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Located in the riverside park along a busy street in the old town area of Kunshan, this project includes a refreshment station, public toilets, and a leisure pavilion. These program spaces are assembled as a compound that is an intermixing zone for diverse activities within a small area in the park. The leisure pavilion has […]

Viewed from the street, House 27 appears as a modest two-storey home. This impression belies the effects of the disciplined compositional use of materials and the subtle play between form, detail and surface. The street façade is composed at grade by a brick patterned plane juxtaposed to the deep recess of the entryway. This composition […]

The building expresses both contrast and tenderness in relation to site and context. Its volume has been kept low, without any plinth or pitched roof. Facing Öresund, the terraced site has an ocean view, but the building questions the convention to turn all rooms towards that same view – the site has many qualities all […]

Located in the riverside park along a busy street in the old town area of Kunshan, this project includes a refreshment station, public toilets, and a leisure pavilion. These program spaces are assembled as a compound that is an intermixing zone for diverse activities within a small area in the park. People are guided into […]

A Farm School (Grangecole)The proposal reads the environment and reinterprets it. The new school is born on the basis of the traditional farm models of this zone. These farms are characterized by a clear structural order that stars the inside, a honest construction and a neutral volume. Structure is SpaceIn these traditional models and in […]

A 250 long by 18 meters wide plot perpendicular to the sea, with an arable area, leading from the beach itself to some old ruins, canes and lemon trees.The house for the photographer II is at the end of the plot. Constructed on a platform 70 cm high above the level of natural floodable ground, […]

Located on the Tarrawarra Abbey site, the conceptual design for the building was developed in response to recent grass fires which passed dangerously close to the site in 2009. Utilizing the inherent protective qualities and thermal mass of in-situ concrete external walls, the design complements the existing timber buildings on the site and provides a […]

Located on the north-center of Portugal, the house was meant to combine the rural and the urban lifestyle. The lot is surrounded by different types of constructions, consequence of the informal settlements, characteristics of most Portuguese cities neighbourhoods. Details from project The scale and the site identity were always present on the construction details and […]

In front of the opportunity about experimentation in a domestic work of a small scale, it’s developed a series of essays that constitute the frame theorical-practical of project, manipulating a traditional element of our constructive culture in search new meanings and possibilities. The order is about the construction of four weekend bedroom, materialized through horizontal […]

Villa BLM was designed based on climate, existing on-site vegetation, low-cost maintenance, and energy efficiency aimed to create a comfortable villa during all seasons, simple and abstract. The composition consists of two main brick-lined volumes, and one corten steel volume; all connected by a rustic concrete slab.The main frontal volume consists of a library of […]