Month: October 2019

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

The project consists of a residence for a young couple of architects and a commercial room for classes and meetings of wine tasting, in a single building that independently attends each use with a certain degree of spatial indetermination to flexibilize several future uses.

Open non-stop from breakfast to post-dinner, the venue hits London and constituting the first restaurant and cocktail bar at international level by VyTA, is located in the East tower of Covent Garden market, the famous listed building grade II monument and heart of swinging London in the 1960s.

The Kalasatama Electricity Substation serves the rapidly developing Kalasatama area situated close to downtown Helsinki. It consists of two buildings housing transformers and a switchgear building, all in in-situ white concrete and clad over by an aluminum graffiti fence and an architectural steel mesh. The location is a central, urban site between the former Suvilahti power station that has been transformed into a cultural center and the still-functional Hanasaari power station. The site is located by one of the main traffic arteries leading to the city center.

The site has the typical challenges of many urban lots in Ho Chi Minh city: abutted by tall neighboring houses, small developable area relative to the clients’ program, and compromised access to daylighting and natural ventilation. Due to the height restriction, the house was pushed 1 level below the ground to accommodate the large program.

“Quad” gives form to the unseen forces of Seoul’s building code, parking needs, and rental market over four very different segments. Each segment receives a distinct massing, facade, and layout with varying rental spaces. This project represents a study in the purposefully awkward proportion and subtle detail as a way of functionally dislodging a building from its surroundings, a way of creating identity given what is otherwise very standard and materially contextual.

We always long for home. Even when we are outside working, we yearn for our cozy place at home. More so when we are away from home. Our ‘house’ is not just a physical structure, but rather a very complex architecture that contain people, stories, and warmth. It is a space fused of abstract and specific. When opened an office Twenty years ago, I sat in front of a desk, empty except paper, pencils and watercolor.