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Maternity Waiting Village / MASS Design Group

April 19, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

Maternal mortality due to complications during childbirth remains a major global problem. In 2010 in Malawi, about one in thirty-six women had a lifetime risk of dying during pregnancy or delivery, largely from preventable causes. Maternal waiting homes have been used to increase access to skilled professionals located adjacent to health centers. These facilities provide a monitored space for expectant mothers starting from their thirty-sixth week until their delivery. The president of Malawi initiated an effort in 2012 to build 130 such facilities across the country.

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Kizugawa House / Hearth Architects

April 18, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

The house is in a new residential area. It’s a quiet residential area. It’s a favorable area became three sides are surrounded by streets, moreover, two of them are sidewalks. The shape of the house is a simple rectangle, and I arranged it at the middle of the area.

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Safezone Shelter / Shma Company Limited

April 17, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

Situated in front of the Grand Postal Building during Bangkok Design Week 2020, Safezone Shelter is an ephemeral intervention, aiming to purify air and provide comfort for people, while also raising awareness about “air pollution,” which becomes a critical concern for many societies. Looking at Bangkok, according to the World Air Quality Index of 2019, it has 54% of total days in a year in which particulate matter (PM) was measured over WHO’s standard level, threatening over one-third of inhabitants.

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Gymnasium Villepreux / Joly&Loiret

April 17, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

The particular position of this site, situated between countryside and the extending fringes of the town, instigates an interesting visual dialogue between two opposing scenes. On one side, seen from the main road or the fields, the project must blend into a rural environment of soil and vegetation. On the other side, however, it must find its place as part of a housing estate composed of bright, detached houses surrounded by gardens, giving the neighbourhood a particularly landscaped appearance.

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Tan Phu House / k59 atelier

April 17, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

Nowadays, Town house or row house projects (4mx16m, 5mx14m…) have become popular choices for residential area in big cities. Beside solving disadvantages from city like noise and air pollution, we choose the way to change old habits of people by adapting open living space that suitable with them.

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A House with Four Gardens / draftworks architects

April 17, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

” In company with the aphid and the grasshopper, but also the spider mite, the tiger moth, the leaf, miner, the mole, and the hover-fly, the praying mantis that devours them all. We shall be sharing leaves, petals, sky, in this incredible garden, both they and I transitory.” NICOSSIENSES, Niki Marangou.

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The “cul-de-sac” Residence / Chathurika Kulasinghe – Architect

April 16, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

The Client is a young couple with a tight budget, keen on making a home for themselves as a place to escape to and relax, away from their busy schedules. Located amidst a residential neighborhood in Horahena, this residence is characterized by its curved formation that is derived from the site layout- a 6.56 perch plot with a cul-de-sac of the common access way defining the curved edge of the site.

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Koka House / Hearth Architects

April 15, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

The house is located at the end of T junction and surrounded by roads on three sides. The client wants to open a small coffee shop in the future. So, I made two delta roofs like a coffee shop in a mountain hut. One space is for private and the another is for half public. I connected the two spaces gently.

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The Byron House / Paul Uhlmann Architects

April 14, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

This generous family home intended to encapsulate what it means to live in Byron Bay. This concept saw the creation of an open and ‘relaxed’ residence, that was still site responsive and outward looking yet sheltered and warm. All main living spaces were arranged along a central spine that cascaded down the slope of the site, with the same earthy, natural materials used both internally and externally.