Shopping Architecturally

Furniture retail box unit explores display from an architectural perspective

WEDGE-1 is the latest of architectonic explorations by Collaborative Architecture in creating projects which are highly refined in architectural morphology and yet fulfilling the programmatic agenda of the brief.

The architectural intent was to dissect the simple ‘shoe box’ and manipulate the architectonic character of the box in the most economical way. (The project had a very stringent budget limit and delivery schedule)

The name WEDGE comes from the character of the spaces within the dissected box, which largely are trapezoidal. The space has been organized as centripetal, pinwheel form as the central gathering space holds the different wedges around it’s periphery with its undulating volumes and roofline.

The peripheral wall sets the tone for the exploration of exhibits with its unique cut-outs, which reveal and mask the displays simultaneously to lure the public in.

These two dimensional cut-outs on the skin, transform the project from a simple container of products to an architectural ensemble of multiple meanings and unparallel perceptual values.

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Shopping Architecturally

Marble vs Granite

Granite or Marble?

That is the question burning through every new homebuyer or remodele’s dreams.The ultimate answer is: Yes, please,some of both! But to understand  which applications are best for which stone variety, we first need to understand a little more about the stone themselves.

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Marble vs Granite

Denton Corker Marshall

Denton Corker Marshall is one of the world’s leading design practices. Currently working in Europe. the middle East, Asia and Aystralia, the practice has established a reputation for producing dynamic and innovative design solutions.

Founding Directors (from left to right): John Denton, Barrie Marshall, Bill Corker

Stephen Quinlan (London), Budiman Hendropurnomo (Jakarta), Adrian FitzGerald (Melbourne)

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Denton Corker Marshall

Wahidin

House for residence and effort, we name it RUKO or SHOP House . In Medan or other province in Indonesia – RUKO is still one of the main choice for people who need  to make a business such like in selling or running an official office. For some RUKO is have a very high prices in ROI cause of the location. But the efficiency if we have this kind of building is that’s we also can use it for residence although RUKO have a very bad air circulation and opening space for original sun lighting .

This one is our Creation for RUKO or SHOP House  in wahidin street. Owner need a space to have  a Beauty Saloon business and a residence for her eldest son that’s going to married soon after this renovation finish. So with this RUKO, all the two function can delivered together precisely.

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Wahidin

New WAVE Master Room @ CITRA

An Idea come from creative mind of this project owner to have something diffrent for his own master bed room. We design for  something  uniqe atmosphere room style with 2 funtion inside. For bedroom an also for having a little refreshing SPA with bathtube in front of his bed .

Still in modern style comes with domination of white color, and using hidden lighting on the top ceiling of this room , its really making a comfortable space.

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New WAVE Master Room @ CITRA

News Review February 2009

SHELL PROVIDES PERFECT HIDING PLACE

Kotaro Ide creates residential retreat in Karuizawa

Situated within a dense thickness of trees the Shell House by Kotaro Ide of Artechnic unravels itself displaying its contrasting underbelly to the private audience of its owners.

Brazen yet shy, the house’s open form hidden within the trees presents an honest display of relevance to its situation. The curved forms synonymous with the outer shell of a snail or sea-faring crustacean stand on a plinth of wood creating the illusion that the form floats above the forest bed.

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News Review February 2009

Nero Portoro

Fascination of Black & Gold

Marble is from the Greek word for SHINING STONE. Architecturally, marble is a term applied to any metamorphosed limestone or serpentine rock which is able to be polished. The crystalline structure of marble gives it its beauty. It is heat and scratch resistance is far better than any other solid surface material.

Nero Portoro is a black marble from Italy. It is naturally elegant, easy to work with and strong material. Nero Portoro have special gold color with dark black background. This is makes it an exclusive and expensive marble. There is only one active quarry of Nero Portoro still working today which makes it an extremely limited material.

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Nero Portoro

“Ramset”

One of the usually tools we are using in construction renovation is come from “RAMSET” manufacture.

In 1952, Siddons Drop Forgings Limited, a company founded by John Siddons secured the rights to the world’s first commercially viable powder actuated fixing system.

The new company, Ramset™ Fasteners (Aust.) Pty  Limited was destined to become a leader in developing,  manufacturing and supplying the latest technology for  the construction industry.

Principle among this technology was concrete fixing, drilling and anchoring systems as well as construction  hemicals.

By the late 1980’s, Ramset™ was an integral part of the  wholly Australian owned group, Siddons Ramset™ Limited; a diverse corporation that included leading  manufacturing, importing and distribution companies.

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“Ramset”

Defining Responsive Architecture

World Architecture News House of  Year competition brings out strongest design talents

Last year, Marbach made its architectural ascent in status when the city’s Museum of Modern Literature, designed by David Chipperfield to reconnect Germany’s literature once separated by the East/West divide, won the Sterling Prize – a most coveted architecture award. This year, perched on 6900 m2 of land atop a hill facing the museum, a private house responds with originality and thoughtful design, elevating the bar in the region. 

Submitted for WAN’s House of the Year 2008, Dupli Casa displays sophisticated shape manipulation to transform a simplistic design into a complex yet comprehensible super-home.

“The geometry of the building is based on the footprint of the house that previously was located on the site,” say Dupli Casa’s designers J. Mayer H. Architects. “Originally built in 1984 and with many extensions and modifications since then, the new building echoes the ‘family archaeology’ by duplication and rotation. Lifted up, it creates a semi-public space on ground level between two layers of discretion.”

The design therefore reflects a family vernacular – the different levels of a family presenting as twisted versions of the next, performing different functions but communicating as a whole.

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Defining Responsive Architecture

New Work Beilinson Gomez Architects PA

Barbara Residence, Miami Beach, United States

New residential work from Beilinson Gomez Architects PA

This oceanfront house in the Altos Del Mar district of Miami Beach utilizes the full extents of its site by creating a site perimeter envelope at the lot setback lines and then organizing both exterior and interior spaces within that perimeter frame, creating semi-exterior spaces between the marked envelope and the interior spaces.

Programmatically, this creates a public zone to the East (on the ocean) and a private / bedroom zone to the west (on Atlantic Way), and provides all of the interior spaces with a dramatic adjacency to vertical spaces that are exterior, yet still within the perimeter frame of the site.

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New Work Beilinson Gomez Architects PA

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