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Two years of covid have pushed everyone to a certain level of distrust. We started the project of the Sawerdo with the fear that putting people around a table was an endangered gathering format. The risk was taken, a sort of hopeful leap of faith by the f

HHF has transformed a neglected courtyard with firewalls and parking spaces into 15 apartments and surrounding lush gardens. By combining “left-over” square meters of three existing parcels the project shows densification potentials by reclaiming seemingl

The Spaarndammerhart restores the urban fabric to the Spaarndammer neighbourhood. The street that disappeared in the 1970s for the construction of the local school, Spaarndammerschool, has been restored. The plan also brings back two street walls and adds

Gluten Tag is the transformation of an old Bank Office into a gluten free Bakery. The project copes with two major problems: a very tight budget that allows making even less than the necessary and the elephant in the room, the obligation of building and a

Children to Power! Traiskirchen has a new favorite place for children. The Children's Adventure Laboratory KALO! opened in the summer of 2022. ASAP Architects converted the former residence of the management of an industrial company into a versatile explo

Fin 2017, Toulouse Métropole souhaite répondre à la demande croissante de crémation, et lance le concours d’un nouveau Pôle Funéraire sur le Sud Est de l’agglomération en complément du Pôle Funéraire Ouest existant sur la Commune de Cornebarrieu

Emplaced in an East coast forest, a 1200sf retreat for family of writers and producers is planned for minimal ecological footprint. The site - accessible only by foot or light utility vehicle - was chosen in a sloped forest clearing punctuated by large bo

Clementine Blakemore Architects has completed the sensitive restoration of a series of derelict agricultural buildings into inclusive holiday accommodation, a community space, workshop and smallholding. The site forms part of a 250-acre organic farm withi

St. Mary’s School is one of the important educational institutions of Rajkot with a rich history spanning 60+ years. The School enjoys the luxury of an open ground of 19000 SQM dedicated purely to the students’ recreational activities. The location for th

Two point buildings offset from one another allow outlooks and perspectives The green residential area is characterized by mostly small-scale buildings and a permeable and open settlement structure. The project with two four-storey, compact buildings is

In the quaint village of Bergen a modest white villa from the 1950s proved technically and structurally no longer sound for contemporary wishes and demands for living. Yet, after its new occupants, a young family, had lived in the dwelling for a number of

Preschool, primary school and after-school care centre comprising 16 classrooms, 2 break rooms, 3 workshops, 6 activity rooms, mobility room, multi-purpose room, sports hall, library, canteen, computer room, administrative centre, catering centre, hall an

Through the unfolding of different events, the hut invites to a spiritual experience. It looks like a shadow, and it blends into the one of the dominant oaks and beeches. As you get closer, the details become clearer. In harmony with the slenderness of th

MAZOT = The attic or «Mazot» in Savoyard dialect is a cottage in reduction, separated from the main one, covered with slate or shingles. The roof that levitates above the grass is razing. When I arrived towards the path of the woods I decided to step ov

In this reconfiguration, FELT extends a detached single-family house near Ghent by adding a hat-shaped second story on top of the existing sixties bungalow. The new first floor with a diamond shaped central hall accommodates three bedrooms and a bathroom.

The Town House is located in the central street Lederergasse - a livable, quiet street that connects Linz's main square, via the tobacco factory, with the port. The existing building – its basic substance from the 16th century – has been renovated and exp

The challenge of the competition leading to the project was to design a building that could compactly combine a kindergarten on the ground floor with a public underground car park. This unusual task led to a hybrid building meeting the different requireme

The Pottering Shed is a 30sqm artists studio located in Poole on the south coast of the UK. The studio is designed to feel like an upside down boat. A timber structure sits on a concrete shelf, projecting from the landscape over the beach below. The build

Tucked away on Lake Zell is a house to which the dead buzzword c-o-m-p-l-e-x, depleted of meaning from years of overuse, might genuinely apply. The starting point was formal and postmodern: Louis Kahn’s Trenton Bath House (NJ, 1955). Thus the house’s pyra

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The Saint-Antoine hospital site is a city within the city. Autonomous in its functioning and permeable to the neighborhood, it has gradually become denser over the century. The new headquarters are built on a plot lined with buildings (up to 10 stories-hi

Dymaxion Sleep is a structure of nets suspended over a field of aromatic plants. Rather than walking through the garden, visitors lie on top of it, translating the typically solitary experience of a garden into a public event. The structure that holds the nets is an unfolded icosahedron, formed of twenty steel triangles. Each triangle […]

Shma: This ‘Play Field’ was proposed for a new kindergarten playground for Shrewsbury International School. The existing playground was ‘defined’ with traditional all-in-one play equipment, which ways of play is limited and does not much encourage child brain development. Aiming to break through this typicality, the architect introduces a more appropriate play space for young. […]

“Fast track” is an attempt to create intelligent infrastructure that is emotional and corresponds to the local context. It gives the user a different experience of moving and percieving the environment.

A former wasteland in the city-centre of Arnhem is transformed to an iconic park: A flourishing heather landscape with a huge statue of an Partyaardvark lying amidst of it. On it’s back, as if it has been partying to long.

The new museum Texture needs a new temporary square pending a total remake of the environment. Studio Basta and Wagon-landscaping introduced a garden based on the QR-code of the Texture-museum. The result is a labyrinthine sea of grasses that remembers the flax-fields along the “Golden River” Leie.

10 grassy hills, 75 larch trees and 200 blue poles mark Guldbergs Plads as a spot where people of all ages can engage in activities and relax. A playful landscape A range of grassy hills come together to form a playful landscape where one can play tag, tumble or ride a toboggan down a hill, […]

ASPECT Studios: The Ian Potter Children’s WILD PLAY Garden by ASPECT Studios was officially opened in October 2017 by NSW Minister for the Environment, Local Government and Heritage, Gabrielle Upton. Located within Centennial Parklands Learning Centre, WILD PLAY is designed as a learning experience for kids of all abilities aged 2-12. Its botanical adventure covers […]

CEBRA: Situated between the city of Odder and the public forest, the school draws on inspiration in its close context and connects the different entities across its site. With its pitched roofs and two storeys, the school building extends the city by resembling small, diverse housing units in a student’s scale. Our task with the […]