... found in these spaces and their effect on the the relationship between a home and the daily activities of the inhabitant. We sought permeability without transparency, the juxtaposition of functions, the superposition of screens and a play of scales. The house is located in the San Diego neighborhood of the city of Moreno; a neighborhood with large homes and gardens, treelined streets and wide open spaces. The lot is situated facing a large neighborhood park. The project sought to accompany the size ...
Modified: October 03, 2023Standing in the living room, one feels like they are in a bird house. Surrounded by bushland and tall gums the ‘The Bird House’ was designed to have a strong connection to its setting and the abundance of native flora and fauna on the site. The design really brings the outside in, maximises immediate and distant ...
Modified: October 02, 2023The building is located in a massive plot in a new prosperous neighbourhood of the town. The house is situated in the northeast part of the plot, thus providing easy access from the street and a big free south grassy yard. From the east the house can be easily accessed from the street. The concept is for the building to be opened from the south ...
Modified: October 01, 2023This is a guest quarters that is a part of the Jaffna Wind Power Park. Located close to a lagoon and mudflat landscape. It’s a part of an axis/spine of wind power turbines16 (Plant Capacity 20MW), in number that begins with the staff / guest quarters at the entrance and culminates in the office building at the end. It is a simple plan with a low budget designed without harming the surrounding vegetation. The guest quarters are for the visiting engineers and staff members. It has been built with a...
Modified: September 29, 2023... with the featureless construction on the side. Reacting to the intricacy of the place, seeking coherence and chasing the surrounding logic, a responsible integration is reached. The form mimics the surroundings, the materials bring the newness, the house acquires its own identity .. Unique! Forced to align with the neighbor, leaning against it, losing the notion of its presence. Creating a patio we managed to "delay" the house, the first bound - Scenic - leaves a mark in the land and allows ...
Modified: September 28, 2023... loft and large void, forming a living area that takes advantage of the high ceilings. The interconnectivity of the exposed rafters and eaves opens up the space, while at night, soft indirect lighting envelopes it in a dream-like atmosphere. Overall the house is like an auberge where family and friends can enjoy a meal at the “restaurant” below and then relax upstairs.
Modified: September 27, 2023Located in the village of Puy-Sainte-Réparade, MaisonP nestles in a cosy space boasting dense vegetation on a hillside parcel offering a panoramic view over the Alps. The simple volumes of the house were designed to marry with the orientation of the land. Changes to the natural slope of the hill are thus kept to a minimum and its wild character preserved. The project is composed of two distinct parts: the main house and a dry-stone outbuilding....
Modified: September 26, 2023This ‘Cinema house’ is not only life space for client’s family but also work place for client who works on film PR. The site has level difference and it is facing a small park on the south. So client wants to capture this natural view and sunshine. Additionally,...
Modified: September 25, 2023Looking to the future, the clients required a house capable of a multi-generational family dynamic including their teenage children, Timba the dog and older parents who frequently visit from overseas but will eventually join them permanently. Located on a complex site with a very steep fall down ...
Modified: September 24, 2023The townhouse is situated on an urban threshold at the edge of the ayalon cbd of tel aviv. The neighborhood in south east tel aviv, is defined by the highway to the west givatayim to the east, yad eliyahoo to the south and nahlat itzhak to the north. It is a ...
Modified: September 23, 2023... a curtain that borders Arroyo el Molino Street (North Facade). The land has an area of 238m2 and a built area of 318m2. The proposed distribution scheme was always around preserving and enhancing the trees and that these merged with the house to create a space intimately linked to the nature of the site. The land does not have neighboring neighbors more than in the rear façade, in what is the South façade the land looks towards the green areas and the coexistence of the Fractionation,...
Modified: September 22, 2023The new building is located on the southern shore of Lake Lerchenau. The conceptual orientation perpendicular to the contour lines and to the edge of the bank, as well as the reference to the differences in altitude of the terrain, provide a perfect overview across the lake. The living and application areas are developed on the ground level by the bank path, on the top of the embankment. The boat garage which can be operated directly from the lake pushes itself as an underground floor into the hillside...
Modified: September 21, 2023This is a project of tense duality between vernacular principles and a neoplastic understating of shape, place and landscape. In a naturally fragmented and disconnected context, the Gafarim House offers monolithic, opaque volumes to the street, citing the compact, parallelepipedic masses of northern Portuguese popular architecture and adjusting its scale to the surroundings. It appears with autonomy in its context -an independent object ...
Modified: September 20, 2023The homeowners approached Collaborative wanting to update their small 1,000 square-foot home in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. The design team’s challenge was to develop the steep slope site to take advantage of territorial views of the city and mountains while adhering to strict zoning requirements. The main design objectives included programming for a growing family and strong indoor/outdoor connections. All four floors of the home connect through an open central circulation tower. The main floor...
Modified: September 17, 2023The ‘A’ House in Kisami is a private retreat overlooking the ocean at the southernmost tip of the Izu Peninsula, about 180km south of Tokyo. Located at the end of a tiny mountain road leading up a coastal hill, the site is on a steep slope with stunning views ...
Modified: September 16, 2023An hour north of Oslo, located on a majestic hill side facing the Norwegian woods and Mjøsa lake, lies the Gjøvik house; a modern and minimal cluster house created by Norm Architects. The Gjøvik house, consisting of overlapping cubes of different sizes, makes for an intimate and dynamic family home with materials, levels and inbuilt, tailor-‐made furniture creating ...
Modified: September 14, 2023... Swiss architect Alfredo Haeberli came into the project. He says of himself: “Since childhood architecture has always been important to me in everyday life.” Silhouettes of nature In his Zurich studio the floor plans and ideas evolved - for a wooden house completely reimagined. Inspired by ship building as one original type of wooden construction, the bowlike roof constructions run in waves and curves; organic shapes such as we see in nature. Because the designer, even when planning large rooms, ...
Modified: September 12, 2023The Ballymacrea house is a celebration of the often forgotten Northern Irish Mid Century Modern homes. Our country produced a small number of beautiful examples of modern houses in this style and the Portrush Area is lucky to have a couple of the best examples by the ...
Modified: September 11, 2023A private beach house in Portsea by Vibe Design Group, designed to take in all of its surrounds – from passing ships in the distant bay views, to its immediate rural setting. The glass ends to the pool draw your eye to set the tone from the initial drive up. Behind ...
Modified: September 10, 2023Brick House – Made with Warm and Solid Earth. The housing site in Pangyo shows strong characteristics of the planned housing complex and the sharing space unique to the housing, the yard, is not sufficiently playing its role in most of the buildings in it ...
Modified: September 09, 2023Designed in the early 1980s, this country house was completed in 2014, two years after the passing of its author, Architect Paulo Bastos, in 2012. Built in Sapucaí-Mirim, a city located by Serra da Mantiqueira, a mountain range that separates the states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais, the residence ...
Modified: September 04, 2023The house is organised in four volumes that structure the space, conditioned by their specificity. It is located according to the open geometry of the plot, respecting the required setbacks, and optimising solar access, views, and programmatic links. The ...
Modified: September 02, 2023CasaEnne house project is part of a research program which aims can be both implementative and contemplative. Implementative: the project’s organisation involved the transformation of an old building into the new living of a little values’s house; Contemplative: ...
Modified: September 01, 2023The house No.242 is situated in a housing estate in Bangkok, Thailand. The site is a 734 sq.m. elongated plot that orients north-south. The priorities are to: - Create a functional house for a family of 3 with 2 caretakers by using reusable materials from ...
Modified: August 27, 2023This two-storey (ground floor and first floor) detached house was built in Budapest the capital of Hungary on 2299 m2, connected to the street by a panhandle-like plot extension (a sidewalk). The starting point of its design was the slope of the plot. Therefore, walking down from the street along the sidewalk ...
Modified: August 26, 2023... Surrounded by a forest. Along the front, east boundary of the plot runs through the embankment, which gently descends down the plot towards the reserve. Such terrain has determined the basic assumption of the project. The basic idea was to hide the house from the street side and open it up to the reserve as much as possible. The living space was supposed to be a one-storey solid sloping into a natural hill, and the garage, to avoid embarrassing downhill, was to rise on the upper storey, on the roof ...
Modified: August 25, 2023... protecting from prying eyes, having the sense of living without neighbors. It helps control the southern sun during summer and lets it pass in winter. The walkable roof becomes a sort of belvedere enjoying the entire surface of the plot. An exempt cabinet houses the structure, distributes spaces and filters privacy, opening up possibilities in the way of movement and use of space. The main room, shaded by the cantilever is arranged in continuity with the outside. The interior of the unit includes wetted ...
Modified: August 24, 2023The project area had the Abe-kawa river bed and row of cherry blossom trees on the north side with the majestic Mt. Fuji in full view beyond that. On the other hand, there was a three-story house adjacent to the south side, so it couldn't expect to get much sunlight. Under such conditions, we made a wide open wall like a door and designed it to act as a frame for that beautiful scenery to the north and had connection with the outside. In ...
Modified: August 23, 2023Farvardin House is located near the historic Naqshe-Jahan Square of Isfahan, IRAN. Due to construction regulation, it had a height limitation of 9 meters to match the skyline of the neighborhood. In order to compensate the shortage of constructible space, municipality ...
Modified: August 15, 2023... waters of the lake with a view of the island of San Giulio, with the hills rising steeplyatits back. Intothis context hasbeeninserted a villa with apparently severe features and a bold and linear profile,designed in detail. Botticini explains: “The house looks like a block of stonethathas come to a haltaftersliding down from the mountain above. In itsfall the mass hasopened up to the lake, allowing the cavities inside to face onto the limpidwaters of Lake Orta, almosttouching the beautiful island ...
Modified: August 13, 2023... Northwest architecture through its reverence for its surroundings, embrace of naturally elegant materials, and clean structural expression. Situated on an extraordinary estate with several existing traditional-style buildings, including an adjoining pool house, the home was designed to extend the contact between living space and landscape through transparency and erosion of mass. The building itself has a low, horizontal profile, punctuated by concrete chimneys that introduce verticality without dominating ...
Modified: August 12, 2023The proposal was made for a plot of land with 1697 m², where 112 m² were covered area that corresponded to a demolished two-floor house and attic that had a total floor area of around 300 m². Out of the 1697 m² of land, only 600 m² could be built on, as the rest of the land is part of the Agricultural Reserve. The land is on a steep west-east slope divided into two terraces with ...
Modified: August 09, 2023... midst of a rapid economic development in their teenage years, and received the same level of education as their contemporaries from other advanced countries. Now they became the main generation of the society that have family and raise children. Boombox House is a rental house project that targets this specific generation. The location is a detached residential area of Chungmugong-dong, Jinju City. Chungmugong-dong is an innovative city newly created by the relocation of LH (Korea Land and Housing Corporation)....
Modified: August 07, 2023The Runkelsteiner is an apartment building in the city of Bolzano, Italy, built on a quiet property surrounded by pine trees and historic buildings. The structure, with three levels above ground, a large basement and a roof terrace, contains three full-floor units with large terraces overlooking the mountains and the typical landscape of South Tyrol. The building shell is mostly transparent so that the interiors are flooded with natural light and the construction has a lighter impact on the surroundings...
Modified: August 06, 2023On the edge of a forest to the north, above a meadow on slope towards the south, and with beautiful views over the Danube River, the Klosterneuburg Abbey, and the City of Vienna, is the site where the house called “Widescreen” found her place. Built for one big family, with special places for everybody’s needs, two large fire places and only one small TV, and an open view to the landscape from all rooms and spaces across 3 floors. This concept ...
Modified: August 05, 2023House Vista is a contemporary house overlooking the Golf course and lake of Ebotse Golf & Country Estate. Original construction of the house was completed in 2012 with the addition of an entertainment area completed in 2014. The contemporary home is located ...
Modified: August 04, 2023... difference between the street level and the main part of the lot. The intervention strategy was directed to implant a building where the visuals, from the lagoon to the northwest and from the sea to the southeast, were respected. So, we divided the house in 4 volumes that ended up by sectorizing the programs and their functioning. The common spaces of the residence were placed on the northwest / southeast axis, in order to allow the contemplation of the landscape in the environments of greater permanence ...
Modified: August 03, 2023This project gutted and re-built a classic split-level house from the early 1980's. A long angular space was completely opened up, to create an airy sense of space not possible in Vancouver anymore, since high ceilings heights are not allowed in any new house. A palette of heated concrete floors, raw waxed ...
Modified: August 02, 2023Our Architectural thought process was one based on concepts of opposing and juxtaposed forces such as transparency and enclosure, centrality and dynamism, immateriality and permanence, prospect and refuge, simplicity and complexity to tease out a space between and create an aesthetic and resonant experience. A long and narrow site predicated a linear journey through the spaces. The ensuing constriction was mitigated with glass playing a leading role in floor/roof/wall planes to balance and energize...
Modified: July 31, 2023... savings in the cost of the work. They managed the guilds, executed some of the construction, placed the stone with their brothers ... The village, with restrictive aesthetic rules, is surrounded by a hypertrophied, natural environment of great beauty. The house contains two pre-existing houses, the intimate house (bedroom volume) and social house (living room volume). Both are connected by a flat roof, the transposition of the field, which houses services. The two stone pieces and pitched roof contain ...
Modified: July 27, 2023Dugu-dong houses are the projects that three house holders bought the site together and divided seperately to build each house. This site - an irregular, triangular lot facing a planned road duesouth - was the most unsatisfactory at the time of parcel division....
Modified: July 26, 2023The house intends to break with the housing prototype built in the surroundings, it seeks to differentiate itself by adopting two levels that avoids a reading as a static block and achieves, by contrast, a fluid horizontality. This allows us to play with ...
Modified: July 22, 2023... located in the Lake Chapala area, famous for having one of the best climates in the world, with mountain scenery and a close relationship with the lake. In a plot of 962 m2 with a significant slope and a clear visual axis (mountain-lake), the terrace-house arises from the need for a weekend residence that will eventually become permanent for a retired couple who can entertain, and for which an outdoor space as a terrace was required. The house is placed on the highest part of the land, where there ...
Modified: July 20, 2023The house is located on the edge of Lake Furnas. Its design aimed to provide a view of the lake from all its rooms. Visual integration throughout its social area and privacy in the intimate area guided all the solutions. The circulation areas are enhanced ...
Modified: July 18, 2023K.Tle&K.Bum’s House KhunTle and Khun Bum’s house, this steelstructure house hasa two-storey. It locates at WarinChamrap district, UbonRatchathani province, Thailand which already exists the former house, it has a wide front and limited area. The house’s position ...
Modified: July 17, 2023A three-storey chalet-style family home in Beaconsfield featuring - Iroko timber louvres, - Grey aluminium fascias, - Composite decking, - Dark grey aluminium framed windows and - Frameless glass balustrades.
Modified: July 16, 2023This house set in nature is located in the Serra do Cipó, about 100 km from Belo Horizonte. The land has a native cerrado vegetation, characteristic of the region and a slight slope, which allows an impressive view of the mountains. The house is inserted ...
Modified: July 14, 2023The volume of the house is partially pushed in the natural slope of the terrain resulting in a front facade that is limited in height. The addition of a long horizontal window (fenêtre en longeur) between ground and first floor gives the house a certain lightness as it ...
Modified: July 13, 2023A plan from Client is to build a house at housing zone of Yangdeok-dong, Pohang city but also to operate as a café on a first floor. According to local regulation, 60% for building coverage ratio and 180% for floor area ratio with limitation of 3 floor as a height of the building. And ...
Modified: July 12, 2023... pool. The forms speak to the traditional A frame home, but with modern materials and openings to suit a contemporary lifestyle. The combination of off shutter concrete, full height glazing and continuous zinc cladding resulted in a stylish and modern house that sits proudly within in its context of standard, old style homes. An elegant spiral stair leads the user to the more private part of the house which is reserved for the master bedroom, en-suite and study which both open out onto a shared north ...
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