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2014 WAN Concrete in Architecture Award Winner 

Villa H36 takes top spot

Many congratulations to this year’s winner of the WAN Concrete in Architecture Award, Matthias Bauer Associates, with their Villa H36 scheme. Built in concrete on the outskirts of Stuttgart, it ‘reinterprets the residential vernacular of its context in an interesting and innovative fashion’ enthused Steven Rainville and Kevin Kudo-King, both Principals at Olson Kundig Architects. Thanks to the cast-in insulation, what you see on the outside is what you see on the inside, resulting in clever homogeneity.

David Bennett, an architectural concrete consultant, assured us of its structural successes: "In the creative possibilities of concrete, the roof shape and slopes are really difficult to form." Unlike any other submission, this building explores what can been done with concrete after it has been poured. The architects created a series of core-drilled holes that act as windows which roused all the judges. "They’ve used it as a form of decoration - where they’ve cut through the pebbles and the aggregate," said Bob Fry, Managing Director at Aukett Swanke Architects. "The holes are just spectacular," affirmed David Richards of Arup...Continue Reading

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