Alberto Campo Baeza and Paulo Henrique Durao - Proposal for the Porta di Milano, Milan.
“We would like to build the most beautiful space in the world. The most luminous. The most fascinating. With just the mechanisms of Architecture. The simplest, the clearest, the most beautiful… It would be like a cloud. The most mysterious space, the most surprising, the most exciting.”
(Source: subtilitas)
Expansion, by Paige Bradley - in New York, USA
I know this sculpture doesn’t have a lot to do with architecture like my previous posts, but I loved this one. It has a profound meaning to me and I would like to share it with you. I hope you enjoy!
Outside In House, by Takeshi Hosaka architects, - in Fijiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan
This is a house for a couple and their three daughters.
”I looked for how the residents here could live in harmony with such nature and climate even in a crowded residential area.
I planned a structure in which nature is horizontally and vertically incorporated as an integral part of the design of the structure to create a gradation from the outside area to the inside areas. To put it concretely, the open shed lies facing the south, which makes it possible for the residents to feel as if they were in one room, filled with a sense of unity with the wooden area.”
Sines Center for the Arts (Centro de Artes em Sines), by Aires Mateus, 2005 - in Sines, Portugal
The building is situated at the start of the main street linking the town to the sea and marking the traditional entrance to the historic nucleus. The Centre subsumes diverse activities capable of generating an exceptional building: exhibition rooms, a library, cinema-cum-theatre and a documentation centre. The wide-raging program calls for the whole plot to be occupied, enveloping the street below mean ground level and adapting its exterior volumetry to the monumental scale of the castle walls.
House in Tróia, by Jorge Mealha - in Tróia, Portugal
Alberto Campo Baeza: Idea, Light and Gravity
In my opinion this book is a must-have for architecture students. It gives you a differente perspective of how to make and live architecture. Read it. Loved it.
”Alongside building an architecture that is iconic, Spanish architect Campo Baeza also creates rational buildings that enter into a dialogue with the place and its surroundings in order to, as he suggests make men happy. This well-designed survey of the architects works features a total of 23 works and projects, realised between 1980 and 2009 and accompanied by colour photographs, plans, elevations and models, along with introductory comments by the architect. Featured are such projects as: the Gaspar House; De Blas House, Caja General Bank Headquarters; the Benetton Nursery; Olnick Spanu House; and, Andalucias Museum of Memory. Included also in the second half of the publication is a sizeable essay by Campo Baeza himself, entitled The Built Idea/ On Architecture in which various ideas and themes are explored, such as the use of the colour white and the role of light in architecture, and, the foundations and future of architecture.”
Kolumba Art Museum of the Cologne Archdiocese, by Peter Zumthor, 2007 - in Cologne, Germany
Layer House, Hiroaki Ohtani, 2005 - in Kobe, Japan
The house is made up of pre-cast concrete strips, stacked unevenly to allow stairs, furniture and floors to be inserted in the gaps.
It’s tight, claustrophobic, yet entirely open. There are no internal doors, apart from the sliding doors to the toilet.
Climbing up you reach the living room and galley kitchen with a steep set of stairs taking you to the roof deck, of which half is a glazed panel to bathe the main stairwell with light. The front of the house is a larged glass panel to let more light into the house and the rear wall has smaller window striped by the precast concrete.
Bagsværd Church, by Jørn Utzon, 1968-1976 - in Bagsværd, Denmark
Utzon carefully considered daylight in the Bagsværd Church. It is brought in at the highest point of the curving ceiling, and softened along the curves. It is also filtered in through glass ceilings above corridors and hallways of the Bagsværd Church.
The exterior of the Bagsværd Church is much more austere than the views from within, where white concrete is complimented by pale beach wood. The curving white concrete overhead is matched with white concrete walls, and floor tiles, as well as a delicate white screen of triangles behind the altar. The freestanding pews are constructed out of wood, and another screen isolates the sanctuary from the rest of the building through pale vertical wood pieces.
