The implementation of the project offers a new opening towards the Chevreuse valley and the inclination of the building creates perspectives from the street towards the Yvette. In front of the constraint of the slope of the land, the project adopts a principle of breaking down volumes into successive horizontals strata.
Light, matter, and emotion are at the heart of this villa which could seem monolithic, even museum-like, exhibiting an assumed transparency, like modernity without history… it is nothing of the sort.
Crone had been in its Kent Street premises for 25 years where the staff was spread over three levels with little connection between the practice and visiting clients. So, they began to search for a new location. Crone recognized the potential for this space that was originally earmarked to accommodate an indoor lap pool and fitness center. Level 18 (just above podium height, but with grand views north down George Street) had been used by Ernst & Young as their mail and storage room for over ten years. It was dusty and dirty with giant compactors dotted around the floorplate.
“Seaside garden” is designed and being developed as a building complex in one of the Lithuanian resorts, near the coast of the Baltic Sea, Palanga. The neighborhood of the natural environment had a great influence in creating and shaping the future identity of the vacant plot. Thus, there was a need for creating a vibrant live environment all year round. And the residential duplex buildings of aesthetic minimalistic architecture that have “sprouted” in “Seaside garden” are comfortably and practically planned, suitable for living and resting for the whole family.
Tran Duy Hung Street (Cau Giay district, Hanoi) is considered one of the new urban areas with rapid development, densely populated with many housing projects, high-rise apartment buildings, service works with modern architecture. The design task was to build a new public secondary school with a scale of one basement, 5 floors, 44 classrooms full of subject classrooms, a multi-purpose zone, swimming pool which all fully meet the national criteria level 2. The idea of planning the master plan is based on a block combination, the main façade is facing the southwest road. The building includes classrooms, functional classrooms, and a gymnasium that is altogether connected through a bridge system, covering the central courtyard.
On a rocky slope above the Vltava River, the classicist château Jabloňka stretches over Prague. Under the château, terraced vineyards with picturesque views on the metropolis form the dominant feature of the northern part of the city.
Objective – Initially, due to the deterioration of the original two-story Thai-style house and the advanced age of the house’s foundation, it was hard to fix. Additionally, the family was growing, and they required more private space, including for their son who was starting his own family. Therefore, the owner thought they should just build a new house and move somewhere else. However, after the architect visited the site and had a conversation with the owner, they realized that the owner still had a lot of emotional attachment to the old house. This was due to memories that spanned 60 years of the owner’s life, during which he had lived in the house built by his own father’s hand. Therefore, the architect came up with the idea of “re-composition” – reassembling the architectural pieces of the old house to create a new piece of architecture that would satisfy the family’s need for expanded functionality, and living space while still reflecting the lifestyle, usage patterns, and atmosphere of the old house.
The monochromatic house was built on a flat plot, with an entrance from the south side, in the urbanizing part of Świerczyniec. The L-shaped layout of the building makes the garden zone hidden from the street. The layout of the building is rotated according to the directions of the world. Thanks to it, the garden zone with the terrace is exposed to sunlight earlier.
The plot is located on the edge of the settlement with transition to agricultural green areas, isolated industrial facilities, and highways. The compact volume of the house appears closed to the street. The asymmetrical gable roof acts as a borrowing from the traditional residential houses in the immediate vicinity.
Yangnar Studio is a group of skilled craftsmen and architects who design and build the work through the local methodology of architecture. With background and respect in indigenous and vernacular architecture in Northern Thailand, their Project is developed through deep consideration of place and practice that draw from traditional craftsmanship skills, local building techniques, the nature of each material, and ingenuity arising from limited resources. The essence of the work lies in the human experience through the skill of the local builder team that tries to both involve each craftsmanship that is related to the site context and always improve the development of the skill that shows up in the process with the local construction unit.
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