Rue de la Convention Housing / Jean Paul Viguier Architecture
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Architects: Jean-Paul Viguier et Associés
Location: Paris, France
Architect project manager: Octave Parant
Architecte project leader: David Cisar
Team construction phase: Jean Blondel, Patrick Tavernier
Landscapes architects: Pierre-Henri Cazes, Benjamin Doré
Contractors: Paris-Habitat for 128 housings / Vinci for 78 housings
Technical consultant and economist: ARCOBA
Representative company: Bouygues Bâtiment
Project Area: 18,200 sqm
Budget: 20 M €
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre
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The plan layout is grouped to form a compact building entity, providing both a coherent base for environmental performance concepts and a reply to the insertion of the program within the existing site. The density of the resulting model frees up the garden area and the facade of the building behind.
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This ‘compacting’ of the building is the result of a study to optimise its volumetric constraints and orientation in order to gain a maximum of direct sunlight without penalising the existing neighbours. All apartments have a dual orientation which allows direct sunlight both morning and evening together with the additional comfort of cross-ventilation.
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The operation takes the form of a series of blocks of progressive height, linked by veranda type walkways. This principle generates a cascade of landscaped elements at the heart of the building. The blocks are organised around compact, day lit services and circulation cores thus avoiding the ‘staircase syndrome’.
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A series of measures have been undertaken in respect of sustainable design to give the project its ‘HQE’ status.
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Housing Complex / medusagroup
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Architects: medusagroup
Location: Katowice, Poland
Principals: Przemo Lukasik, Lukasz Zagała
Project Team: Dawid Beil, Rafał Dziedzic, Kuba Pudo, Tomasz Majewski, Dominik Jaksik, Maria Jaksik, Justyna Siwińska, Agnieszka Szewera, Dominika Marek
Structural Engineering: Statyk
Investor: Millenium Inwestycje sp. z o.o.
Site Area: 8,914 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2009
Photographs: Miłosz Jaksik
Two buildings of the complex were designed as gallery-type buildings placed parallelly to each other with wide boulevard between them. The third one is an apartment building. The authors’ ambition was to break pejorative reception of buildings of this type in Poland: infamous legacy of realizations in 70′. The humanized space of mini park between the buildings and galleries protected with glass against weather conditions are to create an attractive neighborhood space which usually does not exist in typical block of flats with staircase.
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Northern building
Northern building is a five storey one with underground parking (shared with the apartment building). Communication with 3 galleries – a solid with staircase and elevator adheres on the east side. Building form is simple with galleries on the north side and a series of balconies on the south. The whole building was plastered in graphite colour while only the last storey has wooden siding. Additionally balconies are separated from each other with wooden openwork screens. Windows were designed in woodwork as porte fenetres. On the outside each window is closed by glass barrier. The galleries are screened by glass plates and their walls are covered with fibre-plasterboards in intensive yellow colour. Services functions are located on the ground level – these were glazed on the level’s circumference with big shop windows.
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Southern building
Southern building is of gallery typology created as a result of superposition of terraced housing. Building form is simple and designed in contemporary stylistics. Elevations are finished with graphite coloured plaster and partially with wooden siding.
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The building has two level dwellings. The lower part with independent entrances on the passage side and garden on the south side is covered by two-level apartments accessible from the gallery located on the last storey (on the north side). Daytime part was designed on the entrance level whereas bedrooms are one level lower.
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On both sides of the gallery there are external staircases of which the east one has elevator. Staircases were made of architectural concrete.
Apartment building
Because of its location (the central part of the housing estate) and high standard this building is to be the main dominant of the estate. It was designed as six-storey building with underground parking in “cage” arrangement. There are 10 luxury apartments – 2 on each floor. The residential part of the building lies on the socle withdrawn to the inside. The socle holds entrance hall with elevator and staircase and room meant for services. The elevations: northern, eastern and western are designed as a facade with porte fenetres. On the southern elevation there are terraces covered with openwork screens made of wooden planks. All elevations are finished with graphite coloured plaster.
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Boulevard
Between the buildings there is internal and wide public boulevard. Recreational space is located in the central part of the boulevard and is surrounded by hardened pavement on both sides. Children’s playground is situated on the south-western part and is surrounded by urbanized green.
HDC in Monte Gordo / Saraiva + Associados
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Architects: Miguel Saraiva & Associados
Location: Av. Catalunha, Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal
Client: Unifaro – União de Cooperativas de Habitação de Faro, UCRL
Engineers: Dimstruct
Project Area: 19,318 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2009
Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
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Monte Gordo is characterized by being a former fishing village located between the ocean and a vast pine forest.
The intervention predicted a complex of 12 controlled cost apartment buildings under a Housing Development Contract regime, set in a neighborhood with services (crèche), leisure areas (football grounds), shops and areas of collective use (church).
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The programme established typologies of one, two and three bedrooms, distributed in 170 dwellings planned for multi-family housing on buildings with 4 floors.
Some lots has only one building, while the others accommodates several contiguous buildings and both share the same car park in the communal basement underneath.
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The façades are the protagonists of this project, since the main façade and the rear façade are differentiated although they have a common element: the balcony. Each apartment can enjoy the outside areas as the main elevation has a balcony all along its length, communicating with the kitchens and living rooms.
The opposite elevation has vertical spans, adjusting to different sizes of balconies and alternately conferring a constant rhythm, disguising the more private areas.
Inside the apartments have a hall/corridor from which lead off the living room, kitchen, bedrooms and bathrooms.
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A good articulation between areas is assured, avoiding intersections between private and social areas, which have larger spans hidden at the back of the balcony boxes, in this case for all the residents.
The small balconies of the rear elevation are exclusively for individual use, promoting a good spatial distinction that evokes greater privacy in the home.
Conceptually, the interior is extended to the exterior through the balcony areas, reproducing the meteorological culture of a place where it is always possible to enjoy the open air.
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8 House: BIG win for BIG
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BIG has proven in the past to be a source of innovating projects. Their idea is far beyond the superficial: it´s about improving the city, as you can see on this presentation by Bjarke Ingels for 8 House.
For this project -which will open in October-, BIG has been honored by the Scandinavian Green Roof Association as the Best Green Roof in the Scandinavia for its 1.700 m2 sloping green roof at an award ceremony held at 8 House in Oerestad, Copenhagen.
More information about this award after the break.
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BIG’s 8 House wins the 2010 Scandinavian Green Roof Award
Completing its trilogy of housing projects in Oerestad with the same client, BIG + green roof contractor Veg Tech receives the award for 8 House’s 1.700 m2 sloping green roof.
The Scandinavian Green Roof Association based in Malmo, Sweden today honored the Best Green Roof in the Scandinavia, at an award ceremony at the 8 House in Oerestad, Copenhagen. Since 2000, the association has promoted an increased use of green roofs in Scandinavia and created numerous working examples at its Malmo address. In addition the association and its members educate the positive impact of green roofs on urban ecology, and provide inspiration for legislation and building standards.
“BIG has demonstrated a very clear and conscious use of the green roof successfully integrating it into the visual identity of the building ‐ something which was seen in BIG’s green roof award application last year with the M2 houses, but on a much grander scale”, Louise Lundberg, Scandinavian Green Roof Association’s Superintendent.
The moss‐sedum roof covers an extraordinarily long, steep and sloping roof surface descending 11 floors downward to the edge of a canal in Oerestad South opening up the interior courtyard to a view of the protected open spaces of Kalvebod Faelled. The 60.000m2 mixed‐use development is designed in the form of a figure 8 by manipulating the housing typology most often found in Copenhagen. The massing steps up and down depending on access to daylight and views and is broken into four programmatic bars of retail and housing. Green spaces upon the roof and within the courtyard are strategically placed to reduce the urban heat island effect as well as providing a visual relief to the inhabitants. The first residents have already moved in while the building will be finally completed by 1st of October.
“The parts of the green roof that remain were seen by the client as integral to the building as they are visible from the ground. These not only provide the environmental benefits that we all know come from green roofs, but also add to the visual drama and appeal of the sloping roofs and rooftop terrace in between”, Bjarke Ingels, BIG
The green roof is contracted by Veg Tech founded in 1988 who has since been a leading green‐roof manufacturer in Scandinavia.
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8 HOUSE CREDIT LIST
Client: St. Frederikslund Holding
Architect: BIG ‐ Bjarke Ingels Group
Green Roof Contractor: Veg Tech A/S
Size of green roof: 1700 m2
Collaborators: Hoepfner Partners, Moe & Brodsgaard, KLAR
Partner‐In‐Charge: Bjarke Ingels
Project Leader: Ole Elkjaer‐Larsen, Henrick Poulsen
Project Architect: Thomas Christoffersen
Project Manager: Henrik Lund
Team: Finn Nørkjær, Dennis Rasmussen, Rune Hansen, Agustin Perez Torres, Annette Jensen, Carolien Schippers, Caroline Vogelius Wiener, Claus Tversted, David Duffus, Hans Larsen, Jan Magasanik, Jakob Lange, Jakob Monefeldt, Jeppe Marling Kiib, Joost Van Nes, Kasia Brzusnian, Kasper Broendum Larsen, Louise Heboell, Maria Sole Bravo, Ole Nannberg, Pablo Labra, Pernille Uglvig Jessen, Peter Rieff, Peter Voigt Albertsen, Rasmus Kragh Bjerregaard, Richard Howis, Soeren Lambertsen, Eduardo Perez, Ondrej Tichy, Sara Sosio, Karsten Hammer Hansen, Christer Nesvik, Soeren Peter Kristensen.
Affordable Housing for the Future Competition entry
Courtesy of Mohammad Jabi and Liyan Jabi
Architects Mohammad Jabi and Liyan Jabi shared with is their proposal for the Affordable Housing for the Future Competition in Abu Alanda, Jordan. See more images and architect’s description after the break.
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The predicament of production housing – often prevalent in low-income housing projects – sets the individual nature of domesticity at odds with standardized building practices. Instead of reducing residents to their perceived least common denominator, we propose a “building set” that composes a diverse platform from which individual lives may be played out. Walking around the development grounds, you are greeted with a refreshing diversity of facades, green plazas and courtyards, instead of a typical cookie cutter style of similar housing projects. Nonetheless, the building set is still a replicable model that could be developed in any other location, striking a balance between diversity and pragmatism.
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Within this set, a modern interpretation of the age-old courtyard is reborn. Here, 21 dwellings converge around this common space, engaging ecology and connecting community. Community planting gardens intersperse the building grounds, keeping the connection alive between the inhabitant, the land that is home and neighbors all around.
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The apartments themselves are set up in two different topologies: a linear ground-floor plan and an alternative linear/L-shaped layout in subsequent floors. Both set ups allow each apartment to enjoy views to the outer surroundings as well as a view to the courtyard within. However, a sense of privacy is maintained through the adopted window treatment. Each home benefits from passive cooling and heating features, renewable energy sources, massive earthen walls built with local material, efficient insulation, water and energy saving design.
Andreasgasse / BWM Architekten
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Architects: BWM Architekten
Location: Mariahilfer Straße, Vienna. Austria
Materials: Concrete, bricks, glass (no prefabricated products)
Total space 2,830 sqm
Total floor space 3,396 sqm
Finishing date: March 2009
Photos: Courtesy of BWM
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This project is located in a condensed living/shopping area in the wider centre of Vienna, next to one of the main shopping avenues, Mariahilfer Straße. A new built backyardhouse and a soft renovation of the existing historic apartment building, located at the streetfront of the site. Furthermore here a loft conversion was done as well.
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In the backyard an old workshop and apartment building was removed and on its place a new 5-storey-apartment building was errected. A definitly modern facade gives an interesting contrast to the common historic atmosphere. The court and the backward facade working as green surfaces and as kind of sound insulation to the busy area outside.
Social Housing / Chartier – Corbasson
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Architects: Chartier – Corbasson
Location: 74 rue Saint Antoine, Paris, France
Client: SIEMP
Net surface: 900 m² SHON
Budget: 2,1 M€
Year: 2009
Photographs: Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre
This project located in the heart of the Marais district comprises the rehabilitation of the building 76, Rue Saint-Antoine and the adjoining plot at 1, Rue de Turenne.
Dating back to the seventeenth century, the existing building is built on a very narrow site. The project will complete the block and create a new façade for the gable-end that currently bears the traces of a building that was demolished to make way for Rue de Turenne.
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The existing building has been preserved and refurbished. The upper storeys have been enlarged by the addition of extra space to the existing area of each floor, creating more spacious accommodations facing Rue de Turenne.
The gable has been opened out to provide the best possible views.
An exterior skin has been added to protect the newly created spaces and give them a certain coherence.
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The general aspect matches the officially sanctioned proportions for the area. The housing units created are two- and four-room flats and loft-style studios. They are accessed by open-air staircases leading up from the interior courtyard. Each unit has a terrace or a balcony. All rooms open onto a central living room, reducing the need for corridors.
Quay Apartments / Kingma Roorda Architects
Architect: Kingma Roorda architects
Location: Poortkade and Oosterscheldestraat, Zierikzee, The Netherlands
Design team: Ruurd Roorda, Klaas Kingma, Bas Kegge, Roelof Verheijen, Frank Velthuis, Niels van Ham
Developer: Loostad ontwikkeling, Apeldoorn / Bouwbedrijf Boender en Maasdam, Numansdorp
Urban plan: Rothuizen van Doorn ’t Hooft, Breda/Middelburg/Poznan
Structural engineer: Constructie- en Adviesburo van Moorsel, Waalwijk
Contractor: Bouwbedrijf Rijk, Heinkenszand
External cladding: B+K Alusystemen, Zwolle
Project Area: 2,126 sqm (building 1), 1,545 sqm (building 2)
Start construction: 2008 (building 1), 2010 (building 2)
Completion construction: 2010 (building 1), 2012 (est.)
Photographs: René de Wit, Breda / Kingma Roorda architects, Rotterdam
This project, situated just west of the historical center of Zierikzee, links up the existing neighbourhood Poortambacht to the historic town. Both as a reaction to the specific character of the site and as a response to today’s diverging lifestyles, the design for this new quay, parallel to a canal, can be seen as a reinterpretation of the quay typologies that can be found through the provinces of Zeeland and Holland.
As big, entirely coloured warehouses clad in metal, the apartment buildings stand out in the adjacent sea of individual quay houses we designed earlier. Both apartment buildings, one at the end of the Singelkade and one midway the Kanaalkade, interrupt the quay houses. Because of their large size they announce the existence of the urban area behind the apartment blocks. Each building manifests itself by it’s colour.
For the design of the buildings we looked at old commercial warehouses in trading cities such as Venice (Italy), Bergen (Norway), New York (USA) and Zierikzee. Like prominent Venetian families wished to distinguish themselves with obstinate built palaces, both the apartment buildings are independent building volumes. The colours and the simple shape of the windows were borrowed from the colourful warehouse architecture of Bergen. In this design the stately Venetian palazzo is fused with the sturdy Scandinavian warehouse.
At the outside both buildings present themselves as members of one family by their signature. Inside the buildings offer a great variety of floorplans, through their specific position on the quay. The design aim was to give a stately expression to this collective of apartments under one roof. We have pursued a signature that distinguishes itself as much as possible from the quay houses. We felt it of prime importance to make his difference as large as possible.
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To heighten plasticity, the facades of the buildings were elaborated by means of a partly self-supporting grid of large thresholds and thin columns made out of aluminium. This grid-like surface relief seeks to nuance the contrast between the small size of the houses and the large size of the apartment buildings. Appearing only on the public sides of the buildings the framework underlines the dignity of the buildings. Through the coastal sunlight the filmy grid creates a vivid image of the building. While the buildings are prominently present at the quays, it is possible to look far away over the area from the upper floors. Here the view goes over the seawall to the Zeeland Bridge, towards the Oosterschelde.
Iceberg / CEBRA + JDS + SeARCH + Louis Paillard
One of our favorites, CEBRA, (and their collaboraters JDS, SeARCH and Louis Paillard) shared their latest winning competition entry. Situated in Aarhus, Denmark, right in front of the harbor, the 21.500 m2 project features mixed dwellings types and commercial space. The project receives its jagged heights to allow better views toward the ocean and better daylight conditions, and the tops and bottoms are shifted so that views between the volumes become possible. This breakdown of the mass creates the potential for an “iconic” building for the harbor area, and one that, due to its form, creates its own skyline within itself. There’s just something about the Danes’ approaches, like BIG + Cebra, where they tackle simple realities, such as light and views, and allow their whole building to respond them in an unconventional and dynamic way.
More images, diagrams and more information about the winning design after the break.
As the masses are shaped to accommodate light and views, their variation allows for a multitude of different apartment types. At ground level, a number of town houses are integrated into the volume, and the peaks of the buildings contain spectacular pent house apartments. Between the top and bottom levels, a variety of apartments with different balconies, shapes and orientations can be found. The apartments are geared to “insure an urban environment with a social diversity of people of different ages, incomes and family relations living together.”
The housing becomes a way to mix all user types, not only in the same building, but on the same floor as a way to truly become an integrated neighborhood. There are advantages and disadvantages to this set up, but looking at it from the positive standpoint, the architects hope that “for instance elderly people looking after kids in return for shopping favors or students helping with the homework or setting up your computer – a community of different people insuring that the complex is alive around the clock.”
New Apartmenthouse Johannisstraße / J. Mayer H. Architects
Property development group Euroboden is building a unique apartment house at Johannisstraße in Mitte, Berlin’s downtown district. J. MAYER H. Architects’ design for the building, which will soon neighbor both Museum Island and Friedrichstrasse, reinterprets the classic Berliner Wohnhaus with its multi-unit structure and green interior courtyard.
More images and description after the break.
A suspended lamella facade not only provides privacy but also draws historical reference to the elaborately decorated facades from the Wilhelminian period. Plans for the ground floor facing the street also include a number of commercial spaces. The generously sized apartments will face south-west, opening themselves to a view of the calm, carefully designed courtyard garden. Spacious, breezy transitions to the outside create an open residential experience in the middle of the city that, thanks to the variable heights of the different building levels, also offers an interesting succession of rooms.
The units’ varying floorplans and layouts indicate a number of housing options; condominiums are organized into townhouses with private gardens, classic apartments or penthouses with a spectacular view of the old Friedrichstadt. The integrated design concept, which incorporates everything from façade to stairwells, elevators to apartment interiors, promises a unique spatial and living experience with an eye to high design.
