Cloister House

: by Formwerkz Architects, Johor, Malaysia
2019 A+ Awards Jury Vote Winner in the Residential-Private House (XL >5000 sq ft) category

The Cloister House provides a large, communal space that simultaneously prioritizes privacy and security. Fortified concrete walls enclose the compound, and the spaces for communal living and entertaining are compacted to a third of the plot size. This leaves plenty of space for the back garden, pool, and an annex block which houses the private bedrooms. Courtyards are interspersed throughout the house’s grid-like layout, allowing free and organic living.

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The Datong Art Museum is one of four new buildings at the cultural plaza and sunken into the ground.

Corten steel will create a roof that weathers over time, while a series of skylights will direct strips of natural light into the galleries within.

Here's the full press release from Foster + Partners:

New museum under construction in Datong, China
Construction is underway at Datong Art Museum – China’s ‘Museum of the 21st Century’. The museum opened in 2013 to represent China in the ‘Beyond the Building’ Basel Art international tour.
The 32,000-square-metre venue is one of four major new buildings within Datong New City’s cultural plaza. Its centrepiece is the Grand Gallery, a heroically scaled, top-lit exhibition space measuring 37 metres high and spanning almost 80 metres, in which artists will be commissioned to create large-scale works of art.
Externally, the building’s form is conceived as an erupted landscape. The entire museum is sunk into the ground.

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