Part of a one-off room at the new Volkshotel by Amsterdam-based architects Jos Blom and Jasper Eustace, Edmund’s free-standing mountain contains all the hotel room functionality guests expect: like a bed, a bathroom and a wardrobe. Integrated stairs take guests to the absolute highlight, a pinnacle bathtub with adjacent cactus garden. To complete the effect, “a dazzli...
It's a compact home that acts as a catalyst of heat. To do this, the exterior finish has a dark tint, and the metal structure is completely detached from the skin to prevent heat loss. Sandwich panels, normally used in industrial buildings (fridges), are used as insulation. Despite its considerable thickness (25 cm) and the numerous preparatory details it induces, implem...
The site is kudamatsu-city, Yamaguchi. The site is along a prefectural road. There is a lot of traffic. Their family home has been built at a point distant from the road. Their planning site was near the road. Their main hope is that they can pass between their family home and their children can run around inside and outside the house. Their planning site was used in ...
For them the solution is a houseboat or floating home, a boat which is anchored in a specific berth and is their permanent residence. In regions with large areas of water or in densely populated conurbations where the property costs are high, houseboats already provide a permanent home for many people. The designers who make up Confused-Direction, Elke Florian and Sascha...
After all, crushed sunflower husks and shredded blue jeans don’t sound like typical building blocks. But in the world of green design, such ingredients are not rare. So now, Mr. Small and his wife, Joanna Brody, along with their two very young children and a pair of large French Briard dogs, share a prefabricated urban building that has become an example for others looki...
When Charles Eames presented his 'Case Study No. 8' on a hillside property in Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles at the end of the Forties there was widespread general interest. The challenge which the magazine 'Art & Architecture' issued to Eames and eight further architectural partnerships demanded ideas for low-cost and modern apartments, setting the precondition that...
The client, who works an advertising company and whose hobby is surfing, purchased a land by the beach and intended to build a family house with a courtyard there. The second floor overhangs the entrance approach and parking space for two cars, creating a floating facade. The house has a U-shaped plan built around the courtyard on the ground floor. The courtyard is ac...
Active House B10 is part of a research project examining how innovative materials, structural designs and technologies can improve our built-up world in a sustainable manner. Thanks to a sophisticated energy concept and a predictive, self-learning building control system the house generates twice as much energy from sustainable resources as it actually requires for its o...
This freehold, 21-unit residential development in Geylang is a boutique condominium that provides convenient access to nearby amenities, such as food centres and transportation lines, while also being just minutes away from the city. Despite the relatively narrow plot on which the development sits, the eight-storey structure makes efficient use of the land with a mec...
Mount Lawley House is the architects own home, built on a 180m2 triangular lot. This challenging site also has the busy Vincent Street to its north, and a 1.5m sewer easement to the rear boundary. Regardless, this prime location is wedged between Hyde Park and bustling Beaufort Street, and just a few kilometers from Perth. The design represents the client/architects beli...
The central concept is the configuration of spaces vertically, taking advantage of the morphology of the site for access, privacy and views. Car access and parking is from street level, with the house unraveling in three levels below, with privacy increasing towards the bottom. The kitchen, living and dining spaces have access to a swimming pool and terrace, both of w...
The new house, clamped between a lime tree and a walnut tree, comfortably completes the small hamlet in which it is situated. Due to the inclination and the narrow nature of the premises, the clear layering of the building follows the contour lines and makes use of the sloping ground. The entrance of the building is located on the first floor, guided by laterally enterin...
The same family has owned the property for decades. Naturally, the house is steeped in memories and, in a sense, is a showcase of family history – this is a quality we were asked to preserve. From the outside, we had an interesting prairie-style “canvas” to work with; and inside, we allowed the house’s unique features to guide our design decisions. Working closely with a...
This time, Julie worked on an extension and the remodelling of different spaces of a house situated in a Parisian suburb. To deal with the unusual requirements of an extension at the bottom of the plot, the project consisted in enlarging the space via the kitchen which becomes a passage way. This ‘in between’ space is built with a continuous line of furniture complete...
For any architect, the design of their own house presents a particular challenge. Whilst seemingly a project with an ideal client (themselves), the pressure to make a defining design statement or be outstandingly innovative, can itself be a block on creativity. This architect’s family house however, situated in the comfortable residential area of Mirje near the city c...
The barn was built 140 years ago in a mixed construction of brick masonry and timber. In it’s time, an ultramodern functional building. After the barn was sold and divided the system was structurally converted for two settler families, and cattle, into a semi-detached homes. One half has now been redesigned by architect Thomas Kröger for a young family, using the pre-exi...
How to establish a clear spatial, material and social identity of the neighbourhood? This question was the basic principle when developing the design of objects and their surroundings in terms of deeper connection of future residents with their living environment. The concept of the 3D erosion is resulting from the critique of the existing master plan with generic vol...
The Estate is located on the Eastern fringe of the Stellenbosch mountains and is one of South Africa’s premier golfing residential developments, situated among orchards and vineyards on the outskirts of the historic town of Stellenbosch. The parents loved the original design approach implemented by AA Interiors for their two sons’ projects and so their need was to cre...
The architectural project for this house consists of two main volumes; ground floor and superior floor. The ground floor embraces most of the program of the house and is organized by a longilineal volume that incorporates all of the wet areas; two bathrooms, kitchen and laundry room. This main volume stretches along the whole extension of the house, parallel to the la...
The work of Arno Brandlhuber is one of Germany’s best-kept architecture secrets. A thinker, a provocative innovator, a rule-breaker and a builder who is very much setting his own agenda. uncube have been fans for some time but, with the completion of his new “Antivilla” near Berlin, we suspect his light won’t remain hidden under a bushel for very much longer. For Berl...
A generic solution was not what architects Helle Schröder and Martin Janekovic had in mind when they designed their own house, which flows as a continuous space from floor to floor. Florian Heilmeyer met Helle Schröder at the house, which has a site that is equally unusual: overlooking the Berlin Wall Memorial and the former death strip. One of the many problems with ...
The client bought an old apartment in Lisbon’s downtown. Although charming at the first glance, it was, somehow, broken. The spatial system was erratic, with all the programs in the wrong place: the living room was facing the street side (north) and had no direct sunlight; the bedroom and kitchen, both very small, were facing Lisbon (south) but with no relation to the...
It is a detached house highly influenced by the peculiarities of the plot where it is inserted. This plot has a deep and diagonally slope that requires to place the entrance in the lowest point of the road and set the house levels from the top to bottom, contrary to usual. The emphatic horizontal volume of the bedroom's block is deposited at an intermediate level in t...
The house’s lower storey is clad with reflective paneling. These mirrored surfaces appear as an extension of the forest floor, with opaque areas stacked above. The bottom level includes also a sheltered terrace in a shade of dark brown wood that matches the surrounding earth. The second floor appears to float above its mirrored base, a levitating box that will hover in t...
The building is designed to oscillate easily between a two-family and one-family configuration, giving the owners the ability to gradually grow into and out of the house as needed. 70% of the building can be used as a 2 bedroom / 2 bath unit, while the remaining 30% of the building is given over to a 1 bedroom/ 1 bath unit. Depending on their priorities at any given time...
"I started with, asked his good friend from ALLARTSDESIGN, Permian designer Saranina Art, help me to develop the project," - says the hostess. Constantly visiting in Europe, the owner wanted the design of his apartment with a European flavor. In the atmosphere, which could have been spending a lot of time with guests, have a bright bedrooms, a spacious kitchen an...
The house was imagined as a rock embedded in the landscape, an ethereal element that follows the order of the contour lines of the terrain. Inside it houses an art gallery, an intimate space for contemplation, a container of experiences materialized in the various works of art that conform it. This rocky volume has been sculpted in such a way that it allows for light to...
The design process, complex due to several defining key issues inherent to the site, ended up taking us through some radically different sketch options before settling on the one that was finally pursued. These key issues were: - The most magnificent quality of the site, the amazing ocean view, lies to the South while the sun still of course circles around the North....
On a gently sloping corner lot in a grown residential area in Frankfurt, Germany, a house was to be designed, offering the owners both a maximum of privacy as well as a high degree of openness. The clients described their dream of the desired living environment as "Los Angeles loft feeling" coupled with the desire for a maximum room experience. On this background a ra...
This is opposed to the more common houses in Japan, which is usually, "rural", "newly built" and "detached". Toyosaki is a town located in a 15 minute walking distance from Umeda station, a main hub of transportation in North Osaka. It is also a 10 minute walking distance to the nearest subway station and is therefore, very convenient. In the area, there is a main str...
A few owners later, a local music enthusiast purchased it, seeing it as an opportunity to revive the site, creating an exciting house with a meaningful presence on the street. In 2012 he commissioned Roundabout Studio to convert the two connected yet disparate buildings into a single cohesive new home with a focus on music and entertainment. Located directly on a bus...
This was the case with the challenge faced by interior designer Lauren Reik upon remodeling the apartment at downtown Tel Aviv – an old 70m2 flat that belonged to her great grandmother. “Despite the fact that the apartment has been renovated over the years to include the balcony areas, its layout and spacing was cramped and showed its age. With the current repurposing I ...
It is a luxurious and romantic residence with its own private pool, spa and wine cellar perched on a cliff with a majestic view of a fertile Tuscan valley....a private retreat designed for travelers seeking to rest, to explore, and to enjoy the beauty of the area. The home is located in the heart of the town of Monteleone d'Orvieto inside a medieval palazzo that was mod...
The house is a second home with low maintenance and easy living, tailored to their owners. A place to escape looking for relax and tranquility at any time of year. It is an efficient housing: it only has invested in what their owners need, eliminating unnecessary rooms or materials. Collaboration between owners and architects began choosing the best plot to build the ...
A prism wooden "hut " is placed on the lava fragment of the house, rotated 6 degrees and cut on the volume below, carved by two terraces on the diagonal gashes: a gem set between the heroic rears of tall buildings.
WHAT? Tower House is a renovation and extension to a weatherboard home in Alphington, Victoria, Australia. We restored the original, where we have two kids’ rooms, a bathroom and living spaces. A studio, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and dining occupy the new part of the house. Tower House is the result of endless conversations with a trusting, enthusiastic, patient and ...
