Projects Wanted - Plataforma Zero, by A2OFFICE

This week we publish a project sent by A2OFFICE regarding a 20 sqm interior space. The project is located in Porto (Portugal), inside a subway station's retail area, and is designed to integrate a small business that is supposed to be open to the public in a very busy crossing point. The project was executed between 2012 and 2013 and the photographic work was conducted by Alexandra Marques.

We are open to receive projects from all around the world, regardless of their dimension or typology. Please send us high quality photos (indicating their authors), drawings and descriptive texts in English to our Marketing e-mail - david.cardoso@dimscale.com. It will be our pleasure to help spreading new Architecture concepts and ideas.

 "A small space with just over 20m ² was the site for the deployment of this kiosk in the Casa da Música Metro Station in the city of Porto, Portugal.
 

This project was based on the idea of ​​"pause". Pause between commuting routes (home-work-home, home-school-home, etc.) where one color dominates: the yellow. As in the trilogy of chromatic lights os the semaphores, symbolizes a moment of pause, is among the movement and stopping.

The yellow as the predominant color, requires the interaction with neutral colors to highlight. Thus, the space is organized hierarchizing areas of public access with yellow and neutralizing (visually) the restricted areas with gray. Being a space of reduced dimensions, we tried to create different types of spot lighting, treating exhibition spaces individually, creating gradients and focal points in the visitor's attention."

- A2OFFICE 

PROJECTS WANTED is a DIMSCALE's initiative to communicate new Architecture from all around the world. Send us your projects to david.cardoso@dimscale.com.

Architecture References - M&M House, by Studio MK27

M&M House

Bragança Paulista, Brazil
Studio MK27, Brazil

Photos: FG+SG

Project's description on HOMEDSGN [by the architect]:

“The M&M House organization is set by the intersection of two perpendicular axes on a single ground floor. Along one axis is the horizontal volumetry of the house, with its green roof that lifts the grass of the land and merges with the surrounding construction. Along the other axis, there is emptiness: a wooden deck and pool.

At the intersection of these axes, a terrace holds the social spaces of the house, including a kitchen and a living. With permanent cross ventilation, the atmosphere is inviting, even with the high temperatures of São Paulo state, in southeastern Brazil.

This terrace is the transition between interior and exterior. It divides the house into two blocks of wood. The southern block contains the garage and TV room while the northern block holds rooms, kitchen and services. The ceilings create a spatiality: over the terrace it is a low concrete porch and over the living room it is inclined as the roof design and made out of wooden slats. The climate issue is key for the habitability of the house. All spaces are provided with ventilation through wooden folding doors, brises-soleil that can be fully opened. Moreover, the green roof acts as an insulator, besides creating the peculiarity of the volume.”

DIMSCALE wins Cost Management contracts for two projects in Sao Tome and Principe

DIMSCALE integrated the work teams of two projects that aim to build two luxury resorts on the island of Principe, located in the archipelago of Sao Tome and Principe. The projects Macaco Resort and Sundy Beach, promoted by HBD (with headquarters in Lisbon), are now nearing completion of the respective architecture and engineering projects. The South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth, founder of HBD, intends to concretize his vision of developing and boosting the local economy in Principe island through a major investment in various hotel units and other projects such as the expansion of the island airport, agricultural research and development, among others, following a policy of sustainable development and preserving the island’s beauty, biodiversity and natural wealth.

DIMSCALE is responsible for the Cost Management of these first two tourism projects, aiming with this work to optimize the invested capital, to control all costs throughout the execution stages and to safeguard the architectural concept and the projects’ final quality. DIMSCALE team was already part of the project management entourage that traveled to Sao Tome and Principe in the month of July with the objective of analyzing the site constraints. In this trip DIMSCALE carried out an exhaustive survey of the logistics conditions verified in the field, one of the factors with greater influence on the cost of projects with these characteristics.

In this particular phase, DIMSCALE is working on both projects through direct contact with HBD, design teams and the various engineering specialties, aiming to review and reconcile all the information and to perform the exhaustive quantification of the two projects, as well as the Procurement of the best suited constructive solutions, taking into account the stipulated objectives. 

Images: Sao Tome and Principe       Source: Facebook