*️⃣Plaza of Kanagawa Institute of Technology

Architect #JunyaIshigami #Ishigami
City #Atsugi close to #Yokohama
Country #Japan #AP

🔤The 59 ceiling openings create a playful light filtering effect mimicking the way the sun shines through the clouds on a dim day. Accordingly, the space transforms depending on the time and weather. Rainy days offer an impressive scenery as the rain-flow comes in through the unglazed openings forming water pillars and adding an element of sound to the experience.

“Thus the natural changes perceived by the body become the architectural scenery”.

Regarding the material use, the ground is covered with water permeable asphalt, which is treated with high pressure cleaning to completely remove the oil before painting. The rainwater can then be instantly absorbed when it infiltrates and flows through the plaza building, keeping the room dry so that it would not feel unpleasant if users were to sit.

“The process of passing time becomes the subject”.

#quote@simoderna

A deep connection between people and the built nature is encouraged through the plaza. Sitting on the floor is suggested though the design to maintain a direct link between the users and the architecturally developed environment.

The ground becomes a comfortable hill-like slope, like a huge bed, allowing the body and environment to become merged into one scenery. When experienced all together, the slope, light, raindrop sounds and the built horizon make an emblematic place on campus. A space that offers a raw natural comfort by guiding through specific curated experiences that is “outside-ness”.

Project was selected by #Archdaily as the best building in educational category in 2022. #award@simoderna

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Colour #white
Material #steel
Function #public #community
Feature #interior
Address: 1030 Shimoogino, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0203, Japan
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*️⃣Asia Financial Center & AIIB Headquarters

Architect #gmp Architekten
City #Beijing
Country #China #AP

🔤The symmetrical building has been developed from the inside out and closes the central axis through the Olympic quarter. With its stacked, meandering volumes, the structure takes a leaf out of the book of traditional Chinese timber construction.

This complex, open internal landscape reinforces the transparency of AIIB and the “sense of unity” of the over 100 nations who want to jointly design their future: the naturally lit inner courtyards serve as shared, informal meeting zones.

At the same time, the open sky decks with their varied thematic planting symbolize “gardens of the world”: three of the nine courtyards have been laid out in accordance with traditional Chinese garden design.

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Colour #tan
Function #office
Feature #interior
Address: China, 与 Kehui S Rd, CN 北京市 朝阳区 天辰东路交叉口西北角 邮政编码: 100107

*️⃣Guangxi Culture & Arts Center

Architect #gmp Architekten
City #Nanning
Country #China #AP

🔤Depending on the viewpoint, the silhouette of the building changes dynamically, evoking associations with the natural karst formations that are so typical of the Guangxi landscape.

The three venue buildings are unified by a shared, seemingly floating roof. Similar to the facades, it appears as a large structure of louvers, which has been constructed with a steel frame substructure and white folded aluminum panels as cladding.

In this way, the brilliant white of the theater venue makes it stand out from the surroundings, emphasizing the confident statement as a cultural center.

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Colour #white
Material #aluminium
Function #entertainment #venue
Address: Q9G9+JFQ, Liangqing District, Nanning, Guangxi, China, 530021

*️⃣CopenHill Energy Plant

Architect #BIG #BjarkeIngels #Ingels
City #Copenhagen
Country #Denmark #EU

🔤CopenHill opens as a new waste-to-energy plant topped with a ski slope, hiking trail and climbing wall, embodying the notion of #sustainability.

The internal volumes of the power plant are determined by the precise positioning and organization of its machinery in height order, creating an efficient, sloping rooftop fit for a 9,000m2 ski terrain. Skiers ascend the park from the platter lift, carpet lifts or glass elevator for a glimpse inside the 24-hour operations of a waste incinerator.

Recreation buffs and visitors reaching the summit of CopenHill will feel the novelty of a mountain in an otherwise-flat country. Meanwhile, the 10,000m2 green roof addresses the challenging micro-climate of an 85m high park, rewilding a biodiverse landscape while absorbing heat, removing air particulates and minimizing stormwater runoff.

Project was selected by #Archdaily as the best building in industrial category in 2020. #award

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Colour #metallic
Material #steel
Function #mixeduse #industrial #other #entertainment #sport
Feature #greenery
Address: Vindmøllevej 6, 2300 København, Denmark
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*️⃣Marsk tower

Architect #BIG #BjarkeIngels #Ingels
City #Skaebaek
Country #Denmark #EU

🔤The 25-meter-high Marsk Tower – translated as “Marsh Tower” due to its location in the marshlands of Denmark’s popular National Park, Wadden Sea. The tower’s simple design, defined by Corten steel materiality, exudes a natural aesthetic that blends with the surrounding environment.

“Because of the earth curvature, visitors will gradually expand their view of the horizon while walking to the top of the tower. On the foot of the tower, you will be able to see 4 km into the distance, but from the top of the tower the view is expanded to an 18 km view into the horizon,” says Jakob Lange, Architect and Partner, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group.

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Material #corten
Function #public #observation
Address: Hjemstedvej 60, 6780 Skærbæk, Denmark
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