HOUSE IN BYOUBUGAURA by Takeshi Hosaka

HOUSE IN BYOUBUGAURA

a project by Takeshi Hosaka

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, completed 2012
________________________________________________________

A regular concrete box and glass facade define the exterior of Byoubugaura by Japanese practice Takeshi Hosaka Architect, but further observation reveals quite a unique interactive home with unexpected spaces. The home consists of a basement level and two floors above grade - simple in program but complex in structure. The concrete floor plates are drastically curved upwards at the front and rear facades, allowing no direct view into the spaces, which are in reality sunken below the grid established by the structure. 

FRIEDRICH BAYER BRIDGE by LoebCapote Arquitetura e Urbanismo

FRIEDRICH BAYER BRIDGE

a project by LoebCapote Arquitetura e Urbanismo

São Paulo, Brazil, completed 2013

________________________________________________________

The City of São Paulo has few bridges only for cyclists and pedestrians.

In front of the Bayer headquarters, the bridge is located where the Pinheiros river meets the Canal of Guarapiranga’s dam. By connecting both sides of the river, the bicycle path parallel to the river is extended, and citizens, Bayer’s employees and the community around become closer to the metro station.

ONE CENTRAL PARK by Ateliers Jean Nouvel

ONE CENTRAL PARK

a project by Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Sydney, Australia, completed 2014

________________________________________________________

One Central Park (OCP), by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, is an innovative and environmentally ambitious landmark project within the redevelopment of the Carlton & United Brewery site in Sydney. One Central Park offered Nouvel and Blanc a canvas of an entirely new scale. Here they built an integrated experience for living in harmony with the natural world.

S-HOUSE by Yuusuke Karasawa Architects

S-HOUSE

a project by Yuusuke Karasawa Architects

Oomiya, Saitama, Japan, completed 2013

________________________________________________________

There is modern architecture and there is avant-garde. Tokyo-based Yuusuke Karasawa Architects designed a glazed, split-level house in Japan’s Saitama prefecture that explores the owner’s interest in the networks formed by space and nature.

Philosophy and architecture are certainly no strangers, but rarely does a scenario play out where a client finds an architect who can fully express the client’s life’s work through the design for a single-family home. Such is the case with the S-House in Omiya, in the Saitama Prefecture of Japan. The client is a professor of what he terms “network philosophy.” An acolyte of French philosopher Michel Serres, he studies the interconnections between humans and nature.

SEONDONG CULTURAL & WELFARE CENTER by UnSangDong Architects

SEONDONG CULTURAL & WELFARE CENTER

a project by UnSangDong Architects

Seoul, South Korea, completed 2012

________________________________________________________

From the Architect:

The city is required the concept of urban regeneration which renews the abandoned and polluted environment. The current concept of urban regeneration is well used as the strategies of new town development. It has the meaning of creating rehabilitation and revival of urban environment, industry, economy, and the culture by providing new programs and physical architectural environments to the decaying existing cities. Rather than simple architectural esthetic controls, new composition of circulation system, which induces new transformation of environment, is required. It has been developed in the direction of cultural device and the community of governance concept to improve the quality of city dwellers’ life.