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Cultural Centre Eemhuis

Amersfoort, Netherlands
FIRM
Neutelings Riedijk Architects
TYPE
Cultural › Cultural Center 
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
PHOTOS
© Daria Scagliola & Stijn Brakkee, © Daria Scagliola & Stijn Brakke




The Eemhuis combines a number of existing cultural institutes in the city of Amersfoort: the city library, the exposition centre, the heritage archives and a school for dance, music and visual arts. It is located on an urban redevelopment area close to the city centre.

German Pavilion at the EXPO 2015 in Milan

Milan, Italy
FIRM
SCHMIDHUBER
TYPE
Commercial › Exhibition Center 
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
PHOTOS
Alexander Breier, alexanderbreier.de, keller-fotografie.de







“Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life” is the theme for Expo 2015. The German pavilion clearly orients itself to this leitmotif – under the “Fields of Ideas” motto. Germany reveals itself as a vibrant, fertile “landscape” filled with ideas on future human nutrition. The pavilion vividly illustrates just how important dealing respectfully with nature is to our ongoing food supply, while inviting visitors to take action themselves.

Visitors can discover the “Fields of Ideas” along two different routes. They can either stroll along the pavilion’s freely accessible upper level, which invites them to relax and enjoy. Or they can explore the exhibition inside the pavilion, which addresses such topics as the sources of nutrition, through to food production and consumption in the urban world.

The central design element of the pavilion are expressive membrane-covered shelters in the shape of sprouting plants: the “Idea Seedlings.” Their construction and bionic design vocabulary are inspired by nature. The Idea Seedlings link the interior and exterior spaces, a blend of architecture and exhibition, and at the same time provide shade for visitors in the hot Italian summer.

By integrating cutting-edge organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology, the seedlings become Solar Trees. The German Pavilion is the first large international architecture project to use these innovative new products. In contrast with a project using conventional solar modules, the German Pavilion architects had the opportunity to do more than just incorporate existing technology. They had free rein to design the flexible, OPV membrane modules to match their own creative ideas, and to integrate them into the overall design of the pavilion.

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Overall responsibility:
German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, Bonn

Management company:
Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH

Design, planning, realization:
German Pavilion Expo Milano 2015 Consortium

Spatial concept, architecture, general planning:
SCHMIDHUBER, Munich

Content concept, exhibition, media:
Milla & Partner, Stuttgart

Project management and construction:
Nüssli, Roth

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Hilversum, Netherlands
FIRM
Neutelings Riedijk Architects
TYPE
Cultural › Museum 
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2006
SIZE
300,000 sqft - 500,000 sqft
PHOTOS
8BIM








Ningbo Urban Planning Exhibition Center

Ningbo, China
FIRM
SCHMIDHUBER
TYPE
Commercial › Exhibition Center 
STATUS
Under Construction
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft








Prompted by surging urban growth in many of the nation’s larger cities, the Chinese “Urban Planning Museums” are generally intended to communicate important city planning and development issues to the public. The Ningbo Urban Planning Exhibition Center interprets this concept by way of a forum-like design in which discussions between politicians, professionals and the public may take place. In the new Center, the lines between citizens and decision-makers are blurred; visitors are given rare access to the inner-workings of their city. Our goal has foremost been to create an engaging, accessible public space in the new district, and thereby strengthen both physical and social ties between the local government and community.


One Column House Completed

Argentina
FIRM
NE-AR Nixdorff Etchegorry — Architecture Research
TYPE
Residential › Private House 
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K







NE-AR has completed an extension and refurbishment for an existing summer house on the shores of a Patagonian lake in the South of Argentina: the One Column House.

The existing summer house was lacking of optimum spatial and functional distribution conditions that could fulfil the needs and the ways that the house was used and experienced: the house was sitting far away from the lake shore neglecting the most privileged views towards the lake and its landscape, while at the same time both neighbour houses at the sides block the vistas towards the lake since their footprints were settled closer to the lake shore. Besides, the interior spaces were characterized by a deep dark dinning/ living area with limited relation to the outside.

Teleton Oncology Clinic

Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico

FIRM
Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
TYPE
Government + Health › Medical Facility 
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2013
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
PHOTOS
© Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, photo by Jaime Navarro, © Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, photo by Paul Czitrom
Since 1999 the Teletón Foundation has undertaken a great effort to attend to the needs of disabled children. In pursuit of the same ideals, it created the Teletón Infant Oncology Clinic (HITO) to support children with cancer, in response to one of the leading causes of death in Mexico. The city of Querétaro was chosen for its central location in the country, and its high rates of growth and development.















The architectural concept is based on the idea of a chain of cells making different movements, which represented the principle of cell regeneration. Each of these cells is represented by a volume, to give a total of nine sections, which contain the entire project within their curving form.

On the façade, each volume plays with a different inclination and has a series of vertical brackets that function as structural columns, eliminating the need for internal columns, as well as protecting from excess solar gain. The HITO is located on an elevated site with an undulating topography that provides extensive views over the city.The total area of the site is 45,130 square meters, which includes a large area intended for a nature reserve and another section set aside for future expansion.


The Museum Aan de Stroom (MAS)

Antwerp, Belgium
FIRM
Neutelings Riedijk Architects
TYPE
Cultural › Museum 
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2010
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
The Museum Aan de Stroom (MAS) stands between the old docks in the heart of the old port area of Antwerp, a major urban renewal project that is developing into a vibrant new city district. The MAS is designed as a sixty-meter high tower.







Ten giant natural stone boxes, full of historical objects, are piled up as a physical demonstration of the gravity of history to form a storehouse in the heart of the old docks. Each floor of the tower is twisted a quarter turn, creating a huge spiral staircase. This spiral space, which is bordered by a wall of corrugated glass, is a public gallery as a continuation of the city’s public domain, open at all times. An escalator route carries the people up from the museum square to the top of the spiral tower. At each floor the visitor can enter a museum hall and immerse into the story of the dead city, while on his way to the top breath-taking panoramas of the living city unfold. At the top of the tower one finds a restaurant, a party room and a panoramic terrace, where the present is celebrated and the future is planned.

Façades, floors, walls and ceilings of the tower are completely covered with large slabs of hand cleaved red Indian sandstone that grant the building the impression of a monumental stone sculpture. The four colours of the stone slabs are distributed on the façade based on a computerized random pattern. The spiral gallery is lined with a huge curtain of corrugated glass. The undulating glass façade with its play of light and shadow, transparency and translucency brings a light-hearted counterweight to the gravity of the stone sculpture. To soften the monumental stone volume, the façade has been covered with a veil created out of a pattern of metal ornaments sculptured like hands, the logo of the City of Antwerp. Inside the building this pattern continues through metal medallions, moulded by a design of graphic designer Tom Hautekiet and a text of Belgian writer Tom Lanoye. The Museum square at the foot of the tower is an integral part of the design. The square is decorated in the same red stone as the tower and surrounded by pavilions and terraces, as an urban space for events and outdoor exhibitions. The central part of the square is half sunken and forms a framework for a large mosaic of Belgian artist Luc Tuymans.




































































NE—AR decided to incorporate a detached volume as an extension to the existing house located closer to the lake shore and oriented towards the best landscape vistas, creating an internal patio between the existing house and the extension volume. Thus the new extension establishes a clear division between the public and private areas, the old and the new. While the existing house will host two large bedrooms and the main bathroom in the ground floor, all public areas will be linearly organized within the extension volume: open kitchen, dining place and the lounge area; all these spaces will share a wide open wooden terrace deck facing the lake shore.

The extension structure is mainly built in reinforced concrete: a planar roof runs widely from one neighbour boundary line to the other and is strengthened by four inverted beams that converge in the only load bearing vertical element of the house. This column is formed by a pair of concrete shear walls described by ruled surfaces.

One Column House researches upon the multiple performances a column could achieve beyond its structural capacity. Firstly, it is an element that marks a central place by integrating in itself a fireplace, while articulating the program by organizing the different functional spaces around it and orienting site-specific vistas. At the same time, it stores the fireplace logs and works as an infrastructural device where the rain water pipes are embedded within the twisted shear walls while opening up the concrete roof enabling natural zenith light to come through.

Project Info:
Name: One Column House.
Location: Río Negro, Argentina
Year: 2013; completed 2014
Function: Private Residential Extension and Refurbishment
Phase: Built
Building Surface: 160m² (60m² extension)
Building Volume: 480m³
Site Surface: 620m²
Client: Undisclosed


Team Credits:
Design: NE—AR Nixdorff Etchegorry Architecture Research:
Arch. Luis Etchegorry, Arch. Lars Nixdorff. Collaborator: Marina Rodriguez
Executive architect: Arch. Sebastián Costanzi.
Structural Engineer: Ing. Martín Saiz; Urbana Saiquen
Construction: Sajoux Constructora
Visualizations: 3D Notos
Photography: Mike Mercau














































Playze, in collaboration with Schmidhuber, has won the invited competition to design the Urban Planning Exhibition Center in Ningbo, China.

Client: City of Ningbo
Architekten: playze, Shanghai
SCHMIDHUBER, München
Local Design Institute: Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design and Research 
















































































The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision divides into three distinct elements, each designed as a separate volume: the national archives, where all the audiovisual material ever produced since the early days of Dutch radio and television is preserved, the TV and Radio exhibition centre for the public and a research institute for professionals.

The audiovisual archives – that need rigorously strict climatic conditions but no daylight – are conceived as five underground vault floors. The exhibition rooms are organized in a huge ziggurat shape floating in the air. The institute’s offices are housed in a simple slab on the side. Together these three distinct volumes form one giant cube, half above ground and half under ground, while leaving a giant empty space in the middle. This central space stitches together all the components of the institute. It is the central public atrium for visitors, professionals and collaborators, used for gatherings of the television community in the Media Park. The upside-down cascade of the stepped museum floors, clad in metal vibrating plates, registers as a wall sculpture that shapes and scales the internal space of the building. From the entrance the visitors are guided via a bridge over a deep canyon that dramatically shows the scale and sheer size of the archives vault. One of the canyon's sides is a flush wall with windows that radiate an orange gloom, as if the concealed sounds and images speak to the visitor from within the archives. On the other side of the canyon rises a series of inverted terraces that contain the viewing studios for professional researchers. Zenithal daylight streams in through the skylights down to the lowest levels of the vault. Coloured and tempered light enters through the glazed frontage of the superstructure.

The glass façade is based on original TV-images that were taken from the archives of the institute and translated into 2100 different coloured high relief glass panels, composed by graphic designer Jaap Drupsteen. In this way the quality of light transmitted through contemporary stained glass windows was achieved, giving the building a lightly tactile surface, where iconic images of Dutch TV-history appear and disappear during the day in the breaking of the light.

























The building is organized as a stacking of the cultural programs. The public domain is continued into the interior of the building in all directions. At the ground floor, the public square becomes a covered plaza, with a grand café and entrances to the various functions. The exposition centre is set directly off the square on the ground floor, with a large central exhibition hall that is half sunken in the ground and is surrounded by an enfilade of smaller exhibition rooms. The library is a plaza of stepped information terraces as a prolongation of the city square that brings the visitors up to the main library floor. At the top of the stairs the library spills into a vast open space with book stacks and reading and study areas overlooking the city. Above it hovers the archive volume that forms the ceiling of this space. The attic of the building houses the arts school. The three arts departments (theatre & dance, visual arts and music) are each expressed separately as cantilevered beams that crown the complex.

The façades are composed of a classical tripartite as imposed by the master plan. The plinth is made of 30 cm long elongated glazed bricks, reinforcing the horizontal lining. The crown of the building is made of metal panels with a dotted pattern of semi-spheres that enhance the alienating quality of the cantilevered volumes against the northern Dutch clouds.




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