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Performative Brise- Soleil

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Performative Brise- Soleil

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico Servicios e Infraestructura Habitabilidad

Objetivos principales del proyecto

The Performative Brise-Soleil transforms a challenging housing location into a space of abundance. It is part of an urban neighborhood offering affordable housing, social amenities, and commercial spaces. The vertical organization within the building allows for diverse flat types, including cluster-living and housing cooperatives. The Performative Brise-Soleil, a vertical "garden-shelf," creates a three-dimensional sphere of free space while serving as a noise shield. It acts as a parametric sculpture along the highway, deflecting noise and providing access to the apartments. The concrete structure reflects the building's inner complexity and incorporates open and closed surfaces. The use of climbing plants adds a layer of greenery to the building over time.

Fecha

  • 2018: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: StudioVlayStreeruwitz ZT-GMBH

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Vienna
País/Región: Austria, Vienna

Breve descripción del proyecto

Translating constraints into spatial abundancy: Vertical free space for subsidized housing The architectural invention of the Performative Brise-Soleil turns an “impossible” housing location into exciting spatial opportunities, undermining the scarce realm of subsidized housing with abundant free spaces. The project is part of a new urban neighbourhood offering affordable housing (about 600 rental apartments) with additional social, educational and commercial uses in the ground floor. The bar-type (156 apts) forms the neighbourhood’s western edge, shielding off the highway-noise from the inner-area. Its ground floor provides a kindergarten, a workshop for handicapped people, a communal gym-space, and an office for caretakers of homeless people.

The complex vertical organisation within the bar allows for the stacking of diverse flat types, enabling a wide range of living-models, including cluster-living and housing cooperatives. The complexity’s common denominator is the Performative Brise-Soleil: a vertical “garden-shelf”, whose significant concrete structure converts the protective idea of a noise-shield into a 3-dimensional sphere of experiencing free space.

The Performative Brise-Soleil is a design-coup, which converts the defensive obligation of noise-protection into an inviting cosmos of co-living: the combination of type-mutation (vertical differentiation), landscape-infiltration, and living diversity transforms the noise-shield-bar into a socially sustainable and spatially generous vertical neighbourhood. Along the highway the Brise-Soleil represents itself as a parametric sculpture meticulously designed for orchestrating the proximity between highway and living. On the lower levels, a specific configuration of patios and balconies deflects the noise. Above, open access corridors, accompanied by sliding glass elements and storage boxes, offer both access and free space to the apartments, via bridges, framing single atriums above the “commons”, a generous neighbourhood-terrace on 5th floor. The Brise-Soleil reflects the curved building’s inner complexity: a stacking of different flat-types and landscapes, provoking synergies for a mixed housing program, which, aside from usual living models, involves housing-cooperatives, cluster-living, and special forms of generation-living. Construction and materiality emphasize the vertical diversity of flat-types. The concrete structure is used to extrapolate vertical diversity: the bar type’s depth alternates between 13 and 23m. Spatially, structurally and physically, the face of the Performative Brise-Soleil is the most significant element, hiding and expressing the building’s inner complexity at the same time. Its texture of open and closed surfaces consists of concrete as the main ingredient, reflecting the concept of adding value to a realm of scarcity. The concrete’s surfaces alternate between rough/raw, as created by the nonchalance of the construction-team, and elegant/noble, provided by a prefabricated relief of irregular vertical lines. Single glazing is discretely inserted for noise protection where necessary. Along the common terrace runs a plant-trough made of galvanized steel that accentuates the gentle curve of the building. From this trough, climbing plants grow along vertical cables, continuing the personalized greenery from the lower balconies and patios, which in time will cover the building with a layer of leaves, adding a secondary materiality.

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Occidentului 40

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Occidentului 40

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico Entornos Calidad Inclusión

Objetivos principales del proyecto

A vertically moving house in Bucharest.
This building on Occidentului Street in Bucharest blends well with the neighborhood by decomposing its volume into smaller houses of varying heights. The design features split-level apartments with staggered floors and open facades that showcase the interior life. The street facade reflects the structural order and distribution of cells, while small balconies occupy the contact area with the vertical structure.

Fecha

  • 2017: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: ADN Birou de Arhitectura

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Bucharest
País/Región: Bucharest, Romania

Breve descripción del proyecto

Ubicado en una calle típica de la zona central de Bucarest, con una imagen y densidad similares a las de las metrópolis occidentales clásicas, el edificio contribuye a unir el frente. La descomposición del volumen en cuerpos más pequeños de diferentes alturas suaviza el efecto en el vecindario y la calle, preservando la atmósfera urbana típica de Bucarest.

La calle Occidentului es una calle típica de la zona central de Bucarest, con villas aisladas en medio del patio, casas de vagones, edificios de la época de entreguerras e inserciones de los años 60 y 70. El volumen general se descompone a través de varios movimientos y retranqueos en una fila de casas más pequeñas con diferentes alturas que secuencian la percepción del edificio y matizan la relación con las casas vecinas y el entorno fragmentario. La intervención propone una comunidad de 20 apartamentos y una unidad comercial en la parcela amplia pero relativamente estrecha. Todas las unidades son transversales y de doble orientación, y se organizan en niveles divididos. En lugar de los típicos pisos apilados, aquí los pisos y techos se mueven y generan una serie de pisos escalonados, diferencias de nivel y variaciones en altura y profundidad, lo que le otorga a los apartamentos una dimensión vertical de la vivienda.

Las fachadas abiertas reflejan la vida interior variada del edificio y buscan cierto tipo de "transparencia"; la disposición de los apartamentos define y está definida por el orden estructural del edificio y se revela claramente hacia el exterior.

En lugar de plataformas generales, aquí los pisos y techos se desplazan, creando apartamentos de varios niveles con espacios de una, una y media o dos alturas. La fachada de la calle expresa el orden estructural y la distribución de las celdas. Sus elegantes proporciones reflejan la armonía de las relaciones interiores.

Los grandes paneles de vidrio con marcos metálicos no ocupan toda la bahía. El área de contacto con la estructura vertical está ocupada por pequeños balcones, otro tipo de espacios al aire libre, diferentes de las terrazas o el piso superior retirado.

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85 Social Housing Units in Cornellà

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85 Social Housing Units in Cornellà

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico Servicios e Infraestructura Entornos Calidad Habitabilidad Inclusión

Objetivos principales del proyecto

85 social housing units in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona) utilize 8,300 m2 of zero-kilometer timber from the Basque Country. The building features a courtyard that connects intermediate spaces, with a porch on the ground floor serving as an entrance and a meeting point for occupants. The floor plan maximizes space utilization by eliminating corridors, and the rooms are arranged in a matrix layout. The structure incorporates cross-laminated timber walls and laminated timber columns and beams. The façade utilizes an electro welded wire mesh construction system for sun shading and terrace handrails. The timber volume per square meter is optimized at 0.24m3/m2 for economic feasibility in social housing.

Fecha

  • 2020: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: peris+toral.arquitectes

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: l'Hospitalet de Llobregat
País/Región: Barcelona, Spain

Breve descripción del proyecto

85 dwellings, 543 spaces and 2172 corners For the 10,000 m2 of built surface area of the new building in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona), consisting of 85 social housing units laid out on five levels, a total of 8,300 m2 of zero kilometre timber from the Basque Country has been used. The bases of this new residential building are a matrix of communicating rooms that eliminates corridors to guarantee optimum use of the floor plan and the use of timber to enable the industrialization of elements, improved quality of construction and a major reduction of deadlines and C02 emissions.

The building is organized around a courtyard that articulates a sequence of intermediate spaces. On the ground floor, a porch opens up to the city, anticipating the doorway of the building and filtering the relationship between public space and the courtyard that acts as a small plaza for the community. The four vertical communication shafts are situated at the four corners of the courtyard so that all the occupants converge and meet in the plaza, which represents a safe space from a gender perspective. On the model floor, entry to the apartments is from the communication shaft and the private terraces that make up the ring of outdoor spaces that overlook the courtyard. The building’s general floor plan is a matrix of communicating rooms. There are 114 spaces per floor, all of similar dimensions, eliminating both private and community corridors to make the maximum use of the floor space. The server spaces are laid out in the central ring, while the rest of the rooms, of undifferentiated use and size (13 m2), in the façade, accommodate different forms of occupation. The surface area and proportion allow generous corners as a support that facilitates the appropriation of space. The structure is mainly determined by setting 3,60m short spans, matching the matrix of rooms. Therefore, multiple supports uphold CLT slabs: cross-laminated timber bearing walls in the façade and a system of laminated timber columns and beams in the centred bays. The structure is optimised by compensating momentums with multiple supports and cantilevers at all ends.

In order to achieve economic feasibility in social housing, timber volume needed by built squared metre is been optimised down to 0,24m3/m2

The façade’s construction system and the structure joints are both solved by mechanical bonds, avoiding the use of scaffolds. The exterior building skin is built up with electro welded wire mesh, holding/bearing sun shading and filtering sights. By bending, this element improve steadiness and at the same time it shapes the terrace’s handrail.

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Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona

8 House

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8 House

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico Tejidos Urbanos Servicios e Infraestructura Entornos Calidad Inclusión

Objetivos principales del proyecto

8 House is a 62,000 m2 building that combines suburban tranquility with urban energy. It offers a variety of accommodations, including apartments, penthouses, and townhouses. The design by BIG incorporates elements of townhouses and functionalistic architecture, creating a cohesive structure with varying heights and abundant light. The building features communal facilities and a passage connecting surrounding areas. The apartments enjoy views and fresh air, while the commercial spaces interact with the street. With 476 residential units and 10,000 m2 of businesses, 8 House emphasizes durability and low maintenance materials. It optimizes natural light, heating, and ventilation, and incorporates green roofs for environmental benefits and visual appeal.

Fecha

  • 2010: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Copenhagen
País/Región: Copenhagen, Denmark

Breve descripción del proyecto

8 House is where you will find the attention to detail embedded in a larger context. Here, closeness thrives in the 62,000 m2 building. This is where the tranquility of suburban life goes hand in hand with the energy of a big city, where business and housing co-exist. 8 House is where common areas and facilities merge with personal life, and where you can reach for the stars at the top of the building’s green areas. The building’s housing program offers three kinds of accommodation: apartments of varied sizes, penthouses and townhouses. With a mix of suburban tranquillity and urban energy, the townhouse and its open housing is ideal for the modern family, while singles and couples may find the apartments more attractive. And for those who live life to the fullest, the penthouses function as a playground with fantastic views over the canal and Southern Copenhagen.

8 House is designed by BIG who has been partly inspired by classic townhouses as well as the open, democratic nature of functionalistic architecture. The architects have designed a long, coherent house with immense differences in height, creating a strong inflow of light and a unique local community with small gardens and pathways. The bow-shaped building creates two distinct spaces, separated by the centre of the bow which hosts the communal facilities of 500 m2. At the very same spot, the building is penetrated by a 9 meter wide passage that connects the two surrounding city spaces: the park area to the west and the channel area to the east. Instead of dividing the different functions of the building – for both habitation and trades – into separate blocks, the various functions have been spread out horizontally. The apartments are placed at the top while the commercial program unfolds at the base of the building. As a result, the different horizontal layers have achieved a quality of their own: the apartments benefit from the view, sunlight and fresh air, while the office leases merge with life on the street. 8 House, 52,000 m2 accommodates 476 residential units. The base consists of 10,000 m2 businesses, spread out at street level alongside the surrounding main streets, and the Northern court yard that houses an office building. 8 House is partly for rent and partly residential property varying from 65 to 144 m2. Emphasis has been placed on using materials which have a long durability and require little to no maintenance such as hardwood windows, concrete construction, oak flooring, metal panelling, and granite pavers.

The shape of 8 House which is literally “hoisted up” in the North East corner and “squeezed down” at the South West corner, allowing light and air to enter the court yard in the middle, optimizing daylight and natural heating for all inhabitants along with natural ventilation; Rainwater is collected in a storm water management system. Two sloping green roofs totaling 1,700 m2 are strategically placed to reduce the urban heat island effect as well as providing the visual identity to the project and tying it back to the adjacent farmlands.

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Cité Internationale (First Phase)

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Cité Internationale (First Phase)

Objetivos principales del proyecto

Fecha

  • 1995: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Lyon
País/Región: France, Lyon

Breve descripción del proyecto

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Boileau Apartments, Transformation of an Office Block into Housing

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Boileau Apartments, Transformation of an Office Block into Housing

Objetivos principales del proyecto

Fecha

  • 1995: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: Ateliers Lion Associés Architectes Urbanistes

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Paris
País/Región: France, Paris

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Shipboy Housing

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Shipboy Housing

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico

Objetivos principales del proyecto

Fecha

  • 1995: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: Helin & Co Architects

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Helsinki
País/Región: Finland, Helsinki

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Social Housing rue des Lyanes

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Social Housing rue des Lyanes

Objetivos principales del proyecto

Fecha

  • 1997: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: Odile Seyler

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Paris
País/Región: France, Paris

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Student Housing at Polo II, Universidade de Coimbra

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Student Housing at Polo II, Universidade de Coimbra

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico

Objetivos principales del proyecto

The project involves recreating the shape of a triangular and sloped site by organizing the lower levels. A tower, reaching the maximum height permitted on the campus, is constructed on this platform and complements other nearby buildings. The primary requirement is to create modules with double bedrooms and living rooms. In the tower, the bedrooms face east, offering a view, while on the ground floor, they overlook the canteen. In the lower levels, the bedrooms are arranged around a cloister.

A two-level space connects the tower and the main living room through a sloping structure. The walls are divided into two groups: the blind walls made of split concrete blocks, determining the height of the building, and the walls with windows clad in wood sheets that incorporate the window portals' measurements. Unlike the white buildings on the campus, this structure blends harmoniously with the surrounding pine forest.

Fecha

  • 2000: Construction

Agentes

  • Architect: Aires Mateus e Associados

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Coimbra
País/Región: Portugal

Breve descripción del proyecto

The project starts with the recreation of the morphology of the site, triangular and slopped through the organisation of the under levels. A tower with the maximum height allowed on the campus rises from this platform and crowns a sequence of vertical elements from the other nearby buildings. The programme mainly required modules with double bedrooms and living rooms. In the tower, the bedrooms are facing east, over the view; on the ground floor they are placed on the south; looking over the canteen; and on the under levels, they are organised around a cloister.

This two-level space is connected by a slope in the sequence of the main living room. Walls are divided in two groups, the blind ones are made of split concrete blocks, with a specific dimension, defining the height of the construction. The walls with windows are clad in wood sheets, integrating the window portals in its metric. As opposed to the white buildings of the campus this one blends with the surrounding pine forest.

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Apartment Building D, Giudecca

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Apartment Building D, Giudecca

Diseño urbano y arquitectónico

Objetivos principales del proyecto

This building is part of a large urban renewal plan on the former Junghans industrial plant site. The plan involves constructing a new urban fabric and converting existing industrial buildings into residential spaces. The D building replaces a utilitarian structure on a corner between two canals. The building utilizes traditional materials and technical solutions, with three types of window openings that align with varying floor plans. The design aims to capture glimpses of the surrounding area while transforming traditional elements into graphic motifs. The project seeks a contemporary approach that values the innovations of the Modern Movement without being limited by its rigid principles. It prompts us to consider the challenges of contemporary architecture in avoiding commercial pastiches and questioning the balance between modernity, permanence, individuality, and the collective nature of cities.

Fecha

  • 2001: Construction

Agentes

  • Constructor: Fratelli Carnieletto snc
  • Architect: Cino Zucchi Architetti

Localización

Continente: Europe
Ciudad: Venice
País/Región: Italy

Breve descripción del proyecto

This building is part of a large urban renewal plan on the site of the former Junghans industrial plant on the island of the Giudecca. The general urban scheme, implemented on the basis of the results of a closed competition won by the author, acts as a sort of microsurgery within the delicate body of the city with the construction of a new urban fabric and the renovation of existing industrial buildings converted to residential use. The D building is a new construction which substitutes an utilitarian building on the corner between two canals.
The materials and the technical solutions of the building are very traditional and the details of their use reveal the impossibility of an historicist replica. The façades have only three kinds of window openings and their irregular disposition follows the varying floor plans of the apartments in a search for glimpses of the Redentore apse, the canals and the Laguna. The traditional plain white stone window corniche of the minor historical Venetian architecture is changed in proportion and transfigured into a graphic motif and the crowning of the perimeter walls hides the gable roof required by the local regulations, reconducting the volume to an abstract image which is doubled by the reflection in the canal waters. Beside its specific attributes generated by the very constrained technical and economical reality of subsidised housing, the project is trying to establish a contemporary attitude toward our urban landscape, which treasures the spatial and formal innovations of the Modern Movement without being trapped into its Sachlichkeit moralisms.

If Walter Benjamin prophetically understood the complex relationships between high-brow and popular culture in the age of technical reproduction, one wonders about the possibilities of contemporary architecture to employ the resonances of the well-known and the banal without falling into the pastiches of commercial architecture which is transforming the whole world into a commodified skin-deep image. The resistance to urban kitsch, at least in Venice, cannot take the simple forms of structural honesty or adopt fashionable avant-garde attitudes, but forces us to question again the problems of modernity versus permanence and individuality versus the collective artifact of the city.

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