On Water by Kersting Architecture

Kersting Architecture have designed On Water, a vacation guest house located in Wilmington,

North Carolina.

Project description

This vacation guest house sits on a 3.61 acre peninsula reaching into Futch Creek. Spectacular views offer western sunsets across the creek, sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean and a swimming pool just steps outside to the north. Three bedroom suites, a kitchen and a living area provide comfort for guests, with each room granted a water view. Column less porches formed by cantilevered bedrooms offer cool shaded areas and a rooftop terrace is perfect for sun worshipers. The material palette of painted brick, exposed structural steel, stained mahogany and white painted trim were selected to coordinate with the main house currently under construction.

Architect: Kersting Architecture

Designer: Michael Ross Kersting, AIA w/ Associate Toby R. Keeton

Firm: Michael Ross Kersting Architecture, P.A.

Builder: Tongue & Groove Custom Builder

Subcontractors: Rudy Dombroski, Structural Engineer

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Spillway Pavilion Bar by Margot Krasojevic

The Pavilion Bar has been designed as part of Paris’ flood control infrastructure. It features a gorgeous, enclosed circular glass bar that rests over a bell mouth spillway which allows water to enter from its entire perimeter, directing the water throughout the design, into the spillway.

This circular glass bar has been designed specifically to direct water through its ramps next to the spillway located under a moveable glass clad floor. The industrial function of the bar, combined with an ethereal monocoque shell that houses the light and reflective nature of the pavilion bar’s interior, gives an effervescent feel with the lattice spillway filtering water. It is channeled through the underground network of submerged canals then upstream to the impounded lakes and nearby reservoirs. The lightweight composite fiber monocoque canopy covers the pavilion formed as a whirlpool to channel rainwater around the surface and into the spillway beneath it.

Designer : Margot Krasojevic

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Futuristic QUANT e-Sportlimousine Features nanoFLOWCELL Drivetrain Concept

QUANT e-Sportlimousine was introduced at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show, it’s a luxurious car with nanoFLOWCELL drivetrain concept. It’s a futuristic vision that becomes reality, during the press day, this car aroused great international media interest.

nanoFLOWCell AG presents you with the world’s first automobile powered by nanoFLOWCELL drivetrain concept. It’s a 4-seater sports car with 5.25-meter body length and 2.2-meter wide with sporty design. At this moment, the company is still continuing testing for the first roadworthy prototype which offers ground-breaking battery development, in particular in the field of flow cell battery technology.

Nunzio La Vecchia, Technical Director of nanoFLOWCELL AG says that this car is the first automobile equipped with nanoFLOWCELL which is also designed from the scratch to meet up homologation requirements. Through extensive research and development, the company is able to produce the first prototype during the last few years.

From : nanoFLOWCELL

nanoFLOWCELL works by combining all aspects of electrochemical accumulator cells with fuel cells. The liquid electrolytes are stored inside 2 tanks and circulated through the cell. At the heart of the system, there’s a membrane that separates 2 electrolytic solutions but still allows electrical charge to pass through in order to produce power for drive train. This technology has high charge density, high performance density, and very light compared to conventional energy storage systems. It doesn’t contain harmful substances, any moving parts, and is very efficient. Compared to lithium ion technologies, nanoFLOWCELL offers 5-times greater performance-by-weight which means it is able to reach 5-times greater driving range.

The interior features futuristic dashboard, there are 2 rows of seats, one behind the other just like jet-cockpit style. The pain color also has won a lot of fans when presented in Geneva, “Crystal lake blue” which is developed exclusively for this car to reflect the power of the powertrain. sensorFLOW technology offers a visual highlight like you’ve never seen before in automobile control elements, at first sight, all you see is natural, smooth ash wood surface, but once it’s activated, all control elements become visible through the natural wood. Any light touch of your finger triggers appropriate action of the system.

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HUB CREATIC by TETRARC

TETRARC have designed HUB CREATIC, a building located in Nantes, France, that is dedicated to young companies developing new digital applications.

Project description

Behind its lively yellow walls, the building assembles seventy start-ups businesses. It has affirmed their presence in the town and offers them a scalable work space at a reduced rent where they can finalise their creations, live out the first moments of their existence and recognise their early development. It gathers them around a vast swirling atrium, a spatial design favourable to communication and the synergy of projects, Here architecture and innovation work in harmony.

The architecture reflects the particular purpose of the building and showcases an industry of excellence in Nantes comprising 700 companies and representing 18,000 jobs in the city of Nantes alone, that of new information and communication technologies.

The Hub Créatic has been built at the heart La Chantrerie, a campus comprising private and public higher education establishments such as the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Ecole Supérieure du Bois, Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique et Polytech and the Ecole d’Ingénieurs de l’Université de Nantes. The new building is marketed as a communicating urban office building. Its architecture transmits the image of a hive of activity thanks to the honeycomb shaped windows and its honey colour which makes you think of the positive connotation of a hive and its intense and highly productive activity.

To impose this vivid image of buildings on the volumes and the disparate aesthetics created by different agencies since the 1990’s, Tetrarc has taken advantage of the project’s location. The building takes ownership of the site’s open position on the Brittany road link. Its windows and main entrance look onto the virtual boulevard designed by Christian de Portzamparc so that Nantes town centre, represented by the tall figure of the Tour de Bretagne, is symbolically linked to its academic, cultural and tertiary peripheral extensions.

The agency has built an attractive landmark for its four hundred users each day, for its seventy start-up clients and the participants of the events and meetings that they organise.

Architect: TETRARC

Photography by Stéphane Chalmeau