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MVRDV

ZigZag Offices . MAINZ

MVRDV . photos: © Ossip van Duivenbode . + archdaily

Like many of Europe’s formerly industrial harbor areas, Mainz’s Zollhafen is undergoing a transformation into a modern city quarter. Located northeast of the city’s Neustadt district on the west bank of the river Rhine, the former shipping container harbor will be converted into an urban mix of living, working, and leisure facilities, a significant urban transformation that will be one of the most important regeneration projects in the city’s recent history. ZigZag is one of the pioneer projects in this large-scale transformation. Continue reading MVRDV

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Chidori Studio

Hokuriku Residence No.2 . Kanazawa City

Chidori Studio . photos: © Yasuhiro Nakayama

This project is two-story wooden house in the education area of ​​Kanazawa City. There are a lot of green and plenty of public spaces such as parks, schools, and stadiums around this area. The vacant lot behind the premises was once a bank dormitory, and beyond that you can see the greenery of the stadium. The client requested “a house with a large opening to this greenery”, but there was a possibility that a large building could be built in the vacant lot behind the site. Therefore, we set up a large terrace, which was one of the requests, at a position that connects the greenery and the T-junction of the front road, and decided to open the LDK through this terrace. Looking at the building from this T-junction, the large hollow-like terrace cut into the building creates a blank space in the crowded residential area, and the green and sky of the stadium behind the residential area are visible. The terrace is covered with a large roof, making it an easy-to-use outdoor space even in the Hokuriku region, where there is a lot of rainfall and snowfall. Continue reading Chidori Studio

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HHF

Densifying Landskronhof . Basel

HHF Architects

HHF has transformed a neglected courtyard with firewalls and parking spaces into 15 apartments and surrounding lush gardens. By combining “left-over” square meters of three existing parcels the project shows densification potentials by reclaiming seemingly unusable urban spaces. This 9-year project shows that it is possible to densify the city center of Basel if we gather around the same table. Owners, residents, neighbors and architects have moved the lines of 3 plots in order to make the heart of the block habitable. From there, the challenges of the site turned into the specificities of the project: the geometry of the plot, the proximity to the surrounding walls, the relationship with neighbors, the slope … were both the problem and the solution of the project. Continue reading HHF

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Gailing Rickling

Chalet Marie-Louise . SAN Morgins

Gailing Rickling . photos: © Guillaume Baeriswyl

Chalet Marie-Louise is located at the bottom of the southern slope of the Bec du Corbeau, near to the center of the village. The surrounding context is relatively dense and heterogeneous. The project is implanted at the top of the plot in order to seek distant views and to clear the south of the land into a garden. The natural slope of the land allows to distinguish two entrances, that of the main house on the upper ground floor, and a «mountain» room on the lower ground floor, which serves as a checkroom and serves the two dwellings independently. Continue reading Gailing Rickling

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