Baumeister 05/2018 – English Version

115th year‘s issues The Architecture Magazine

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C U R A T E D BY DAV I D A D J AY E

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Contents

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Climate Moderators

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Building the Future

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A Personal Journey

Introduction

and the Past

Interview with David Adjaye

(David Adjaye)

Lucio Costa in Brazil

(Alexander Russ)

(Guilherme Wisnik) 80 10

Africa Architecture

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Synthesis of East and West

Visual Essay

Sakakura JunzĹ? in Japan

(David Adjaye)

(Ken Tadashi Oshima)

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USA 88

A Place in the Sun

A Gathering Place

Essay

for the Nation

(Charles Correa)

Louis Kahn and Charles Correa

Sugar Hill

Mixed-use building in New York,

AĂŻshti Foundation

Art gallery and shopping centre in Beirut, Lebanon

in India and Bangladesh

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(David Adjaye)

Corporation (IFC)

International Finance

Office building in Dakar, Senegal 54

Between Outdoor

and Indoor

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Alvar Aalto in Finland

Museum of Con temporary Art

(Esa Laaksonen)

in Riga, Latvia

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Place and Circumstance

Alison and Peter Smithson in the UK (Peter Allison)

Sections 114

Solutions

122

Reference

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Imprint, Preview

130

Column

Translations/Editing: Peter Allison David Skogley Melissa Harkin Anja Miller

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Latvian Museum

Apartment building

Housing in Munich, Germany

Building the Future and the Past Lucio Costa is a key figure in the development of modern architecture in Brazil. Less well known is his interest in vernacular architecture and traditional forms of construction.

By employing elements of the vernacular within a modernist framework, his buildings expressed contemporary aspirations while acknowledging the country’s history.

by Guilherme Wisnik

IM AGE: DMITRI KE SSE L/ THE LIFE PIC TURE COLLEC TION/GE T T Y IM AGE S

Lucio Costa visiting the site of the future capital Brasilia, for which he designed the master plan

IM AGE: HE INONE N, ALVAR A ALTO MUSE UM

Alvar Aalto, the Finnish master in the 1930s

Folio – Aïshti Foundation Beirut Lebanon 2012 – 2015

Leaving the centre of Beirut for the north, the coastal highway is separated from the Mediterranean by a string of commercial sites, which prevent people from accessing the waterfront. The new building engages with this condition in several ways: it expands the client’s existing retail business, housed in an older building on the adjacent site; it provides museum space for the client’s art collection on the upper floors, in an arrangem e n t t h a t f o cu s e s o n a multi-storey window looking up the coast; and, by forming a barrier towards the road, it protects a new public space overlooking the water. To connect t hese dispa ra te elements, the main ent rance opens up into an atrium – with an expanding section to encourage people to ascend to the shopping floors and the museum – before continuing to the public space with its impressive views of the bay. In response to the exposed nature of the site, the interior is protected from the sun by aluminium latticework facades constructed in aluminium. The finish is the same colour as traditional tiled roofs in the city, and the pattern is reminiscent of waves breaking on the shore. Tilting the facade towards the road deflects traffic noise away from the site.

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View from west showing position on waterfront

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View showing position on coastal highway

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East facade

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Public space on waterfront

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North and east facades, looking towards city centre

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Detail of west facade

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Atrium space, looking down

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Atrium space, looking up

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Pierced screen, atrium

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Internal window between gallery and retail space

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Double height gallery space

IM AGE S: JULIE N L ANOO

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Folio – Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art Riga, Latvia, Current

The museum and its associated open space will be the centrepiece of a new quarter, New Hanza City, which is being developed to the north of the city centre. The museum will therefore play a significant role in determining the future identity of this area, and with this in mind, its form is derived from the large agricultural buildings found in the countryside near Riga. Normally surrounded by smaller buildings, they establish an intermediate scale between the wider landscape and local settlements. Reflecting the linearity of the farm buildings, the museum is organised on an east-west axis, with the main entrance on the road that leads from the city centre to the new quarter. The front and back of the building are located at ground and basement levels, and the galleries are supported on a continuous raised platform, permitting transverse views through the building at ground level. In the galleries, the folded timber, north-light roof is supported by a g rid of concrete beams, which distribute the anticipated snow load, and the grid lines can be used to organise smaller temporary galleries with independent natural light. The roof and walls of the galleries are clad in Dolomite stone, between bronze finish aluminium fins.

Adjaye Associates are also responsible for the landscaping design of the open space to the north, and from here, the profile of the roof mediates between the scale of the site, the buildings that will surround it, and the spi res of Riga’s skyline.

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North facade, view from open space

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West facade, view from road

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Entrance space, basement level

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Gallery space

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North corridor, first floor

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