RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS - Houses

Jewel Box is a small-scale but high-impact project by Californian architecture practice Red Dot Studio. The scheme, located in the State's Redwood City, came with a brief that outlined the extension of a classic 20th-century gem – a rare, late example of Prairie School architecture (a style made popular by Frank Lloyd Wright). Step inside Jewel Box by Red Dot Studio The...

The house belongs to architects Rebecca Rudolph, a principal at local studio Design, Bitches, and Colin Thompson, who works at Gensler. The married couple both graduated from SCI-Arc in 2000. The same year, the couple bought a bungalow in LA's Atwater Village neighbourhood for around $150,000 (£11,711). The 500-square-foot (46-square-metre) house was rundown and sat on ...

The home has been designed as a series of concrete cylinders with open arches, exposing the interior to the outdoors and creating areas for outdoor moments. Due to the different round shapes, the home has a rooftop terrace and a swimming pool that curves around the home and underneath the terrace. The swimming pool has steps that follow the pool’s curve, both inside an...

Named Atelier Chabot, the scheme saw the transformation of an existing duplex into a single-family home featuring curated furnishings themed around play. “On a mission looking to change the lives of their family, the owners were trying to decide whether to take a trip around the world by sea or to purchase a home,” the team explains. “This project combines both of those...

Located on a remote farm in Hainburg an der Donau, the home was designed for clients who wanted a compact space that was open to the surrounding landscape, which includes a grove of mature trees and a newly planted orchard. "The building was designed based on a request for a unique experience in nature, where it's possible to relax, sleep and debate around the fire," sa...

The Buitenverblijf Nest house takes the idea of a 'folly' and gives it a nature-inspired take, with its oversized birdhouse form and whimsical love-nest nods. A structure of its typology is defined, as its architects i29 explain, as 'a non-conventional structure that serves an artistic or playful purpose'. The Nest does just that, tucked away as it is in a peaceful, ve...

AOA Architects designed one of the four homes with an octagonal shape and central courtyard while another, named the Round House, has a semi-circular end. The remaining two dwellings and the communal building have rectangular floor plans and differ from each other by their roof shape. The communal building has a mono-pitch roof and one rectangular house has a regular g...

Known as Casa VJC Iporanga, the 660-square-metre summer retreat is located in a residential condominium complex in Guarujá, roughly 100 kilometers southeast of São Paulo on the Atlantic coast. The home was completed in 2023 by the Brazilian team of DB Arquitectos, which is lead by architect David Basto, and Marina Salles Arquitectura e Interiores, which previously renov...

The original 90s house had wild geometry, such as octagon-shaped rooms and triangular spaces, however, the client wanted a home of simple forms and rustic textures, like the ones in the Northern California community of Sea Ranch. For the exterior, the studio reconfigured windows as well as the siding, which wraps around the house to simplify its form and provide privacy...

The home has been designed to take advantage of the long and narrow lot, with the layout divided into two interconnected forms. Upon arrival at the home, there’s a path that leads alongside one side of the home and guides visitors to the front door. One area of the home contains day rooms and host bedrooms, while the other houses utility rooms, a gym, as well as guest ...

Our client wanted a secondary residence to spend time with family in the beautiful Vietnamese countryside, away from the hustle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh City. Therefore, T3’s objective was to create a single-story villa surrounded by greenery that would be functional, enjoyable to live in, and completely open to the garden. As with any project, the T3 team studied the ...

Social Arquitectos has unveiled QHouse 1, an Argentinian house serving as a new prototype suburban residence designed to accommodate shifting demographics in the post-pandemic world. Described as a ‘response to the urban exodus’ that happened following the pandemic, the shift in working patterns and the country’s increasing political instability, the QHouse 1 is a refine...

Eindhoven-based architecture studio WillemsenU has hidden a house in an undulating meadow on the edge of a nature reserve in The Netherlands. Surrounded by wild flowers and meandering streams, the house has a curved concrete, green roof that rises from the ground and could easily be mistaken for a grassy hill. The House Under the Ground Occupying the plot of a former go...

Located in Nordmarka, Norway, the cabin contains the most necessary features, but not much more, making it easy to keep clean and easy to maintain. It is also positioned next to an older cabin, which is used in tandem with the new one. It was important for the client to keep the old-fashioned 1930s charm in the main outdoor area. The new cabin therefore has windows in i...

Due to the home being in an area prone to earthquakes, the structural elements are bigger and bolder. There are timbers connected by heavy steel plates, ornate steel compression struts within wood trusses, layered beams with rhythmic bolting as cabinetry, and a modern interpretation of classical Greek columns fabricated of wood and steel. The stone and heavy timber evo...

The house, cloaked in vines and vegetation, and nestled among lush green overgrowth, stands at the edge of the Singapore Botanic Gardens and was designed to have natural elements seamlessly integrated into its structure. The exterior of the house boasts a veil of contemporary privacy and sunscreens, supported by clean lines and large glass windows that provide views of ...

A coastal lagoon’s narrow shape and adjacent topography funnel storm surge and wave action onto the scenic but low-lying site. Therefore, the architects took these conditions into account when they designed the home. The elevated two-story house with ocean views allows the yard and its plantings to slide underneath and reach through the stories above. A finely detailed...

Inspired by old-fashioned spyglasses used to magnify what is in the distance, this treehouse brings you up close to nature with its round spherical design and an open window looking out into the forest, while the exterior features fire-resistant, diamond-shaped metal tiles. Supported by a living redwood, Artistree designed the Spyglass to move with the tree and give gue...

This expansion formed the design concept to include an elevator, covered parking, and a janitor's suite. The expansion began at street level; in this new situation, we encountered a four-story building that looked out of place in the area. To address the project’s disproportionality, the building was placed on a solid stone base in harmony with its surroundings. The slo...

The project consists of two independent blocks. Taking full advantage of the urban planning regulations of ground floor plus three levels, the buildings have been designed so that, despite the density and limited space, each of the 12 dwellings can enjoy the suburban ideal of sustainability, energy efficiency, privacy, and even small private gardens and pools. The duplex...

With a backdrop of California’s Joshua Tree National Park, the home has been designed as a refuge for privacy and tranquility. A private road leads through terrain flanked by Joshua trees, winding its way to a 9-foot-high horizontal wall that fully conceals the house. Through the smartly concealed entrance, first glimpses of the house emerge from a breezeway landing di...

A simple material palette of dark steel, concrete, glass, and custom bronze-black cladding grounds the house within the surrounding treescape. Of the project, W/K partner Daniel Kaven says, “The ongoing aesthetic vision for the development is to create a collection of homes unified in materiality and design ethos, but distinct in their floor plans and overall execution....

An Estonian treehouse peeks through the trees in its idyllic forested location, near the country's largest waterfall and natural wilderness. Designed by emerging local architecture studio Arsenit, headed by founder Arseni Timofejev, the project is a nature bolthole created as a sort of viewing platform – a lookout from which the owners can admire the green views, relax a...

The central idea was to design the dream country house, providing seamless integration between the social spaces. We wanted to connect the internal and external environments in a fluid way, thus gaining the spatial perception of a much larger house than the land allowed. When designing the ground floor, we decided to use concrete latticework elements on the facade to pr...

The commission consisted of a vacation home, suitable for both summer and winter, with lots of natural light, integrated common spaces for family coexistence, and two independent wings for the bedrooms. To cope with the great unevenness of the terrain, a central corridor is proposed at the access level from which circulations branch upwards with the bedrooms and downwar...

The natural ecology of this locale is sensitive, both to disturbances which have occurred over the past few decades through indiscriminate building practices and through the windswept local climate. This was the datum upon which this house grew, and the resultant decision made right from the beginning to create a building with two defining moments. Firstly, a distincti...

With an exterior of weathered grey-stained wood and a grey metal roof, the home stands out amongst the green fields that surround it. A large square window showcased on one of the walls was so large that it wasn’t able to be produced within New Zealand and had to be shipped in from overseas. A patio with light-colored furnishings creates a place to relax and enjoy the ...

It is a common design practice on small sites to install walls as close to the site boundary as possible. Considering that this long and narrow site is located in a quiet residential area rather than in a cramped urban area, the exterior of the building should harmonize with the streetscape. While the client strongly insisted that effective use of the site be the top pri...

The whole area is designed with many projects: Bungalow, the family tomb, Buddhist Temple and Ancestral Hall, and Bungalow serves the homeowner's needs for relaxation and gathering. With a total area of 430 sqm, the project includes 3 bedrooms and one living room, each with a view to the nearby river. The ground floor is constructed with a semi-open design that is encirc...

Studio K-Thengono builds a Joglo-inspired residence in Darmawangsa, Indonesia, achieving a harmonious blend of tradition and modernity. The project explores the gradual oversight of vernacular qualities in modern architecture. The residential project, covering an area of 494 sqm, seeks to reintroduce a fusion of past and future within living spaces, drawing from the dist...

Slot Canyon Residence, a new home designed by Los Angeles-based architecture and design studio RIOS, walks the delicate tightrope between creating seclusion and privacy for its owners, while opening up towards its striking, arid, Californian landscape. Located in the Las Palmas neighbourhood of Palm Springs, the project was designed to sit 'naturally among the desert lan...

A modest cabin on the shores of the island of Ny-Hellesund has become the perfect way to admire the drama of the Norwegian countryside. The retreat, a bolthole of less than 50 sq m for a local couple seeking to escape the city, was designed by Oslo-based KIMA arkitektur, headed by Inge Hareide, Martin Dietrichson and Kristoffer Moe Bøksle. Simple, compact and functional,...

The house designed by Iñaki Harosteguy of Supra Order & Hargar studio is located in Villa Elisa, Buenos Aires. House with Columns seems to be the result of a game in which multiple configurations can be tested while still ensuring the logical order of a structural matrix. The architecture is formed by a regular grid of equidistant columns and beams: 3.5 metre concrete ...

The home had originally belonged to Shirley Hannan, who had studied interior design at RMIT and worked as an architectural draftsperson in the office of Yuncken Freeman. She later became a celebrated portrait artist and lends her name to a $50,000 national portrait prize. Yuncken Freeman designed Shirley’s first Beaumaris home, Hannan House 1, and after more than a deca...

The clue to the first of Casa Boa Vista's strong points is in its name; 'Boa Vista' translates from Portuguese into 'beautiful view'. The second is it’s unmistakably contemporary design by Brazilian architect Arthur Casas, a deft hand at creating unforgettable residential designs across his country's cities and rolling hills, and beyond. This particular project, a new-bu...

Slow architects takes over the construction of FACTORY HOUSE, a residence in Japan defined by its characteristic industrial style. The design deviates from traditional boundaries to fulfill the client’s vision through materiality and spatial composition, ultimately achieving an ‘abstracted factory’ aesthetic by baring the essence of foundational elements and structure. ...