Month: August 2022

Considered the second most requested skill (behind field experience) in the industry and used by a growing number of design professionals, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has proved to be the present of architecture. But with constant new features and exciting improvements, it is also very much the future. For decades, the revolutionary software has established itself as a powerful tool with a long list of invaluable capabilities: detecting errors, reducing costs and material waste, mitigating risks, optimizing workflows and, above all, allowing for seamless, multi-disciplinary collaboration.

Built as an extension of the existing Grün Canggu, Studio N offers a unique hospitality experience for sophisticated travelers. Studio N is a spacious one-bedroom studio living concept, constructed in a series of 4 buildings on an otherwise narrow and tricky site of 745sqm.

This site sits in a very dense and developed area of Ahmedabad with a plot size of about 1580 sft. The plot is North facing and square in shape. This was the client’s old house used by the past two generations of the family. He wanted to keep some elements of the ground floor as memory and convert the existing built-up house into a private office with a guest house, so we decided not to change the foundation and build two additional floors giving the whole built form four new elevations. The placement of spaces leads us to plan a house that opens up to the outside view of north and west.

Located in Modernist Caulfield, the original structure was a double-storey, the 1970s, split-level residence in need of reimagining. Referencing the home’s Modernist beginnings while designing a contemporary extension for a growing family was key to the brief but, with the acquisition of the second parcel of land to the south, what began as a single-site, double-storey addition morphed into a double-site, single-level extension. Landscape architects were engaged early in the design phase to ensure an integrated vision for the expanded site. 

Casa RH (corridor + module) is located kilometers before the entrance to the city of Valdivia, specifically on a hill on the north bank of the Calle Calle river. The site is five thousand square meters and is located inside a forest of native and introduced species.