The home belongs to an american doctor who has long yearned for a residence in close proximity to virgin wildlife. the site is on a previously existing mango farm so that no trees were harmed in construction, and sits above the surrounding green tree canopies with views of the pacific and the nearby golfo dulce (sweet gulf). stemming from the idea of close proximity to n...
By carefully configuring the design and choosing the materials and colors, the firm has tried to blend in the building with its context of pine trees, american oak, beech, and heath. the concept of the house is strongly influenced by the character of the landscape. the soft and natural shades of the brickwork and the contrasting colors of the window frames compliment ...
The structure is comprised of four stories that include residential units, a parking area, service area, and lobby. the building is pushed to the southern end of the site to preserve three existing sycamore trees. throughout the design, natural light is brought into the interior spaces- an important element to homogenize the ambiance of private and public spaces on each ...
Named the ‘flight house’ for its metaphorical escape from city life but also due to its layered airfoil roofs that hover over the living spaces beneath. on one end of the home, the great room is set firmly on the ground with an exposed concrete slab-on-grade floor that contains radiant heating and serves as thermal mass collecting natural heat from the sunlight. the shap...
as a base of the project, a CAD model was used to translate the initial concept into a detailed three-dimensional form that had been parametrically-derived. this was then used for research and analysis to generate the elements that would provide a manual for the construction process. there were no traditional drawings, sections, or plans produced prior to building, a...
The residence is a masterpiece of design fusing traditional Thai architecture with organic, contemporary forms. World-renowned designers of the villas include The Campana Brothers of Brazil, A-cero from Spain, Joseph Walsh of Ireland, Mark Brazier-Jones of New Zealand, Graham Lamb from Britain and Thailand’s Eggarat Wongcharit. Every bedroom and living space is completel...
Iniala Beach House is comprised of three villas (each with three suites), and one spectacular penthouse suite. The residence is a masterpiece of design fusing traditional Thai architecture with organic, contemporary forms. World-renowned designers of the villas include The Campana Brothers of Brazil, A-cero from Spain, Joseph Walsh of Ireland, Mark Brazier-Jones of New Z...
The client hoped “A spacious house with a garden”. I considered the necessary place where is lived as each “units”. Generally, when I thought square rooms, those will be only connection of four directions from outside. Then I thought that I won’t be able to plan their request on environment in this time. Secondly, I considered a circle as surface of “units”. Therefore...
Our clients, a family of 5 came to us with a site and a sketch which described their brief. The site is an elevated bare croftland site with views over Dunvegan bay to the Waternish peninsula. It has long views to the north to Isle of Harris and south towards Dunvegan. To the west is a wooded cliff. The brief was for an open plan living/dining/lounge but also separate...
Turning to the neighbourhood’s post-war veteran’s home as its formal point of departure, the architects set out to make a house that simultaneously fits in and stands out from its heterogeneous context without resorting to mimicry and without sacrificing the contemporary nature of the project. The principal challenge lay in bringing light to the living spaces given ...
Architecture studio Lipton Plant has turned a small space at the side of a Victorian house in north London into the glazed entrance for a basement extension focused around an oak staircase . Having inherited a modern glazed extension on the lower ground floor when they purchased the house, the owners were expecting their first child so asked local firm Lipton Plant to e...
The owners of this brick house in the Netherlands, by Reitsema & Partners, can drive their car up a shallow ramp into a sheltered parking area that frames a view of the low-lying landscape. Local studio Reitsema & Partners designed the property called Villa SR for a couple in their 50s, who purchased a plot with a view of the countryside on the outskirts of the Dutch to...
Japanese studio Double Negatives Architecture used a multi-agent system (MAS) – a piece of computer software used in problem solving – to map out the forested site at the base of the Yatsugatake Mountains in Nagano Prefecture. This allowed them to design a building specifically adapted to its site, taking into consideration the gradient of the landscape, the direction...
The two-storey-high building occupies a triangular roadside plot on the outskirts of Takasaki, a city in Gunma Prefecture. The building needed to be clearly visible to passing drivers, so that became the starting point for the design. SNARK's Sunao Koase and Shin Yokoo of OUVI – whose previous collaborations include a bronze-coloured house and a pair of apartment bloc...
– which follows the London home with a combined bookshelf and staircase we published yesterday.Buj+Colón Arquitectos incorporated storage space into plywood structures for its redesign of an apartment interior in the centre of Madrid. The Plywood Trio Apartment renovation comprises three elements made from the engineered timber – a staircase that steps over a row of c...
The sustainable and user-friendly Godiva House consists of two rectangular structures interconnected by a central quadrangle pivot. The design takes into consideration the difficulties of a resident with limited mobility while also striving for maximum sustainability. There is a constant dialogue between the interior and exterior spaces of the property, and each reta...
Located in the heart of the Beaminster conservation area in West Dorset, the design comprises 3 timber pods, which are linked via glazed connections. Each pod has an external terrace and pergola above, with these external spaces all formed around mature oak trees, which evokes a ‘house in the trees’-feel. The whole site is covered by a Thermoplastic PolyOlefin, but a...
Stage 1 includes the main living space, kitchen, laundry, bathroom and 1 bedroom - enough for the owners to live on site.The original house was designed to be comfortable standing alone, or to be added to in the future. It was a small one bedroom house, located in a small seaside settlement an hours drive north of Wellington City, New Zealand. Resting on gently undul...
The E3 House is located in a bustling neighbourhood near the very popular Jean-Talon Market in Montreal. It was designed for a family with a deep attachment to the neighbourhood; the parents work in theatre, film, and television, and the children are young adults. The exterior geometry of the residence is a simple parallelepiped defined by two largely fenestrated wall...
Grouparchitect have sent us images of a contemporary home remodel they completed in Seattle, Washington. This home remodel is located just north of the Ballard Locks in Seattle, Washington. The original split-level home configuration was maintained to limit scope of work while rebuilding the central exposed stairway to the new upper floor with access to a roof top d...
The Residence rests on a unique sloping site at Brakes Crescent, Miami Hill on the Gold Coast. The dramatic site and its context presented an opportunity to create a dynamic built form that offered the owners a unique, secure and comfortable living environment as well as value adding to the existing built environment and public space that it neighbours. In response to...
The crisp, looming roof lines highlight the beauty of the natural cedar soffits while sitting comfortably on a minimal material pallet of stucco, glass, detailed metal, concrete and featured marble slabs. The grade has been manipulated to allow a walk-out side garden from the lower floor suite while preserving the garden relationship to the main floor living room, lib...
The house was conceived for a young couple and their teen daughter, and the program on this 9,600 sft plot required a basement for car parking, 4 bedrooms, a home theatre, gym and public spaces such as living, dining and kitchen interacting with a large garden. What drew us to the site in the upmarket Koramangala neighborhood in Bangalore was the number of mature trees t...
From the architects Amsterdam based studio Engel Architecten has recently completed this residence in the wooded surroundings of Zeist, a small town in the centre of the Netherlands. By carefully configuring the design and choosing the materials and colours, Engel Architecten has tried to blend in the building with its surroundings rich of pine trees and heath. ...
The house is comprised of three black reinforced concrete shells that overlap one another. at the ends, glass walls let light inside and extend views to the exterior. the architects sought out to design a home that incorporated nature without losing any privacy from the inside. At the ground level, integrated planter beds sustain small green ecosystems of plants and tree...
named ‘house in tsudanuma’, the property is situated alongside a busy road at the edge of a residential development, and is consequently set back from the street’s edge. the building’s form is also influenced by zoning restrictions, with the exterior tapered between the second and third floors. internal accommodation is connected through a series of sequential volumes...
The adaptive reuse project transforms an existing 1970’s commercial courtyard building into a residential complex featuring trees and outdoor patios scattered throughout. after having won the commission in 2010 with a winning competition proposal, the team, led by ma yansong, now carries the plans into implementation phases for realization of MAD’s first project in europ...
Taking reference from construction sites, Andrew Maynard Architects used a steel framework to renovate and extend the timber house in the Melbourne suburb of Seddon, for a couple who asked for a house that was "ridiculously inside-out". The project, named Cut Paw Paw after its location, creates a new open-plan living area for the two-bedroom property. Galvanised st...
The Village Health Works Staff Housing accommodates an 18-bed dormitory for the healthcare workers of a medical centre in the 16-hectare village of Kigutu. It was designed by New York-based Louise Braverman as part of a wider masterplan for the area. The building was constructed from locally produced bricks, interspersed with a mixture of timber cladding and brightly ...
American architect Frank Barkow and German architect Regine Leibinger were asked to create the study pavilion in the lakeside grounds of the Berlin institution – which was established in 1994 to help foster relationships between Germany and the United States, and which counts playwright Arthur Miller and artist Jenny Holzer among its alumni. The resulting Fellows Pavi...
Movable egg-shaped huts on a beach in South Korea were popular with readers this week, so we've collected together 13 strange and beautiful examples of mobile residences, refuges and retreats from the pages of Dezeen – including a tiny house delivered via helicopter. This micro house in the Spanish countryside might look permanent, but is actually designed to be hoisted...
Located in Takasaki, a city in Japan's Gunma Prefecture, the three-storey House in Tourimachi was designed by SNARK and OUVI to provide a home for two generations of one family. The restricted nature of the plot – measuring six metres long and 13 metres wide, and with three-storey buildings on either side – prompted the architects to integrate ceiling voids, set backs...
Hiroyuki Ito Architects created the staggered apartment block, named Bloom, in the Setagaya area of Tokyo. The 524-square-metre building contains ten duplex flats within its distorted rectangular plan, each with a varying configuration of rooms. The stepped concrete form takes its cues from the the tiered rooftops of neighbouring blocks, while a cast-concrete const...
The project is located in Krokskogen forests, outside the town of Hønefoss. Its location on a steep slope gives a fantastic view over the lake Steinsfjorden. The site is often exposed to strong winds, so the cabin is organized around several outdoors spaces that provide shelter from the wind and receives the sun at different times of the day. The interior is a shap...
Since time immemorial, the area around the 'Drecht cities' of South Holland has been dedicated to shipping. This hinterland of Rotterdam contains many shipyards. In Alblasserdam, on the banks of the Noord river, was a large wharf belonging to shipbuilder Verolme. The wharf lay between the old centre of the village and the Noord river. After the wharf was closed it became...
From the architect The development consists of 6 new homes in the neighbourhood of Hintonburg. The four detached and one semi-detached buildings replace a former single detached dwelling and garage which occupied the 600 m2 lot. Each home is 100 m2 and is built on a 100 m2 lot. The buildings are 2 storeys, with a partial third storey; each has an at-grade as well ...
