Fei Architects designs apartment block that frames residents’ daily lives in Guangzhou
The Borderless Community of Zi Ni Twelve Portals is a housing project in Guangzhou, China, designed by Fei Architects to show off its occupants.Located in Zi Ni Tang Park, the renovation project, which has been shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020, carved out wide windows and balconies with a variety of material finishes.
Beeline installation by SO-IL creates a “clandestine” shortcut through Amanda Levete’s MAAT museum
Architecture studio SO-IL has designed a major installation for Lisbon's Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology that creates a new public route through the middle of the Amanda Levete-designed building via a secret rear entrance.Called Beeline, the intervention allows pedestrians to walk from the city to the waterfront through the centre of the museum's ovoid main exhibition space.
AL_A reveals plans for world’s first magnetised fusion power plant
Amanda Levete's firm AL_A is partnering with Canadian energy company General Fusion to design a pioneering power plant that will use nuclear fusion.
The prototype plant will act as a demonstration facility for the technology, which uses hydrogen as fuel, with onsite facilities for experts and the general public to visit.
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HK Villa Istanbul
The only house designed by TEAM Project Architecture was built in Istanbul in 2019. The biggest challenge of our project was the disconnection effect of the transformation we will make, since it is a twin villa.
HOW TO DRAW THE FOUNDATION?
In cases where the column loads are large, the columns are close to each other or the regional ground is weak, a single footing is manufactured under the two columns. This single bolt takes the loads from the two columns and transmits them to the ground uniformly. These types of foundations are called "compound foundations". On the side of the column with high axial strength, the footing is made wider, so that the soil stress is uniform under the footing.
1st Prize, YAC 2019 – Sport Citadel Competition
Mappano, a small settlement close to the Italian city of Turin, has not yet developed its identity. As designers, we got our motivation to participate in the competition from the transformative effect of the sports complex idea that could make this campus a new center. It was our goal to create a new center of attraction in planning that would add sports, education, culture and recreation facilities to the region, which had spent many years as a swamp, and support the formation of new campuses.
