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Project Details:
Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS
www.yousseftohme.com

BA-Project – Villa in Progress
Design Development Phase, 2010
Location: Lebanon, Kaakour
Type: Residential
Project Total Area: 2.500sqm
Construction Fees: 3.500.000 $
Architects in Charge: Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS
Architect: Youssef Tohme
Project Architect: Anastasia Elrouss
Collaborate Architects: Anthony Abou Rejaily, Muhammad Mahdi, Vart Bisanz
Consultant Architects: Christophe Hurgon
Contact: info@yousseftohme.com
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Project Details:
JSA: www.jsa.com.mx
Location: Bay beach at Lima, Perú.
Project Completion: 2010.
Number of units: 4 apartments.
Average surface area of apartments: 185m2.
Total construction area: 995m2.
Design Team: JSª Javier Sánchez, Irvine Torres, Juan Reyes, Héctor Hernández and Francisco de la Concha. Renders: Gerardo Fonseca.
Models: Edith Razo, Isabel Medina and Anayetzi Ruiz.
Structural Engineering JSª : Fernando Valdivia and Sergio Barrios.
Installation Engineering: JPR Proyectos.
Construction Development: Buckle y Konno.
Wood: Peru Lumber, Ing. Jorge Tintorer.
Photographer: Eduardo Hirose.
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“Facing a peruvian beach, 30 miles from Lima, El 22 is arranged with 4 beach apartments suitable for families. It’s rectangular terrain has 389 m2 of area and spectacular views to the marine landscape. Showing respect to the complex’s regulations, the project dares to expose at 2.00mts of height from the “malecón”, with such space that includes pool, waiting area, patio, kitchen and services. The design concept deals with articulating the apartments as independent and over imposed volumes, generating a diverse composition between interior and exterior spaces. Each one of the livable spaces seeks to reinforce the action of looking at the landscape, resulting an appealing design in relation to the privileged views, as well as a subtle and articulated composition that responds to the “malecón”.
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The project accomplished 4 apartments of approximately 185 m2, with an arrangement of spaces articulated by a great central patio. This façade is revolved by an operable surface of wood that permits multiple appearances of the space and the common space beholds the preference to the most attractive view of the bay.

The structural solution shows wide open spaces free of any elements, creating big clearances that are being reinforced by operable enclosures and allowing a diffused relation between interior-exterior. It is a project with great layout development that is strategically solved, with the total exploitation of spaces and their relation with the landscape.”
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Robert Adam Architects

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“1458 Marfaa is a mixed use building on an historic site. Completed in October 2009 the building responds to the client’s request for a building of ‘timeless’ quality for a prominent corner site that marks an important medieval gateway into old Beirut.

The Bab Idriss gate of the city was said to have once sat on this site and marked the line of the rising sun on the day of the city’s foundation. The building design draws on this historic memory relating physically and symbolically to Beirut’s past.
The building also acts as a formal entrance into the Place de L’etoile, created under the French mandate.

British architect Robert Adam cooperated with the Beirut architect and friend Fadlallah Dagher after his firm Dagher Hanna & Partners Architects won a competition to develop the site.

This building provides 5,840 m2 of retail and office space and eleven luxury apartments, plus additional levels below ground for car parking.

Decoration reinterprets traditional Ottoman and Islamic forms and uses different levels of embellishment across each façade, graded in detail from the simplified street elevations to the more elaborate classical detail on the corner as the most important element of this building. A modulation of three bays with recessed balconies and set backs creates a characteristic streetscape. A proportion of 1 to 1.8 is used for this building, which is consistent with the proportions of Ottoman period town house bays.

The rooftop beacon or lantern emphasises the corner along the axis of the Roman gateway and provides a focus between the junction of the old centre and the surrounding modern city. It is a contemporary lit structure that develops a Middle Eastern classicism with modern materials.”
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About the Architects
Robert Adam Architects
The Practice was founded in 1955 and became Robert Adam Architects in 1992. It has an international reputation in classical and traditional architecture and has become a world leader in progressive classical design, combining tradition with the latest technology.
As well as significant projects in the UK and the USA the practice works across Europe, the Middle East and Japan.
Its portfolio of award-winning projects includes exclusive town and country houses, public and commercial buildings, pioneering work in masterplanning, urban design and the conversion, restoration and extension of important historic buildings.

The work of Robert Adam Architects has been widely published, exhibited and broadcast. As widely acclaimed experts in classical design and progressive technology, its directors are consulted by government agencies and ministries on policy and design, and regularly invited to write, lecture and teach.
In addition, all five directors are trustees of many national interest groups and founders of international architectural and urban design organisations.”

UK Architect: Robert Adam at Robert Adam Architects
Client’s representative/Local Architect: Dagher Hanna & Partners Architects
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“Construction was recently finished on this green-roofed apartment building in Amsterdam, and residents will soon be able to move into their stunning new light filled apartments. Designed by NL Architects, Blok K is located between the historic center and the recently redeveloped harbor area in the east. The building contains 10 apartments and is part of a masterplan for the area, which will include 500 dwellings and a park by Frits van Dongen and de Architecten Cie.
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Fearon Hay Architects

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“The mountain retreat is a small structure which is situated high above the ground and facing shores of Lake Wakatipu in New Zealand. Its design is inspired by beautiful landscape views around. Floor-to-ceiling insulated windows in steel frames and roof terrace are things that enhance the ability to see picture-like mountains. The exterior of the building uses the heavily rendered stone to express a cubic form and integrate it into surround landscape.

A main sleeping space opens over the living space and is serviced by a centrally located bathroom. Heating set within the insulated floor slab provides additional comfort when required in the extremes of winter. The house gets the filtered water from a nearby mountain stream. Bottled gas is one of the main energy sources, although there is also electrical power provided.” Fearon Hay Architects
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VMX Architects

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Project Details:
Client: Sylvie Murphy
Architect: VMX Architects
Location: Amstelveen – The Netherlands
Size: 500m2
Design: 2005
Text – Photos: VMX Architects

“In a nature area between Amsterdam, Amstelveen and Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, lies the Kostverlorenkade 1; an island measuring 1200m2. Here, VMX build a 500m2 house. The starting point for the concept was the perception of the landscape, the distant high buildings of the Zuid As and the Rembrandt Tower as well as the view of the aeroplanes travelling to and from Schiphol.

The living room and kitchen are arranged in a loft-like space on the first floor. The more intimate areas (bedrooms and bathrooms) are situated on the ground floor, orientated towards the garden on the backside. The basement contains an additional programme such as a fitness room and a home cinema. The house forms an object in the landscape; the island acts as the plinth.

Nominated for the Gouden A.A.P. 2010 (Amsterdam.Architecture.Prize.)”
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Rocha Tombal Architecten

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“From a basic form, defined by the municipal urban plan, sculptural “eyes” emerge with direct views to the varied countryside landscape. The form and orientation of the building avoid visual contact with the adjacent houses: at the ground floor the angled ceiling of the kitchen accentuates the intensive contact with the garden. On the first floor, the different shaped openings in the roof and façade offer, like “fingers of light”, varied daylight experiences.
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The routing through the house starts in the hall, a section of the ground floor volume. After experiencing the entrance area and passing the gigantic pivoted door, the visitor arrives at the “heart of the house”, the kitchen. Here he looks through the big glass wall straight into the garden, which suggests being outside again. Behind him, the stair cuts a wooden wall inviting to follow the route towards the first floor. Its angled form and extreme proportions (small and high) and the daylight entering from the ceiling, offer the feeling of walking in a medieval street.
At the end of it he discovers the living room, a quiet, north-lighted attic space, from which a big opening exposes the surrounding green like in a framed painting.” Rocha Tombal Architecten
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Iwan Baan

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“Evolution from prototype of Chinese courtyard house, The brick house establish a good relationship with the surrounding environment especially the big lake in the north. The red bricks produced in the neighbor fields were used as main structure & construction materials in the region were introduced as main construction material for this project, so the local construction workers know very clear the idea of building in their familiar way.

The interesting geometric pattern of brick facade reflects the opening logic of elevation. Since all materials & workers are from & close to the site, low budget is the result of this regional solution. Client of brick house, a famous poet in China dived himself into whole process, he worked together with the architect.”
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Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS

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Project Details:
Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS
www.yousseftohme.com

AD-Project – Villa in Progress
Design Development Phase, 2010
Location: France, Colmar
Project Total Area: 250sqm
Type: Residential
Architects in Charge: Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS
Architect: Youssef Tohme
Project Architect: Sonia Tohme
Collaborate Architect: Anastasia Elrouss, Vart Bisanz, Muhammad Mahdi
Consultant Architect: Christophe Hurgon
Contact: info@yousseftohme.com
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Lan Architecture

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Project Details:
PROGRAM: Construction of a complex of apartments, shops and business premises
LOCATION: Terres Neuves District, Bègles, France
DATE:2009
CLIENT: Ataraxia, Saemcib
COST:€ 6.5 M HT
SIZE: 6 500 m2
TIME TABLE: 2009-2012
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Project Description:
A new, sustainable and social living space geared to the 21st century.

“The project’s richness and major interest lie in the possibility of inventing an urban lifestyle set in a highly experimental framework enabling the affirmation of new ecological and contemporary architectures. The diversity of architectural propositions and communal and private spaces had to ensure and enhance this specificity.

The first stage was to ‘sculpt’ the volumes in order to exploit their urban potential and intrinsic spatial qualities.
We directed our research towards a hybrid typology combining the house and the apartment.

The principle underlying our approach was that of stacking containers, and careful study of habitat modes, climatic conditions and the sun’s trajectory throughout the year suggested the way to organise this.
The project’s column-slab supporting structure has a system of lightweight façades providing ultra-high performance insulation levels.

The relative narrowness of the buildings dictated a strategic search for compactness. The idea of variable compactness introduced the notion of a housing unit’s adaptability to seasons and times of day. All residents have the possibility of using their exterior space as a windbreak, a mini-greenhouse or, conversely, as a means of cooling or ventilating.

The morphology of each unit stems from the wish to develop housing units enabling a variety of uses very simply and with no extra technological input. We are therefore proposing cross-building units with adaptable exterior spaces and at least two different orientations.”
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amazingideas

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AVELEDA´S HOUSE
The perfect synergy of functionality and experience!

“Designed in Braga, Aveleda´s House is a villa designed to accommodate the light as a source of inner experience of housing.
The basic idea of the project, parts from the concept of being located in Bracara Augustae, where the ancient Roman houses, the Domus, were built around an internal square. Hence all the subtlety of the house is achieved with a careful distribution.

“… We tried to take the most of the land to create a connection with the interior of the building, leaving a view of the valley and the square that exists between the two bodies housing …”, highlights Manuel Ribeiro, architect and author of the project responsible for its implementation.”
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AVELEDA`S HOUSE

The main body which houses the social functions of the house is situated at an elevation of the square, assuming the sloping ground with the Hall high comparatively to the social part and creating a view of all from this same Hall; the social area involves the room in open space, the kitchen and bathroom service.
Down below the architect created the gym´s area and the office.

The private area with 4 bedrooms (1 suite and 3 rooms) and health facility support is at the elevation of the entrance hall, raised highly in comparison to the quota of the external square, without losing the visual field.
On the square that is outside, we can find the pool that reminds us the “compluvium” of a Domus Romana, centered on two areas of housing.
The engine room, the locker room and a kitchen to support the outdoor activities, are located in a lower bound in relation to the square, in a way to create a distinction between the two recreational areas.”
“… The plasticity of the object HOUSE (purpose built) will always be overridden by the phenomenological aspect, giving identity and character to the building and so, it’s able now to provide a center of life, functional and familiar at the same time that explores the pleasure of landscapes, spacious zones and materials.

This will not be only a “home”, but always a Domus. All the project intends to explore the human being as well as it senses: touch, sight, smell, hearing, taste and passion.
These are aspects that never been neglected. On the contrary, they are always present… ”, he concludes.”
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About the Architect:
MANUEL RIBEIRO
-The architect and his language…
Since he was 9 years old, he would stop on the sidewalks to watch the buildings, and redesign their silhouettes with a fingertip.
For Manuel Ribeiro, architecture as an artistic performance is understood as post-modernism, related to the materiality of the spaces, as places of reference. Morphic forms designed by contemporary architects are not
limited to a feature of the artistic product to be used.
The glory years of architecture represents the time when the artist has a profound impact on the design. Here the artist is a necessary tool for the design of the object. The concept is thought of as the art of living and not as certain movements in architecture in which the place becomes a “non-place“.
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Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS
www.yousseftohme.com
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Project Details:
H-Project – Villa in Progress
Design Development Phase, 2010
Location: Lebanon, Yarze
Project Total Area: 1.100sqm
Type: Residential
Construction Fees: 1.300.000 $
Architects in Charge: Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS
Architect: Youssef Tohme
Project Architect: Anastasia Elrouss
Collaborate Architect: Muhammad Mahdi
Consultant Architect: Christophe Hurgon
Text: More description soon

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Marmol Radziner

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“Located in Palm Springs, California, the Kaufmann House was originally designed by architect Richard Neutra in 1946. The restoration returned the residence to its initial form, size, and aesthetic integrity. An important challenge of the restoration was to re-create the dialogue between nature and sculpture, a difficult undertaking in an area that has grown from a rugged desert into a suburban residential neighborhood.

Extensive archival research of Neutra’s original details was undertaken at the UCLA Special Collections Library Department. Julius Shulman’s original photographs of the house were invaluable in determining the original characteristics of this modern monument.”
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Grosfeld van der Velde Architecten
Text by ArchDaily

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Project Details:
Architects: Grosfeld van der Velde Architecten
Location: Vianen, The Netherlands
Client: Private
Project Year: 2004-2007
Photographs: Michel Kievits
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“The house is situated on the edge of Vianen, a city in the centre of Holland. The view on the southwest side is magnificent and will remain unbuilt. The beautiful view is that of a typical Dutch landscape of open fields with lines of trees.
As a limiting condition for this site the city prescribed a gutter height of 4 meter and a country style of building.
Form and material remind traditional ways of building in the Dutch countryside, although the house has a distinct character as opposed to the prefabricated country-style of the other houses in the street.
The house is designed from the inside out, as a series of connected spaces. Within the whole each space has its own character and its own relation with the landscape.”
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