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Favrholm Conference Center / SeARCH | ArchDoc

325 days

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© Iwan BaanArchitects: SeARCH bv Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Client: Novo Nordisk Design Team: Bjarne Mastenbroek, Kathrin Hanf met Remco Wieringa en Paul Stavert, Geurt Holdijk, Laura Alvarez, Elke Demyttenaere, David Gianotten Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Iwan Baan The conference centre is an extension of ‘Favrholm’, a monumental Danish farm that originates from the 14th century. The complex contains an auditorium, offices, restaurants, meeting rooms, sports- and fitness facilities and guest rooms for the biggest insulin producer worldwide, Novo Nordisk a/s. The purpose of the project was to design a new type of conference centre, more dynamic and interactive for both employees of the close by situated R&D and production facility and employees, guests and speakers worldwide.Floor PlanThe restored 14th-century farm house, in which the main entrance is situated, played a crucial role in the history of the company: here for the first time in history insulin was extracted from the pancreas of cows. By realizing the extension partly underground, the view to the monumental farm was not harmed. For an optimal integration SeARCH worked closely together with the Danish Monument Service (KUAS) and bird protection organizations.© Iwan BaanNovo Nordisk had a series of conference rooms in mind varying from style; from classic, to (post)modern, anthropological and minimalistic. SeARCH proposed a more modest scheme based on ‘the sketching of cows’ (the way cows were registered and identified in the past).© Iwan BaanEach meeting room has a floor plan in the shape of a cow’s ear or leaf, all of them slightly different in shape, size and material, but still clearly related. These are situated into the embankments, viewing the vast landscape and the foraging birds in the lake. The newly built auditorium however restores the original, rectangular design of the courtyard of the farm house and is inspired by the barns that once stood there.© Iwan Baan#gallery-1 {margin: auto;}#gallery-1 .gallery-item {float: left;margin-top: 10px;text-align: center;width: 33%;}#gallery-1 img {border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;}#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {margin-left: 0;}

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FIS-SST Office Building / Zalewski Architecture Group | ArchDoc

325 days

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© Zalewski Architecture GroupArchitects: Zalewski Architecture Group Location: Gliwice, Poland Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy of Zalewski Architecture Group © Zalewski Architecture GroupNew office building of FIS-SST company is located in the area of Education and Business Centre ‘New Gliwice’ that was created in the place of former Coal Mine “Gliwice” functioning there form the 18th till the end of the 19th century. The intention of the Local Development Agency, that administrator of the Centre, was to create favourable conditions for enterprises dealing with new technologies and eventually redevelop the site into a technology park. Construction of FIS-SST headquarters (the first building in the area) is the result of this revitalization process of postindustrial areas – creation of new public spaces within the Centre.elevation 02Historical buildings of the former mine in the Centre occupy the western part of the area, along Bojkowska Street. Directly behind them the area was divided into parcels intended for commercial companies. At one of them new office building for FIS-SST was designed as an object of minimalist aesthetics and soft colours so as not to compete and interfere with historical design of mine buildings.© Zalewski Architecture GroupThe building is in the shape of an elongated cuboid. Front and rear elevations made of wooden blinds create a consistent structure and give the building a simple and compact form. Outer walls of the building, perforated with vertical window layout , are hidden behind the shutter layer. This solution provides an impression of a single block with no apparent divisions in the facade. Blinds, apart from the aesthetic effect, protect from excessive sunlight and overheating of the rooms.© Zalewski Architecture GroupTop graphite elevations also maintain synthetic form. The eye-catching accent of the front elevation is the breakdown of the shutters that opens the interior of the building (main entrance). Glazed entrance area on both sides across the building gives the impression of transparency of the interior. Additional element that accentuates this impression of penetration of the external and internal public space creates a conference room wall that smoothly flows to the outside the building. The feeling is also enhanced by the colors of the walls – they refer to the palette of colours of coal mine dumps which are visible in the background of the building.plan 01The functional arrangement of the interior is also disciplined. The hall combines the two main parts – the board and conference rooms and office spaces with social facilities. In this coherent structure a green patio was introduced as a link of office spaces.© Zalewski Architecture GroupConsistency is also emphasized by the land design. Fences near the main entrance are designed of the same elements like a wooden facade. Elements of identification – company logo – are embossed in the concrete wall of the fence. Linear composition of the blinds consistently creating the block of the pavilion intentionally makes the object closer to the abstract cuboid rather than a classical building.#gallery-1 {margin: auto;}#gallery-1 .gallery-item {float: left;margin-top: 10px;text-align: center;width: 33%;}#gallery-1 img {border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;}#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {margin-left: 0;}

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Alejo’s House / Ida Pilar Silva Mondselewsky | ArchDoc

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© Aryeh KornfeldArchitects: Ida Pilar Silva Mondselewsky Location: Peñalolén, Santiago, Chile Constructor: Luis Cuevas Tobar Project area: 140 sqm Project year: 2009 – 2010 Photographs: Aryeh Kornfeld © Aryeh KornfeldIn an area of 30 x 50 mts of length the house is located perpendicular to the length to take advantage of the sight towards the garden and the sunny orientation north.The house faces the street (south) with a long front consisted on 2 closed volumes, one of mud (horizontal) and the other one of wood (vertical). On the other hand, towards the north the house is opened completely to receive the Sun and to take advantage of the sights towards the fruit-bearing trees and endemic hawthorns.plan 03As this one is a “house – studio”, the independence between “life – work” was established by doing an independent access towards the second level,where the office is located. To enter the office an open terrace must be crossed, from where it is possible to see the skyline of Santiago.© Aryeh KornfeldConcepts of energy efficiency join the design as: the location ”between trees ” of the volume of wood to give it shade and freshness; the north orientation closed towards the south rests on a long continuous closet that crosses the whole volume of the bedrooms sheltering them furthermore; the reutilization of the water consumed for irrigation from the “system Toha”, The utilization of mud with “system of quincha” in the long volume what allows bedrooms without stoves in winter, Ceiling ventilated for the volume of wood, crossed ventilation, etc.© Aryeh KornfeldAlso there were in use recycled materials as girders of oak for the manufacture of windows, and raulí parket also of demolition, besides “pircas”(stone walls) with local stone.#gallery-1 {margin: auto;}#gallery-1 .gallery-item {float: left;margin-top: 10px;text-align: center;width: 33%;}#gallery-1 img {border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;}#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {margin-left: 0;}