Saturday, May 14, 2011

Simple Vs Classic Bedroom Layouts








Your bedroom is perhaps the most private room in your house. It is your private sanctuary. Take time to get it just the way you want.
This design offers simple, luxury and elegant bedroom design to you a sense of your life mid century, with beauty of the luxury bedroom decor. This bedroom furniture should be peace and comfort, If you decide to equip your bedroom with modern furniture. It would be great to have modern furniture not only looks elegant but also more complex. This is unlike design with many other styles that come and go with an increase in public choice, modern furniture never goes out of this trend. The best thing about modern furniture is that you can mix and match with another furniture.

Special Thanks To
- www.senug.com
- Huelsta
- Spain Companies

Saturday, May 7, 2011

ETFE








EthyleneTetrafluoroethylen (ETFE)



A Transparent or Translucent material Gradually Replacing Plastic and Glass in new and Innovative buildings, would be arriving in Nigeria Architecture this Year, 2011.
The Use of ETFE dates back to 20yrs Ago, It can be used in different parts of a building, such as Roofing, Windows, Atria, Lobbies etc.
ETFE is a modified copolymer which is manufactured and processed by the same methods associated with most thermoplastic polymers. some of its characteristics compare to Glass are

1- Its a Very Flexible material and is able to cope with large deformation beyond its elastic range prior to breakage unlike glass which is very brittle, it doesn't require double, triple glazing.
2- ETFE allows for 94-95% light without any special treatment unlike glass that allows for max of 95% of light with special treatment.
3- It can be treated in a number of ways just like glass to manipulate its transparency and radiation transmission characteristics.
4- The energy used in the production of ETFE is minimal and cheaper to produce than glass, it installation price is roughly half that used for the installation of glass roof.
5- ETFE is 1% the weight of Glass(of equal Area)
6- Its got a non sticky surface that doesn't attract dirt, making it have a cleaning frequency of over 5yrs unlike glass.
6- ETFE acts as a good sound absorber, enhancing the internally perceived environment which is a problem with glass.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Residential

Small Box House

The residence is built on the western hillside of Mt. Moiwa, overlooking the city of Sapporo.

From the casual lifestyle of the client and his wife, and also the request to have a part of the house turn into a cafe in the future, we aimed to create a space to be flexible to support events, such as the new birth of a child and opening a new cafe, where various life-scenes existing with reasonable distances to each other inside a simple void, like a barn.

Competition

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Thursday, February 17, 2011

MARVEL TOWER






MARVEL TOWER
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.
RAIN SEMESTER, 2010.
Critic: Professor Igwe

Marvel Tower is a proposed mixed development scheme for Court Marvel Estates Limited, to be sited in Victoria Island Lagos, Nigeria so as to physically transform the skyline of Victoria Island, providing some of the facilities that define a megacity and in assuring the city’s continued dynamism given that its business requires ideal condition to operate which has to be meet within reasonable distance.
The program for this project called for the design of a variety of functions; Residential, Commercial and Administrative. To be integrated into a program. This was achieved by LINEAR DISTRIBUTION OF FUNCTIONS.
Also in achieving this, a modular concrete system with a series of curtain wall and central means of services were employed in the design of the program.