British Homes Awards 2011

Winner of Future Homes category at the British Homes Awards (BHA) 2011 Alex King (Designalexable).

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on the boards: 42 Social Housing

A proposal for social housing in Son Servera, Spain by Peris-Toral Architects. The sloping tiled roofs and projecting sandstone walls attempt to make a contextual dialogue without cheapened replication. The apartments were a recent entry in the Total Housing competition hosted by Architizer, Storefront for Art & Architecture and Actar Publishing.

Studio Banana TV: Belzunce-Mauriño-García Millán

Studio Banana TV interviews Belzunce-Mauriño-García Millán, architects for the 356 unit hill-crawling social housing complex in Mina del Morro, Bilbao.

on the boards: Docklands housing

This urban intervention in France, designed by landscape architects Atelier Altern (Sylvain Morin + Aurélien Zoia), re-envisioned a docklands area with medium density housing.

new work ::: Kripalu Housing

The recently completed Kripalu housing by architects Peter Rose is part of the master plan to reshape the Kripalu Centre for Yoga & Health. The ecologically innovative design sits on 300 acres of dense forest in the Berkshire Mountains. The design in plan, is arranged along a tapering axis that reveals views through the slatted cypress cladding of the landscape and funnels breeze to the spartan concrete structure within.

Studio Banana Tv ::: Andrés Jaque

Studio Banana TV interviews Andrés Jaque, architect for the controversial Tupper home housing project. The project was proposed as an alternative to the official line of urban planning, instead is based on door to door marketing such as tupperware and the first prototype was recently built in the centre Madrid.

Suburban Tract

Currently housing is mass produced on a mammoth scale, in controlled factories and out in the converted farmland of exurbia. Thousands of houses at a time are rolled out on blindingly fast schedules, with sequenced assembly line-like efficiency sometimes as little as 40 days - it is the fast food of shelter.

seeking to participate and to understand the economics, of time and money works partnership architecture attempted to use the same ingredients to cook a better cake, one slice at a time, collaborating on a new model of tract house, a new American bungalow. The metrics were simple: 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms minimum, 2 car garage mandatory.

The house needed to meet or exceed the economics of the competition. For more visit the suburban tract house

on the boards: Housing in Massena Chevaleret

A proposal for a multi-story urban housing scheme in Massena Chevaleret, Paris by Pangalos Dugasse Feldmann architects. The design proposes 47 housing units & 1 commercial space.

More on the architects

on the boards: Comparto Cultural District master plan

Architects -scape have proposed a 70,000 m² master plan for new housing, offices, hotel and shopping facilities for the Comparto Cultural District located in the Kenzo Tange designed Bussiness District in Naples, Italy.

on the boards: Landmark Project in Sweden

A proposal by 3XN for a 13,000 m² mixed use structure marking the entrance to the Vällingby Parkstad, Sweden. The curved design with lively shaped balconies embraces the area, in contrast to the traditional buildings surrounding the site. The dense city structure at the base adds activity at eye level and creates a close relation between work life, housing, and leisure.

images courtesy of 3XN

Also check out this article on a new mixed-use in California seeking LEED certification

Cherokee Lofts

Cherokee Lofts is an urban infill, mixed-use housing project designed by archiects Pugh + Scarpa inspired by a series of paintings by Patrick Hughes titled, “Prospectivity.” The building like the paintings appear to be ever changing and physically moving while being viewed, created by a façade that allows the occupant to adjust, at will screens that reveal life within.