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“Interview with Dutch architect Michiel Riedijk [1964 -], principal in the Rotterdam-based office Neutelings & Riedijk Architects with Willem Jan Neutelings [1959 -].
In this first chapter, Michiel speaks about the background of his practice, which is closely related with practical approach of TU-Delft –Michiel and Willem studied there- avoiding any kind of explicit relation with OMA and its rhetoric. It seems that, nowadays, nobody wants to be related with chaos and speculation patented by Koolhaas besides this kind of architects.
Michiel also develops the three polarities that determine architect’s craft in their discourse and oeuvre: knowledge, skills and evocation. To be precise, he explains how these concepts were applied in his project for the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision in Hilversum.”
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http://www.vimeo.com/8072951
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All material is produced by 0300TV.
Recorded Feb 2009
Interview by Kim Courreges / Felipe De Ferrari M.
Edited by Felipe De Ferrari M.
Music by Matías Aguayo
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photographyserved

Set of Architectural Photos of Santiago Calatrava’s City of Art & Science by Jakob Wagner
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Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Location: Valencia, Spain
Image Credits: Jakob Wagner
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More photos at Photography Served
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from OMA

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Ole Scheeren of OMA introduces a new residential typology to Singapore with The Interlace, a large-scale complex of interconnected apartment buildings stacked in an innovative hexagonal arrangement, developed by CapitaLand and Hotel Properties Limited.

The Interlace is located on an elevated eight-hectare site, bounded by Alexandra Road and the Ayer Rajah Expressway, amidst the verdant Southern Ridges of Singapore. With about 170,000m2 of gross floor area, the development will provide 1,040 apartment units of varying sizes with extensive outdoor spaces and landscaping. The site completes a green belt that stretches between Kent Ridge, Telok Blangah Hill and Mount Faber Parks.
Designed by Ole Scheeren, partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, The Interlace breaks away from Singapore’s standard typology of isolated, vertical apartment towers and instead explores a dramatically different approach to tropical living: an expansive interconnected network of living and communal spaces integrated with the natural environment. Thirty-one apartment blocks, each six-stories tall and identical in length, are stacked in a hexagonal arrangement to form eight large-scale open and permeable courtyards. The interlocking blocks form a vertical village with cascading sky gardens and both private and public roof terraces.

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The design capitalizes on the generous size of the site and maximizes the presence of nature by introducing extensive roof gardens, landscaped sky terraces and cascading balconies. Above-ground vehicular circulation is minimized, liberating large green areas within the development. The Interlace incorporates sustainability features through careful environmental analysis of sun, wind, and micro-climate conditions on site and the integration of low-impact passive energy strategies.
While maintaining the privacy of individual apartment units through the generous spacing of the building blocks and far-ranging views, the design also features communal spaces for shared activity. Extensive residential amenities and facilities are interwoven into the lush vegetation and offer opportunities for social interaction, leisure, and recreation.

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Scheeren said: “The design addresses concerns of shared space and social needs in a contemporary society and simultaneously responds to issues of shared living and individuality by offering a multiplicity of indoor/outdoor spaces specific to the tropical context.”
Patricia Chia, CEO of CapitaLand Residential Singapore, said: “This is a great opportunity to create and build a residential destination at the Gillman Heights site that will challenge the present architectural definition of living spaces. While developing the dramatic external form, we have also given much attention to creating comfortable internal spaces. The name, The Interlace, reinforces the interconnectivity of the community with the surrounding natural environment. Ole Scheeren has created a new landmark for Singapore.”

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By OMA © All rights reserved

By OMA © All rights reserved

The design is led by Ole Scheeren together with Eric Chang, Associate of OMA. Scheeren is responsible for the office’s work across Asia, including the China Central Television Station (CCTV) headquarters and the Television Cultural Center (TVCC) in Beijing, and the MahaNakhon Tower in Bangkok. His previous work includes the Prada Epicenters in New York City and Los Angeles.”

Source: OMA
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S-Project - Skylight View from inside the Tunnel

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S-Project – Built 2008-2009
Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS
Location: Lebanon, Broumana
Type: Residential
Project Total Area: 250 sqm
Land Total Area: 22.000 sqm
Type: Residential
Construction Fees: 500.000 $

Architects in Charge: Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS
Architect: Youssef Tohme
Project Architect: Anastasia Elrouss
www.yousseftohme.com

Photographer: Joe Keserouani
Structural Consultants for Children Cabanas: Nabil G. Hennaoui
Contracting Company: Compagnie de Construction Immobiliere, CCI
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Project Description:

House extension in Broumana, AN EXPLODED HOUSE, Preserving Nature, Highlighting it…

We work under a special circumstance for this Project: a house extension for a private lot in the suburban Beirut, where nature tends to disappear. These Mountains’ sides overlooking Beirut coast ravaged by hazardous construction during war. Within this context, we mainly look for the preservation of the existing landscape, a pine forest passing through the lot, reclaiming itself as a rare land within the massive deforestation activities in Lebanon. Here the landscape is stronger than the house.

The client being a wealthy and a complex person, we chose to reveal a scenario of his life instances through different functions inserted separately within this natural site. It is an interesting game with the existing landscape. The project take birth between the existing tree trunks, it imprints their shape, their shadows…The forms are pure; the space is nude. We search a calm and serene mood.

The relationship with the exterior through the Jacuzzi, Reception, W.C., Children Cabanas, interventions is empowered by huge frames where nature is highly valorized. The Forest dominates the exploded house and becomes a dependent part of it where the intervention cannot exist without this forest. It is very interesting to manipulate the givens in a specific geographical context, trying to reinforce it and merging it with the contextual construction requests.”
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S-Project by Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS

S-Project by Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS

S-Project - Reception Area

S-Project - Jacuzzi - Outside View

S-Project - The entrance of the tunnel that leads to the jacuzzi

S-Project - Tunnel Entrance (night view)

S-Project - View from the tunnel towards the jacuzzi

S-Project - Inside View towards the entrance of the tunnel that leads to the jacuzzi

S-Project - Skylight View from inside the Tunnel

S-Project - The Jacuzzi

S-Project - Children Cabanas

S-Project - Children Cabanas

S-Project - Inside a Cabana

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