UNESCO World Heritage Site Abbey Lorsch
The classic scriptures of antiquity are almost all lost. We know about the biblical paradise or Herodotus’ historiography mainly from transcripts that were created in the medieval scriptoria of monasteries. One of the most important centres of such re- …
Orang+Utan vegetarian bar
Orang+Utan vegetarian bar is a project by two young Ukranian architects, Artem Vakhrin Zuievaere and Katya, from AKZ Architectura studio. The project was conceived and designed in close collaboration between the architects and the client, Yulia Savlepo …
P17 HOUSING IN MILAN
Located in the heart of Milan, within the Monumentale area, the building shows an innovative approach in addressing metropolitan residential issues. The project aims at interacting with a broader spatial and cultural context, embracing the residential …
The Nolli Gardens
The project includes a new urban plan and addition of two mix-use housing blocks for a part of the modernistic neighbourhood called Kortephohja in Jyväskylä, a medium-sized town centrally located in Finland. location The challenge of the project is how …
Elemental: Architecture as Strategy
Alejandro Aravena was pleased that Area’s editorial office contacted him prior to his appointment as Director of the next Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, because evidently, after this assignment numerous magazines and media in the archi …
Las Cruces Lookout Point
Building in a remote place should generate an architecture able to age as if it were a natural element. So, we thought of a kind of hollowed stone, bent to rest calmly on the hill side, and whose only purpose is to offer pilgrims a resting place with d …
Aldo Andreani Architetto
The exhibition presents a review of the original project (drawings, sketches and old photographs), belonging to Fondo Andreani (Iuav University of Venice Archive) and other public and privates collections, plus a series of sculptures and pictures by ph …
Space for Future Education Workshop
Workshop description Contemporary education is changing rapidly and is evolving in response to the changing demands of society and technology development. The classical model where a professor stands at a lecturing desk and students sit in the auditori …
14 units of social housing
The project at 73 boulevard de la Villette in the 10th arrondissement of Paris comprises 14 units of social housing for the SIEMP and a Mother and Child Welfare Center (Protection Maternelle et Infantile, or PMI) for the Department of Families and Infa …
UC Innovation Centre
Angelini Innovation Center turned the conventional office plan inside out for 3 reasons: first, Santiago’s weather requires to avoid direct sun radiation on glass surfaces otherwise the energy consumption in air conditioning is ridiculous. So we replac …