The pavilion is planned as a recognizable gate to the park. Its complex geometry is the result of the calculation and adapts to the flow of visitors and activities nearby, while the color palette is a metaphor of the different programs offered by the
The Rotterdam firm MVRDV has won the competition to design a residential and shopping complex in the financial district of Jiangbei New Area, an expansion of the Chinese city of Nanjing. The 166,000-square-meter project presents two L-shaped towers,
The urban block where this complex will go up has an area of 170 x 170 meters and contains a mixed use program, including four residential towers, a taller one with a hotel and convention center, and retail spaces at the base. The objective is to giv
The house is imagined as a clearing in the woods bound by two perimeters: the interior one, continuous and transparent, holds the structure; the exterior one, beyond the first, is formed from a bamboo screen. The volume is defined by a fluid border t
Used to visiting architecture exhibitions in which buildings are interpreted through plans, drawings and models, the organizers of this event – CIPEA, China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture – tried to make a change and show building
Like a boat stranded by the seashore, the house goes up – with its five heights – by the edge of the lake, aiming to attract attention towards its natural environment, full of hills, streams and a rich vegetation. The program takes up the building fr
Determined by its position on a slope that reaches the lakeshore, the house is made up of five pieces – like five stones rolling down the hillside – linked by a zigzagging road. The path springs from the street of access, in the highest level, and th
An extension on the themes and ideas explored in the Carter-Tucker House and Peninsula House (see AV 102), two earlier works, the project for the International Exhibition also adopts a simple rectangular plan – in this case, and given the extens
The house is imagined as a clearing in the forest, a void amidst artificial foliage that unfolds between the two perimeters of the building: the interior perimeter, continuous and transparent, holds the structure, and the exterior perimeter, beyond t
Two volumes, one imaginary and one real, constitute the villa. The imaginary one is a bamboo forest, planted on a square plot, through which the path leading to the house runs. The second is the house itself, a sixty meter long parallelepiped raised
Six housing units form part of this small touristic center whose design is based on the attention to local architectural types, especially those that have the maximum extension on plan, the courtyard-houses. To optimize the floor plan layout and favo
Three levels link this house with the exterior, characterized in this particular site by a stream and a forest to the south side, by a road to the north and west sides, and by another plot to the east. To span the gentle slope of the terrain, vertica
A circular path, the trajectory of which finds support against a wall, together with nine independent pieces located at different points of the landscape, outline a ‘circle of interaction’, the concept which has served to name this house within the e
The existence of a pass between two hills inspired the design of this house as a pipe, which can be seen at the specific point where it emerges from one slope to then disappear into the next. The house is actually conceived as a fragment of that pipi
To merge smoothly into the lanscape, this introverted and quiet villa is almost entirely integrated with the slope of the terrain, avoiding unnecessary excavations and making the most of the ground’s tilt. A simple folding corridor that stands out of
The site chosen to build this community center is a plot with a gentle slope towards the lake, to which it is adjoined at the point where it forks. The building makes up for its large size (10,000 square meters) with a strategy of fragmentation into
From the thirteenth century on, Chinese painters adopted a perspective representation that, instead of using a single vanishing point, used several to produce a series of ‘parallel perspectives’ that made the observer feel part of the representation.
Drawing inspiration from Brancusi’s Endless Column, Jinao Tower comes to a halt at a height of 232 meters, serving a readily identifiable iconic form. The tower shall accommodate a variety of uses including offices, hotel, apartments and commercial a
