The qatar stadium is part of the Health and Wellness Precinct, within Qatar Foundation Education City and is conceived as a proposed host venue for the 2022 FIFA World Cup™ and one of the principal sports complexes in Qatar. Additionally the Health & Wellness Precinct includes an indoor aquatic centre with two Olympic size pools and a diving pool, a multipurpose sports pavilion housing an indoor athletics track and tennis academy, plus external training fields.
The qatar stadium will have a tournament capacity of 40,000 spectators, which is later reduced in legacy mode to 25,000 thanks to a modular design that facilitates dismantling of the upper seating tier.
Arup is providing a complete service including structural design, building services, façade engineering, civil engineering and infrastructure, together with consulting services for stadium cooling design, sustainability, fire safety, security and ICT as well as audio visual services.
In order to meet the challenges of this project, the team carried out a pioneering R&D program for the stadium cooling system design, which aims to ensure the safety of players and spectator comfort.
Qatar stadium
Qatar stadium
“Using an innovative computational fluid dynamics analysis, we were able to design an intelligent stadium cooling system which uses a series of passive measures, including bespoke stadium roof geometry, to protect the stadium bowl from the harsh external conditions and minimise energy use.”– David Castro, Associate Director and Project Manager, Arup
The project is targeting a LEED Gold certification rating and incorporates a variety of additional sustainable design aspects such as green roofs, photovoltaic and solar thermal panels, energy use reduction initiatives and water recycling.
Arup Madrid is leading the engineering team on this project and working closely with RFA Fenwick Iribarren Architects, with support from our staff in Berlin, Doha, Dubai and London, consolidating a team which has counted on over 200 multi-disciplinary professionals.qatar stadium
Escale Numérique, by JCDecaux and Mathieu Lehanneur, Paris, France.
The city of Paris aimed to increase the function of its urban infrastructure in 2012 when city officials held a competition to design intelligent street furniture. The need to integrate technology into the urban context is imminent for many cities, and this has led to a variety of design solutions. The winner of this competition was the world-leading outdoor advertising company JCDecaux, in collaboration with designer Mathieu Lehanneur. Their project, Escale Numérique (Digital Break), creates a series of WiFi stations where people can access information about the city and connect to the Internet.
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This urban development project is designed to create a space for people to use the Internet. A shade structure is created from a plant-covered roof supported by architectural elements that resemble tree trunks. Concrete swivel chairs are anchored underneath this roof, with a table and outlets for each person. WATCH:Escale Numérique, it’s in French but the idea speaks for itself.
Questioning the Connection
The implementation of this project raises several questions about the function of urban infrastructure. Do we really need to be connected to the internet at all times? The urban aspect of the city is so diverse, with so many opportunities for interaction. Shouldn’t we build upon this instead of making it so easy for people to ignore their surroundings?
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A Connected Haven of Peace
Located on the Rond Point des Champs-Elysées, Escale Numérique provides a sense of respite from the buzz of traffic and pedestrian movement within the city. People can sit and focus on something, whether that may be their smart phone, laptop, or a book.
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The protective shelter of the roof and the access to free WiFi give people a feeling of separation from their surroundings. The access to the Internet is a revival of the underground fiber optic network that supplies the capital. These stations raise this connection from beneath the ground and make it accessible to the public.
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This idea is similar to the way the Wallace Fountains brought drinking water to Parisians in the late 1800s — the drinking water that was circulating beneath their feet became directly accessible to the public in the same way the Internet cable network is being brought up for public use. An integration of the digital and physical landscapes allows users to be productive within the city in a world in which we are increasingly dependent on technology.
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The Need to Be Connected
We are so reliant on technology today that when we don’t have instant access to it, we become frustrated. Not so long ago, the only way people could interact was through face-to-face conversations. They got things done without the ease of computers or smart phones.
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The rapid development of technology in recent years has created a new paradigm of interaction and productivity. So much of our world now depends on the Internet, and our lives are now stored in the cloud or on our hard drives. It is simply how we get things done in this age of modernization. The benefits of technology, such as increased efficiency and access to information, are not without the negative effects of decreased social interaction and disconnection from the natural world.
social interaction and disconnection from the natural world.
Is Avoiding Feeling Uncomfortable a Good Thing?
Escale Numérique provides a connection for Parisians and tourists; however, they do not interact with each other. The large touch screen billboard is designed to be used to find your way around the city and create an augmented reality. This was done in response to the feeling of hesitation a tourist feels when he has to ask a local for directions.
It eliminates the need for that uncomfortable interaction. However, travel inherently puts you out of your comfort zone, so why not build upon this through design? A local will know things a large touch screen could never tell you, such as the best place to eat or the best way to get there.
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Public Space and Technology
Public space functions at so many levels that it is hard to ignore its importance. It shapes the way we interact with people and our surroundings, especially in cities. Today, the smartphone has enabled people to move through public spaces as if they were in their own private bubble. The typical distracted walker looking at her phone is often encountered in a city.
When you sit down in a public space, it is so easy to remove yourself from your immediate surroundings through looking at your phone, laptop, or tablet. Doing so causes a loss in the connection to place, and place is what landscape architects are supposed to design.
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Why spend so much effort in the design and implementation of a public space if people are not going to fully appreciate it? Escale Numérique loses this connection to place that we should be creating and celebrating in the city.
Yes, this project is a beautiful integration of technology and design, but is that what the world needs? Maybe we should approach the design of public spaces from the understanding that they should create connections between people, not electronics, because that is what is lacking in cities today. Landscape architecture has the potential to be the leader in this approach to design, but it hasn’t been accomplished quite yet.
The Mirror Houses are a pair of holiday homes, set in the marvellous surroundings of the South Tyrolean Dolomites, amidst a beautiful scenery of appletrees, just outside the city of Bolzano. They were designed by architect Peter Pichler. The Mirror houses offer a unique chance to spend a beautiful vacation surrounded by contemporary architecture of the highest standards and the most astonishing Landscape and beauty nature has to offer.
The Architecture:
The client, who lives in a restructured farmhouse of the 60s on the site, asked to design a structure for renting out as luxury holiday units. Guests have their small autonomous apartment and can fully enjoy the experience of living in the middle of nature. A maximum degree of privacy for both the client and the residing guest should be taken into consideration.
The new structure is oriented towards east with their private garden and an autonomous access and parking for the guests. Each unit contains a kitchen / living room as well as a bath- and bedroom with big skylights that open to allow natural light and ventilation. A small basement serves for temporary storage. The projects initial volume is split in 2 units that are slightly shifted in height and length in order to loosening the entire structure and articulating each unit.
Both units are floating on a base above the ground evoking lightness besides offering better views from their cantilevering terraces to the impressive surrounding landscape. The volume opens towards east with a big glass facade that fades with curvilinear lines into the black aluminium shell. Mirrored glass on the west facade borders the garden of the client with the units and catches the surrounding panorama while making the units almost invisible. The mirrored glass is laminated with an UV coating preventing birds collision. From certain views of the clients garden the old existing farmhouse is mirrored in the new contemporary architecture and is literally blending into it rather then competing against.
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Détails du projet:
Année 2014
Travaux achevés en 2014
Commanditaire Angela Sabine Staffler
État du projet Projets réalisés
Type de projet Maisons individuelles
Architect: Peter Pichler for more info about the architect Here
located within beijing’s central business district, construction is underway at ‘chaoyang
park plaza’ two years after,initial plans were floated for the site. designed by ma yansong
of MAD architects, the project explores the relationship between architecture and its natural environment
,creating a strong dialogue between the man-made structure and its immediate context.
strategically positioned on the southern edge of chaoyang park
– one of the chinese city’s largest greenspaces.
– the vast scheme comprises over 120,000 square meters of commercial, office and residential buildings.
the design reinterprets elements of classical chinese painting, transforming natural vistas into modern
city landscapes.
chaoyang-park plaza (Ma Yansong) beijing, china
Rising as two tall mountains, a duo of asymmetrical towers establish a distinctive skyline rising
as tallmountains, a duo of asymmetrical towers establishes a distinctive skyline soaring above
the park.
Incorporated within the façade, ridges and valleys characterize the structure, giving the
impression of being affected by erosion or other forces of nature. these protruding strips not
only emphasize the buildings’ verticality, but also feature a sophisticated ventilation and
filtration system that draws air inside.
chaoyang-park plaza (Ma Yansong) beijing, china
the spatial organization provides occupants with the feeling of moving through a mountain
forest a 17 meter.
- Tall courtyard lobby connects the paired towers, envisioned as a valley. flowing water moves
through the volume, while at the summit, public gardens offer a different perspective of the
lower plain created by the shorter buildings on the site. four smaller stone-shaped offices are
arranged below, with two further residential structures in the southwest area of the plot.
The spatial organization provides occupants with the feeling of moving through a mountain forest.
chaoyang-park plaza (Ma Yansong) beijing, china
ridges and valleys characterize the structure, emphasizing the tower’s verticality from an envir-
onmental standpoint, the use of natural light, intelligent design and air purification systems
meant that the project has been awarded the ‘leadership in energy and environmental design
(LEED) gold certificate’ by the U.S.
green building council.through exploring the relationship between architecture and its envir-
onment, the scheme reconsiders how the urban landscap of the 21st century can cater for its
inhabitants, offering a distinct sense of place and belonging.
- The two structures soar above the 120,000 square meter site.
- The plan also features more intimate spaces set within specific areas of the design.
chaoyang-park plaza (Ma Yansong) beijing, china
chaoyang-park plaza (Ma Yansong) beijing, china
A 17 meter-tall courtyard lobby connects the paired towers, envisioned as a mountain valley
public gardens offer a different perspective of the valley created by the lower buildings on the site
site plan indicating the development's context
chaoyang-park plaza site plan
chaoyang-park plaza 'section'
chaoyang-park plaza 'section'
chaoyang-park plaza (Ma Yansong) beijing, china
chaoyang-park plaza (Ma Yansong) beijing, china
chaoyang-park plaza (Ma Yansong) beijing, china
chaoyang-park plaza (Ma Yansong) beijing, china
chaoyang-park plaza (Ma Yansong) beijing, china
project info:
location: beijing, china type: office, commercial, residential status: 2012-2016 site area: 30,763 sqm building area: above ground 128,177 sqm, below ground 94,832 sqm building height: 120 m
China is adding another spectacle to their already impressive list of amazingly unique structures.
In August, the Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort will be joining the likes of the world's largest building (complete with an artificial sun), the New Century Global Center, which recently opened in Chengdu, and a five-star hotel that is currently being built into the side of an abandoned quarry in the Songjiang District of Shanghai. Amazingly unique, right?
The Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort joins these high tech, eye-catching architectural achievements because, well, it's shaped like a horseshoe.
Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort
This 27-story structure that lies on Taihu Lake between Nanjing and Shanghai was conceived by the architect Ma Yansong and constructed by Shanghai Feizhou Group, according to The Telegraph. The resort is lavishly designed -- covered in all different types of jade and the lobby ceiling is decorated with 20,000 Swarovski and European natural crystal lamps that create a wave-like formation.
The hotel is actually a full oval -- two levels underground connect the visible horseshoe shape. According to the resort's website, it offers 321 guest rooms, including 44 suites and 39 villas, all with private balconies. There's even a separate ‘spa village’ which features eight villas, 40 hot springs, and a yacht dock. Also available to Huzhou guests are a club lounge, ballroom, and a variety of restaurants and bars.
The International OlympicCommittee (IOC) announcedon September 7that Tokyowas the citychosen to host the2020 Olympic Games.Thanks to thesuccess ofthe Japanesedelegation, thenew national stadiumof Japandesigned byZaha Hadid, is currentlyunder construction, will be the sceneofceremonies? Opening and closingof the 2020ParalympicGamesOlympiquesetwell asathletics competitions.dropoff window
The project was awarded to Zaha Hadid following the international competition of design ended November 2012. On this occasion ? Japanese architect Tadao Ando (Pritzker Prize 1995), president of the competition jury, noted that "the dynamic and futuristic design of the project embodied the message that Japan wished to convey to the world." Before the 2020 Olympics, the stadium designed by Zaha Hadid will host another international event of primary importance sportsman: World Cup 2019 Rugby (Rugby World Cup 2019).
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