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Practice as Autonomous Object

Cultural center for Sinthian

Architect: Toshiko Mori

The design is a parametric transformation of the traditional pitched roof, which is inverted in order to collect rainwater. Distributed around two courtyards, the complex will be raised with local building materials and methods, with elements made of bamboo and blocks of rammed earth. The openwork walls will contribute to thermal comfort .The building features a sweeping, undulating roof, curved around two large open spaces for performances and events. At either end are two artists’ residences, where brickwork vents—meant to evoke the patterns of brickwork from the Bauhaus’s Josef Albers—are functional as well, letting air in and keeping dust out.* The constraints of the Sinthian project have forced the architects to be highly innovative, uniting form and function so that each element can serve multiple purposes. The roof’s complex geometries—achieved using simple, local materials like bamboo and thatch—are designed to catch 30 percent of  the community’s water needs. 

Toshiko Mori

Image credit: Toshiko Mori Architect TMA

William Kenney_Slow House

Architect: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Location: North Haven, NY
Type: Private Residence
Year: 1991 ( Not Built )



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The Slow House Diorama from jbonifaz on Vimeo.

“There is no front facade, only a front door. The weekend house is conceived as a passage from physical entry to optical departure or, simply, a door to a window. Beyond the door, a knife-edge cuts the receding 100’ ft long passage in two. To the left is a sequence of bedrooms and baths. To the right is the ascent to the kitchen and living area. At the far end is the ocean view. To either side of the “picture window” are two antenna-like stacks: the chimney is to the right, the video apparatus to the left. At the summit of the left stack sits a live video camera directed at the water view and feeding the monitor in front of the picture window. ” -Diller Scofidio + Renfro

(http://www.dsrny.com/projects/slow-house)

 

James Howe_Peter Zumthor Therme Vals

Abhiram Sharma_Vanna Venturi House

Designer : Venturi Scott Brown 

Location : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Type : Residential
Construction: 1962-1964
Floor Area: 1800 sqft

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(Source: Venturi, Robert. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2011.)

(Source: Clark, Roger H., and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2012.)

(Source: Clark, Roger H., and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2012.)

Ford Allison_Dominion Tower

DOMINION TOWER

Designer : Zaha Hadid, Patrick Schumacher Location : Dubrovka, Moskva, Russia

Type : Multi-use Office Building

Construction: 2012 - 2015 Site Area: -- sqm Floor Area: 21,184 sqm

Built-Up Area: 25,700 sqm

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From the architect. Located in Moscow’s Sharikopodshipnikovskaya Street, next to tram and trolleybus stops and near Dubrovka Station on the Lyublinskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, the Dominion Office Building is among the first of the new projects to be built for the growing creative and IT sectors in this primarily industrial and residential district in the southeast of the city.

 

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The building's concept is centered around a series of vertically stacked plates offset at each level with connecting curved elements, with a central atrium which rises through the stacked levels to allow natural light to penetrate each layer of the building. Each level contains a balcony which projects into the atrium in correspondence to the displacement of the outer envelope and are interconnected via a series of staircases cutting through this vertical central space.

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The atrium is viewed as a shared space within the building and encourages interaction and even collaboration among the different businesses which occupy the offices. It juts upwards through the vertical stacks wherein a hierarchical organization of program unfurls, creating a sense of cohesion despite the vertical delineation. The ground floor contains a restaurant as well as a number of relaxation spaces and access to the terrace.

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The offices are arranged in a rectilinear spread peripherally around the atrium, and are designed to allow for flexible usages and spaces as well as the potential for creative collaboration.

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Sources: 1. http://www.archdaily.com/774528/dominion-office-building-zaha-hadid-architects 2. http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/dominion-tower/ 3. http://youtube.com

Donnelly Shane_Dalian International Conference Center

By: Coop Himmelb(l)au

Location: Dalian, China

Type: Cultural Center, Convention Center, Mixed Use Space

Site Area: 40,000 msq

Footprint: 33,000 msq

Buildtime: 2008-2012

Height: Eight Stories

(Photos: http://www.archdaily.com/405787/dalian-international-conference-center-coop-himmelb-l-au)

Head designer Wolf D. Prix vision for this building was to create a new landmark for the city of Dalian, a urban hub for the downtown core that incorporated public access and multi-use spaces. "The urban design task of the Dalian International Conference Center is to create an instantly recognizable landmark at the terminal point of the future extension of the main city axis. As its focal point the building will be anchored in the mental landscape of the population and the international community. The footprint of the building on the site is therefore arranged in accordance with the orientation of the two major urban axis which merge in front of the building. The cantilevering conference spaces that penetrate the facades create a spatially multifaceted building volume and differentiate the close surroundings.

The various theaters and conference spaces are covered by a cone-shaped roof screen. Through controlled daylight input good spatial orientation for the visitors and atmospheric variety is assured." Through these new public accesses and ways, the building is able to engage the greater community and act as confluence to this new core of the city.

The building's program is made up of a public ground level, which then has the theater, opera, convention spaces, conference rooms, and flexible areas that shift up from the ground floor. The skin is then pulled tight across the programmatic spaces, and openings are punctured into it to best maximize natural lighting, temperature, and the overall parametric appearance of the structure. 

(http://www.coop-himmelblau.at/architecture/projects/dalian-international-conference-center/)

Xingyi Zhang_Los Manantiales / Felix Candela

Architects

Felix Candela

Location

Canal Principal, San Jerónimo, Xochimilco, 16420 Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico

Architect in Charge

Felix Candela

Design Team

Colin Faber

Project Year

1958

With the design for Los Manantiales, Felix Candela’s experimental form finding gave rise to an efficient, elegant, and enduring work of structural art.  Comprised of four intersecting hypars,  a strikingly thin roof surface creates a dramatic dining space.

 

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The roof is a circular array of four curved-edge hypar saddles that intersect at the center point, resulting in an eight-sided groined vault. The plan is radially symmetric with a maximum diameter of 139 feet. Groins spanning 106 feet between supports.  Trimmed at the perimeter to form a canted parabolic overhang, the shell simultaneously rises up and out at each undulation.  The force paths from these overhangs act in the opposite direction from forces along the arched groin, reducing outward thrust.

Diagram for Hyper Forms(Credit:Archdaily)

The largest membrane forces are carried along the intersections between the forms, called the groins.  This areas are thickened by creating hidden steel reinforced “V” beams. The rest of the structure has minimal reinforcing to address creep and temperature effects, but essentially works entirely in compression.  The symmetrical plan and innovative use of “V” beams allows edges free of stiffening beams, revealing the radical thickness of the 4cm (1 ½”) shell. 

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Narrow boards were used as formwork, following the straight-line generator that forms the hypar surface.  Steel reinforcing and a layer of cement grout (to create a smooth inner surface) underlie concrete applied one bucket at a time by laborers.

Los Manantiales is still operated as a restaurant today.

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Photo Credit: wikiarquitectura

Photo Credit: wikiarquitectura

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Archdaily,AD Classics: Los Manantiales / Felix CandelaSources

Burger, Noah and Billington, David P. “Felix Candela, Elegance and Endurance: an examination of the Xochmilco Shell.” Journal of the International Association for  Shell and Spatial Structures: IASS. Volume 27 (2006) No. 3, December n. 152,  pgs 271-278.

Guthrie, Jill, editor. Felix Candela: Engineer, Building, Structural Artist. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2008.

“Recent work of Mexico’s Felix Candela.” Progressive Architecture 40 (1959): 132-141.

Youtube,FELIX CANDELA, PARABOLOIDE HIPERBOLICA

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