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Youza Eco-Lodge / Rodaa Studio

March 24, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

Youza is an eco-lodge project located in La Couture-Boussey, Normandy, conceived as a place for authenticity, creativity, and a return to essentials in harmony with nature. The project resulted from a municipal call to highlight natural resources and boost local tourism.

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The Seasons House / MOST Monti Studio

March 6, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

In Conakry, Guinea, MOST Monti studio completed The Seasons, an unconventional residential project comprising a multi-functional villa with contemporary interiors, a garden, a mosque, a pool, and a basketball court. Raising on a large, unoccupied hilly area that slopes towards the sea, the project blurs the lines between urban and residential. The project is based on three simple principles: sea view, division of space and privacy. The Seasons is nested on a slope between an urban district of Guinea’s capital city and the beach on the other side. “Architecturally speaking, The Seasons’ 7,000 sqm is quite a peculiar size: residential or urban?” Indeed, the project has been conceived as a small, self-sufficient ecosystem centred around a 2,000 sqm villa on two levels. Like a district scaled down to family size, the project features a beauty salon, a chapel, a spa, a playground and a gym.

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Chrysalis Entrance Pavilion / Cave Urban

February 27, 2024 Hana Abdel 0

Chrysalis sits at the entry of the Woodford Folk Festival precinct. Designed as a welcoming, cool, and shady space, the structure provides a place to meet friends and family before heading into the festival. Made entirely from locally harvested bamboo, the scale of the large woven pavilion offers respite from the day’s heat while encouraging visitors to explore and experience an organic structure woven by the Woodford Folk Festival Special Projects volunteers. Under the artistic direction of Juan Pablo Pinto, the Cave Urban team upskilled a group of volunteers of diverse backgrounds and ages. The team learned to harvest, prepare, and build with bamboo using simple splitting and wire-lashing techniques.

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Changsha International Conference Center / Architectural Design and Research Institution of SCUT

February 27, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

Project overview. Changsha International Conference Center is situated in the High-speed Railway New Town of Changsha City, overlooking Changshanan Railway Station across a river, and adjacent to Changsha International Convention and Exhibition Center to its south. The project covers a land area of about 212,700 square meters and a gross floor area of around 170,000 square meters, of which the above-ground space occupies 136,000 square meters, while the underground section spans 44,000 square meters. The building measures approximately 300 meters from north to south, 150 meters from east to west, and has a height of 46.8 meters. It consists of three floors above ground and one underground floor.

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Filters House / Martín Peláez + Pablo Fernández

February 25, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

This is a new housing project, semi-detached between party walls, located in the city of Albacete. The neighborhood in which it is located, born in the 50s, consists of several parallel rows of terraced houses, and joined with other houses symmetrically, accessing them through a series of passages that are communicated through arches with the surrounding streets.

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Concept WRRF Yixing Water Resource Recovery Facility / THAD SUP Atelier

February 19, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

The Concept WRRF Yixing is a future-oriented Water Resource Recovery Facility & factory. The project aims to upgrade conventional sewage treatment plants to environmentally friendly and recycling-oriented plants. Alleviating the Not-in-my-backyard effect, the upgrade will transform a closed pollution-control plant into a sustainable and future-oriented infrastructure project that is environmentally friendly, open to the public, harmonious with its neighborhood, and available for science education. The site of the project, surrounded by waters and farmlands, abounds with ecological resources. In the 8-hectare site for the plant, 20,000 square meters of structures have been built, including a sewage treatment plant with a capacity of 20,000 t/d, a sludge & OM treatment center with a capacity of 100 t/d, a science management center (5234 m2) and a pilot zone for experimental lines.

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Metamorphosis 70’s bungalow Oss / Bas Termeer Architect

February 17, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

Starting point
The client had acquired an existing bungalow from 1971 on a spacious wooded plot in Oss, The Netherlands. The house made of concrete stone, had been altered several times over the years, so the original qualities had completely disappeared. The existing house also offered no special relationship with the garden and was in a poor energetic condition. All this called for a rigorous intervention. The assignment concerned total sustainability to an energy neutral level, a better relationship between the residential program and the garden and the existing swimming pool and last but not least a complete aesthetic metamorphosis of the bungalow.

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Churruca Residential Building / BE STUDIO

February 16, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

The project is located in the Old Eixample of Mataró, the capital of Maresme, a coastal city with a temperate climate due to its geographical location. The starting point is an empty plot very close to the coastline, in a compact urban area where the “casa de cos” typology predominates.