Chiltern House was designed by Maria Warner Wong, design director of WOW Architects in Singapore, for herself, her husband, and their two sons, aged 18 and 22. It occupies a 400-square-metre site that was once the garden of a larger house. To replace the lost green area of the previous home's garden, Warner Wong incorporated a range of plants and water features around...
Called Lake House, the sculptural two-storey dwelling was designed by Taylor and Miller as an abstract composition of volumes and forms. It encompasses 1,650 square feet (153 square metres), and was designed to serve as a country retreat for a Manhattan-based fashion executive and musician. The home is built into a sloped site in the Berkshires, a hilly region in w...
using this notion, korean firm SsD architecture created the ‘songpa micro-housing’ scheme composed of 14 ‘unit blocks’ which uniquely allows the residents to adapt their home’s configuration depending on their changing life and work situations. residents can either claim a single space, or in the case where a couple or friends desire to live together, recombine the b...
Glass plates in six different tones of orange, green and blue visually connect the showroom with a residential complex. Yazgan Design Architecture designed the structure as a flowing volume with an exterior that reflects the diversity of its interior spaces. The 45,000-square-meter complex contains 992 mock-up apartments organized as a large residential complex locate...
Architecture firm agaligo studio crafted the lightweight, eco-friendly X-Float structures as an addition to the Project X2 River Kwai Resort. Set atop the famous River Kwai, the floating homes overlook uninterrupted picturesque views of Thailand’s lush mountains and river landscape. Though Kanchanaburi is already famous for its floating houses, the X-Float stands out...
Known as Marina One and designed by Ingehoven Architects and A61, the green-filled urban residence will be turned into an oasis by landscape firm Gustafson Porter. The proposed project would bring four residential towers surrounding an atrium along with extensive gardens, green walls and waterfalls, as well as rooftop Cloud Forests to Singapore’s Marina Bay. The prop...
Bound by a steep incline to the north and a stream to the south, Montreal based Paul Bernier Architecte positioned this new house lengthwise between the two, carefully preserving the natural features of the site. ‘We chose to create a low-profile, primarily single-storey building. Its meandering shape is determined by the opportunities offered by the surrounding lands...
Second, provide an enclosed garage in a neighborhood with tough parking. The result is a quiet house of 3,500 sq. ft. with two distinct faces; one that provides privacy from urban street traffic, and another that opens up to expansive Bay views. Traces of the original cottage are preserved in the massing and circulation of the final building. The grand stair marks th...
To guarantee a certain level of privacy for the owners, the street side facade looks rather aloof. After opening the door in the wall, the visitor would expect a continuation of the defensive atmosphere, but the effect of inversion is astonishing. From that moment on it surprises you everytime. After the first surprising element – the stepping stones in the water – you e...
Description from Paul de Ruiter Architects Park Brederode in the Dutch city Bloemendaal is part of the protected North Holland dune landscape and is a unique living location. At the heart of this beautiful landscape, Paul de Ruiter Architects has designed a sustainable villa provided with every luxury and comfort. From the very start it was clear that the landscape ...
The designer’s description A young couple with children hired our Studio to conceive this country house in a very steep plot. Located near São Paulo, the project has close to a thousand square meters, but remains almost imperceptible from the street. We chose to have total integration between architecture and the terrain, creating an innovative solution where the h...
Designed in collaboration with associate Federico Concilio, the house was commissioned by a young businessman who needed enough space to entertain his friends and family which led to the house being placed in the middle of the plot. Two gardens were then created on either side, the one at the front functioning as an open-air lobby featuring tropical plants that partially...
This ‘House with Four Houses’ as it is called, is situated in the north of Portugal and is designed as the holiday home of a family of four encompassing the residence which spans three storeys: a basement that contains the garage, wine cellar and laundry room, the ground level where all the living spaces are, and a small, secluded office space tucked away in the mezzanin...
The shape has been finalized rationally and organically in the forming process of dealing with the site condition and requested function. Not only the result of the form being organic, by paying attention to the organic matter of the planning process, the process itself perhaps produced the organic space. There was a 3.7m height difference and were a lot of tall trees...
defined by its gently inclined walls, the building’s roof and façades are constructed from the same material, creating a singular dense volume. the two requirements from the client were to have enough space to park a large four-wheel drive car, and not to be bothered by onlooking neighbors. in order to make room for the car, the plan was to utilized to maximize available...
the design can characterized by its masterful incorporation of the various materials that define each surface of the home and separate guest house that can be used as an additional living quarters or recreation space. the stacking of orthogonal volumes outline a sobering grid of clean and powerful lines framing large planes of glass that extend views out onto the yard an...
this architectural monolith has been developed in harmony with its immediate context, both in the use of materials from the region and for relying on local expertise for the craftsmanship. its thick walls are made out of stones while all windows and doors use local wood. the concrete floor has been cast using timber planks revealing its genuine pattern. on one hand,...
The designer’s description The home’s primary conceptual move is the placement of the master suite and bedrooms in dual, hull-like volumes on the second level. The forms are clearly separate, yet are responsive to each other, and create a fluid double-height space in their interstice. The nautical, tropical feel continues at the rear of the property, where a gan...
created with the basic intents of uniqueness, privacy, and state-of-the-art-ness, the ‘nest’ is optimized to allow residents to contemplate the picturesque beauty of the surrounding valley. in the ‘nest’ masterplan, individual units would be grouped together in clusters along northern-facing slopes somewhere on the resort’s 7,000+ skiable acres. plot access is provide...
early designs for the dwelling — named ‘aspvik house’ — revolved around finding a solution that fitted into the undulating terrain, while including all necessary functions for a retreat in the scandinavian climate. the architects identified that the sloping nature of the site allowed a two-storey house to be built without imposing too heavily on the natural landscape....
the project has been developed in collaboration with developers oscar properties, and will contain 140 apartment units, each offering sweeping views across the neighboring countryside. titled 79 & park, the scheme has been designed to harmonize with stockholm’s most prominent green space — the royal national city park — opening up onto the city’s gärdet and djurgården di...
The architects identified that the sloping nature of the site allowed a two-storey house to be built without imposing too heavily on the natural landscape. the timber and steel dwelling rests on a concrete plinth with external walls angled by five degrees in a subtle reference to a lookout tower which previously occupied the plot. an angled concrete retaining wall cuts t...
The architect’s description Architecture occurs at the site of conflicts: where the desire for view conflicts with the desire for protection from the Western sun, where the desire for lightness conflicts with the requirements for structure, where the desire for mystery conflicts with pragmatism, where the desire for connection conflicts with the desire for privacy, an...
Rest assured, this streamlined design by Slovenian OFIS architects and AKT II structural engineers in collaboration with students from Harvard University Graduate School of Design will undeniably withstand the capricious climate of the Alps and provide emergency refuge for up to eight mountaineers. The brief – to design an innovative and practical shelter, or bivouac ...
In 1917, renowned restaurateur Sten Hellberg built a chinese-style tower high above Torsbyfjärden with a view overlooking the shipping lane towards Stockholm. The six hectare plot has been in the current owners’ family since the 1950s. In the 1960s a single-storey, period-style addition to the tower containing new living room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom spaces was ad...
Standing as three, singular condominium buildings, they are connected through a garden, spanning the roofs of all three volumes. Comprised of 22 storeys and topped with the garden roof, this provides residents with amples of green space, which rarely occurs in the city. the façades can be seen covered with planter boxes, filled with bamboo. the choice of the specific ...
perched on a dramatic headland, the dwelling hugs the contours of the terrain and is nestled into the landscape with the lower floors carefully tucked under the upper levels creating a succession of terraces. facing the west, this oceanfront residence has stunning views of both the ocean and the sunset. the integration of indoor and outdoor space generates an exciting...
The designer’s description In San Diego’s increasingly cosmopolitan North County, a young family of four from Belgium knew exactly what they wanted built on a most desirable property: a residence focused on family living and entertaining, with certain traditional Belgian elements encased in a contemporary American design. The family were especially insistent on ble...
The architect’s description The building pays homage to the areas completely destroyed vineyards, due to the densification of the city with concrete cookie-cutter apartment blocks after the 1970’s. The “vine” like texture emerges at the ground level, and moves upward to become the intertwining building facade, finishing at the roof garden where the residents can enjo...
The architect’s description The site is located in a beautiful but windy summerhouse village on the northern tip of Sjælland, Denmark. The overall house is divided into five separate houses. There is a kitchen building, parents building, children’s building, guest building and utility building. The houses are laid out in a star shape, in order to provide different out...
The architect’s description At its root, the Cloister House is a quiet refuge, a state of seclusion within the city, shared between a grandmother and her grandchildren. A finely crafted spine wall anchors the plan of the house, travelling from the front of the project to the rear. Whimsical kid-friendly elements are present, from an undulating boulder landscape to cu...
The retreat was conceived as a place for year round recreation as well as quiet solitude. After entering the site through a thick grove of evergreens, the drive turns to reveal the first glimpse of the home— a long, linear core of cut stone sliding under a single slope roof and through a delicate glass volume. The stone core, punctuated by two large fireplace masses, org...
The intent of the project was to focus the views towards the iconic landmark to capture it and have it constantly presenced in the experience of the house while creating other introspective moments of experience. The project takes the form of an architectural cast-in-place concrete base upon which a floating sheet steel clad open-ended volume and an 8-4-16 masonry volum...
Reacting to the established convention of jarring juxtaposition of existing ‘old’ and introduced ‘new’ architectural elements ; the ‘Blurred House’ offers an alternative proposition; that of a blurring between ‘old’ and ‘new’ to produce a hybrid. Gradually transitioning from the vernacular to the contemporary, the division of architectural elements are deliberately ambig...
Estrategias para el Desarrollo de Arquitectura’s (EDAA) most recent project is Yácatas 475, a building that seeks to solve the complexity of integrating a contemporary architectural proposal into an irregular cityscape while facing real state pressures: high land value, densification, construction regulations, construction costs, market demands and timing. A black-refle...
Keeping the footprint to a minimum so as not to disturb the wooded site, each of the first three floors has only one small bedroom and bath, each a tiny private suite. The top floor, which contains the living spaces, spreads out from the tower like the surrounding forest canopy, providing views of the lake and mountains in the distance, virtually the entire Catskill moun...
