu Hsia Pin, Eunice Khoo, Amoz Boon
Collaborators
Consultants : E-Lume Pte Limited
Structural engineer
DWB CS-Engineering Consultants
Construction
Poh Sia Construction and Engineering
Typology
Residential › House
The León-based architecture firm Taller5 Arquitectos has recently completed Casa LL a single family home that is located in León, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Project description by architect:
Located within an upward steep slope and considering a wide program of necessities, the project required a dia...
The Egyptian architecture student Sara Mostafa Omran has designed Four stars hotel for Maspero,Cairo, Egypt by using simple geometric shapes.
Project description by Student:
The design is based on finding solutions using simple geometric shapes, creating spaces for different activities with o...
The Japanese architecture firm Tomoaki Uno Architects has designed Ogimachi House that is located in Nagoya, Aichi Pref, Japan.
Project description by architect:
This house was built by a son for a sick mother. An important concept of this house is the way private and society interact. Eventu...
365 Studio occupies some part of the ground floor and the first floor in a new building in central Kyiv. What made this project complicated was its belonging to the chain which already had its identity guide. There are certain rules which are formalized in the brandbook such as combination of white and green colors, plants and natural materials in...
Architecture firm
Bogdanova Bureau
Photography
Yevhenii Avramenko
Principal architect
Olga Bogdanova
Design team
Olga Bogdanova, Alena Prokhorova, Oleg Matiushchenko
Collaborators
Branding: PRAVDA studio (Ilya Nepravda & Olha Nepravda)
The Copenhagen-based architecture practice Martin Kallesø Arkitekter has designed Summer house that is located in Veddinge Bakker, Asæs, Denmark.
Project description by architect:
The shape of the house was conceived as a vision of a flock of migrating black birds. Four of these birds land on...
DNA Barcelona Architects unveils a new concept of tourism, a new concept of connection with ourselves and with Mother Nature.
Project description by architect:
Enhanced by Nature; EL NIDO Boutique Hotel offers 12 amazing “nests” organized in 2 floors giving the user the possibility to host a f...
