Articles by Hadir Al Koshta

Bozeman Passive Haus is the highest-performing single-family home in Montana’s Gallatin Valley, setting a new standard for high-performance single-family homes in the region. This project was driven by the client’s commitment to sustainability, which is integrated into every aspect of the home’s design and function. The goal was to create an exceptionally efficient and resilient home by employing Passive House principles. As experts in Passive House design, Love Schack Architecture designed a sustainable oasis in harsh rural Montana winters. This approach resulted in a highly insulated and airtight building envelope, which ensures stable indoor temperatures and significantly reduces the load on mechanical systems. The Bozeman Passive House maintained comfortable indoor conditions even during extreme 30-degree temperatures, despite the mechanical systems being turned off.

Lodge at Marconi is a historic coastal retreat in Northern California’s dynamic Tomales Bay region that has been fully reimagined by celebrated New York-based design studio, Home Studios. Lodge at Marconi features 45 guestrooms and suites, an artful Reception Lounge, a restaurant, and beautified grounds by Bay Area-based landscape architecture studio, Dune Hai. Paying homage to Third Bay Tradition architecture, namely the progressive mid-century modernist style of Sonoma’s Sea Ranch Lodge, Lodge at Marconi is a unique project located within Marconi State Historic Park on 62 sprawling acres off Highway Route 1, providing guests with access to West Marin County’s striking natural beauty – which is weaved throughout the design.

Lodge at Marconi is a historic coastal retreat in Northern California’s dynamic Tomales Bay region that has been fully reimagined by celebrated New York-based design studio, Home Studios. Lodge at Marconi features 45 guestrooms and suites, an artful Reception Lounge, a restaurant, and beautified grounds by Bay Area-based landscape architecture studio, Dune Hai. Paying homage to Third Bay Tradition architecture, namely the progressive mid-century modernist style of Sonoma’s Sea Ranch Lodge, Lodge at Marconi is a unique project located within Marconi State Historic Park on 62 sprawling acres off Highway Route 1, providing guests with access to West Marin County’s striking natural beauty – which is weaved throughout the design.

Springfield University Hospital is based on the concept of evidence-based architecture to provide therapeutic surroundings for patients and the well-being of staff and visitors.

Pole Mokotowskie is one of Warsaw’s largest and undeniably most popular parks. The park itself is also a unique social phenomenon as its space has been shaped equally by the activities of its designers and a grassroots social process. This location has become widely accepted as the setting for the informal activities of the city’s residents. Thus, it is a carrier of deep-rooted practices, habits, and memories. Faced with such a sensitive ecosystem, WXCA architects proposed an approach that could be termed ‘design acupuncture’.

Porseleinen Hof is situated in the westernmost extension of the Spoorzone area – also known as Nieuw Delft – and is considered one of the cornerstones of the development area. This cornerstone is formed by a height accent—the Porseleinen Toren—and a cluster of ground-access houses, collectively forming Porseleinen Hof. By designing both plots in close coordination with each other, a plan is created in which parking, shared car usage, collective rooftop gardens, and the housing program are optimally aligned, resulting in a pleasant and differentiated living environment in the center of Delft. “The sculptural appearance of the tower, clad in the white glazed ceramic material, ensures that the building appears differently from all sides in the streetscape”

This high-end residential development offers a natural refuge in one of India’s largest cities, elevating the greenery of Carmichael Road through a series of bespoke naturally ventilated indoor-outdoor residences.

Formal Urban Planning – Rennes, France, the capital of Brittany, has initiated several large urban development projects, the most spectacular of which is the reorganization of the entire train station area with the ZAC (Zone d’aménagement concerté) EuroRennes, including the completely new construction of the main train station. This development is the logical consequence of the connection of Rennes to the TGV high-speed railway network to Paris, 350 kilometers away, with a journey time of just 100 minutes and trains running every hour. The station area has therefore increased significantly in value and given a real boost to the city’s urban development. The French railway company SNCF has freed up a wide swathe of ​​land along the tracks and is gradually selling it to the highest-bidding project developers. The city has founded a semipublic urban development company that links the allocation of land to competitions in which the design of the team of architects plays a decisive role. This is an attempt to ensure urban and architectural quality. The FGP team of Philippe Gazeau and Louis Paillard, in collaboration with Agence Ter, was chosen as the master planner of the entire area. The master plan assumes that individual buildings stand next to each other as loose volumes similar to urban villas and smaller high-rise buildings, thereby creating an open city impression despite high urban density. The buildings form classic streets and squares. In addition, the master plan requires all buildings to have façades that slope in both plan and section, including façades that are designed to overhang in a “rock-like” manner to create an organic and sculptural effect. Atelier Kempe Thill, together with the Rennes-based architectural firm Atelier56S, were invited by the client Legendre Immobilier to the competition for the Beaumont construction site directly opposite the train platforms.