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The design of this house is a continuation of a ‘building in the forest’ research done by BAK arquitectos, which started in 2004 with the design of their first house in Mar Azul. The architects examine the possibility of building without losing the environmental quality of the site, proposing alternatives to ensure the survival of natural environments. This involves a Minimal Architecture in terms of not only of form but in materials and particularly minimum site intervention. This is achieved by ‘listening to the forest’ and what the site tries to communicate, along with practicing ‘seeing for the first time’ on behalf of the architects.
The low budget along with the no maintenance requirement set the aesthetic and construction limitations of the project. High compact, waterproof, fair faced concrete provided the necessary insulation and covered the no maintenance factor. The use of glass captures natural light and allows views of the landscape in all directions.
Casa JD has two bedrooms with the flexibility to transform part of the large living/dining space into a third one, a kitchen as well as generous outdoor spaces. The design concept is based on two intersecting prisms situated on a naturally inclined site within the trees, in this way hiding part of its volume. The trees seem to penetrate the house as wood, along with concrete, is a predominant feature of its interior. Wooden steps and a deck lead to the living room. Wooden sliding panels provide a seamless continuation of the exterior and the interior. This level of access is a unique space where different uses are defined by height differences caused by the intersection of prisms and cross sections of concrete walls. Except for the beds, couches and chairs the rest of the equipment of this housing is concrete cast.
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Posted: April 2, 2013 | Author: fc3arch | Filed under: Architecture, More FC3 | Tags: Architect, Contemporary, Design, Japan, Modern Architecture |
A Slice of Life for a Modern Family: In sharp contrast to the client’s previous Western-style dwelling, this open, loftlike house encourages togetherness—a quality of life still prized by the Japanese.
By Naomi R. Pollock, AIA
Conceptually, the quirky house on an L-shaped lot in the affluent outskirts of Osaka has a lot in common with a traditional Japanese dwelling. Fixed, internal walls are conspicuously absent, furnishings delineate functional zones, and the roof is the defining architectural element. It even has a hanare, or freestanding room separated from the main house. But any likeness between old and new comes to a screeching halt there. Called House K after the first letter of the client’s last name, the latest home from Sou Fujimoto—a Tokyo architect known to push residential design to extremes—is a single, swooping volume that emerges gently from the ground and then rapidly surges upward before tapering to a blunt point at the site’s east end. Studded with trees in giant steel planters, the sloped wedge of a house looks more like a man-made landform than a place to call home.
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Completion Date: July 2012
Size: 1,275 square feet
Total construction cost: withheld
Architect: Sou Fujimoto Architects
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Posted: March 29, 2013 | Author: fc3arch | Filed under: Architecture, More FC3, Uncategorized | Tags: Adidas, Apparel, Architecture, Clothes, Design, Fashion, FC3, Interiors, Nike, Sports, Under Armour |
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Posted: March 10, 2013 | Author: fc3arch | Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, More FC3, My Firm | Tags: Architect, Architecture, Design, DesignAllDayAndNight, FC3, NJ, Sandy, Spring Ahead, Transformation, TRANSFORMERS |
Commercial Transformation
The client is looking for modest cost effective design solutions to enhance his storefront on a main street of an urban center.
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Proposed Improvements
Residential Transformation
This home was impacted by Hurricane Sandy. The repairs and alternations will include aesthetic enhancements and updates.
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Posted: March 9, 2013 | Author: fc3arch | Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, More FC3, My Firm | Tags: Architecture, Design, DesignAllDayAndNight, Home, Spring Ahead |
Spring Ahead…. Spring is a perfect time to not only clean out your clutter – like the boxes in your garage you have been avoiding, but it’s an optimum time to meet with a design professional and consider different options to renovate your home. Whether you are looking to enhance your home for yourself or to re-sell, an Architect can help you get the most out of your project. Here are some quick sketches after 2 client meetings, where the clients were looking to update their kitchen. Once approved we will move on to design development and construction drawings, which can be used for obtaining pricing from contractors and permits for construction.
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Posted: March 4, 2013 | Author: fc3arch | Filed under: More FC3 | Tags: Architecture, China, Design, Simple |
This 4,100-square-foot, one-story house located in Shijia village, a province of Shaanxi, China, was completed in March 2012. Its concrete-column structure and mud-brick walls are surrounded by a perforated brick screen for daylight and ventilation. The kitchen, living room, bedrooms, and bathroom are interspersed with four courtyards for pigs and an underground biogas system that produces energy for cooking. “The house becomes an example of self-reliance,” writes Architect John Lin.
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Posted: February 27, 2013 | Author: fc3arch | Filed under: More FC3, Repost, Uncategorized | Tags: Design, Ideas, TED Talks |
In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to just ignore the ordinary stuff. Marketing guru Seth Godin spells out why, when it comes to getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas are more successful than boring ones.
Seth Godin is an entrepreneur and blogger who thinks about the marketing of ideas in the digital age. His newest interest: the tribes we lead. Full bio »
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Posted: February 4, 2013 | Author: fc3arch | Filed under: Architecture, More FC3, Uncategorized | Tags: Adidas, Apparel, Architecture, Clothes, Design, Fashion, FC3, Interiors, Nike, Sports, Under Armour |
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Posted: February 4, 2013 | Author: fc3arch | Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, More FC3, Uncategorized | Tags: Architecture, catskills, Children, Design, fc3applestock, Legos, NY, upstate, Woodstock |
My son Danny (age 5) loves my new project so much he decided to design and build his own “Modern House” using his gazillions of Legos blocks. He loves to watch me work on my Architecture projects everyday, so it was fun to take a break to see what he was up to today.
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Posted: January 27, 2013 | Author: fc3arch | Filed under: Architecture, Uncategorized | Tags: Architecture, Design, follies, ILMA, Just4Fun, unusual, weird |
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Every designer has been given some unusual things to design – Here are some of our favorites.
-Bill & Frank
10) “Man –cave” type room for woman called an “Estro-den”. Like a home office room for sewing, knitting, wet bar, 3 DVR mega video storage with disappearing TV in sewing cabinet.
9) Elevator that took you straight up to the attic “man-cave” from the first floor family room.
8) Office with an exterior door to a Japanese garden at the end of an airport runway. So quiet you could hear a plane drop.
7) Powder room with mirrors covering every inch of wall surface including the floor and the ceiling.
6) Complete kitchen inside master suite. Door to master suite could only be opened with a key from either side. Second marriage for man, first marriage for woman, He had custody of his previous kids. Kids were hard on the new wife, thus the locking master suite.
5) Recycling chute to drop recyclables from upstairs bedrooms into the basement.
4) Kids fort in attic space above entrance.
3) Design screened room addition for the family cat, with cat door, grass, window shelves for kitty bird observation activities.
2) Underground tunnel from house to garage
1) Kevlar bulletproof glass at counter with shot-gun slot to shoot “would’be” criminals.
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Posted: January 26, 2013 | Author: fc3arch | Filed under: Architecture, More FC3, Photography | Tags: #DesignAllNightAndDay, Architecture, Critique, Design, ILMA, Minimalism, Modern, Planning, Urban |
Spanish Architects Arranguren & Gallegos have converted a brewery in Madrid into a museum with an underground gallery and triangular windows.
The Colección ABC gathers the works of more than 1,500 artists of all styles, techniques and tendencies, with nearly 200,000 pieces. Following the collection’s development throughout its history will enable substantiating the consolidation of the most important illustrators, the role played by certain artists of the highest relevance, the diverse changes of taste and the different historical and social events narrated through these media.
This is a stunning project. I love the simplicity of the “plain” base below superimposed by the magnificence of the triangulation forms above. It definitely defines it’s self, like a billboard sign (Read Venturi’s: Learning from Las Vegas)
The juxtaposition of the modern forms placed in the old worn down historical context really turns me on. Very sexy indeed.
I would love to come around the corner and see this spectacle.
These details are well thought out and planned for a strong unifying design concept.
Simple Elegance
Great way to make a big impact on a tight urban site. The bright white modern forms really pop within its context.
The simple section is a bit deceiving. The latice structure empowers the design and informs the overall look of the project.
Love, love, love taking the forms from the facade and applying them to the plaza in a new way.
Roof Plan: The overall uniform design concept comes through in the skylights above. Very sharp.
This is a great space for chance encounters.
At night, the modern white lattice glows in soft blue, in bitter contrast to the bright red and white lights from the automobiles driving past as if to mark time.
Space and Form!
Again, the strength of this design is in it’s simplicity – an application of the facade, similar to the Italian plazas from long ago. There is something timeless about how the spaces and forms speak to one another – The facde, the bridge, the plaza.
The Plan: Simple Modern Elegance.
Architects: Aranguren & Gallegos Architects
Location: Madrid, Spain
Client: Grupo Vocento
Photos courtesy of Photographer João Pereira de Sousa AND Photographer Jesús Granada
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Posted: January 25, 2013 | Author: fc3arch | Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, More FC3 | Tags: Architect, Architecture, Design, ILMA, Ipad, Laser, MacbookPro, revit, Technology |
Hardware:
5. The “lazzzer” – documenting existing condition dimensions has never been easier, my brand of choice: Hilti
4. The laptop – today’s technology allows us to “Architect” on the go, great models available for both pc and mac platforms but be sure to max out RAM, video, and get a solid state harddrive; if you are going with a mac like me, check out this sound advise
3. Twin 30″ displays – for cad work and photoshop at the office, today there are great choices under $1,000 for each display
2. Mobile phone – responding to clients and contractors on the go, from Blackberrys to iPhones to Droids, Architects cannot be productive without one
1. The Tablet – great for referencing drawings in the field, meeting minutes, and notes, I love my iPad, it’s my favorite device, most effective for the price and syncs with all my other hardware, can’t image living without it, next time I’m upgrading from Wifi to a network plan so I can be limitless
Software:
5. Microsoft Project – manage projects utilizing this software to track milestones, durations, critical path activities, delays and recovery, from predesign to post-occupancy
4. Microsoft Suite – boring, yes, but still most effective way to prepare proposals, spreadsheets, and presentations
3. Adobe Photoshop – makes our cool projects look even cooler
2. Adobe Acrobat Pro – this is an unbelievable investment to help organize data for printing, distribution, and easy access, I can’t image not being able to use this software
1. Autodesk Revit – allows us to design and document our designs in 3-D, visualizing and presenting our ideas in a way unimaginable 20-30 years ago. Clients love the 3-D renderings and Architects love the ability to coordinate between plan, elevation, and section. It’s definitely worthy of the investment dollars to gain productivity and the ability to design in a “real” three dimension environment – You get to build the building “virtually” before building the building.
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Posted: January 23, 2013 | Author: fc3arch | Filed under: Architecture, JustArch | Tags: Architecture, CNN, Design, ILMA, Innovation, Love, News, Repost, Success |
Architect to build home using 3-D printer
- “Landscape House” will be built from blocks made with a 3-D printer, says its creator, Dutch Architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars.
(CNN) – A Dutch architect is thinking a little bigger about 3-D printing than the tiny-to-midsize trinkets we’ve seen so far.
He wants to print a house. And a pretty offbeat and innovative one at that.
“Landscape House” is the brainchild of architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars. He describes it as ”one surface folded in an endless Mobius band,” or sort of a giant figure 8. According to its creator, walking through its continuous looping design will seamlessly merge indoors and outdoors in an effort to model nature itself.
The house would cost between $5 million and $6 million, according to the BBC, and there’s already been interest expressed by museums, private individuals and others, according to Ruijssenaars. He told the network that someone in Brazil plans to buy one to display native art he’s found in a nearby national park.
All that would be innovative enough on its own. But to take it a step further, the architect plans to build “Landscape House” using the emerging technology of 3-D printing.
The woman who wants to ‘print’ buildings
Commercially available models like the MakerBot aren’t exactly up to the task. This requires a printer of enormous size. And Ruijssenaars found one in the D-Shape.
Described as a “mega-scale free form printer” by its makers, the massive aluminum structure uses sand, which it forms back into a material that’s like marble.
For “Landscape House,” it will be used to print out blocks that are about 20 feet by 30 feet. Those, along with some fiberglass and concrete reinforcements, will be used to create the building.
“3D printing is amazing,” Ruijssenaars told the BBC. “For me as an architect it’s been a nice way to construct this specific design — it has no beginning and no end, and with the 3-D printer we can make it look like that.”
He says his first “Landscape House” is expected to be completed by the end of 2014.
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