Jan Stanbury: November 2016

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

PHNIX: Hybrid Electric Hot Water Heater

PHNIX introduces its hybrid electric hot water heater, an energy-efficient solution for residential water heating available in 50-gallon and 80-gallon capacities.

Record Houses 2017

The editors of Architectural Record are currently inviting submissions for the
2017 Record Houses awards program. Winning projects will be selected by an editorial jury and published in the June 2017 issue of Architectural Record.

Carrier Announces Agreement to Save US Jobs

Carrier announced Wednesday that it has negotiated an agreement with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence to preserve more than 1,000 jobs in Indiana.

Sunter Metro Residence / Atelier Cosmas Gozali

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Architects: Atelier Cosmas Gozali

Location: North Jakarta, North Jakarta City, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia

Architect In Charge: Cosmas D. Gozali

Architect Team: Raymond Djohan, Setya Kurniawan, Rudy Hermanto, Jonathan Chen

Area: 406.0 m2

Project Year: 2013

Photographs: Fernando Gomulya

Site Area: 240 sqm

From the architect. The Residence that located in Sunter area take a concept of resort that combined with modern geometric shapes but still regarding aspects of the locality.

With a limited size of the site, the Architect tried to bring a Courtyard concept into the house as a central mass of the building, so the courtyard become a source of light and natural air circulation. Every room in this house have an orientation to the courtyard, so the house become more healthy and energy saving. Furthermore the concept resort is also felt in the foyer area where we've been "entered" into the house, but still seem to be outdoors because of the courtyard / open space that creating the impression of there is no boundary between outer space and the inside space. The Architects also applied a sloping roof in this house and used a local material likes exposed karawang stone that intended to bring a locality of Indonesia in this house.

The Religious side of home owner also inspired the Architects to translate that essence into the design in more modern context. The shape of triangle that resemble of a Chapel combined with box shape create a contemporary looks that makes this residence unique among its surrounding. Another interesting design is how to process the facade of the building by combining massive and transparent form that obtain from arrangement of the hollow steel to give a modern looks.

The Facade of the building is dominated by the white color to give a simple and clean looks also to create a spacious effect. The used of white color also because it produces a soothing atmosphere not only to the owner but also the surrounding.

Just like the exterior, the interior of the residence also features an abstract white color is combined with a touch of natural colors likes brown wood color and terracotta to create a resort looks alike but displayed in more contemporary ambiance. The interior is designed to be simple with the used of built-in furniture to give the impression of compact and integrated with the building. This can be seen on the floor of the reading room where the owners desire to have a reading room accommodated in the form of a built bookcase and attic area which also used as a reading lounge.

Interior and landscape area designed connected with the architectural design concept that brings contemporary tropical shades. Landscape design is more simple and modest like dry garden that mixed with some easy maintenance trees so that more clean and give a modern looks.

Wood Pavilion / FMD Architects

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Architects: FMD Architects

Location: Shanghai , China

Architect In Charge: Jianfeng Wang

Design Team: Nico Willy Leferink ,Haoda Wang, Zhenhua Cao, Sunny Xie , Zhipeng Zhen

Area: 685.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Yinhui Wang

Model: Bing Gong, Hailiang Shen

Interior: SUPERCLOUD STUDIO

Corridor in 3rd floor. Image © Yinhui Wang

Project is located in Minhang District, Shanghai, China. It's a showroom and management office for the entire industrial office park.

We design the building as a piece of paper floating above the water ,only touching the ground in two points.

The building has a simple structure system :

A: 900mm high concrete base, which can protect the wood from the rain and water.
B: wood bent structure with 3.6 meters distance.
C: two way folded roof with skylight.

The wood columns take the vertical load, and a solid concrete core takes the horizontal load. The core is operated as a precise machine: carve the solid volume by the circulation, function and the view.

We also combine the different functions with the concrete baseaccording to the locations: can be a showcase, cabinet, coffee bar or even a sofa lounge.

Stairs in the solid core. Image © Yinhui Wang

In two corners where the roof goes to the ground there is double height space. We put Electric skylight above ,whichallows light into these spaces and also improve the ventilation.

The whole building is a wood pavilion with a clear logic, thus we treat the interior design in a simple way: expose the original concrete, wood, steel materials and the joint as much as possible. Only hide the lights and equipments.

elena manferdini interview and studio visit in los angeles

after touring the venice, los angeles, studio of atelier manferdini, we sat down with elena to discuss her background in architecture, her current projects, and her work as chair of graduate programs at SCI-arc.

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Carrier Announces Agreement to Save U.S. Jobs

Carrier announced Wednesday that it has negotiated an agreement with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence to preserve more than 1,000 jobs in Indiana.

jean nouvel presents plans for monad terrace residences in miami beach

dubbed 'the reflection machine', the scheme sees 59 individually designed waterfront residences positioned around a man-made lagoon.

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Sunday House / Teeland Architects

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Architects: Teeland Architects

Location: Noosa, QLD, Australia

Architect In Charge: David Teeland, Jong Sook Kim

Area: 400.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Jared Fowler

Our clients purchased a late 1970's modernist brick beach house in Noosa, Australia for a subtropical retreat from the cool Victorian climate. The house was located on a wonderful site that backed onto the Noosa National Park and surfing beaches. The existing dark brown brick residence, although well constructed at the time, had visually dated quite badly and did not take best advantage of the amazing site that backed onto a subtropical rainforest. The owners brief was to modernise the house while retaining as much of the existing building structure as possible.

One of the challenges with the existing house is that it did not take full advantage of the fantastic location backing onto the national park. The rear of the house was largely a solid brick wall looking onto this beautiful view. We proposed carving out a series of new openings in the rear wall so that bedrooms and bathrooms would look out onto this very private serene landscape. Originally, the house was quite dark internally so we pushed a series of timber lined light wells up through the roof. This allowed natural light to flow in from a high level, as well from the new openings in the brick walls.

The other significant challenge to modernise the existing house was how to transform the front street elevation. The original house had an unflattering rough dark brown brick facade with two equally brown garage doors. A separate consideration was that the street elevation faced east and hot morning sun would blast in through the kitchen and dining windows in summer. Our approach was to render the brick in a natural cement finish and design a beautiful timber screen that sat in front of the original facade. This light weight hardwood structure resulted in a refined modern elevation to the street, while also providing sun protection and privacy for the internal spaces.One of the most unique and delightful design elements of the new house is the semi outdoor bathrooms that look out onto the national park. The original house had an aged light brown plastic shower unit that sat on the back deck, where you could shower outside looking into the forest. The owners loved this feature, so we designed the new bathrooms as hardwood boxes with copper fittings that are largely open onto the private subtropical rainforest.

Product Description. Our clients purchased a late 1970's modernist brick beach house in Noosa, Australia for a subtropical retreat from the cool Victorian climate. The house was located on a wonderful site that backed onto the Noosa National Park and surfing beaches. The existing dark brown brick residence, although well constructed at the time, had visually dated quite badly and did not take best advantage of the amazing site that backed onto a subtropical rainforest. The owners brief was to modernise the house while retaining as much of the existing building structure as possible.

St. Nicholas School / aflalo/gasperini arquitetos

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Architects: aflalo/gasperini arquitetos

Location: Santana de Parnaíba - Polvilho, Santana de Parnaíba - SP, Brazil

Area: 28567.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Ana Mello

From the architect. An elementary and high school for pupils aged between 2 and 17, the construction houses adjoining collective spaces featuring partial isolation between the three different school levels: Infant, Junior and Senior. A backbone

creates connectivity between all spaces, with the three scholastic levels, the spaces of common use – dining hall, game courts, theater, football field, arts complex – and the socialising areas scattered throughout the large garden that separates the blocks from the classrooms.

The volumes' dynamic installation allowed the privacy of each age group's playground, and at the same time favored a permeability between them through the woods. The project design is formed by the balanced disposition of occupied spaces and the empty spaces formed between them. The volumetry's inclined planes create shading over the classroom terraces, on the facades of the various spaces and on the access passageways which are open and integrated with the green areas.