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The project involved building a staff break booth inside a hairdressing salon using only recycled materials...

While they were refurbishing an old apartment in the city centre the architects removed a false ceiling in order to increase the volume of the small spaces. The scrap wood from the removed joists was cut into irregular segments and used to make the wood flooring for the bedroom...

Michel de Klerk’s work (image 1) is one of the most significant of what was to be called the Amsterdam School and was closely linked to the expressiveness of the brick­work and a highly ornamental component...

La Bienal Panamericana de Quito (BAQ) organiza el concurso Confrontación, que convoca obras y publicaciones realizadas en el continente americano durante los últimos cuatro años. El concurso admite también trabajos de otros continentes en la categoría Hábitat Social y Desarrollo. La fecha límite de recepción de trabajos es el 17 de octubre de 2014. Seguir leyendo

To strike a balance and to improve the perception of depth in the dwelling, the architects chose to modify the openings between rooms and to establish a diffuse higher plane...

Discovering a raised floor in the dwelling enabled the living space to be increased by 3.2 m3 by opening up a rectangle to enhance the spatial perception. The rest of the cavity was used as storage space...

Según Posani, el volumen es un "magnífico instrumento de trabajo, de referencia y de estudio", y un "estímulo para la reflexión: sigue siendo una meta imprescindible pasar de la cantidad a la calidad". Seguir leyendo

Photos taken by a+t research group in August 2012. See photos

This project involved excavating an interior courtyard in the centre of a series of inter-connected spaces...

The site is a former farmland with an area of roughly 14 hectares containing two buildings: the main farmhouse and the stables...

This apartment block, built in the period of post-war economic growth, was designed according to the nLDK system, launched by the public body the Japan Housing Corporation in 1955 as a solution to the housing shortage of the time...

In order to take advantage of the only exterior space belonging to this vineyard house, without demolishing the existing extension, the architects chose to deploy a terrace-stand...

The main challenge in this project was how to revive an old 1940s farmhouse without resorting to nostalgic reconstruction, how to spatially and functionally adapt derelict farm buildings without destroying their character...

The extension to this house located in a small seaside town involved adding a building where fired clay was widely used, both in the wall...

December issue of Arkitekten magazine (Denmark) reviews the latest book by a+t research group, 10 Stories of Collective Housing.

As the magazine says, the book is “an important testimony of how our conceptions of the good life is foundational for architecture and in turn how architecture creates possibilities and limitations for life to unfold”. Continue reading...

Converting this former garage into a dwelling meant resolving the issue of the single street-front...

"Most of the interior elements for the dwellings, ranging from toilets to kitchen furniture to even the locks were purpose built for the Barbican..."