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Disentis monastery girls’ boarding school , Disentis-Mustér,Switzerland
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Faculty of Economics in Strasbourg, France
There appears to be one constant about academic buildings: they require extensions, often at the cost of their own initial qualities. In this case, a new library and a cafeteria are required, in addition to the reorganization of an existing building and the spatial restructuring of an interior street. The obvious answer to the competition brief would…
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Faculty of economics, Ghent University, Belgium
The campus path that crosses the building, the topography, the nearby existing economics building, and the new program together generate the form of the building. The path leads down from the street towards the roof of the existing building. On one side are organized all the vertical circulation shafts of the new building, on the…
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Multipurpose school building in Ghent, Belgium
In the harbour area, a narrow stretch of land alongside a dock is freed from port activities. A very simple ‘chopstick’ urban plan is being developed by O.M.A. in which open green pockets alternate with dense construction. In order to give the linear plan a notion of centrality, a public path is designed to cross the whole strip.…
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Kindergarten Susi Weigel in Bludenz, Austria
Objective for Kindergarten Susi Weigel: To outline a 2 -storey building with a precise and quiet urban setting . The gallery like scale interior provides an attractive permeability of the outer layers of space , the expansion of the play areas and the group work areas represents the inner room sequences that are varied and…
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Julie-Victoire Daubié Residence for Researchers
Located on the southern edge of the majestic Cité Universitaire park, the ‘Maison Julie-Victoire Daubié’ is a residence for young researchers. It has the privilege of enriching one of the capital’s most beautiful collections of modern architecture. Building in a park with no apparent boundaries is not exempt of powerful constraints. The presence of the ring road…
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New Generation Research Centre
The new “Dôme” is part of the regeneration plan and the first completed building in this context. It is called the “House of Research and of Imagination”. Its designer, The Bruther architects have choosen to use a simple architectural vocabulary to create a a mixused place, accessible for all inhabitants of the city. In order…
