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Blended Into The Forest Residential House

Blended Into The Forest

House Blended Into The Forest is a building that was created in the surroundings of an old pine forest with respect for nature. The basic assumption when designing this house was to integrate it into the existing trees and unite it with the forest. This idea was realized thanks to the use of a material that seems to be alien to the forest, i.e. sheet metal. The implementation showed that the house almost grows out of nature. The interior of the house is white and green dominates it thanks to large windows.

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Dongguan Riverside Sports Center

Dongguan Riverside

The project is located in Xincheng District, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China. It is a sports center that integrates residents' cultural activities, healthy sports, and livable waterfront life from multiple angles. The vision of the project is to turn the green sports center into a natural oxygen bar on the corner of the city, integrating fitness, sports, parking, and transportation hubs into one. Dissolve the building volume, integrate the landscape into life, and make the design deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

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The Bloom Architecture

The Bloom

With the evolution of technology, as a recyclable and environmental-friendly building material, tile application exceeds traditional impression. Technology breakthrough creates diverse possibilities in size, shape, and texture, thus rich opportunities to add value to buildings. The exterior wall façade done with Champion’s local production of recycled 2cm tiles is good heat insulation of the building; color and gradient give the building a bold new look.

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Villa Bianca Private House

Villa Bianca

The project consists of partial reconstruction and complete visual transformation of an existing house built in pseudo-traditional style. The main idea has been to achieve the exactly opposite effect: to have a contrasting, memorable, minimalistic and contemporary architecture. The biggest challenge of the project has been to reduce the cluster of geometries and to emphasize the constructive principle of the building by making some spatial and organizational improvements of the interior.

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Regala Skycity Hotel

Regala Skycity

Regala Skycity is a hotel located in the Skycity area of Hong Kong International Airport. The building stands on a triangular site and follows a tripartite division of base, shaft and crown. The form was inspired by an optical crystal prism, and the reflective glass facade mirrors the surrounding sky. The external envelope uses a unitized curtain wall system, with units assembled off site to reduce construction time on site. The hotel contains 1,208 guest rooms, a swimming pool, a rooftop jogging path and three restaurants.

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Cross Residential House

Cross

A private residence built on a site facing two roads in a quiet residential area. The exterior, which can be seen from the outside, has an orderly form, ensuring a moderate sense of openness while protecting the privacy of the residents. The interior is moderately open and has a visual expanse. In addition, in accordance with the shape of the site, the two planes intersect at different angles in the center, and the space created here gently connects the rooms. A new blank space is created by appropriately dividing the plane, and the plan is to deepen communication between residents.

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Float Residential House

Float

A private residence with a skip floor that makes the most of the difference in height of the land. The living room is placed at a height where the surrounding buildings cannot be seen, and it is devised so that the surrounding scenery can be taken in according to the owner's request. The rest of the living space is located on the middle floor, and the entrance is connected to the garden, creating a space that welcomes visitors with a sense of depth. From the looks of it, you can tell it's designed to capture the landscape you need, wherever you are.

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Coexisting With Nature Clinic

Coexisting With Nature

This dental clinic was created using a design method that takes advantage of the vegetation, height difference, and depth of the existing land. TSC Architects wanted to design a clinic where patients can experience nature as if they were taking a walk on the road. They planned to leave the trees as much as possible, arrange the functions of the clinic to match the characteristics of the land, and connect them with corridors and multiple roofs. By setting the height of the floor at the center of the height difference on the site, people can feel a sense of floating and sinking into the ground.

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Timeless Residence

Timeless

Inside, the house is defined by two courtyards, one large and the other small, that are arranged in parallel. The main courtyard is on the south side and features a bamboo grove that draws the eye when one steps into the entryway. A smaller slit-shaped courtyard on the north side is also dotted with plantings and serves as a lightwell, filling the first-floor living room and entryway as well as a second living room upstairs with pleasant, diffuse light.

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Ideareve Ikegami Music Hall

Ideareve Ikegami

Ideareve Ikegami is a music hall and mixed-use building in Ikegami, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The four-story reinforced concrete structure is ten meters high. The building contains a music hall with an auditorium, practice rooms, soundproofed rental residences and a penthouse. A vestibule and foyer form a circulation zone linking the interior and the exterior. Three brass-colored stainless steel diagonal walls shape the foyer, and acoustic reflectors line the hall. The geometric volume recalls the hilly landscape at the foot of the Ikegami Honmonji temple.

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Meishan Mining  Smart Center

Meishan Mining

The Meishan Mining project is located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 13 kilometers away from the center of Nanjing. Its predecessor is Meishan Iron Mine, which was founded in October 1959, and resources are now close to exhaustion. The government plans to build it into an industrial heritage park, so the whole design is centered around the two goals of meeting the function of the existing mine wisdom command center and taking into account the overall effect of the site park.

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Grand Copacabana Mixed Use Bulding

Grand Copacabana

The Grand Copacabana project was developed from the search for a dialogue between architecture and the city, focusing on the integration between the city and the user. The result was a mixed-use building in which the commercial part does not clearly distinguish between private and public areas, making the building an extension of the sidewalk. The ground floor seeks to be an extension of Avenida Benjamim Constant. The apartments, on the other hand, have large balconies that act as large frames for the outside, providing a privileged view of the city.

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