Gabriella Castellanos

Retro Graphica: “Aujord’hui Art et Architecture” Part 2

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South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre by Anagram Architects

“The SAHRDC office is built on a 50 sqm plot situated on busy pedestrian street corner, keeping in mind sustainability, spatial efficiency and cost effective construction. The western, longer façade is exposed to intense solar radiation as well as acoustic and visual intrusion from the street. A buffer zone of the lavatory stack and staircase, located along this edge, maximises floor area and moderates acoustic and thermal pressures. This flanking wall is conceived as an animated, dynamic skin that reflects the bustle of the street while its porosity playfully engages with the street corner. Inspired by traditional ornately carved brise soleils, the masonry techniques evolved from a deep on-site collaboration between the architects and the masons.”

Farm next to the chapel by Bergmeisterwolf, Sterzing 2011

Frank Lloyd Wright and Graphic Design

As for the future — the work shall grow more truly simple, more expressive with fewer lines, fewer forms; more articulate with less labor; more plastic; more fluent, although more coherent; more organic. It shall grow not only to fit more perfectly the methods and processes that are called upon to produce it, but shall further find whatever is lovely or of good repute in method or process, and idealize it with the cleanest, most virile stroke I can imagine.

Copper House II by Studio Mumbai

Pile foundations were put in and a slab was cast two feet above the high-water line to cope with the severe floods of Mumbai. 

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