Landscape

Right through the middle of the Technical University of Delft (TU Delft) used to run the bustling and broad Mekelweg (Mekel Way). This road was closed at the beginning of 2007 to make way for Mekel Park, 800 metres long and 80 metres wide. The TU Delft aims to transform its grounds into a University Campus, creating attractive surroundings for its international community of professors and students. This transformation is in keeping with the university’s goal of being recognized as a world-class institution for research and education. Formerly, the buildings of each different faculty and their respective parking lots sat like bulwarks along the road. Now, with the buildings located alongside the park, they illustrate their interdisciplin... More

In 1997 the American landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson together with Francine Houben of Mecanoo wins the competition for the Masterplan of the Westergasfabriek area in Amsterdam. The area lies between the urban Westerpark and the polder with its allotments. It is surrounded by water and rails making the site into a unity. The design accentuates the transitions to the city and to natural landscape. Two different routes will bring the visitor to various sites, landscapes and ambiences. Times change, use changes. Around the remains of the Westergasfabriek (gas plant) a new activity takes place: the business of leisure and amusement, of environment and ecology. The concept of the vast urban park is built around this activity. More

John McAslan + Partners was appointed to design a new building for Oasis Academy - a specialist Maths, ICT and Music school - on a former industrial site in Enfield. Completed in 2012, the ambitious scheme delivers a vibrant new learning campus for the Academy’s primary secondary and sixth-form students. It will also play a pivotal role in a local regeneration plan for the Borough. Located on a former industrial site, the project sits at the heart of a wider urban regeneration plan for Ponders End and South Street. This ambitious scheme delivers a vibrant new learning campus for the Academy’s primary, secondary and sixth-form students and will also play a pivotal role as a new community hub, with a range of cultural and sports acti... More

In the light of the extensive changes taking place in where and how work and research are carried out, together with the move from mass production to streamlined production, the spread of new technologies, flexible working and the increasing fluidity of society and markets, business-related architecture has assumed a significant and strategic role in the shaping of cities and the transformation of the landscape. The new Chiesi Research Centre is a part of that scenario:an initiative that finds its premise within the processes of structural expansion, organisational rationalisation and technical innovation that are leading design research to offer new levels of performance and services, that maintain the balance between speed of change an... More

The central building of the Corporate Campus Apeldoorn is the Conference Centre. The whole building is set up to stimulate interaction and communication. The landscape so typical for this area of the Netherlands is a main theme throughout the campus. In the conference building it literally continues in to the entrance hall, so nature and architecture melt together in the heart of the campus. Standing in the tall entrance hall you can see the restaurant and the conference rooms located on different floors. The landscape inside the building, the horizontal lines of the different floors and the substantial glass roof make the building impressive, but friendly and pleasant too. The restaurant is spread out over different levels gra... More

The Corporate Campus Apeldoorn (the Netherlands) contains two small pavilions tucked away in the forest. Two stand alone meeting rooms have been built as modern interpretations of a log cabin. The pavilions are designed as connecting knots in the comprehensive structure of pedestrian routes through the campus. They are an excellent place for brainstorm sessions, meetings or working quietly in a green environment. These meeting rooms are part of the new working concept in which employers are motivated to move around the campus: a healthy dynamic workspace in nature. When the meeting rooms in the forests turn out to be a success, 8 more of them can be build on the campus. The architecture of the pavilion reacts on its environment. In con... More

Recently the Corporate Campus Apeldoorn (the Netherlands) was completed, a new headquarter of one of the major insurance companies in the Netherlands. The campus is situated on a unique location, on the border between the city of Apeldoorn and the biggest nature reserve of the country. In this fascinating context ADP architects developed a new, original and modern office concept, in line with the rich tradition of the client in providing innovative workspaces. The program is spread out over the entire campus site in separate low-rise buildings. Besides office buildings the project accommodates a conference centre, logistics building, several pavilions and a car parking. The buildings are positioned in a way they enclose the landscape... More

Parque Vidalta by Serrano Monjaraz Arquitectos More

The outstanding element of this project is the landscape architecture, one of the most modern branches of the urban design professions and represents a synthesis of arts, science, and technical philosophies and practices that seek to care for the Earth's landscapes in a truly holistic, creative and sustainable manner. It involves the investigation and designed response to the landscape. The master plan for this residential project was done with respect to all the natural elements and taking advantage of the fantastic views of the lot that is naturally decorated by three magnificent ravines. More

Residential houses are located on a visually exposed southern slopes above the city center Luhacovice. It forms one of the first objects emerging residential enclave in this place. Location of home helps create a horizon of the surrounding landscape. For this reason, much attention was paid to a soft hilly relief was not disrupt the fitting of rough objects or significant relief changes. The concept is based on the idea of keeping maximal of the original slope. It was achieved by distribution of homes into two materials. First is heavy, concrete, emotionally "growing up" from the slope and forming a platform for a second, largely glassed object of the upper floors. Basement is fully integrated into the slope and is visible only through the... More

Our latest project in Iraq , An Najaf with our partner "Raa'd Al Khalij" On 600000 m2 a new city will born beside the holy sanctuaries in An Najaf city. Divided on three main activities: 1- The Commercial section that contents a mall, commercial villas for companies, the offices buildings, small stores and a small markets to serve the city 2- The Residential section that contents three types of villas divides upon area and the finishing of villa, (Type A, B, C) 3- The Educational section that contents a kindergarten and primary and secondary schools beside to a technical institute. that is the main activities for this city beside of the general services like a mosque, police center and a post office. More

The project location, Salty Baths in Persani Village, Brasov County, has an extremely high importance for local residents. Few know that this place brings togheter a generous number of people in the summer time, some come for treatment from far away (treatments with salt waters and mud) and other only for relaxation. The History of this place is over three hundred years old . The project idea started from the desire of developing a large scale project in this rural area, offering the possibility of wider development of the whole teritory from many ways: socially, economically, culturally. Starting with the statement that countryside gives viewers a feeling of relaxation, freedom, health and continuing with the existence of these curative... More

We have produced Sweden’s first series of passive houses designed as type houses, with the intention to make this sustainable building technique available for all. Villa Nyberg is the first one to get built and the house has been customized for the Nyberg family. The villa is carefully situated in the fringe of a fir forest and the living room and kitchen open up towards the beautiful views of the nearby lake. The plan is designed according to the suns movement over the day and the round shape of the villa eliminates the risk of cold bridges. With great technical skills and courage, we managed to create a building many thought was impossible - a round passive house with a hole in! Villa Nyberg has an energy consumption of 25 kWh / year and... More

Zorgvlied Crematorion, situated in the historical Zorgvlied Cemetery in Amsterdam, opened last spring. The word Crematorion is composed of the words cremate and Orion (constellation), and represents a new approach to cremation allowing mourners to accompany the remains of their beloved ones as far as possible towards the cremation furnace. GROUP A has designed the innovative structure in such a way it facilitates this new approach. A fitting way of leave-taking The Crematorion is a stand-alone building, housing a cremation furnace and processing room, separate from the usual auditorium. The structure is designed to focus the minds on the ritual of leave-taking. It is designed to evoke personal involvement, allowing each participant... More