Carolina Tamayo | Looking Out Week 11

This is a futuristic housing module designed by NAU firm. The module is called the Living Roof and its self-sustainable. It demonstrates the essentials, just refuge and views into the city.  Also, it plays with the new architectural idea of mobility.

Link: http://zeospot.com/contemporary-house-architecture-design-1/

Chang Liu: Looking Out Week 11

Cloud House / McBride Charles Ryan
The Cloud House is an addition and renovation to a double-fronted Edwardian house in Fitzroy North. Over the course of close to a century, this house has received several additions and modifications.
McBride Charles Ryan’s work for the house is designed in three parts. This allows for a sequence of distinct and unexpected episodes, with glimpses previewing oncoming spaces and experiences as you move through the home.
The street facade has been left to demonstrate the clients’ respect for the evolution of the character of the area and the modest street alteration belies the extent of the comprehensive internal renovation work. The spaces within the original structure are largely white in colour, united by exotic floral hallway carpet. This journey through the space is followed by encountering a disintegrated red-coloured ‘box’. This is the kitchen, at the heart of the property, which acts as a bridge linking the major spaces. A cloud-shaped extrusion is the unexpected final space. Following the form of a child-like impression of a cloud it is a playful addition where family and friends can eat and have fun surrounded by the curved form.

Candace Ju | Looking Out Week 11

These resonant chambers by rvtr are interior architectural acoustic panels. They are made of  reflective pieces (solid bamboo inserts) and absorptive (porous polypropylene) they are wired so they can change form to adjust to different acoustic needs. There are also embedded speaker pieces in there. These panels can be tessellated  and arranged in greater surfaces to cover performance area ceilings. 

Liz Dolinar: Looking Out Week 11

This is the Letterbox House by McBride Charles Ryan Architecture in Victoria, Australia. This project is a residential home with an engaging shape and timber exterior. The planks add a great texture to the exterior walls, adding visual interest and emphasizing the angles. The wood of this project "wraps" from the front deck to the vertical walls to the "ceiling" of the deck. This continuity provides us with an understanding of the separate elements (broadly, "plinth," "wall," and "canopy"), while allowing the exterior to still appear as one unit of the facade as it ribbons across the side of the house.

Alyssa Hamilton: Looking Out Week 11

This townhouse in the Netherlands is supposed to resemble a canyon. Its primary material is wood but uses both metal and wood to convey elements carving through spaces, rooms, and small detail work. The wood acts as the metaphorical water in the scenario and is bent within the elements of the home to show its extremely fluid-like nature.

Quresh Tyebji: Looking Out Week 11

This courtyard house blends the simplicity of wood with the mass and beauty of concrete. Designed by Korean architects IROJE KHM “artfully incorporates indoors and out into its layered levels for living.” It’s located in Goyan, Korea. The structure is anchored through by the concrete base with the wood as the lightweight piece above. Garden spaces are below while living are above. The greatest thing is how the window openings define where the wood and concrete materials are assembled.

(http://www.trendir.com/house-design/courtyard-house-architecture-in-beautiful-concrete-and-wood.html)

Fah Kanjanavanit: Looking Out Week 11

This is the Centre Pompidou-Metz by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (who just won the Prtizer prize) is located in France. The roof is CNC-machine laminated timber beams. It took them ten months to prepare and 4 months to install the wood because it is made up of 18km of glue-laminated timber beams. Each wooden beam was also cnc-ed to different proportions. The wooden framing is covered by a translucent fibreglass and Teflon textile canopy.

Danielle Lehmann: Looking Out Week 11

We've learned from research that wood is a good sound absorber and diffuser and thus, improves sound clarity and quality. Ulga Oreshyna uses recycled wood or leftover wood to create sound diffuser panels. She looks at acoustics as a problem to solve with art and the nature that's around us. She creates these large panels with a 2" foam base (helps to absorb the sound sound of a heavy base) and then cuts and stacks wood in different directions onto the base. Sometimes she paints them, other times they're left natural. The panels provide "high quality sound diffusion, excellent scattering properties, resulting in a warm, musical character to the dispersed sound". And, the products don't call for additional trees to be logged - she's reusing pieces she finds in scrap yards and out in nature on trails in Canada.