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Villa Fifty-Fifty / Studioninedots

February 10, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

Located on the green edge of Strijp-R in Eindhoven, Studioninedots designed family home Villa Fifty-Fifty as a pavilion where volumes alternate between open and closed, and where life happens just as much outdoors as indoors: a new typology for maximising visual and family interaction.

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Reconstruction Of The Tower At Sint-Amandscollege / SAMYN and PARTNERS

February 9, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

The importance of the vertical development of cities. The vertical development of cities is one of the foundations of future urbanism for the sake of preserving the natural and agricultural territories. The verticality is the result of common sense but the livability of vertical housing remains, as its architecture, to be elaborated in order to give rise to a community of inhabitants. For decades, Philippe Samyn conceived proposals in this direction (see, for example, his essay “The Vertical City” published by the Royal Academy of Belgium in September 2014).

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Viisa House / Francisco Farias Arquitecto y Asociados

February 9, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

The clients imagined their house as a refuge among trees where they could receive friends and spend a lot of time with the family. They were very familiar with the place and its virtues, a consolidated neighbourhood located within the Exaltación de la Cruz district, in the Province of Buenos Aires.  An area whose development has modified over the years from a neighbourhood of summer houses into an area of permanent homes.

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Museo Oliva Artés / BAAS Arquitectura

February 9, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

The recovery and transformation of an old industrial building from 1920 into a museum, highlighting its special configuration in three naves and its interior textures, adding new layers that adapt it to the new use. The Oliva Artés industrial building was to be demolished in 2008 in the context of the new construction of the Central Park of Poble Nou, which planned to cut the continuity of the historic Pere IV street to which the building is closely linked. A few days before the entry of the excavators a neighbourhood association dedicated to the industrial heritage of Poble Nou convinced the City Council of the need to preserve the building, which at that time was in a state of structural ruin.

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Face, Pool, Two Towers and Ruin Installation / Paradigma Ariadné

February 8, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

Modernist housing estates are rejected, just as the Haszkovó housing estate in the city of Veszprém, Hungary. Their stories are understood as the stories of failed urban developments, they are grey, sad, and soulless. Can something be soulless and grey which gives home to 20.000 inhabitants? Instead of letting our prejudices drive our view on modernist housing estates, is that possible to reconsider our relationships and think about them as “real cities” and to complete them with creative ideas?

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House Along Sardinia’s Southern Coast / Pierluigi Piu

February 6, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

When designing this villa to be built along Sardinia’s coastline it was my intention to link it to its geographical and cultural environment using a contemporary and sober language, yet unmistakably Mediterranean and referring to the traditional arts and crafts of this Italian island. 

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Portsea Beach House / Mitsuori Architects

February 5, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

The Portsea beach house is our design response to a wonderfully simple brief to create an elegant and practical family beach house. This beach house is located on a compact site in Portsea on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Our design celebrates the simplicity, clarity and natural beauty that emerges when form and function come together.

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Housing Av. Lincoln / bakro

February 5, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

The building is located in Villa Devoto, a residential neighborhood in the City of Buenos Aires, known for its square, its dense forestation and houses with large gardens. Although it maintains its suburban essence and a good state of conservation, the neighborhood is not the exception in the densification process.