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Lacroix Chessex

two-storey villa . Veyrier

Lacroix Chessex Architectes . photos: © Olivier di Giambattista

The development comprises a two-storey villa of around 150 m², built adjacent to the existing family home dating from the late 1990s. It consists of a large unitary gable roof housing different volumes based on a square grid. This fragmented composition, unified by its roof, makes it possible to tame the diagonal available for this house. Continue reading Lacroix Chessex

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Selgascano

Pavilion for the Biennale . Venice

Selgascano

Typically, all projects are initially based on a specific place and time. In this case, the essence of the project is that it is based on two places and two times. The second place is the Giardini della Biennale as the intervention space, and the first time is the hot and humid summer in Venice. The first place, on the other hand, is the Kumara Foundation in the southeast of India, and the second time is some moment in the spring of 2026 in India. Continue reading Selgascano

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Sam architecture

Hermann School Complex . Arpajon and Ollainville

Sam architecture . photos: © Salem Mostefaoui

The school complex appears in the landscape with a controlled formal and material duality:
The classrooms appear in the form of monolithic pavilions that rhythmically shape the landscape with a sequential façade, both dynamic and systematic, offering a different appearance from every viewpoint, sometimes massive, sometimes transparent. The facades, made of in-situ tinted concrete that gives off a warm and welcoming appearance, are then sandblasted after pouring to expose aggregates, in certain places, thus controlling the final quality. The pavilion classrooms emerge from the ground like rocks–raw, noble and timeless. Continue reading Sam architecture

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Steimle Architekten

Sports . Wangen im Allgäu

Steimle Architekten . photos: © Brigida González . + baunetz

The guiding idea of the design is the urban reorganization of the area with radically few interventions: Only the orientation of the building is to structure the area. The new gymnasium will be positioned on the site of the obsolete hall. In this way, all existing trees can be preserved. With its public spaces – foyer and cafeteria – the sports hall opens up on three sides to the west, north and east and thus to all neighboring uses. It forms a face to the commercial school, the town hall, the high school, the tree hall, the vocational school center and even to the historic old town of Wangen. In the eastern apron, a new festival square is thus created. Continue reading Steimle Architekten