To organize the house in large gaps and create environments with maximum openings for the recreation area, prestressed concrete and tubular steel structures were used. In the façade, highlights for the apparent concrete gable that forms a diagonal volume. The composition was balanced with the volume of the upper floor that acts as a displaced hanging box. The materials explored seek harmony and contrast, based on the tripod formed by wood, ap ...

  History In the United States, around 1985, Phillip C. Clark recorded that there would be a method for converting one or more cargo containers into habitable buildings. What is a container? The container is a kind of box, made from steel, fiber or aluminum. For this reason, the container is very well structured to withstand the constant use of different types of goods. It is also well known as a ca ...

The Allianz Arena stadium, completed in 2004, hosted World Cup matches in Germany 2006 and became an icon of world architecture . With its unusual external and chameleonic appearance, its façade can change colors according team there, red, blue or white . With a capacity of 66 thousand people, the stadium is shared by two teams: FC Bayern München and TSV 1860 München. The Allianz Arena was born in the creative minds of two Swiss architects: ...

The architect is often seen by society as an elite professional, and therefore hired only by the wealthy; Or even unnecessary for most constructions, with the prevailing understanding that with the right manpower it would be possible to build without the need for a project. In this context, an alarming data was raised by the research developed in 2015 by the Datafolha Institute in partnership with the CAU / BR: among Brazilians who have already d ...

The so-called architecture of spectacle is frequently related to a design method oriented to the product, the finished building, the operation way that was born in Renaissance, with the separation of design, building and use. On other way, the design oriented to the process, based on interfaces production, to open buildings with spaces that can be transformed by work and by experience, searching the users’ autonomy, is frequently related to inf ...

The neomodernist residence is the junction of a language developed in modernist architecture with the incorporation of new elements from contemporary architecture. With an orthogonal design, the purity of white on façades and big glass openings, the P2 House promotes the integration of internal spaces within the exterior extensive gardens. By functional sight, the integration also happens in the house’s interior. In the first floor the central ...

The Sustainability House born from the concept that governs the environment and nature as a whole: the "Ecosystem", which must be in perfect balance and within a continuous life cycle of raw materials. Presented as an Exhibition Center for Sustainable Technologies, its architecture can be understood as a system of use, recycling, and reuse of resources, whose flow is expressed in the continuity and fluidity of its circulations. The design conc ...

The PVC House presents itself as a mirror of contemporary society: dynamic, inventive and objective. It brings together in its concise 60 square meters all the fundamental concepts of sustainability for a residence: rainwater reuse, solar energy as a source for electric energy generation and water heating, solid waste recycling, and the application of plastic in most of the building elements using all its characteristics of durability, strength, ...

Seeking to meet the demand for new housing units integrated to commerce (mixed use buildings) in the Administrative Area of Santa Maria – DF, the purpose develops in two lots of 1,200 m² each one, in two buildings that stand out for their relationship with the immediate environment. By promoting urban integration, with the encouragement of pedestrians across the block, commercial units on the ground floor are also activated and stimulated econ ...