30St. Falls designed by Elenberg Fraser Architecture, Situated in Falls Creek, the development is an essential and exciting new Gateway concept for the Village. Comprising two elegantly formed buildings emerging from the landscape, the view on arrival is complimented by the clearly framed aspect up to the ski fields beyond.

Photography: Peter Bennetts

At ground level, there will be a new retail strip fronting Bogong High Plains Road enlivening the street frontage and creating weather protected spill out zones for visitors to the Village. Entries to the upper-level apartments are integrated into this dynamic facade language with prominent entry canopies announcing the unique interiors of the St Falls lobbies.
The winding ramp system moves the visitor up through the two buildings and the broad central public staircase brings visitors up between the two buildings. Both paths of movement pass several retail and amenity spaces nestled into the rock-faced walls, arriving at the elevated level of the revitalized Slalom Plaza and the expansive north facing terraced café & restaurant areas.

Photography: Peter Bennetts

At Slalom Plaza level there are large commercial tenancies opening directly onto the large public meeting place. From the Plaza looking out over an endless view to the Valley and Mount Spion Kopje below, the buildings offer a multitude of spaces and programmes from which to relax and enjoy the surroundings. Plaza level entries to the upper-level apartments are again integrated into this dynamic building language.

Photography: Peter Bennetts

Within the two buildings, the apartments are unique in their concept, reflecting the exclusive nature of the overall St Falls concept. Expansive views through generous windows orchestrate the light-filled interior spaces. Dining zones move into living spaces that flow to external balconies. The balconies all hold a hot tub and extend beyond the beautifully articulated timber building skin to present maximum availability to the views beyond.
The apartment materials exude a luxury reflective of the design quality and inspired approach to the idea of hotel apartment living. First class appliances and fixtures and fittings are used throughout. Furniture is included as part of a considered overall designed aesthetic.

Photography: Peter Bennetts

The development is respectful of the natural environment within which it is situated and recognizes the work that Falls Creek Resort Management Board has put into maintaining these values. The development will utilize passive techniques such as solar orientation and thermal massing, as well as more proactive measures where viable.

Plan

Project Info:
Architects: Elenberg Fraser Architecture
Location: Falls Creek VIC 3699, Australia
Project Team: Callum Fraser, Valerie Tan, Hazel Porter, Frank Olbrich, Lorenzo Nuti, Kathrin Wheib, Marcus Ieraci, Caroline King, Iva Foschia, Andrew Prodromou, Beth Solomon, Karl Engstrom
Project Management: PDS Group
Structural Consultant: Bonacci Group Pty Ltd & VSL Australia Pty Ltd
Quantity Surveyor: Slattery Australia
Client: Zacamoco
Builder: LU Simon
Building Surveyor: Gardner Group
Budget: AU $24 millions
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Peter Bennetts
Project Name: St. Falls

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Designed by David Jameson Architect, Shaped largely by the site, the Glenbrook Residence is conceptually a courtyard inserted between two heavy walls. Threading the walls through the treescape to create distinct yet connected structures allows the house to be divided spatially into the most public, most private and a living pavilion that can become either or both. The residual in-between spaces create outdoor rooms that engage the building.

Photography: Paul Warchol Photography

The public and private wings of the house make up the foundations of the design concept. They are thought of as being of the earth and are articulated through their materials and shape as heavy, static pieces. These wings define the bounds of the house and act as the backbone to support the various courtyards, upper roof canopies and the dynamic living pavilion that sits between.

Photography: Paul Warchol Photography

The living pavilion is conceived as the centerpiece of the concept and glows like a crystal between the heavy wall elements of the house and contains the cooking, eating, and living spaces.
Above each of the heavy wings floats a thin, folding roof canopy. More than a simple surface, this roof canopy is conceived as an entity where nothing is hidden and all six sides are exposed to view. The walls that contain the spaces beneath these canopies are made of glass to create the illusion of a floating roof and to blur the boundary between inside and outside. All of these elements adopt a language of angular, dynamic forms in order to be completely liberated from the solid elements of the house.

Photography: Paul Warchol Photography

Project Info:
Architects: David Jameson Architect
Location: Bethesda, United States
Principal: David Jameson, FAIA
Project Architect: Ron Southwick Contractor Accent General Contracting, Inc.
Project Year: 2005
Photographs: Paul Warchol Photography
Project Name: Glenbrook Residence

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28 Social Housing In Paris designed by KOZ Architectes, The complex comprises 28 apartments, a shop, business premises and a basement for parking. Reinforced concrete structural system. Coloured high-density laminated panels. Rain-water collection, planted roof, heated flooring, external wood/ aluminum joinery, loggia and private walkways for all apartments.

Photography: Guillaume Grasseet

THPE RT2005: 70 kWh/m2/year; systematic exterior insulation, including parapet; thermal bridge breakers; heated flooring; natural lighting of all rooms and stairwells; double or even triple orientation, corner living room; maximization of glazed surfaces; air permeability tested in accordance with Effinergie requirements.

Elevation

Project Info:
Architects: KOZ Architectes
Location: Paris, France
Structure: EVP Ingénierie
Area: 440.0 m2
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Guillaume Grasseet, Jean-Baptiste Pellerin
Project Name: 28 Social Housing In Paris

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Social Housing In Carabanchel designed by coco arquitectos, Outlying contexts surrounded by city border highways, fields, malls… require consistent answers. These are places where any action demands the same audacity, for example, a leaning building. The construction expresses with the language of kinetic, fitting its shape parallel to the slope while the ground floor retrieves the level of the plot defining streets. The building plan is a thin strip, with narrow apartments opened onto two different scenes: one side the city, the other the wide private garden. Every unit has a room which crosses from side to side, opening simultaneously to both of them. We seek for dwelling with blurred frontiers between spaces, where inner room shape can be changed, and with the presence of an extra room. A room floating outside the building, attached to the facade, large enough to accommodate any domestic activity.
We approach social housing from present society, where customizing your own house is a way to seek for individuality. In this context, the new room, freely set in the facade, expresses this new understanding: a random image with all elevation being unique, every single dwelling different from each other, and only the intervention of the users helping it to acquire significance.
Project Info:
Architects: coco arquitectos
Location: Madrid, Spain
Project Architects: Jorge Martínez and Laura Sánchez
Quantity Surveyors: David Gil and Juan Carlos Corona
Structural Advisor: Gogaite SL
Consulting Engineer: Geasyt SA
Area: 20000.0 m2
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán, Ignacio Izquierdo, coco arquitectos
Project Name: Social Housing In Carabanchel

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Designed by Arkkitehdit Hannunkari & Mäkipaja Architects,  A complex of two apartment houses for social housing in the suburban area of Malmi in Helsinki, Finland. An innovative and sustainable approach was required by the client, the Helsinki Housing Production Bureau to ensure the design quality on the city-owned lot. Affordable purchase and maintenance costs, sustainable rental homes with a combination of the limitations of the site were the key fundamentals of the project. Schematic design began in 2007 and construction was completed in September 2010.

Photography: Mikael Linden

The two similar buildings form large curves toward the north blocking noise and tremor from the nearby street and railway. They also make a statement in a larger urban context, the suburban railway environment development.
A concept of the facades makes the two buildings a coherent set as it considers the marked duality of the lot used. The facades to the north stand out as compact and precise surfaces, the wall openings and the rising silhouette give the facades a dynamic character. On the contrary, on the south side, the balconies, facing the courtyard, appear freely in different positions on the façade.

Photography: Mikael Linden

The use of building materials like wood adds warmth to the construction and also contributes to its integration with its surroundings. The spacious glazed balconies create outside rooms and give the inhabitants a chance to prolong and enjoy the short northern summer.
Two five-story buildings that provide 62 flats all facing to the south/west quiet courtyard. The flats are 1-3 bedroom rental units with living room, kitchen, bathroom, and sauna. The facilities in the basement include storage rooms, a community club, and a laundry. The garage rooftop and part of the carport have been landscaped into the green hillside.

Photography: Mikael Linden

Project Info:
Architects: Arkkitehdit Hannunkari & Mäkipaja Architects
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Project Team: Kristiina Hannunkari architect, Veikko Mäkipaja architect, Kirsi Rantanen civil engineer
Civil Engineer: Finnmap Consulting / Aulis Ranua
Client: The Helsinki Housing Production Bureau
Builder: Skanska
Area: 9772.0 m2
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Mikael Linden
Project Name: Ruotutorppa Social Housing

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Jewell designed by Kavellaris Urban Design, The subject site fronts the main street to the south and a private car park that abuts and wraps around the northern and eastern interfaces of the site. The car park service’s RMIT University and is wedged between the subject site and a railway corridor. And although the car park is a private space it is utilized as a public thoroughfare from the Jewell train station opposite the University and from Dawson Street to the North. As a result, these site conditions provided for a building that is highly visible without any obstruction.
The Jewell project draws on classical design principles which we consider to be not only relevant to contemporary architecture, but are design strategies that are essential for good design. We incorporated landscaped streets and laneways within the subject site to provide spatial separation between dwellings an enable every habitable space to receive natural light and ventilation. In addition, these separations allow the spaces to be naturally cross ventilated thereby minimizing the need for air-conditioning. Low emission lighting and solar panels further reduced the carbon footprint of the complex. We also incorporated a 40,000-litre underground storm water collection tank that is used for toilet flushing.
The rhythmic boxed geometries are referential variations of the same architectural language resulting in a sculptured building that evokes a sense of movement. As the building is experienced from the various vantage points, the building form takes on different readings. This movement is reinforced by the reflective nature of the facades metallic cladding that changes the textural qualities and color of the building with the varying light and shadows of the day.
The asymmetrical forms that wrap around the edges of the building form a continuous architectural expression. The southern elevation has been specifically designed with a constructed view of the building typical of the classical order when viewed from the Street. Vertical strip windows capture the opposing perspective providing a visual connection and a conclusion to the journey for occupants that have entered the building from Watson Street. The accented double height entry void that interrupts the rhythmic articulation of the composition emphasizes and clearly announces the entry into the building as seen from the Street.
We used three species of timber to accent elements of the composition in order to establish an immediate dialogue with the juxtaposed buildings and generated synergies that accentuate the sculptured qualities of the building.
Project Info:
Architects: Kavellaris Urban Design
Location: Melbourne VIC, Australia
Area: 8600.0 m2
Project Year: 2010
Project Name: Jewell
All Images Courtesy Of Kavellaris Urban Design

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Designed by Zon-e Arquitectos, The purpose of the project was to design and build state-subsidized social housing in Cerrado (Asturias), a mining town located in the very heart of the Cantabrian Mountains, where no residential construction had been made for over 25 years.

Photographs: Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz

The project had two stages that materialized in two perpendicular buildings forming an L shape. In the first stage, we undertook the biggest building, which faces the road that crosses the town.
The volumetric we propose has an angular shape. It is a geometry crystallized from some elementary laws that are given by the town-planning regulations. The formal result is something halfway between a petrified object, a mountain’s shape and a disturbing organism floating over the mountainside.

Photographs: Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz

This “crystallographic” object has the same dark color as the local slate. Like a piece of coal, it absorbs almost all the light it gets and reflects a small amount of it, calmly showing us its rich geometry.
The building’s unity contrasts with the individuality of each of the 15 apartments that show through some galleries in the facade. These are cubes which drill the volume using a herringbone pattern and work as heat and light exchangers.
Each of the apartments is different in size, floor plan distribution, a location of its gallery and in its roof’s configuration. All of them enjoy cross ventilation and breathtaking views of Asturias’ craggy landscape.
The project’s nature as an object is emphasized by the way the ground floor is approached: this has been set back along its perimeter, reinforcing the idea of a “floating body.”

Model

Project Info:
Architects: Zon-e Arquitectos
Location: Principality of Asturias, Spain
Area: 2385.0 m2
Photographs: Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz
Manufacturers: Cupa Pizarras
Project Name: Social Housing for Mine Workers

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Designed by Tony Owen Partners, Astor is a 4 story apartment complex is located in the North Sydney suburb of Crows Nest. The design contains 50 units. The surrounding area is an exclusive leafy suburb thus the design had to achieve the highest standard of finish and quality. The site is located on a busy main road and is overlooked on all sides, so we designed the ‘U shaped’ scheme to face into a quiet central landscaped courtyard which is oriented north for the sun. All of the units are accessed from this courtyard via outdoor screened walkways. Thus the design blends landscaped areas with the internal apartment spaces.

Photography: John Gollings

The 4-story design incorporates a vertical expression and breaks down the massing into 2 story portions; as such it reflects the terrace house character of the area. We have used a limited palette of off-form concrete and bronze metal panels. This gives a refined, natural, organic and contemporary impression to the building and merges with the surrounding landscaped environment.

Photography: John Gollings

We have created specially designed origami metal screens. These screens are made from laser-cut folded aluminum. They provide solar shading and privacy from the adjoining properties. They also screen the walkways which are bathed in a soft dappled light. The aluminum paling balustrades are also folded. This creates a distinctive and unique design. Stone and timber batten fences are included to add to the earthy warmth.
The result is a progressive design of a high quality which will enrich the area and provide a benchmark for the community.

Plan

Project Info:
Architects: Tony Owen Partners
Location: Crows Nest, Sydney, Australia
Lead Architects: Tony Owen
Area: 5000.0 m2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: John Gollings
Manufacturers: Kitchen Appliances, Lighting, Toilets, Paint
Project Name: Astor Crows Nest

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ALLURE – XXL origami is designed by FRESH Architectures, In the vanguard of contemporary architecture, the new Clichy-Batignolles neighborhood (PARIS) bears the hallmark of preliminary workshops of which it resulted between the converter, the contracting authorities and the two architectural firms Itar and Fresh (agent): diversity and cohabitation are its trademarks.

Photography: David Foessel

Lot O6B in the Clichy-Batignolles quarter accommodates a new XXL origami design, a product of the dialogue between the two architectural firms, Fresh and Itar, for two contracting authorities, Ogic and Demathieu Bard Immobilizer, hired here to reinvent types of housing.

Floor Plan

An architectural polyphony of 121 accommodations is available to buyers and renters in accordance with three distinct options: 3-story urban houses, a 7-story building, and a 15-story tower, in other words, 50 meters that are set up like the mast of a ship. It is possible, on each of its sides to focus the telescope on the great landscape that is Paris and its famous landmarks: on the Martin-Luther-King Park and the higher-level court to the north, on the Défense to the west, on the Eiffel tower to the south and on Montmartre to the east.

Photography: David Foessel

Project Info:
Architects: FRESH Architectures
Location: Martin Luther King Park, 147 Rue Cardinet, 75017 Paris, France
Project Leaders: FRESH Architectures (Agent Architects) Itar Architecture (Partners Architects)
Area: 8500.0 m2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: David Foessel
Project Name: ALLURE – XXL origami

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Designed by STARH, A3— Advanced Architecture Apartments are harmoniously incorporated into the context of their environment. Two starting points—the mountain and the city, set the overall architectural concept. The plot reserved for A3 is in the border area, where the city and the mountain overflow into one. Lines and clear borders are blurred in smooth and soft forms, allowing everyone to determine exactly where and how to perceive shape and space. Situated in one of the most contemporary areas of Sofia—Bulgaria Blvd., A3 is designed to be relevant, contextual and avant-garde. Some of the most modern and interesting buildings in Sofia are exactly here. On the other hand, a very dominant element of the environment is the mountain, peeking in the future building. The combination of these two powerful components results in a dynamic and modern shape of the building, without harming the function.

Photography: 3inSpirit

It is divided into five volumes, linked in a common ensemble that defines its final shape. Each of the volumes is outlined with soft and elegant forms which let everyone associate them with their own imagination. It is easy to correlate the elements to five mountain peaks or a silhouette of a family with three children, but the deeper concept is to stimulate you to define yourself as becoming involved with the building. To become the author of a new form, to be inspired.
The creation of A3 flows from the inside to the outside, the design strictly follows the function, which is the approach the studio considers correct for residential building design. The uncompromising function complies fully with the investor program. There are straight orthogonal forms in the layout, which bring comfort and flexibility to the interior space organization. The 100-meter-long building is divided into 5 blocks (entrances) each with its own vertical communication.

Photography: 3inSpirit

The first two sections – A and B—have two apartments on each floor, while V, G and D entrances – three apartments on each floor. The small number of apartments per floor increases the feeling of luxury living and provide more privacy. There are 158 dwellings in the building, each with excellent function and favorable geographical position. Every living room is situated east-southeast, richly glazed, facing Vitosha Mountain and the cityscape.

Photography: 3inSpirit

The ground floor is designed for commercial use—shops with sizes from 50 to 100 square meters. Car parking is assured by two underground levels and the entire free aboveground area is planned for landscaping and recreation.
The design of A3 contains strict elegance and soft organic forms. The building is perceived equally well in the overall silhouette and from different angles. The feeling of elegance and sophistication is emphasized by the facade materials—glass and fibreC by Rieder. The glass is in two colours—transparent and Graffiti Lacobel.
fibreC is an innovative, high-technology material, made of glass-fiber concrete, which gives unlimited options in forming. Besides aesthetics and functionality, the materials provide durability and easy maintenance of the building.

2nd Underground Floor Plan

Project Info:
Architects: STARH
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Architect in Charge: Svetoslav Stanislavov
Design Team: Dimitar Katsarov, Radostina Petkova, Iva Kostova, Hristo Dushev, Georgi Pasev
Area: 31218.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: 3inSpirit
Manufacturers: Guardian Glass, Reynaers Aluminium, Rieder Smart Elements
Project Name: A3 – Advanced Architecture Apartments

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