The renovation of a historic building in Vila Nova de Foz Côa by the architect Filipe Pina, using slate and shale as the main elements, creates a new contemporary home that respects the history of the place.
Project name
Casa Caldeira / Caldeira House
Architecture firm
Filipe Pina
Location
Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Filipe Pina
Material
Wood, Concrete, Metal, Slate and Shale
Typology
Residential › House
The house is designed around a courtyard with the public spaces overlooking it. The varied scale of public and private spaces and their different interactions with the outdoors was a central idea of this project. The public spaces were expanded volumetrically to emphasize their importance as congregational spaces. The concept of cross-axes has been...
Project name
Residence 568
Architecture firm
Charged Voids
Location
Sector – 7, Panchkula, Haryana (Satellite Town Of Chandigarh), India
Photography
Javier Callejas Sevilla
Principal architect
Aman Aggarwal
Design team
Rahul Vig , Priya Gupta
Structural engineer
Pankaj Chopra
Environmental & MEP
Mr. Shamsher Ji (Electrical), Mitsubishi (HVAC), Mr Sham Lal Ji ( Plumber )
Lighting
Rohit Jindal ( Om Electric )
Visualization
Haneet Khanna
Construction
Mr. Shamsher Ji ( Contractor )
Typology
Residential › House
The project marks the corner of Fourth and Channel Streets as a gateway to San Francisco’s burgeoning new Mission Bay south neighborhood. It houses 150 low income, and formerly homeless individuals and families, currently including 261 children. It brings diversity of age, race, and income to this booming new district. Restaurant and retail space...
Project name
1180 Fourth Street
Architecture firm
Associate Design Architect: Kennerly Architecture & Planning. Executive Architect: Mithun/Solomon (originated WRT/Solomon E.T.C.). Associate Architect: Full Circle Architecture
Location
San Francisco, California, USA
Photography
Bruce Damonte
Design team
Owen Kennerly, Brian Stryzek
Collaborators
Developer: Mercy Housing California; Acoustical Engineer: Mei Wu Associates; Waterproofing Consultant: Gale Associates
Civil engineer
Urban Design Consulting Engineers
Structural engineer
Tipping Mar and Associates, and Bello & Associates
Environmental & MEP
Ajmani & Pamidi Inc.
Landscape
GLS Landscape Architecture
Lighting
Horton Lees Brodgen Lighting Design
Construction
James E. Roberts-Obayashi Corp.
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › Apartment
The public housing sector shelters from the front to live with privacy and allied with nature. The limit of the house is the horizon of the landscape that the lot poses.
The linear circulations are contained by their own exterior, the patios. They allow us to recreate the necessary privacy of each sector of the house.
Project name
Casa TERRA-91
Location
Terralagos, Canning, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Photography
Alejandro Peral
Principal architect
Luciana Macias, Facundo Carrosso
Collaborators
Arq. Manuel Fernandez, Arq. Yanina Saracho
Structural engineer
Ing. Gustavo Carreira
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
Located in a gated community in the southern part of the Province of Buenos Aires, house AC-47 is located on a corner lot surrounded by important vegetation. Its linear development prioritizes the visuals over the park and the optimal conditions of sunlight and ventilation. The project starts from a main volume that is ordered in relation to the di...
Location
Adrogué Chico, Malvinas Argentinas, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Photography
Alejandro Peral
Principal architect
Luciana Macias, Facundo Carrosso
Collaborators
Yamila Graneros, Sofía Díaz, Rosario Galván, Arq. Guadalupe Arbarello, Yanina Saracho.
Interior design
MA Partners
Structural engineer
Ing. Gustavo Bianchi
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
At the foot of the Roof Park in Rotterdam housing project The Hudsons has been realized. The development adds 5 building blocks with 118 single-family homes, 24 apartments and 2 commercial spaces to the Bospolder-Tussendijken district. The early 20th-century district of Bospolder-Tussendijken has been undergoing restructuring for decades. The more...
Architecture firm
Orange Architects
Location
Bospolder-Tussendijken, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Photography
Sebastian van Damme, Sander van Wettum
Design team
Jeroen Schipper, Tess Landsman, Paul Kierkels, Julija Osipenko, Angeliki Chantzopoulou, Fung Chow, Lars Fraij, María Gómez Garrido, Rutger Schoenmaker
Collaborators
Advisors: Pieters Bouwtechniek, Nieman, Huygen Installatie Adviseurs, CULD, INBO
Visualization
De Beeldenfabriek
Client
ERA Contour & BPD Gebiedsontwikkeling
Typology
Residential › Apartment
A young Prague couple decided to extend their small attic apartment to better suit the needs of a family life. The apartment is located in a semi-detached house in a small neighborhood built in the early 1920s in a unique Czech Art Deco style. The neighborhood was named Liberty to celebrate newly established Czechoslovakia.
Project name
Liberty Loft
Architecture firm
System Recovery Architects
Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Photography
Helena Línová + Vítězslav Kůstka
Principal architect
Helena Línová + Vítězslav Kůstka
Design team
Helena Línová + Vítězslav Kůstka
Interior design
Helena Línová + Vítězslav Kůstka
Civil engineer
Design & Build, s.r.o.
Structural engineer
TeAnau, s.r.o.
Environmental & MEP
Design & Build, s.r.o.
Supervision
Helena Línová + Vítězslav Kůstka
Visualization
System Recovery Architects
Construction
Design & Build, s.r.o.
Material
larch, perforated aluminium sheets, spruce
Typology
Residential › Apartment, Renovation, Refurbishment
Located in a quiet residential hillside neighborhood overlooking the skyline of the city of Belmont, two different types of experience are proposed for this house, each represented by the concept of Sky & Earth.
Architecture firm
Koami Architecture
Location
Belmont, California, United States
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer
Principal architect
Nana Koami
Visualization
Maige Studio
Typology
Residential › House › Single Family Home In Modern Style, With Japanese Influence
