Residental Development | Apartment building | Woonbedrijf Ieder1| Deventer | The Netherlands | KCAP

'Het Baken' (The Beacon) is part of Deventer's vinex area Vijfhoek, a residential development dominated by two and three-storey houses. In order to relieve this monotony Het Baken presents itself as a highly distinctive residential building realised on one of the last free plots. The block has the appearance of a boulder, an asymmetrical cube with a skin of slate whose massive form provides space for 22 apartments and a daycare centre. The canted, faceted contour was arrived at on the basis of sight lines and the effect of shadow. In terms both scale of design and materialisation, Het Baken cuts a striking figure. The block rises cliff-like above the bland vinex landscape, providing a welcome landmark from whatever direction it is viewed.
The ground floor acts as a transparent plinth, with the building volume jutting out on two sides above it. The plinth houses the daycare centre whose glazed facades provides plenty of contact with the surroundings........more

Tetris Apartments | Ljubljana, Slovenia | OFIS arhitekti

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Texts from the architect:

The location is on the edge of the planned 650 apartments which was finished year ago.
Also this apartment block is social type and was sold to Slovenian Housing fund.

The cost per square meter had to be 650 EUR/m2 since the selling cost was 1200EUR/m2. The given urban plot of the apartments was 4 floors high, 58 meters long and 15 in width.
Since the orientation of the building is towards the busy highway the apartment opening together with balconies are shifted as 30 degrees window-wings towards the quieter and south orientated side.
Long after the elevations were planned many people associated them to Tetris game. And so the building got its name.

Sustainability issues:

1.The combination of balconies and winter gardens function as constant temperature buffer zone to the main living and sleeping areas.
The balconies are shifted opposite from the busy road. On the same time provide shelter from direct sunlight direction to the apartments.
Additional aluminum shading panels are placed on the outer sides of the winter loggias and balconies.

2. The service and communication spaces are reduced to minimum thus the daylight is provided on the shafts. The monthly basic energetic and service costs are very low; so also economic for the habitants since the apartments are social type.

Architect: OFIS arhitekti

Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Design Year: 2005-2006
Construction Year: 2006-2007
Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Vide?nik
Design Team: Martina Lipicer - udia, Nejc Batistic - udia, Andrej Gregoric - cand.arh, Ana Kosi - stud.arch.
Programme: Social apartments with parking
Client: Gradis G group, Ljubljana
Constructed Area: 5,000 sqm
Nº of floors: 4 floors + 2 underground parking
Budget: Construction: 650 EURO/sqm (US $1,020)
Ceilling: 1,200 EURO/sqm (US $1,880)
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric

Legal Illegal-Office/Apartments, Cologne, Germany | Manuel Herz

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Architect: Manuel Herz
Project Team: Emmanuelle Raoul, Sven Röttger
Site Supervision: Martin Schäfer
Structural Engineers: Ove Arup
Technical Services: Frank Rapita
Client: TURRIS Immobilien GmbH & Co. KG
Floor Area: approx. 400 sqm
Project volume: approx. 800.000,- €
Images and texts from:Manuel Herz

SOHO+apartment-Nakano, Tokyo-Schemata Architecture Office Ltd.

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adress：	Nakano Tokyo
usage：	SOHO+apartment
completion：	12/2007
total area：	24.58m2
floor space：	71.40m2
charge：	Toshiharu Oono
photo：	Takumi Oota

Tokyo Apartment Tokyo, Japan-Sou Fujimoto Architects

location: Tokyo,Japan
site area: 143.48 sq m
building area: 92.94 sq m
total floor area: 211.15 sq m
structure: wood; 3 story
principal use: Collective housing
Design Period: 2006 July.
Construction Period: will be completed in 2008

Residential block-Grimsby Street London-Michael Trentham Architects

The proposal is an innovation contemporary residential new build of 346m2 in the Fournier Street conservation area of Tower Hamlets, London. It is a mixed use scheme to create 2x 2 bed and 1x 1bed residential units with ground floor B1 adjacent to the East London railway viaduct-
Michael Trentham Architects


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VM-Housing-Copenhagen-JDS Architects

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PROJECT : 230 DWELLINGS IN ØRESTAD
TYPE : COMMISION
SIZE : 25 000 M2, 230 HOUSING UNITS
BUDGET : 25 200 000 €
CLIENT : HØPFNER A/S, DANSK OLIE KOMPAGNI A/S
COLLARBORATORS : MOE & BRØDSGAARD
LOCATION : COPENHAGEN, DK
STATUS : COMPLETION MAR 2005

BLUE - Bernard Tschumi-Manhattan’s Lower East Side

The seventeen-story tower contains thirty-two apartments and rises to a height of 181 feet. This is Tschumi’s first high-rise structure, and his second in New York City, where his main office is located. BLUE also marks Tschumi’s first residential structure.

Colorful Apartments-Reversible Destiny-Japan

Dancing Apartments-Unsangdong Architects

Located in South Korea, the apartments are built using oblique lines in which each unit consists of a terrace.The building, designed by Korean firm Unsangdong Architects, consists of various community spaces which include parks, leisure facilities, event space, a library, media space and performance space.

Pod Apartments-Sydney,Tony Owen NDM

Form Apartments-Sydney-Bolles + Wilson

Form Apartments
Zetland, Sydney, NSW, Australia
In Collaboration with Bolles + Wilson & Nation Associates
Documentation in association with Group GSA

Completion Date: 2005
Use: Residential,
240 Apartments, 11 SoHos, 6 Retail Suites
Client: The Waltcorp Group
Cost: $70 million
Site Area: 6,784 sqm
Gross Floor Area: 26,000 sqm