“Tabula rasa” may be the most appropriate term to describe our confrontation with the project. With only one rule, the infinite freedom urges to create boundaries. Firstly, the site as the anchor point was chosen to make settings for our ideas. To pick a location, we tried to interpret the “rule” in another way and looked at where darkness matters...
Project name
Digging For Light (Qanat Oasis Villa)
Architecture firm
Kalbod Design Studio
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Twinmotion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Mohamad Rahimizadeh
Design team
Hossein Roasaei, Pegah Samei, Ghazale Eskandari, Mehdi Jam
Collaborators
Photography: Ziba Baghban
Visualization
Ziba Baghban
Typology
Residential › Villa
'The Pavilion of Floating Lights' aims to reinvent East Asian timber architecture, especially '-ru', the East Asian equivalence of a pavilion in bigger scale. Traditional assembling technics and structural systems such as wooden brackets are re-created in six tree-like columns of the project.
Project name
Pavilion of Floating Lights
Location
Jinju, South Korea
Principal architect
Jae K. Kim
Design team
Jisun Yoon, Na Young Jung, Gyu Tae Kim
Collaborators
Mingu Cho (passive design consulting)
Civil engineer
Daejo Construction
Structural engineer
Whan Structure
Environmental & MEP
Yuseong Engineering
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper
Construction
Daejo Construction
Material
Birch plywood, white oak plywood, T30 cedar deck, SYP(Southern Yellow Pine) wood siding, aluminum sheet roofing
Typology
Hospitality › Pavilion, Civic (observatory, cafe)
ARK2.0 is an ambitious architectural concept that aims to revolutionize the way we generate electricity by tapping into the vast potential of seawater. This visionary project seeks to create a futuristic facility that harnesses the power of chemical components present in seawater to produce renewable and sustainable energy.
University
Cairo University
Teacher
Mohamed Noeman, Toka Hassan
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Typology
Futuristic Architecture
La Terre is a one-off new build home in an AONB in Surrey, Southern England. La Terre utilizes renewable resources and passive house principles to achieve low energy consumption.
Architecture firm
The DHaus Company
Location
Surrey, United Kingdom
Tools used
AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 3D, Lumion
Principal architect
Daniel Woolfson, David Ben-Grunberg
Design team
Daniel Woolfson, David Ben-Grunberg, Nikki Mrkic-Smith
Collaborators
Michael Alexander (Structural engineer)
Typology
Residential › House
The Sinuating Flow high-rise proposal pays homage to Sichuan’s unique geography, which is surrounded by magnificent mountain ranges and situated in a basin. The design draws inspiration from the region’s characteristic landforms and lush natural resources that flourish along the water bodies from the mountains to the valleys.
Project name
Sinuating Flow
Architecture firm
StudioTiltedCircle
Visualization
StudioTiltedCircle
Tools used
AutoCad, Adobe Creative Cloud, Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, Autodesk Maya, Enscape
Principal architect
Xie Qilin
Landscape
StudioTiltedCircle
Client
Skyrise 2022 Competition
Status
Concept - Design, Shortlisted
Typology
Commercial › Mixed-use Development
Our primary goal in the NEW YORK BRIDGE project was to answer the need for more open and green spaces in the compact living and working areas in Manhattan’s financial district and the world-famous Wall Street.
Project name
New York Financial Bridge
Architecture firm
Kalbod Design Studio
Location
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.A.
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Twinmotion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Mohamad Rahimizadeh
Visualization
Mohamad Ramezankhani
Typology
Industrial › Bridge
Giles Miller Studio’s first completed residential property sits 100 m² from the cliffs and sandy beaches of Broadstairs, Kent. The house breaks down barriers between the building’s internal spaces and the glade of natural planting and trees that surround it, through a unique sculptural facade which invites nature to grow up the outside of the house...
Architecture firm
Giles Miller Studio
Location
Broadstairs, Kent, United Kingdom
Photography
Edvinas Bruzas, Rachel Ferriman
Principal architect
Giles Miller
Design team
Giles Miller, Robin Sjoholm, Tom Housden, Laura Nica
Collaborators
Outpost Architects
Interior design
Giles Miller Studio, Despina Curtis
Structural engineer
Steelwork: Design4Structures, Steelwork (CLT): Structure Workshop, Facade: Michael Alexander Eng
Landscape
The Big Green Leaf, Thorn Services
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, AutoCAD
Construction
Future Construction Kent, Construkt CLT
Material
Steelwork, CLT, Glulam Timber Structure, Glass, Aluminium Framework, Recycled ABS Modules
Typology
Residential › House
The Border House is an introverted house based on the user's (architect's) spirit, which, contrary to its calm and almost closed appearance, has mostly open interior spaces that blend with nature and are dynamic.
Project name
Border House
Architecture firm
Tayebeh Amini
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Autodesk 3ds Max, Lumion
Principal architect
Tayebeh Amini
Visualization
Two Friends Office
Typology
Residential › House
