For its 2020 edition, the “Hut Festival / Le Festival des cabanes”, an international architectural competition, awarded a prize to the“Exercice” collective. The festival aims at the construction of twelve ephemeral wooden structures in the Lake Annecy region (Savoy, France), selected upon the dialog and relation they create with both their surround...
Project name
La Charbonnière
Architecture firm
Collectif Exercice
Location
Chevaline, Haute Savoie, France
Photography
David Foessel, Yannick Perrin, Collectif Exercice
Principal architect
Vincent Vergain, Nicolas Vallée, Nicolas Bien
Design team
Vincent Vergain, Nicolas Vallée, Nicolas Bien
Client
Le Festival des Cabanes 2020
Typology
Cultural › Pavilion
Veliz Arquitecto: INZETA House Project is mainly intended to take advantage of the full potential of its spaces and integrate into the environment, it has a covered garden that uses the space as a viewpoint towards the entire meadow that is in front of the house, inspired by the forms of Japanese temples such as a sacred space to inhabit and medit...
Project name
Inzeta House
Architecture firm
Veliz Arquitecto
Tools used
SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Jorge Luis Veliz Quintana
Visualization
Veliz Arquitecto
Typology
Residential › House
In Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis), near Paris, the site was exemplary of the franchised city made up of hangars and warehouses, often regarded as disparaging urban elements. The project led by Atelier WOA (Wood Oriented Architecture), with architectural and urban as well as social and societal objectives, transformed a neglected parcel of land into a d...
Project name
L'INDUSTREET IN STAINS (FRANCE)
Architecture firm
Atelier WOA (Wood Oriented Architecture)
Location
Foncière Atland, Stains, France
Photography
Camille Gharbi
Built area
11,000 m² including 7,000 m² for teaching areas and 4,000 m² for workshops areas
Structural engineer
Innovia
Environmental & MEP
VIZEA
Material
Mixed wood-metal frame for the "workshops" areas, wood post-beam structure type glued laminated timber and mixed wood-concrete floor for the "teaching" areas. Carpentry and adjustable aluminum sunshade. Aluminum curtain wall. Facade materials: prefabricated concrete panel, metal cladding and pre-gray wood cladding. Heating and cooling according to a principle of natural ventilation and night ventilation
Typology
Education, School
If you are living in an urban area where traffic is always bumper-to-bumper or there are industrial parks where fumes and smoke pollute the air, then you are well within your rights to invest in the best air purifiers for your home. It could also be that the summer month isn’t favoring you.
Photography
Thrasher Group (Cover image), Annie Spratt
Nestled on the serene landscape of La Barra de Colotepec, facing the golden sands of the Pacific Coast, Casona Sforza presents a unique architecture inspired by the vernacular tradition and an experience of sustainable luxury, offering personal attention, exclusivity and privacy. Its concept places center-stage the value of being aware, contemplati...
Project name
Casona Sforza
Architecture firm
TAX / Taller de arquitectura X
Location
Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
Principal architect
Alberto Kalach
Interior design
Ezequiel Ayarza Sforza and MOB Studio
Material
Sand-yellow bricks, Macuili and parota wood, palm leaves, traditional regional cotton textiles, and raw linen details
Contractor
Efraín Salinas
Typology
Hospitality › Hotel
Amin Moazzen: This is a bath in the heart of nature! A place to get a new soul and clean out the dirt of the past and be ready for the future. I mixed some curved forms with these plants so it can represent "Home" beside "Nature " . This project is in two versions .
Architecture firm
Amin Moazzen
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Amin Moazzen
Visualization
Amin Moazzen
Typology
Residential › House
Amos Goldreich Architecture: A much-loved garden was central to our design of this side and rear extension for a Victorian mid-terrace house in the Stroud Green Conservation Area of Haringey. The project for a couple, both in property development and one a keen gardener, arranges a sequence of living spaces around the garden and an internal courtya...
Project name
A House For A Gardener
Architecture firm
Amos Goldreich Architecture
Location
London , United Kingdom
Photography
Ollie Hammick
Interior design
Amos Goldreich Architecture
Structural engineer
Constant
Construction
BKB Projects
Material
Glass, timber, tiles, brick
Typology
Residential › House
Renewable energy is also referred to as sustainability or clean energy, and it comes from natural processes that are continually replenished. For example, the sun and the wind keep shining and blowing, even though their availability changes according to time and weather.
Photography
Kervin Edward Lara (Cover image),
