http://dagli.lu/en/projects/The project feed of Dagli Atelier d’architectureError: format parameter is not correctly set. You have: 29. +0100nlhourly1http://www.symphony-cms.comhttp://dagli.lu/en/projects/view/ianus-and-iana/Error: format parameter is not correctly set. You have: 35. +0100http://dagli.lu/en/projects/view/ianus-and-iana/location: Rue de la Libération, L-7508 Steinsel (Luxembourg) completion: June 2011 surface: 3.000 m² volume: 10.500 m³ program: residential (+commercial) photographer: Jörg Hempel Photodesign Ianus & Iana are two apartment buildings in Steinsel, in the northern outskirts of Luxembourg-City, with a total of 30 apartments. The project was based on a competition in 2008. Our proposition was chosen because of the architectural concept behind the buildings. Our conception is based on two characters taken from the roman mythology - Ianus, the god of the sun, and Ianus, the goddess of the moon. Ianus was also the god of the beginning and the end, entrances and exits, light and darkness, creator of all things. Our intention was to pick up the idea of two buildings standing next to each other but being completely different at the same time, kind of creating the opposite attraction. This is why we picked up the opposite of light and darkness, and designed one of the buildings as a positive, white building, and the other one as its alter ego, a negative black building. The buildings’ design is kept simple, clear and understandable outlines. In order to keep the conception readable, we designed the two buildings completely identical, on the colors alternate. The façades are designed with a horizontal layout; using areas where balconies get docked onto the building, in order to extent the inner spaces at the outside. We used the black and white opposite colors to connect the balconies and define certain areas around the openings of the façade. The interior of the building is divided in individually designed apartments. The ground floor is organized into commercial and residential surfaces, while the commercial points out to the street, the residential surfaces are orientated towards the terraces and backyards to the west. The upper apartments are designed as luxurious duplex apartments with roof terraces at the top floor. The architectural competition included the two apartment buildings in a first round, and a third building in a second round. Due to the quality of our entry, the client decided to cancel the second round and have the third building directly designed by dagli atelier d’architecture.http://dagli.lu/en/projects/view/guilia-romeo/Error: format parameter is not correctly set. You have: 35. +0100http://dagli.lu/en/projects/view/guilia-romeo/location: Luxembourg (Luxembourg) client: Gio s.à.r.l. surface: 2.200 m² volume: 6.700 m³ cost: 2.750.000 completion: 2011-2012 program: housing, townhouses renderings: architecture2brainhttp://dagli.lu/en/projects/view/roof-top-office/Error: format parameter is not correctly set. You have: 35. +0100http://dagli.lu/en/projects/view/roof-top-office/client: Sanichaufer sci location: 58, Rue Pierre Krier , L-3504 Dudelange (Luxembourg) completion: october 2010 surface: 250 m² volume: 750 m³ program: office & commercial photographer: Jörg Hempel Photodesign ROOF TOP OFFICE DUDELANGE is the extension of the company headquarters of Sanichaufer. Sanichaufer is one of the biggest Luxemburg-based firms in building services engineering, with over 50 years of experience. Sanichaufer’s main fields of activity are heating, air-conditioning and central control systems. For this reason, the “rof-top office” is designed as a showroom displaying the most modern building technologies. URBAN CONTEXT - SHAPESHIFTER The construction laws demand the adaptation of the roof type of the adjacent building on a sixth of the façade width. However, the client wanted a cubic extension with a flat roof. The design combines those two opposites – the “mansard-object” picks up the ridge height of the left neighbour (red lines) – while the cubic shapes of the “roof-top office” as demanded by the client gets alined with the right building (green lines). The two seemingly opposite shapes become one consistent design by using color gradients. Coming from the “mansard-object”, these gradients seem to create a movement that finally integrates in the base of the “roof-top office”, visually dragging it underneath the “mansard-object”. COLOR GRADIENTS The combination of the different forms takes place with the help of grayscale gradients. The form follows the shades and vice versa. A subtle game. It alternates the opposite forms of the „Mansard object“ and the „roof-top office“, as well as the different degree of the shades that seem to break out of the façade at the joints of the different parts. BIZARRE INTERIORS The interior design picks up the subtle interaction between colors and forms. The new mocks the old, color mocks shapes, straight lines the curved ones. The walls and ceilings of the new areas are designed completely in white. The design intents to produce a bizarr empty space in which only the gradients generate forms and movement. In some areas the visitors of the new building are abruptly confronted by old parts of the building, areas, where the interaction of old and new generate or reinterpret new space. INTELLIGENT BUILDING TECHNOLOGY The “roof-top office” becomes the CI of Sanichaufer, by the architectural language as well as the best possible energy efficiency. Therefore, the “roof-top office” is built in timber construction. Because of its function as showroom, the latest state-of-the-art in heating and air-conditioning is used. A central control unit with touch panel and IPhone user interface manages the controlling and fine tuning of the installed systems. For Sanichaufer, the focus was not only on energy savings and energy efficiency, but also on the use of renewable energy like solar energy and green electricity.