The innovative Czech company So Concrete, which is successfully developing the field of robotic construction technologies, designed and realized the project of the unique Výstaviště tram stop in Holešovice, Prague.
Project name
3D-Printed UHPC Tram Stop
Location
Výstaviště tram stop, Prague, Czech Republic
Photography
Tomáš Hejzlar www.tomashejzlar.cz
Design team
So Concrete www.so-concrete.com
Collaborators
Placement and technology support: Prague City, www.praha.eu. Placement and energy supply connection: Prague Public Transit Company, www.dpp.cz. Independent structural analysis: Stráský, Hustý a partneři, www.shp.eu. Preparatory excavation work and asphalt surface: Premio Invest, www.premioinvest.cz. E-ink display supplier: TechnoCast, www.technocast.cz. Electrical installations: Elektroline, www.elektroline.cz.
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper
Material
UHPC C130. UHPCFRC. LED lighting
Typology
Transportation › Tram Station
The sand dunes are the inspiration for the silhouette of the droneport camouflaging its shape among the landscape with a strategic location for the air communication network between cities.
Architecture firm
GAS Architectures
Location
United Arab Emirates
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshoper, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere
Principal architect
Germán Sandoval
Design team
Kesia Devallentier, Germán Sandoval
Collaborators
Interior Design: Kesia Devallentier
A parametric system of 1 km wooden bars makes the pavilion flexible, easy-to-assemble and highly sustainable and recyclable. The concept of the shelter is further explored in our design process by finding inspiration in the aquatic animal species of the Sea urchins, or Echinoidea.
Architecture firm
GG-loop
Photography
Alice Turazza
Principal architect
Giacomo Garziano
Design team
Giacomo Garziano, Bogdan Chipara, Simone Piccolo, Mariam Sherif
Collaborators
Event by Interni Magazine
Structural engineer
Rubner Haus
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Pavilion, Installation for the Milan Design Week 2022
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been named winner of the competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre.
Project name
Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects
Location
Jinghe, Xi’an, China
Principal architect
Patrik Schumacher
Design team
Sanxing Zhao, Lianyuan Ye, Shaofei Zhang, Qiyue Li, Shuchen Dong, Yuan Feng, Congyue Wang, Yuling Ma, Yanran Lu
Collaborators
容柏生建筑结构设计事务所 RBS, 中联西北工程设计研究院有限公司 China United Northwest Institute for Engineering Design & Research Co
Status
Competition winner
Typology
Commercial › Art Center
Located in the city center, in a place where once existed a building of great representativeness in the city's collective memory, the building emerges as an icon, which intends to continue the symbolic power of its predecessor, with the pretension of expressing a new modernity. The exoskeleton of the building is made up of cnc-cut aluminium plates,...
Architecture firm
Paulo Merlini Architects
Location
Gondomar, Portugal
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, Grasshopper
Principal architect
Paulo Merlini
Design team
Paulo Merlini Architects, Co-Creators
Collaborators
Co-Creators
Visualization
nearvs, SA Digital Technology Co., Ltd
Status
Under-Construction
BEEAH Group's new headquarters in Sharjah, UAE, was opened on Wednesday, March 30 by His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah. Powered by its solar array and equipped with next-generation technologies for operations at LEED Platinum standards, the new headquarters has been designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) to ac...
Project name
BEEAH Headquarters
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Photography
Hufton + Crow
Principal architect
Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher
Design team
Gerry Cruz, Drew Merkle, John Simpson, Matthew Le Grice, Maria Chaparro, Frenji Koshy, Leo Alves, Erwan Gallou, Vivian Pashiali, Alia Zayani, Alessandra Lazzoni, Dennis Brezina, Eider Fernandez-Eibar, Rasha Al- shami, Ben Kikkawa, Maria Vergopoulou-Efstathiou, Haohao Chen
Collaborators
Project Director: Sara Sheikh Akbari. Commercial Director: Charles Walker. Local Architect: Bin Dalmouk [Sharjah], DSA Architects International [Dubai]
Landscape
Francis Landscape [Beirut]
Structural engineer
Buro Happold [London]
Environmental & MEP
Atelier Ten [London]
Lighting
Atelier Ten [London]
Construction
Al Futtaim Construction [Dubai]
Typology
Commercial › Headquarter
Designed by Mexican architecture studio GAS Architectures, Contact Pavilion is located near of the crop circles on the Glastonbury fields.
Project name
Contact Pavilion
Architecture firm
GAS Architectures
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshoper, Lumion, Adobe After Effects
Principal architect
Germán Sandoval
Design team
Kesia Devallentier, Germán Sandoval
Visualization
GAS Architectures
Typology
Cultural › Pavilion
Montana Villa is a two floors villa that brings art and architecture in the structure and connects the first floor with the last with lines that give interior shade from the south facade and open for the north with a clear facade for the view of nature.
Project name
Montana Villa
Architecture firm
Gravity Studio
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Mohanad Albasha
Visualization
Mohanad Albasha
Typology
Residential › House
