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10:05 PM

Beirut Exhibition Center / L.E.FT

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Beirut Exhibition Center (BEC), is the first structure dedicated to contemporary art in the new waterfront development area. Designed by L.E.FT, the BEC responds to its location, a constantly shifting context, and contributes to a new skyline for the city. Simultaneously the interior is in constant motion with the shifting of exhibitions and as L.E.FT described, “the architecture is trapped in a dynamic state of limbo.”
Follow the break for photographs and design description by the architects.

Architects: L.E.FT
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Team: Daniel Colvard, Makram el Kadi, Karine Yassine, Ziad Jamaleddine, Cindy Moon, Mahdi Sabbagh, Karie Titus
Landscape Architects: Vladimir Djurovic Landscape Architecture
Contractor: Target Engineering
Client: Solidere
Project Area: 1,200 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of L.E.FT

Courtesy of L.E.FT

L.E.FT described the exterior skin and its corresponding interaction with Beirut, “The skin, designed in custom corrugated anodized mirror aluminum, becomes an index for the growth of the city, a place holder that derives its identity from that of the ever changing context. The city becomes a work of art, an abstract expressionist painting in motion. Beirut finally sees itself in the mirror. The mirror cladding refutes shadows to further accentuate the placeless nature of the building, and the emphasis on the surrounding, a heterotopian condition that provides a space for self reflection and a new critical view to the city.”

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Working with the topography, the building sits in a reflective pool of water that further reflects both building and context into an immaterial state, just like the city that will ‘become’, but ‘is’ not yet. A bamboo grove to the north and a sculpture garden to the south frame the building and with the wind create a constant movement of a second nature.

floor plan + elevations

site plan

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: site plan

: floor plan + elevations

9:52 PM

Terzo Piano Restaurant/ Dirk Denison Architects

Terzo Piano Restaurant was designed as a changeable canvas with movable pieces and flexible seating arrangements. Seating 250 patrons the lunch restaurant is located within the Renzo Piano designed Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago. The architects therefore were challenged with establishing a contemporary space that provided a complementary atmosphere to the Modern Wing. A recent recipient of a 2010 AIA Chicago Award: Citation of Merit for Interior Architecture, jurors commented, “It’s elevated the cafeteria experience,” and “The whole idea of having art in the dining area is elegant.”
Follow the break for drawings and photographs of Terzo Piano Restaurant.

Architects: Dirk Denison Architects
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Client: Bon Appetit Management at The Art Institute of Chicago
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Michelle Litvin Photography

elevations

From Dirk Denison Architects
We established that the design of the restaurant would continue the experience of the museum into the dining area. To achieve this we added a series of fixed elements, organized as nodes of activity, which stand free from the walls and ceiling of the 8500 sqf space. Display vitrines house rotating pieces from the Museum’s collection and bring character to the various dining areas, providing loose edges of boundary. The lunch-only schedule of the restaurant and large areas of window also drove the undeniable presence of natural light in the space. The choice of a predominantly white palette, including resin tabletops which glow when shot with light, was a direct effort to capture the radiance and shadows of the changing presence of sunlight over the course of each day.

partition detail

Guests navigate through an entry “buffer zone” between the public terrace and the restaurant. Key operational elements are collected here: a calm and modern lounge area with a display vitrine, a curved garde manger floating beyond, and further, a tightly- programmed volume containing the bar, custom wine and cheese display, beverage service and wine room. These volumetric elements are all dressed in a crisp, light palette and are of varied heights, though none touches the ceiling. The location and design of the garde manger were particularly informative in this project – as there were restrictions for building above the second floor galleries below, which meant an extended distance between the kitchen on the far south end of the space and the dining areas on the north end. To bridge this, the Chef and operators asked for a satellite garde manger in the public area of the restaurant. We embraced this as an “open kitchen” allowing the food and service to be on display and the gentle curve of the painted metal shape is employed to highlight its presence.

elevations

A critical aspect of the design was the concept of changeability. The restaurant is lunch- only, but the space doubles as a sophisticated banquet space, available for private evening events. This meant a fluctuating capacity and shifts in décor and character. We designed a series of movable furniture pieces, which can be reconfigured to define and redefine the overall space. Each element is a run of banquette seating backed by a credenza, suspended on steel frame on casters – and five units also have a removable upper fabric panel which can be grouped to establish a dividing “wall.” The neutral fabric wall finish (installed over sound attenuating material) and predominance of white allow guests to dress the room they see fit.

floor plan

: © Michelle Litvin Photography

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: © Michelle Litvin Photography

: © Michelle Litvin Photography

: elevations

: elevations

: floor plan

: partition detail

4:21 PM

Museum Building In Cormano / Area_Progetti

Architects: Area_Progetti
Design team: 5+1AA, area_progetti srl, Buonomoveglia srl, Studio Palterer
Location: Cormano, Milan, Italy
Structural engineering: Area_Progetti srl, Buonomoveglia srl
Mechanical & Electrical engineering: 2C Ingeneria srl, Torino
Contractor: Cooperativa di Costruzioni Lavoranti Muratori
Project area: 2,450 sqm
Project year: 2005 – 2010
Photographs: Laura Ceccarelli, Valentina Esposito

The conversion project of an ancient industrial building into a museum must be conceived beyond the functional renovation and upgrading, as it involves the building change of use and consequently its urban, social and cultural role.
We have preserved the disused factory’s architectural severity as container, once rationally conceived to enclose a manufacturing space, while now its new appearance, still a factory but generating ideas and not any more manufactured goods, produces the opening and the belonging to the outer space, to the urban and social fabric of the city.

model

The old structure has been re-interpretated during the design process as a huge chest of drawers, from whom new volumes have been drawn out as if they were ideal receptacles for toys.
The strong contrast between the existing, carefully restored, and the new extension, intended as contemporary expression, is evident. A new whole, set between conservation and renovation, function and imagination, able to get the role proper for a museum and thus to became a landmark in the surroundings.

From the existing building, a cotton-mill of the 1900th, a new suspended volume is stretching out to cover the new public space.
The functions (toys museum, children library and theatre) are arranged inside the existing envelope, reinforced by a giant order of concrete walls conceived to strengthen the old factory and support the new volume. The conic skylights are getting out, as magicians’ hat, from the museum box. At the ground floor level the hall, where the coffee bar is placed, brings into the main distributive system and to the theatre entrance.

All along the hall, facing the square, a double height slice reminds the original size of the industrial space, whose height has allowed to create a mezzanine where the children library is located.
At the last floor there are the museum exhibition, the workshops and other spaces for the museum and theatre activities. The main vertical connection is realized with a double steel stair with crossed flights.
A modular toilet facilities block, painted red, is located at every floor and divides the central stair hall from the contiguous activities.

The central staircase leads to the top of the building, where it’s possible to get out on the roof through a simple long flight lightened by a side full-length window.
All the plants and the services areas, painted red, are located on the roof, surrounded by metal panels and foliage reducing the visual and acoustic impact of the equipments.

The entrance is in a sheltered area, covered by the museum box. This big outer hall crossed by the urban road is the way the building relates to the city. The new zebra-striped volume clearly declare indeed the new activities taking place in the cotton mill.
In the sheltered area there are the two steel escape stairs of the library and of the museum that, running parallel to main facade, come out from the building and cross diagonally the outer space.

In the external areas the idea of giving the space a new social and cultural role has been carried on and it is expressed as the prosecution of the activities that take place inside but at the same time as a public space usable by the whole community.
The urban graphic symbols are used to point out directions and areas and to emphasize the playful and recreational aspect related to children, the real users of the building.

color palette

In a simple, intuitive and clear way, the game theme is proposed through the representation of signs belonging to the collective imaginary: snakes and ladders, tic-tac-toe, chess and hopscotch.