https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/2424-2016 en-us Born-and-bred granadinos, Javier Castellano Pulido, 41, and Tomás García Píriz, 38, first met in the early 2000s while studying at the Escuela Téchnica Superior de Arquitectura de Granada.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12052 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12052-design-vanguard-2016-cuac-arquitectura CUAC Arquitectura Photo © CUAC Arquitectura Gabba Hey CUAC Arquitectura renovated an industrial building in Granada on a shoestring budget to create a music school named after the Ramones’ punk rock catchphrase “gabba gabba hey!” The designers inserted a concrete box into the raw interior, creating an acoustically isolated recording studio. Photo © Fernando Alda San Jerónimo 17 CUAC moved into their new offices, which they share with a graphic designer and videographer, earlier this year, bringing a tall metal wall panel from their old studio and repurposing it as a long conference table. Only after completing construction of their new space did the architects realize the colors and materials echo those in a painting by Hendrick van Steenwijck the Younger of Saint Jerome in His Study that they frequently show to students during lectures. Photo © Fernando Alda San Jerónimo 17 CUAC moved into their new offices, which they share with a graphic designer and videographer, earlier this year, bringing a tall metal wall panel from their old studio and repurposing it as a long conference table. Only after completing construction of their new space did the architects realize the colors and materials echo those in a painting by Hendrick van Steenwijck the Younger of Saint Jerome in His Study that they frequently show to students during lectures. Harvest House Working with Javier Moreno del Ojo, CUAC designed the Harvest House in Granada for a retired couple who had owned the property—and cultivated gardens there—for three decades. The architects built a low-lying structure that hugs the slope of the site, and added a green roof and pool reminiscent of an agricultural water reservoir. Photo © Javier Callejas Magdalena’s Fountain CUAC collaborated with architects Rubens Cortés Cano and Noelia Martínez Martínez to renovate a fountain in the historic district of Jaen, Spain. A below-grade blue-glass-walled chamber offers visitors a unique perspective up through the clear bottom of the water tank. Photo © Javier Castellano http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12051 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12051-design-vanguard-2016-young-ayata Young Ayata Photo © Young & Ayata   Dalseong Gymnasium Young & Ayata received an honorable mention in a 2014 competition for a design for a below-ground athletic complex in South Korea that dissolves into the hilly landscape. An exercise in symmetry, the facility positions athletic courts along a central carapace-like axis. Pathways weave over and through the building, which features a printed ETFE-membrane roof.  Photo © Young & Ayata Bauhaus Museum One of the firm’s most ambitious designs was for a new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Ger­many. The timber lattice–framed  “vessels” would touch at their concrete bases to create a unified floor plate. The volumes would be clad in glass tiles, patterned like Bauhaus textiles. “We didn’t look to represent Bauhaus as an aged ideology, so we speculated on where the move­ment could go,” says Ayata. The design tied in an international competition but was ultimately unbuilt. Photo © Young & Ayata Bauhaus Museum One of the firm’s most ambitious designs was for a new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Ger­many. The timber lattice–framed  “vessels” would touch at their concrete bases to create a unified floor plate. The volumes would be clad in glass tiles, patterned like Bauhaus textiles. “We didn’t look to represent Bauhaus as an aged ideology, so we speculated on where the move­ment could go,” says Ayata. The design tied in an international competition but was ultimately unbuilt. Photo © Young & Ayata Cône de Cadavre Exquis Young & Ayata teamed up with Harmen Brethouwer—a Dutch artist who creates square and teardrop-­shaped objects exclusively—to design a conical 3-D-printed sculpture inspired by the surrealist parlor game, the Exquisite Corpse. The architects asked four designers each to select a pattern from Owen Jones’s 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament; the patterns were then programmed into the digital fabrication of a 17-inch-tall cone using full-color sandstone powder. Photo © Joris Lugtigheid/Hidde van Seggelen Gallery Base Flowers In their work, Young & Ayata  are interested in the interplay of fact and fiction. For a set of repositionable 3-D-printed vases, they developed a species of hyperreal 3-D-printed flowers. These mutant blooms are barely perceptible within the larger bouquet. “We sought to create a tension between the container and what’s contained, what’s alive and what’s not alive,” says Ayata. Photo © Young & Ayata DL1310 Apartments The studio is collaborating with the Mexico City–based practice MAPmx on a 10-unit apartment building in that city. Though the building is a simple rectangular volume, the design plays with the geometry of the facade and the traditional application of board-formed concrete by manipulating the wedge-shaped window insets. The project will be completed next year. Photo © Young & Ayata Two of italy’s greatest modern architects are known for their cemeteries.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12050 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12050-design-vanguard-2016-studio-andrea-dragoni 1612-Design-Vanguard-Studio-Andrea-Dragoni-01.jpg Andrea Dragoni Photo © Gaia Bricca Senago Complex For an extension of the historic Villa San Carlo Borromeo Park in Milan, Dragoni has designed a complex that includes a 250-room hotel. The building’s half-moon shape is generated by a river and a canal that bracket it. Photo © Studio Andrea Dragoni Government Building Public Spaces In collaboration with artist Nicola Renzi, Dragoni revamped the  courtyard of a government building in Udine. The pair cut an opening in the floor slab to bring daylight and sky views to the lower level, and introduced a graphic pattern into the paving. Photo © Alessandra Chemollo Gubbio Cemetery Expansion For the expansion of a cemetery, Dragoni created a series of blocklike enclosures that echo the rhythms of the medieval town less than a mile away. Several of the structures are topped by openings that frame the sky and are reminiscent of the work of James Turrell. Photo © Massimo Marini Moena Parking Facility With architects Alessandro Bulletti and Marco Palazzeschi, Dragoni designed a parking facility for the city of Moena. Because the site is one of great natural beauty—it sits between a mountain ridge and a river—the architects centered the structure on a loggia that provides pedestrian access to the water’s edge. Image courtesy Studio Andrea Dragoni http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12049 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12049-design-vanguard-2016-alexander-jermyn-architecture Alexander Jermyn Architecture Photo © Lucas Fladzinsk Lamprich Center Jermyn wanted to avoid the labyrinth feeling of many healthcare facilities, so he reduced a complex program, comprising a clinic, rehabilitation center, pharmacy, and office space, to two bars in an L, placing the pharmacy and offices in one and the patient clinics in the other. Photo © Lucas Fladzinski TP-H Residence A robust connection to the outdoors was this project’s overall concept. In this renovation of a 1,000-square-foot Palo Alto home, plus a new addition, the design team played on the use of apertures to communicate the connection. Photo © Lucas Fladzinsk TP-H Residence A robust connection to the outdoors was this project’s overall concept. In this renovation of a 1,000-square-foot Palo Alto home, plus a new addition, the design team played on the use of apertures to communicate the connection. Photo © Lucas Fladzinski WeWork Berkeley “Office projects are really informative for us—we like to see how people work and collaborate,” Jermyn says. For WeWork, the firm adapted the client’s planning model for a 7-story, 40,000 square-foot renovation of an existing building. The new space employs glazed offices, colorful conference rooms, and rustic, laid-back common areas to create a dynamic work environment suitable for a wide variety of businesses. Photo © Chris Stark Edible Schoolyard Sited on a former vacant lot adjacent to a Berkeley middle school, an “edible nest” made from interwoven steel rods signals a passageway and serves as a framework for kiwi vines to grow. Photo © Terry and Terry Architecture What’s in a name? For Facet Studio, the answer is: the firm’s philosophy.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12048 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12048-design-vanguard-2016-facet-studio Facet Studio Photo © Justin Fox Sneakerology A specialty shoe store in a Sydney shopping mall, Sneakerology utilizes 281 sneaker-sized boxes to define the space and its storefront. This strategy enables store employees to fashion the displays as they see fit. Photo © Katherine Lu M House Located in Niigata, Japan, M House is a single-family home topped by an oversize roof supported by exposed rafters and columns embedded in a large bookshelf. In addition to storage, the shelves separate the home’s public and private spaces. Photo © Tomohiro Sakashita Habitat Antique Relying on the natural beauty of wood, this interior for a housewares shop in Osaka is based on a module system composed of stacked timber planks. Made of cedar, they serve not only as display shelves but also as column-like vertical supports. Photo © Tomohiro Sakashita Blu A hair salon in Sydney’s bustling Chinatown, this interior project was envisioned as a sanctuary where clients can get a cut and color. Billowy, translucent curtains separate the reception and waiting areas from the various treatment bays. Photo © Andrew Chung Doshisya Kyotanabe Chapel Linked by a 20-foot-wide outdoor passageway, the building consists of two independent pieces, one containing the chapel and the other an exhibition space. Glass walls knit the two halves together and open the activity inside to students walking by. Photo © Daichi Ano A good point of entry for understanding the complex designs of the brothers Jaime and Francisco J. Magén Pardo are the sculptures of the late Spanish artist Eduardo Chillida, with their play of dense solids and equally compacted voids.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12047 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12047-design-vanguard-2016-mag%C3%A9n-architects Magén Architects Photo © Pedro Pegenaute Bajo Martin County Council The facade of translucent alabaster, a local material, relates the project to its place in the absence of strong contextual cues from its roadside location. The sculptural massing is inspired by the excavated geometry of the alabaster quarries. The second-floor council chamber cantilevers over the recessed entry. Photo © Pedro Pegenaute DG House A series of shallow additions around the shell of an unfinished house mediate between indoors and out, creating an irregular assemblage brought together by a multifaceted zinc roof. Two wings frame the patio of the U-shaped scheme, with the living areas on the left and the master bedroom to the right. Photo © Pedro Pegenaute Ebro Environmental Center The architects conceived the pavilion as a landscape form, with sloping volumes that rise from the banks of this riverside park in Zaragoza. Wood finishes inside and out blend in with the trees. Ramps with frameless glass balustrades ascend to a rooftop viewing platform and an outdoor amphitheater. Photo © Pedro Pegenaute Valdespartera School Set between blocks of new subsidized housing and a highway, the primary school focuses inward around an oval patio. The continuous roof flares up at each end to accommodate the cafeteria and multipurpose hall. A screen of colored metal tubes, “like colored pencils,” according to the architects, enclose the perimeter.  Photo © Pedro Pegenaute Escatrón Town Hall In a two-stage construction process, the council chamber on the right was built first, followed by the office block on the left, where the corner entry and upper balcony are chiseled out of the stone-clad volume. The building offers a dynamic, asymmetrical face to the town’s church and main plaza. Photo © Pedro Pegenaute A pair of New York-based architects reinvents the vernacular and creates work that resonates with a wide audience.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12046 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12046-design-vanguard-2016-abruzzo-bodziak-architects Abruzzo Bodziak Architects Photo © Abruzzo Bodziak Architects Irish Hills House Abruzzo Bodziak’s design for a gambrel-­roofed house for a site in rural Michigan is informed by the agricultural buildings found throughout the region. The architects have tweaked the familiar form to include a sheltered porch, large windows, and an enclosed courtyard defined by a stone base and retaining walls. Image courtesy Abruzzo Bodziak Architects Unmeasurability This installation is made up of mirrored boxes that enclose infinitely reflecting objects viewed directly through arrowslit openings or through the lens of a digital camera. The constructions demonstrate that a space can be more than the sum of its constructed parts. Photo © Abruzzo Bodziak Architects Unmeasurability This installation is made up of mirrored boxes that enclose infinitely reflecting objects viewed directly through arrowslit openings or through the lens of a digital camera. The constructions demonstrate that a space can be more than the sum of its constructed parts. Photo © Abruzzo Bodziak Architects Landscape (Triptych) This site-specific installation for New York’s Center for Architecture was fashioned from technical rope and electroluminescent wire. Conceived as a sketch in light, the piece suggests mountainous terrain while mimicking the illuminated signage of nearby storefronts. Photo © Naho Kubota Bart Akkerhuis has come a long way since leaving his role as an associate with the Paris office of Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) to found his own studio.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12045 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12045-design-vanguard-2016-studio-akkerhuis Bart Akkerhuis Photo © Paul Heuzen Meelfabriek In addition to working on the master plan to reinvent this vast industrial complex in Leiden, Netherlands, Studio Akkerhuis is designing and restoring several of its buildings, which will include a 120-room hotel, loft apartments, shops, offices, and artist ateliers. Image courtesy Studio Akkerhuis Meelfabriek In addition to working on the master plan to reinvent this vast industrial complex in Leiden, Netherlands, Studio Akkerhuis is designing and restoring several of its buildings, which will include a 120-room hotel, loft apartments, shops, offices, and artist ateliers. Image courtesy Studio Akkerhuis Galerie Rabouan Moussion Using basic materials including untreated black steel, raw concrete, and glass, Studio Akkerhuis converted a former lampshade factory in central Paris into 3,700 square feet of exhibition space. It created a sequence of spaces that culminates in a 20-foot-high gallery for large installations. Photo © Eddy Boulares Bries Beach Club Two volumes comprise this prefabricated temporary structure, which is erected in the spring, then dismantled in autumn for winter storage. The main open space of the club faces the sea, and a series of modular units made from cross-laminated timber—for the kitchen, office, storage, and bathrooms—plug into it. Image courtesy Studio Akkerhuis Water Tower A disused water tower on the shores of the North Sea in Noordwijk, Netherlands, will accommodate a private house, public space in the reservoir, and a viewing platform on top. Image courtesy Studio Akkerhuis http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12044 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12044-design-vanguard-2016-waechter-architecture Waechter Architecture Photo © David Papazian Milwaukie Way In Portland’s Westmoreland neighborhood, WA created a new pedestrian alleyway between its two new buildings and a 1929 Spanish Colonial Revival–style building across from them. The new buildings are clad in vertically ribbed black metal. A consistent pattern of 6-foot wide window and door openings were “cut” from this dark, textured surface to create a ribbon­-like effect. Photo © Lara Swimmer Garden House Waechter took Portland’s increased-density movement and used it as an opportunity to explore housing iconography, sculptural forms, and the maximizing of small-space regulations with this ADU. Garden House’s exaggerated eaves cantilever 10 feet on both sides of the house, creating protected outdoor spaces below and two generous ceiling-height bedrooms and a second bathroom upstairs. Photo © Sally Schoolmaster Claybourne Commons For this 20-unit rowhouse project currently under construction, WA created a series of physical models, as it does for most projects, to test spatial hierarchy, compositional order, and concept. Photo © Waechter Architecture Pavilion House For clients seeking a glass dwelling in a dense Portland neighborhood, Waechter strategically located large swaths of glazing so as to avoid unwanted views and maintain privacy. The rest of the exterior is clad in standing-seam white metal panels of varying width. Photo © Jeremy Bittermann Furioso Vineyards Waechter’s design for this Dundee, Oregon, project expands and transforms an existing winery through a vertical screen of blackened wood and a cantilevering roof canopy. Photo © Waechter Architecture  During its 44 years under colonial rule, Morocco served as a petri dish for experiments in modernism by French architects and planners like Jean-François Zevaco and Michel Ecochard.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12041 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12041-design-vanguard-2016-mohamed-amine-siana Mohamed Amine Siana Photo © Saad A. Tazi  Villa Z A house for a doctor and his family on a busy street in Casablanca centers around the opacity of the main facade. The design combines principles of traditional architecture with a strong contemporary identity. Inside, a wall of Moroccan green onyx is a focal point of the living area. Photo © doublespace photography Technology School of Guelmim Organized along a north–south axis through a partly covered path, the various buildings of this 75,000-square-foot project consist of an amphitheater, library, classrooms, workshops, laboratories, teachers’ offices, and staff housing. The architecture is deliberately massive and plays with the contrast between interior and exterior. Photo © Fernando Guerra FG+SG Villa F For this 4,800-square-foot residence in Casablanca, the architect used local materials, including Moroccan marble and redwood, and designed some of the furniture. Eschewing air-conditioning, the design reinterprets the traditional patio on the first level to passively cool the house. Photo © Fernando Guerra FG+SG Laayoune Technology School At this complex far from the city center, the various buildings are fragmented to allow maximum natural ventilation. They are connected by a series of exterior paths and covered squares and gardens. Different sun-protection devices, including brise-soleils, double skins, and protected walkways, are used. Photo © doublespace photography