KOSMOS Architects . renders: © Max-Viz Studio
The project is a school with two faces: an urban, mineral front facing the existing brutalist 1970-s schools and a green nature front facing the green space. Continue reading KOSMOS Architects
As an alternative to the resource-excessive and short-term architecture of temporary festivals, the Off-Season Pavilion by KOSMOS proposes to search for the locally available resources of Logroño and give them a new temporary life outside of their productive cycle. The installation reveals the hidden materials of the local agricultural industry: the so-called ‘jaulones de vino,’ huge metal cages uses to store wine bottles used in big bodegas. These storage cubes boast a very clear seasonal temporality: completely full of bottles in one part of the year and completely empty and unused in the other one, which, in this case, luckily coincides with the time of the Concentrico Festival. Continue reading KOSMOS
AJDVIV (Jan de Vylder Inge Vinck) . KOSMOS . Inside Outside Petra Blaisse
The competition task (launched by the City of Antwerp) asked to propose a new identity of the transport infrastructure of Antwerp that can bring together random pieces of bus, train and tram stations in one coherent project. Different sites were provided, united with one challenge. Continue reading AJDVIV . KOSMOS . Inside Outside
K O S M O S Architektur & Design GmbH
Despite direct connotation of architecture with something permanent, complete, and not movable (“immobilien” in German), the essential quality of a sustainable building is to be able to grow and change. Unforeseeable transformations of the society force buildings to adapt to new conditions. Environmental crisis and scarcity of resources makes us rethink the way we design, build and maintain architecture. Continue reading K O S M O S
AJDVIV (Architecten Jan de Vylder Inge Vinck) . K O S M O S Architektur
Late autumn winter to come. Sunday afternoon. My father took the car and took us upon a trip trespassing the harbour of Antwerp. Not only the bankside but also the endless landscapes of the industrial carpet that comes along with it and seems to wave out without refrain. An industrial landscape that came in place of the once ever only farming landscape. Continue reading AJDVIV . K O S M O S
