A SES Spar European Shopping Center | Siska | Slovenia | ATP

Highly ambitious in the area of sustainability, the centre will provide work for 700 people and will include around 90 shops with a combined retail area of 32,000 m2 as well as a wide range of leisure options at roof level, a public forecourt for events and “urban balconies” with restaurants and bars.
The amorphous design of the building allows it to nestle comfortably into its urban context. The Shopping Centre is not an introverted building, but searches for contact to the environment: The key axes of the shopping centre are public and free of traffic. The square located in front of the main entrance acts to integrate the shopping centre into the public life of the district. Visitors enter the mall through the jaws of the entrance to the rear of the public square. By carefully managing the positioning of the retail and restaurant elements of the centre, the design ensures that the square will remain busy long after the shops are closed.......more

Residential Development | Heliopolis Club | Pune | India | Planet 3 Studio

Breaking free of standard issue orthogonal floor plans, this premium residential development in Pune combines the best of cutting edge structural engineering and future-forward contemporary styling. With massive cantilevered blocks anchored to a steel structural frame, sky-gardens at multiple levels, panoramic 360 degree views from all apartments and intelligent embedded technologies, this development raises the bar for such buildings worldwide. Province, Banglore.....more

Shipping and transport college | Rotterdam | Capezed

Not-realized maritime education building, designed as a striking eye-catcher, intended for a marvellous location at the head of the Lloyd Pier in Rotterdam, directly on the River Maas near the Euromast. The building fits well into the scale of the surrounding harbour architecture and, just like the adjoining former warehouse Sint Jacobsveem, consists of a simple main volume. However, that is the full extent of the similarity. The building has been designed as an enormous transparent ship with a second skin of horizontal slats. The plinth accommodates the large, two-storey communal areas such as the central hall, the infotheque, the sports centre, and the auditorium. The heart of the building houses the technological areas and simulators, while the place with the most splendid view is reserved for the restaurant with a pavement café on the quayside. Escalators lead to the upper floors with the other functions. The classrooms and practical rooms are situated on the first floor. The top floor houses the administration and management functions. The floors are mutually connected by stairs and inclines, and can be partitioned as required so that each department can create its own distinct identity.......more

Museum of Conflict in Tripoli, Libya | Metropolitan Workshop

Metropolitan Workshop has won a closed competition for the new Museum of Conflict in Tripoli, Libya. The museum will house permanent and special exhibitions providing a unique platform to showcase Libya’s national story on a local and international level and educate future generations of the price of war.

The building’s main design concept is inspired by tented structures used by the Bedouin.
The 12,000 sqm museum will be enclosed by a light weight, camouflaging ‘veil’, giving the building a dynamic, environmentally responsive and functional form.

The project site is located west of the city centre within the planned green belt and is near significant existing and planned public buildings such as the People’s Hall. The museum spaces are partially sunk into the ground and use the surrounding topography to integrate the building into the existing and proposed landscape. This includes a poppy field garden of remembrance that will flank the approach to the main entrance.....more

Taipei Performing Arts Center | Taipei | NEIL M. DENARI ARCHITECTS

Like all Asian cities, Taipei has undergone tremendous growth in the last decade, symbolized not only by Taipei 101, the world’s tallest building, but also by the rapid proliferation of banal residential towers, perhaps the worst fall-out, architectural speaking, of the high powered Asian economy. While more and more people find adequate housing, cities are becoming less and less captivating, as the global migration of capital seems to often do more damage than good. Nonetheless, a pressurized vertical ecology of architecture offers the city density and a kind of sustained energy that is at the heart of urban life. The particular site for the Taipei PAC is a case study in shifting scales, witnessed by the 45-50 meter tall neoclassical apartment buildings that now line the South and West streets bordering the site. While the Shilin Market to the north has resisted the infiltration of the high rise type, the fall of the low rise city around it indicates a trend toward large scale future developments. Indeed, the TPAC site is pressured by such widespread architectural conservatism, a phenomena that is dramatically countered by Qixing Mountain to the East, a verdant green surface with little built incursions......more

Architectural Design Competition | Grand Egyptian Museum | Giza, Egypt | inFORM Studio

The program required a sophisticated investigation into circulation patterns and adjacencies. The concept of hypertext allows one to navigate through large volumes of documents and data, and connect these documents (objects) together in meaningful ways. The strength of hypertext is that the meaning can be fluid and is based on context and adjacencies. Hypertext also denotes continuity. The system cannot be exhausted, as it is nonlinear. Each alternative circulation sequence within the same space creates new associations and deepens the understanding and knowledge of the visitor to the museum. The circulation system is constructed of constant, gradually sloping floor plates. This allows visitors to move within three dimensional space effortlessly, fully immersed into the experience of the collection. One is only disengaged by the experience as a matter of choice, not predicated by coming to the end of a linear sequence by having to shift to stairs or an elevator to another level. The display circulation has no true beginning or end. The circulation remains fluid on static architectural plates with no prescribed route but an endlessly evolving physical information system......more

Psychiatric hospital | La Couronne | France | A/ZC

A space destined for the care of body and mind, the hospital is above all a place of life, sensitive and interactive, a direct extension of the nature that surrounds it. The building’s distribution pattern is organized in the form of an X around a central space resting at the heart of the site where all the activity rooms are to be found. This pattern is the result of an analysis of the hospital’s internal functioning, as well as an effort to augment the site’s landscape possibilities. The three accommodation wings, as well as the wing for administration and logistics, emanate from this core : each of the four arms are formed by an alternation of full and empty, of building and garden, of exterior and interior spaces. Thus, gardens penetrate the heart of the project.
All the site’s locations have not only an unencumbered view of the landscape, but in addition the possibility of direct access to gardens, as well as to a continuous, protected platform running along the perimeter of the building. The pathways are large curvatures that create a significant amount of fluidity among the spaces. The project draws in part on the natural slope of the site : with the building actually embedded into the slope, the roof becomes a natural extension of the land. Arriving by road, one perceives this continuity in the landscape as the roof gradually “detaches” itself from the site, allowing the project to develop in this in-between area.....more

Open architectural competition 2009 | Food hall | Bergen | Atelier Oslo

Fish market in Bergen today consists of a number of temporary and mobile stalls. The municipality wanted to build a fishing hall with attached storage that can replace the temporary stalls, as well as a garage for the mobile stalls.

Intentions
Our proposal combines light, construction and historic traces in a simple and functional building. Support functions fryselagere and toilets form a massive volume of the street at the rear of the lot, a robust bymøbel for example bus stops, benches, bicycle, poster / information fit.

The roof structure collars from this massive volume. Fisk Hall is an open column free space, an uninterrupted continuation of kaiflaten with maximum visual contact with the pier.

One continuous floor where all functions are placed creates a functional operating conditions. More inputs and a column-free room open for many furniture options, and that the fish hall can be divided zones for different opening hours....more

2012 European Capital of Culture | Maribor,Slovenia | NEIL M. DENARI ARCHITECTS

As the 2012 European Capital of Culture, the future of Maribor will arrive in a hurry for this intimate, vibrant city. There is therefore, an urgency about what this future will provide for the people there and to what extent the new UGM will accelerate the conditions of urban life. Museums, as we know, don’t simply reflect the identity of a city, they transform identities through the material life of architecture. In this, a building must have the nerve to respond to a particular cultural energy, to be assertive, but how? In what way? At what cost?
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The UGM is a 15,000 square meter contemporary art museum in Slovenia’s second largest city. With temporary and permanent galleries as its core function, the building also operates as a community and cultural center that houses three restaurants, a library, and a children’s museum.
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The most important condition of this project is the context. Even more than the program, the site demands manifold responses because of its ever changing views, peripheries, and topographic nuances. We have worked desperately to develop a project that “fits” the site in terms of massing and circulation, not only out of respect for the historical and geographic aspects of Maribor, but also of out of movement and acceleration. Indeed, while the site demands an understanding of place making in the traditional sense, the program demands that culture flows through the site. The project must address the static and the active at the same.
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We have invested most of the open space requirements in a large plaza / passageway that unites four major program elements at that level: the two level city living room of the UGM, the Architectural Center, and the studios and support spaces for the Creative Business Center. This deployment of programs across the footprint of the site will constantly activate the main plaza fronting the Drava River and its new edge condition and will allow it to remain a part of public space. By hollowing out the site on a loosely diagonal line, visitors and neighbors alike will be able to freely circulate through the complex enjoying an array of architectural micro-climates (led media ceiling, outdoor dining, residential scaled activities, etc.)....more

Tower in Jakarta | Indonesia | PT Group

Advancing the lessons learnt from the design of the 1001m Tower in Jakarta, an investigation was commissioned into a 1200m Tower for Jakarta as a monument for the same local entrepreneur. Again, using similar concepts to the previous design, the 1200m Tower is divided vertically into three main functional zones: offices, hotel and apartments. This time, the site does not straddle a highway. Consequently, a tripod form is used. With a Y-shaped floor plate at the base tapering to an arrowhead at the top, a planning grid which is based on the equilateral triangle allows for hexagonal and triangular spaces. Express lifts serve the sky lobbies from the main lobby at ground level. From the sky lobbies, lifts serve each floor of the respective zones. Displaying its structural logic through triangulation, this landmark uses the trussed frame to provide stability and silver metallic curtain walling as external cladding......more

Media and Cultural City | Tripoli, Libya | AStudio

Winner of Big Urban Projects Category MIPIM Future Projects Awards 2008

The site for the Media and Cultural City is located close to the old city centre, surrounded by the main cultural street with public buildings to the north and a busy dual carriageway to the south.

The zoning of the proposed cultural, commercial and media activities responds to the characters of the surrounding streets with the main cultural buildings located to the north, commercial buildings to the east and media buildings to the south.

The various activities are united around a central square. The Opera House forms the main focus of the Media and Cultural City and its design is part of a holistic approach aimed at the creation of a high quality public realm. The experience of the Media and Cultural City starts by enhancing the outdoor environment. A grid of canopies varying in height and size control the temperature and humidity whilst providing shade and filtering daylight.....more

The Canadian Museum of Human Rights Competition | inFORM Studio

The Canadian Museum of Human Rights Competition recognizes the participation of some of the most celebrated architects of our time. Thirty selectively chosen architects were commissioned to design an iconic and innovative museum space to address the issue of intolerance and inspire the world.

The Forks site epitomizes the semiotics of meeting through its historical past and physical geography. The notion of intersection, convergence, and intertwining between rivers and land provide a rich palette in which to weave a profound program. The physical institution ought to redefine the seriousness of the place and yet resonate a sense of harmony with it. The promenade and park along the river, that include the Oodena Celebration Circle, the Healing Rock and a variety of contemplative spaces and sculptures, engender a quality of procession that present a sense of intersection through landscape. Topographical manipulations of the landscape allow the program to occupy the earth, the sky and the datum between the two.......more

Hospital Knokke-Heist | BUROII

The temporary association AAPROG - BOECKX - BUROII won the ambitious competition of vzw Gezondheidszorg Oostkust for a new hospital in Knokke-Heist at the Belgian coast. The grounds where the hospital will be built, is 20 hectares large. The new health care facility contains a hospital, a rehabilitation centre, a care hotel, an outpatients’ clinic, lecture halls, public events’ spaces and a helicopter landing platform. The challenges and ambitions of the new hospital go from being original, highly functional and future-oriented to sustainable and in any case, conserve the rural character of the environment.

The new hospital seemingly levitates above the landscape and is dominated by nature and light as far as the technical rooms below the ground floor. The transition between outside and inside, between the care facilities and the public spaces is almost seamless resulting in an inviting and inspiring context of care. The design is a striking example of “living architecture”: sustainable design and construction with a special eye for integration in the natural landscape, ecological energy and used materials.
The particular approach from a true multi-disciplinary team means a rupture in the traditional approach in architecture and established a precedent in the open consideration and collaboration at every level: from concept and design, planning, constructing to occupation and future evolution. The design team realized a true break through away from the tradition of hospitals as functional boxes with sterile spaces and instead directed itself towards a harmony of medical functions, personal relief and comfort and social interaction. ......more

Office Building of the Future | Temperate Climate | William Mc Donough + Partners

In the fall of 2006, Fortune magazine asked William McDonough + Partners to share its vision of a building of the future. Instead of attempting to predict the conditions decades or centuries away, the firm looked at the technologies that exist now but that have not been utilized to their full potential.

The result is a structure that is not just kind to nature; it actually imitates nature by making oxygen, distilling water and producing energy. In effect, a building that is like a tree, standing in a city that is like a forest. From solar panels that produce power to tree-filled terraces that recycle water, the building will work, quite literally, from the inside out. The structure, envelope, and mechanical systems of the building merge into super-thin, smart skins that automatically adjust to the sun and wind like a living, breathing organism. This tower shows the way urban centers can get closer to nature—and in the process keep neighborhoods and cities vibrant and healthy.......more

Architectural Design Competition | Orthodox center | Paris | A/ZC

Status
Competition 2010

Client
Russian Federation

Team
A/ZC

Cost/Size
15 M€ / 5750 m²
Program
Orthodox church, cultural center, offices.....more

Boutique Hotel | Pleat Tower | Dror

A play on the simplistic way of exploring the strength and structure inherent in a folded form. We refer to it as a horizontal tower.

Project PLEAT TOWER
Location -
Program 40,000 FT² BOUTIQUE HOTEL
Client -
Cost -
Type PROPOSAL
Date 2007
Status DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

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The reconstuction Of Buda Castle | Atelier Peter Kis

Our final conceptual elements included:
A lengthwise section of the building to exhibit a sequence of comman public spaces and paths
The raising of a new block that discourages competition between the 2 units and molds them together to compliment eachother - ultimatley acting as a whole
A roof overhanging as a new level above the extant acting as a solution to re-heighten the HP building to the original dimensions......more