1. How have trends or evolutions in the design process, technological advancements, and/or societal issues inspired new thought and solutions for this building type? Traditionally, parking structures have been viewed as very utilitarian building types, contributing little aesthetically to the urban landscape or environmental sustainability. As part of a natural science museum and research center, [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Susan Jones What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? Most powerful for us in working on religious buildings is the emotional context in which they are conceived, designed, funded and built. [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Paolino Di Vece Roux What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? According to Pythagoras “this world is false and illusive, a turbid medium in which the rays of heavenly light are [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Zermani Associati What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The notion of spirituality,escaping the liturgical boundaries, has climbed over the walls of the buildings in order to travel and free itself [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents NOMENA Arquitectos What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? To make a building capable of orchestrating an experience that makes man aware of the divine beyond any particular religious belief. In [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Robert Hull What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? Interestingly, the most unexpected requirement from the church related to seating. The church already had a traditional chapel with a center aisle [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Diego Quadrelli What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The real challenge for us was to built a Chapel able to mix the Italian style with the Central Africa culture, but [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Eduardo Fernandez What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? La construcción de un edificio religioso plantea el reto de intentar definir con los medios habituales de la arquitectura un espacio de [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Gustavo Penna What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? I didn’t want to face this theme as a difficulty, I just looked at it the most natural way possible. My thoughts [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Philip Thalis What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? Like many cities, Sydney is dotted with disused, dilapidated or mutilated former theatres. How to adapt such buildings while respecting their fabric and [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki & David J. Lewis What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The Arthouse project required us to consider the full trajectory of a building’s history to be more important than [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Tim Greer What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? Inherited buildings or artefacts have an associated consciousness and memory, formed by years of existence. Keeping this in play, is one of one of [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Morris Adjmi What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The most difficult issue in a building like this one, which was loaded with unique architectural details from turn-of-the-century industrial Brooklyn, was knowing [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Marcy Wong & Donn Logan What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? When a building is subject to the jurisdiction of numerous agencies – in this case local, state as well as [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Tomomi Hayashi What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The general public often have created their personal values to the building. These are not reflected in the requirements from the authorities and [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Christoph Köpers & Johan Østeng – Østengen & Bergo With this particular landscape architecture project, what was the most difficult issue your firm faced or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought and unique approaches in the project? We met several challenges in this project. The most important was [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Marcus Barnett – Marcus Barnett With this particular landscape architecture project, what was the most difficult issue your firm faced or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought and unique approaches in the project? This particular project was dictated by an unusually conceptual client brief. One of the initial [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents James Lord – Surface Design With this particular landscape architecture project, what was the most difficult issue your firm faced or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought and unique approaches in the project? The critical factors in this project were the budget and timing. The architect pleaded to [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Todd Briggs – Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, Inc. With this particular landscape architecture project, what was the most difficult issue your firm faced or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought and unique approaches in the project? Upon first visiting the project site, we were faced with the challenge [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Ron Lutsko, Jr. – Lutsko Associates With this particular landscape architecture project, what was the most difficult issue your firm faced or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought and unique approaches in the project? The most difficult issues faced were the small size of the garden relative to [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Hugh Hardy & Daria Pizzetta What was the most difficult issue about working on this building or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? This is a building that had to reflect BRIT’s mission to support the natural environment. In designing this premier botanical research center, [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Dan Rockhill What was the most difficult issue about working on this building or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? I design and build these projects with students who are enrolled in our graduate program at the University of Kansas. Working with young people that [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Matt Kreilich What was the most difficult issue about working on this building or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? One of the most challenging aspects of this project was both designing and constructing on and around wetlands. The 13 acre site is a large [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Bill Yudchitz What was the most difficult issue about working on this building or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The need to keep everything as simple as possible and still achieve the goal of creating a small house that could influence the way houses [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Bob Harris What was the most difficult issue about working on this building or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? To be honest, the most difficult thing about this project was the schedule. Design and construction needed to be complete within a one-year period. This [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Ivan Juarez What was the most difficult issue about working within this project type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your design? Since its conception, the project Inner Forest, was closely joint to the surroundings that lodged it. During the development of the project I had [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Peter Eising What was the most difficult issue about working within this project type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your design? Working in an environment of a living tree, where there are no building codes. The tree needed structural testing using a ‘ping-test’ where a [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Nic Goldsmith What was the most difficult issue about working within this project type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your design? The most difficult issue from a design perspective was developing a design which could be moved after five years and then reinstalled in sectional [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Oliver Thill & André Kempe What was the most difficult issue about working within this project type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your design? As architects we mostly work for public or private clients and are not used to realize works in real public space. [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Jorge Arvizu, Ignacio Del Rio, Emmanuel Ramirez & Diego Ricalde What was the most difficult issue about working within this project type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your design? Pavilions tend to be temporary structures that, in most cases, have very little time to get [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Ben van Berkel Time is an inherent characteristic of the pavilion typology; the pavilion most often being a structure of either temporality or semi-permanence. How does this attribute affect the design approach to these constructions? One of the advantages of the pavilion typology is in fact that these structures are temporary, as [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Jamie Maslyn Larson With this particular landscape architecture project, what was the most difficult issue your firm faced or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought and unique approaches in the project? There were many programmatic demands for the project, in just 2 ½ acres of space. We felt [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents José Adrião, Architect What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building type and/or the most unexpected challenge that influenced new thought in the building? The fact that this a Elementary School and that we are dealing with four to ten year old kids make this project very [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Javier Larraz, Architect What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building type and/or the most unexpected challenge that influenced new thought in the building? Without a doubt, the fact of projecting a building for three year old children. A nursery is the first public space that they [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Phillip Lehmann and Alain Fidenza, Architects What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building type and/or the most unexpected challenge that influenced new thought in the building? The greatest challenge was the search for an adequate typological-spatial solution to the issue of a primary school building. The [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents John Shnier, Architect What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building type and/or the most unexpected challenge that influenced new thought in the building? As a school specializing in young students gifted in the arts, we had a mandate to provide a building which performs at a [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Anne Schopf, Architect What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building type and/or the most unexpected challenge that influenced new thought in the building? The narrow, north-south oriented site presented an immediate challenge. In order to align classrooms for optimum daylighting, we developed compact learning clusters that [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Peter Gluck, Architect What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building type and/or the most unexpected challenge that influenced new thought in the building? School buildings have historically been designed for the pedagogy of the day; as pedagogies change, the buildings are difficult to reconfigure. For [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Reinhard Kopf and Siv Helene Stangeland What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? We aimed to combine the architecture with the exhibition and the infrastructure in a “forest” of 15 trees. In addition, [&hellip
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