Month: October 2018

“Nishiki-cho Bunkaisan” is a renovation project for a new creative center integrating food museum, restaurant, farm business incubation office and residence for innovating personality of people, business and culture with inheriting the memory of Nishiki-cho area. “Bunkai×San”means “demolition×creation” in Japanese. This is why the architectural design target is to construct self-renovation system to generate opportunities and places for creating the next social vision.

The client’s brief was to establish a fresh food marketplace, with the highest quality offering. We proposed that the key to the project lay less in the architecture and more in the makeup of the vendors and the genuineness of their operations. A study of various contemporary and historic market precedents led us to identify the attributes we believed central to the making of a true market:

Architecture firm Jasmax has been selected to design New Zealand‘s National Pavilion for EXPO 2020 in Dubai. New Zealand will participate in Expo 2020 from October 2020 to April 2021. Expo 2020 Dubai will bring together 180 nations and 25 million international visitors. Over six months, the event will inspire collaboration on global challenges and opportunities. New Zealand’s theme for Expo 2020 is ‘Care for People and Place’. The pavilion will feature an exhibition experience, corporate hosting facilities, a restaurant and design store.

The project consists of a 200 square meter one story single-family home, located in the city of Santiago de Chile, in the commune of Colina. The area is generally rural, characterized by low density and large plots of land. The 5.000 square meters plot is part of a condominium with large arborized avenues and high standard homes.

before the school was built, the rural community’s 27 children received classes in a makeshift hut.

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