*️⃣The Cloudscape of Haikou

Architect #MAD
City #Haikou
Country #China #AP

🔤Its organic, fluid shape resembles an imaginary marine creature with openings of various sizes that add to the mystery of the architecture, therefore further evokes the audience’s imagination and desire to explore.

The circular openings of the building are reminiscent of holes forged by wildlife or seas, blurring the boundary between architecture and nature.

MAD champions an "anti-material" approach, avoiding the expression of structure, thus dissolving the inherent everyday perception of the material and allowing the spatial feeling itself to become the main subject. Here, #rawconcrete is a liquid material, characterized by its flowing, soft, and variable structural form.

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Function #public #library
Feature #interior
Address: 28VC+C55, Shiji Brg, Longhua District, Haikou, Haikou, Hainan, China, 570228

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*️⃣AEAJ Green Terrace

Architect #Kuma #KengoKuma #KKAA
City #Tokyo
Country #Japan #AP

🔤An overall shape that looks like a tree was assembled using small section pieces (105mm×105mm) of Japanese cypress based on the theme of the aroma of wood, and enclosing it inside a glass box. This glass box is filled with the aroma of wood, creating space where you can experience the fragrance throughout the new facility of Aroma Environment Association of Japan.

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Material #wood
Function #office
Feature #adminvisited
Address: Japan, 〒150-0001 Tokyo, Shibuya, Jingumae, 6 Chome−34−24 AEAJグリーンテラス

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*️⃣Eden

Architect #Heatherwick #ThomasHeatherwick
Country #Singapore #AP

🔤 Inspired by the vision of a ‘city in a garden’ imagined by Lee Kuan Yew fifty years ago, and by the lush tropical setting of the area, the studio’s design is a radical departure from the glass and steel tower typology. #context

The apartments are lifted 27 metres above an intensely planted ground-level tropical garden. The #greenery from the garden is threaded upwards and around the building through a series of planted chandeliers.

Over time, the building is designed to mature, as the lush planting grows, like a sapling that has taken root beneath the streets, pulling the landscape of Singapore up into the sky.

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Colour #brown
Material #concrete
Function #residential
Feature #skyscraper
Address: 2 Draycott Park, Singapore 259386

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*️⃣Habitat '67

Architect #Safdie #MosheSafdie
City #Montreal
Country #Canada #NA

🔤Habitat was the major theme exhibition of the 1967 Montreal World Exposition. As a landmark demonstration project, it pioneered a vision for urban housing using the technology of pre-fabricated construction. As a break-through building type that continues to resonate today, Habitat seeks to create a vital neighborhood with open spaces, garden terraces and many other amenities.

In Habitat ’67 all the parts of the building, including the units, the pedestrian streets, and the elevator cores, participate as load-carrying members. The units are connected to each other by post-tensioning, high-tension rods, cables, and welding, all of which combine to form a continuous suspension system.

A factory on the site fabricated the box modules, each roughly 600 square feet in size. They were lifted and stacked by cranes and post tensioned to create the stepped form.

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Colour #tan
Material #concrete
Function #residential
Feature #retro
Address: FFX4+WG Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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*️⃣Xi’an CCBD (Centre Culture Business District)

Architect #Heatherwick #ThomasHeatherwick
City #Xian
Country #China #AP

🔤The outdoor streets of the district converge at the central plaza where the Xi’an Tree, a vertical park, creates a natural gathering point. Visitors can ascend its 56 elevated ‘petals’, or terraces, where a sequence of cascading gardens follows the biomes of the ancient Silk Route from the alpine tundra to the dry steppe.

Ceramics are at the heart of the 155,000m² neighbourhood, with crafted tiles cladding the facade, columns and curving beams, a nod to the ancient capital’s famous Terracotta Army.

The district has been designed to offer visual complexity from three distances. At a city-scale, it appears as a new neighbourhood of the city with a distinctive skyline inspired by the roofs of the Chinese temples of Xi’an. At a street distance, the varying levels created by the interlocking frames and landscape terraces provide different vantage points of the central plaza as well as the city around it. Finally, at door-level, the design offers a sensory experience in its use of materials and nature, such as ceramic lift buttons and soft-edged stones in the paving patterns.

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Colour #brown #tan
Material #ceramic #stone
Function #public #observation #retail #mall
Feature #greenery
Address: 5WWW+X5H Yanta District, Xi'An, Shaanxi, China

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