The Agros Building used for an Electrical Generator at a Cement Factory in Yumbo Valle distric, Colombia. This building is Felipe Gonzalez-Pacheco project’s winner of an architectural contest for the resolution of a “skin” for a technical building containing an self generation electrical plant for cement factory. The Factory wanted to generate also a corporative image with the building. Their purpose became a mutual opportunity to generate an experimentation laboratory of technical possibilities with the material they produce, with very low density concretes. In a parallel way with the technical …

Situated in Central Sweden, this passive eco-friendly Villa designed by Kjellgren Kaminsky. spanning 1,700 square feet has been constructed following all the passive house principles. It is extremely airtight and energy-efficient, and will consume only 25 kWh/square meters per year for heating. One of the most notable features of the new house is its circular design. The round shape eliminates cold bridges and reduces the enclosing wall area of the house. The home features an interior atrium, lake-facing kitchen and living room. Private areas such as bedrooms and bathrooms are …

This concert stage building located near the town of Maria Lankowitz in Austria, designed with new concept architectural design. The stage rests on a prefabricated concrete basement housing, apart from a covered access area for the artists, also cloakrooms, rooms for sanitary facilities, shower rooms, a first-aid-room, a room for technical facilities and storage rooms. The stage proper is situated above these ancillary rooms. Two lateral stage towers, with one of them closed and the other one in an opened-up structure, open up the stage towards the natural arena, by …

The Vivienda 4 designed by Spanish Architecture firm A-Cero. The house structure’s is based on game of two rectangular volumes. They are solving with clean finishes, good materials and exclusive qualities. The verandas and the pergolas, elements as volumetric as the housing, give personality to the facade. The housing, of 800m2 of surface, develops in a height. The principal access adapts itself to an area of average slope. Inside the following stays are located: foyer, room of kitchen is, dining room, office, larder, a cleaning of courteousness, seven bedrooms (with …

The Miraventos House sited in a sloping terrain marked by nature in Palmela Portugal, designed by localy architects Eduardo Trigo de Sousa in collaboration with ComA Architecture and Design. Topography and cork trees lead the design of a single stage home, with no slope between the main spaces. The house flows naturally soaked in the terrain and assumes, in the end, in the great living room window, it´s domination above the visitors. In this house, all circulation and social spaces leads to a private family patio, with a human scale …

This contemporary farmhouse extension by Paterson Architects is a response arising from a sensibility and intention about architecture which places an emphasis on the pragmatic and develops our clients brief and their aspirations into, purposeful and appropriate spaces without profligacy or willfulness. Its contemporary house on responsive site, the design aims for a good ordinariness. This house construct with FRC sourced timber, virtually carbon neutral, whilst high insulation levels and considered window openings keep heating and lighting loads to a minimum. Whilst an unashamedly contemporary addition to an existing traditional …

The new Hospital Research Institute Building dedicated by translational research, situated in Bertner Avenue on the Texas Medical Center’s north campus. The 12-storey building contains six floors of open research space housing a variety of laboratories and support spaces that combine to form a collaborative research facility for the study of infectious diseases. Labs, offices, and amenities are provided for 90 Principal Investigators (PIs). Common break-out areas connect the office bar to the lab block where interdisciplinary communication is encouraged and promotes opportunities for informal gatherings. Bridge connections to the …

The Mechatronik Building is apart of Johannes Kepler University campus, designed by Caramel Architekten. The plan was to take into consideration the neighboring residential buildings as well as the natural form of the slope and the katabatic winds, which play an important role in keeping the city cool, and the poor condition of the building lot was not to be overlooked either. The “Science Park” in the immediate vicinity of the Johannes Kepler University the objective was to bring together economy and research and draw research expertise to Linz. In …

The National Laboratory of Genomics Building is an extension of the Institute of Agricultural Studies complex, located in Irapuato, Guanajuato Mexico. This building created by TEN Arquitectos for National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity, sited in empty field with a fault line deep below—gave rise to the metaphor that defines the form of the building. This constructed fault line forms an intimate civic space that connects the different programs.
Nestled into a built-up artificial topography, a new terrain that manifests the nature of the work inside the institution. The laboratories are …

Located in northwest of Olomouc – Czech Republic, the Slunakov Center designed as a part of the project entitled “Slunakov, facilities for ecological activities – educational biocenter”. Designed by Projektil Architekti, this facility will be used to educate the public about the environment and processes and to support community environmental awareness. The building was also used as an information center and entrance to the Natural Protected Areas Litovelske Pomoravi. Center itself is used for various activities. This building also allows “soft tourism”, which includes environmental education programs. Because the Center …