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Umubano Primary School Extension / ASA Studio

February 20, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

APIE, A Partner In Education, is planning for the expansion of the Umubano Primary School in Kanombe. The proposal is to build a new classrooms block to host three classes of 30 students, one multipurpose hall to host about 300 people, and the related services (kitchen, storage, toilets). Classrooms and hall will follow the topography of the site and connect to the existing school through horizontal pathways.

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Race Course House / Khosla Associates

February 20, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

Tucked away in a leafy by lane off the historic Race Course road in Coimbatore, this house was intended to reflect the personality and lifestyle of the homeowner couple, their two young children and dogs. Both successful entrepreneurs, the husband runs a textile company for bed and bath linen and his spouse runs a real estate company that constructs affordable concrete housing.

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Gugi-dong House / BCHO Partners

February 20, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

The site of the Gugidong House is surrounded by buildings on all sides, except where it is flanked by a large stone reinforcement wall along its backside. Because the extant ground floor lacked conditions for natural ventilation or lighting, the focus of the project shifted towards optimizing the top floor, comprised of a large outdoor deck and one small room. Unburdened by perimeter walls the deck allows those who find their way to it to enjoy the full panoramic view towards Bukhan Mountain. At the same time, its clear PVC sheet roofing allows the surrounding forest scenery and sunlight to extend deep indoors. Underneath the PVC sheet, a layer of expanded metal breaks and shatters the incoming sunlight. 

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Character Café & Gallery / OJAN Design Studio

February 19, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

Character Café & Gallery is located next to one of the main streets of Mehrshahr in Alborz province, with the area of 530 square meters.This old building was a two-stoery construction with poor infrastructure, a complex plan and numerous arched openings. Due to lack of budget and accelerated run-time, we tried to create the least amount of damage and alteration to the old building by applying a flexible idea and creating a new definition for the arch shaped openings. So we redefined Sabat which is an element of historical crossings of Yazd city in order to change the depth of opening and creating elongation in the form of arches.

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unbot China inc. / PRISM DESIGN

February 19, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

Unbot Inc. a web marketing business specializing in Greater China, centering on domestic and cross-border e-commerce stores and SNS operations in China. They relocated their Shanghai branch office to increase operational efficiency and organizational strength by increasing the number of employees accompanying business expansion. Unbot have formulated a tag line called of the new office is “unbot Society 5.0”. Unbot’s new office space that aims to achieve both economic development and the resolution of social issues by using a system that highly integrates virtual and reality. In addition to  Improving health and convenience of office worker.

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Oneday Dentistry Share Office / Design m4

February 19, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

What value should be depicted in office space?Work-life balance is a rising trend nowadays. It shows what young people today consider important. Why do we talk about work-life balance? In the past, the majority of Koreans thought that spending a lot of time at work is the key to living a virtuous life. As a result, the individual’s role in life became so small and insignificant. As more and more people refuse to give up their family life or personal interests, they believe that an ideal job should have no overtime work and provide enough time for personal life. It could be said that the idea of work-life balance is to spend less time at work and focus more on other things in life.

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Jasmine House / VUUV Architecture and Interior Design

February 19, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

Jasmine house is located in a small lane in Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, once belonged to Ngoc Ha Flower Village. Like many other areas around the inner city, there has been a strong urbanization process here. Yet thanks to its own unique feature of being located near the city center and diplomatic headquarters, the area gradually became a residential area of foreign community living and working in Vietnam. This has been creating a big change to the appearance and nature of buildings here. There are not only small houses for households, but also alternating larger buildings to welcome newcomers. That is why buildings with apartments for rent have been very prevalent here.

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Bracing House / Atelier Jun

February 19, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

The bracing house is a multiplex house for earnings from leasing that can be easily seen in any general residential area in Seoul, but it was our intention to make it different looking to the typical multiplex house. A fundamental change is not easy due to the inherent limit of the profitable lease building that has to guarantee the maximum floor area ratio, the bracing house, by installing a pseudo-wall, shows us a definitely different look compared to the typical multiplex house that adapts to the diagonal line limitations of the setback regulation.

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Westory Hair Salon / Yoshihiro Kato Atelier

February 19, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

Yoshihiro kato atelier has designed the ‘WESTORY’ hair salon located 30 minutes by car from the center of Nagoya city in japan. what was originally a field, the site is now home to the single story intervention. incorporating elements of greenery within and around the new building, the guiding concept behind the project was to create a hair salon with a more natural feeling.

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NONHYEON 109 Office and Apartment Building / 05STUDIO

February 18, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

Nonhyeon 109 is located at on the corner of the a three-way street inside the a densely populated city block in of downtown Seoul. Therefore issues, such as the maximization of the space area upon the owner’s request and the unavoidable right-to-daylight claims made against the adjacent buildings are common problems often encountered by the architects when assigned to a micro-site in the city center.