The center of São Paulo is characterized by the diversity of surroundings of diferent natures that we can find. Between boardwalks and viaducts, the sometimes inhospitable or chaotic scenario can offer a momentary welcome in a safe environment. And why not with chips and mayonnaise apart?

Summary
Weflow Hostel is located at the corner of a block and the north side of the Inner-Ring Viaduct in Shanghai. It’s backside is a old residence community. Before the renovation, this was a small family hotel in poor condition,the rooms ware generally narrow and half of rooms are without windows. The first floor was rented by someone as a warehouse. After Weflow rent this building, JH-Atelier made a renovation-design to transform this property to a full functional hostel.

A project in the venerable tradition of alterations and additions to heritage houses - a testing ground for Architect’s ideas.  This adaptive re-use of a double fronted Victorian house incorporates a re-working of the existing house, a new pavilion forming a central court yard, a garage and workshop building to the rear laneway and a small swimming pool.  The house is distinctive for its mature Oak tree which towers above the garden and a red steel brise-soleil which performs many functions, including that of sun-shading.

Point Roadknight is a two-storey cedar-clad family holiday house in Anglesea with a dominant upper level overlooking a tennis court that has been enjoyed and much loved by the owners’ family since its construction in 1988. The next generation of children has placed greater demands on the house and the owners saw this as an opportunity to add second living space, create some spatial efficiencies, renew and insulate the building envelope and refurbish the existing fittings and finishes.

Evolution

The object Blumenegg Pavilion is an event space in the midst of the remaining walls of the ruins of Blumenegg Castle. It is to be run by an association as a cultural and leisure centre and used by the surrounding region. The building, with a floor space of 60 square metres, is intended to accommodate various events and consists of the main room and a small kitchen.

Yes, it takes a village to raise a child.”  - Hillary Clinton 

The clients' desire was to live in a timber house. However, the challenging geology, the exceptional hillside location and the existing environment prompted us to design a solid construction in which the hard shell of the concrete facade encases and protects the soft core of the timber house. The prefabricated timber frame cassettes were erected, sealed and insulated on site and clad with single skin concrete. The timber construction stands as 'a house in a house'. In combination with the concrete shell, it was possible to optimise its load bearing dimensions as it does not have to resist any shear forces.

The project takes place in the old town of Castellón where housing typologies on very narrow and longitudinal plots are common. A complete demolition of an old family house was carried out in order to realize the new project. One of the customer's concerns was to achieve good and natural illumination on all of the floors of the house and to also meet the needs of the program. The result is a perforated project that is planned on the ground floor, first floor, second floor and rooftop with a plot size of approximately 3.80 x 24 meters.

The house is located in the core of a medieval village in the Empordà area. It is built over the ruins of the original house, keeping the stone walls as they were found. There is a little passageway inside the plot at the ground floor level.