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International School

KuraWp — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 06:45:12 +0000

This international school concept design utilises a central student hub to unite the four separate elements of the program; Elementary, Secondary, Functional Centres and sports and recreation. This central hub houses shared functions for all age groups and has informal study, meeting and relaxation spaces to support the students habitation experience. More modern forms are combined with some traditional materials to ground the building facades in the regional context.

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Mahindra Showroom

KuraWp — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 06:31:50 +0000

Located in Hyderabad India, this new Mahindra car showroom concept takes elements of the brands identity and uses them to generate and inform the materiality, forms and other elements of the design. Functions of display, sales, office and maintenance are combined in this program to create a 4S equivalent experience.

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Community Market

KuraWp — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:07:47 +0000

By combining a multitude of community functions within one space this project creates a thriving centre for community and interaction. Retail, service, technology and exhibition are combined around a central gallery space and large public amphitheatre seating/stair element that allows for performances, films, speeches and presentations to occur within the market space. The cross pollination of various programmatic elements creates a diversity in interaction and occupation of the space which in turn strengthens the sense of community for the development. The central space can house a variety of programs and events and is the defining elements that enables all the surrounding functions.

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Block ABC Interior Design

KuraWp — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 05:16:54 +0000

Block ABC is an interior design project of over 16000m2 that encompasses a series of community functions that serve a large adjacent development. This project is implemented in collaboration with the local government and the developer and offer function ranging from community and aged care, management offices, schooling and daycare as well as a community market and SOHO apartment/offices. The project is intended to provide a more connected, digital and forward looking strategy for community through implementation of future technologies, the internet of things, digitalised systems and community focused design.

Primarily this project considered the future of commercial real estate that is attached to large scale apartment communities and asks whether these commercial areas can work for the community that encompasses them.

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Guanling Mountain Hotel

KuraWp — Tue, 26 May 2020 05:10:08 +0000

The Guanling Mountain Hotel consists of 10 standard units, 5 luxury units and a large villa in addition to a large Restaurant, Cafe, Teahouse and culture building. The site is located on the mountainous region to the north west of Sichuan province, China. The local vernacular style utilises dry stone walls in construction and so it was decided to borrow from this construction method and combine this technique with clean modern lines to create a modern interpretation of the traditional building style of the region. The site is very undulating, rising some 60m from the entrance carpark to the villa and so negotiating this steeply sloped terrain became a primary design driver in the project. Views to the North and south of the site ridge capture the ‘cloud sea’ in the morning and evening as the valley fills with clouds flowing down from the Himalayan Plateau.

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Na Nao Hotel

KuraWp — Tue, 26 May 2020 04:39:46 +0000

This Hotel, on Nanao Island off Shantou in Fujian Province, China, occupies an area of 2500m2 and represents a movement towards more high end hospitality projects on the island. The hotel hosts 25 rooms, a VIP villa, multiple layers of outdoors spaces and pools as well as public functions such as a cafe, restaurant and tea house. The design combines modern forms with a strong conceptual idea of stacking the accomodation volumes, offsetting and rotating the floor plates to create views, privacy and public areas. The strong modern forms of the architecture are contrasted by traditional Chinese elements in the interior. The steeply sloped site is dealt with through a series of platforms that house the teahouse, swimming pool and restaurant. The room volumes are angled to take advantage of the ocean views to the south of the site.

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Satara Center

KuraWp — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 07:23:16 +0000

Satara Center is a competition for municipality building in the city of Satara, India. Through our design we aspire to create a strong relationship between the building and and city by creating a large social space for the city. We erase the boundaries between the city and the building thus making the building available to people throughout the day. Satara center serves as office during the day and imporantly a great public space throughout the day always inviting people

Majority of activities such as council halls, meeting spaces and galleries are designed to be close to ground level so that the plinth of the building becomes a dynamic active space for the city. The first 3 floors are planned to be accessible easily for the public through adding a grand staircase to the first floor where all the lobbies and public facilitites such as cafe are located. Council halls, galleries and meeting areas are planned underneath the stairs and easily accessed from street level for events where as the first floor becomes a grand public space for the city.

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Work + Office

KuraWp — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:25:06 +0000

Location : Chengdu, China
Area : 3900m2

The Work + Co-Working offices design takes a minimalistic, industrial approach to the interior fit-out and furnishing of the project. Allowing and encourage occupation and transformation of the office space by the companies that share it, the design both reduces the initial cost for both the client and the first companies to use the space whilst allowing those companies to create and add to their environment in an organic process of development and ownership. The large central pavilion provides a shared space for relaxation, presentation and meeting for the users.

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Fourth Kindergarten

KuraWp — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 08:06:08 +0000

Location : Chengdu, China
Area : 6500m2

This project will provide facilities for 600 children in the south of Chengdu. A series of garden terraces and outdoor staircases link the building volumes together on roof level and allow the children and additional layer of flexible play or learning space adjacent to the classroom volumes. Classrooms and activity rooms for younger children are situated on the ground floor to allow a direct connection to gardens.

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Yellow River Kindergarten

KuraWp — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:39:15 +0000

Location : Suining, China
Area : 3200m2

The Yellow River Kindergarten, located in a residential complex in Suining, was designed as a support for the community and a hub for parents, teachers and community to meet and interact. The facade references the Bamboo indigenous to the reason and filters light and creates a play of light and shadow along the external corridors of the building.

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