Magpies 3D Architectural Design : 03/01/2011

March 31, 2011

Architectural Renderings House-Seattle Public Library | Rem Koolhaas OMA

Project: Seattle Public Library
Design architect: Rem Koolhaas OMA
Local architects: LMN Architects, Seattle
Location: Seattle, Washington
Size: 362,987 square feet

After 4 year of the project’s completion, the Seattle Public Library celebrates it’s “Libraries for All” building program. The Central Library in downtown Seattle was opened in May 2004, which was designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas.

The building is divided into eight horizontal layers, each varying in size to fit its function. A structural steel and glass skin unifies the multifaceted form and defines the public spaces in-between.

Here is an interview between Seattle Times and Rem Koolhaas. During the interview, Mr Rem Koolhaas has stated,

Basically the Books Spiral was kind of for us an architectural way of undoing some of the sadness of the typical library, where it kind of really divided in a number of compartments that have very dull-sounding names like “humanity,” “sciences,” blah, blah, blah. We felt that those categories are not necessarily the most exciting and encouraging categories in terms of dividing a library, so it enabled us to create an undivided sequence of books where of course the divisions actually exist and all the kind of cataloging systems perform their task, but the point was to create a kind of single, undivided sequence, because we felt that one of the points of a library was that there are accidents and that you find yourself in areas where you didn’t expect to be and where you kind of look at books that are not necessarily the books that you’re aiming for. So it was to create a kind of almost arbitrariness — or to create a kind of walking experience, an almost kind of urban walk … a kind of Rotterdam, a very efficient, direct aiming for limited destinations.

The stacks, arranged along a continuous spiral ramp contained within a four-story slab, reinforce a sense of a world organized with machine-like precision.

Nicolai Ouroussoff, Los Angeles Times

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Architectural Renderings House-MVRDV and ADEPT win Copenhagen Competition with Design ‘Sky Village’

Dutch architects MVRDV and Danish co-architects ADEPT have won a competition to design theRødovre Skyscraper in Copenhagen, Denmark. By creating a tower that is basically a grid structure with a minimal pixel size, any configuration can be imagined and filled in. The grid-size of 7.8 x 7.8 m combines a good parking grid, a proper small housing unit and office type.

+ architect’s press

(Rødovre – Copenhagen, November 3rd, 2008) The municipality of Rødovre, an independent municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark, announced today MVRDV and co-architect ADEPT winner of the design competition of the Rødovre Skyscraper. The 116 meter tall tower accommodates apartments, a hotel, retail and offices. A public park and a plaza are also part of the privately funded scheme.

The new skyscraper with a total surface of 21,688m2 will be located at Roskildevej, a major artery East of the centre of Copenhagen. It is after the Frøsilos MVRDV’s second project in Copenhagen. The skyscraper’s shape reflects Copenhagen’s historical spire and present day high-rise blending in the skyline of the city, it further combines the two distinctive typologies of Rødovre, the single family home and the skyscraper in a vertical village. Consideration of these local characteristics leads to Copenhagen’s first contemporary high-rise.

Responding to unstable markets the design is based on a flexible grid, allowing alteration of the program by re-designating units. These ‘pixels’ are each 60m2 square and arranged around the central core of the building, which for flexibility consists of three bundled cores allowing separate access to the different program segments.

On the lower floors the volume is slim to create space for the surrounding public plaza with retail and restaurants; the lower part of the high rise consists of offices, the middle part leans north in order to create a variety of sky gardens that are terraced along the south side. This creates a stacked neighbourhood, a Sky Village. From this south orientation the apartments are benefitting. The top of the building will be occupied by a hotel enjoying the view towards Copenhagen city centre. The constellation of the pixels allows flexibility in function; the building can be transformed by market forces, however at this moment it is foreseen to include 970m2 retail, 15,800m2 offices, 3,650m2 housing and 2,000m2 hotel and a basement of 13,600m2 containing parking and storage.

Flexibility for adaptation is one of the best sustainable characteristics of a building. Besides this the Sky Village will also integrate the latest technologies according to the progressive Danish environmental standards. Furthermore the plans include a greywater circuit, the use of 40% recycled concrete in the foundation and a variety of energy producing devices on the façade.

A public park adjacent to the Sky Village is part of the project and will be refurbished with additional vegetation and the construction of a ‘superbench’, a meandering public path and bench. A playground, picnic area and exercise areas for elderly citizens are also part of the plan.

Lead architect MVRDV and co-architect ADEPT Architects won the competition from BIG, Behnisch and MAD. Winy Maas and Jacob van Rijs present the plan today in Copenhagen together with Anders Lonka and Martin Krogh from local office Adept Architects, Dutch engineering firm ABT and Søren Jenssen act as consultants for the project. Earlier MVRDV realised the Frøsilos / Gemini Residence in the port of Copenhagen: a residential project marking a new way in refurbishment of old silo’s which was highly acclaimed and received international awards.

Architect: MVRDV with Søren Jensen and ABT Velp
Name: collaboration village in the sky
Type: invited competition
Task: masterplan / building design
Client: Roedovre Municipality / Brainstones
Size: 22,000 m2
Year: 2008
images © ADEPT + MVRDV

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Architectural Renderings House-Michael Hills Clubhouse | Patterson Associates

Sometimes an impressive building does not mean that a spectacular object, but a building how naturally integrated with the environment, perhaps the landscape scene is more than architecture. Michael Hills Clubhouse, designed by New Zealand’s most internationally recognised architects Patterson Associates, located in the Wakatipu Basin in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, seeks an impression of form having evolved from the same forces that shape the land.

The idea of “belong naturally” and “design sustainably”, the architect has tried to optimise natural climate control that maximising energy efficiency and utilising materials with low embodied energy, the Clubhouse is a sustainable building with low visual and environmental impact.

+ architect’s statement, Patterson Associates

The impression we want is that buildings are formed by the same forces that shaped the land… we wanted earth to be earth, wood to be wood and stone to be stone…

Few sports adhere to tradition quite like golf and one of its most stubborn traditions of all is clubhouse architecture. All too often clubhouses are faux historical buildings set ‘’out of bounds’’ with no connection to the land, the idea of what the sport is about or how it integrates with the environment.

To be a world first, the building is situated within the playing bounds. If a ball lands on the grass roof, the player takes the shot from there. Less than a quarter of the Clubhouse protrudes above the grass. The cart store, workshops and service areas are all subterranean. The clubhouse itself is a kitchen/bar/service tunnel and lounge. All access either the courtyard or wide terrace overlooking the 18th green.

+ project credits

Project: Michael Hills Clubhouse
Architect: Patterson Associates
Location: Arrowtown, New Zealand
Builder: RBJ Ltd
Engineers: Tyndall and Hanham Ltd
GRC: Unicast Ltd
Frameless Double Glazing: Thermosash Christchurch
Precast Concrete: Bradfords Precast Ltd
Aluminium Dimple Panels: Metal Concepts Ltd
Joinery: Coronet Woodware Ltd
images © Simon Devitt

More information of the project

+ click here for project description in PDF
+ e-architect: Contemporary Golf Building, New Zealand

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Architectural Renderings House-Le Projet Triangle | Herzog & de Meuron

Project: Le Projet Triangle, Porte de Versailles
Architect: Herzog & de Meuron
Location: Paris, France
Completion: 2006 – 2014 (planned completion)
image © Herzog & de Meuron

Herzog & de Meuron’s new project raises up in Paris, by lifting of a ban on tall buildings in the city Paris reveals its first inner city tower since 1977. This is why the the triangular profile uses to prevent the structure casting shadows on adjacent buildings, and allow for optimum solar and wind power generation.

On the scale of the Porte de Versailles site, the project will also play a significant role in the reorganisation of flows and perception of urban space. It will also permit its integration in the system of axes and perspectives that constitute the urban fabric of Paris.

Herzog & de Meuron

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Architectural Renderings House-Juvet Landscape Hotel | Jensen & Skodvin Architects

Don’t you think it is a beautiful retreat for blogger or even retirement? Perhaps you might disagree my point. But I think it is a incredible architecture settlement in its beautiful landscape, Gudbrandsjuvet in Norway.

In fact, this is a hotel tourist project Juvet Landscape Hotel with 6 unique plans designed by Jensen & Skodvin Architects. Each hotel room has its own incredible view over the dramatic landscape.
+ architect’s statement, Jensen & Skodvin Architects

One of the local residents at Gudbrandsjuvet, Knut Slinning, is building a landscape hotel. The idea emerged at another site, Aurland, but was not realized there.

Basically each room is a detached small independent house with one, or sometimes two of the walls constructed in glass. The landscape in which these rooms are placed is by most people considered spectacularly beautiful and varied and the topography allows a layout where no room looks at another. In this way every room gets its own surprising view of a dramatic piece of landscape, always changing with the weather and the time of the day and the season.

Type: Hotel
Tourist project: Juvet Landscape Hotel
Architect: Jensen & Skodvin Architects – Jan Olav Jensen (pl), Børre Skodvin, Torunn Golberg Helge Lunder, Torstein Koch, Thomas Knigge
Location: Burtigard, Gudbrandsjuvet, Norway
Client: Knut Slinning
Landscape architect: Jensen & Skodvin
Static consultant: Siv. Ing. Finn Erik Nilsen
Year Planned: 2004 – 2007
Year Built: 2007 – 2008
Area: 800m2
Cost: 1 Million Euro

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Architectural Renderings House-Italian Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010 | BiCuadro Architects

Type: Competition, 3rd prize
Project: Italian Pavillion for Expo Shanghai 2010
Architect: BiCuadro Architects
Location: Shanghai, China
Images © BiCuadro Architects

The first prize winner of the contest: “Better City, Better Life” for Shanghai Expo 2010 was BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group – Denmark Pavillion. Here again the 3rd prize winner Italian Pavillion, designed byBiCuadro Architects.

The architectural design inspired all “true expression of Italian city: the historic city layered.” The great metropolis of the twentieth century are experiencing a deep crisis of environmental sustainability, due to a excessive growth and an alienation from the territory of its inhabitants and cash in an irreversible failure in matters of life and the condition of human life.

The Italian pavilion in Shanghai is the representation of this “historical fact-Space”. Of this organization consolidated opposition, who despite everything still produces and refines excellence, and a prototype that expresses the “layering” of the spirit social and urban Italian and back to the idea of historical continuity and economic.

The design are a major reinterpretation of a split casing in a series of plates “stratigraphy” that back to a time sequence, a metaphor for urban training Italian. The plates create series of light and shadow that filtering the transaction between the space.

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Architectural Renderings House-Inclined Capital Gate Tower | RMJM architects

Another new iconic building for Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Capital Gate rises in 160 metres and 35 storeys tall, is the tallest structure in the Capital Centre development, that to house a 5 star hotel Hyatt International with various exclusive offices. The hotel will open in 2009 and will be the first Hyatt operated hotel in the UAE capital.

With 18 degree westward inclined intentionally, that is 4 times more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa(which currently leans 3.97 degrees), the architects have submitted an application to the Guinness Book of Records to recognize the tower as the ‘most inclined in the world.’

The 728 unique glass triangles featured on the waving façades, and fitted at a slightly different angle. Expensive building but sustainable, the double glazed façade will be used to achieving greater energy efficiency and environmental responsibility.

Capital Gate will be one of a kind. Its graceful, asymmetric diagonal structure, known as a ‘diagrid’, supports the tilting external load of the building and we believe that this is the first building in the world to use a pre-cambered core.

David Pringle, CEO, RMJM Asia and the Middle East

Project: Capital Gate
Architect: RMJM architects
Client: ADNEC (Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company)
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
images © ADNEC / RMJM

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Architectural Renderings House-FiftyTwoDegrees | Mecanoo Architecten

Type: 1st prize in the 2002 competition
Project: FiftyTwoDegrees, Business Innovation Centre
Architect: Mecanoo architecten
Location: Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Total area: 70,000 square meters
Completed: 2008
Structural Engineer: ARUP (competition)
Client: Ballast Nedam Bouw, Arnhem ICE Ontwikkeling, Nijmegen
Architectural Drawings courtesy Mecanoo architecten
Photographed by Christian Richters

FiftyTwoDegrees, a Business Innovation Centre with 86 meter tall tower stands on a slope and is fluidly yet excitingly absorbed into surrounding Goffert Park. The lower eight floors of the seventeen-story tower are ten degrees out of plumb, creating an inviting gesture towards the city.

The façade is made of aluminum and glass in a unique and whimsical pattern. In order to shorten the construction time – one floor per week – it was decided to use prefabricated cladding, resulting in a pattern of pixels that gives the facade an abstract appearance.

The architect’s talk, construction progress and other relevant information of this project are available inFiftyTwoDegrees.

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March 31, 2011

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