The Architect's Newsletter

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Black and white photography of trees in Frederick Law Olmsted–designed parks and a climate-forward plan for the hardscape around Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral are among the projects and research on The post <em>Forest Futures</em> at Harvard GSD examines the cross-section of nature and urbanity appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper. (..)

Nature 117

Nature Project Landscape Design 117

Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

Named Spindles, the project, which borrowed techniques from local chair making traditions, involved using small pieces of shaped wood to make a roof-supporting column. You should have this flourishing understory of shrubs and plants and things and there was just nothing, and a lot of the trees are very tall and spindly."

Structure 128

Structure Structural Engineering Students Technique 128

Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Italian architect Italo Rota , who designed projects including the Museo del Novecento in Milan , has passed away at age 70. Some of his most notable projects include designing Milan's Museo del Novecento, which opened in 2010, and completing a number of projects for Roberto Cavalli, including the fashion designer's villa in Florence.

Innovation 116

Innovation Masterplanning Renovation Visualization 116

Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2023

Montreal studio ACDF Architecture has designed a low-slung, modernist -style home with massing shaped to surround an apple tree and provide lines of sight through the living areas. The project is located in St-Donat, a rural area near Montreal that serves as a popular getaway from the city. Three bedrooms feature inside.

Glass 145

Glass Home Architecture Structural Engineering 145

Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Appropriately called Subterranean Ruins, the building is dug into a steeply sloping site overgrown with mango, banana and coconut trees and designed as a freely accessible, multifunctional centre for the village of Kaggalipura. According to the studio, they are intended to resemble "ancient ruins".

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Site Roofing Nature Sustainability 130

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Angled glass walls frame close-up views of a mature tree at the centre of the Chestnut House in Vale Flor, Portugal , designed by local architect João Mendes Ribeiro. João Mendes Ribeiro has designed a house around a chestnut tree. Angled glass walls frame close-up views of the tree. A wooden terrace features outside.

Landscape 136

Landscape Housing Glass Windows 136

Deezen

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The masterplan will aim to enhance the visitor experience and ensure the longevity of the site, which centres around a stupa, or burial mound, containing relics of the Buddha. Dating back to the sixth century BC, the stupa takes the form of a green mound topped by the bodhi tree.

Masterplanning 134

Masterplanning Site Landscape Space 134

Deezen

JANUARY 17, 2024

Since our first sketches, the emphasis has always been on the functionality of the project and the link with the direct environment of the forest," he continued. The ground floor is slightly set back, creating an overhang above that shelters a path around the building. An additional green space is inserted in between.

Housing 122

Housing Architect Sketching Design 122

Deezen

APRIL 28, 2023

FMT Estudio designed the El Tirón residential project to have a minimal footprint, aiming to reduce the amount of resources needed in construction while creating a tranquil home. Local architecture practice FMT Estudio has completed two concrete houses on either end of a narrow plot in Mérida , Mexico, connected by a central courtyard.

Site 145

Site Housing Exterior Structure 145

Deezen

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The Japanese restaurant is raised on an existing jetty that extends out from the shore and has a bamboo structure with tree-like columns to support its wavy roof. A network of tree-like columns, which are formed from three angled lengths of bamboo, is arranged underneath the structure and extends from the entrance to the end of the jetty.

Roofing 135

Roofing Structure Contractor Inspiration 135

Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

UK architecture studio Foster + Partners and local studio Ponce de León Arquitectos have broken ground on its first project in Uruguay , an apartment building wrapped around a multi-storey glass courtyard. The project is being carried out in collaboration with Ponce de León Arquitectos.

Glass 122

Glass Project Contemporary Windows 122

Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

Funnel-shaped concrete skylights draw daylight into the centre of the home Entering through a shaded porch alongside a parking area, kitchen and home office, the organisation of the home has been split into two halves on either side of large existing tree at the front.

Home 145

Home Consulting Contractor Visualization 145

Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The columbarium comprises six chambers organised around an open-air chapel "We tried not to refer to symbolism or look for metaphors ," BDR Architekci co-founder Konrad Basan told Dezeen. "We The site is accessible from all directions in the cemetery, with paved routes weaving between each of the chambers and around curved areas of planting.

Engineering 144

Engineering Engineering Structural Engineering Structure 144

Deezen

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Red tiles envelop the roof and walls of this family home , which Vietnamese studio The Bloom Architects has arranged around a central courtyard in the city of Bao Loc. These are oriented around the central internal courtyard, where a tree is planted beneath a circular lightwell.

Roofing 137

Roofing Housing Architect Residential 137

Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

Dropcity , founded by architect Andrea Caputo, unveiled its In Progress exhibition to enable visitors to "view the space being built around them", with the urban centre expected to officially open in autumn this year. The structure can be understood as a "horizontal skyscraper", according to Caputo.

Installation 111

Installation Manufacturing Roofing Restoration 111

Deezen

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Its slim volumes adapt to the site's natural topography, navigating existing large trees and framing a series of terraces and courtyards. Its slim volumes adapt to the site's natural topography, navigating existing large trees and framing a series of terraces and courtyards. Each piece has a relationship with the environment."

Housing 140

Housing Home Landscape Site 140

Deezen

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Stittgen's Tree-ism project explores how lignin and cellulose, both derived from European Spruce trees, can be combined to create "remade wood" products. Read: Ten different and everyday uses for bioplastics "It is difficult to hold a piece of paper and see a tree," Stittgen said.

Materials 125

Materials Industrial Manufacturing Development 125

Deezen

JANUARY 15, 2024

Dutch architecture studio i29 has nestled a bamboo-clad house among trees in Limburg, the Netherlands , aiming to connect its residents to the surrounding woodland. Clad in untreated bamboo, the house is defined by five interconnected orthogonal volumes placed around existing trees, each broken up by the large glass windows and doors.

Finishes 127

Finishes Client Clients Landscape 127

Deezen

MAY 19, 2023

Spanish practice Arquitecturia has completed a home in the Catalan town of Caldes de Malavella, which is comprised of six small buildings organised around a courtyard at its centre. Board-marked concrete covers the lower portion of the exterior Around the central courtyard, a U-shaped corridor space connects each of the home's blocks.

Housing 145

Housing Roofing Design Windows 145

Architizer

JUNE 10, 2022

Project Status: Concept. The Senegal School project in Kafountine was designed for designers and participants with specific themes such as equality, conservation of site trees, cost-effectiveness, method of construction and step-by-step construction. Size: 10,000 sqft – 25,000 sqft. © Mado Architects. © Mado Architects.

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Architect Site Education Concept 119

Deezen

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Emirati architect Abdalla Almulla made the Of Palm pavilion at Dubai Design Week by using all parts of the palm tree, including ceilings constructed from woven leaf mats and palm-wood furniture. Darker wood panelling made from the tree was used to create furniture pieces for the circular pavilion including stools and display cases.

Design 111

Design Installation Events Sustainability 111

Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2022

It was constructed without felling any existing trees in a natural clearing that is hidden deep in the woodland. As the lodge sits over a natural embankment, we were able to create a design that offers guests a real sense of elevated living, high amongst the trees.". "As No trees were felled to make room for the lodge.

Glass 145

Glass Site Foundation Client 145

Deezen

MARCH 30, 2023

Three bedrooms are included in the project The private zone with three bedrooms and bathrooms is to the left of the entrance, which is characterised by a coffee-coloured parota wood screen and a cotton fisherman's net hanging rope. The pool was constructed around a pre-existing tree.

Housing 145

Housing Roofing Zoning Residential 145

designboom

OCTOBER 14, 2022

drawing from bird nests, the project envisions a fusion of nature and architecture, an 'archi-nature' as DNA calls it. The post suspended nest villas cluster around a ‘tree of life’ in DNA’s nature-oriented resort in mexico appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

Nature 145

Nature Project Architecture IT 145

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Called the Fab Lab, the project is located in the Yucatán peninsula. Both the doors and the windows use patterns and shapes that could be reminiscent of tree leaves or insect wings from the jungle," said the studio. The remaining interior contains open atriums, with trees running through the centre.

Architecture 128

Architecture Windows Installation Structure 128

Deezen

AUGUST 30, 2023

Architecture studio ElasticoFarm has created a house on stilts around a suspended void nestled in the trees of a private park in Cambiano, a town to the southeast of Turin in northern Italy. This serves] as the focal point around which the architecture achieves its balance."

Housing 98

Housing Home Interior Structure 98

Deezen

AUGUST 26, 2022

Architect Alexander Symes has added an angular addition to a house in Unanderra, Australia , featuring wood-lined living spaces that open onto a terrace perched in the canopy of a large tree. Symes designed Pepper Tree Passive House for local builder Adam Souter, whose company Souter Built aims to create high-performance sustainable homes.

Housing 128

Housing Structural Engineering Sustainability Finishes 128

Deezen

MARCH 29, 2023

Three bedrooms are included in the project The private zone with three bedrooms and bathrooms is to the left of the entrance, which is characterised by a coffee-coloured parota wood screen and a cotton fisherman's net hanging rope. The pool was constructed around a pre-existing tree.

Housing 135

Housing Roofing Zoning Residential 135

Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

Living spaces snake around trees and rocks at the Chuzhi house , which architecture studio Wallmakers has created on an overlooked site in the village of Shoolagiri, India. The design and dimensions were derived entirely from the position of the trees and the rock formation on the site," he told Dezeen. "The

Housing 132

Housing Technique Site Landscape 132

Deezen

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Local studio Hsu McCullough has completed a stucco and ash home with an accessory dwelling unit in Los Angeles ' that wraps around an elm tree. The house is split into two wings: with the shared spaces and private areas separated at the junction, which wraps around the elm tree. The six-bedroom, 6.5-bathroom

Home 106

Home Exterior Roofing Windows 106

Deezen

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Malik Architecture restored the 144-year old ice factory Named IF.BE – Ice Factory Ballard Estate, the gallery was designed around a central courtyard. Indian studio Malik Architecture has turned a 144-year-old ice factory in Ballard Estate, Mumbai , into the IF.BE contemporary gallery. The east-light roof marks the entry to IF.BE

Events 127

Events Space Architecture Restoration 127

Deezen

MARCH 31, 2024

Its facades are animated by arched windows A landscaped path provides routes between and around each of these blocks and to the adjacent housing developments on the site. Their proportion reflects the size and shape of the gaps left between the trees."

Housing 137

Housing Architect Visualization Roofing 137

Deezen

MARCH 25, 2023

Classrooms and social spaces are arranged around a tree-filled courtyard at this school , created by Polish practice Jeju Studio for a refugee community in Tanzania. Wrapped around a group of existing mango trees, the building's form was designed to mimic the social spaces in a Ulyankulu market.

Space 145

Space Education Roofing Foundation 145

Dwell

JANUARY 18, 2023

Trees had fallen left and right, there was debris everywhere, and there was no ferry service. In our family, we’re all doers, so we looked around and realized that the property was a diamond in the rough." Since starting on the project in 2017, he and his family have planted more than 80 trees around the acreage.

Building 133

Building Foundation Site Finishes 133

Deezen

JANUARY 28, 2024

Bamboo is a traditional building material in the northeast region and with this project, we wanted to draw attention to, and raise awareness of, this traditional and sustainable material," the studio added. During this year's event, the pavilion was used for handloom demonstrations by local craftspeople.

Construction 143

Construction Construction Roofing Site 143

Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Located near a grove of mature pine trees, the neighbouring buildings are in the southeast corner of the 215-acre (87-hectare) Bowdoin College campus in the city of Brunswick. Today, the private college has about 1,900 students from around the world. Facades are clad in red brick, which is commonly found on campus.

Building 128

Building Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Education 128

Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2023

The 10 projects in this lookbook, which range from a Japanese home with decorative scaffolding to an Italian house with an indoor Ficus tree, show how biophilic design has been used in projects all over the globe. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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Information Interior Modern Home 131