Spacematrix

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:47:53 +0200

Spacematrix explores the potential of urban density as a tool for urban planning and design. The authors’ fascination with density is driven by the desire to understand the relational logic between density, urban form and performance. This is a prerequisite for understanding and successfully predicting the effects of specific designs and planning proposals. The focus of attention is the relationship between types of urban environment and data such as amount, size and physical properties.

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Jean Nouvel. Tour Signal. Puteaux. France

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:06:26 +0200

Author of the video: DesigMagazin Project published in a+t n.31 Hybrids I

The first hybrid skyscraper in France was promoted by the public agency in charge of regenerating the district of a Défense. With it, they look to attract more residents to a fundamentally business .

Hybrids III in Arquitectos Magazine

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:17:06 +0200

The latest issue of Arquitectos, edited by the Consejo Superior de Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE), reviews a+t magazine 33-34 Hybrids III Residential Mixed-Use Buildings.

a+t at Paisajes futuros: experiencias y acción

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:12:12 +0200

Javier Arpa, architect and editor at a+t, will take part in the summer course hosted by the University of Granada, to be celebrated next July 19th-23rd.

Javier Arpa’s lecture will focus on a+t’s interests, concerns and methodology. He will review the publishing house’s history throughout some of the housing projects, civic facilities and public spaces visited.

NEXT. COLLECTIVE HOUSING in progress, in the category Book of the week of his blog.

Solar Decathlon 2010. Madrid

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:19:24 +0200

One of the key points of sustainable planning is high density and low land occupancy. Solar Decathlon develops prototypes of isolated dwellings or small housing groups which promote disperse developments, very far from the advised densities which are around 100 dph (dwellings per hectare).

a+t is for collective housing in built urban nuclei.

a+t is interested in this solar housing, not because of the type of housing in itself, clearly unsustainable from the urban point of view.

Atelier Kempe Thill. Park Tower hybrid. Almere. The Netherlands

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:59:47 +0200

The young city of Almere keeps on growing. From the first buildings completed in 1976, the city has gone on to see population estimates of 350,000 inhabitants in 2030. City authorities look to turn it into the fifth pillar of Randstad and expansion plans concentrate on the west of the initial 1970s nucleus. Almere Poort is one of these plans, a satellite city where housing, business and offices come together. The plan includes the construction of 5- to 7-storey blocks with some high-rise buil.

La Dallman Architects. Macarthur Square hybrids. Milwaukee. United States

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:59:12 +0200

The City Beautiful movement came about at the end of the 19th century in the United States to beautify the cities around the country. Its goal was not simply to be beautiful but to be a social control mechanism, to promote civic morals and harmonious social order and to improve the lives of citizens. Macarthur Square was devised inside this context and brings together a large number of public institutions around a large green space over an underground car park. The space does not currently ha.

OMA. Metacity Rotterdam. Rotterdam. The Netherlands

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:58:41 +0200

The proposed modular system offers high efficiency and versatility in both construction and programme. The equally-sized cells can be added or taken out of the structure according to the changing needs of the building, for residential or office use. This model again takes the route created by previous experience, such as the Metastadt project by Richard J. Dietrich and Bernd Stiegerwald (1974), or the Square LType system by Van den Broek & Bakema (1967). With these prototypes, the idea was to.

REX. Mixed-use Low2no. Helsinki, Finlandia

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:58:11 +0200

This project is based on the idea that optimising energy efficiency in buildings is not enough if, with this improvement, disperse city life is not left behind. Putting the Rebuilding 2.0 strategy into practise carries with it, among other actions, the repopulation of already constructed areas and increasing their density. The Low2No projects is part of the Jätkäsaari harbour reconversion plan, near the Helsinki city centre. It proposes vertical stratification of uses with two residential t.

Murado, Elvira y Krahe Arquitectos. MYSPACE student housing. Trondheim. Norway

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:57:39 +0200

A continuous cladding using wood slats unifies the volume of this Trondheim residence. This skin works as a blind, railing, floor or false ceiling. The building can also be used as a hotel in the summer, thus optimising the function of these types of service buildings. The ground floor and first floor allow public space to enter the building in a cold climate and house business and common spaces which are integrated into the residential programme on the first floor. To avoid social isolation,.

MADE architekti. Peitavas street housing. Riga. Latvia

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:57:07 +0200

This project is located on a lot in the medieval area of Riga. The proposed solution takes on the idea of sloped roofs, part of the medieval surroundings included in the lists of UNESCO. Instead of a strict imitation of the shapes of the past, the project is based on the reinterpretation of scale and environment in the historical context. Businesses on street level and offices on the first floor are included in the programme. The coexistence of public and private is resolved by means of publi.

Atelier Data + MOOV. Forwarding dallas. Dallas

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:56:36 +0200

Forwarding Dallas is the result of a competition (Re:Vision Dallas) organised by three NGO s to transform a municipal car park. The goal of the participants was to revitalise a specific block each time and, from there, to promote a largerscale urban transformation. The project offers a wide variety of typologies and an long series of sustainable strategies. It will be built completely from prefabricated elements and includes several public service buildings for the community.

BNR Architectes Urbanistes. Student accommodation and social housing infill. Paris

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:56:07 +0200

Two buildings fill up the inside of this block in the very multi-coloured centre of Paris and favour relationships between different types of users. One contains a housing programme and the other holds student rooms and common areas. Its relationship with the city is guaranteed by a third block lined up with the street; it also contains housing units and is responsible for organising pedestrian and vehicle entrance. A bronze-toned anodized aluminium plate skin, perforated in a plant motif, co.

Roldán + Berengué. Youth housing at the Fabra i Coats factory. Barcelona

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:55:26 +0200

This project is included inside an urban recovery intervention involving a 19th century textile factory. In 2012, the main atrium of this complex will form part of a network of municipal cultural centres, placed in former industrial buildings. The resulting complex will then be a hybrid block of public service buildings, public space and residential use. This use is concentrated in a 19th century atrium which will be completely emptied to then build 80 housing units for young people. The repe.

Borja Peña. Toledo housing block. Toledo. Spain

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:52:36 +0200

This proposal won a competition to develop the city blocks of Toledo’s Barrio Avanzado, a master plan by Jean Nouvel and Mia Hägg, which involves 35 hectares and, in spite of its name (‘Advanced Neighborhood’), it does not bring on great advances in regards to the constants in recent Spanish urban planning, a disproportionate extension of free space serves as the background for these monofunctional unconnected blocks. The building takes on the role of a geographic featu.

Müller Sigrist Architekten. Residential and commercial building Kalkbreite. Zurich

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:53:52 +0200

Zurich’s Aussersihl district, a working-class neighbourhood not far from the city centre, is undergoing deep rehabilitation. An architectural competition was organised for the Kalkbreite area, an unused lot. The competition rules were written by a neighbourhood cooperative with a group of experts, in order to assure a mix of uses and integration of the block in the social and urban context. The winning project is built on a tram shed at ground level and its roof serves as a public plaza, co.

Maccreanor Lavington. Brent Cross Cricklewood housing block. London

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:52:59 +0200

These two buildings make up part of the Brent Cross Cricklewood plan, designed to regenerate 150 hectares of residual land to the north of London. The plan includes the construction of 7,500 new housing units, following a compact plan of closed blocks and towers that constrast the vast landscape of semi-detached houses typical of London suburbs. The proposal is made up of a tower of apartments and a closed block with an inner patio used for parking. And, contrary to the typological uniformity.

Louis Paillard Architecte. Haussmann social housing. Paris

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:52:20 +0200

This filling element for the historic fabric of Paris affronts integration with heritage by means of a main facade with silk-screen printed sandwich panels. Strict regulations did not allow much variation on the volumetry preestablished for the building of 61 flats, all adapted for the disabled according to French regulations. The effort was thus placed on the development of skins with excellent climatic workings: one, facing the street, shows in silk-screen an oversized fragment of the facad.

A-lab. Multifunctional stackable modules. Sandvika. Norway

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:51:40 +0200

The intervention relates to previous experience from the 20th century which are now coming back. In this case, the starting point is a cube with 12 m2 sides and three storeys, equivalent to a single family home, which is stacked and combined to hold housing units, offices, businesses and a hotel.

Vidalponsgaliana. Julia tower. Barcelona

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:51:03 +0200

This project involving housing for the elderly is inserted into a block of public facilities which also includes a sports centre and a residence for elderly people. These services are organised around a public space which gives access to the different buildings. The Julia Tower is divided into three parts. Each horizontal community has a corresponding larger space, where the majority of community acitivites are organised for users. These spaces make up the heart of the proposal and are expres.

Group A. Transformation of the Coberco Factory. Arnhem. The Netherlands

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:50:20 +0200

This transformation of a former dairy in an enclosure with multiple uses points out the first step in the recover of the old industrial area of Arnhemse Broek. The complex is located on the border between the historical centre and industrial zones, which is why the organisation of new buildings and the wide public programme look to serve as a gateway to new urban development. Some of the original buildings will be demolished to give way to a new block of flats. This new block, designed in.

Mecanoo architecten, dosmasuno arquitectos. Málaga housing block. Spain

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:37:55 +0200

This project modifies the closed block with a large inner patio due to urban planning regulations and introduces volumetric variations to the insubstantial landscape of this future expansion of Malaga. The inner patio is broken up into smaller patios, thus taking on the local practice of these reduced community spaces protected from the sun. Its relationship with vernacular architecture is shown in the use of traditional Andalusian architectural materials on the facade. Unfortunately, in the area of housing typology, strict public regulations hardly allow innovation and impose very conventional models which do not resolve issues of other types of family groupings or lifestyles.

3box. Social housing in the park. Paris

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:48:32 +0200

This lot is located inside a city block, mostly occupied by the public gardens of the ainte Périne hospital. The occupation of the gardens relates to the traditional layout of large bourgeois cities that occupy the inner landscaped patios on the blocks of the 16th arrondissement. In this case, the building takes on different typologies of social housing, which will favor the social diversity of the neighborhood and is placed on 4-metre-high pillars to reduce impact at ground level.

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Esty Ilgaev & Michael Peled. Transformation of the Ha'aliya market. Tel Aviv

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:48:48 +0200

This proposal by Technion University students is devised as a reaction to plans for the area approved by the Tel Aviv city hall. Briefly, several compact fabric blocks are to be demolished in order to build towers of housing units which, besides having no relationship with the area around them, will generate a large quantity of free space with uncertain use. One of these blocks is the one occupied by the 1939 Ha’aliya market, where the authors propose to maintain the existing building and i.

BNR Architectes Urbanistes. Housing infill Rue des Orteaux. Paris

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:47:16 +0200

This programme of a mere 20 housing units adapts to the complexity of the lot and the diversity of the surrounding buildings. The main building opens up to the interior of the patio and leans upon a long, thick dividing wall which increases thermal inertia. The rest of the facade is a double glass skin with blinds in between, which keep heat out in the summer while in winter, the sun’s rays heat the inner side of the facade, which radiates this heat at night. This aspect, along with the use.

Office dA. Pieter en Pauwel housing and public facilities. Brussels. Belgium

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:18:20 +0200

This building stands lined up with a large city block with row housing outside of Brussels. With the building, the main plaza of this former city, absorbed by Brussels, is provided with a large variety of overlapping uses. Towards the inside of the lot, uses are divided into two wings that go inward to the existing garden and favour connections with neighbouring land. On ground floor, a group of community services (library, civic centre, day centre) and businesses stand facing the street, the.

Beckmann-N'Thépé Architectes. Saint Dominique social housing. Paris

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:45:59 +0200

This proposal is integrated into the existing historical fabric, introducing social housing on a lot in Hausmann’s bourgeois extension of the city. It is fragmented into several volumes to open up the block and, following Paris landscape tradition, it allows a view inside. The intervention looks to avoid stereotypes of social housing and to do that, it reconsiders certain trends such as the size of openings, entrance type and the presence of ornamentation. In regards to this ornamentation, .

Galli & Rudolf Architekten. Housing in a former industrial site. Oberentfelden. Switzerland

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:45:25 +0200

In Aargau, located between Zurich and Basel, political actions involving the transformation of obsolete industrial areas are being taken. This building is part of a plan for the transformation of one of these areas in a highly dense residential zone, where new structures will coexist with those that can be restored. This is a very flexible structure, based on a grid of pillars and horizontal panels which can be filled in with different types of housing, having one, two or three storeys. This .

Bachelard Wagner Architekten. Housing and offices Bernoulli-Walkeweg. Basel. Switzerland

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:00:31 +0200

Lately a large number of competitions for transform railway lands in Switzerland have been organised. In NEXT. COLLECTIVE HOUSING in progress we include two winning proposals of competitions inside this context. In this case, the train tracks separate two very distinct interventions included in the same competition. On one hand, several blocks of row houses occupy the more organised area loc.

BIG + Topotek1. Warehouse hybrids. Hamburg. Germany

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:59:55 +0200

This project won the IBA competition, focused on the transformation of ‘interior outskirts’ spread out on the islands of the Elbe river. In this context, the reconversion of harbour grounds in south Hamburg creates the context for the introduction of 15 volumes adapted to the scale of their surroundings in the original plot. The buildings, which hold a mix of housing, business and offices, are laid out to create a network of small public spaces integrated into the fabric of existing free .

AllesWirGut Architektur + feld72. Herzberg public housing. Vienna

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:58:55 +0200

This group of houses aims to provide services to very different lifestyles and to give users a generous outdoor area. The five volumes that make up the intervention have a setback top floor, which allows for large outdoor terraces. Units have gardens on ground floor and street-facing balconies or common galleries on other floors. Where possible, circulation has been eliminated in the dwellings and living room sizes have been minimised. Bedrooms can thus be independent from the rest of the .

Modostudio. Kilpailuohjelma. Lohja. Finland

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:53:44 +0200

Finland currently has one of the largest ecological footprints per capita in the world and it is faced with the challenge of overcoming its environmental deficit. In NEXT. COLLECTIVE HOUSING in progress we include two proposals for recent competitions in this country, organised with the intention to increase density and intensity in its urban fabric. This project for the city of Lohja develo.

Atelier Zündel & Cristea. Residence for the mentally handicapped. Paris

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:57:11 +0200

From all of the Paris housing initiatives, we include a total of six small- and medium-sized projects that adapt to empty lots of the consolidated city. This offer includes, as in this case, groups of users with special needs, in an attempt to maintain diversity in the urban fabric. The project provides light for halls and common areas by means of patios. Both the floor plan and structure were designed with a future extension in mind, using the free space resulting from the demolition of th.

Dosmasuno. Social housing in Colmenar. Colmenar Viejo. Madrid

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:56:44 +0200

It is rare to find a city in Spain which has not undergone some sort of urban planning project in the past few years. The pattern is almost always the same: a uniform and single function grid next to the old part of the city, with rows of buildings for housing. In the case of Colmenar, its nearness to Madrid makes the recipe even more succulent. Out of respect conditioning topographical elements, the dosmasuno project introduces an exception in the landscape as it sets a blanket of houses ove.

Dynamo. Three plust three. Meiningen. Germany

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:01:51 +0200

Three new buildings are added to the three existing structures that made up an old mill in the centre of Meiningen. Its strategic location favoured the inclusion of several urban uses on the premises. Its implementation also allows public use of the space between buildings. The new buildings take on an olderlooking style of sloped roofs, which are inclined so as to have the optimum angle for energy use. The proposal won a competition for economic efficiency and low environmental impact.

Fernand Pouillon. Pantin. Paris

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:43:18 +0200

The Víctor-Hugo residential complex, 1955-1957, is made up of 282 dwellings and a small shopping area. The original land for this development came from a former distillery which fell into disuse after the Second World War. It takes in three types of elements: a ten-storey tower block to the south, linking with Jean-Lolive avenue; a strip and a folded floor plan, five storeys high and the same width throughout, defined by the depth of build of the dwelling unit and two seven-storey building.

NEXT in Accésit magazine

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:07:06 +0200

Field Operations, Diller Scoficio + Renfro. High Line. New York

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:39:27 +0200

Author of the video: TimeMagazine Project published in The Public Chance

The High Line is a 1.2-mile long abandoned elevated freight rail line along the west side of lower Manhattan. The first phase of conversion into a public space celebrated its one-year anniversary open.

Fernand Pouillon. Boulongne-Billancourt. Paris

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:02:13 +0200

The Point-du-Jour residential complex, 1957-1963, is contemporary with Le Parc in Meudon, a work by the same author. In this case it is somewhat smaller. It is made up of 2,260 dwellings and a shopping area. Located in the west of Paris, it is in an area known for its high purchasing power.

The complex follows the plan of open horizontal blocks and tower blocks, in a composition which distances itself from the closed block. The built area is made up of open spaces, squares, gardens an.

BIG. Scala tower. Copenhagen

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:10:19 +0200

Author of the video: BIGSOLUTIONS Project published in Hybrids I. High-Rise Mixed-Use Buildings

The Scala tower embodies the skyscraper’s return to the centre of Copenhagen. This time its base merges into the urban grid, allowing pedestrian routes from adjoining streets to extend over its terraced roof. Public uses (including a municipal .

Green Dream. How Future Cities Can Outsmart Nature

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:51:13 +0200

There is confusion about what green means for design, architecture and urbanism. Winy Maas asserts that green projects are still disconnected efforts which fail to attain the scale of the interventions that are actually called for. Green is fashionable, but its design potentials remain unexplored.

Fernand Pouillon. Meudon-La Forêt. Paris

Mon, 7 Jun 2010 09:45:54 +0200

Rem Koolhaas has stated that at this moment in time we are unable to evaluate, as they deserve to be, the works and projects of the sixties and the seventies: 'I would like to state the contrast existing between the 'acceptance of life' of Pouillon and the 'artificiality so as to recognise life' in Nouvel'. (1) The Le Parc residential complex, 1957-1962, in Meudon-La-Forêt de Fernand Pouillon is made up of 2,635 dwellings set out in linear eleven and five storey blocks and two small commercial buildings. The rhythm of the main facades is achieved using pilasters made of carved stone originating from the quarries of Fontvieille, near Arlès, in the French Provence. The columns of the facade are not concrete but are built from ashlars. The project once finished occupies forty hectares, a third of the size of the original idea. The centre of this complex is a large void occupied by a rectangular pond in which the buildings are reflected.

BIG+JDS. Mountain Dwellings. Copenhagen

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:11:06 +0200

Author of the video: MonkeyBusiness Project published in HoCo Density Housing Construction & Costs

How do you combine the splendours of the suburban backyard with the social intensity of urban density? The Mountain Dwellings appear as a suburban neighbourhood of garden homes flowing over a 10-storey building - suburban living with urban density.

NEXT in A Barriga de um Arquitecto

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:20:31 +0200

Daniel Carrapa, architect and blogger from A Barriga de un Arquitecto, a portuguese architecture blog, has recently published a post about a+t's latest publication.

As Carrapa says, 'NEXT: Collective Housing in Progress, questions the programmatic complexity of co.

Jean Renaudie. Mixed use building Jeanne Hachette. Ivry sur Seine. Paris

Mon, 7 Jun 2010 10:58:43 +0200

This work by Jean Renaudie (1925-1981) forms part of a set of interventions which he carried out in the city of Ivry outside Paris. The size and the ambition of the project makes it the most significant by this disciple of Auguste Perret and Marcel Lods. Jean Renaudie was the founder of the Atelier de Montrouge, alongside Pierre Riboulet, Gérard Thurnauer and Jean-Louis Véret. In 1968 he left the Atelier and continued in the company of Renée Gailhoustet. He has left his mark in an architec.

Optimistic Architecture Yearbook 09

Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:29:45 +0200

Edited by the French Touch collective, the third edition of the Optimistic Architecture Yearbook brings an ambitious overview on one year of pop and uninhibited contemporary architecture in France.

The jury composed of the 25 members of French Touch has selected 57 buildings completed in 2009 in french cities and countries. Schools, station, crematorium, social housings, parking, sport center... The Yearbook focuses on Architectures adressing every day life needs and vacancie.

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Dosmasuno arquitectos. 102 dwellings in Carabanchel. Madrid