Link to Anne Holtrop's website
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Anne Holtrop's Trail House
Gotta love this one. The entire project is inhabitable circulation. Perhaps the same idea as the Droog House by Atelier Bow Wow, but an entirely different way of resolving that idea.
Link to Anne Holtrop's website
Link to Anne Holtrop's website
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Love it
Celeste has found a link to this video about a bike storage facility in (where else?) Japan:
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Centre Pompidou
I didn't know that Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners had such a comprehensive website. Thanks to a (perhaps misunderstood) comment from Catherine, I now do.
I think Catherine was looking for a floor plan of the Pompidou. If so, it is here.
Also, whilst I expect Catherine was raising the Pompidou in Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Metz by Shigeru Ban is very close to completion. There is info at Dezeen and Designboom.
Image of Centre Pompidou Metz from Dezeen below:
I think Catherine was looking for a floor plan of the Pompidou. If so, it is here.
Also, whilst I expect Catherine was raising the Pompidou in Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Metz by Shigeru Ban is very close to completion. There is info at Dezeen and Designboom.
Image of Centre Pompidou Metz from Dezeen below:
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Javier Sáenz de Oiza's Torres Blancas
A photo and plan of Javier Sáenz de Oiza's extraordinary Torres Blancas
(Avenida de América, 37, Madrid, 1964-69).
(Avenida de América, 37, Madrid, 1964-69).
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Ugly furniture
If you want to look at some really bad and pretentious furniture, Daniel Libeskind is prepared to provide:
Link to Libeskind's ugly furniture
Read the comments too.
Link to Libeskind's ugly furniture
Read the comments too.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
More Breuer
Marcel Breuer also built one building in Sydney!
26 Coombes Drive, Penrith.
[Photo below by Tim]
26 Coombes Drive, Penrith.
[Photo below by Tim]
Furniture
Link to Corporate Culture's website.
We mostly looked at furniture by the following companies:
Fritz Hansen
Carl Hansen & Søn
Louis Poulsen (lighting)
Cappellini
Cassina
Alias
Magis
Mater
Serge Mouille
Verpan
Extremis
Other furniture shops worth visiting in Sydney as part of your design education include:
DeDeCe
Living Edge
Spence & Lyda
Hub
Anibou
FY2K
Space
Unifor / Vitra
Living Edge, Spence & Lyda and Hub are all really close to one another in NW Surry Hills (near the Hollywood Hotel). Make sure you drop in at Published Art when you are in the area.
Designers we looked at yesterday include:
Arne Jacobsen
Hans Wegner
Verner Panton
Gerrit Rietveld
Gio Ponti
Enzo Mari, do watch at least some of this interview
Vico Magistretti
the Bouroullec brothers
Konstantin Grcic
Marc Newson
David Trubridge
Marcel Wanders
Shiro Kuramata
Tom Dixon
Alberto Meda
Franco Albini
Le Corbusier
Charlotte Perriand
Gaetano Pesce
Paolo Deganello
Toshiyuki Kita
Other designers worth looking at include:
Eileen Gray
Achille Castiglioni
the Campana brothers
Joe Colombo
Jasper Morrison
Droog
Maarten van Severen
Finally, a special link for Ms Zhuang
(because I expect she won't approve of my taste):
Kram/Weisshaar
We mostly looked at furniture by the following companies:
Fritz Hansen
Carl Hansen & Søn
Louis Poulsen (lighting)
Cappellini
Cassina
Alias
Magis
Mater
Serge Mouille
Verpan
Extremis
Other furniture shops worth visiting in Sydney as part of your design education include:
DeDeCe
Living Edge
Spence & Lyda
Hub
Anibou
FY2K
Space
Unifor / Vitra
Living Edge, Spence & Lyda and Hub are all really close to one another in NW Surry Hills (near the Hollywood Hotel). Make sure you drop in at Published Art when you are in the area.
Designers we looked at yesterday include:
Arne Jacobsen
Hans Wegner
Verner Panton
Gerrit Rietveld
Gio Ponti
Enzo Mari, do watch at least some of this interview
Vico Magistretti
the Bouroullec brothers
Konstantin Grcic
Marc Newson
David Trubridge
Marcel Wanders
Shiro Kuramata
Tom Dixon
Alberto Meda
Franco Albini
Le Corbusier
Charlotte Perriand
Gaetano Pesce
Paolo Deganello
Toshiyuki Kita
Other designers worth looking at include:
Eileen Gray
Achille Castiglioni
the Campana brothers
Joe Colombo
Jasper Morrison
Droog
Maarten van Severen
Finally, a special link for Ms Zhuang
(because I expect she won't approve of my taste):
Kram/Weisshaar
CaixaForum Madrid
My photos of the CaixaForum in Madrid by Herzog de Meuron. Some images shown by Joanne yesterday.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
How thick are walls?
Please don't draw plans with walls that are a single line thick. It looks stupid.
Find out how thick something is, and if you don't know and can't find out quickly, assume the following:
Most external walls are a minimum of 300mm thick.
Most walls separating different dwellings or tenancies (those requiring acoustic attenuation) are about 200mm thick.
Most internal walls inside a dwelling are approximately 100mm thick.
Find out how thick something is, and if you don't know and can't find out quickly, assume the following:
Most external walls are a minimum of 300mm thick.
Most walls separating different dwellings or tenancies (those requiring acoustic attenuation) are about 200mm thick.
Most internal walls inside a dwelling are approximately 100mm thick.
How big are things?
If you don't know how big something is (furniture and the like) and how much room is required, find out, don't stop work. Don't just guess. Please don't draw beds that are 4x4m, toilets that are 1.5m long or doors that are 400mm wide and 1500mm high.
You could:
1. Measure one
2. Google (Google is quite difficult to use to find appropriate info)
3. Refer to a book with anthropometric data
Good books with anthropometric data include:
Ernst Neufert, Architects' data
the Metric Handbook
Julius Panero's Human dimension & interior space
You could:
1. Measure one
2. Google (Google is quite difficult to use to find appropriate info)
3. Refer to a book with anthropometric data
Good books with anthropometric data include:
Ernst Neufert, Architects' data
the Metric Handbook
Julius Panero's Human dimension & interior space
A quick note on Lifts
If you are thinking about lifts as part of your circulation system, its worth knowing where the Building Code of Australia stands on this matter.
Clause EF3.1 of Volume 1 of the BCA says that
Clause EF3.2 of Volume 1 of the BCA says that
Refer either to the BCA or to my post titled Some info on Planning & Building regulations for the definition of Effective Height
Therefore, if the floor level of your topmost storey is more than 25m above the floor of the lowest storey providing direct egress to a road or open space, you must have an accessible lift able to accommodate a stretcher. If the floor level of your topmost storey is more than 12m and less than 25m above the floor of the lowest storey providing direct egress to a road or open space, you are not required to have a lift, but if you do have a lift, it must be accessible and able to accommodate a stretcher.
If you need to know how big a lift, its shaft and equipment is, Kone have a handy online toolbox that will tell you.
[George has also suggested that Imem Lifts may be of interest]
Clause EF3.1 of Volume 1 of the BCA says that
Where a passenger lift is provided, it is to facilitate safe and easy—
(a) movement for occupants with disabilities; and
(b) evacuation of occupants, who due to illness or injury need stretcher assistance.
EF3.1(b) only applies to a building with an effective height of more than 12 m.
[italics mine]
Clause EF3.2 of Volume 1 of the BCA says that
A building is to be provided with one or more passenger lifts to facilitate—
(a) the safe access for emergency services personnel; and
(b) safe and easy evacuation of occupants who due to illness, injury or disability cannot use stairways in the event of an emergency.
EF3.2 only applies to— (a) a building with an effective height of more than 25 m
[italics mine]
Refer either to the BCA or to my post titled Some info on Planning & Building regulations for the definition of Effective Height
Therefore, if the floor level of your topmost storey is more than 25m above the floor of the lowest storey providing direct egress to a road or open space, you must have an accessible lift able to accommodate a stretcher. If the floor level of your topmost storey is more than 12m and less than 25m above the floor of the lowest storey providing direct egress to a road or open space, you are not required to have a lift, but if you do have a lift, it must be accessible and able to accommodate a stretcher.
If you need to know how big a lift, its shaft and equipment is, Kone have a handy online toolbox that will tell you.
[George has also suggested that Imem Lifts may be of interest]
Some info on Planning & Building regulations
A bit of info on planning controls:
If you have a look at the Central Sydney Floor Space Ratio Map, you will discover the area around our site has a Floor Space Ratio of 7.5:1. To find out what this means look for the definition of Floor Space Ratio in the Schedules and dictionary section of the Local Environmental Plan to which this map is attached. Essentially it means the maximum internal floor space you can propose is 7.5 times the site area, but do read the definition.
If you look at the Central Sydney Height Map you will discover that the maximum height on your site is 50 meters. You will also need to look at the definitions again to find out how to measure this height (from what, too what, and what exclusions there might be). 50m is tall. If you were to allow for ceiling heights of 2.7m, ceiling space of 300-400mm for services and say 200mm floor thickness (lets assume beams can intrude into the ceiling space), then you could fit a building that is 15 stories high! For comparison purposes, the building to the North is supposed to be 43.7m high (or 45.7, my info is blurry) and the ridge height of the building to the south is supposed to be 24.5m (this is much taller than this building looks to me. I hope someone is obtain an elevation of Sussex St, and the side elevations of neighboring buildings facing the site.
I think its unlikely any of you will propose a building of this height. One very good reason is the Building Code of Australia, which you can access online at the UTS library (login required)
Here are some important bits:
Clause D1.2 of Volume 1 of the BCA
You will find it very difficult to fit 2 exits on your site, therefore, I think its likely you'll need to keep your building to the Effective Height of 25m. You need to go to the definitions part of the BCA to understand what an Effective Height is, because it is not the height of the building. To quote:
To understand the dimensional requirements of stairs, look at your helpful BCA again, Clause D2.13. I'd suggest you read it cause you'll need to just know this stuff for the rest of your career.
If you have a look at the Central Sydney Floor Space Ratio Map, you will discover the area around our site has a Floor Space Ratio of 7.5:1. To find out what this means look for the definition of Floor Space Ratio in the Schedules and dictionary section of the Local Environmental Plan to which this map is attached. Essentially it means the maximum internal floor space you can propose is 7.5 times the site area, but do read the definition.
If you look at the Central Sydney Height Map you will discover that the maximum height on your site is 50 meters. You will also need to look at the definitions again to find out how to measure this height (from what, too what, and what exclusions there might be). 50m is tall. If you were to allow for ceiling heights of 2.7m, ceiling space of 300-400mm for services and say 200mm floor thickness (lets assume beams can intrude into the ceiling space), then you could fit a building that is 15 stories high! For comparison purposes, the building to the North is supposed to be 43.7m high (or 45.7, my info is blurry) and the ridge height of the building to the south is supposed to be 24.5m (this is much taller than this building looks to me. I hope someone is obtain an elevation of Sussex St, and the side elevations of neighboring buildings facing the site.
I think its unlikely any of you will propose a building of this height. One very good reason is the Building Code of Australia, which you can access online at the UTS library (login required)
Here are some important bits:
Clause D1.2 of Volume 1 of the BCA
D1.2 Number of exits required
(a) All buildings — Every building must have at least one exit from each storey.
(b) Class 2 to 8 buildings — In addition to any horizontal exit, not less than 2 exits must be provided from the following:
(i) Each storey if the building has an effective height of more than 25 m.
You will find it very difficult to fit 2 exits on your site, therefore, I think its likely you'll need to keep your building to the Effective Height of 25m. You need to go to the definitions part of the BCA to understand what an Effective Height is, because it is not the height of the building. To quote:
Effective height means the height to the floor of the topmost storey (excluding the topmost storey if it contains only heating, ventilating, lift or other equipment, water tanks or similar service units) from the floor of the lowest storey providing direct egress to a road or open space.
To understand the dimensional requirements of stairs, look at your helpful BCA again, Clause D2.13. I'd suggest you read it cause you'll need to just know this stuff for the rest of your career.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Planning Controls
A few links to relevant planning controls:
Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2005
Central Sydney Floor Space Ratio Map (Sheet 1) (PDF 821Kb)
Central Sydney Height Map (Sheet 1) (PDF 836Kb)
Central Sydney Development Control Plan 1996
Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2005
Central Sydney Floor Space Ratio Map (Sheet 1) (PDF 821Kb)
Central Sydney Height Map (Sheet 1) (PDF 836Kb)
Central Sydney Development Control Plan 1996
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Double House / Villa KBWW, Utrecht
Bjarne Mastenbroek & Winy Maas (de architectengroep rijnboutt ruijssenaars hendriks van gameren mastenbroek bv in collaboration with MVRDV)
1994-98
Bjarne Mastenbroek's website > Projects > Housing > Villa KBWW
Winy Maas, now of MVRDV, doesn't seem to have this project on his website
El Croquis, Madrid, 1997, Issue 86.
1994-98
Bjarne Mastenbroek's website > Projects > Housing > Villa KBWW
Winy Maas, now of MVRDV, doesn't seem to have this project on his website
El Croquis, Madrid, 1997, Issue 86.
Adolf Loos, Villa Müller, Prague
1928-30
Villa Müller homepage
Ralf Bock, Adolf Loos, Works and Projects, Milan, Skira Editore, 2007.
Leslie van Duzer & Kent Kleinman, Villa Müller: a work of Adolf Loos, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1994.
Max Risselada (ed), Raumplan versus Plan Libre, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, 1919-1930, New York, Rizzoli, 1989, reprinted Rotterdam, 010, 2008.
Beatriz Colomina, "Interior" in Privacy and Publicity, Modern Architecture as Mass Media, Cambridge, Massachussetts & London, The MIT Press, 1994.
and lots of other things at the library
Flickr's Adolf Loos pool
Villa Müller homepage
Ralf Bock, Adolf Loos, Works and Projects, Milan, Skira Editore, 2007.
Leslie van Duzer & Kent Kleinman, Villa Müller: a work of Adolf Loos, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1994.
Max Risselada (ed), Raumplan versus Plan Libre, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, 1919-1930, New York, Rizzoli, 1989, reprinted Rotterdam, 010, 2008.
Beatriz Colomina, "Interior" in Privacy and Publicity, Modern Architecture as Mass Media, Cambridge, Massachussetts & London, The MIT Press, 1994.
and lots of other things at the library
Flickr's Adolf Loos pool
Alejandro De La Sota, Gobierno Civil, Tarragona
Civil Government building, Tarragona, c1954-61
Alejandro de la Sota, An Architecture of Imperfection, London, 1997. Looks like its back in print!
Alejandro de la Sota, Alejandro de la Sota, Arquitecto, Madrid, Ediciones Pronaos, 1997.
Fundación Alejandro de la Sota
Alejandro de la Sota, An Architecture of Imperfection, London, 1997. Looks like its back in print!
Alejandro de la Sota, Alejandro de la Sota, Arquitecto, Madrid, Ediciones Pronaos, 1997.
Fundación Alejandro de la Sota
Caruso St John, New Art Gallery, Walsall
Caruso St John, 1995-2000
Gallery site
Adam Caruso, "Shell, Cladding, Lining" in OASE, Amsterdam, 1997, Issue 47, pp54-55.
Rowan Moore, "A Pebble on the Water" in New Art Gallery Walsall, London, 2002.
Philip Ursprung, Almost Everything, Barcelona, 2008.
Aurora Fernandez (ed), As Built - Caruso St John Architects (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2005.
Gallery site
Adam Caruso, "Shell, Cladding, Lining" in OASE, Amsterdam, 1997, Issue 47, pp54-55.
Rowan Moore, "A Pebble on the Water" in New Art Gallery Walsall, London, 2002.
Philip Ursprung, Almost Everything, Barcelona, 2008.
Aurora Fernandez (ed), As Built - Caruso St John Architects (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2005.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Joanne's precedents at 0300TV
Sadly, 0300TV now requires a subscription. Perhaps you should bother the school to obtain an institutional subscription.
Toyo Ito's Sendai Mediatheque
Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano's Pompidou Centre
Herzog de Meuron's de Young Museum
Toyo Ito's Sendai Mediatheque
Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano's Pompidou Centre
Herzog de Meuron's de Young Museum
Furthering your own Architectural education - TV
I know from other years that many of you will want to watch Grand Designs (UK or Australian editions). Don't. It's crap.
Furthering your own Architectural education - blogs
Lots of links to blogs in the Misc column on the right. Follow them. Many of them will send you emails. Subscribe, they cost nothing.
Chile publishes some fantastic blogs: Plataforma Arquitectura (Spanish only) and it's English companion ArchDaily. If i discover any of you speak or read Spanish and have not subscribed to Plataforma Arquitectura's email list, i'll be very disappointed.
Studio Banana TV has interviews which are often good, though sometimes not in English (then usually Spanish).
0300TV (again from Chile!) has good interviews (usually in Spanish) and video visits to wonderful, often difficult to get to, buildings, including Atelier Bow-Wow's Tower House, Ryue Nishizawa's Moriyama House, Frohn & Rojas' Wall House, and Lina Bo Bardi's SESC Pompéia.
Disappointingly, 0300TV have decided to start charging for subscriptions. Given these subscriptions expire, I think they are quite expensive. Oh well.
Some of the links in the Misc column on the right aren't blogs, but are links to photographer's websites, including Iwan Baan, Fernando Guerra and Cristóbal Palma.
Chile publishes some fantastic blogs: Plataforma Arquitectura (Spanish only) and it's English companion ArchDaily. If i discover any of you speak or read Spanish and have not subscribed to Plataforma Arquitectura's email list, i'll be very disappointed.
Studio Banana TV has interviews which are often good, though sometimes not in English (then usually Spanish).
0300TV (again from Chile!) has good interviews (usually in Spanish) and video visits to wonderful, often difficult to get to, buildings, including Atelier Bow-Wow's Tower House, Ryue Nishizawa's Moriyama House, Frohn & Rojas' Wall House, and Lina Bo Bardi's SESC Pompéia.
Disappointingly, 0300TV have decided to start charging for subscriptions. Given these subscriptions expire, I think they are quite expensive. Oh well.
Some of the links in the Misc column on the right aren't blogs, but are links to photographer's websites, including Iwan Baan, Fernando Guerra and Cristóbal Palma.
Furthering your own Architectural education - magazines
When you go to the shops, drop in at your local newsagent and look at the following magazines (and others):
Abitare
Architecture Australia
Architecture Review
Australian Architecture Review
Belle
Case da Abitare
Dwell
Domus, this italian magazine is not as good as it used to be (they change editors relatively often). I think Mendini is taking over again shortly and this is a good thing. Domus is dumped here and costs about the same here as in Milan (about AUS$22), i've seen it for sale at 4 times the price in Amsterdam and Malmö.
Frame
Habitus
Houses
Icon
Indesign
Mark
Monument
Vogue Living
Wallpaper*
World of Interiors, not as bad as it sounds from the title. They often visit older buildings that no-one else publishes (Gio Ponti hotels and Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera's Studio/Houses are examples from recent years)
Not all of the above are the same quality and some are very expensive. Many of them will not be available at many newsagents, but almost all are available at the big newsagent at Taylor Square. It's open almost all the time. Whenever you go past, drop in for a look.
If you like what you see and have some spare cash, buy one!
Abitare
Architecture Australia
Architecture Review
Australian Architecture Review
Belle
Case da Abitare
Dwell
Domus, this italian magazine is not as good as it used to be (they change editors relatively often). I think Mendini is taking over again shortly and this is a good thing. Domus is dumped here and costs about the same here as in Milan (about AUS$22), i've seen it for sale at 4 times the price in Amsterdam and Malmö.
Frame
Habitus
Houses
Icon
Indesign
Mark
Monument
Vogue Living
Wallpaper*
World of Interiors, not as bad as it sounds from the title. They often visit older buildings that no-one else publishes (Gio Ponti hotels and Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera's Studio/Houses are examples from recent years)
Not all of the above are the same quality and some are very expensive. Many of them will not be available at many newsagents, but almost all are available at the big newsagent at Taylor Square. It's open almost all the time. Whenever you go past, drop in for a look.
If you like what you see and have some spare cash, buy one!
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Examples / Precedents
Abalos Herreros, Mora House, Cádiz
Atelier Bow Wow, Droog House (+ movie)
Atelier Bow Wow, House & Atelier
Angelo Bucci & Alvao Puntoni (SPBR?), Carapicuíba house
Caruso St John, North London Studio House
Graça Correia e Roberto Ragazzi, House in Gerês
Frohn & Rojas, Wall House
Sou Fujimoto, House N
Sou Fujimoto, T House
Toyo Ito, White U
Lacaton & Vassal, Latapie House, Floirac
Lacaton & Vassal, House, Cap Ferret
Lacaton & Vassal, House, Bordeaux
Lacaton & Vassal, House, Coutras
Lazzarini Pickering, apartment in Rome
Adolf Loos, Villa Müller, Prague
Dorte Mandrup, Read-Nest
MMBB, residência na vila romana
MMBB, residência no city boaçava
MMBB, residência em aldeia da serra
Daniel Moreno, The Workshop
MVRDV, Didden Village
Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Cien House
Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Fosc House
Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Poli House
Gerrit Rietveld, Schröder House
Sami Rintala, Element House
Javier Saenz de Oiza, Torres Blancas, Madrid
Tezuka Architects, Wall-less House
Tezuka Architects, Balcony House
Tadao Ando's narrow houses
Shigeru Ban
Ryue Nishizawa, Moriyama House
Atelier Bow Wow, Droog House (+ movie)
Atelier Bow Wow, House & Atelier
Angelo Bucci & Alvao Puntoni (SPBR?), Carapicuíba house
Caruso St John, North London Studio House
Graça Correia e Roberto Ragazzi, House in Gerês
Frohn & Rojas, Wall House
Sou Fujimoto, House N
Sou Fujimoto, T House
Toyo Ito, White U
Lacaton & Vassal, Latapie House, Floirac
Lacaton & Vassal, House, Cap Ferret
Lacaton & Vassal, House, Bordeaux
Lacaton & Vassal, House, Coutras
Lazzarini Pickering, apartment in Rome
Adolf Loos, Villa Müller, Prague
Dorte Mandrup, Read-Nest
MMBB, residência na vila romana
MMBB, residência no city boaçava
MMBB, residência em aldeia da serra
Daniel Moreno, The Workshop
MVRDV, Didden Village
Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Cien House
Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Fosc House
Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Poli House
Gerrit Rietveld, Schröder House
Sami Rintala, Element House
Javier Saenz de Oiza, Torres Blancas, Madrid
Tezuka Architects, Wall-less House
Tezuka Architects, Balcony House
Tadao Ando's narrow houses
Shigeru Ban
Ryue Nishizawa, Moriyama House
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Utzon exercise, other things to look at
You could do worse than looking at work by the following Architects:
Jørn Utzon (obviously)
Sigurd Lewerentz, especially Janne Ahlin's book
Rafael Moneo
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Eladio Dieste
and the following Engineers:
Ove Arup (obviously)
Cecil Balmond (Arup)
Pier Luigi Nervi
Felix Candela
Also have a look at the Architects in right hand column
Jørn Utzon (obviously)
Sigurd Lewerentz, especially Janne Ahlin's book
Rafael Moneo
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Eladio Dieste
and the following Engineers:
Ove Arup (obviously)
Cecil Balmond (Arup)
Pier Luigi Nervi
Felix Candela
Also have a look at the Architects in right hand column
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