Category: Architecture
Matt Murrie: What If Buildings Could Function As Medicine?
If both medications and the environment make physiological and neurological changes in us, could it be possible to design the environment to both engender and habituate attributes and behaviors in ourselves in order to prevent, or even reverse, diseases and disorders?
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An East Hampton Home Takes a Modern Approach
Just because you’re out in the Hamptons, doesn’t mean your place has to scream cottage or beach home. Instead, you can take the approach that Mojo Stumer Associates took with this East Hampton Residence – a modern one. Instead of starting from scratch, they chose to remodel an existing home which gave them incredible results in half the time, with half the cost.
Instead of the typical shingle-style Hamptons’ home, they decided on a more modest footprint and made the most of the space they had.
The modern exterior features a zinc roof and zinc panels covering the façade. To keep all of the metal from being too overpowering, they balanced it out with wood accents – a cedar trellis screen which hides the garage entrance, cedar tongue and groove clapboard, and the long, wooden deck.
A custom stainless steel and IPE trellis wood beam canopy was designed for the front entry and rear deck, as well as a custom aluminum and glass curtain wall that lets you see from the front of the house through to the back of the house.
The main living spaces – the living room, dining room, and kitchen – have a double-height ceiling giving the elongated area a sense of openness. The open plan, along with all of the windows, lends itself to a sun-filled interior.
Three bedrooms are located upstairs, where there’s also a balcony that overlooks the main living area.
Reclaimed wood beams were left exposed and they brought in metal details throughout, much like they did on the exterior.
The master bedroom is on the first floor and they lined it up with the in-ground pool outside, meaning it’s not far to go when you want to take a dip.
SOURCE: Design Milk » Architecture - Read entire story here.
Breath Box: A Structure to Activate Your Senses
Breath Box is a waterfront pavilion that was designed to activate your senses as you interact with it. The seaside structure in La Grande Motte, France was designed by NAS architecture for the Festival of Lively Architecture (FAV), an annual architecture festival. The main wall facing the sea is reflective and while it recreates images of the water, it also creates a visual experience as the wind causes the modules to ripple.
Inside, under the burnt wood slats, your senses are once again brought to life with graphic light patterns that change throughout the day and as the mirrors move.
The structure lets you actually see the wind’s movement as the modules dance when the wind hits them, interacting with the coastal elements.
As visitors walk around and experience the box, it’s impossible not to take note of the visuals, the sounds, and the feelings that come when the natural elements, wind and light, hit the ever-changing facets of the structure.
Photos by Paul Kozlowski.
SOURCE: Design Milk » Architecture - Read entire story here.
Mothersill: A Vacation Home Inspired by the Boardwalk
If you’re looking for the beach house of your dreams, Bates Masi Architects are definitely the people to see. The Hamptons-based firm has knocked it out once again with Mothersill, a creek-front property in Water Mill, New York.
Common to most any beach area, you’ll see elevated wooden walkways hovering above the grounds, and those boardwalks help create a clear path when faced with a rocky landscape. This simple element is what inspired the design of this project, using it as an architectural component to intertwine portions of a historic site with a new building and the surrounding, natural landscape.
The site of Mothersill features two structures built in 1962, a small house and studio, designed by Andrew Geller, along with a diverse mix of plants, including rare specimens. Connecting the two structures is a boardwalk, common to his work. This part of the property is protected by a conservation easement, keeping the structures, Yew garden, and over 400,000 Siberian Iris’ safe, while allowing for a new main house to be built.
The boardwalk connects the three buildings, one of which (the Geller House) was relocated to the Yew garden and the Geller Studio, which has become the new pool house. Parts of the path are shaded and parts expand out to create outdoor seating areas in different spots.
The new home’s interior brings the wood indoors with wooden floors and ceilings.
Large windows help frame the lush landscape that surrounds the property.
In this bathroom, you can shower indoors or out!
SOURCE: Design Milk » Architecture - Read entire story here.
J. Michael Welton: Streamsong Resort: Golf and Literature, Bass and Alligators
First of all, there are the books.
A clue to the attention to detail in guest rooms at Streamsong Resort in central Florida's Bone Valley, their titl...
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‘Poor doors’: not the worst thing about social housing
Separate entrances are nothing new, and the truth is that social housing providers demand them. Oliver Wainwright on why we need to think outside the apartment block to solve this modern-day apartheid
"We are not snobs," declares a prim housewife on a 1930s newsreel, stiffly posed on her doorstep, flanked by windows hung with neat net curtains. "But we do not wish our streets to become a perfect bedlam." The camera pans to reveal a 7-foot-high brick wall a stone's throw from her door, built right across the street and topped with iron spikes. It was installed in 1934 by the residents of a North Oxford estate to protect their homes from council tenants, who had recently moved into houses nearby as the result of slum clearance. The Cutteslowe walls were deemed illegal and finally demolished in 1959, but their descendants live on in new segregated communities, with their separate entrances and divided facilities, as a Guardian investigation revealed this week.
This divisive tendency is now embodied in its most extreme form in London's slick developments on the City fringe, such as One Commercial Street, a glassy behemoth near Aldgate that has already been nominated for the Carbuncle Cup, the award for the ugliest building of the year. Here, in a modern-day reenactment of North Oxford's apartheid wall, the entrance for lower-income tenants is banished to an alley near the bins, while residents of the luxury private units enjoy a marble-lined, concierge-tended lobby at the front.
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SOURCE: Architecture and design blog | The Guardian - Read entire story here.
Limerick Open House premium on architecture – Limerick Post
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Limerick Open House premium on architecture
Limerick Post IRISH World Academy of Music and Dance on UL campus is inviting teachers and relevant professionals to an Open House Limerick training seminar, “exploring how to introduce the concepts and value of architecture into the primary school classroom”. |
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Over and above architecture: Bridges that are going places – The Independent
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Over and above architecture: Bridges that are going places
The Independent He says he “takes great satisfaction that the engineering and architecture are indivisible on this bridge”. Today, we're sensibly slotting in new bridges for people and bikes, rather than just for cars. Copenhagen has just put up the Cykelslangen ... |
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Big Read: A feast of art, food and architecture in Rodez – Irish Independent
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Big Read: A feast of art, food and architecture in Rodez
Irish Independent What a wonderful Pythonesque start to my visit, I was looking forward to a feast of art, architecture and gastronomy, and I was not disappointed. Dinner that evening was in The Kiosque, a buzzing restaurant beside the Soulages Museum. We ate a very ... |
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