... rolling hills and giant trees and was based on stringent principles of sustainability defined for the client, the place, long term goals and economic objectives. Elements of the house were positioned near the perimeter of the site and oriented toward the garden and the distant views. The main criterion in laying out the building in section was to respect the existing ground levels and contours, minimize excavation and maximize potential views from the higher elevations of the site. A gently stepping series ...
Modified: September 12, 2019The house is built in the semirural, garden part of the historical town of Kromeriz situated in the middle of the fertile South Moravian lowlands in the south eastern part of the Czech Republic. The building plot itself is narrow and oblong. For that reason the house seems to be closed in ...
Modified: December 24, 2018... Mau House is located in the countryside of the outskirts of Vila do Conde. The land plot with about 6800 sqm is surrounded by cultivated fields and pine forest near Serra de Rates. The family house with a single floor is located in the center of the garden surrounded by some existing pine trees. The car and pedestrian accesses through the north zone are highlighted by an entrance porch and a black concrete paved area. In the interior, through the hall we have access to the office and to the garage ...
Modified: June 28, 2018... atmosphere. Grand full opening pivot-windows abolish any notion of boundary between the inside and the outside of the house. A lot of crossing spaces amplify this sensation, and generate a succession of reflects which makes the house looks unreal. The garden with a variety of terraces and gentle slopes takes shape as an extension of the house. The ground floor and first floor patios refocus the house on an intimate exterior area. Green patios that play with transparency develop new connections between ...
Modified: October 04, 2017It is Grazalema mountain range the one that creates a wall to high humidity winds coming from Atlantic Ocean. Because of that, in this part of the south of Spain there is one of the highest rainfall index from Iberian peninsula. Climatology from Subbetica mountain range draws the proposal placed in a large plot where you can see the landscape from Sierra Nevada to African coast. The project consists on a house with a large surface area, almost like a small village that seeks to reduce its presence...
Modified: May 06, 2017The project responds to the morphology and topography of the field taking advantage the length of itself to place the house footprint and achieve more garden area and more cubic meters. So the exercise was to work the superposition of two volumes. The first is a steel basement that gives the impression of solidity and rootedness to the earth at the same time opens to the terrace and garden. The second ...
Modified: February 01, 2017The project is a collecFon of new agricultural style buildings at the threshold between the formal garden of the main house and meadow beyond in a small Northamptonshire village. The brief asked for the demoliFon of an exisFng garage, a garden store and the remains of an old piggery. In their place our clients asked for a studio’ building with catering ...
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