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Health Sciences Building, Co Architects, Ayers Saint Gross Architects

Building Case Studies

Copper panels were folded, bent, and cut to provide a visually striking façade which connect with the desert landscape

Finnish Larch Home, Djuric Tardio Architectes

Building Case Studies

Finnish Larch is a high quality wood, durable with waterproof qualities, as well as a smooth and knot-free surface.

Finnish Larch Home, Djuric Tardio Architectes

Building Case Studies

Finnish Larch is a high quality wood, durable with waterproof qualities, as well as a smooth and knot-free surface. The panels come from sustainably managed cooperatives of small private forest owners

New Concrete House, Wespi De Meuron

Building Case Studies

The property adjoins on three sides to existing and new constructions, while to the downhill side it’s attached at the access road and above it provides free views to the Lake Maggiore and to the mountains. The cleareasy-cut volumetry and also the naturalistic materializing of the concrete in the same colour like the natural rocks, integrates the new building with caution in the heterogeneous area. Concrete gets the natural stone of the modern era.

Zamora Offices, Alberto Campo Baeza

Building Case Studies

The double facade works like a trombe wall. It holds in heat in the winter (GREENHOUSE effect) and at the same time expel the heat and protect the building in the summer (VENTILATED facade)

Harold Street Residence, Jackson Clements Burrows Pty. Architects

Building Case Studies

Brick screen allows cross flow ventilation and cooling, and diffuse light to the internal spaces.

The Glass House, Mike Ford, Andy Ramus, Stephen Osborn

Building Case Studies

provides a clean and light looki, delicate, brittle, transparent

Chapel Of Rest In Graz, Hofrichter-Ritter

Building Case Studies

Material of interest: Reinforced Concrete

The chapel of rest for the Steinfeld cemetery is designed in the form of two curving formwork elements made of reinforced concrete and appearing as two carefully receptive hands.

Kukje Gallery, So-Il

Building Case Studies

The material is used as an extra layer that drapes over the façade. It gives off a fluid appearance, dissolving the appearance of the sharp edges of the actual building.

Alesia Museum, Bernard Tschumi

Building Case Studies

The slatted wooden second skin was created to pay tribute the wooden structures the Romans built during the battle’s era. The wooden skin also acts as a brise-soleil, filtering light as it enters the glass volume and casting patterned shadows throughout the visitor center.

Olympic Shooting Venue, Magma Architecture

Building Case Studies

The material allows for some light to permeate through, allowing for a solid skin. It is also an easy matieral to reassmble, with no composite or adhesive materials used in the project.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center, Weiss/Manfredi

Building Case Studies

Material of interest: Green roof.

Material used: Architectural cast-in-place concrete; curtain wall of custom-fritted insulated glass and aluminum; canopy of custom-fritted laminated glass and stainless steel, architectural exposed structural steel, custom copper roof, green roof, wood paneling milled from ginkgo trees harvested on-site; specialty acoustic ceiling and wall panels

Properties of material: The green roof will change throughout the year, literally transforming the nature of the architecture each season.

Endesa Pavilion, Institute For Advanced Architecture Of Catalonia (Iaac)

Building Case Studies

Material of interest and material used: Timber, solar panels

Properties of material: Wood was chosen as the primary material for the project due its organic qualities as an exhaustible natural resource as well as its easy workability. Ultimately, the pavilion is shielded from solar radiation in the summer months and then consumes solar radiation throughout the winter. Indirect sunlight produces a subtle ambiance in the interior. Designed to be fabricated using CNC machines, mathematical equations determined the precise orientation of the panels for the most beneficial solar penetration.

Fachada Liverpool, Iñaki Echeverria

Building Case Studies

Material of interest and material used: Precast concrete

Properties of material: Given Tabasco’s tropical climate and its severe solar incidence and humidity levels, concrete was selected as the project’s design material; a material both resistant and with extraordinary aging qualities. The result was a façade that’s built by combining 5 different types of precast pieces shaped like a propeller. Each propeller rotates 180° on its axis; heights vary between 16 to 20 meters, depending on their position.

Parrish Art Museum, Herzog & De Meuron

Building Case Studies

Material of interest: Concrete. Material used: Glass and Glazing: Westhampton Architectural Glass; Tile: Lido Stone Works; Wood Flooring: Bayshore Wood Flooring

Properties of material: The reserved design is respectful of the landscape and channels the natural beauty through crisp forms and simple materials, while preserving the artistic legacy of the museum.

Kamppi Chapel, K2s Architects Ltd

Building Case Studies

Thinlly cut wood pieces are wrapped horizontally around a cnc-cut gluelam frame, providing visual striations as well as the vertical changes in the oval form.

Para Eco House, Tongji University Team

Building Case Studies

Material of interest: Green walls. Material used: Wood plates, vegetation

Propertiesof material: Perforated walls, the concept of creating a multi-layer skin emerges from a combination of Dao theory in eastern philosophy and the theories of Michel Foucault in western thought, especially the ideas of autonomy in architecture.