Maximum Garden House by Formwerkz Architects

Maximum Garden House was made by Formwerkz. The design maximizes the area for garden, that usually doesn’t have enough area to be built.
From the architects:

One questions the sense of “landed-ness” in a typically maxed-out envelope of a semi-detached typology. What is usually left over after the building footprint is no more than a slender planting strip on the ground. Hence, one prime motivation of this house was to seek out more garden spaces/surfaces in an attempt to redress this imbalance while we fulfill the client’s brief.

The Picturesque Landscape
The vertical wall planting set within a niche along the front boundary wall and the Burle Marx inspired shrubbery on the car-porch roof, reclaim surfaces otherwise normally neglected as canvasses for beautification.

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“Auto Residence” by Markus Voglreiter

Auto Residence has been designed by the architect Markus Voglreiter. This auto residence is located in Gnigl near Salzburg, Austria and the surrounding areas make it look even more beautiful. Transforming the structure of the house into a car was a big challenge as it was originally a 70’s style house and then the architect also had to come up with two separate dwellings to incorporate two generations of a family. Add to this the fact, that the auto residence was laden with eco-lighting solutions as well.
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Carine Gilson Boutique in Brussels, Belgium by Gilson

The couture lingerie designer has just opened her new boutique, Lingerie Couture in Brussels. The design for the boutique harks back to the glamorous Art Deco era and was conceived by Gilson in an effort to mimic the luxury of the designer’s elegant collections.
A golden light fixture by artist Jan Pauwels dominates the décor, a delicate lace-inspired series of intertwined metal filaires with tiny lamps that illuminate the designs (and the figure) in the most flattering light.

A further contemporary palette of black flooring with mirrored walls and reflective skated bronze detailing make one feel as if in a jewellery box.
Carine Gilson
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“George Houses” in Albert Park, Australia by Matt Gibson Architect

This contemporary house in Albert Park, Australia resembles like a traditional Victorian cottage from the outside and invites guests into its cool and clean minimalist interiors, and an ultra-modern addition at the rear. George Residence, designed by architect Matt Gibson, sits on a narrow plot. This is what gives the house its unique character. The home is built surrounding two central courtyards with three building components. A wooden deck offers an uninterrupted runway leading through the home’s elongated layout, creating continuity between the indoor and outdoor living spaces.

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Palmyra House by Studio Mumbai Architects

Studio Mumbai Architects have designed the Palmyra house in Nandgaon, Maharashtra, India.Constructed entirely from locally sourced and sustainably harvested palmyra, the home is sited on a working coconut plantation in the West Indian coastal town of Alibaug.

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Passive House in Bessancourt, France by Karawitz Architecture

The French firm Karawitz Architecture have developed a passive house in Bessancourt, France.

The house is closed to the north to limit heat loss and opened to the south benefiting from free solar energy. aesthetically, it is an abstract replica of a traditional house.The second skin of the houses design is untreated bamboo which envelopes the frame in solid wood panels.

The cladding, which becomes grey over time, drew inspiration from traditional barns in the part of the Ile-de-France region where the house is situated. It passes in front of the windows to the north and finishes by unfolding on to the roof. Identical shutters are fitted on large bay windows to the south to provide shade and light in the house, during the day or at night.
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evansHOUSE by bittonidesignstudio

bittonidesignstudio have completed the evansHOUSE, located in the Crestwood Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California.
This small modernist community, which is part of greater Los Angeles has now become an architecturally controlled neighbourhood that was originally planned by architects A. Quincy Jones and Whitney R. Smith. This particular project is a remodel and addition to an existing 1957 Benton + Park home which is situated high above the city with views of the entire LA basin. The project was framed around taking something ‘modern’ and making it more contemporary.

The existing spatial condition of the house was clearly divided between public(lower level) and private(upper level) as well as fixed within a completely horizontal orientation. The major move was to carve out a double high space above the kitchen in order to animate the section vertically and allow for more social interaction. While the idea of indoor/outdoor living is typically taken for granted in Southern California, the altitude of the site allowed for an atmospheric connection rather than a connection to the landscape. As the clouds change color and are in constant motion along the coastline, the house and its materials were thought of as a canvas to be manipulated by the sky.
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Tamka, Apartment in Warsaw by Jakub Szczesnyto

Designed by Jakub Szczesnyto make the most of limited space using transformable furniture, the nanoloft is 21.5m2 and consists of a transformable kitchen/ dining area.

A kitchenette and dining table designed that can be easily closed when not in use to form a space-saving box.
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Casa 07, Rooseveltlaan, Netherlands by i29 Interior Architects

This single-family apartment for four people is situated in a stately building in southern Amsterdam, NL. The original structure, with rooms for staff, a double hall and long hallways with lots of doors has been transformed into a spacious, transparent dwelling full of light and air.

A kitchen in combination with cabinets from floor to ceiling has laser-cut front panels, all spray painted white. This pattern results in a dynamic mixture of open and closed cabinets, the holes also function as integrated handgrips. The transparency of the object’s skin gives depth to the volume which is complimented by furniture like the Grcic chair one. An atrium with open staircases brings natural light from a large roof light into the living area.
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Treehotel in Sweden

The Treehotel in Harads, Sweden (within the arctic circle) will initially consist of only six rental units, each with its own theme, set to open this month, and then expanding with an additional eighteen units to be designed and built over the next 5 years. Treehotel, a unique new hotel which has transformed the simple treehouse concept from childhood into a destination for design-conscious travellers, will be unveiled in Harads, Northern Sweden, on July 17, 2010.

The inspiration for the Treehotel project was borrowed from a documentary film that followed three urban friends who came out to Harads and built a treehouse. That treehouse has been used as a rental unit over the last year and ultimately inspired hotel developers to develop this project.
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Safe the Beach, Hotel Built From Beach Debris by HA Schult

Commissioned by Corona’s Save the Beach campaign for World Environment Day, this pop-up rubbish hotel in Rome was created by German artist HA Schult to highlight the importance of preserving Europe’s beaches. And it’s built almost entirely from rubbish collected from the sands of our wonderful continent.

The Save the Beach campaign is inviting people across Europe to report and nominate endangered beaches throughout the summer, by visiting www.coronasavethebeach.org.  The winning beach will be recovered and cleaned later this year by brewing company Corona.  Last year, website users chose the Italian beach  in Capocotta as the recipient of the Save the Beach clean up.
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Mahina House by Weber Consulting

The Mahina house (the Maori name for Moon) designed by Weber Consulting in the shape of the crescent.

Mahina, Maori for moon that has been designed by Weber Consulting was originally slated to be placed on the relatively uninhabited Kawau Island, about 60km north of Auckland, New Zealand.

Promoted as “Bondesque”, The Mahina – Maori for moon – has been designed in a curved crescent shape with ceiling-to-floor glass and a modern, white interior design.
The house at Kawiti Point has a floor area of 827sq m and will feature a plant room, deck, swimming pool and “thermal mass” to regulate internal temperatures.
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Stephane Malka at La Cité de L’Architecture et du Patrimoine

Recent recipient of an AJAP prize – a French distinction by the Cultural Ministry to promote young architects – Stephane Malka’s ambitious designs will be exhibited in La Cité de L’Architecture et du Patrimoine until September 5th. Malka has completed this design in an effort to unite the forsaken, the marginalised, refugees, demonstrators, dissenters, hippies, utopians, and the stateless of all kinds. He describes this conceptual design as ‘a colonisation of neglected public spaces by the participation of a non-specialised labour collective that elaborates on prefabricated and hijacked construction systems arguing ‘my methodology seeks to promote public participation as an act of resistance against urban restrictions.

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L41 House by Michael Katz

The L41 home, designed by Architect Michael Katz and Artist Janet Corne is a 220 sq. ft, small, energy efficient, and sacrifices nothing but extraneous space. L41 can be stacked and is available in other sizes, including a 290-square-foot, one-bedroom model and a 360-square-foot, two-bedroom model.
The Tyee looked into pricing and learned the ultimate goal is to have these produced in bulk for about $50,000 each, fully equipped. Green elements include triple-glazed windows, energy efficient appliances, LED lighting, solar heating, heat recovery, and a plush green roof.

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Infiniski Manifesto House by James & Mau Architecture

James & Mau Architecture have designed the Infiniski Manifesto House in Curacaví, Chile.The Manifesto house represents the Infiniski concept and its potential: bioclimatic design, recycled, reused materials, non polluting constructive systems, integration of renewable energy.

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Cluny House by Guz Architects

The house is laid out around a central water court that forms the local point of the project.
The design concept created by Guz Architects was to create a house which has close relationship with nature and this is achieved by having a swimming-pool linking the house with the landscape. Roof gardens surround the water court and add the effect that nature is evident in all the part of the house.
the project also demonstrates how technology, planning and design can apply sensitively to generate a comfortable luxurious yet sustainable family house.
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PopUP HOUSE, Prefab House by Hally Thacher

PopUP HOUSE offers an affordable, eco-friendly, pre-fabricated kit that comes to the building site ready to be built. Conceived by Hally Thacher, the stylish home is shipped flat–packed and ready-to-assemble, which means substantial savings on labor, shipping costs and waste.
The Pop-Up House is customizable allowing home owners to add their own style and personal touch to it – they can pick what type of doors to install, the layout, furniture, carpeting, etc. The house assembly is user-friendly enough so anyone with building experience should be able to put it together.
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Urcomante House at Solar Decathalon Europe

“URCOMANTE,” House has been built by the team group of dedicated students and teachers from the University of Valladolid, Spain. The project has been presented at the Solar Decathalon Europe 2010. URCOMANTE is a word composed of the various individuals to whom the living spaces of the house can be adapted to(urbanite, cosmopolitan, manager, immigrant, and dilettante).

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