New dwelling developed in collaboration with London based Architect Studio Woods Bagot in the South of Alicante (Spain).Within a unique site -330 hectares full of hills overlooking the Mediterranean Sea- for its beauty, lushness and exclusiveness. It enjoys an 18 hole golf course (Top 100 golf courses in Europe)which melts beautifly with the landscape and that will host international competitions, private country club, seafront beach club and tennis/paddle schools. During the designing process ÁBATON...
Modified: June 03, 2023Paradigm of integration of architecture and landscape the Boa Nova Tea House was built on the rocks, and soon became an obligatory reference. The choice of that difficult but gorgeous place went to Fernando Távora, who had won the architectural competition. “The solution appears today as obvious and inevitable, but only Fernando Távora great experience and intuition made it possible,” acknowledged Álvaro Siza, the architect who would be responsible for the project. At the time, Álvaro Siza was a...
Modified: May 24, 2023Today about 30% of Iran towns’ population are 20-35 year old people, a very prominent (influential) part of the society who are forming an independent life; thus, this situation results in a rise of the demand for a place to live and work. In one hand, the average monthly income is 350$, and on the other hand the average value of a land lot in a town like Esfahan is about 1600$ per square meter. In addition, the minimum ownership land size is 200m² and average built area for commercial and residential...
Modified: May 23, 2023... area, canopies level changes and the swimming pool offer a variety of “zones” that can be occupied in various manners depending on whether the terrace is used for a quiet spot of lounging or entertaining friends and family. The ground floor plays home to garages, staff quarters and a timber and stone clad entrance volume and stairwell; an intermediate level houses 2 other bedrooms and a small TV lounge whilst the top floor plays host to the master bedroom suite that completes the program. Whilst ...
Modified: May 21, 2023A courtyard seeks intimacy holding water, light and green. The materials surfaces interact responding to the degree of enclosure between social functions. All family members dwell within a sacred space; a place where interaction and contemplation to distant city and mountain views is experienced.
Modified: April 26, 2023Wandering around Casa Zazil evokes a variety of feelings and senses. Wind rambles through the site’s vegetation becoming the main source of exquisite sounds, the textures in all of the materials, the roughness of the stone, and wood gifting with a diversity of shades and smells; Walking through the house from the entrance continually arouses in users the curiosity to discover what will be experienced in the next space. The project rises from a “C” shaped floor plan as a gesture of shelter for those...
Modified: April 20, 2023A couple approached us to design an accessory dwelling unit – an ADU – for their home in Portola Valley that would take advantage of their property’s views and topography, as well as provide a living unit separate from the main residence which their family could enjoy during long visits. Challenges to the site were its steep slope ...
Modified: April 18, 2023... to be integrated into the landscape and provide a pleasant view for the neighboring building’s users. Our main objective was to create multifunctional spaces within the house that would open towards the view. To accomplish this, both levels of the home feature areas with floor-to-ceiling windows that lead to the terraces. The amenities were designed to allow family and guests to enjoy many activities: a gym, a home theatre, two Jacuzzis, a pool with a terrace, a fireplace, living room, dining room,...
Modified: April 15, 2023... materiality.Guided by the architectural brief, the design sought to blur edges, provide delicate detailing invoking the P&O style, and create a spatial flow between interior and exterior by using simple and sophisticated geometries with minimal detailing.The home incorporates five-bedroom suites, each with bathroom and walk-in robe, a self-contained studio, an office, and vast living spaces. The primary living environment opens to the north via a central double volume atrium lit by upper-level skylights. ...
Modified: April 10, 2023A private, landscaped, north-east courtyard forms the catalyst of the ‘V House’, which sits proudly on the edge of Sunshine Coast’s Mooloolah River. The ‘V’ refers to the floor plan which hugs the boundaries of the property allowing for a transparent living pavilion that physically and visually connects the courtyard to the water beyond. The architecture continues SLA’s dialogue of concrete, timber and stone, drawing heavily from both Modern and South-American, subtropical narratives.
Modified: April 08, 2023Total: 800 m².Plot 1.50 hectare Can you reveal the name "BST House"? What is the reason for the name, what is the associative row in the name? BST is an abbreviation for "Binary search tree", our client works in IT + house is located on a 1.5 ha forest plot, by associating these two facts we got this name. Could you tell us more about the customers' wishes in terms of style and functional solution? How did you get to know them? We got to know our customers thanks to our past...
Modified: April 07, 2023In the far north of the Bregenzerwald lies the small community of Sulzberg on the ridge of the same-named mountain. We built a house on a steep slope in the middle of a densely built-up residential area, which makes perfect use of the limited plot of land. Due to the extreme slope, we have divided the spaces into three floors. You enter the house on the street side on the top level via a wide footbridge. Here you will find the garage, a small guest room and the spacious, open living room. Designed...
Modified: April 05, 2023Designing a private house often provides the opportunity for the owners to express very clear wishes: here they wanted something contemporary, very bright, where they could live with their family, cultivating their passions. The present residential area has a low population density, which allowed us to create a fully contemporary design, with a compact front façade. Only to the south-west, the dwelling opens toward the garden with a large sliding window, sheltered by a cantilever porch. The horizontal...
Modified: April 02, 2023air-lux facade system Complete glass-metal façade and metal construction work 1-storey, motorised air-lux arched sliding system with 2 curved sliding elements, opening to the left and right, plus curved fixed elements.The imposing construction height of 3.9 metres allows fascinating views into the garden space. 3 additional motorised horizontal sliding elements with insect screens, 2 façade fixed glazings, 2 turn-and-tilt windows, 2 bay windows and 3 metal doors.Bronze cladding at main entrance,...
Modified: March 30, 2023Since the late 1960s, Yeonhui-dong has been one of the representative residential areas in Seoul for the middle-income class. Looking into the townscape around the site reveals several common characteristics, one of which is the location of the parking lot below the slope on which the house is perched so that a beholder standing at the front road comes to see the high wall taller than one story. The site is located at the corner of crossroads sloping gently towards the south. At the crossroads are...
Modified: March 29, 2023The Orchard House is located just outside Portland's urban growth boundary on former farmland. The abundance of fruit trees on and around the site provided the project name. Our client had just retired from a well known tech company and requested a design that allowed for a secluded retreat that could also function for entertaining. A house suitable for a retired 'rock star'. The house is designed around a rear facing courtyard for maximum privacy. All circulation and the majority of the rooms are...
Modified: March 26, 2023... a large independent game room, a guest bedroom, a laundry room, a large gallery and 2 bathrooms; for the new high floor, a master bedroom (bathroom en suite, dressing room and expansion), 3 bedrooms for children with full bathroom and a work study. Home The expansion starts with conserving the original housing as much as possible operations that allow us to open ourselves to the park to exacerbate the visuals. The demolition of the central slab generates a double height that will serve to sew the ...
Modified: March 20, 2023The project for Hawthorn East Residence involved the restoration and modification of a two storey Italianate-style villa. The renovation of this heritage home honours the historical significance of the frontage, while the contemporary three-storey addition and a series of social spaces internalise the view, providing privacy and reinforcing the landscape. This project is designed around two main elements ...
Modified: March 14, 2023LIVING IN THE LANDSCAPE: This 1,500 sf house, which draws upon the American glass pavilion typology, Dog Trot, and principles of Florida Modernism, provides a tropical refuge in Downtown Miami. Elevated 5’ off the ground, the house includes 100 feet of uninterrupted glass – 50 feet spanning the length of the front and rear facades, with four sets of sliding glass doors that allow the house to be entirely open when desired. The house includes 800 sf of outdoor living space, with front and back porches...
Modified: February 16, 2023... possible to the house. The residents are fortunate to get Giant Kingfishers on the upstairs balcony each morning and frequent visits from the buck and porcupine in the garden below. Extensive use of wood, metals and stone by the interior designer make the home feel organic. Each room was designed to flow to the outside which accentuates the feeling of space and unity with nature. TIMELINE The design process started in June 2013 with construction completing in October 2018.
Modified: February 14, 2023An artist’s studio addition to an existing home serves as a catalyst to transform a back yard into a series of terraced outdoor. Nestled between mature oak specimens in the front and a lake in the rear, the 4,800 one story vanilla box home was begging for a connection to its sub-tropical setting....
Modified: February 13, 2023Summerveld is located within the lush rolling hills of Shongweni, situated half an hour inland from the port city of Durban, South Africa. This tight knit horse racing and show jumping community is home to the Oban Estate, a contemporary residence and equestrian facility named after the Scottish seaside town from where the owner’s family originates. The point of entry to this 4 hectare (430000 ft²) site involves driving through a raw concrete ...
Modified: February 05, 2023A house of contradictions, between sealed and closed, to open to natural light and to the outside area. Contradictions between colors and drama of volumes. All of these create interest in a house built on a relatively small plot. A square plot, relatively small for the program’s requirements, has dictated the structure’s concept: a ground floor with maximal openness and lightness, an accentuated interior-exterior connection, which enables enjoying the pool and the exterior seating areas which are...
Modified: February 02, 2023The project includes three different volumes: a two-storey main residence with a single-floor structure facing a private garden; a dependance making a whole front northwards; a covered pool concealed from bordering buildings to the west. A large basement links all three elements and, by creating two underground patios, serves as a multipurpose space, including a large wellness area. There are no fixed destinations for the volumes, but for the pool. This is designed as a large transparent tub and...
Modified: February 01, 2023Modern house amidst impressive scenery.
Modified: January 28, 2023This 5,000-square-foot house in Mill Valley was designed as a home for an empty-nester couple. The site was the inspiration and the guiding element for the architecture: vast views of Mt. Tamalpais, intimate connections to groves of redwood trees, and a steep incline. Given its location, stepping up the hillside ...
Modified: January 16, 2023The light-filled unique and eco-friendly home designed by Nico van der Meulen Architects is situated in Inanda, with views of the Sandton skyline to the north. The stand is 1511 sq.m. and the house faces 15° east of north. Upon approaching the home the first view is of the cantilevered portecochere ...
Modified: January 15, 2023For years, a small, triangular corner lot in Alexandria, Virginia was considered too small to accommodate a new house. With its inherent challenges, two creative graphic designers viewed the lot as an opportunity to build a small, modern house. The house is organized around a double height space containingthe open dining and living space. A bridge connects the second floor office with the guest bedroom suite, further defining the dining area. Three large skylights animate the space, and in combination...
Modified: January 05, 2023Casa Premium Rama2 is located on Kanchanapisek Road. A site is in triangular shape. By using single plane wrapping around main space, we creates V-shape plan that engage spaces to the site. Building parameter is maximized to fit functions and visual. V-shape’s lower wing becomes welcome gate and patio for swimming pool deck. Upper wing is inclined up to fitness room that can take view swimming pool below. Water fall sloping plane from lobby gradually transforms to center swimming pool. Each wing...
Modified: December 24, 2022... natural desert wash with an abrupt edge and a significant drop in elevation, a corner lot condition which imposed larger setbacks as well as Hillside Zoning that imposes greater building envelope restrictions. The owner’s goal was to design a family home with mountain and valley viewssimilar to that of a hillside location, but on a lot with minimal elevation. Our response organizes the home in two levels with the main living spaces and master suite located on the second levelaffording spectacular ...
Modified: December 23, 2022Laid on an 8,000 sqm (20 Acre) plot, two concrete rectangles perpendicular to one another form the letter T. Between them stands a light vertical element. This home was envisioned as an unfolding sequence of simple geometric forms that compose an entire spatial experience. The abundant landscape, including grassland areas and pool, were seen as an integral part of the whole form. Weaving their way through the ...
Modified: November 25, 2022The existing L-shaped farm in the hilly countryside of Limburg is redeveloped into a residential home with studio, exhibition hall, holiday homes and a carport. The authentic shape of the carre-farm is restored in a contemporary way. The carre is a farm enclosing an inner courtyard; a typology often found in the Province of Limburg. By means of a ...
Modified: November 22, 2022Avenue of the Americas is a two-lane avenue which is located along the main access to the city for those whoarrive from Catania. Who gets to Ragusa find a welcome sign in the town of the Baroque capital of the provincewith several monuments of its historical center enrolled in the UNESCO list. It is located in front of a non-place, peripheral expansion, the sum of banal buildings built betweenthe end of the old and the beginning of the new millennium. Of all this the visitor does not find the track...
Modified: November 20, 2022The site for this floating home, in the heart of Seattle, is an outboard slip on a dock on Lake Union with views west towards Gas Works Park . Constructed on concrete floats that are 24 feet wide by 44 feet long, the homes on this dock are situated so that the shorter dimension ...
Modified: October 15, 20221. Brief The Brief was to create a spectacular home which encapsulated the expansive 360 degree mountain and sea views. Though views out were paramount this needed to be carefully balanced with the required privacy from within. The living areas were to be open plan – enhancing everyday life. “The ...
Modified: September 28, 2022... Abramson • Architect: Chad Oppenheim • Site area: Golden Beach, Florida • Gross Floor area: 9,000 sq feet of interior space, 3,000 square feet of ocean view terraces Property Highlights • Lap pool • Private elevator • Smart house Lutron Home Automation • Imported Italian marble floors & 20’ ceilings • Reflective ponds • Home Theater • 6 Bedrooms 8 Bathrooms • Art Gallery • 2-‐car garage
Modified: August 19, 2022They are simple sky-reflecting concrete and glass cubes framed, or rather camouflaged by vegetation. Pascal Grasso conceived a spacious vacation home that reinvents outdoors living in perfect harmony with the environment – a contextual architecture designed as an adapted response to the surrounding geography, landscape, climate and light. Context A wooded plot of land on the waterfront of one ...
Modified: August 01, 2022... the social area are hidden among a niche for integrating interior and exterior. The white kitchen and simple lines retains the essence of the house, use polyurethane paint is white and black marble countertops contrast all. The floors throughout the home are paint in with epoxy and the walls sustain the same color using white paint . In the bathrooms were used float mirrors without frames or ornaments and opt for a simple tap. In the house are not used unnecessary items, meaning that all the elements ...
Modified: July 26, 2022White Lodge is a stunning white-rendered modernist villa with vast open living spaces and extensive glazing in mature grounds with feature swimming pool. The dream was to build an ultra-contemporary, sustainable home in the heart of leafy Surrey on the secluded site of an existing pre-fab bungalow – a bold design statement, far removed from the pitched roof architecture of the area. Having sold their listed manor house a few miles away, the build would mark ...
Modified: July 14, 2022... The often foggy property overlooks a series of lakes, mountain bike trails and the ocean beyond. The site also abuts the termination point of a decade old forest fire which left the densely treed landscape looking ghostlike. The formal massing of the home is one which was derived to evoke a larger bedrock volume (outcrop) but one which has become severed, shifted and has relocated slightly over time. The architectural language is drawn from traditional shed outbuildings, adapted to maximize view, ...
Modified: July 09, 2022Architect from 1991, I have worked as each main agent in construction process: designer, constructor and promotor, mainly as my own boss. I consider myself lucky to work and to live in Ibiza now, meeting interesting people, doing only the things I love. And near 50 years old, this is very important thing. However I think the best is yet to come, my best project is yet to construct.
Modified: June 29, 2022We live in a time where smart phones and tablets are in everyone’s hands andmultitasking is the normal way of life. Influenced from the client’s multitasking lifestyle, adiverse set of requirements developed for a new home. The clients,one of whom is the owner of a public relations company, requested that multiple activities could take place throughout the house without interruption;a dinner party could take place while simultaneously entertaining a group of children,...
Modified: May 25, 2022The home in the Pine Forest is located in an extended residential area, between spacious green areas, woodlands and pine trees. The plot itself, which has a significant topographic slope, holds a large area of natural Mediterranean garden with a cluster of ...
Modified: March 27, 2022On the hills overlooking Gubbio the project for a single family dwelling , surrounded by green woods.The old building was effectively replaced with a new architecture , distributed in a single layer. The rectangular body is divided into two parallel portions where there are respectively the area day and night. The functions of living one another in a free manner , the central block of the living area surrounded by container furniture hides the small cellar and laundry room The goal is to project...
Modified: March 20, 2022... separates the open plan area from the rest of the house. All this modern machinery for easy living could end up being sterile and boring without a dark side: take the stairs to the basement and you will find a subterranean level housing a car collection, a home theatre, workshop, and wine cellar. Project Architect, Jane McNeill managed to pull out of the barrel a beautiful cellar and perfectly detailed drawings that required no site visits and no questions from the Builder to execute. Design Architect: ...
Modified: March 18, 2022Tarragona’s historical stone construction tradition, as well as the image of the Roman city walls, made us decide to treat the house’s ground floor as a dry stone plinth emerging from the ground. The pine forest where the land is located creates a series of vertical and repetitive shadowy traces of trunks, branches and leaves. The light that sifts through the forest generates pleasant atmospheres of lights and shadows. The first floor’s white volume, as a purer and lighter piece, rests on the stone...
Modified: February 26, 2022The relationship between open and closed, between heavy and light, between clean new materials to those who have been already scratched and used and mainly the relationship between exposed concrete and… All the rest. It is not an easy material. Concrete that is. It requires the best professionals, it does not have any mistakes range and it is expensive. Overcoming all these barriers it grants a solid ground and frame which other materials can rarely compete with. In our perception the only law valid...
Modified: February 07, 2022This extensive renovation and addition to an Edward Lutyens-inspired home on a wooded Hillsborough estate presented a unique design challenge: how to retain the timeless character of the front facade while accommodating a new contemporary arrangement of spaces that open up to an expansive back yard and new pool house. ...
Modified: February 04, 2022Sorted by relevance | Sort by date