Wastefilter: From Prison to Power Plant | FAP 2022 Merit

The process of industrialisation and modernisation has inevitably brought about a greater demand in electricity, especially in cities and urban areas in Vietnam. The process of generating more electricity—specifically from the operation of coal power plants—has had its fair share of negative impacts on the environment, namely the problem of emissions, waste water and waste, […]

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A Chronographic Blueprint: Reinstating the Valley of Hope | FAP 2022 First Place

This speculative project attempts to transform a leprosarium into a ‘vivarium’, envisioned and presented as a chronographic blueprint to redefine the paradigm of heritage conservation through a time-based approach. The designs introduced can be seen as a series of adaptive reuse that adopts the notion of reversible architecture, ‘shearing’ layers of buildings for a long-term […]

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‘Everything Anywhere’ Echo: TU Delft’s adaptable, positive energy building

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As one of the world’s foremost engineering institutions, the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has set goals to be fully sustainable by 2030. To accelerate this goal, a new inter-faculty building called Echo is set to harvest more energy than it consumes, and fulfil circularity principles. The design arose from an ever-increasing demand for […]

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Adidas World of Sports Arena

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For the Adidas World of Sports Arena office in Herzogenaurach, Germany, the façade elements are larger than on Agora to match its monumental scale, more structurally complex and attached on each floor to a vertical frame. Highly challenging as the building’s thermal envelope is fully glazed, the fixed sunshading system consists of opaque and perforated […]

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Agora Cancer Research Pole

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Behnisch Architekten’s first project to introduce a highly-sophisticated, geometrical fixed sunshading grid, the Agora Cancer Research Pole in Lausanne, Switzerland, aims to offer sun protection that allows practically unobstructed views of the environment while keeping the summer sun out, facilitating ambient light into the depth of the room and permitting the winter sun to partially […]

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Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex: World’s first hydroformed façade

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Completed in 2021, the complex in Allston, Massachusetts, features the world’s first hydroformed tensile exterior façade system sheathing research areas on the upper floors, which plays a vital role in both energy performance and occupant comfort. The fixed sunshade is geometrically calibrated to lower peak cooling loads by up to 65 per cent. It mixes […]

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Google Bay View: A new step in reaching the mega-company’s carbon goals

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In 2020, Google announced that it aims to power all of its operations—data centres and offices, every hour of every day—using solely carbon-free electricity by the year 2030.1 This commitment requires going beyond the practice of offsetting carbon emissions and instead investing in Green systems for the company’s numerous facilities (reported to be over 70 […]

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Brain matters: Danish Neuroscience Center by BIG

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When seeking forms for buildings, look no further than Nature—including our own body parts—for inspiration. In the design for the Danish Neuroscience Center (DNC) of Aarhus University Hospital, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) mimics gyrification—the folding of brain matter to achieve a larger surface area—in order to utilise the site efficiently and create new connections. BIG’s […]

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Mito Civic Center

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Known for the Art Tower Mito designed by Arata Isozaki, the city of Mito will be getting a new civic centre, a complex planned for a site adjacent to the tower. While the Art Tower is a complex of galleries and small halls, each dedicated to art, music or theatre—the new multipurpose centre, with its […]

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Academic Building South in Nanyang Technological University

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This is a proposal for the new business school within Nanyang Technological University’s lush garden campus. The building is laid out on-site in a gently curved form, with abundant greenery and waterscape introduced into the site to reunite with its surroundings. The building has approximately 40,000 square metres of floor area, running 210 metres long, […]

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Sendai Mediatheque

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The Sendai Mediatheque stands along Jozenji street, a main avenue famous for its stately rows of Zelkova trees. Completed in August 2000, five and a half years after the open competition held by Sendai City, this project rises eight storeys from ground level with 21,600 square metres in total floor space. Thirteen tree-like Tube elements […]

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