Alternative Car Park in Hong Kong - MAAD

_context Hong Kong has two kind of landscapes: manmade and nature made. In the first one, the rectilinear shape predominates, but in the other, the curvilinear and organic design is build by the flux of the water and mountains.

_structure A central axis made of concrete connects the floors and receives the weight of the radial steel structure. The rotation of the floors creates balanced balconies with relate the building to its urban context and allow users to enjoy different views.

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_sustainability Design a green-roof; re-using the concrete from the former two-story car park, recycled steel connected with bolts and use recycled perforated aluminum into the facade. Design a core to function also as an inner patio, which together with the facade provides natural cross-ventilation.

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_culture The design of the tower have two important features influenced by Chinese culture. It is segmented into eight separated sections. This is because, in Chinese, eight and wealth have similar sounds. Chinese people believe that using the number that closely corresponds to this sound creates a good omen. We design a roof garden according to the principles of the Feng Shui, a millenary Chinese technique to harmonize the energy.

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_Vasco Antunes MAAD

_Miguel Silva

MAAD: 4th Prize Barcelona Skyscraper 2011

Previously the primary light source was the daylight, nowadays we use electric light. Previously if we wanted a fresh air we just open a window, but now the mechanical ventilation is available. If we want a good temperature in a room, we now turn into air conditioning or central heating. Now we spend a large amount of money in this installations, and a bigger budget to run and sustain these machines. This is a unsustainable solution, both economically and ecologically.

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What if this hybrid could be our urban lab for a new wave of skyscrapers? Not based on accumulating machines but rather designing buildings and selecting materials so the inherent properties of the architecture would provide the necessary qualities?

Our design is a prototype for a structure that could meet the demands of this particular climate zone´s energy consumption. Commercial buildings are the largest consumers of electric grid power, yet over 50% of the energy generated to supply a building is lost during transmission from the power plant. What if buildings generated their own power on-site with no loss over transmission lines, or better yet even more than they actually need?

We integrate solar panels, photovoltaics, wind turbines, rain collectors, geothermal energy, cross ventilation, greenhouse and a vegetal facade into the skyscraper design from the outset, we hope to achieve a "sustainable aesthetic" that is both beautiful and productively practical.

Programmatically the hybrid is divided into different activities, where the main activities are living and working. Normally they take place in identical settings, but they have different needs! Housing uses energy heating, and offices on cooling. Housing needs the sun on the terrace and passive solar heat gain in the wintertime, offices needs the daylight, but hates sunlight. So, instead of putting both in the same template, we suggest to design the framework to the respective activities.

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We tilted the housing toward north, now they are optimized for passive solar heat gain, and at the same time sunlight is guaranteed for the terraces of all apartments from morning to evening. While offices, who need daylight, hates direct sun on their faces or on their computer screens. So we gave attempted to create a building volume that maximizes daylight but minimizes overheating and glare.

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_Team


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_Vasco Antunes MAAD
Bernardo Sousa
Diana António

MAAD: 2nd Prize Vila Franca Footbridge 2010

_Where? A priori, the place is viewed as a difficult spot to be solved and characterized by pronounced boundaries, by a marked unevenness and by an infra-structure of railways with a great expression. However, this reality is inserted in a wider system: it is a part of the river Tejo and of its estuary that grants him a unique and special meaning. Nevertheless, currently this bound is diminished by the presence of the railways. In this context, the proposal intends to intervene as a hinging element between the population and the river, as a frontier between the consolidated city and the nature.

_Why? First, we looked for understanding the genesis of the bridge. Therefore, the first bridges shall have appeared by nature itself after the fall of trunks over the rivers. According to this idea, the deck arises then from the prime element: the trunk of the tree that undergoes a longitudinal cut and its inside is excavated. The deck lies on two moments: _the launch_that consists in a small topographical and organically platform with elements of being, two arms that anchor to the slope and marked by a tree, _the outcome_ a belvedere with a revolutionary hyperboloid form. this one takes on an iconographic relationship acting as pouting element in the landscape.

_How The chosen solution as well the used materials was concerned on globally decreasing costs. The were also concerned on choosing sustainable material and, as often as possible, on recycled material. the deck is coated by two main materials: cork and wood. The cork composes the skin of the deck, reproducing then the traditional Portuguese cork tree. the wood comes from the reuse of the materials.

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_Team

_ Tiago Sales Passos MAAD

_ Vasco Antunes MAAD

_ Nuno Gonçalves MAAD

_ Eduardo Freitas

_ Filipe González

_ Hugo Feliciano

LUA GONE MAAD

 

MAAD é arquitectura. MAAD consiste num produto do momento. Inspirado pelos acontecimentos sucessivos e incessantes do século XXI. Carrega as marcas da crise, do globalismo e do mercado, factores que destabilizam a nossa vida contemporânea.

MAAD é o seguimento dos LUA, e nasce dessa instabilidade. Não é perene, retracta o hoje, o imediato, o informal,o aguçado e abraça a instabilidade enquanto uma nova fonte de liberdade.

MAAD é sem fronteiras e sem tamanho; vamos do ocidente ao oriente, do pequeno ao grande! Tal como a máxima de Bruce Lee, somos “amorfos, sem forma definida  como a água. Coloca água num copo, esta torna-se o copo. Coloca água num bule, e esta torna-se o bule. A água pode fluir, ou gotejar, ou colidir. Sê água meu amigo.”

Ao invés de uma direcção definitiva, MAAD é uma atitude definitiva – de ânsia, de entusiasmo, de crítica e preocupação, de diversão e análise.

MAAD será mais sólido, será melhor, mais rápido e mais forte...

MAAD is architecture. MAAD is a product of the moment. Inspired by the successive and ceaseless events of the 21^st century. It bears the marks of the crisis, globalism and the market that destabilizes our contemporary life.

MAAD is the follow-up of LUA, and was born from the instability. It´s not timeless, it´s now, immediate, informal, sharp and embraces instability as a new source of freedom.

MAAD is boundless and sizeless; we go from west to east, from small to extra-large! Like Bruce Lee´s mandate, we are “formless, shapeless like water. Put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or creep, or drip, or crash. Be water my friend”.

Rather than a definitive direction, MAAD is a definitive attitude – of eagerness, enthusiasm, of criticality and preoccupation, of fun and analysis.

MAAD will be harder, better, faster and stronger...