To introduce this meeting of culture, aoe created a Cultural Exchange City Reception Center in the city where it all begun. The marriage of the Italian and Sino style was at the heart of the project to illustrate the cultural mix and was adapted to merge the structure and its surrounding.
Project name
Sino-Italian Cultural Exchange City Reception Center
Photography
Arch-exist Photography
Principal architect
Wen Qun
Design team
Ma Jianning, Fan Ruixue, Wang Ye, Chang Zhiyu, Pan Jichang, Li Xiangting, Lu Yu
Interior design
Zhu Dan, Du Jing, Liu Jingyi, Xue Yawen, Liu Chen
Structural engineer
CSCEC AECOM CONSULTANTS CO., LTD
Material
Low-E glass, local wood, and green roofs
Client
Tianfu Investment Group Co., LTD
Typology
Cultural › Exhibition
The CIRCULAR VILLA by ANTIREALITY is a conceptual design of a summer house situated within a cliff recess. The key to this project was to design the house that shape integrates into the structure of the rocky landscape. The white and abstract volume of the design fits within the cliff niche simultaneously does not create a direct geometrical connec...
Project name
Circular Villa
Architecture firm
ANTIREALITY
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Visualization
ANTIREALITY
Typology
Residential › House
Veliz Arquitecto: The Root house is mainly destined for places away from civilization and hostile environments, in order to adapt to these environments and promote the growth of vegetation through scientific techniques that promote rapid growth of plants around the house functioning as a fertile machine sown.
Architecture firm
Veliz Arquitecto
Tools used
SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Jorge Luis Veliz Quintana
Design team
Veliz Arquitecto
Visualization
Veliz Arquitecto
Typology
Residential › House
The Austin-based architecture firm LaRue Architects and Britt Design Group have recently completed Ski Slope Residence in Lake Austin, USA. The teamed reimagined this 1950’s lake side cabin with a quirky hexagon add-on in the 70’s into a serene lake side ranch.
Project name
Ski Slope Residence
Architecture firm
LaRue Architects
Location
Austin, Texas, USA
Photography
Dror Baldinger
Principal architect
James LaRue
Interior design
Britt Design Group
Construction
Classic Constructors
Material
Wood, Steel, Stone
Typology
Residential › House
Ruptura Morlaca Arquitectura: The desire of users to inhabit on a serene, vast and tree-filled landscape, where nature is able to show its greatness, has led them to identify a place in the Ricaurte sector in Cuenca-Ecuador, an almost intact site that In the mornings, a characteristic mist of the mountains of the area is shed, which floats over the...
Project name
Gravitational Indifference
Architecture firm
Ruptura Morlaca Arquitectura
Principal architect
Paul Chango, Carolina Bravo
Construction
Diego Paguay, Ruptura Morlaca
Typology
Residential › House
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
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
