The spectacular 3,000-square-foot waterfront private residence was designed to reconnect its inhabitants with nature, encouraging a greater consciousness of the elements and their manifestations. In a time when architecture has become fixated with computer generated forms and over-the-top modern design, House on a Dune is elegant in its simplicity – designed to heighten...
This 4,500-square foot residence is located near Jackson Hole, Wyoming in a neighborhood with flat, open, grassy sites with expansive views of Glory Peak and the Teton Mountain Range. Taking advantage of adjacency to 120-acres of open space to the south and the dramatic mountains to the west and north, the house is site responsive with simple and modest forms that blend...
The project’s description The Kent house is a collaboration between Architect David Watson and Builder, AGUSHI Pty Ltd. The client presented the design team with a brief – to create a contemporary, minimalist and low maintenance house, which would be bright, spacious and homely. The house was to have four bedrooms with three bathrooms, basement garaging for at least fi...
It’s here, surrounded by a Mediterranean garden full of local species and carefully designed in the Sicilian tradition that you can find Casa Faro, a refined detached villa constructed by the Milanese studio NCB ARCHITETTURA. All the quarters gravitate towards the central patio, which is the focal point of the house connecting the different areas. “Mediterranean arch...
The designer’s description A house of two halves, the two-storey ‘Quad’ inspired front portion takes advantage of park views from the first floor master bedroom and lounge.A single storey pavilion-like structure accommodates the kitchen, meals and living area at the rear.A double sided fireplace separates the meals and living space, where exposed concrete blocks mimic t...
The designer’s description Set on a verdant land parcel dotted with large mature trees, the Three Trees House house is nestled -much like a fork- between three large trees. The premise for choosing to situate the building amidst the trees was to preserve the existing trees while enjoying the natural setting in close proximity of the habitable areas. The house is conceiv...
The architect’s description It’s shape is defined by the same number of individual volumes. They have similar dimensions but distinct orientations. Three of the volumes are orthogonally organized around a core, whilst a fourth rotates to match the direction of an existing neighbouring building. The proximity between the two constructions led to a desired dialogue. The...
The architect’s description The Port Ludlow Residence is a compact, 2400 SF modern house located on a wooded waterfront property at the north end of the Hood Canal, a long, fjord-like arm of western Puget Sound. The house creates a simple glazed living space that opens up to become a front porch to the beautiful Hood Canal. The east-facing house is sited along a high b...
From the designers Mölle is an extreme location with regards to topography and landscape, as well as history and aura. Around the turn of the century 1900, Northern Europeans were migrating to “Sinful Mölle” – where men and women were allowed to enjoy each other’s company at the same beach – leaving a trace of eccentric and experimental architecture from the first half ...
The owner’s father built the original house and the building was in an awkward position on the plot. According to the brief, the client wanted to have two master bedrooms along with four bedrooms – this required additional floor area as the original house area could not comfortably fit in the extra rooms. However, the architects resolved to make use of the existing struc...
The building was thus designed as a shifted, irregular volume, ensuring the existence of several “centres of interest” on each of the two levels, and, at the same time, the opening of several areas towards the outside. Inside, despite the varying functions, the spaces openly communicate with each other and there are very few enclosed areas, which contributes to a sen...
The slender and lengthy shape is a product of the property boundaries and makes for a straightforward exception among the neighbouring structures. The floor plan is organised as a sequence of spaces that allows for a practical arrangement of all the ancillary rooms and eventually leads to the generous and open living and working spaces. The building accommodates the home...
The requirements were bedrooms for the client’s family and for guests, common areas for the whole group and services. The client gave priority to the conservation of the forest and the large trees over other attributes of the site, like the views of the lake and the Villarrica volcano. Thus, the footprint of the house adapts to the position of the trees, avoiding the cut...
The ambition was to capture fantastic views across the valley, so the owners together with the architects decided to place the chalets on top of the mountain crest in order to provide 360 degrees views. Due to the existing forest along the crest, the architects derived their concept from bird nests and developed it into chalets which are floating above the landscape. ...
The Background: A traditional ‘agraharam’ house is a long rectangular temple street house stacked around the four streets that bound the temple. These street-fronted houses have a deep social and cultural value in their organisation of space - being narrow and linear, the hierarchy of rooms range from public areas up front to the more private family spaces deeper in. Cl...
SILVER AWARD WINNER – 2014 MELBOURNE DESIGN AWARDS – RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTED CATEGORY Set within an established heritage precinct in Middle Park and on a very prominent corner site, the brief to turn a heritage shop into a five bedroom house proved a tantalising prospect. The challenge was the conflicting requirements of the heritage controls and the client’s desire fo...
Throughout this home are numerous encounters with nature whilst still being very much indoors. The architectural placement of the building allows for the viewing of the feature tree from all of the main spaces, from either of its two storeys right down to the basement. First Floor A granite wall at the entrance made from interspersed panels creates a series of holes ...
The proposal we presented links to an “idea of classic" values of the country house and to its physical context: dialogue and opening with the landscape, development of one floor house, use of color and materials related to the landscape, definition of different types of spaces (now open on the landscape, now more introverted). The client is the director of a winery; ...
Designed for a young couple with three small children, the house aimed to create dynamic spaces that encourage play and interaction. The house embraces Singapore's tropical climate by creating open, well ventilated spaces in an interlocking composition of building, garden, pool, pond and roof gardens that integrates as much as nature as possible in the in the densely urb...
When we started this project the architects were surprised by the beauty of the site and its sensitive relationship with nature. It is like an oasis of peace and quiet in the city, away from the city noise. We felt a big challenge to design an architecture and maintain this delicate balance between nature. We decide to provide subtle volume of the building, by design...
At night, the shadow of houses will change with the light of the moon and stars, just like expressions on people’s face. The wooden front door gives out a warm atmosphere, going through it, one would step into the living room and see the courtyard through a huge class, which gives people more senses of nature in daily life. Around the privacy garden, which places aga...
The forces of nature prevalent in the environment - the sea, the sunlight and the local wind patterns - determine the design in such a way as if they themselves had sculpted the house. It is above all a very contextual design and for this reason every material was chosen after close examination of the colors and textures found in the environment. This results in a pec...
Developed in collaboration with Lakea, it is an energy-efficient trio of multi-story timber-framed flats in the Jyväskylä suburb of Kuokkala, neighboring the Kuokkala church also designed by OOPEAA. The Puukuokka apartment complex is comprised of three 6-8 story buildigns. The first building in the Puukuokka complex is now complete and the other two buildings will be ...
This part of the city is situated at the hillsides of Alborz Mountains, which is higher in altitude than central and southern Tehran, so it benefits from less air pollution and more natural tranquility. A very important issue in our design process was to take advantage of the spectacular view while at the same time blocking the undesirable ones. The altitude of the site ...
The project is an evolution of the concept of the screen wall , a dispute arising idea of exercise of homes in gated communities , where the search for privacy and wealth of interior space, causing the generating mechanism of introspection . The land , between party is located in the foothills of the spring forest in the city of Guadalajara Mexico . The distribution re...
The only structures of the area are small agricultural buildings - ntam''. Topographically, the 3.5hectare seaside plot is on an incline and planted with 300 olive trees. The basic issues of the design were incorporating the residences in the topography of the landscape; low-impact accessibility; developing a dialectic between the two buildings; making use of the unc...
Both buildings are able to optimally integrate in the landscape as a result of their underground garage and the planting of dune grasses. The buildings each consist of two floors plus an attic floor. Each floor houses a three-bedroom apartment or duplex. A uniform design was adopted for the façade and the roof to achieve a striking and distinctive architectural style. Th...
the project starts from the idea of defining (building) the external spaces (the voids) in order to use all the available space in the plot. The house and its ancillary structure are therefore positioned on the northern perimeter of the plot. this space will be used for welcoming visitors. the structure extends along the eastern perimeter and becomes a boundary wall...
I know that this remodel of an iconic mid-century home would be a wonderful renovation feature, because the design team so sensitively addressed the needs of the homeowners and expanded on the original intent of the home. Our client, Andrea Metkis, a cancer surgeon, is excited to talk about the project and would be happy to be interviewed and photographed in her home....
A quiet reading area and a bedroom beneath the stars. All three requests has each been associated with a bay window and then superposed under a roof that turns into a terrace in front of the house. In total there are 8 rooms including two huts, three terraces, 8.5 meter ceiling on a total surface of about 85 sqm. The project is struggling with an almost contradictory...
Snøhetta is an active partner within ZEB (The Research Center on Zero Emission Buildings). The ZEB Multi-Comfort House is a cooperation between Snøhetta, Scandinavia’s largest independent research body SINTEF, ZEB partner Brødrene Dahl, and Optimera. The volume of the house describes a single family house, however, the building is intended for use as a demonstration plat...
This summer house represents one of the multiple schemes possible to be built from the baseMIMA house with 36 sq.m. - and corresponding to the aggregation of 3,5 of these base units. MIMA is indeed a system that promotes the quick conception and production of beautiful houses, respecting a base 1,5 x 1,5 m metric for the space definition and using common prefab base c...
One gets the feeling of being in Sydney Harbour when looking out of the oversized wafer-thin framed windows. Luigi Rosselli Architects won a limited architectural competition to develop the site by proposing to revive the existing three storey house while the competitors opted for a clean slate solution. Adaptive reuse is the best way to keep a carbon footprint small...
The space of this 140 metre square apartment in the center of Warsaw, Poland is just seemingly ascetic. The interior of the house, was arranged by Mood Works studio in a way to give rest to eyes and full comfort of use. In the bright space there is also a space for art. The key design theme of this space is pure white. Together with a natural light, coming to the spac...
The house’s owners have supported Sergey’s idea and resolved to do some trailblazing experiments. Interaction of external and internal is highly important in this project. The distinction between them is eliminated due to a large-scale vitrescence of public zone and owner’s bedroom located on the second floor. Arcitects aimed to admit the nature into the interior and eve...
The Clients had wanted modern architecture and well defined interior areas and high in design value with as less of decoration as possible. We planned the home on 3 levels, the lower to have the lounges/dining/kitchen and no beds at all. First Floor to have 2 bedrooms with spacious walk-ins and toilets and a common lounge. The top most floors have the master suite with a...
