Roche Residence # Coolboom

Roche Residence

Atelier Archiplein renovated an old stove farm house located in Rochebaudin, France.
Here is the project description:
The goal, here, is to sublimate qualities and the feelings already present on the spot. The large gate is the basic element which generates the entire project: its symmetrical is deferred on the northern frontage generating a crossing tube of light. The limit between outside and interior disappears, operating the fusion of nature and built.
The space of the ground thus illuminated contrast with the higher level which rather seeks the introversion and the shade to him. Two worlds cohabit, consequently how to consider their connection? It is the deformation of the higher floor which, conceptually, comes to find the ground and operates this transition.




Via ArchDaily

• Tags: Atelier Archiplein, France, House, Renovation, Stone

Culturele woensdag # 8 - De Snelheid en Traagheid in Cultuur en Natuur

Heerenveen;

Museum Belvedere, 

Het strak vormgegeven museumgebouw is ontworpen door Eerde Schippers van Inbo architecten. 
Het gebouw is innig verbonden met het landschap en de kunst. De donkere basalt gevel valt bijna weg tegen de stammen van de bomen. Alleen de twee openingen van de entree en het restaurant lichten op. Het reliëf in de gevel verwijst subtiel naar het verkavelde weidelandschap.
Het gebouw is dwars op het water van de Prinsenwijk gebouwd, in de achttiende eeuw als grand canal aangelegd door architect en tuinarchitect Daniël Marot. Boven het water is het museumcafé gesitueerd, een bijna transparante ruimte tussen beide museumvleugels. Het panoramische uitzicht op Landgoed Oranjewoud aan de ene zijde en het landschap aan de andere zijde is fenomenaal.
Binnen het museum prevaleert de kunst boven de architectuur met eenvoudige, regelmatig verdeelde, open kamers in de vaste opstelling. Glazen stroken ter hoogte van de plint zorgen voor daglicht en bieden de bezoeker een oriëntatie op het land en het water dat het gebouw omgeeft.

Heerenveen met een stop bij Museum belvedere en een tweede stop bij de ecokathedraal van Louis le Roy.

Het museum heeft een mooie ligging en het gebouw is ook mooi vormgegeven. Er is goed nagedacht om het gebouw neer te zetten dat past bij zijn omgeving past.

Een half uur lopen zonder iets te zeggen en de tijd besteden om over bepaalde dingen na te denken zoals duurzaamheid.

De Ecokathedraal lijkt te vergaan door de beplanting die er overheen groeit. Dertig jaar lang het stapelen van stenen. Maar was ik mooi vind aan deze locatie is dat hij waarschijnlijk altijd zal blijven bestaan.

Culturele woensdag # 7 - Duurzaamheid

Ruim een week lang hebben we afval verzameld, om te kijken hoeveel afval je verbruikt in een week. Ik kan je vertellen dat is heel veel, alleen schone verpakkingen en andere dingen zijn meegekomenen. Na alles op een grote hoop verzameld te hebben gingen we opzoek naar een overeenkomst in de afvalberg wij gingen voor de schoonmaak flessen. Want is schoonmaak middel wel zo schoon? Het vervuild het water, het zit een een plastic fles etc.

Daarom hebben wij hier onze VRAAGTEKEN bij gezet met een aantal woorden die de vraag oproepen; denk bewust over afval, recycling en duurzaamheid.

Plastic House # Coolboom

Plastic House

Architecture Republic designed the interior of this unique house inserting a cruciform object made of polycarbonate and steel.
Here is the project description:
The project begins with removal,­ of the existing extension, internal walls and earth, bringing the entire house to lower ground-floor level. This opens the volume of the house as a double-height vessel, full of light.
A cruciform object is inserted; a piece of architectural furniture which spreads tree-­like from a concentrated base. Services such as kitchen, toilet, storage and stairwell are housed within this trunk, providing for living and dining in the spaces around it.
Above this, is a platform for sleeping, dressing and study spaces. The four branches of the structure hold various functions, two which span to the side walls act as wardrobes while that to the front is a cantilevered reading desk for the teacher-­client. The fourth branch extends through the rear wall and projects two meters beyond it housing a shower room, which is glazed to the sky.
The insertion is constructed with polycarbonate and steel. This lightweight structure is also the primary source of light in the evening, inset fittings cause its translucent surfaces to illuminate the spaces, which it generates above, below and between the object and its container.

Minimalist House # Coolboom

Minimalist House

Shinichi Ogawa & Associates designed a minimalist court house for a couple in Itoman-shi, Okinawa, Japan.
The house is composed of four vertical plates as exterior walls and one horizontal plate as a roof slab. A functional layout is created by inserting a void of 3×18 meters, which is the court for the house, and a wall-like furniture into the concrete structure space.
The space composition is characterized by the division of the house into two areas by the wall-like furniture. The first area is composed of the living room, dining room and bedroom, while the other space is composed of the kitchen, powder room and study room.
The shower room, toilet and various storages are laid out in this wall-like unit, which also incorporates the services.

Queen Shoes # Coolboom

Queen Shoes

Studio Guilherme Torres designed a pure white shoe store located in the city of Londrina in Brazil.
Here is the project description:
Pure white. White paint is the new kind of colour closely linked with the futuristic world. This is a completely personalized project jumping back to the architect’s youth references, from the Star Wars imperial soldiers wearing unblemished white, from Superman’s Fortress of Solitude – a crystal castle in the heart of the North Pole – to the masterpiece of 2001: A Space Odyssey, an iconic reference. These references were intentionally mixed up to create the concept of this shoe shop in Londrina, Brazil.
The shop’s outer-space expressiveness results from a geometric movement which stems from eighteen 42 cm wide white segments which compose the walls and ceiling. The shop facade is the first segment and it introduces itself as a solid structure sculpted in order to create the entrances. The following segments obey the same movement pattern, each one of them sculpted to build the shop interior.
The cashier’s counter follows the segment patterns and comes to life as a detached sculpture right in the centre of the shop. Behind the counter, a panel hides a staircase which leads to a small storage room and a mezzanine. The uneven batten floor warms the visual of the shop atmosphere highlighting the geometry of the segments. The ceiling is about 2,40 m to 3 m high inside the shop due to the segments visual aspect in the ceiling.

• Constructive system and sustainability.

The client asked us to observe the shopping centre policy which states that the shops have to be renovated every five years. Therefore, we chose to use wallboards, which is a light and resistant material and facilitates future architecture changes. The wallboard thermo-acoustics coupled with the volume in the ceiling and the walls resulted in a functional acoustics environment.
The lighting technical project determined the set-up of polyurethane tensioned screens on some of the segment faces, spreading the light equally. Only T5 light bulbs were used as they offer lighting efficiency with low-energy consumption with an added bonus of producing less heat. Compared to the same shop before the redecoration, there was a significant overall economy of approximately 70%, once the use of air-conditioning was reduced because less heat is produced by the new lighting project. The outcome is an almost shade less environment with efficient light.

Nature factory # coolboom

Nature Factory

Suppose Design Office designed a new attractive scenery with plumbing and fashion items to show that such primarily functional things actually are more diverse and also have higher value.
The complex plumbing, trailing by the wall in all directions, covers all over the space. It is like a tree grown over a long time. An atmosphere like a natural arbor is created in the space covered with artificial plumbing.