Friday, July 31, 2009

Palace of trade fairs and exhibitions in Malaga | Malaga,Spain | ASENJO











Palace of trade fairs and exhibitions in Malaga

Location: Malaga
Address: Avda Jose Ortega y Gasset, Malaga Ronda West
Project construction date: 2001
Completion Date: 2003
Client: Company M. Activities and Initiatives, Business Malaga (PROMALAGA)
Contributors: ESTEYCO S.A. (Structural Engineering), Goyma (Plant Engineering) KONDO ASSOC THEO. (Lighting)
Program: Exhibition Booths, Auditoriums, Conference Rooms, Offices, Restaurants, loading and unloading, Access, Patio Central, Facilities Maintenance and Control
Built surface: 62,000


EL PALACIO DE MALAGA trade fair and conference is a determined by the architecture, the search for a multi-container for tertiary activities related to the holding of trade fairs, congresses and exhibitions. With that, the city of Malaga strengthens its capital structure on the urban area of Costa del Sol, centralize the flow of economic, social and cultural life of that had historically remained outside.

Located next to the round West, one of the main streets of urban communication, this building has become, since the construction process, an inseparable part of the landscape of the city.

To ensure this versatility, the use of the building is fortified with specific spaces for the development of complementary, types of logistics, administrative, corporate, etc, all within the framework of new technologies, as well as being characteristic of this kinds of events such as the access and parking of vehicles, ensuring the proper functioning of this deployment, according to the major influx of visitors expected.

The project idea of the need for a flexible space in the adjustment of its facilities for any type of event-related trade shows and conferences at international level.

A container building is planned in two exhibition modules interconnected by a central courtyard, with the ability to turn into the third exhibition space, while allowing the operation of joint or separate modules.

To cover these areas are selected dynamic undulating shapes, irregular edges. The metal structure that supports serve as a skeleton that gives shape to the outer volume, as a light into the interior structure, in this way becomes a key element in the project, featuring the exhibition spaces by linear elements of great lyricism, in their undulating shapes formed by the overlap of thorns, to incorporate the theme of color in the interior spaces created by architecture.

This effort to characterize the architecture is done from the belief that the building has been configured as a single reference, in order to help consolidate the image of development, progress, technology ... Malaga which aims to portray in their environment.
The very nature of the building, understood as the result of two cover large areas covered by one set of rolling, was the germ from which the final set, finally resolved by a light cover of zinc exposure modules and boards titanium in the various volumes that make up the office tower.

The proposed solutions are already emerging in the early sketches infographics, focusing on the one hand the idea of architectural object, and secondly on the idea of technological sophistication, it is recognized that after the project by providing front-line, implemented by specialized engineering Esteyco Goyma structures and facilities.

Addressing this project has meant to the team website and Asenjo, redesign their usual working methods, to find a dynamic project according to the order, based on its unique nature and complex.

In a heterogeneous environment, with large doses of urban disorder, the building of the Palace of Fairs and congresses, it becomes a flagship computer growths can articulate your unique personality, forward planning is beginning to produce a around.
Images from ASENJO
Original Text by ASENJO translated by Design Ideas

Reykjavik Apartments | Engihjalli | Kopavogur,Iceland | Shiftarchitecture







Reykjavik Apartments
TYPE: HOUSING
CLIENT: COMMITION
LOCATION: KOPAVOGUR, ICELAND
YEAR: 2007-2008
SIZE: 11.000m2
Images and texts from Shiftarchitecture

Brockholes Nature Reserve And Visitors Centre | west Yorkshire, England | Studio Shift












Brockholes Nature Reserve And Visitors Centre
Sponsored by the Lancashire Wildlife Trust and Forestry Commission in the United Kingdom, the competition for a new Visitor’s Center for the Brockholes Nature Reserve near Preston in Lancashire set a series of ambitious goals, among them being the creation of a nature conservation site of regional, national and international importance. The restoration of the project site and adjacent land is part of Britain’s largest land regeneration program ever. The project site is composed of 261 acres of land on which an operating gravel quarry currently sits. The site is surrounded by 163 acres of additional woodlands and is bounded on the south and east by the River Ribble, on the north by the Boilton Woods and on the west by the M6 Motorway. Preston has a somewhat cold and wet climate typical of the northwest UK. Although the chance of occurrence is generally small, the site is prone to flooding. The need to address the flooding issue coupled with the client’s desire to site the building and associated facilities in the general area of the existing quarry facilities led us to select a prominent ridge as the ideal perch for the structure.
Images and text from : Studio Shift

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Rojkind Arquitectos | Villa Ordos 100 Project | Inner Monggolia



















This villa is located in plot #67 of the ORDOS project.

Architects: Rojkind Arquitectos
Project Principal: Michel Rojkind
Project leader: Agustin Pereyra
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Project team: Juan Carlos Vidals (3D massing) Alejandro Biguria, Moritz Melchert, Mónica Orozco, Phillip Jung, José Moreno, Laura Rodriguez , Roberto Gil Will, Tere Levy, Alan Rahmane
Structural Engineer: Juan Felipe Heredia
Design year: 2008
Construction year: 2009-2010
Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China
Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China
Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

Via Archdaily

Niterói Contemporary Art Museum | Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Oscar Niemeyer | Marcela Grassi


















The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói — MAC) is situated in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is one of the city’s main landmarks. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer with the assistance of structural engineer Bruno Contarini, who had worked with Niemeyer on earlier projects, the MAC-Niterói is 16 meters high; its cupola has a diameter of 50 meters with three floors. The museum projects itself over Boa Viagem (“Bon Voyage,” “Good Journey”), the 817-square meter reflecting pool that surrounds the cylindrical base “like a flower,” in the words of Niemeyer. A wide access slope leads to a Hall of Expositions, which has a capacity for sixty people. Two doors lead to the viewing gallery, through which can be seen the Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, and Sugarloaf Mountain. The saucer-shaped modernist structure, which has been likened to a UFO, is set on a cliffside, at the bottom of which is a beach. In the film Oscar Niemeyer, an architect committed to his century (Marc Henri Wajnberg, 2000), Niemeyer is seen flying over Rio de Janeiro in a UFO, which then lands on the site, suggesting this as the origin of the museum.
Photographs:Marcela Grassi
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