That such a sculptural work of architecture could emerge as a result of deeply pragmatic considerations is perhaps surprising, yet, as architect Tony Chenchow explains, a ‘top-down’ approach to spatial planning is applied in all Chenchow Little’s work. “We work to address the pragmatic part of the client’s brief and then we look at the site conditions. What’s really impo...
With three generations of the same family sharing the space, the living quarters for the older couple is situated on the 1st floor, while the 2nd and 3rd levels house the younger couple and their child. Spanning from the front yard ground level to the peak of the third floor is an expansive "stairway-like" structure that penetrates through the building. Offering sepa...
Named CyberHouse LIFE, the project features various angular surfaces that offer its own unique panorama towards the landscape and the lake. Described as "the architecture of the future", the house, covering 1,370-square-metre area, is located on a rocky slope on the coast of a mountain lake. Organically inscribed in the relief, the house, as it were, takes its form w...
Named Santa Teresa House (or Casa Santa Teresa), the studio has completed the construction of the Casa Santa Teresa on her native island, on the Route des Sanguinaires in Ajaccio. There would be the primitive memory of a house by the sea, memory of the days blushed by the sun, slow or dancing evenings, clear dawn which opens their arms to the one who finally dozes off...
Paul Michael Davis Architects PLLC solved this tricky brief by designing a home that wraps around a private, southwest-facing courtyard space. Over time, the landscape design will grow into a final layer of privacy. The main living area and the master bedroom surround the outdoor space in an L-shape, and the rest of the rooms are arranged as an outer layer around thos...
Beirut is one such city, leading to micro apartments growing in popularity. The Shoebox, which spans a mere 16m2 (approx. 172 square feet), makes scaling back much more feasible with built-in functionality added everywhere for maximum efficiency. Designed by Elie Metni, the micro apartment is located on the roof of an older building in the center of the Achrafieh distric...
For one, the foundation of the Old City is made up of ruins, vaults, and rubble that can date up to a thousand years of age. Houses also sometimes span multiple street levels and are built over layers of precious archaeology. Architect Shlomit Mamon Zaresky was tasked with restoring a single family vacation home in the Old City that takes up two different street level...
But while architecture students and firms commonly reserve space of their desks for a 3D printer to create high-fidelity scale models as communicative tools, Cucinella has set his sights much higher than the rest. Last September, printing began on the architect’s first prototype of a two-room house in Massa Lombarda, a quiet comune east of Bologna, Italy. Named TECLA ...
The Wave House, a 900-square-foot home originally built by architect Walter S. White in 1954 for artist Miles C. Bates, is one of the rare midcentury modern homes that effectively captures the era’s penchant for surfing culture with a semi-open floor plan beneath a single, uninterrupted wave-like roof. After trading hands several times following Bates’ sale of the hom...
Named Model-C, the 5-story, 19,000-square-foot building will contain 14 residential units above an affordable co-working space on its ground floor. Model-C will be assembled using a cross-laminated timber (CLT) kit-of-parts and will be net-zero energy and net-zero carbon for its first decade of operation. The CLT rooftop will allow for the easy installation of solar p...
Topped with a sloping green roof that touches the ground, the sculptural building features two wings — one that houses the main living areas and the other for guest quarters — that wrap around a central courtyard. To reduce the home’s environmental footprint, the architects used locally sourced Clipsham limestone and oriented the home according to passive solar principle...
The result is a 700-square-foot, two-bedroom rental that is energy-efficient and constructed using 90% reclaimed wood. Located in Shoreline, Washington, the sustainable cottage was created by Sean Conta, lead designer for Targa Homes. Working in collaboration with Anna and Donovan, the concept revolved around creating an energy-efficient unit that the couple could ren...
Implemented in phases, the project recently completed its second phase this year in Indonesia with the construction of its first Expandable House prototype. True to its name, the dwelling can be flexibly expanded to increase its built area from a single-story, 36-square-meter unit to a three-story, 108-square-meter mixed-use building equipped with sustainable decentraliz...
The project was organized by Italian architecture firm noa* (Network of Architecture), who was adamant about respecting the surrounding area as well as the essence of the original structure that dated back to 1850. From the exterior of the structure, Messner House appears to mimic the outline of the original barn with a framework supported by high wooden columns. The ...
Positioned for passive solar design and to maximize views over the surrounding tree canopy, the sustainable dwelling was engineered to minimize impact on the existing terrain. In addition to walls of glass that let in natural light and ventilation, the home draws power from a rooftop solar array and minimizes its environmental footprint with rainwater collection tanks fo...
Four repurposed 40-by-8 -foot shipping containers were used to construct the main part of the structure, two placed side-by-side and two more stacked on top. The inside was then carved out to create a larger interior space. The whole building was installed in two days and fully completed in two months. New York-based architecture firm MB Architecture is responsible fo...
What is It? Emerging like a starburst out of the California desert, James Whitaker’s shipping container design will soon be constructed for a film producer and his wife. Nicknamed the “Joshua Tree Residence,” the design consists of a cluster of white freight containers and is expected to be completed in 2018. What Sparked the Concept? Whitaker originally proposed a ...
Working with clients with a strong appreciation of concrete, the building was designed primarily of exposed concrete internally, as well as externally, with the addition of operable timber shutters on the external windows.The architecture of the Mermaid Beach signifies permanence; a desire to stay and age, a dialogue between architecture and the intrinsic human desire an...
There is no enough space for raising their child, together with some disadvantages from this type of building which has no green space area and natural sunlight, thus, the primary concept is to create more space which can allow for natural daylight, natural ventilation, and garden inside.Initiative design of this building was directly portrayed into simple 6 boxes which ...
This area, which is surrounded by a dense pine forest and her herding hermit habitat, was well situated in the gallery house, where she could display and store her collection. Rather, it was a place for architects to think about how to put architecture on top of the rural landscape. The environment here, which is so generous compared to the urban areas where there are so...
As the residence has direct beach access it was designed with the sensitive shoreline environment in mind. This project showcases Coates Design’s ability to permit and construct homes on complex sites; this site even required 50 foot pilings! Upon entering the house, visitors travel across a bridge and through a concrete corridor that divides the public and private re...
Called Utsuroi House, the dwelling captures an appreciation for timeless architecture through balance and geometric symmetry. 'Utsuroi' is a Japanese spatial concept meaning "a gradual and inevitable change from one state to another." This work of architecture seeks to introduce a "conscious and orchestrates spatial sequence" that guides its inhabitants fluidly through t...
Solutions to San Francisco’s squeezed rental market are getting weirder by the day. Closets become bedrooms; Victorians bought with venture capital become cramped, live-in tech incubators; and coliving dorms—where adults earning a living wage bunk with strangers—are becoming commonplace. Kentucky-based firm Elsey Partners, which specializes in college campus developme...
When a couple with three young children asked Kappland Arkitekter to design an island retreat on a steeply sloping plot, the Oslo-based architects didn’t just rise to the challenge—they created a home that fully embraces the tricky terrain. "The building follows the terrain and forms a stepped unit on the hillside, creating several levels, both indoors and outdoors," ...
Since the early 1860s, Ontario’s Muskoka region has been a popular summer spot where city-dwelling Ontarians escape the chaos of urban life and embrace the region’s 16,000 lakes. However, the humble and unobtrusive structures that once dotted the landscape are now being replaced by large, oversize "McCottages" that threaten the area’s unique character. With their Lake...
A set of affordable homes for growing families just popped up in Örebro, Sweden—and they utilize passive building principles and photovoltaic panels to generate as much energy as they use each year. Stockholm-based Street Monkey Architects designed the zero-energy homes to be well insulated and nearly airtight, with ventilation systems that retain as much heat as possibl...
Over 100 Australian architecture studios recently banded together to form Architects Assist, a referral program offering free design and planning assistance to help those impacted by the fires that began in October 2019. Architect Jiri Lev, founder of Atelier Jiri Lev, launched the initiative to address the disaster that’s now burned nearly 2,000 homes and countless s...
Japanese brand Muji just debuted the Yō no Ie House (Plain House)—the fourth offering in their line of prefabricated homes. Unlike its predecessors, the Yō no Ie House is the brand’s first single-story prefab, and it was launched in response to growing demand for low-profile homes with suburban and rural—rather than urban—applications. Created with Japan’s aging populati...
Designs and intentions for the grammy-winning artist’s new up-scale housing have finally surfaced. They’re a little bleh, and way out of tune with Toronto’s housing needs. Approximately 751 units between two towers will be on offer starting early 2020, and pricing will begin somewhere near $400,000 for a studio apartment. The development is next in a slew of million d...
In Tabasco, Mexico, a family living below the poverty line recently visited their future home: a 3D-printed, 500-square foot structure with two bedrooms, one bath, a wraparound cement patio, and an awning over the front porch. With an off-white exterior complimented by breeze blocks, the dwelling is earthen, compact, and even stylish. It’s one of two fully furnished h...
As for the volumes provision, firs floor acts like a transition between the underground block and the second level , achieving the máximum of transparence with the mínimum structure. The corner is a three level void serving as a light patio to the workspace. The strong sun of the west under the bedrooms is templated by a mobile wooden screen that also give contrast to th...
Configuring itself as a small habitable space on the mountain, Pavilion House seeks to maximize its versatility and spatial simultaneity. A four-volume wall-set defines the living space and determines the views on the surrounding landscape, while concealing the basilar 'program' - sleeping, staying, eating and bathing - allowing this to be partially activated, dep...
In the context of architecture, the infinite possibilities for how space and material might be assembled need to be imagined, assessed and then executed – first on paper and in models, and finally constructed at full scale. Glebe House by Chenchow Little is sited on an awkwardly shaped block, hemmed in by neighbours. The compact dwelling was designed for a family of five...
Situated on a elongated island plot close to the lake, the positioning of the building volume is related to the views on the surrounding water and the orientation on the sun. By dividing the volume into four parts, the panoramic views and the invading sunlight become very specific. On the outside the diversity in size and the interconnected positioning create a sculptura...
Flagstaff House, at the corner of King and Batman Streets in central Melbourne, is a two-storey International Style building that was built in 1955 and served as the office for Yuncken Freeman. The building faces Flagstaff Gardens on King Street and opposite the site on Batman Street is the St James Old Cathedral. The design was inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Far...
Called Cascade House, the apartment, featuring cascading roof, has been designed for five families, consisting of rooms arranged familiar in symmetry. Situated on a small plot, the architects used setbacks to adapt to the land use regulations to accommodate as many units as possible. "Thus the form is difficult to understand, the structure is dislocated and space beco...
