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Salmen House / Office S&M

April 7, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

Bookending a mid-century terrace in Plaistow this three bed, three bath house makes effective use of a tight corner plot. Office S&M designed Salmen House to be built and let by professional landlord My Property & Home, who had purchased an end of terrace garden suitable for a two-storey infill house.

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Sattrapirom Meditation Center / Ken Lim Architects

April 5, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

Sattrapirom Meditation Center is located in the grove among the rubber plantation and the orchards in Amphoe Klaeng, Rayong. Erected for Vipassana Meditation, the place of practice for the villagers and the monks. This place is also designed to engage Buddhist activities and multi-purpose use for the community.

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Expandable House / Urban Rural Systems

April 3, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

The expandable house (‘rumah tambah’ in Bahasa Indonesia, or rubah for short) is designed to be one part of a sustainable response to the challenges of rapidly developing cities like Batam, in Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago. Once a collection of sleepy fishing villages of a few thousand inhabitants, Batam developed to be a cosmopolitan city of over one million people in less than 40 years. This remarkable growth, fueled by a new free trade agreement and Batam’s proximity to Singapore, has not abated. Young migrants from all over Indonesia moved there to seek their fortune. By 2015 Batam was named the fastest growing city in the world. As a consequence, the city was confronted by major planning problems: How to accommodate the influx of migrants? How to provide sufficient housing, and appropriate water and sewage systems? How to fund adequate transport infrastructure, and provide schools, universities and hospitals?