Monday, April 28, 2014

Esquimalt House by Mcleod Bovell Modern Houses

Mcleod Bovell Modern Houses have designed a single-family home in West Vancouver, Canada.


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Project description



This house is located on a steep, extra wide property with views of downtown Vancouver, the Lion’s Gate Bridge and Burrard Inlet. The building flows laterally with a gently stepped horizontal navigation across and down through the site. Twenty feet of vertical distance between the street and the main floor entry is divided into three distinct experiences in order to alleviate, what would otherwise be, a relentless downward movement. First, a set of concrete platforms through a small ornamental orchard, then down a single run of stairs overhanging a pond, and finally through a courtyard over a bridge to the front door. The courtyard with its wide reflecting ponds creates a distinct space out of what would otherwise be a compressed valley between the street and the face of the building.


In accordance with the couple’s needs, the house operates simultaneously as a private place of retreat, a place of business, and a large-scale, quasi-public entertaining space. The office is reached via an exterior access ramp beside the reflecting ponds so that business can be conducted apart from the living spaces. Dramatic interior and exterior entertaining spaces that accommodate gatherings of the client’s Ismali religious community comprise one half of the site, while more intimately-scaled spaces for private living and personal contemplation form the other half.


Private bedroom spaces are consolidated into a compact upper floor volume that floats above the strung-out main floor. This allows two scales of main floor spaces. Large spaces with tall ceiling heights, contrast with smaller private rooms- a lounge between the kitchen and dining room and a meditation room at the stair which looks back over reflecting ponds. These programs overlap and are made cohesive through a subdued internal and external palette: architectural concrete, light gray cement panel, polished concrete floors, white gypsum wallboard, and matching millwork panels.


Materials: Architectural concrete, Cumaru hardwood, composite panel



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Design: Mcleod Bovell Modern Houses


Guelta d’Archei, a Surprising Oasis in Chad

Guelta d'Archei is an oasis, or rather a guelta, in the heart of the Sahara desert. A guelta is a peculiar type of wetland, typical of desert regions, formed when underground water in lowland depressions spills to the surface and creates permanent pools and reservoirs. Guelta d'Archei is located in the Ennedi Plateau, in north-eastern Chad, hidden behind a canyon. Its waters sheltered by the towering sandstone cliffs typical of this region. Everyday, hundreds of camels are herded into the knee deep water of the guelta by passing caravans for them to drink and rest. Dung from thousands of camels excreted over hundreds of years have turned the water black.





































Cantador Lamp by Miguel Silva

Cantador Lamp is the latest creation from Miguel Silva, an industrial designer based in Milan. The word Cantador in Spanish means singer, well, this lamp brings art through light and sound in a unique way. This concept lamp has been designed based on our daily experiences when it comes to interaction with light and sound. At first sight, it looks like just another elegant ceiling lamp which beams the light, bounce it down and up thanks to the acid finish glass. What makes it special is the sound transducer which is integrated inside to produce vibrations into the glass surface for sound. You can sync this lamp with your smartphone to choose the color of light, the MIDI will map sound inputs produced by sound transducer to change the light according to your music or the way you want it to be. The LEDs glow an intense light that creates bright pattern all around.


Designer : Miguel Silva


Cantador Lamp by Miguel Silva


Cantador Lamp by Miguel Silva



Cantador Lamp by Miguel Silva


Cantador Lamp by Miguel Silva


Cantador Lamp by Miguel Silva


Cantador Lamp by Miguel Silva


Cantador Lamp by Miguel Silva


Cantador Lamp by Miguel Silva


Cantador Lamp by Miguel Silva


Cantador Lamp by Miguel Silva


Cantador Lamp by Miguel Silva



Tuvie has received “Cantador Lamp” project from our ‘Submit A Design‘ feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their design/concept for publication.


Cantador Lamp by Miguel Silva is originally posted on Tuvie


The Beach House Q by Longhi Architects

Longhi Architects designed the Beach House Q overlooking Misterio Beach, CaƱete, Peru.


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Design: Longhi Architects


Photography by Juan Solano / CHOlon Photography