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
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
Victor B. Ortiz Architecture: The tree house was designed to cope with and adapt to the site’s various physical and climatic conditions, allowing the user to control the built environment according to the external variables, thus promoting a seamless and integrated experience between architecture and nature.
Project name
Unfolding Memories Tree House
Architecture firm
Victor B. Ortiz Architecture
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, Rhinoceros 3D, Lumion 10
Principal architect
Victor B. Ortiz
Collaborators
Giancarllo Bruno, Guilherme Pulvirenti, Renata Leinemann
Visualization
Victor B. Ortiz Architecture
Typology
Residential › House
Anthony Authié, founder of Zyva studio and Charlottz Taylor, founder of Maison de Sable presents their second collaboration, « Neo-Chemosphere », a dreamlike project homage to John Lautner who design in 1960 a crazy alien spaceship house in Los Angeles.
Project name
Neo-Chemosphere
Architecture firm
Zyva studio, Maison de Sable
Location
Massif des Calanques, Marseille, France
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max , V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Anthony Authié, Charlottz Taylor
Design team
Anthony Authié, Charlottz Taylor
Visualization
Zyva studio, Maison de Sable
Typology
Residential › House
Located just 45 minutes outside of Paris, Casa Keçe is a renovation project fueled by The Refreshment Club in the Parisian countryside of France.
Architecture firm
The Refreshment Club
Location
Parc Vexin, France
Photography
The Refreshment Club
Principal architect
Onur Keçe
Design team
Onur Keçe & Alix Keçe
Interior design
The Refreshment Club
Landscape
The Refreshment Club
Tools used
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Typology
Residential › House
Urban Quartz, three futuristic buildings in Rennes, France designed by Paris-based architecture & urban planning firm Hamonic+Masson & Associés. Near the Multimodal Exchange Center (railway-bus-metro-bus station), "Urban Quartz" is initiating the urban invention of EuroRennes. It is therefore taking advantage of the efficient transport network whi...
Project name
Urban Quartz
Architecture firm
Hamonic+Masson & Associés
Location
ZAC EuroRennes, îlot Trigone, Rennes (35), France
Photography
Takuji Shimmura, Stéphane Chalmeau
Principal architect
a/LTA Le Trionnaire - Le Chapelain
Collaborators
NF HQE Très Bon, Jean-Paul Lamoureux
Built area
13 700 m² Offices + 300 m² Commercial spaces + parkings
Completion year
2019-01-01
Landscape
La Plage (Guillaume Derrien)
Structural engineer
BETOM
Environmental & MEP
Éléments Ingénieries
Construction
Eiffage Construction
Client
ICADE + Poste Immo
Typology
Commercial, Offices
The French architect Gabrielle Toledano from Toledano + architects has recently completed renoavation of an apartment in Paris, France.
Project name
M Garden Duplex
Architecture firm
Toledano + Architects
Photography
Salem Mostefaoui
Principal architect
Gabrielle Toledano
Interior design
Toledano + Architects
Environmental & MEP engineering
N/A
Structural engineer
Mark Malinowski-Groupe Alto
Tools used
AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 3D
Typology
Duplex garden apartment in a building from the 70’s
It would be difficult to find a garden in a more idyllic setting than Les Jardins d’Etretat. Perched high above Normandy’s stunning Alabaster coast, it looks out over staggering white cliffs and La Porte d’Aval, a natural stone arch. The historic garden has now been revived by landscape architect Alexandre Grivko, who has transformed it into a site...
Project name
Les Jardins d’Etretat
Landscape Architecture
IL NATURE
Location
Avenue Damilaville, 76790 Étretat, France
Photography
Matteo Carrasale, Richard Bloom
Design team
Alexandre Grivko, Natalia Bogomolova, Vera Kalashnik, Valeriya Kanavin, Alina Trunova, Inna Korneeva, Elena Popova, Marcel Gherghelejiu
Typology
Landscape, Public Garden
