The project by Viva Architecture in Baarle-Nassau is a contemporary interpretation of a typical “long-facade” farmhouse. The house is sequentially built up with spaces that are interconnected in the longitudinal direction. The resulting long axes make the house more spacious. As with a classic farmhouse, the roof is covered with clay tiles. In this case, they continue a...
The Villa by OFIS is located in Trnovo, within the city center of Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is the renovation of a small existing house dating from 1934. The extension creates different intersections between the old and the new part on each floor. It is composed of three cube volumes, each in a proportion of a shoe-box, like the existing house floorplan. Boxes are stacked...
The house is part of the estate Valkenberg and therefore takes a position in the tradition of heirs and estates in Twente. The house absorbs the length, the views and the seclusion – recognizable characteristics of the bocage – in itself. The size of the rooms, the light, the use of materials and the orientation ensure that the prospect of the bocage is constantly changi...
The Clouds’ project by studio XTU, an old nursing school built in 1972, is located in the heart of the small island at the bottom of the Jardin des Peupliers, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The restructuring of this office building offers now housing, a child care and three townhouses. It is a project respectful of the site and the existing Parisian architectural h...
ORA architects took a very old house with a Baroque and Renaissance core from the 16th century, which has been damaged many times over the years, and turned it into an exquisite guest house located in the former Jewish quarter of Mikulov (Nikolsburg) in Czech Republic. The Štajnhaus has not been a project, but rather a process. This house with a Renaissance core stands ...
Built on the bones of a solid 1970s Rose Bay home, in Australia, with an existing single roof ridge to the front and a substantial addition to the rear under a new second roof ridge. Designed with a modern language of sharp edges, abstract forms, robust cantilevered canopies and oversized windows. The children’s bedrooms are located under the first, larger, zinc clad ga...
Designed by Farming Architecture in South Korea, the Poly villa poses the question of how a fixed architectural structure can respond to the patterns and desires of the occupants’ constantly changing lives. Poly villa has indeterminate “gaps” between personal and family space. These gaps are margins between individuals and between spaces, and are possibilities that conne...
The house designed by Abraham Cota Paredes Arquitectos is located within the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, in one of many private condominiums delimited by large walls, as a result of increased insecurity in Mexico. It is this duality among a chaotic city and the search for isolation and shelter, what generates an introspective architecture. The building seeks to giv...
With three independent volumes connected by a bridge Mexican studio Obra Blanca designed the Iguana House, a single family house where the spaces in between are bounded by a thin layer of clay bricks arranged just like a tower of cards, recalling some traditional constructions of the region. Located just four hundred meters away from the Gulf of Mexico, the house faces ...
The house realized by Studio de.materia lies on the edge of the reserve Żurawiniec, and it is surrounded by a dense park in the south and the west. On the frontier boundary of the plot runs a slope of less than one storey. Such terrain has determined the entire assumption of the project. To avoid a steep descent into the garage, it was placed on the roof of the residenti...
S+J House is located in the seaside neighborhood Costa Esmeralda, a private development four hours away from Buenos Aires city. Despite being almost plain, the plot of land slopes softly towards its back. As the Studio proposed to preserve the lot’s dense pine grove, only the trees on the construction site were removed in order to build the house. The client, a group of ...
Architect Hanna Michelson has completed the Loft house (Lofthuset), the first out of four planned getaways on the hillside of Åsberget mountain in the north of Sweden. The 10 meters tall house is constructed in two stories, 14 sqm each. The lower is a sheltered room in close relation to the surrounding forest. Instead, the upper is a roofed outdoor space stripped from wa...
The house designed by Chop+Archi is located in a dense residential district in Tokyo. It is distinguished by its triangular shape formed by two roads meeting at a sharp angle. The clients, a couple and their daughter, wanted a house that balanced privacy with the right amount of connection to the surrounding environment, while also controlling environmental elements like...
The main challenge for Modelart Arhitekti when reconstructing and extending the old family house in Smilovci, Serbia, into a holiday house was utilising the existing local advantages – natural and built environment. The existing house, although constructively preserved, functionally didn’t meet the needs of the client, so it had to be adapted and extended. In addition to...
Hideaway in Raval is a sporadic living studio, designed by Sarriera + Weinstock for a young entrepreneur based in Barcelona who travels continuously for work. He was in search of a space inside the city center where, if wanted, he could get contaged by the cities’ vibrance and at the same time, when in need, isolate himself by using it as a rest&work hideaway. As the e...
The project by ASP Arquitectura Sergio Portillo is located in a housing development in Mexico City. Due to a reduced separation between the houses, which affects the views and how the orientations are leveraged, a large patio was created. It generates a dialogue between indoor and outdoor spaces, allowing light to enter while providing the structure with visual and therm...
French studio Bonte & Migozzi designed a wooden vacation house in Ensuès la Redonne, France, inspired by Mediterranean culture and Greek mythology. Migozzi revisits the primitive atmosphere of the cottage by reinterpreting a contemporary version of “Ulysse’s vessel that surfs on a slope like a crab trawler”. In order to completely stay away from hurting the land in any w...
The project is located in a residential area, in the district of Tres Ríos, province of Cartago, Costa Rica. The house is formed from two basic volumes which separate the private space from the social, these are divided by means of the garden and are connected by the main access. From the street you can see part of the interior, this allows to generate several levels of...
The weekend house project by MWS arquitectura in the province of Cordoba, Argentina, is a 750 sqm space that had one important requirement: it had to be hidden as much as possible. The building is located 60 km away from Ascochingas, within the rural areas of the Sierras Chicas hills. Densely inhabited by acacias, the area is surrounded by a gully from South to West th...
Bruksgården is located in an area that is classified as being of national interest, where the main building and its wings are considered to be of the highest cultural value. With the extensive conversion and addition, great care and consideration has been given to this historically valuable environment, both in terms of the building itself and its surroundings – the town...
The house is placed on the edge of a plateau, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Since the surrounding landscape is so impressive, Office KGDVS felt architecture should be invisible, merely emphasizing the natural qualities of the surroundings. A simple circular roof with a diameter of 40 meters underlines the qualities of both the plateau and its edge. The roof functio...
The crystalline facade of the building is dominated by angular windows and canted walls that create balconies and intimate outdoor nooks that enhance the quality of the units. Each of the apartments has a unique plan with high-performance triple-glazed windows and external louvers. The team made some of the windows fixed to adapt to the irregular shape of the volume, ...
The three-bedroom, four-bathroom house is located on a secluded lot surrounded by a wall of 200-foot cedar trees on one side and the Puget Sound on the other. The home was built in 1978 by an unknown architect, who used salvaged wooden posts – which reportedly date back more than 100 years – in the construction. The bohemian-inspired interior, which is well-lit by an ...
Located in Lombardy, Italy, the house by 35a studio di architettura is immersed in a harmonious hilly landscape plenty of villages and castles, and in a flourishing nature made of woods and large cultivated areas. This small holiday home for a young couple was built on a 3,000 sqm piece of land with a slight slope. The house is located exactly on the grounds of an old pr...
Located in Toronto, CORE Modern Homes by Batay-Csorba Architects is a 4,900 sqm 7-unit townhouse development, which explores the potential of spatially oriented apertures that work to induce movement and visual interest within an efficient volume which maximizes programmatic potential. Designed with family life in mind, these contemporary residences offer generous living...
Shift Architecture Urbanism radically transformed an early XX century townhouse in Rotterdam by completely opening it up. The Matryoshka House comprises now two high-end apartments. Situated in the heart of the city, the house was in a derelict state due the previous owner’s conversion of the building into a sub-standard workers’ hotel. Bothered by the neglect, a neighb...
The home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve is located in an extended residential area in Madrid, between spacious green areas, woodlands and pine trees. The plot itself, which has a significant topographic slope, holds a large area of natural Mediterranean garden with a cluster of pines, in its lowest area. The housing is located at the top of the plot, dominating the e...
Built from affordable, low-impact materials, these compact SHEDS take only one day to construct and can be easily styled into attractive tiny dwellings.Each SHED is built primarily of CNC-milled Smartply (formaldehyde-free OSB), lamb’s wool insulation, and recycled polycarbonate—all materials made in or around the United Kingdom. To increase ease and speed of constructio...
Communal: Taller de Arquitectura developed a housing project in collaboration with the Nahua community of Tepetzintan, located in the Northeastern Sierra of Puebla, Mexico. The two existing bamboo species in the region were used to design and build, in a participatory way, a housing exercise. The project started with the knowledge of the customs and traditions of the fam...
Be it on top of a hill in Spain or on a beach in California, the true spirit of summer houses is to bring you back to the basics. The common feature among holiday retreats in India, Chile, Brazil and France is an utopian urge for nature and solitude, in a world that is relentlessly loosing both. — Galal Mahmoud renovated a private villa in Greece preserving the tradit...
Located in a small village in Azeitao, south of Lisbon, The project by extrastudio consists of the conversion of a former winery, built by the client’s grandparents at the beginning of the 20th century. Set back from the main road and surrounded by neighbours, accessible along a narrow alley, the plot has a small orchard of orange trees, an oasis in the middle of the vil...
By reinventing the traditional bungalow’s materials, palette and details, and by responding to the practical needs of a modern family, the Palm House by Casey Brown Architecture has become a thoroughly contemporary yet compatible expression of modern Australian family living within the context of an older neighbourhood. A curved circulation path leads visitors from the ...
The AM House is a getaway country house for a family of four, built a few kilometers away from the city of Guadalajara. The site is immersed in an orchard filled with coffee shrubs, walnut and mango trees. The clients required that the trees would remain untouched, which pushed the design to include a structural solution and emplacement that considered the trees as perma...
Australian architect Russell Jones designed a penthouse apartment located on the top floor and surrounding roof terraces of a seven storey apartment building in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in London. The original space, built in the early 1990’s, did not take advantage of orientation and extensive views beyond, to key landmarks in London, including the V...
Initially built as a small storage space by the first owner who was a lumberman, the shed was later rearranged into a forest refuge in Canada by its next owners. La Colombière thus represents the completion and third phase of this simple one-storey construction into a true retreat expanding on three floors. In an attempt to preserve the surrounding nature, the footprint...
Residence Villa Drei Birken by Plasma studio is located on a hillside in the Dolomites at the end of a residential area. The Villa, built in 1960 and renovated in the 80’s, originally consisted of a simple and low volume with a private apartment and four holiday flats. The designed extension will add six holiday apartments and further funcitional and common spaces. The f...
