intrests / intrigue

Wintergarden at the Northern Club

Fearon Hay Architects

Tham & Videgard - Island houses, Styrsö 2014. Photos © Åke E:son Lindman.

Mateo Arquitectura

Regional Deutsche Bundesbank head office in Chemnitz. The project consists in the construction of the new regional Deutsche Bundesbank head office in Chemnitz, formerly Karl Marx Stadt, in a place with a dense and traumatic history.

The translucent facade is one element that contributes to the building of this idea. The walls are sheets of complex laminates made up of layers of glass with a lamina of stone set between them. This stone lamina was chosen because of its ability to respond to outside conditions, with marks appearing and disappearing, giving the inert material a certain organic air. These glass and fossil laminates were tested in the laboratory to ensure that they would withstand the demanding temperature conditions and meet the necessary security requirements. The sheets were attached to the structure using the techniques typical of high-tech curtain walls. The strips laid between the sheets as a finishing touch, as well as all the exterior elements, are archaic, in bronze.

Papagayo House

Ariel Valenzuela + Diego Ledesma

Refurbishment Viaduct Arches

EM2N

bast - M20 house renovation and extension, Toulouse 2018. The large sliding glass roof allows the extension to occupy several programs; living room, kitchen, winter garden, and terrace. GIF of the roof operation after the jump. Photos © the architects.

Studio apartment