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      A media library is a markpoint in the city. Individuality and division, discovered and training, exchange and contemplation. A media library is an urban place, a center of common life, concrete conception of a shared culture. A media library is also an adventure place. Stories there are discovered: our story, others’s stories, fantastic stories. As the terra cotta vases protected the first parchments, the media library contains our universe. The media library of Montauban seeks to be this place with multiple facets. It is installed on a particular site, emblematic of the city development. This site is in the centre of a crossing of various routes. Kneecap between the Southern district restructured and the Eastern districts, input signal of the city; strongpoint with the door of the district, the media library must assume a driving role on an urban scale and this exceptional site scale. The project suggested principal axes of the district and the city, that they materialize in its volumetry. Outside, the building reacts to the meaning directions. Inside, the user locates himself through the characteristic sights on the urban environment. It is integrated clearly in its environmental and regional context thanks to its materiality: ground. Essential material, anchored in the architectural tradition is declined on the media library in all its alternatives: thick walls protecting from noise and heat guaranteeing maximum comfort.

Offices In Via Zumbini I BINOCLE Milan I Italy I 2011

      In the outskirts of Milan two separate buildings are organized around a common courtyard. The first is the result of the transformation of an industrial structure from the 30’s, the second is a new construction. The complex features 17 office units available for small companies in search of a workplace to rent. The different characters of the buildings suggested an homogeneous, rather than distinguished, use of materials. The old and the new belong to a family, feature the same materials and present similar constructive solutions. Since the offices have been designed for unknown users their materials, colors and finishing are neutral and anonymous to encourage further customizations. 12 Ampelopsis quinquefolia inhabit the main façade on the courtyard. The climbers change appearance three times a year: they proliferate in spring and summer providing shade, they lose their leaves in winter letting the sun radiate the interiors and they turn completely red in the autumn to announce their forthcoming transformation.

Gazoline Petrol Station I DAMILANOSTUDIO ARCHITECTS Cuneo I Italy I 2011

      The design of a service station is a strong reference to the idea of travel, short or long-distance routes interrupted only by a few stops and then back on the road. A break for refueling, or just to stretch a bit ‘legs before continuing his journey. With the same continuity, the service station is separated from the asphalt like a ribbon of road with the engine and wrapping around itself, creating a temporary volume to accommodate the traveler. The tape then sink back into the ground to continue to other destinations. The architecture of the service station, as usually conceived as a mere support function, thus acquires a shape.

      The architecture, static by definition, becomes closely linked to the concept of continuous flow that envelops and becomes the urban landscape without interruption. The shell reinforced concrete, cast in special molds fluidized is closed by glass walls. Are distributed within the office manager and a self-service, separate bathrooms from the block in central position. On the rear elevation red steel block is detached from the body and a wolf howling, illuminated at night, draws attention to the urgent needs.

Hashi Mori I Affect Studio Berlin I Germany I 2012

      Located in the heart of Berlin, this newly completed izakaya restaurant combines traditional Japanese materials and hand craft with 3D modeling and computer programming to form an atmospheric space for dining. Responding to the client’s wishes for a cozy space that establishes a visual identity for the restaurant while also maximizing table count, the entire design intervention is achieved without the use of a single wall. A 56 qm ceiling installation serves as the main design feature of the restaurant. By using the chopstick as a simple, repeating element, the project creates an immersive and highly intimate canopy over the space. The installation is made out of 13,454 hand drilled, stained, and threaded chopsticks, 57,400 knots, and over20 km of nylon and took a crew of 14 people three weeks to complete.

Centre for Automotive-Engineering I Walser Zumbrunn Wäckerli Winterthur I Switzerland I 2011

      The competence centre for automotive-engineering STFW is situated on a narrow property between a main street and the river Toess. The buildings are arranged on an area of 500 meters length. A new building had to be added in the south-eastern part of the property to increase the centres capacity. It is intended for apprenticeship and on-the-job-training, for both theory and practice. Therefore we had to pay great attention to the different occupants. The facade was constructed in bended aluminium sheets referring to the work with auto body sheets.

Fresach Diocesan Museum I Marte.Marte Architekten Fresach I Austria I 2011

      Where the village starts to cross over into nature, there is an intact ensemble of Protestant church, old meeting house, rectory and cemetery. The public square has been completed by a monolithic block placed on the gently rising land to the northeast. The foundation and main level divide the hermetic shell for the diocese’s church treasures, and bring the large cube into harmony with the scale of the surrounding buildings. On the ground floor, the foyer and the multi-functional temporary exhibition room

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