Renovation

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Shanghai Minhang Squirrel & Mountain Nurturing Community Building Renovation and Renewal / Partyfriendship

January 11, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

The Squirrel & Mountain Nurturing Community (Songshan Community) is one of China’s first nature-based, integrated communities featuring art, culture, and farming. It was established in 2021 to create an environment where people are treated fairly whether they are able-bodied or have disabilities. The community also includes a small art gallery, restaurant, tea house, meditation space, woodworking workshop, and theater. After years of development, the original space is no longer adequate, they plan to complete a participatory transformation of an old textile factory in the village in the fall of 2023. They plan to complete the transformation of an old textile factory in the village in the fall of 2023 in a participatory way and to include the above-mentioned functions.

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Building Energy Saving Retrofit in Liu Lian Primary School / FORWARD STUDIO

January 9, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

Pingdi Liulian Primary School is a school scene in the “Five Ones” Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction Model Program in Longgang District. Forward design, in collaboration with Jianxue Design and CSCEC, combined energy-saving, carbon-reducing, and zero-carbon technologies to complete the renovation of the nation’s first elementary school in a PEDF project, and Shenzhen’s first near-zero-energy elementary school campus utilizing the renovation of an existing building.

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This 1950s California Ranch Home Was Updated With A Black And White Palette

January 4, 2024 Erin 0

ANACAPA Architecture has sent us photos of a home renovation they completed for a young family of four who sought to update their 1952 California Ranch home nestled in the San Roque neighborhood of Santa Barbara. The original home had an awkward layout that chopped up the interior, with the architects explaining, “To get to the backyard, you had to go […]

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How A 1940s House Was Renovated Into A Modern Home

January 3, 2024 Erin 0

Architecture firm Wittman Estes has transformed an original house built in the 1940s, located on the eastern shore of Hood Canal near the Bangor submarine base in Washington State. Due to the complex constraints of the shoreline exemption, the architects kept to the existing footprint, expanding the house only from the existing structure. The new […]

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3 in 1 house / Piano Piano Studio

January 3, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

As soon as we opened the door, we were greeted by a narrow, dark space with a long corridor running through the whole house giving access to five rooms: a bathroom, a large bedroom, a small bedroom, a kitchen and a living-dining room. We found an anodyne architecture with an evident spatial poverty in which the owner, despite having lived there for more than 10 years, told us that he had not got used to it and conveyed his desire to give character, brightness and warmth to his home.

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Neighborhood Center of Gaobei Community / LEL DESIGN STUDIO

January 3, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

Community Renewal | Community Neighborhood Center of Gaobei
The land used for the Gaobei Community Neighborhood Center project was originally a real estate sales office. After completing its mission, it has been abandoned for nearly ten years, with damp water and the breeding of mosquitoes. Although the site is large and has lush vegetation, it cannot be used.

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Domingo Renovation / Aramé Studio

December 31, 2023 Pilar Caballero 0

This residence, located in the Eixample district, had been mistreated over time. The original materiality and morphology were unrecognizable. It was a gloomy space with a chaotic layout modified by previous users. We discovered a patio on a lower level, completely separated from the living space, accessed through a narrow staircase.

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MAUXI reform / Oficina BA-RRO + Ignacio de Antonio

December 25, 2023 Pilar Caballero 0

The renovation of this apartment is located in a residential tower with a reinforced concrete structure built in 1968. Two large 60 cm beams and 4 concrete pillars cross each of the dwellings in this building. The project’s strategy consists of stripping one of these houses to identify its structural elements, which have become the protagonists of the space.