Author: Asli Say
Hulunbuir Hailar Airport designed by United Design U10 Atelier is located in Hailar District, Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia. Hulunbuir is well known as one of the Top 10 Snowy Cities in China with its most beautiful prairies in the world. The built-up area of existed T1 Terminal was 7,600 m2. It could not meet the need of ever-growing passenger volume for prairie tourism. Obviously, it is necessary for the existed terminal to be expanded. At the beginning, the boundary and plan of this expansion project were fixed. As a result, we were facing a great challenge – how to design a…
Ayla Golfclub by Oppenheim Architecture in Aqaba, Jordan Oppenheim Architecture has designed this golf clubhouse to mimic the surrounding desert. Set across 13,000 square feet in aqaba, jordan, the building’s unusual form is made up from curving components covered in a layer of unifying shotcrete – sprayed concrete. The Ayla Golfclub is part of the first phrase of a 17 square mile leisure development currently under construction in aqaba, jordan. Once completed, the development will include residential apartments, a hotel and commercial space, all centered around an 18-hole signature golf course designed by greg norman. The clubhouse incorporates retail space,…
Parametric Façade & Cladding Systems By rat[LAB]EDU In 4 Cities In India Time: July 19, 2019 to August 11, 2019 Country: IndiaCity/Town: Manipal, New Delhi, Chennai, KolkataLocation: Manipal School of Architecture, Sushant School of Art & Architecture, RVS School of Change, AludecorWebsite: https://www.rat-lab.org/summerschool2019Workshop Type: Summer School Topic: Parametric Facade & Cladding SystemsOrganized By: rat[LAB]EDU [maxbutton id=”7″][maxbutton id=”8″][maxbutton id=”9″][maxbutton id=”10″] rat[LAB]EDU – SUMMER SCHOOL 2019 INDUSTRY INNOVATION PARTNER – Aludecor MANIPAL | NEW DELHI | CHENNAI | KOLKATA PARAMETRIC DESIGN WORKSHOPS About rat[LAB]-Research in Architecture & Technology After a successful completion of 60+ design workshops worldwide, rat[LAB]EDU (Educational subset of rat[LAB]-Research in…
Pillars of Dreams, The Very Many’s Cloud Like Sculptural Pavilion in North Carolina Pillars of Dreams is Marc Fornes of THEVERYMANY’s cloud like sculptural pavilion made from cross-laminated stripes in Valerie C. Woodard Center – Charlotte, North Carolina, United States Pillars of Dreams by New York based architecture firm, enlivens the plaza of the newly renovated Valerie C. Woodard Center, a county building that houses a number of departments and local services. It makes a curious impression from the street. Along the path to the building’s entrance, the cloud-like pavilion makes a soft landing in a field of quiet moments…
PANEUM Center – Wunderkammer des Brotes Customer Information Centre and Event Forum designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au in Asten, Austria. The Customer Information Centre and Event Forum PANEUM – Wunderkammer des Brotes – for the company Backaldrin in Asten consists of two elements: a box shaped plinth building with foyer and event rooms plus the “Wunderkammer des Brotes”, a two storey freeform exhibition area floating on top. The chosen materials augment the contrast of these two elements: The square base building shows a cast-in-place concrete façade while the rounded wood structure of the museum is clad with stainless steel shingles. The…
Text description provided by the architects. Bosjes Chapel by Steyn Studio in South Africa is located in a site surrounded by majestic mountains with a grand scale which adorned the area with the nickname of ‘Little Switzerland’. Typically Cape Dutch Manor houses set up dialogue with these types of environments, as found in Stellenbosch and Cape Town. With the immediate context of the site, the valley is ‘held’ either side with two mountain ranges which sets up a spatial dialogue at a grand scale which occurs on a ‘micro’ level between the Manor House development node and the Chapel development…
MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, releases its proposal for Harbin T3 Airport with a snowflake-like design that falls into the wintry landscape. Referencing the gentle slopes of China’s vast Northern plains, and the region’s immense snow and ice, MAD has conceived a terminal building that echoes the characteristics of Harbin’s geography and climate. Like a snowflake that has gently fallen onto the earth, it creates an architectural poetry that settles into its locale, while simultaneously expressing itself as a surreal, interstellar space of future air travel. As the capital of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin occupies an important strategic position in…
Peter Pichler nestles tiny sustainable tree houses into the rugged landscape of west Virginia. Text description provided by the architects. Milan based studio Peter Pichler Architecture has developed a concept for sustainable tree houses in the forest of the Italian Dolomites. The tree houses are an addition to an existing hotel and should create a new experience to live in the woods with a maximum connection to nature. The tree houses will form an addition to a destination hotel and are designed by the architect to afford guests with a new experience of living in the woods and maximum connection…
Al Janoub Stadium by Zaha Hadid Architects in Qatar The client’s brief was for a 40,000-seat football stadium for the 2022 World Cup which could be reduced to a 20,000-seat capacity in its legacy mode following the tournament. 20,000 seats are the optimum capacity for legacy use as the home ground to Al Wakrah Sport Club professional football team of the Qatar Stars national league. These temporary seats have been designed to be demountable and transportable to a developing country in need of sporting infrastructure for post-tournament usage. Further temporary accommodation such as concessions is required for the additional capacity…
Endesa World Fab Condenser designed by MARGEN-LAB is a thermodynamic prototype, a bioclimatic dome now installed in the currently changing Glorias Square (Barcelona) on the occasion of the BCN Fab10 congress (the tenth international conference on digital fabrication). The prototype explores connections between parametric design, passive climate strategies and local CNC manufacturing. It was designed on a global scale (Margen-Lab in collaboration with IAAC and the Fab Lab Network), the materials are renewable and have an organic origin (wood and linen, materials grown with the sun) and manufactured locally (industries and fabrication laboratories from Barcelona and vicinity). The prototype was designed (written in…