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Cool Design News

Cool Design News featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Jiande Aviation

The project is located in Jiande aviation town. It is an aviation training school, with the functions of teaching, catering, office, hotel and so on. The design team shows respect to the site, and wants to retain the natural conditions here. In order to create a campus with a strong sense of place and rich spatial experience, the design team integrates the buildings with the natural terrain. It makes the project more closer to nature, and helping with the organic symbiosis between buildings and environment, human and nature.

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Shenzhen Lianhua Peak Restroom

The project is located on the top of Lianhua Hill. The primary principle is to achieve harmony between architecture and nature. The rest corridor connects the men's and women's toilets, and forms a visual corridor between the square and the mountain forest. The main walls are fully open, leading the scenery and natural wind into the room. One side of the square is set with art perforated plate as a visual barrier to protect privacy, giving the square a strong cultural atmosphere.

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Solar Veloroute

The idea of covering the bicycle routes with "Veloroutes" - the aesthetic, electricity generating photovoltaic canopies and transforming them into attractive landscape structures is not only sustainable, but creates a kind of sculptural variety that becomes an architectural symbol for the change from gas-powered cars to more sustainable ways of mobility. Just one Kilometer of the “Veloroute” could provide around 2000 MWh of electricity and could power 750 households or provide electricity for more than 1.000 electric cars driving 11.000 Kilometers per year.

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Soki Atami

Soki Atami is a hot spring luxury hotel located in Atami, a coastal resort town in Shizuoka, known as one of the earliest hot spring retreats in Japan. This project aims to revise the way of hot springs accommodation in a Ryokan more adaptable for the current lifestyle and to rediscover the charm of the region by creating connections between guests and local’s rich nature, culture, and people. All rooms come complete with a personal hot spring, while other facilities include a public onsen, a restaurant with a garden, and a top floor Tea Salon & Bar overlooking Atami Bay.

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Involve

In Involve the workers move spirally and contact and involve co-workers each other inevitably more than a rectangular box form building. The norms secondly generate various benefit of improving quality and enhancing productivity and so on as a result. The building like stone sculpture presence on the hill creates new landscape for reviving the site that was used to be a forest. Involve welcomes not only the visitors but also regions then invites them with the rhythmical interior.

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Phoenix Mansion

The entrance is in the unremarkable corner. With a long overhang, the horizontal transitional space presents an implicit feeling, inviting visitors to enter the space. At the front yard, landscape elements refer to classic Chinese gardens and get reorganized based on local conditions. Detailed parts reveal a tranquil atmosphere. The team tried to build a quiet space from multiple dimensions from the veranda to the dynamic metal art installation. Here, residents can get away from the noise city.

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