It is a project to enjoy Yucatan, its sky, its wind and its vegetation. The footprint of the house is just one fifth of the land extension, always leaving free space and vegetation as the protagonist.
Project name
Akúun House (Casa Akúun)
Architecture firm
Arkham Project / GCW
Location
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Photography
Yoshihiro Koitani
Principal architect
Benjamín Peniche Calafell, Jorge Duarte Torre, GCW
Design team
Alan May, Iván Valdez, Lorena Cervera
Construction
Cáceres Arquitectos y Asociados S.A de C.V
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel, Stone, Wood
Typology
Residential › House
Located in the district of Porto, in the Village of Lousada, the Interpretation Centre of Romanesque is located in an area that is an expansion of this village marked by a strong relationship with an urban square called Pra- ça das Pocinhas and with the Senhor dos Aflitos Church - a strong reference in the town center.
Project name
Centro de Interpretação do Românico /Interpretation Centre of Romanesque
Architecture firm
Spaceworkers®
Location
Lousada, Porto, Portugal
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Principal architect
Henrique Marques, Rui Dinis
Design team
Rui Rodrigues, Sérgio Rocha, Rui Miguel, Marco Santos, Mónica Pacheco
Collaborators
Bairro Design, Carla Duarte - cfo
Interior design
Spaceworkers® and Glorybox
Civil engineer
aspp Engenheiros,Lda.
Structural engineer
aspp Engenheiros,Lda.
Supervision
Spaceworkers®
Visualization
Spaceworkers®
Tools used
Vectorworks, Rhinoceros 3D, Cinema 4D
Construction
Edilages, sa
Material
Reinforced Concrete, Glass, Steel
Client
Lousada Municipality
Typology
Interpretation Center
On an ocean front mountain top, between tall grasses and acacia forests, walls meander in and out of the wild and wind swept landscape to create an 8 room retreat. Rugged, curvaceous concrete walls define the boundaries between architecture and landscape, wandering inside and outside to create public and private spaces.
Project name
Wandering Walls
Architecture firm
XRANGE Architects
Location
Hengchun, Pingtung, Taiwan
Photography
Kuo-Min Lee, Lorenzo Pierucci
Principal architect
Grace Cheung
Design team
XRANGE Architects
Landscape
XRANGE Architects
Structural engineer
Top Technic Engineering Consultants Co., Ltd.
Interior design
XRANGE Architects
Lighting
Unolai Lighting Design & Associates
Material
Reinforced concrete, slab & bearing wall
Typology
Hospitality, Hotel
Striatus is an arched, unreinforced masonry footbridge composed of 3D-printed concrete blocks assembled without mortar. Exhibited at the Giardini della Marinaressa during the Venice Architecture Biennale until November 2021, the 16x12-metre footbridge is the first of its kind, combining traditional techniques of master builders with advanced comput...
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design Group (ZHACODE), Block Research Group (BRG) at ETH Zurich, incremental3D, Holcim
Location
Giardino della Marinaressa, Venice, Italy
Length
3D-printing path lengths (per block) = 602 m - 1754 m
Design team
ZHACODE: Jianfei Chu, Vishu Bhooshan, Henry David Louth, Shajay Bhooshan, Patrik Schumacher. ● ETH BRG: Tom Van Mele, Alessandro Dell’Endice, Philippe Block
Structural engineer
ETH BRG: Tom Van Mele, Alessandro Dell’Endice, Sam Bouten, Philippe Block
Construction
Bürgin Creations: Theo Bürgin, Semir Mächler, Calvin Graf, ETH BRG: Alessandro Dell’Endice, Tom Van Mele
Photography
Studio Naaro, Tom Van Mele, Alessandro Dell'endice, in3d
Conceived and designed by entrepreneur Ezequiel Ayarza Sforza, along with the Mexican architecture studio PRODUCTORA, the Casa Bautista project located in the heart of the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve finds expression in a sculptural house that merges with its natural surroundings, seeming to emerge from the sea like a rock and float over the treet...
Project name
Casa Bautista
Architecture firm
PRODUCTORA
Location
Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, Tulum, Quintana Roo
Principal architect
Abel Perles, Carlos Bedoya, Victor Jaime, Wonne Ickx
Design team
Carlos Bedoya, Victor Jaime, Wonne Ickx, Abel Perles
Collaborators
Alejandro Ordoñez, Josue Palma, Daniela Dusa, Antonio Espinoza, Gerardo Aguilar
Structural engineer
Kaltia
Typology
Residential › House
Project by the Block Research Group (BRG) at ETH Zurich and Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design Group (ZHACODE), in collaboration with incremental3D, made possible by Holcim.
Written by
Zaha Hadid Architects
Photography
Zaha Hadid Architects
Completed by Ecuadorian architecture studio Orense Arquitectos, Mocoli house tries to be a sculpture that captivates by its purist line, reflection and silence; an encounter with yourself and create captivating tours which are the main axles in the search of generating a new connection between the natural and a space to live in achieving in its int...
Project name
Mocoli House
Architecture firm
Orense Arquitectos
Location
Isla Mocolí, Samborondón, Guayas. Ecuador
Principal architect
Jose Campoverde Cordova & Galo Perez Pereira
Design team
Jose Campoverde Cordova, Galo Perez Pereira
Collaborators
Annia Mayin Hagó, Maria Celeste Subía
Civil engineer
Galo Fernandez
Structural engineer
Galo Fernandez
Landscape
Orense Arquitectos
Visualization
Orense Arquitectos
Construction
Orense Arquitectos, Jorge Orozco, Galo Fernandez
Material
Concrete, wood, white stucco
Typology
Residential › House
Designed by Brazilian architecture firm Stemmer Rodrigues Arquitetura, Casa Da Figueira is a house where a sculptural fig tree contrasts with the hardness of the concrete structure on the façade.
Project name
Fig House (Casa Da Figueira)
Architecture firm
Stemmer Rodrigues Arquitetura
Location
Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Photography
Marcelo Donadussi
Principal architect
Paulo Henrique Rodrigues, Roberto Stemmer, Ingrid Stemmer
Design team
Francine Azevedo, Renata Lui
Structural engineer
Pedro Chapon
Material
Concrete, Corten steel, Wood, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
