VODAFONE BUILDING, BARBOSA & GUIMARÃES
PAULA SANTOS, HOUSE IN OVAR
REISER + UMEMOTO, 0-14 TOWER
SOUZA OLIVEIRA, LISBON STONE BLOCK
WOODS BAGOT, QATAR SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PARK
SSH, URC KIPCKO TOWER
ARX, CODFISH AQUARIUM / MARITIME MUSEUM OF ÍLHAVO
ARCHJS, JASSIM AL SHEHAB ARCHITECTS, FIGS RESTAURANTS
ARCHJS, JASSIM AL SHEHAB ARCHITECTS, POLISH NAIL SPA
AGI ARCHITECTS, ALI MOHAMMED T. AL-GHANIM CLINIC
RICHARD SERRA, EAST-WEST/ WEST-EAST
ÁLVARO SIZA, SANTO TIRSO FIRE STATION
ARCADE
ARCADE
LUÍS REBELO DE ANDRADE & DIOGO AGUIAR, PEDRAS SALGADAS RESORT
MASSIVE ORDER, STREET HOUSE
ZAHA HADID, SHEIKH ZAYED BRIDGE
SHANGHAI
APPLE SHANGHAI STORE
SOM, SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL LLP, CAYAN TOWER
VENICE
Cheia de Graça Chapel is inserted in the Imaculada Chapel, in Braga.
The project focused on the restoration of the Imaculada Chapel and the high-choir, transforming it into a reserved space for the inhabitants of de Seminary – the Cheia de Graça Chapel. The total ceiling height of the intervening space and the outer walls of the room were taken advantage of, leaving the existing “skin” of stone that manifests around the chapels in a sculptural away
The Chapel erected in wood, from the support structure to the planes conferring the space composed of several pieces of wood, fitted together, creating a balanced structure that manifests as a forest at the entrance of the sacred space. Its canopy creates a space dedicated to the inhabitants of the Seminary and its trunks a filter between the profane space and the sacred space, allowing the visitor to surrender to the space, surrender to the dimension of senses.
A concrete vault surrounds the chapels, imposing itself simple, light and suspended in space, defying its own materiallism. The openings in the dome that extend through its concrete walls create moments of openness, filtering the sunlight and granting a «quiet» accuracy and greater dignity to the structural elements of the roof. The vault creates, along with the remaining elements, a space of absolute “restless silence” remitting to introspection.
This concrete dome has a thickness of 12cm and it is supported by a steel structure almost imperceptible to the observer, allowing it to appear suspended.
The space is also endowed with an acoustic superior quality, its composition of acoustic sandwich panel on the roof and the elongated form of the dome allow for better performance. This brings another level of spatial interpretation, allowing space to be manifested by sound, creating a dialogue between space and the user. Because of this vault, Cheia de Graça Chapel assumes a circular form favoring the meeting, privacy and introspection to the inhabitants of the Seminary.
In the background, a marble slit rises, backlit naturally, transporting the viewer to another physical and spiritual dimension.
Thus, by its composition and scale was given to this space a level of superior intelligibility and a spiritual dimension, allowing the dialogue between space, the individual and the divine.
Text by Cerejeira Fontes Architects
Residential Nasima aims to question the essential realization of an ever modernizing and homogenizing surrounding urban context. As Kuwait City moves towards drastic and rapid modernization, the architectural values that should protect the culture, traditions of the city, and the individual are starting to disintegrate. To instigate the debate of preserving culture while allowing progress, residential Nasima blends into the city fabric. The parti takes inspiration from the historical natural landscape and urban clusters, while providing a provoking contemporary design solution in contrast to it.
Residential Nasima sets out to question two typical archetypes seen throughout Kuwait City and the region – standard, rectilinear, symmetrical city plot dimensions, and the abundant use of native stone and white concrete. The design works backwards from the basic volume of the zoning envelope – essentially the cube. Then the monolithic volume is chiseled through a series of cuts informing internal use, sun shading, and access.
The final design encompasses over 4000 square meters of built area and provides for eight unique residential units. The forceful exterior voids are cut into the building envelope, celebrating a reading of interior program and shading as well as allowing natural light. Individual housing units are in filled into the larger site massing, allowing a medium between privacy and open public views.
Text by Studio Madouh
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