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Plan:b Arquitectos creates brick vacation home in Colombian tropical forest

Brothers Felipe and Federico Mesa of Plan:b Arquitectos have designed a brick and perforated concrete holiday home for their families in the rural town of La Siria, Colombia.

House in La Siria, which sits on a narrow patch of land abutting the tropical forest and mountains around 120 kilometres south west of Medellin, was designed to be as compact as possible while using local material and building techniques.

Brothers Felipe and Federico Mesa designed House in La Siria for their families

"We wanted to have an affordable house, flexible, built with local materials, but also with permeable spaces to take advantage of the tropical weather," said Felipe Mesa of Plan:b Arquitectos.

Permeability was achieved by opening up the back of the home with a double-volume area, a courtyard in the middle of the home, and using perforated concrete blocks to let in air.

It is set in the tropical jungle on a narrow lot

"We can have air currents crossing the building all the time," said Mesa.

"The blocks have this circular perforation. In some cases we cover the holes with circular glasses. But the majority are open."

The double-height living room is permanently opened

The main living space, which opens onto a terrace containing a pool, has an angled roof that rises to create a double-height space topped with perforated blocks to let in air and light.

This area contains the dining room and living room with the kitchen set into its rear wall.

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A central courtyard separates this living space from the three enclosed bedrooms that are also topped with a sloped roof.

While the living area was designed to be permanently open, the kitchen can be closed off with a sliding wooden door and access to the courtyard and bedrooms sealed.

The main entrance leads into the courtyard

Alongside the garden courtyard are two further bathrooms and another bedroom.

"This sequence allows the house to function extroverted and open to the landscape, or introverted and focused on the courtyard," said Plan:b, who also noted that one aim of the layout was that the house never cast shadows on the swimming pool.

The bedrooms are accessed from the courtyard

The home combines natural and more industrial materials. Its roof was made from local wood that is exposed throughout the interiors.

Steel beams support the mouth of the living area, and a "rusted steel" pergola protrudes towards the pool.

Concrete window frames jut out from long rectangular windows on both walls.

In the living area, the kitchen is accessible through a sliding wooden wall

"The house has an appearance halfway between traditional housing construction and a small industrial building," added the Colombian architecture studio.

Alongside the holiday home, the pool area sits on a platform to deal with the incline, and from one edge of this patio handrails were placed to create a viewing station.

Steel beams and the pergola mark the transition to the outdoor space

Felipe Mesa is an assistant professor at the Design School at Arizona State University where he recently oversaw students designing a covered outdoor classroom.

Other projects that include brick and perforations are a home in Vietnam with a triple-heigh atrium and this Bangladeshi mosque by Marina Tabassum.
The photography is byAlejandro Arango.

Project credits:

Architects: Felipe Mesa, Federico Mesa
Project Manager: Cristian Camacho, Verónica Mesa
Work team: Laura Kate Correa, Sebastián González, Leyre
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Structural Design: Plexus – Ingeniería Integral

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Golden cinema in France by Antonio Virga evokes the age of "monumental" movie theatres

French practice Antonio Virga Architecte has used perforated brickwork and gold metal to wrap a cinema building in Cahors, France, which filters light onto the surrounding public square at night.

Antonio Virga Architecte's aim for the building, named Cinema Le Grand Palais, was to reunite a complex of historic buildings originally used as a convent and then a military base – the east wing of which burned down in 1943.

The project is shortlisted in the civic building category of Dezeen Awards 2021.

Antonio Virga Architecte designed the Cinema Le Grand Palais. Photo is by Pierre Lasvenes

"In recent years the space between the buildings, poorly defined, was used as a parking lot," described the Paris-based practice. "With the [cinema], the basis of our project was to find the lost urban city that the site once had or could have," it explained.

"The architecture of the cinema reaches out to old Cahors, to the history of the square and to the lost concept of old monumental movie theatres."

The brick box resembles surrounding buildings

The seven-screen Cinema Le Grand Palais, which also includes a museum space, is designed as a blank, pale brick box.

It is an almost uncanny copy of the surrounding 19th-century blocks, echoing their height and roof shapes but with bold golden doors and no windows.

One block has a brick facade

"It was important to have a timeless architectural expression," explained the studio.

"We wanted something that would connect strongly with the existing – maybe as if it has been there for a long time, avoiding all pastiche or faux vieux [fake old]."

The second block is clad in perforated gold metal

As Cinema Le Grand Palais required more space than the brick building would provide, it is enlarged by a more contemporary volume clad in perforated gold metal. This is intended to appear as a modern extension to the "timeless" brick form.

"We opted for this 'false' extension, a second building in golden metal, a material that again blends well with the colours of Cahors," the studio said.

Perforations that reference latticed mashrabiya screens, most commonly found in traditional Islamic architecture, have been created in large areas of the brick facade and cover the metalwork.

During the day these perforations allow light to enter the cinema, while at night they are illuminated from within, revealing their location on the brick facade as a series of rectangular areas that appear to glitter.

Screens are accessed through a double-height foyer

"We tried to play with mass and lightness, an idea also expressed through the facades, with their mashrabiya that 'receive' light throughout the day and irradiate by night, making the building lighter," described the practice.

Internally, the brick and metal forms are connected seamlessly, with two cinema screens located on the ground floor and a further five screens above.

There are seven screens inside

A double-height foyer and adjacent cafe space occupy the front of the brick form, accessed via a run of glass doors signaled by a gold-lined cut made in the facade.

Another recently completed cinema on Dezeen includes the renovation of the historic Blauer Stern Cinema in Berlin by Batek Architekten, referencing its original mouldings with neon lights.

Other projects shortlisted in the civic building category for this year's Dezeen Awards include an all-timber school in Denmark and a garden-like preschool in Vietnam.

The photography is by Luc Boegly unless stated.

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Matt Fajkus adds perforated steel screens to Austin boathouse

Austin studio Matt Fajkus Architecture has designed a boathouse in the Texas city with perforated metal facades calibrated to balance light and shade throughout the year.

Located on the shore of a ravine in Austin, the Filtered Frame Dock is a two-storey boathouse positioned close to a nearby house built above water level.

Filtered Frame Dock sits on the shore of a ravine

The boathouse has a steel roof arranged in two triangular planes that protect the upper wooden deck from sunlight. The deck is wrapped by glass balustrades and features outdoor lounge chairs.

Filtered Frame Dock gets its name from the perforated stainless steel screens that flank its north and south sides.

Two triangular planes form the boathouse roof

The screens are designed so that the boathouse receives equal amounts of sunlight and shade during the year, with light and shadow perfectly balanced during the equinox.

"An instrument for light and ventilation, the structure is calibrated to provide a comfortable balance of sun, shade, shelter and breezes throughout the year," said Matt Fajkus Architecture.

The upper deck is wrapped by glass balustrades

"As the seasons shift, the dock provides greater shade during the heat of the summer and welcomes more sun during the cooler winter months."

The laser-cut perforations on each screen are also organised based on sightlines, so that visitors can enjoy views of the water from the deck.

Other materials incorporated into the project are hardwood decking and natural stone, which are intended to echo the boathouse's surroundings.

"Sensory experiences are both articulated by and inherent in the relationship between the dock and its natural context," concluded the architecture firm.

A small balcony juts out above the water

Matt Fajkus Architecture has completed a handful of projects in its home city, including a house with a roofline that mimics a mullet and a mid-century home with an extension formed from wood, stucco and glass.

Boathouses are popular in Austin, since many locals like to enjoy the warm climate by spending time on the water. Architecture studio Andersson-Wise has created two on Lake Austin: one that allows users to dive from its upper level, and another assembled from salvaged materials.

The photography is byLeonid Furmansky, Charles Davis Smith and Matt Fajkus Architecture.

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