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GAFPA, house gentbrugge, Gent, 2012

#gafpa #Gent #reconversion #industrial

Johannes Norlander Arkitektur, House Morran, Gothenburg, 2011

#Johannes Norlander #Gothenburg

Smiljan Radic, casa habitacion, San Miguel, Chile, 1992-96

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From Valerio Olgiati’s image archive.

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MIKHAIL BELOV

BRIDGE ACROSS THE RUBICON, COMPETITION PROJECT, 1987

Tadao Ando, Glass Block House, Osaka, Japan, 1978

Pascal Flammer, House in Basthal, Switzerland, 2013

#Pascal Flammer #Basthal

Raphael Zuber, Grono Schoolhouse, Switzerland, 2011

#raphael zuber #grono schoolhouse #switzerland

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Melnikov House, Arbat District, Moscow, Russia, 1927

#Melnikov #Russia #house

Jaccaud Zein, Shepherdess Walk housing, London, 2016

#jaccaud zein #london #housing

The structure provides three principal types of spatial relations with its surroundings; on the ground floor, since the columns are in the middle of the façade, the resulting space feels strongly connected to the landscape. On the first floor the columns are in the corner, producing a more defined and centered space. The top floor is divided into four niches, each framing a specific view. All floors are linked by a ‘double stair’, which forms the core of the building and provides the possibility of moving through the office conventionally, or if necessary, unseen. This device allows the sequence of spaces usually created by stacking floors to be broken down. Each floor is now connected to another, and depending on which opening is used, it is possible to move directly from one floor to another avoiding the intermediate. All columns in the façades have the same dimension irrespective of their structural requirements – making the structural forces difficult to read. In contrast, the roof architrave, which could be seen as a classical allusion, is simply a result of the largest structural ‘moment’.

Pascal Flammer, Office in Zurich, 2000, unbuilt

#pascal flammer #zurich