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Istanbul 245 House Residential Building

Istanbul 245 House

The design team have been determined as serenely living naturalness. They have included a lot of natural wood and natural stones in architecture and interior design. Natural solid wood is a living material. Natural materials and natural tones are determined. The autumn breeze was strongly reflected in the spaces. Oak and walnut are the colors of our project that can be used with stone and rock. They were careful to keep their formal forms calm and simple to rich touches from time to time, blending them with matte brass and linear slats.

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Lakeside Workspace Office

Lakeside Workspace

The conceptualization of the Lakeside Office design had been rooted in a profound aspiration to establish a symbiotic relationship between the constructed milieu and the encompassing natural landscape. Through the seamless incorporation of the office tower within its scenic lakeside locale, the architects formulated a spatial configuration conducive to heightened productivity and the cultivation of employee well-being, achieved by fostering an immediate rapport with the surrounding natural elements.

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Fengqi Chang’an Aesthetics Museum Exhibition Hall

Fengqi Chang’an Aesthetics Museum

Fengqi Chang'an Aesthetics Museum is an exhibition building in Chang'an, China. The design is inspired by nature, traditional Chinese gardens and landscape paintings. Functional volumes of different sizes are combined with courtyards and verandas to form a continuous and flexible garden space. Each courtyard serves a purpose, such as display, communication, meditation or activities, and crisscrossed corridors link them. Glass surfaces, wide door leaves and large overhanging eaves create an orderly frame. The building covers 6,400 square meters on a 16,000 square meter site.

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Heart of Dawu Service Area

Heart of Dawu

Heart of Dawu is a highway service area built at Dawu Fishing Port in Taitung, Taiwan. The two-story building takes the image of a lighthouse, and its curved walls in earth tones link the blue sea in front with the green mountains behind. Reinforced concrete, wood and glass form the main structure. Reversed beams create space for planting, while the top floor holds a walkway and an observation deck facing the Pacific Ocean. The building provides resting areas and a center for local agricultural and fishery products, and presents the culture of Taitung to travelers.

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Fuwaku Residential

Fuwaku

The building is a modern interpretation of traditional techniques and craftsmanship. The deep eaves of the sloping roof and the linear impression of the wooden latticework, combined with the painted walls, create a peaceful exterior atmosphere. The interior features a six-layered coffered ceiling composed of horizontal and vertical lines, and the beauty of the traditional painted walls and unique structural beauty expresses a Japanese sense of aesthetics and outstanding design.

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Tibetan Eagle Road Trip and RV Campsite

Tibetan Eagle

Tibetan Eagle is a campsite designed for self-drive travelers beside Ranwu Lake in Tibet. The site lies between National Highway G318 to the north and the lake to the south. The main building of the integrated service center extends about 80 meters along the highway and is raised about 8 meters, so the buildings do not block each other. A glass wall faces the lake. The buildings use white cement-fiber plates, red weather-resisting steel plates, thick transparent glass, dark gray steel, local wood and local pebbles. Assembled steel structures limit the impact on the natural surroundings.

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Horizon Below 75cm Infant Daycare Center

Horizon Below 75cm

Horizon Below 75cm is a public daycare center designed for infant care in a rural township in Yilan County. Early childhood covers three stages: newborn, infant and toddler, and each stage brings different sensory development. The height of the facade openings is calibrated between 45 and 75 centimeters, so the outside world can be seen from a child's own eye level. The building covers a floor area of 862.03 square meters. Modern architecture is combined with local materials suited to the local climate, which simplifies construction and keeps maintenance low.

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Wanzhou Yongjiang Reception Center Culture Architecture

Wanzhou Yongjiang Reception Center

The project is located at the city of Chongqing which is characterized as the city built on the hills and mountains. The building is built on a very unique site which is on top of a steep cliff with a spectacular view over the city. The concept of the building is to design a building that emerges into the landscape to cope with the uniqueness of the site. Crystal glass boxes are embedded into the ground and also semi outdoor spaces are created to provide leisure atmosphere with supporting amenities.

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 ERC Autumn Village Reception Centre

ERC Autumn Village

ERC Autumn Village is a reception centre in Taipei, Taiwan. The building combines a bookstore, a cafe and a sales reception area within one space of 926 square metres. A skylight courtyard with a waxberry tree stands at the centre, surrounded by interlacing platforms of different floor heights. The steel structure has wooden floor slabs and an external brick wall fixed with H beams and metal parts. Seats, lighting and cabinets are custom made from recycled wood pallets. Flexible layouts allow exhibitions, lectures and forums to be held.

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Flying Exhibition Center

Flying

Fly is an urban art experience center located in Jiangyin, China, on the edge of the Yangtze River. The building is arranged around a landscape pool that brings river water into the setting. Cantilevered structures are used, so no column grid is visible from the outside. Two large blocks resemble a pair of wings above the water. The exterior is made of white and gray aluminum panels with beige marble. Turning and interwoven volumes soften the boundary between inner and outer space. A quiet path crosses the water and links the display areas. The center covers 21527 square feet.

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Faculty Architecture of Kigali Education School

Faculty Architecture of Kigali

Faculty Architecture is a school of architecture in Kigali, Rwanda, planned for 600 students on a site of 5,600 square metres. The design starts from a simple volume on two levels. The volume is pulled apart on opposite sides, which creates a central gap that forms an outdoor space for students. Stone is used for the exterior envelope and self-coloured concrete for the interior. Small windows face outward, while large inward-facing windows are shaded by roof overhangs. Truncated upper sections bring in daylight and improve ventilation.

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Misplaced Geometry Resort

Misplaced Geometry

Misplaced Geometry is a resort building in Taiwan, completed in 2018. The project is formed by two connected three-story buildings of unequal heights, widths and depths, joined by a central ramp that follows the slope of the site. The corridor between the two buildings is cut on a diagonal axis and holds five trapezoidal windows. The exterior is grayscale, and white paint on the walls simulates interlocking tree branches in irregular triangular shapes. Hexagonal bricks of varying brightness clad the overhanging facades and the semi-outdoor terrace.

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