Future Architecture | Hyper Future | OTA Plus

This project proposes a disparate trajectory of architecture: a dissension from current design practice, a design practice that is no longer confined to or constrained by a building code and standardization which inevitably lends itself to apathetic and conditioned users. Rather, this thesis probes a trajectory of architecture that capitalizes on an urban and architectural reconsideration of conditioning, via a design intervention of perpetually transforming space. This spatial strategy affords the user a higher level of self-awareness through re-conditioning, or what this proposal terms “hyper-conditioning.”......more

Multi Residential Housing | McNab Avenue Development Site | Footscray | Victoria | Australia | BKK

BKK are the lead consultant in the Grocon team appointed by Places Victoria (VicUrban) to develop the McNab Avenue Development Site, part of the Footscray Central Activities District. BKK’s initial role was to develop the overall site masterplan. This role has been expanded to include the design of Building 3 and the surrounding sub-precinct which includes a diverse range of community based programmes such as community kitchen, community gallery, retail spaces, childcare centre, gymnasium and flexible WOHO apartment spaces.......more

Cremorne Mixed-use Complex | Sydney | Australia | Architects EAT

A landmark mixed use development in Cremorne and a gateway into the Stonnington municipal. This project comprises of 14,000m2 of leasable retails and office spaces; 141 upmarket residential apartments arranged over two 5 & 8 storey buildings; and 2 underground levels of car parking. The planning of the development is highly permeable without compromising the privacy and security of the residential complex. It has ample of general public amenities for the user group both on street level and the roof top. The outcome of this project demonstrates the synergy of work and living..........more

Mixed Use Design Proposal | Xiamen Dream City | Synthesis Design + Architecture

The design concept for Xiamen Dream City integrates the project with its beachfrontsite by materializing as a series of buildings imbedded within an urban landscape deck that appears to emerge from the beach itself. The contour lines of the natural topography of the site are conceived as a dynamic vector field which has been activated by the strategic placement of key programmatic elements. These elements act as invisible forces which disturb the field and re-organize the arrangement of the contours to form a continuous and rippling surface of undulating dunes, canyons, and valleys which define a network of public plazas, linear gardens, and winding pathways at surface level. Below the surface, the deck peels away to reveal the contents of the low-rise buildings embedded within the landscape. The dynamic and cascading effect of the openings articulate a series of protected terraces, waterfront views, and sculptural north-facing roof lights for the retail, dining, and entertainment venues at lower levels........more

The BubblePop.Up Shop | Union Square Park | New York City | Pinkcloud

The BubblePop.Up Shop is a cubic modular retail store which utilizes bubble wrap as a triple-skin façade. The shop utilizes a two-in-one modular structural skeleton // shelf display system. Bubble wrap encases all modules in a waterproof skin, thereby providing insulation, transparency, and interactive texture. The BubblePop.Up Shop illuminates at night, with possibilities for a unique glowing pixel display to showcase merchandise within. As a completely pre-fabricated design, the shop can be quickly assembled on-site with only 2-3 people......more

Electric Night Swimming | Bioplurb | Coney Island | BanG Studio

Pollutants could be found in the mechanical remediation sites. Naturally, the plants colonized the machines. Soon, the plant concentration at the collection machines became so dense that the machines were scarcely identifiable. By the end of the decade, the plants had set the machines free. The new hybrid plant/machines roamed the canal looking for new pollution to eat. Scientists named this hybrid system the bioplurb.
In the last decade, much of the bioplurb has starved. The water is no longer rich pollution. What remains is a bio-industrial ruin. The 2050, bioplurb is a relic of an industrial past. No longer functioning in its former role, it has become an amenity in the canal and the surrounding neighborhood. Swimmers climb its stalks and dive off into the clean water. Its branches have infiltrated local architecture creating transient spaces. Larger root-balls straddle the canal creating new and unplanned crossings.

The bioplurb has given a new identity to Gowanus. Its bioluminescence illuminates the canal at night. The locals swim at all hours under its soft glow. By reference to Coney Island, the locals call their night activity, “Electric Swimming.”........more

Agriculture Museum of Culiacan | Competition Finalist | Mexico | a10 Studio

One of the most internationally recognized emblems of Mexico,and particularly of the State of Sinaloa, is its agricultural production. The state of Sinaloa is known as the "granary of Mexico" because it is the producer of a big variety of food.
Its efficient fields have become national leaders in their yields. Because the economy of Sinaloa is sustained by its agricultural activities, the project seeks to recognize it and promote it, through a project that displays objects related to branches of technology, history of agriculture and agronomy as well as agricultural ways which sustain the economy of Sinaloa.

Through the creation of the Museum of Agriculture the city goverment tries to allow the public to learn more about the forms of production in the locality, while recognizing both the agricultural practice as such, and those who make possible such a noble activity.......more

Architectural Design Competition | The Art Academies Complex | Cetinje | Montenegro | Spring Studio

The surface of the ground is an abstract layer on which the different streams of people, movements, forces etc. operate. Physical structure is the next level and it is directly connected to these streams. It responds to them, confronts them or directs them. The concept of the system of the two spatially functional trajectories through the complex is treated in every of all possible manners.
The first trajectory has gone one level upward using the existing structure and doing so it has received the largest part of the required programme. This has liberated the surface area of the terrain for the other trajectory, which has, starting from the public access, gone one level downwards liberating the terrain for the public, park spatial facilities, open air stages, amphitheatres, playgrounds which are directly connected to the content of the first trajectory. These two spatial and functional trajectories are interconnected by the flux of the users and the technique in which the system is functioning......more

Architectural Design Competition | Convention Centre | Marseille | France | Marco Bernardini Architects

The building, in the shape of a C, will house in its interior the sea, the water of the gulf of Marseille will in-fact penetrate between the horizontal storeys of the building, the one with the convention centre and the one with the exhibition area, creating an actual Square of water, capable of hosting fishing boats, sail boats or simply to serve as a pool and as a dock for small pleasure boats...........more

Skyscaper Design | Toer G | Chengdu | China | Y Design Studio

The design concept of “Tower G” was influenced heavily by the rich natural setting of the city landform and historical environment. It has a clear vision towards achieving an iconic statement by placing the tower as a city gate for both the master plan development and the city of Chengdu. The building concept, structure placement and outer design fully respect and embrace the garden-city lifestyle. Each green layer of the building design expressed by the rotational green balcony creates both openness and privacy, enabling a flexible space. Architectural details and features in the design considers efficient energy use and seeks cooperation between natural vegetation and architecture, enhancing the quality of living as well as leading to sustainable development......more

Fundecor HQ | Sarapiqui | Costa Rica | MAST

The overall approach is driven by the site-specific requirements of Sarapiqui: demanding minimum interference with the surroundings, yet establishing a clear visual interaction with the jungle. Given the context; a protected national park, the main design challenge is how to create a building that can integrate into the atmospheric layers of the Jungle while simultaneously leaving a minimal footprint in terms off tear & wear on the forest. A lightweight and light permeable façade principle came up ad the solution. The Building is highly sustainable & at the same time the façade is emphasizing the particular atmosphere of the jungle.......more

Monterey Park Performing Arts Center | Monterey Park | California | Heerim Architects

Monterey Park Performing Arts Center, MPPAC, is a mixed-use arts complex in Monterey Park, California with programs including a 3,000-seat performance hall, 5-star hotel, live/work condos, offices, a revolving restaurant and 400+ underground parking spaces. H’s design redefines the relationship among the performance hall, supporting programs and outdoor landscaped plaza, while articulating the beauty, harmony, and poetic movements from the artistry of diverse performing arts.

An elevated landscaped plaza, free from vehicular disturbance, allows easy pedestrian circulation among the various buildings, which mark the periphery of the site with double-skin mesh membrane exteriors. The continuous curvilinearity in the building placement not only creates a monolithic presence of the complex, but also provides visitors and residents optimum views toward downtown Los Angeles and the surrounding regions.

Also connecting the program is a continuous sloped roof, representing the trajectory gestures of a music conductor, which culminates over the performance hall. An infinity wall between the performing stage and the landscaped plaza transforms the hall into an indoor and outdoor theater offering an innovative audience experience.

Located 8 miles from downtown Los Angeles, MPPAC aims to become a complex which will serve the local Asian community and the southern California area as the epicenter for international pop culture and arts.

Architectural Design Competition | Sohar Bank Headquarters | Muscat | Oman | Estudio Lamela

Competition bases set out areas for exclusive use of the Bank Sohar and rent areas as the remains.
Due to the climatology changes so uneven and extreme, concept design was based on the scheme of the omani fortress as the main reference, leaving the bank offices upside in a privileged zone with more security and under the potential image of the building and destinating the offices of the levels below under the protection of the shadows.
The access to both different type of offices was separated because the security and image. There are only two holes in the massive plinth that answer to this scheme of separated access, in order to protect from the wind the patio inside as an oasis in the heart of the building.
Private parking areas for the bank rest underground meanwhile parking for the visitors stayed under the shadow of the palm trees.......more

Sustainable Office Building | Spiretec | Greater Noida | India | Eric Owen Moss

A single, unifying planning and design strategy, using the environmental properties of the region, integrates the site planning and design of the new building with the site plan for the six surrounding office structures.
The center of the site is minimally excavated to create a primary water feature as a consequence of the existing elevated floodplain. A park filled with indigenous landscaping surrounds the natural water feature, with a terraced, landscaped public walk.
The new building form is a direct consequence both of sun orientation, and of the two given plan and height obligations. The new building volume descends in height from west to east, as proscribed by the project zoning envelope, and as it descends, the volume shifts from south to north as the given site plan requires. Building surfaces maximize sun orientation for photovoltaic applications, and adjustable louvers provide shading. Courtyards at either end of the building are shaped by the movement of the sun to provide natural day lighting.
The ground floor lobbies of all proposed structures are connected with an enclosed walkway, unifying the pedestrian movement across the site.........more