Research Station Design | International Polar Foundation | Belgian Antarctic Base | Princess Elisabeth | Samyn and Partners

The International Polar Foundation (IPF), led by the civil engineer and explorer Alain HUBERT, was commissioned in 2004 by the Belgian Federal government to design, construct and operate a new Belgian Antarctic research station.

Princess Elisabeth, the world's first "zero emission" polar station, stands now at 72°S 23°E on top of a granite ridge, north of the Utsteinen Nunatak in the Sør Rondane Mountains.......more

Zaha Hadid | Spiralling Tower | Barcelona, Spain

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Design and Context
Zaha Hadid’s design for the Edifici Campus confirms the role of the 22@ area at the very forefront of Barcelona’s changing water edge. The tower’s striking design creates a new presence in a territory of transition.The spiralling tower stitches the border of the municipalities of Barcelona and Besòs, creating a new infrastructure that is a joint-venture of the two cities and two clients: El Consorci, Zona Franca de Barcelona y b –TEC, Consorci del Campus Interuniversitari del Besòs.

The design articulates the transition between the forum and the campus, between the new equipments and parks water-front area, in Barcelona, and the requalification of the delta of the river Besòs area, in Sant Adriá del Besòs. The formal theme of the spiral actively binds the two together with an encompassing movement, stimulating the seamless integration of the city fabric, connecting in a dynamic way, the different surrounding areas.

Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Designers: Zaha Hadid
Staff:
Fabiano Contini ,Víctor Orive ,Rafael González ,Oihane Santiuste ,Mónica Bartolomé ,RaquelGallego ,Esther Rivas ,Jessica Knobloch ,Hooman Taleb ,Maria Araya ,Ebru Simsek

Client: Consortium of the Zona Franca in Barcelona and the Consorzio Interuniversitario Besòs
Design: 2006
Realization: 2009
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INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND RESEARCH -Columbosnext

An installation as a place of research and teaching. The Institute for Science and Research sees itself as a body of art and science, between reality and fiction. It is a platform for artists and scientists, concerned with formal and substantive aspects of science-set apart...columbosnext

Barcelona Biomedical Research Park- Manel Brullet & Albert de Pineda

Architects: Manel Brullet & Albert de Pineda
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Project year: 2006
Client: Grup Agrupació Mutua, Ajuntament de Barcelona y el Consorci (Zona Franca de Barcelona)
Structural Engineer: Manuel Arguijo, Arq.
Budget: $42,35M Euro (US $54M)
Constructed Area: 55,000 sqm
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Genetics Research Center, Iran, 2007-2008-Azadeh Sahraeian

“Genetic Research Center” is a thesis project of M.Sc. in architecture by Arash Dailami and Azadeh Sahraeian as a team work. This project is an effort to define a new methodology of design which is inspired by1. the natural processes of the beings as the most sustainable systems which have survived through a long process of try and error for more than three millions of years,2.the fifteen characteristics of live things as Christopher Alexander mentions and 3.Kisho Kurokawa’s Sahraeia
researches to relate biological concepts such as symbiosis, metamorphosis ,etc. with architecture."
Azadeh Sahraeian

Azadeh Sahraeian : graduated from Islamic azad university of shiraz in 2007-2008 with highest honors.she has designed several projects with Arash Dailami. now she is working in Mehrdad Iravanian`s office.also she has several articles.the last one"sustainable architecture and genetic algorithm" was a cooperation with Arash Dailami that has been published in IKE`2008.

PLATFORM DEDICATED TO THE BUSINESS SECTOR OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY | Serero Architects

Owner: Communauté de Communes de Lacq

Website: Mourenx (64)

Area: 2500m2

Construction cost: € 3 700 000

Design: Serero Architects, David Serero, Architect representative, with Raphael Boursier, Julien Kemler, Yoichi Ozawa, David Serero, Fabrice Zaini. Bureau d'études structure / fluid: SOTEC Engineering.
Source:Serero Architects