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Manuel Lap Yan Lam

Public Bathroom

Friday, 26 July 2024

Bamboo Pavilion

The Bamboo Pavilion is a public renovation project that is designed to subvert the perception of a typical public bathroom in Macau, which is dirty, wet and smelly. The original facility was an enclosed building setting apart from the natural surroundings. The Bamboo Pavilion, a new design, is built on top of the existing structure and foundation. The idea is to reconnect the broken link between culture, human and nature in a public facility by reorganizing the plan to enhance functionalities and by applying bamboo-like construction tectonics to correspond with its natural surroundings.

Yu Bai

International Hospital

Thursday, 25 July 2024

Midea Heyou

Located in the city of Foshan, the hospital will serve as a comprehensive medical center, shifting from a traditional treatment led to a health led approach, accessible to the whole community, applicable to the whole life cycle and covering the whole medical spectrum. Inspired by the ancient waterways townscape, the design features interlocking landscape corridors to open up the indoor space to create a healing garden hospital that has a symbiotic relationship with nature. It is also a civic garden house that fully integrates energy-saving technology.

Shengzhe Shen

Hotel

Wednesday, 24 July 2024

Zenstay

Starting from local dwelling and natural texture, he tried to improve experience for visitors on the easternmost island in China by generating spaces meet both needs of traditional culture and current function under the seemingly dramatically opposite old and new architectural forms. Meanwhile, he explored the island stone house to construct skills as an appropriate technology (low tech), regional cultural of reference, its interventional reconstruction of the possibility and sustainable idea of the reflection and necessity.

Zhe Wang of SZA Architects

Apartment

Tuesday, 23 July 2024

Xizhimen Port

Port Apartment, as Vanke's long-term rental apartment product for urban youth, it's increasingly appearing in the new and old urban areas of Beijing. The outdated image, depressed tonality, and precipitated vicissitudes of the existing building are no longer in line with young people who are trying to be innovative in the new era. Upgrading the appearance of the old buildings, reshaping the city's image, stimulating the vitality of the community, and providing urban young people with a warm home with a story and a dream become a new topic faced by the project.

Boguslaw Barnas

Residential Architecture

Monday, 22 July 2024

The Farmhouse

The Farmhouse is an example of the transformation of a typical rural homestead into a residential mansion. In the place of five existing farm buildings scheduled for demolition, the project team proposed five contemporary farm buildings. The newly designed forms have a shape, which results from the reference to the existing farm layout, terrain, view axes, functional needs, division into residential zones and location of trees.

Yaser and Yasin Rashid Shomali

Holiday House

Sunday, 21 July 2024

Lako

Used a solid and simple form to make a powerful and safe feeling. The primary goal was to create harmony with the surrounding by extending the sloping roof to the ground. Thus, the futuristic and modern form was born during this process. Contrary to a solid and cold exterior, the interior has fluid shapes, warm colors, and unique floor materials to make a cozy feel. Also, the low level conventional area brings down the viewer's eye level and presents different points of view.

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