East Beach Cafe

Posted: December 17th, 2009 | Author: Yanda | Filed under: Architecture, Interior | No Comments »

Heatherwick Studio was commissioned to design a café building to replace a seafront kiosk in Littlehampton, a traditional seaside town on England’s south coast. Exposed to weather and vandalism, the narrow site sits between the sea and a parade of houses.

The studio saw its challenge as being to produce a long, thin building without flat, two-dimensional façades.

The building is sliced diagonally into ribbons which wrap up and over the building, forming a layered protective shell, open to the sea in front. The opening is filled with glass doors and windows, protected at night by roller shutters concealed within the building’s geometry, the 30-centimetre width of the ribbons being the dimension of a shutter mechanism.

In contrast to the conventional white-washed seaside aesthetic, the building is raw and weathered, its structural steel shell finished with an oil-based coating that permits a rust-like patination to develop without affecting structural performance.

A kiosk and cafeteria by day and a restaurant in the evening, the new café seats sixty.
http://www.eastbeachcafe.co.uk
http://www.heatherwick.com/
via http://www.yankodesign.com/2007/06/21/east-beach-cafe-by-thomas-heatherwick/
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Clinic by Suppose Design Office

Posted: November 29th, 2009 | Author: Yanda | Filed under: Architecture, Interior | No Comments »

“Instead of keeping places normally used for movement such as an elevator shaft or stair wells closed, we wanted to open them up to collect light, using them as lightwells to maintain the lighting coming in from above. As light travels downward through the lightwells, exterior ‘bar graph’ like apertures maintain lighting on the lower levels, and gradually decrease in number towards the upper levels. This lighting design, using the building’s positive-negative relationship between interior and exterior, makes uniform lighting on each floor possible.”
http://www.suppose.jp/
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House on Carysfort Road by ODOS Architects

Posted: November 28th, 2009 | Author: Yanda | Filed under: Architecture, Interior | No Comments »

This mid-terrace house in Ireland has been extensively refurbished into a contemporary live/work space. The new structure was conceived as a simple form which connects at ground level with the existing house. The tight site and strict planning constraints defined the form of the new extension from an early stage.

Carysfort Road, Dublin, Ireland, by ODOS Architects, via: The Architectural Review
http://www.odosarchitects.com
http://www.arplus.com/9691/carysfort-road-dublin-ireland-by-odos-architects/
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The Butler Residence by PATH Architecture

Posted: November 17th, 2009 | Author: Yanda | Filed under: Architecture, Interior | No Comments »

http://www.architecturepath.com/
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Nagoya House by Suppose

Posted: November 17th, 2009 | Author: Yanda | Filed under: Architecture, Interior | 1 Comment »

http://www.suppose.jp/works/2007/12/post-10.html
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House H by Sou Fujimoto

Posted: November 17th, 2009 | Author: Yanda | Filed under: Architecture, Interior | No Comments »

House H is the latest project by Sou Fujimoto Architects in Tokyo. It’s new experiment to find a balance between volumes, spaces and light. There’re a lot of stairs in this house and I’m also wondering where the bedrooms are. But I wouldn’t mind if Sou would do some projects in Berlin.
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