Carolina Tamayo | Looking Out Week 6

Wood Home in Sao Paulo, Brazil designed by Marcio Koban. The wooden facade opens up into an exterior courtyard. 

Link: http://www.trendir.com/house-design/innovative-brazilian-architecture-concrete-house-with-folded-wood-walls.html

Quresh Tyebji: Looking Out Week 6

We are always trying to figure out ways to blend wood with technology due to woods natural and simple properties. OOOMS did something very cool where they created USB sticks in association with a wooden finish. Each wood / USB stick is custom designed bringing technology back to its natural beauty. There are many other works of blending technology and wood using elegant and simple designs on the following link http://www.archieli.com/gadgets/10-cool-wooden-gadgets/.

Candace Ju | Lookin Out Week 6

This is a project by Catherine Op de Beeck made of concrete and driftwood. I love the simplicity, pureness, and composition of the pieces in this project. I thought the use of wood as accent or ornament was interesting and refreshing as it did so gracefully and although it is not necessary it does not detract from the piece, in fact its a perfect touch of gracefulness to decrease the brutality of the concrete block. 

http://design-milk.com/zatara-furniture-made-concrete-driftwood/

Looking Out: Week 6 (NICOLAS GOMEZ)

This Wood Block House by Tadashi Yoshimura Architects showcases an interesting implementation of wood as an interior element. Behind the exterior facade made out of glass and stone, a basket-like wooden texture of timber envelops the interior spaces.

This structural shear, as the architects call it, is easily assembled and stacked. The fact that this does not require skilled workers makes it a very accessible design element for many architects.

Looking Out Week 6 :Madhura Kharche

This is one of the Bogota Tourist Information Spots. The simple rectangular design allows easy circulation for tourists. The wood emphasizes the two axes of the rectangular plan and section.

The use of wood makes it easy to make a light structure that could be multiplied easily. The same units could be used to make different types of rectangles, with different arrangements for interiors.

Daniel Ha: Looking Out Week 6

Wooden Structure for the Haesley Nine Bridges Golf Club House in Yeoju, Gyenggi, South Korea.
Architects: Kyeong Sik Yoon, Shigeru Ban

     The structure was inspired by the "Bamboo Wife." The structure allow the breeze to flow through it in order to keep the the place cool. It also allows the light to filter through. The structure is made out of natural, local, sustainable materials. The architects make use of the wooden elements by separating them into different modules.

Liz Dolinar: Looking Out Week 6

This is the Ikibana Paral Restaurant in Barcelona, Spain. Designed by El Equipo Creativo in 2012, the menu and architecture are a fusion of Japanese and Brazilian elements. The large wooden ribbons that form the ceiling are the branches of a forest canopy, a nod to the emphasis that both cultures place on nature and their respective landscapes. The wood pieces create a great continuity throughout the space and provide visual interest as well as a feeling of intimacy in the restaurant.

Danielle Lehmann: Looking Out Week 6

This house in Florida, called the Casey Key House, was designed by TOTeMS Architecture. It is built similar to a tree house because the area in which it is built floods often (hopefully it was built with the consideration of a increase in the flood plain in future generations, unlike the Farnsworth House). This beautiful house is 80% wood (wow that's a lot of trees) and hopefully is treated for when those flooding waters come in. All of the built-in furniture and cabinets had to be specifically made for this building because of the curve that sweeps across most of the structure.

Looking Out Week 6: Gary Li

Port X was designed by S.A.D. Studio. The material choice of wooden planks and the idea of curving the walls to emphasize its relationship to the water. The walls also curve upwards as a way of "viewing out to the lake". This project is an awesome demonstration of materiality, spatial definition, and a great co

ncept as a whole.

Mark Terra-Salomão | Looking Out Week 6

For Looking Out Week 6, I thought it'd be appropriate to take a look at a project that, much like many of our bath house projects, combines concrete masonry units (CMUs) and wood.

This is a small shed for drying firewood constructed in Paesana, Italy, by StudioErrante Architteture.

The CMU walls were part of a previous shed. They were essentially used as a foundation for the new wooden structure. The outer wood planks are offset so as to let in the air required for drying firewood.

The shed also serves as a workshop and "refuge," and includes a small niche on its street-facing south facade that serves as a seat for people AND animals.

Moral of the story: No matter how hard you try, your first commission will always be a dog house.

I think ArchDaily provides a better description for this little gem than I ever could: "Details are basic. Definitions are literal. Reinforced concrete is used for base and wall. Wood for almost everything else: laminated wood for structure, burned chestnut for skin and roof, untreated chestnut for frames, plywood for inserts and niche, an old trunk became a step. A poor quality iron frame defines the door. In the end it's only a wall, a box with a niche, a door and its window, two pivots, a step and a handle. Almost nothing else."

For more information: http://www.archdaily.com/390343/wood-and-the-dog-studioerrante-architetture/.