'The Lantern', Our collaboration with MADG on an infrastructural beacon (& metro station) for the city of Sofia,Bulgaria is featured on the spanish/chinese addition of 'Future Arquitecturas' [35/36]. 

Shaga studio has been commissioned with the design of a Parametric Model for the Morasha Master-Plan in Ramat Hasharon Israel.

The mixed-use strategy will be developed in collaboration with an international team of advisors including OVE-ARUP and Relational-Urbanism [UK] and will provide planning authorities an in depth overview of the potentials and vision for the regeneration of a key development in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan area.

'Fields Of Knowledge', A design for a new sustainable education campus we have been working on, in collaboration with Auerbach Halevy Architects has been shortlisted out of over 50 proposals and been awarded the second prize in the recent 'Ramat Efall Campus' competition. The design suggests a 'mat organisation',  in which over 10,000m2 of education facilities are weaved with diverse gardens,patios,sport fields and courtyards creating a rich and seamless learning experience and bringing together the public and the community.

>> For more about 'Fields of knowledge'.

Partner Shany Barath, has been appointed a Unit Master at the Undergraduate program of the Architectural Association.

More information over program and research soon!

Partner Gary Freedman, together with Arch.Olaf Gipser will be directing this year's post-graduate research studio  at 

the Berlage centre for advanced studies in Architecture and Urban Design. 

More exciting details over program and events soon!!!

ShaGa Studio is featured in the latest Surface-Asia- 

"...When looking back at the Great Recession, architects of the future ought to give special consideration to the class of dauntless designers who launched their practices into its headwinds..." 

TREND Magazine features the work of Shaga Studio and profile of partners Gary Freedman and Shany Barath in their latest issue. ShaGa is displayed over 8 pages including the projects Garden Ribbons Municipality Tower [IL] and The Lantern Metro Station [BG].

ShaGa Studio has been selected for the 'Emerging talent -Architecture'  section in  March-April edition of Surface Magazine [NewYork]:

SHaGa Studios's designs make sustainability innate.

ShaGa Studio may sound a bit like a reggae record label. In fact, it’s a Netherlands-based design firm, one whose international and intellectual outlook is as broad and varied as the backgrounds of its designers, Shany Barath and Gary Freedman (whose first names combine to form its title). The life and-work partners met as architecture students at Technion International School of Engineering in Haifa, Israel. Together, they moved to Holland for graduate school and then to England to study at the famed Architectural Association. They still commute to the AA two days a week, teaching courses in London, and then wing it back to Amsterdam to work on projects for their now two-year-old firm. From a shelter in a London park to a Holocaust memorial for Atlantic City, Barath and Freedman’s work—which dates back to a stint with UNStudio, where they’ve worked on and off since 2006—demonstrates a range almost as startling as its biomorphic visual complexity. For a proposed municipal center in the seaside town of Netanya, Israel, ShaGa produced a gently sculpted, vase-like tower with striated bands rising from a multi-tiered base. “It started from our understanding of airflow and wind pressure,” says Freedman, , citing the area’s coastal breezes as a reference point for the tower’s organic contours. For ShaGa, looking to the environment isn’t an end unto itself. “It’s not that sustainability isn’t the target,” says Barath, 33, “but sustainability is a part of the process.” ShaGa’s approach anticipates a design future where sustainability is an innate part of architectural thought, not just a box to be checked  [Surface Magazine, March 2012].

The Final Event for the Architectural Association Global School in Tel-Aviv will take  place at the Peres Peace Centre on Sun, 26.02.2012 .

'ActiveMatter 2012' is curated and moderated by ShaGa Studio and  will include ketnote lectures by  Ben Van Berkel [UNSTUDIO], Brett Steele [Director of the Architectural Association, London] and Alisa Andrasek [Biothing - London] .

For updated schedule and participant, please visit - ‘Active Matter 2012-Symposium’

ShaGa's Design in collaboration with MaDG  has been featured on  'Evolo US' , ArchDaily and Designboom.

' The Lantern' Metro station showcases ShaGa’s inclination towards combining architecture with infrastructure, ecology with computation, maintaining the idea of sustainability as backbone of the design process.'  [evolo.us]

+ Read All about 'The Lantern' on Evolo Magazine.

+'The Lantern'  SHINES on DesignBoom.com

+ A new Metro Station and Public Arena for Sofia - ArchDaily.com

W-here & W-hen :

Bezalel Academy ,Jerusalem ,israel - 10.1.12

Shenkar College of Design and Engineering , Tel Aviv, Israel - 12.1.12

Technion - Faculty of architecture, Haifa, Israel - 14.1.12

ShaGa Studio' will give a talk titled: ' ActiveMatter'  at the COMAS design campus in israel , featuring

some of the office's recent work .

/// We perceive our environment as an ‘ActiveMatter’, immersed in a dense field of visible

and invisible forces, connected in a complex system of geological, hydrological as well as

cultural and social bonds. Such understanding has encouraged architects and designers

to widen their scope of exploration in order to accommodate fully the transformative forces

of the environment as well as its performative potentials.

Active Matter’ will feature recent work developed by the architecture office -

ShaGa Studio , addressing the role of computation and parametric

design as key drivers within the environment, spanning from material and fabrication

processes to environmental facades and territorial infrastructures.///

For more information please visit :COMAS ONLINE.

ShaGa Studio is featured on the main ArchDaily online Platform. 

For more details - GardenRibbons on Archdaily.com 

ShaGa's  innovative tower design, 'Garden Ribbons' has been featured in the online magazine DesignBoom.com.

With Over 4 million readers a month from 190 countries,Designboom is one of the most popular design magazines worldwide.

MORE>>Garden Ribbons on DesignBoom.com

In the international competition for the new Sofia Metro Line extension and Metro station,  ShaGa Studio in collaboration with Margherita Del Grosso Architects was shortlisted out of over 130 entries .

The project develops a new metro station typology through a time based sustainable approach and with special attention to day/night lighting conditions under and over ground.

'THE LANTERN' - More information.

NEW>>>  APPLY NOW FOR THE WIX SCHOLARSHIP through the AA WEBSITE.

The deadline for AA Global school applications is 5 February 2012. The WiX scholarship allows talented students from around the world to take part in the AA Visiting School. For more information please visit the 'ACTIVE MATTER' website.

About 'Active Matter': 

For over a century, desert expansion and fertile land degradation has been highlighted as a significant global environmental problem; a problem affecting 36 million square kilometers and over 1.3 billion people worldwide. With a desert covering over 60 per cent of its land, Israel has become one of the few countries in the world that has managed to reverse current global desertification trends and create new green habitable environments in arid desert ecology. Capitalising on Israel’s knowledge in desert engineering, ‘Active Matter’ will explore environmental and recreational infrastructures across multiple scales; spanning from an individual infrastructural module(irrigation traps/flood control/soil stabilizers etc) to its distribution logic over a vast territory and the emergence of novel recreation fabrics within the ‘Negev’ desert.

At last, A sneak-preview of our competition entry for the new city hall and culture complex in Netanya [in collaboration with Shyovitz Architects].

The project is a  30 floors mixed use complex consisting out of a governmental tower and a sloping plinth with cultural and commercial functions.

The integrative massing approach  binds together the fragmented existing context, creating not only a transition of public spaces (from an urban plaza on the south side to an internal green heart on the north) but most importantly creates a coherent image for the future regeneration of Netanya's centre.

>> Garden  Ribbons - More Info

This winter ShaGa studio will be directing The Architectural Association [AA] Global school in Tel Aviv.

'Active Matter' is the Architectural Association Global School in Tel Aviv taking place between 16-26 February 2012.

ShaGa Studio has moved to its new home!!! The river IJ and Bustling

Amsterdam at our doorstep.

Creative atmosphere - check,

Amazing views - check!!!

SHaGa is the proud recipient of the 2011-2012 grant for Emerging Architects by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts,Design and Architecture.

'Data Murals' Studio at the Architectural Association will present its work this week.

Great and Exciting work by the students, good luck!

'Data Murals'  observes Bio-Imaging visualization techniques as potential indicators for new computational methods revealing extreme high data resolutions and unique contemporary exposure of materiality. Within the architectural realm that is in itself composed of multi-scalar material properties, students first exposed the ghosted data sets of simple physical environments in order to find correlating edges between the physical and the digital.

The development of data sorting techniques [geometry, color, light, fabrication method, etc.], were translated into variables of design components resulting in a repertoire of colorful luminous objects.

For more information, Visit our teaching section.

For final review please visit the Architectural Association website.

ShaGa Studio and the MaMeMo Collaborative will participate with their 'AQUA' project in the AA section of the 4th international Architecture Biennale, Beijing 2010. 

Dates: 15 October - 31 October 2010.

SHaGa Studio / MaMeMo's  Agent based research will be part of the international exhibition taking place in the Shanghai Study Centre : "Swarm Intelligence : Architecture of multi-agent systems".

 

 ShaGa Studio and MaMeMo Collabrative exhibited at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art  (MMCA) in Thessaloniki, Greece between 23/04-09/05 as part of the group AADRL proto-design exhibition. 

ShaGa/ MaMeMo Agent Based DRL Research

 

The book has been published by HYX publishers as part of the FRAC centre Collection and BIOTHING exhibition.