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Automotive Social Club

Teng Guo Yan Jiao Club Architecture

Automotive Social

Automotive Social Club is a building designed as a social space for car enthusiasts. The L-shaped structure stands on a triangular site between two railway tracks and covers 410 square meters. One part is a single story building with a repair shop, a cleaning workshop and a detailing workshop. The other part has two floors with a bar, sales and display areas, offices, a kitchen, a dining area and a terrace. Large interior steps separate the inner and outer zones. The facade is made of red and black pressed steel plates.

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Urban Construction Archives

DC Alliance Archives Architecture

Urban Construction

Ningbo Urban Construction Archives is an archive building located in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, China. The design interprets the history of the city as a history of construction. Buildings are understood as assemblies of blocks, so the archive is composed of stacked blocks that combine the properties of space and material. The blocks are grouped into three types: transparent, solid and special. The site area is 6567 square meters, with 17190 square meters of floor area on eleven levels above ground and 6405 square meters on two levels below ground.

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N12 House Residential

Masahiko Sato Residential Architecture

N12 House

N12 House is a two-storey weekend residence located in Asakura City, Japan. The house includes a built-in garage that presents the owner's car collection as an integral part of the design. Most of the volume is placed on the second floor, where a living room, a kitchen and a dining area form one open space. Large windows and a terrace balcony open the interior towards three directions and the surrounding views. Red cedar boards run from the interior ceiling to the sloping eaves of the terrace. Indirect lighting creates a warm and gentle atmosphere.

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Private Villa Juge Accommodation

Maiko Minami Accommodation Architecture

Private Villa Juge

The rental villa is located on a famed tourism spot in Higashiyama Kyoto. A Japanese architect Maiko Minami designs the villa to establish new value by creation a modern architecture incorporating Japanese ethos. With a fresh sensibility by reinterpretation of traditional method, the two story wooden villa is composed of three individual gardens, various glazed windows, Japanese Washi Papers reflecting the changing sunlight, and materials finished by bright tone. Those elements provide a seasonal atmosphere animatedly in its limited small property.

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Hamacho Hotel

Uds Ltd. Hotel Architecture

Hamacho

Hamacho is a hotel located in Nihonbashi Hamacho, Tokyo, Japan. The building has 15 floors and one basement level, and the structure is reinforced concrete. The hotel occupies the front half of the building, while apartments are placed at the back. There are 170 guest rooms in total. The ground floor holds a restaurant and a shop that are open to the public. Board-formed concrete and plaster express local craftsmanship. Planting is stacked across the facade to form a vertical landscape and to reduce energy use. Lightweight artificial soil limits the load and controls root growth.

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Ningbo Hanvos School education building

DC Alliance education building Architecture

Ningbo Hanvos School

Ningbo Hanvos School is an education building designed for an international teaching model on a limited site. The main challenge was the conflict between the small plot and the need for a large playground. The design asks for space from the sky: the core public spaces are placed on top of the building terraces, while the basic classrooms are set below. The folded courtyard concept divides the site into courtyards for teaching, activities, administration and recreation. Vertical terraces connect the levels and turn circulation into shared activity.

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Hi Ladders High Pavilion

Li Hao Pavilion Architecture

Hi Ladders High

Hi Ladders High is a pavilion built at a summer camp of a primary school in Luotian County, Hubei Province, China. The structure consists of twenty independent wooden ladders cut and polished from China fir. Each ladder is stable and has an adjustable angle of inclination, so many spatial combinations are possible. Children without architectural training took part in the whole design and construction process. Common rural objects, such as ladders, transparent tablecloths and cardboard, are given new functions. The pavilion offers an open place for games and camp events.

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Amadai Center Multifunctional Building

Notash Ghajar Dadjoo Multifunctional Building Architecture

Amadai Center

Birthing, flourishing and the paradox of roughness and elegance, extracted from regional mountainous landscape, lie at the heart of this project design concept. In giving birth, head appears first so by burying half of the building other half seems to head-out of ground. The conceptual paradox appears in building’s heavy forms head-out of its green context which flourished from inside through its infiltrated open spaces. Visibility from city-to-site and otherwise, sustainability, contextual design, local heritage and enhancement of ecological and social aspects of project take place in design.

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Shandong Dongping Landscape Residence

Yun Lu Landscape Residence Architecture

Shandong Dongping

Shandong Dongping is a residential community in Dongping, Shandong Province, China. The plan is inspired by the movement of fish swarms. Surrounding landscape and buildings converge in a central landscape, forming a continuous shared space. All residential blocks face south to receive maximum sunlight. Large glass curtain walls on the south facade provide light and open views. Horizontal aluminium louvres on the north corridor facade form a partly opening surface. Staggered floor slabs create local diamond patterns. The design opens the ground level and sky gardens to shared use.

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Radiance Iris Social Housing Complex

Vigneswar Vasulingam Sivanesan Social Housing Complex Architecture

Radiance Iris

Radiance Iris is a social housing complex located in Bangalore, India. The project contains 77 row-houses arranged along a central spine path with ten branches. Each branch forms a courtyard shared by six homes. Six unit types range from 160 to 250 square meters. A semi-open clubhouse of 1400 square meters stands at the entrance, and an open park with an amphitheatre closes the other end. Ninety percent of the existing trees were preserved. Each home receives natural light and ventilation while privacy is maintained.

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Montecarmelo Townhouses Family Housing

Joaquín Family Housing Architecture

Montecarmelo Townhouses

Montecarmelo Townhouses is a family housing project in Madrid, Spain. The design responds to a neighbourhood of terraced houses with a repetitive and aligned appearance. The facades are covered with rough brick screens that shade the interiors from the sun. The idea comes from traditional sun protection systems, such as the esparto blinds found in the vernacular architecture of southern and eastern Spain. The bricks are larger than the standard size and are laid vertically. The built area is 586.4 square metres. The work was carried out between October 2017 and March 2019.

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Majlis Private Club House

Ardh Architects Private Club House Architecture

Majlis

Majlis is a private club house designed for hospitality in Dubai. The name Majlis is an Arabic term for a formal gathering space, and in Arabic culture the term also covers buildings made for private hospitality. The single storey building has an L-shaped plan on a plot of 60 by 60 meters. The layout includes formal and casual living and dining areas, two ensuite bedrooms, an office and a detached service block with a kitchen. Stone cladding, marble interiors, triple glazing and a shading canopy suit the desert climate.

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