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El Sindicato Arquitectura Builds a Rainwater-Catching Pavilion of Folded Steel Roofs in a Quito Park
In Quito's Isla Tortuga Park, Yaku turns three weathering steel canopies and stone basins into public seating that shows where rain goes.
Simone Jazbik Arquitetura Raises a Brick and Clay-Tile Beach House on Steel above a Sloping Búzios Plot
A 348 m² family beach house in Armação dos Búzios, Brazil, where exposed brick, eucalyptus timber and a steel frame work with a falling site.
Zozaya Arquitectos Wraps a Troncones House around a Courtyard, Closed to the Street and Open to the Ocean
In Troncones, Guerrero, a 670 m² house pairs board-formed concrete drums on the street with a courtyard, parota timber and pool opening to the Pacific.
Cité Arquitetura Turns a Narrow Rio Plot into a Timber-Shaded Lookout over the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon
In Rio de Janeiro's South Zone, a slim apartment building stacks glass balconies under timber slats to give the lagoon and mountains top billing.
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Hello, I have a question about Category 1 (Façade Systems & Architectural Skins). The brief asks for the system to be demonstrated on an 8 m × 18 m surface. On Via Brera, the ground floors are mostly shopfronts and entrances. Would it be acceptable for the 8 × 18 m demonstration skin to start above the ground floor (i.e. covering the upper floors only), leaving the commercial ground level free, as long as the full 8 × 18 m surface and the 1.2 × 1.2 m module are respected? In other words, does the 18 m height have to start at street level, or can it be positioned on the building elevation where the façade system is relevant? Thank you for your clarification.