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Stay Crafty | HD | Episode 3 | MineDesign Office Part 2

Sat, 19 May 2012 20:20:11 +0000

Stay Crafty | HD Episode 3 | MineDesign Office Part 2 (featuring my wife Sublimey) SORRY ABOUT BLOWING INTO THE MIC… I’ll upgrade soon! Continued to build the office building "City Tech". Its moving along slow. Discussed "form follows function." Stay tune for bloopers at the end! -Gattaca //Texture Pack: Misa’s HD www.minecraftforum.net //Credits /Music: Renew by Gattaca AE + Royalty Free Music /Quote: "Form follows function" coined by Louis Sullivan, Great American Architect en.wikipedia.org

SCHOLLGLAS: The Crystal by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects …

Sat, 19 May 2012 20:20:11 +0000

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Copenhagen’s new architectural highlight ‘The
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In Copenhagen, while industrial and logistics companies are increasingly relocating to suburban areas of the city as a result of economic change, the attractive city-centre areas around the harbour are becoming service sector hubs. The Danish Nykredit Bank moved also with its headquarter to the habor district and expanded it additionally by one building this year. The eye-catching sculptural design is also from the Danish architectural office Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects as well as the main building.

Image © SCHOLLGLAS | Photographer: Adam Mørk

Prominently located with a view over the harbour, the struc-ture, emblematically named ‘The Crystal’, nestles between historical brick buildings and modern glazed architecture. Harmonising with the neighbouring buildings in terms of height and volume, the dynamic appearance of the structure, dictated by its glazed façades, is a real eye catcher. Depending on the incidence of light, the façade elements produce a reflective or transparent effect. The building envelope itself rises in a dramatic tilt above a hexagonal, gemstone-shaped floor plan. In contact with the ground at only a single point and a single line at its base, the structure culminates in an elevated apex stretching out towards the city. Below is the generous main entrance, where an impressive staircase leads visitors and employees into the bright, light-flooded interior. Two triangular atria rise up through all six levels and deliver natural light to all the workstations. By superpositioning the hexagonal floor plans over the two triangular atria, each individual floor is given a z-shaped layout, with the various areas interconnected by bridges, staircases and glazed lifts. As a whole, the architecture reflects the bank’s claim of operating transparently and flexibly, with the entire building characterised by a bright, transparent and inspiring atmos-phere.

Image © SCHOLLGLAS | Photographer: Adam Mørk

In order to create an open interior free of supports that could be used flexibly, the building’s complex supporting structure is located internally, directly behind the façade.

A welded-steel diagrid system distributes the load and gives the building its rigidity. On the outside of the steel grid, the envelope is formed by a mullion-transom construction with a double-skin glass façade. The façade incorporates triple-layer GEWE-therm® multi-function glass from SCHOLLGLAS, which provides effective thermal insulation and yet is neutral in transparency and appearance. These panes also feature TGI edge-bonding, a so-called ‘warm edge’. This edge-bonding system optimises the thermal transfer from frame to glass, thereby reducing energy con-sumption.

Image © SCHOLLGLAS | Photographer: Adam Mørk

Particularly in office buildings that incorporate a high per-centage of glass, the hazards of solar heating also require consideration. For this reason, GEWE-therm® sun featuring the highly-selective coating Planistar 70/40 was used for ‘The Crystal’. This glass delivers just the right amount of daylight into the interior for optimal vision, while simultaneously deflecting the longwave infrared radiation that is responsible for excessive interior heating. Adapted for the respective installation situation, the GEWE-therm® triple-pane insulating glass optimally fulfils a variety of requirements. For example, the glass was used as safety glass on the ground floor for balustrades and ceiling areas, and as stepped insulating glass for the frameless corner glazing on vertical corners.

Image © SCHOLLGLAS | Photographer: Adam Mørk

The building’s second façade skin comprises a GEWE-safe® laminated safety glass curtain wall made of highly durable GEWE-dur® single-pane safety glass in an aluminium frame. Some of the approximately 2000 panes are printed on the outside with a so-called ‘side one’ weather-proof ink, which was applied using ceramic silk-screen printing. 36 different dot matrix combinations developed from the architects’ fa-çade design produce various degrees of transparency on the façade. Depending on the angle of incidence, the light is either reflected or shines through, thus lending the building a multifaceted, crystal-type appearance.

Although only recently opened, this new architectural high-light in Copenhagen harbour has already been distinguished with the European Steel Award.

+ Project facts

Project: The Crystal, Head Quarter, Nykredit, Kopenhagen/DK
Client: Nykredit, Kopenhagen/DK
Architects: Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Kopenhagen/DK
Contractor: HS Hansen-Metallbau
Glass:
GEWE-safe® made out of GEWE-dur®:
Schollglas Technik Sachsen GmbH, Nossen, OT Heynitz/D
GEWE-therm® triple glazing:
Schollglas Technik GmbH, Insernhagen/DE
Photos: © SCHOLLGLAS, Photographer: Adam Mørk

AECCafe.com – ArchShowcase – Home-Office in Formentera, Spain …

Sat, 19 May 2012 20:20:11 +0000

Home-Office in Formentera, Spain by Marià Castelló Martínez

Article source: Marià Castelló Martínez

01. PLACE

Es Pujol de s’Era is a fairly representative fragment of the inland landscape of the island of Formentera. It comprises 33,022 square metres of wheat and barley fields, a small wood of common and Phoenician juniper and rosemary, and dry-stone walls on a practically flat topography.

The intervention seeks refuge among the existing vegetation and a fragment of dry-stone wall. These two conditions draw out the dimensions, the orientation and the height of a construction of austere geometry that bears some relation to the architectural tradition of Formentera.

North Facade With Wood Panels Open

Architects: Marià Castelló Martínez

Project: Home-Office

Location: Camí Vell de la Mola km. 2,3. Formentera, Spain

Promoter: Marià Castelló Martínez

Building engineer: Agustí Yern Ribas + Albert Yern Ribas

Structure: Albert Yern Ribas, José Antonio Molina, Salvador Soteras y Agustí Yern

Landscape view of North Facade

Collaborators: Marga Ferrer, Laura Tur, Carmen Martínez, Josep Castelló, Catalina Verdera, Jaume Luís, Segundo García, Pep Yern y Belén Molina.

Builder: Construccions Pep Sala SL

Finishes: Can Guirau SL – Alfredo Juan

Project: 2004-2011

End of work: 2011

Surface: 201 m²

Photography: Estudi EPDSE – taken on July-Agoust 2011

North Facade With Wood Panels Closed

A traditional dry-stone wall establishes the alignment in the territory and becomes part of the northern elevation of the building, at the same time setting it in the landscape. An old chapel built over an underground water cistern marks out the building’s longitudinal axis and is a constant reference of dialogue/tension, both in the exterior and the interior.

This is an architecture that seeks context by means of relations with its surroundings, shunning mimesis.

Winter Night View Of The Architecture Studio

02. PROGRAMME

The north-south orientation of the proposal generates a duality that was required by the programme and that the ground plan radi- cally synthesizes: segregation of the more public activity from private life.

The north side is the most exposed; it is clearly visible from kilometre 2.3 on the Camí Vell de la Mola, the main approach route.

On the north side there is a small architec- ture studio, repeated on the south side in the form of a space of identical dimensions, designed as a small dwelling-refuge for a couple.

Summer Night View Of The South Facade

As well as seeking sunlight, the orienta- tion of the refuge responds to the desire to appropriate the small wood of common and Phoenician juniper and rosemary that extends like a native garden, requiring no transformation or maintenance, and gener- ates a high level of privacy.

Between the studio and the dwelling is a nucleus of services that separates work from private life: bookshelves, files, bath- room, kitchen, beds, cupboards, installa- tions and two sliding walls to divide up the two main areas and create more intimate spaces, such as an annexed office or a guest room. This makes the house both flexible and multifunctional.

The envelope containing the programme (12×12 m) extends in the two main direc- tions, generating spaces of transition that are vital in these latitudes.

South Porch And Lounge Detail Of The Home Area

03. MATTER

The volume is defined by an envelope of rendered thermo-clay masonry and reinforced concrete. An extruded section represents the only part where masonry is used on the site. The other interior and exterior facings were dry assembled, using glass and iroko timber.

A small setback around the edge in section creates the sensation that the building is floating over the site. This is the transition between an artificial world and the pre- existing organic environment.

The side openings are conceived as slashes that rend the façade from top to bottom, fragmenting the east and west elevations and giving them a smaller “grain”.

With the idea of obtaining greater sobriety and harmony, the auxiliary elements and furnishings were specially designed, using the same materials employed for the dry-as- sembled elements of internal division.

Lounge Area Detail With South Porch Behind

Architecture Office Interior Detail

Working At The Office

Bathroom With Window On The East Facade

Interior Detail Of The Architecture Office At The Entrance Area

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Qingdao Masterplan by HAO + Archiland

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:25:41 +0000

Project: Qingdao Masterplan
Designed by Holm Architecture Office (HAO) + Archiland
Collaborators: Krag & Berglund, Cowi Beijing
Team: Jens Holm (HOA); Morten Holm, Tian Kun, Chen Pu, Adam Chapulski, Camilla Bundgaard, Yuxiaomin, Liulingling (Archiland); Jonas Berglung, Hans Kragh (Kragh & Berglund); Cowi Beijing
Size: 689 000 m²
Location: Qingdao, China
Website: www.holmarchitectureoffice.com & www.archiland-urban.com
The massive Qingdao Masterplan developed by Holm Architecture Office in collaboration with Archiland comes as an exquisite showcase of contemporary architecture.

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CCTV Headquarters / OMA

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:25:36 +0000

Today OMA participated in the official construction completion ceremony for the China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters in Beijing, which will start to be used later this year. Designed by OMA as a reinvention of the skyscraper as a loop, construction on the building began in 2004. At approximately 473, 000m2, CCTV – accommodating TV studios, offices, broadcasting and production facilities – is OMA’s largest ever project and its first major building in China.
CCTV defies the skyscraper’s typical quest for ultimate height. Rising from a common platform, two towers lean towards each other and eventually merge in a perpendicular, 75-metre cantilever. The design combines the entire process of TV-making – formerly scattered in various locations across the city – into a loop of interconnected activities.

The structure of the CCTV Headquarters, and the forces at work within it, is visible on its façade: a web of diagonals that becomes dense in areas of greater stress, looser and more open in areas requiring less support. The façade itself becomes a visual manifestation of the building’s structure.

Rem Koolhaas commented: “I am very happy, after years of intense collaboration, that the CCTV building will soon begin to perform its role in the way it is intended.”

The CCTV project was led by OMA / Rem Koolhaas, former OMA partner Ole Scheeren (until 2010), OMA partner David Gianotten and project manager Dongmei Yao in close collaboration with partners Shohei Shigematsu, Ellen van Loon and Victor van der Chijs. The design team consisted of project architects Anu Leinonen, Charles Berman and Adrianne Fisher together with a team of over 100 architects from OMA.

The structural and MEP design was provided by Cecil Balmond and Arup, while ECADI (East China Architectural Design & Research Institute) functioned as the Local Design Institute. Design Consultants included Front INC, Inside/Outside, DHV, DMJMH+N, Lerch Bates & Associates, LPA, Sandy Brown Associates and Romano Gatland NY.

Full project info here.

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