Weekly architecture news 2009/12/04

Monday, the 30th of November 2009

MAD PARK RESIDENCE
Seattle, USA
Vandeventer + Carlander Architects, llc.

The conceptual design of the Madison Park Residence is the resolution of the challenges and opportunities presented by the project site, the owner's program and budget, and an architectural exploration of form, material, and function. The goal was to achieve a synthesized design that meets the needs of the client while also investigating how a residence's architecture can be tested and transformed using new building technologies, materials, and methods ... read more

Tuesday, the 01st of December 2009

JASENOVAC EDUCATION CENTER
Jasenovac, Croatia
Produkcija 004 d.o.o.

The new Education Center’s classroom serves to teach about war crimes of the past and preserve the memory of victims of genocide and the Holocaust, but also to encourage critical thought on contemporary forms of violence, intolerance, and the denial of fundamental democratic values and human rights. All aspects of the multidisciplinary approach employed resonate with the minimalism appropriate to the facility’s purpose ... read more

Wednesday, the 02nd of December 2009

HOUSE KvD
Breda, Netherlands
Grosfeld van der Velde Architecten

House KvD is located in the woods of Teteringen, close to Breda. Important, from the residents point of view, was to experience the green environment in a most intense way. This ambition has formed the main concept of the building: A house that feeds in between the trees, giving every arbitrary movement a surprising perspective on the forest ... read more

Thursday, the 03rd of December 2009

PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE IN ZAPALLAR
Zapallar, Chile
Enrique Browne C.

It is the first wooden bridge built over a road in Chile. It serves to mark the access to a beautiful and old resort town in the central coast of Chile (Zapallar, located 169 kilometres from Santiago.) The work remains open to the diverse interpretations of the observers that pass walking or in car ... read more

Friday, the 04th of December 2009

ÁLVAREZ-MARSHALL HOUSE
Polo Condominium Manquehue 4 Chicureo
Tidy Architects

This special assignment is set on a plot of 5000m2 in Chicureo, at the north side of Santiago. The client is a young couple with two daughters who have chosen to emigrate from the congestion of the city. Given the close relationship between mother and daughter, they decide to take a whole life plan, but with sufficient independence to live in separate houses ... read more

>COURTYARD HOUSE ON A STEEP SITE<

The program is for a residence of approximately 6,700 SF, with a detached 3-car garage. The site is very steep, long and narrow – it’s 50’ wide by 400’ long with an average slope of 35%. Located on the west side of Mercer Island, there are panoramic views west towards Seattle and the Olympic Mountains beyond. Zoning requirements allowed us to only occupy 35’ of the 50’ property width, and limited the height of the building to 30’ relative to the slope of the site ... read more

>YOUTH RECREATION & CULTURE CENTRE<

New architecture project by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter ApS in collaboration with Cebra Arkitekter A/S is situated in a residential area in a northern suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark. The area predominately consists of large villas from the turn of the century. The site is long and narrow- on one side bordering the rail road and on the other a busy road-Gersonsvej - hence there was a noise problem to be solved ... read more

>GOLD STREET HOUSE<

“The Gold Street House responds to the rear lane way like character which consists of garage doors, timber back yard fences and at times neglected left over spaces from the terrace houses that front the opposing street. We felt that these homes (like many terrace typologies) abandoned the rear of their Terraces fronting Gold Street and in doing so over the years cultivated a language of gable/hipped roof building forms and utilitarian lean to structures constructed of light weight material such as compressed sheet; a very low tech economically driven decision ... read more