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OMA Explores the Future of Hospitals and the Medical Field at the 2021 Venice Biennale

July 1, 2021 Dima Stouhi 0

OMA / Reinier De Graaf have been invited to exhibit at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Titled “Hospital of the Future”, the installation explores how after years of medical preparations and technological advancements, one pandemic was able to hinder medical progress, and kill the hospital as we know it, envisioning a new form of medical architecture.

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How Does Radiant Floor Heating Work?

July 1, 2021 Eduardo Souza 0

Caius Sergius Orata is credited, by Vitruvius, with inventing the hypocaust. The word, from the Latin hypocaustum, in a literal translation, means access from below. The hypocaust is a raised floor system on ceramic piles where, at one end, a furnace—where firewood is burned uninterruptedly—provides heat to the underground space, which rises through walls constructed of perforated bricks. Hypocausts heated, through the floor, some of the most opulent buildings of the Roman Empire (including some residences) and, above all, the famous Public Baths.

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Busajo Campus / StudioBenaim

July 1, 2021 Paula Pintos 0

Busajo Campus is a facility dedicated to local street children, who are hosted for a specific period of time, during which they are helped to rebuild their lives and find respect for themselves and others.

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Vaga Space for Art and Knowledge / Mezzo Atelier

July 1, 2021 Susanna Moreira 0

An empty 400m2, former warehouse located in a residential area on the outskirts of the historic center of the city, was the basis for the creation of vaga – espaço de arte e conhecimento, consolidating the permanence of the Anda&Fala Association in the territory and in time.

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A House in Shimoaojima / Mizuno Architects

July 1, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

It is an architect’s own house for a couple in their 40s and their two children. Within a 30 minutes’ walk from Fujieda Station of the Tokaido Line, the project site is right above the former embankment called “sengan-zutsumi” built in the early Edo period to protect the region from the floods of the Oi River.