Category: Architecture

The new corporate headquarters for Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires designed by Foster and Partners, working with construction firm, CRIBA S.A. and local architect, occupies the entire city block in the neighborhood of Parque Patricia. Design for Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires reflect the setting of park-side buildings, with landscaped courtyards and shaded sidewalks, using materials that are based on past industrial site to enhance the unique character of the neighborhood.

The system site extends to the limits and is arranged as an internal campus of ‘villages’, which are interconnected with circulation routes and external landscaped patios.
Light filled spaces are united by a flowing roof , supported by thin pillars, designed to shade the large entrance plaza, Large atrium directs circulation between four levels of offices with terraces, all with direct view to the park. Based on a grid of eight square meters of floor plates are generous allowing a high degree of flexibility in planning work-spaces.

Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires project

Is designed to have an impact-positive on the environment and social environment of the city. The plans are part of an initiative to regenerate largest Patricia Barrio Parque, an area with a mild form of industrial southern city that is emerging as a focus of a high-tech focus of industrial aspects. The Project is practically the first office developed in Argentina, incorporates a number of sustainable features and aims LEDD SILVER Accreditation. This exposed including use of thermal mass with chilled beams for according cooling, and reducing energy demand through shaded facades that are oriented according shade protection on the path of the sun, but also by encouraging natural ventilation.

 

 

 

 photos:© Foster + Partners

It’s not a house, but it is a perfect place for families looking for freedom and social interaction designed by Gus Wüstemann Architects.

Designers have created this special place  for family life, where everybody meets and circulates on the first floor, there we have a beautiful view over the lake of  Zürich, the building separating the parents which is at the top of the building of they children which is at the bottom of the building. Children living in the garden, where everything is white, as in Greek cities, but also happy protected by their parents. In this area we have access to the garden and the pool, where we play various games.
Central living area is connected with a concrete garden sculpture , which is a tribune with beautiful views where you can relax and drink with your friends.
In this social hub we meet a swimming pool.
Privacy is assured of facades made of translucent polycarbonate (scobalit), and to the east there is a private courtyard and in south we put Sky-Frame windows (sliding screens).
The kitchen is a block where you can cook, shower behind a light sculpture.

Location: gemeinde am zürichsee
Year: 2008
Program: family house
Team: gus wustemann, marta b.goñi, rodrigo iturrieta
Photos: bruno helbling

The building facade have applied an complete integrated design, designed to create a smart system to take the energy with an efficient comfort in use.

The architecture of the future, not only include form, also architecture is perfectly adapted and integrates shape and efficiency for use surrounding various forms of green energy. Tower assumes a natural structural organization, which generates efficient structures found in nature and architecture.

• As naturally regenerate, so this system offers a naturally organic restructuring and reorganization, there is a basic unit, space and architecture similar to cathedrals, and any natural system. Learning from nature and use of advanced computing power allows to design structures, LAVA design incredible brightness, efficiency and elegance, intelligence and intelligence small unit overall system; By modeling behavioral logic system parameters are continuously optimized The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

• In addition new materials and technologies allow adaptability reaction, awareness of environmental issues.

Traditional building’s exterior features a passive, lacking the ability to adapt to the external environment with a continuously fluctuating. The towers and intelligent is like an organic skin manages to bring an extreme innovation in the field of architecture and design, allowing control and responsiveness to the external environment such as air pressure, temperature, humidity, air pollution and solar radiation.

The Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco presents the diversity of life on earth and the various habitats they provide. This project presents a comprehensive view of the connection between water and form of life that makes this planet unique. The centerpiece of the Steinhart Aquarium is The Water Planet, is an exhibition of 10000 square meters which includes new modes of exhibition design and modern technology. Exposed space is remarkable seamless integration of live animals and a strong classification in multimedia, in order to bring visitors face to face with complex natural events.

Water Planet sets new benchmarks for  visual public, conceptual and full of creativity for designers of aquariums, but in the same tine a unique experience for lovers of the world water to form walls obtained artificial. For fluid and interactive islands, Thinc, leading exhibition designer for the aquarium as a whole , contacted the Urban A & O, which has skills and vision to created the unique forms using CATIA, parametric modeling software that allows an accurate control in design and manufacturing.
The designers has created the environment that manages perfectly interaction with media systems but also enabling the public to approach to visualize the 39 tanks of living organisms, three islands rich with media that exhibits intercativitate life forms that live in such a climate .
Walls and exposed islands Planet Water, water art reflected through the form
Experienced hands-on tactile interaction with real specimens, such as dry coral and teeth of sharks, with interactive media that contextualize the objects and provide interesting meetings with water bodies and  living creatures.

A world suspended in time which wearing a special design and keep the contemporary lines, this world is very well captured by Sergio Gioberto and Marilena Noro. We can observe in their pictures a part of past mystery, which invite us to discover it. Their work includes a series of dualities elements and ambiguities, for example light and shadow, simple and complex, natural and cultural, rational and irrational.

In images we can observe how well the mystery is revealed with design lines, which seems to lead us to think to the Egyptian pyramids. It’s a world of contrasts inside, and unleashes the opposite, it’s a perfect interaction between volume and inner emptiness in a world that seems suspended in time.

 

Plants are essential to our life, they are the source of life, both, people and for all types of form life at our planet, people in nature always looking grassy places to recharge batteries from everyday stress, parks and gardens are places that any metropolis arranging for us to provide a quiet place in nature,where we forget if making sure that all double glazed windows and doors have solid secure locks for our home.

• Gardens by the Bay is designed by Gustafson Porter and Grant, they extend on 101 ha, is ever a house that has over a quarter million rare plants and an integral part of Singapore government’s strategy to turn Singapore into a garden city.

• The stated aim is to increase quality of life by increasing the greenery and flowers in town.

• Gardens by the Bay East Garden is the perfect place for a family picnic in a dream environment, with palm trees and natural flowers of any kind plus a superb panoramic view of Marina Bay, South Bay Garden (the largest of the three ) where we find trees super futuristic looking rainwater then generate solar energy, measures 16-storey vertical garden that is integrated into a surreal landscape, Central Garden Bay is a link between East and South Bay Bay Gardens, 2  Conservatories (Flower Dome and The Cloud Forest) located along the edge of Marina Reservoir, offering a reprieve from the tropical heat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos © Grant Associates