Reflections and insights from the design office of RoyalByckovas. A brief digest of news and resources to inspire creative minds.

1395 Brickell Avenue

R&B’s restaurant tenant improvement of an existing CrossFit gym, located at the base of the Conrad Hotel within the Brickell Arch building, formerly the Espirito Santo by Kohn Pedersen Fox.

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Infill Urbanism - Paris, France

The art of inserting a building into an historical city block means engaging in an open, physical dialogue with those already there. Building onto an extant structure also presents an opportunity for a comprehensive renovation project; a reclaiming of space. The new headquarters of the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé is an unexpected presence, a curved volume that floats in the middle of a courtyard, anchored on just a few supports amongst a thicket of birch trees, a floral island set in the dense sedimentary context of the city. The form responds to specific limits and requirements of the property, while seeking to maintain distance from its neighboring buildings to allow them increased access to daylight and ventilation.

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The Loop House, a paradoxically small, yet generous infill residence by Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates is conceived around a planted central courtyard that inspires peace and quiet amongst a dense urban site in Hyogo, Japan.

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Designer Spotlight

Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby founded their East London studio in 1996, after studying architecture together at the Royal College of Art. For more than two decades their work has challenged the boundaries of design in the U.K. and abroad, while their commitment to lecturing, workshops and studio practice supports the development of new generations of designers.

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Innovation - 3D Printed Architecture

Possibilities of 3D printed building methods over traditional residential construction methods are explored in this home in the Netherlands. The project marks europe’s first legally habitable property with load-bearing walls made using 3D-printed concrete.

Learn more about Europe’s first 3D-printed house, here.

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Check out this informative video showing the off-site construction and on-site installation of the modular components of this home.

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Modular

There's no reason a bathtub should be excluded from our obsession with modular construction and components. The Hamaca by Splinter Works is a perfectly crafted bathing machine that elevates the bathing experience, transfixed between adjacent walls hovering above the floor. Measuring almost 9' long, the bathtub and its sloping shape offers plenty of room in which to relax, utilizing half the amount of water as typical luxury bathtubs. The tub is filled via a floor standing tap with the waste water released through its base, and emptied into a floor drain.

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Watch - Genesis 2.0.

The film observes the harsh and dangerous life of so-called mammoth hunters on the remote New Siberian Islands in the far north of Siberia. The archaic landscape in which these people are looking for the tusks of extinct mammoths looks like primordial earth. There is a kind of gold rush fever in the air, because the prices for this white gold have never been so high. But the thawing permafrost unveils more than just precious ivory. Sometimes the hunters find an almost completely preserved mammoth carcass with fur, liquid blood and muscle tissue on which arctic foxes gnaw.

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