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On 02, Mar 2013 | In | By PAR

PIRAEUS ANTIQUITIES MUSEUM

The new Antiquities Museum of Piraeus is conceived through a spatial inversion, this industrial typology is reinvented as a cultural destination. Our interest lies not only in the complex program of the museum, but in the site’s unexploited urban potential as a civic link. Transformed into an iconic, world class museum, the building’s openness activates the Cultural Coast District. A system of void spaces introduces a spatial configuration that brings daylight to public areas whilst engaging the surrounding urban context. Selective erasure ensures that treasured qualities of the concrete silo structure will be retained and adapted into the new use. At moments of subtraction, the cartesian grid of the silo building translates into a new contoured geometry expressing the old in a new way.

 

TYPE: Cultural, Museum
LOCATION: Piraeus, Atherns, Greece
STATUS: 2012, Compatition
AREA: 14,000 m2
CLIENT: Piraeus Port Authority & Ministry of Culture
ENGINEER: ARUP
ENVIRONMENTAL: ARUP: Russell Fortmeyer, Senior Consultant
VISUALIZER: PAR
ARCHITECT: PAR: Jennifer Marmon, Partner in Charge; Matthew Young, Ross Ferrari, Project Architects; Devon Montminy, Arthur Wong, Jacqueline Kerr, Allison Klute, Seyoung Choi, Richard Molina, Tom Ames; Michelle Kalogerakis, Local Consultant

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SHUTTER HOUSES SHUTTER HOUSES SHUTTER HOUSES SHUTTER HOUSES SHUTTER HOUSES SHUTTER HOUSES

On 02, Mar 2013 | In | By PAR

SHUTTER HOUSES

Despite an increasing density, Los Angeles continues to drift and expand boundlessly into undeveloped territory necessitating compact growth and infrastructural overhauls. Within the context of global urbanization, the past decade has provided opportunities to address outmoded patterns of residential development and domestic space in Los Angeles. A renewed interest in an urban lifestyle has prompted private development of higher density alternatives in a city that has long been infatuated with single family houses and private gardens. Our Shutter Houses proposal was initiated by a desire to embrace density and optimize the building volume within a densifying Hollywood neighborhood. The building is conceived as an abstract volume wrapped in a seemingly random pattern of windows which creates a sense of unity amongst the dwellings. The windows, each carefully positioned function as framing devises for the surrounding urban context. A series of operable shutters enable residents to individually modulate shading and privacy which in turn expresses use. In automated mode, the shutters respond to environmental conditions, creating light-modulating privacy screens in the dynamic facade.

 

TYPE: Housing
LOCATION: Los Angeles, US
STATUS: 2004-2008, Completed
AREA: 1.300 m2 | 13,860 sf
CLIENT: Western Pacific Development
BUDGET: 3.3M USD
VISUALIZER: PAR
ARCHITECT: PAR: Jennifer Marmon, Partner in Charge; Bertrand Geniost, Pooya Guidarzi, Matthew Ribault
ARCHITECT Of RECORD: PAR: Jay Vanos Architects

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