Phioneers, Kosti (2026)

23/12/2024

From Phioneers to you and your family, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

21/11/2024

It has been such a rewarding experience to be in the field with our amazing Material Engineering volunteers from LSBU: London South Bank University, testing locally sourced materials to see if they’re suitable for use in building sustainable homes! 🏡✨

There’s something so powerful about combining hands-on work with a shared passion for creating eco-friendly solutions. By tapping into the resources already around us, we’re not only reducing environmental impact but also opening doors to more accessible and affordable housing options.

This journey reminds me how collaboration and innovation can truly make a difference. Proud to be part of a team dedicated to building a better, greener world. 🌱

What are your thoughts on using local materials in construction? I’d love to hear your insights! 💡

18/11/2024

🌍 Gratitude for Our Green Journey 🌍

Today, we want to take a moment to express our heartfelt appreciation to the incredible mentors, partners, and supporting organizations who have helped us in bringing our vision of sustainable construction to life.

To our mentors—your guidance and encouragement have been the foundation of our growth. You've helped us navigate challenges, embrace innovation, and stay committed to our mission to create eco-friendly structures that benefit both communities and the environment.

To our partner organizations—thank you for standing with us as we pursue ambitious sustainability goals. Your support has allowed us to push boundaries and continuously improve our impact.

We’re so grateful to have each of you as part of our journey. Together, we’re building not only for today but for a sustainable future. Here’s to our shared commitment to a greener, better tomorrow! 💚🌍

11/11/2024

It's been a while, but we are making strides towards building a better, greener tomorrow! 🌍 Phioneers is more committed than ever to creating spaces that are not only innovative but also kind to our planet. From eco-friendly materials to energy-efficient designs, we are a step closer to a more sustainable future. Thanks for sticking with us as we continue to grow, innovate, and build with purpose. Let’s make a lasting impact—together!

Let’s make the world a greener place together! Drop us a message to learn how we can collaborate.

17/01/2024

*SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE*

New Shelter- Ruavieja- Segio Rojo

The temporailty of a place that is occupied provisionally, often precipitates the lack of interest in its maintenance, and when it is known beforehand that the use of a space will be limited in time, the concern for it is undermined. This is what happened to the walls of the old school, that survived for decades to permanent temporariness, as its inhabitants, all from different conditions, conceived their permanence in it as something ephemeral. And hence the significant deterioration suffered during the second half of the twentieth century. Its architect may have been Jacinto Arregui, author of the Charity Building (1864) and the Provincial Hospital (1866).

10/01/2024

*SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE*

White Wolf Hotel - PENAFIEL, PORTUGAL

Completed in 2013 and recently open to the public, White Wolf Hotel is a series of buildings intimately related with the surrounding rich natural environment. The built architecture is a realization of the holistic pretensions of the client. The built architecture objects, profoundly integrated in the natural context, provide holistic and spiritual experiences of calm, intimacy, meditation and retreat.

HOLISTIC APPROACH

HO·LIS·TIC hōˈlistik “...Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts. (...) Relating to or concerned with complete systems rather than with individual parts.” The objective was, from the starting point, holistic. Since the first moment we knew this was going to be a special project. The challenge to create a place that eulogies nature, a special place dedicated to the body and spirit, accordingly to the clients alternative ways of living, and even the perception of life itself. A place where the visitor is involved in the positive thinking spirit and embraces the related humanistic values, far away from the stress paradigms of contemporary lives. A place where one can feel the time slowly passing by, were it can hear the wind caressing whisper and spend long days enjoying the birds sing in the surrounding forest trees and the water running in the creek that crosses the site. Due to the unorthodox motto of the project, the spirit and expectations from the clients were an inspiration and, at the same time, a profound challenge. One not only related with architecture, but also a challenge to us has human beings, forcing ourselves to question our practice common ground and our posture towards life. This was the only way – and what a good privileged way it is – to fulfil the client expectations. The result is a place to live or visit, with joy, happiness and peace (so rare these days) with your own body and in with nature. It was very positive to remember that simple values. We now hope that architecture itself can trigger and provoke that same positive feeling in the users.

25/10/2023

*SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE*

Tema Istanbul Showroom-Turkey

Tema Istanbul showroom is a 1.500 sqm. building located in Halkalı, Istanbul, Turkey. The building functions mainly as a showroom space for Tema Istanbul, a multi-purpose project containing 4000 residential units, a luxury hotel, a family entertainment complex and a shopping center. The showroom contains mock-up apartment flats of the Tema Istanbul Residential Complex, a central gallery displaying the model of the 4000 residential units along with visual panels of the overall project, and administrative and sales offices.

Facing the Istanbul TEM (Trans European Motorway) where thousands of vehicles pass throughout the day, the building sits on a sloped green landscape while stretching towards the highway. The functional portion of the building is covered with a reflective glass curtain wall. The structure sits on a black pool that reflects the under portion of the building, creating an elevated effect. The white elliptical steel ribs surround the building; unify the building as a whole. Based on the time of day, this envelope generates different visual interactions in relation with its context, thus drawing attention to itself. During the day, the functional portion of the building seems almost invisible due to the mirrored façade reflecting the surroundings, leaving the white ribs to appear as if they were floating in space. While at night, when the steel ribs are lit with LEDs, the building transforms into sculpture of light; an autonomous shining object in the dark, slowly changing in color.

18/10/2023

*SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE*

Esquimalt House / Mcleod Bovell Modern House- VANCOUVER CANADA

This house is located on a steep, extra wide property with views of downtown Vancouver, the Lion's Gate Bridge and Burrard Inlet. The building flows laterally with a gently stepped horizontal navigation across and down through the site. Twenty feet of vertical distance between the street and the main floor entry is divided into three distinct experiences in order to alleviate, what would otherwise be, a relentless downward movement. First, a set of concrete platforms through a small ornamental orchard, then down a single run of stairs overhanging a pond, and finally through a courtyard over a bridge to the front door. The courtyard with its wide reflecting ponds creates a distinct space out of what would otherwise be a compressed valley between the street and the face of the building.

In accordance with the couple’s needs, the house operates simultaneously as a private place of retreat, a place of business, and a large-scale, quasi-public entertaining space. The office is reached via an exterior access ramp beside the reflecting ponds so that business can be conducted apart from the living spaces. Dramatic interior and exterior entertaining spaces that accommodate gatherings of the client's Ismali religious community comprise one half of the site, while more intimately-scaled spaces for private living and personal contemplation form the other half.Private bedroom spaces are consolidated into a compact upper floor volume that floats above the strung-out main floor. This allows two scales of main floor spaces. Large spaces with tall ceiling heights, contrast with smaller private rooms- a lounge between the kitchen and dining room and a meditation room at the stair which looks back over reflecting ponds. These programs overlap and are made cohesive through a subdued internal and external palette: architectural concrete, light gray cement panel, polished concrete floors, white gypsum wallboard, and matching millwork panels.

11/10/2023

*SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE*

Herold - 100 Social Housing - France

In the context of the reconversion of the ancient site of the hospital Hérold, conceived by Philippe Madec in Paris 19th arrondissement, Jakob + MacFarlane establish/design three mineral forms standing free on a kind of slope triangular island planted with some trees. These three forms, grow like roots on portions of the territory that have been freed by the constraints of the site : protected trees, the ancient existing wall of the beltway, the size and prospect, the not buildable surfaces or the difference in height. Their shapes are at the same time the result of these constraints and a matrix structure generated by an irregular grid on the floor.

The organization of the vertical orthogonal plans is the result of this grid and of the limitation of the territory; it forms the carrying structure of the buildings. The structure develops at the same time a thick base and horizontal plans that are formed by irregular segments on a regular frame that result in the levels of the floorsThree blocks up to 5 and 6 floors high result out of this rough skeleton in concrete, in opposition to a dense environment made of HBM. From an urban point of view, these autonomous rocks favor the porosities towards the heart of the isle and recreate a discontinuity against the wall of the HBM..

04/10/2023

*SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE*

Great Ocean RD- AUSTRALIA

Ordinary architecture for an extraordinary situation. Given an exceptional site, with opposing conditions of extreme weather exposure, dramatic views and very close proximity to the busy ocean road, the house is a simple diagram of a solution to the puzzle- achieving ocean views from every room, private and protected outdoor spaces, protection form the worst of the summer sun, a very small actual footprint on the sensitive coastal site, and a simple greying timber form, that although visible from one direction, is slowly disappearing into the surrounding ti-trees. The aging of the external materials will give the building a history with fading silvertop ash and semi rusted steel shading screens streaking black stains on walls and decks. There is no architectural agenda beyond serving the brief. The interior is all hoop pine ply featuring a spine shelving wall that runs the length of the house. Simple, basic materials and finishes were used throughout, tough enough for sandy feet and surfboards, its a house purposely designed to be subservient to its exposed coastal environment .The house was designed as semi-permanent residence for a couple with 3 adult children, so is zoned to allow half the house to be unoccupied, as needed.

27/09/2023

*SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE*

Garcias House / Warm Architects- Cancun Mexico

Garcias House is located on a 273-square-meter lot in a fast-growing residential area of Cancun. The lot is adjacent in its northern and western sides to other residential lots, while it faces greenery to the east and the street to the south. The strategy for this project was to limit the habitable volume on the western side, in order to make the most of the view, the shadow and incorporate the public greenery with the interior of the house, through the empty space between them.

This house welcomes you with a double-height ceiling as a transitional element of the two-story construction. Revealing, on one side, the totality of the lot with exterior views of the terrace and the adjacent greenery and on the other side, the large-format sculpture designed by the architects out of the reclaimed wood beams from the house’s construction.

The program covers the needs of a couple without children, which allows an open and dynamic interior living, connecting all spaces functionally and visually. In the first level, the public program widens and integrates with the pool and terrace, creating a space for interior/exterior use. The second level blocks solar over-heat and future neighboring constructions. The interior spaces are endowed with quality stemming from a second double-height ceiling in the dining area, which allows views from the bedrooms through the living areas, extending to the pool and the terrace.

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