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Aix en Provence Conservatory of Music Architect: Kengo Kuma and Associates Client: Aix en Provence City Council Location: Aix en Provence, France Site Area: 3 366 sqm

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Aix en Provence Conservatory of Music Architect: Kengo Kuma and Associates Client: Aix en Provence City Council Location: Aix en Provence, France Site Area: 3 366 sqm

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BRIEF INTRODUCTION The project is a complex of the music conservatory, its concert hall and various other facilities.

FACADE ANALYSIS There is a big difference in elevation within the site, and its neighboring land is also diverse. To solve such complexity, we chose aluminum as a single material for each façade, to be folded in part according to the face.

By adding the work of “folding” to the thin aluminum panel, each façade is given subtle shading. The main element of the façade here, therefore, is light and shadow, instead of the aluminum. We were inspired for this idea by Paul Cézanne, the great artist from this region, and Japanese art of Origami.

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BRIEF INTRODUCTION The project is a complex of the music conservatory, its concert hall and various other facilities.

FACADE ANALYSIS There is a big difference in elevation within the site, and its neighboring land is also diverse. To solve such complexity, we chose aluminum as a single material for each façade, to be folded in part according to the face.

By adding the work of “folding” to the thin aluminum panel, each façade is given subtle shading. The main element of the façade here, therefore, is light and shadow, instead of the aluminum. We were inspired for this idea by Paul Cézanne, the great artist from this region, and Japanese art of Origami.

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ECO DETAILS Folding also became useful in protecting the opening from the sunlight, and controlling the range of view from the opening. We also received an interesting remark that this faรงade evokes a musical score, the protagonist of conservatory.

Folding is also applied to the concert hall. An asymmetrical interior was generated as its result, and helped to make a resonance with colorful, free-spirited music by Darius Milhaud, again a composer of Aix-enProvence whose name is crowned on the conservatory.

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ECO DETAILS Folding also became useful in protecting the opening from the sunlight, and controlling the range of view from the opening. We also received an interesting remark that this faรงade evokes a musical score, the protagonist of conservatory.

Folding is also applied to the concert hall. An asymmetrical interior was generated as its result, and helped to make a resonance with colorful, free-spirited music by Darius Milhaud, again a composer of Aix-enProvence whose name is crowned on the conservatory.

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Gnome Parking, Almere NL Location: The Netherlands Programme: 14.500 m2, 415 Parking Places Design Mei architecten en stedenbouwers

Pepijn Berghout, Maurice de Ruijter, Nars Broekharst Client Stadsbeheer Gemeente Almere

Team Robert Winkel, Menno van der Woude, Hennie Dankers, Robert Platje,

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Gnome Parking, Almere NL Location: The Netherlands Programme: 14.500 m2, 415 Parking Places Design Mei architecten en stedenbouwers

Pepijn Berghout, Maurice de Ruijter, Nars Broekharst Client Stadsbeheer Gemeente Almere

Team Robert Winkel, Menno van der Woude, Hennie Dankers, Robert Platje,

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BRIEF INTRODUCTION The development of the Gnome parking garage, a car park with a capacity of 413 spaces, forms part of the extension to the centre of Almere-Buiten in The Netherlands. Plenty of greenery and an easily understandable structure are features of AlmereBuiten. In the field of architecture, many experiments with innovative and sustainable materials and inventive structures have taken place here, and these are also features of the Gnome parking.

FACADE ANALYSIS The striking facade of the garage consists of perforated panels specially developed in collaboration with a producer from the automobile industry and a facade construction firm. Figures of birds, windmills, garden gnomes and birdhouses, all distinctive images of the Province of Flevoland and the city of Almere, were pressed out of the perforated facade panels using vacuum forming technology. The surface relief created by the pressed figures on the panels lends the garage the appearance of a cheerful-looking giant tin can. Since the facade panels act as veils, the garage interior is flooded with daylight. This also creates a sense of community safety and pleasant natural ventilation in the garage. In the evening hours the facade acts as a luminous object that further enhances community safety in the immediate surroundings.

The striking garage facade features natural elements such as integrated flower boxes. Copijn garden and landscape architects created a different planting scheme for each facade based on its orientation.

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BRIEF INTRODUCTION The development of the Gnome parking garage, a car park with a capacity of 413 spaces, forms part of the extension to the centre of Almere-Buiten in The Netherlands. Plenty of greenery and an easily understandable structure are features of AlmereBuiten. In the field of architecture, many experiments with innovative and sustainable materials and inventive structures have taken place here, and these are also features of the Gnome parking.

FACADE ANALYSIS The striking facade of the garage consists of perforated panels specially developed in collaboration with a producer from the automobile industry and a facade construction firm. Figures of birds, windmills, garden gnomes and birdhouses, all distinctive images of the Province of Flevoland and the city of Almere, were pressed out of the perforated facade panels using vacuum forming technology. The surface relief created by the pressed figures on the panels lends the garage the appearance of a cheerful-looking giant tin can. Since the facade panels act as veils, the garage interior is flooded with daylight. This also creates a sense of community safety and pleasant natural ventilation in the garage. In the evening hours the facade acts as a luminous object that further enhances community safety in the immediate surroundings.

The striking garage facade features natural elements such as integrated flower boxes. Copijn garden and landscape architects created a different planting scheme for each facade based on its orientation.

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ECO DETAILS The striking garage facade features natural elements such as integrated flower boxes. Copijn garden and landscape architects created a different planting scheme for each facade based on its orientation.

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ECO DETAILS The striking garage facade features natural elements such as integrated flower boxes. Copijn garden and landscape architects created a different planting scheme for each facade based on its orientation.

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Givenchy Seoul Architect: Piuarch Type: Boutique Location: Seoul - South Korea Customer: Givenchy Group Area: 404 m2 Photo Credits: Shin Kyungsub

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Givenchy Seoul Architect: Piuarch Type: Boutique Location: Seoul - South Korea Customer: Givenchy Group Area: 404 m2 Photo Credits: Shin Kyungsub

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Eskenazi Hospital Parking Structure Facade Architects: Michel Rémon - head architect, Frédéric Nicolas - associate architect, Marie-Claude Richard - project director (Atelier Michel Rémon), Marian Ballet - project leader (Agence Frédéric Nicolas) Coordinator: AAFN / Agence Francis Klein (Bernard Rossignol) Surface Area: 7,500 m2

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HELIOS Architects: Michel Rémon - head architect, Frédéric Nicolas - associate architect, Marie-Claude Richard - project director (Atelier Michel Rémon), Marian Ballet - project leader (Agence Frédéric Nicolas) Coordinator: AAFN / Agence Francis Klein (Bernard Rossignol) Surface Area: 7,500 m2

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Eskenazi Hospital Parking Structure Facade Architects: Michel Rémon - head architect, Frédéric Nicolas - associate architect, Marie-Claude Richard - project director (Atelier Michel Rémon), Marian Ballet - project leader (Agence Frédéric Nicolas) Coordinator: AAFN / Agence Francis Klein (Bernard Rossignol) Surface Area: 7,500 m2

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Eskenazi Hospital Parking Structure Facade Architects: Michel Rémon - head architect, Frédéric Nicolas - associate architect, Marie-Claude Richard - project director (Atelier Michel Rémon), Marian Ballet - project leader (Agence Frédéric Nicolas) Coordinator: AAFN / Agence Francis Klein (Bernard Rossignol) Surface Area: 7,500 m2

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