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House 4x4x4 Architecture Design

Ching-Huang Ju Architecture Design Architecture

House 4x4x4

House 4x4x4 is a three-story single-family house in Changhua, Taiwan. An old house in an old community was converted into a functional and energy-efficient home filled with natural light. The interior is divided into four connected sections based on function. The clear structure and layout allow a family of four to share the courtyard, the living room, the dining room and the kitchen. Bright colors on the exterior walls and inside extend the transmittance of the building. Rooftop drainage and transom windows improve energy efficiency.

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Dalian Youth Football Training Base sport

Beijing Wanda sport Architecture

Dalian Youth Football Training Base

Dalian Youth Football Training Base is a sports complex built for football training. The base covers 86500 square meters and includes spaces for the first team, the reserve team, the youth team and the junior team, an indoor training hall on the west side and a two-story club building on the east side. A horizontal composition unites the whole design and links the separate volumes. The facade of the first floor is made of stone, and the roof is covered with gray horizontal metal sheets. Buildings facing the sports court are open and transparent, with platforms and balconies.

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QMC Hospital Day Treatment Centre

Adrian Light Day Treatment Centre Architecture

QMC Hospital

QMC Hospital is a day treatment centre located on the campus of the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham, United Kingdom. The building holds 15 departments, including diagnostics and theatre suites, across two operational floors of 9,500 square metres. The plan is arranged around a central atrium, which brings natural light into the interior and supports high levels of sustainability. Circulation areas are enclosed in clear glass. A careful study of consultation space made the building about 20 percent smaller than standard criteria would require.

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Lamborghini Zhengzhou Exhibition Center

Chuan Wang Exhibition Center Architecture

Lamborghini Zhengzhou

Lamborghini Exhibition Center is a car exhibition building completed in 2019 in Zhengzhou, China. The building covers 1030 square meters and holds four main areas: a new car exhibition space, a sales and service shop, a VIP lounge and a management office. The form is shaped by a twisting volume based on 60 degree angles, inspired by the lines of sports cars. A continuous revolving facade uses parallelograms and triangles, integrating the windows into one surface. A visual corridor between the two floors reduces the visual weight of the volume on the small site.

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Calm and Repose Residential Building

Chi Wei Lin and Yu Chih Chang Residential Building Architecture

Calm and Repose

Calm and Repose is a residential building with a floor area of 430 square meters. The design follows a modern and simple style. Plain textures and quiet materials are used across the indoor space. Large stone grain tiles cover the television wall and give a broad sense of sight to those entering the house. Behind the sofa, leather panels in irregular sizes and brushed wood veneers extend from the floor. The cool texture of the stone tiles is balanced by the warm texture of the leather and the wood. The rooms are opened to views of the surrounding nature.

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Run Science Park Guangzhou

Atelier Global Limited Guangzhou Architecture

Run Science Park

Run Science Park is a science and technology park in Guangzhou. The complex covers 120000 square meters and joins office space, exhibition areas and flexible areas. Seventy-five percent of the space is used for offices, five percent for flexible use, five percent for exhibitions and fifteen percent for mixed use. The structure is lifted off the ground and uses interlocking and shifting forms. A sunken plaza brings daylight to the lower levels. Glass, aluminum panels and paint form the facade. The design creates an open and connected shared community.

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Private Chalet Mountain Seasonal Residence

Fouad Naayem Mountain Seasonal Residence Architecture

Private Chalet

At the summit of a steep hill, lies a private residential project built to provide their owners with a secondary residence. The project makes the use of a difficult terrain, in order to create a practical and aesthetically pleasing living space. In fact, the triangular plot, which is located on a steep slope, has a setback line that limits design possibilities. This challenging complexity called for an unconventional design. The result is an unusual proportioned triangular building.

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Interelationships Residential Complex

Constantinos Yanniotis Residential Complex Architecture

Interelationships

Interelationships is a pilot, sustainable, collective housing, supported living complex that hosts vulnerable groups of people living in a collective community. The social impact of the project is important because it (re)integrates these people with work and joint participation in a multitude of activities with city residents. It may thus become a cultural attraction where interpersonal relationships develop through social, cultural and leisure revenue-generated activities. Fundamental aim of the project is to demonstrate that UD fits into buildings or complexes with modern aesthetics.

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lakeside living house and garden

Stephan Maria Lang house and garden Architecture

lakeside living

The Architecture is to express a relationship to nature in which the house is part of the natural environment - recreating a lakeshore with discreet interventions and a simple wooden shell sitting carefully on the landscape acting as a refuge. Lucent shadows from the existing trees enter the space. The grass area seems to extend the interior of the house. The aim of this project was to create Organic Architecture by expressing the site character, the articulation of space and material, the light design and the contrasting quality of private and open space.

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Neumatt Sports Center

Evolution Design Sports Center Architecture

Neumatt

Neumatt Sports Center is a three-pitch sports hall in Strengelbach, Switzerland. Inside, green, yellow, red, orange and blue are used both as decoration and as a navigation system, and changing rooms are identified by color instead of numbers. The glazed upper level uses capillary glass that brings daylight deep into the hall and reduces glare. A geothermal heat pump heats the building in winter and cools it in summer, so air conditioning is not required. The rendered base carries a pattern of sport icons.

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Hillside Residence Private House

Makoto Furihata Private House Architecture

Hillside Residence

Hillside Residence is a private house built on a steeply sloping site in Machida city, Tokyo, Japan. The house faces south and opens onto a large garden. An underground parking area in reinforced concrete also works as a retaining structure and absorbs the height difference of the slope. Above the parking area stands a two storey wooden house. The parking entrance and the square in front of it are set 2.5 metres higher than the road. Wood and stucco are applied by traditional craft methods. The garden recalls the original landscape of the site.

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Quantum Building

Vasil Velchev Building Architecture

Quantum

Quantum is a building designed to host the forefront in Product Design as well as all important and iconic works created over the years. Simply its a Museum and Exhibition Center. The style is probably Organic-Eclectic, shape can be geometrically described as a combination of overlapping spheres, displaced relatively one to another, forming two asymmetrical corpora with different internal areas and balconies. The connection between them is accomplished by 5 corridors in the form of mini-deformed protuberances.

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