Articles with TAG: architecture

24. Editor’s: Rem Koolhaas’s Fundamentals and a few doubts
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

26. The World Inside the Tower
A house designed by Starh on a tiny plot in Bucharest is hermetic and charming, rigorous and complex, innovative and cosy.

24. Editor’s: Rem Koolhaas’s Fundamentals and a few doubts
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

26. The World Inside the Tower
A house designed by Starh on a tiny plot in Bucharest is hermetic and charming, rigorous and complex, innovative and cosy.

40. Cannatà & Fernandes: Landscape Laboratory, a Conversion without Ambiguities
While asserting its indisputable contemporaneity, the intervention of Cannatà & Fernandes in Guimarães, Portugal, aims at recovering the architectural character of an existing building.

50. Robert Konieczny KWK Promes: Auto-Family House
>  Rethinking single family house typology into a suburban context

56. A.LT architekti: Living with the Memory of a Vernacular Background
An individual house in Orava, Slovakia, finds discreetly its place in the landscape, suggesting local vernacular elements, yet without turning to pastiches or non-critical copying.

62. DOSSIER: The Good Logic. cepezed projects
> Three examples of industrial architecture in the Netherlands

     63. Trs Transport Cooling
     67. Van Wijk Printers
     70. Pas Reform

Urban Report 
84. Habitat for Humanity România: Above and Beyond Money

> Building Social Housings as a Cooperation and Education Strategy

Smart Systems 
     88. Smart Highways

Rethinking highways marks a new phase of modernity. For Studio Roosegaarde & Heijmans this means safety, sustainability and experience. For ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd], sound barriers articulate and integrate urban landscape behind.

     94. Transsolar Energietechnik: Synergistic Engineering
> 2 study cases of climate-responsive architecture
Intro: Cosmin Caciuc / Text: Thomas Auer

104. Neuroarchitecture, the Ultimate Frontier between Brain and Environment
Ana Iorga, Ioana Calen (Buyer Brain). 
Neurosciences bring the promise of spaces to contribute, positively speaking, to the configuration of tempers, emotions and feelings of locals. 

110. Bucharest Design Center : Limited Series… or Design for the Sake of Art
> Limited series in Romanian design
Text: Anca Fetcu

116. The Lamp which Was Never Made (so Far). Le Corbusier : Projecteur 365 
Text: Stefan Ghenciulescu

119. Back to chaos
Text: Stefan Ghenciulescu  / Photo: Stefan Tuchila

24 Editor’s: Tactical urbanism / Text: Cosmin Caciuc

26 Dosmasuno arquitectos: Translucent Wrapping
> The social services centre in Móstoles, Madrid goes beyond the rigid functional constraints and has an expressive reaction to the surrounding context through subtracted volumetric shapes and porous façades.

24 Editor’s: Tactical urbanism / Text: Cosmin Caciuc

26 Dosmasuno arquitectos: Translucent Wrapping
> The social services centre in Móstoles, Madrid goes beyond the rigid functional constraints and has an expressive reaction to the surrounding context through subtracted volumetric shapes and porous façades.

40 DOSSIER: ARCò 

> Three schools built for the Bedouin communities located in a Middle East. Ecoregionalism, a sustainable and expressive architecture that uses minimum construction materials and local resources: earth, recycled tires, bamboo, metal sheet, straw and wood:

• 41 Sustainable Rehabilitation. Abu Hindi School
•  44 Building with 2,200 Used Tyres. Al Khan Al Ahmar School
•  48 The Children’s Land. Um al Nasser School

Tetrarc architects:

• 54 A Well Thought-out Densification

 > A semi-collective social housing project in Saint-Gilles Croix de Vie, France, and a view on the gradual renovation at the heart of small- and medium-sized towns.

• 62 Paloma – Cultural Confluences

> A complex dedicated to contemporary music at Nîmes Métropole, France, brings the physical and symbolic tensions together to produce a variable character.

70 Exhibit Arhitectura: From Powerful Gestures, to Bricolage

> Humanitas Bookshop at Cismigiu – an eclectic project that may be seen as a superposition of simple gestures.

76 Corvin Cristian: Worlds Coming Inside

• 76 Lovely Surrealism. BON Restaurant
• 82 Meze Taverna

Urban Report

• 94 Fattinger Orso Architektur: Catalysts for Community

    > Festival Center Regionale 12, Murau, Austria
    > Bellevue: the yellow house: experimental structure in the public space, Linz, Austria
    > Déjà-vu: a modular installation for artistic events, Linz, Austria 

102 Gap Filler: Summer Pallet Pavilion – a Community Venue
Activation of an urban site in Christchurch, New Zeeland

Smart Systems

• 104 Behnisch Architekten: Holistic Collaboration and Another Kind of Life at the Office

    > The Unilever Headquarters in Hamburg for Germany, Austria and Switzerland

•  116 Modulab: High Tech on the Eastern Front

>  The first trans-media art lab in Bucharest
                                                         

26. Editor’s – Media architecture and its impact on people  / Text: Cosmina Goagea

30. The Water Plant, Suceava
> The conversion of a former industrial structure into a Center of Urban Culture 
Text: Cosmina Goagea