Floating Home in Copenhagen by Jesper Dirk Andersen
Jesper Dirk Andersen, the owner and directing manager of Dirkmarine lives on on a wooden and concrete boat in Copenhagen harbor with his family.Living on the water is popular in Denmark even though as in many other places it can be hard to find mooring.The interior of the houseboat is typically Scandinavian: white, wooden and harmony with the nature>The view is part of the decor.
Loft 24-7, São Paulo by Fernanda Marques Arquitetos Associados
São Paulo-based Fernanda Marques has achieved a residence called Loft 24-7 in São Paulo, Brazil. The residence has an idealistic balance by using “outdoor” elements inside and “indoor” elements outside. On a surface of almost 250 square meters, the living room is presented as an open environment full of light, in which a light plays and the expression of nature makes the space live within as if it was outside.
Limestone, rough stone, steel, glass, wood paneling and furnishings that speak to the architect’s modernist style, all create a harmonious, seamless environment where you are never quite in and never quite out.
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Residencia PS in São Paulo, Brazil by Bernardes+Jacobsen
Residencia PS, the last work of the greatest Brazilian architects Bernardes+Jacobsen is based in the outskirts of São Paulo. The project was born of the necessity of the client to adapt the house to a family.Having lived in a apartment, the family felt the necessity of an suitable space more to the growth of the children, to the work, to the social life and its friends.
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Home 06 in Amsterdam by i29
i29 have completed a new project in Amsterdam, featuring one interior wall covered in plants. Called Home 06, the single-storey residence was designed for a Japanese client.
This residence at the Singel, Amsterdam (NL) exists from one open space where several functions have been put into freestanding objects. The kitchen and wardrobe are placed near the entrance and combined into one single volume. The bath- and bedroom is hided into a volume which is placed at back of the house. From the open living area you look alongside the volume towards the vertical garden and the entrance stairs to the roof terrace. Read More…
Luxury Villa Mayavee in Phuket, Thailand by Tierra Design
Tierra Design has completed a new luxury villa called Villa Mayavee in Phuket, Thailand. The private residence is situated on the west coast of Phuket far from popular tourist destinations. This luxury villa offers panoramic views of the Andaman Sea.
Following the terrain of the site, the pool and social spaces are stepped below, offering privacy from the entry but open to views of the sea. The pool traverses the site and while generous in scale, is distinctly secluded by its’ connection with the site’s rocky outcrops and landscape. Read More…
Skäret Villa in Hoganas, Sweden by Chahrour Hutilainen A+D
Designed by Chahrour Hutilainen by A + D Helsingborg “Skaret Residence” overlooks the North Sea in Hoganas, Sweden.
This architecture is divided into four different modules including two guesthouses, a sauna, a storage unit and a central building.
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D House, Chile by Panorama & WMR Arquitectos
The building is situated on a cliff in Matanzas, Chile was designed by Panorama and WMRArquitectos. Build for a couple and their son the house is structured in a square volume of 9 by 9mts. Inside the architects intersect another volume at a higher level, which is rotated 45 degrees in relation to the plan, allowing double heights and the organization of space in the first floor.
The program is ordered in a simple way, a single space for the living room, dinning room and kitchen and on the back a sleeping area and the stairs to the second floor. Then, to the side and facing north the terrace, partly enclosed, allowing the users to be outside the days of extreme wind. Read More…
‘Inside Out’ Residence in Tokyo, Japan by Takeshi Hosaka Architect
The Inside Out House is a 637 square-foot two story home located in Katsushika, Japan. Designed by Takeshi Hosaka Architects, the project started based on the idea that humans and cats live in a same house, rather than cats living in a house designed for humans — and finally this idea brought out a concept: ‘a house inside which you feel being outside.’
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Carysfort Road Residence, Ireland by ODOS Architects
Originally No. 31 Carysfort Road was a mid-terrace, one bedroom dwelling, with a single storey rear return and small back garden. ODOS Architects’ brief was to refurbish the existing dwelling and improve the connection between living areas and the limited external space, while providing as much extra floor space as possible. The new structure was conceived as a simple form which connects at ground level with the existing house.
The tight site and strict planning constraints defined the form of the new extension from an early stage. In order to stop the new addition being visible above the roof line of the house, the new extension is partially sunken. The ground floor rear elevation is completely open to provide a full height glazed connection to the courtyard. Above this new living space is an office mezzanine with a glazed south-facing wall, providing clerestory lighting to the ground floor. Black terrazzo flooring has been used throughout, which contrasts with the white walls and ceilings.
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Leaf House in Brazil by Mareines + Patalano Arquitetura
This project was inspired by Brazil’s Indian architecture, perfectely suited for the hot and humid climate where it stands, Rio de Janeiro .The roof acts as a big leaf that protects from the hot sun all the enclosed spaces of the house, such as the verandas and the in-between open spaces. These last two types of space are the main social areas, the essence of the design. They allow trade winds from the sea to pass trough the building, providing natural ventilation and passive cooling.
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Werf House in Cape Winelands, South Africa by Van Der Merwe Miszewski Architects
The Project site (±10 HA) is located in the heart of the Franschhoek Valley, between the road into Franschhoek, (the north boundary of the site), and the Berg river (the south boundary of the site).There were two existing structures on the site; a 1920’s house and a barn dating from ± the 18th century.
The scope of this proposal included the re-utilization of the barn, which is more or less centrally located on the site and is surrounded by several magnificent and ancient Oak trees.
It is intended that the barn and its trees become the focus of a new home, both in the programmatic and structural sense. Read More…
Casa Jondal by Jaime Serra from Atlant Del Vent
Casa Jondal was designed by Jaime Serra from Atlant Del Vent and it’s located in Ibiza, Spain. The Ibiza dream house is a home perfectly adapted to its environment and modern necessities. Occupying 380 square meters, the residence captures the barrier between Spanish rustic style elements of architecture and modern design elements.
Two large volumes were adjoined to shape a structure that displays concrete bricks on the outside and ceramic bricks on the inside. The 485 square meters Mediterranean-style courtyard exploits the outside space as a continuation of the inside space.
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House in Melides, Portugal by Pedro Reis
The house in Melides, Portugal designed by Pedro Reis represents the desire for a holiday house as a getaway from the bustle of a big city. Two volumes intersect, a modern white glazed rectangle with public areas above, and a lower volume clad with earth colored concrete with private rooms below.
To leave in his area means “find a place”within the meaning of “a strong geometric footprint”, hit by two volumes out of date in the form of a “cross. ” The aim of this dialectical strategy to not only reduce the “scale and presence” of construction, but also “split” the program in two areas, a more “exuberant ” and exposed and a more “intimate” and contained. If the top light volume recalls the image from bringing modern house with large glazed areas open to the scenic landscape, the lower volume “anchored”, covered with layers of earth-colored concrete, pre-fabricated in situ, sits on the floor providing support and stability to the house.
“Fonte Da Luz,” House in Portugal by Barbosa & Guimarães
Fonte Da Luz which means Source of light in Portuguese is a house build by Barbosa & Guimarãe architects located in an historical area. The architects Barbosa & Guimarães have explored all the resources of natural light that could offer the house. The housing is developed on three floors around the volume of the ladder, whose transparency guarantees the fluidity between the various functional areas.Inside of the building the architects mixed material as wood and marble. The other major objective where focused on the relationship between the pre-existing granite masonry and the new volume developing within it. The new object reveals some of the building’s history, from its remote origins in the 19th century until our intervention in the 21st century. Read More…
House in Paço de Arcos, Portugal by Jorge Mealha Architect
Jorge Mealha Arquitecto have completed a house facing the sea, located in Paço de Arcos, suburb of Lisbon. The house features clusters of rectangular volumes and courtyards. A set of restrictive regulations, defined in the city council urbanistic project, from distances to borders, access and total amount of construction area and volume were also a condition to be addressed and surpassed. The metal screening/shading devices, create large smooth textured surfaces on the facade of the house emphasizing forms and controlling the relationships between indoor and outdoor or between external and internal spaces.
Contain Yourself by Heterarchy Studio
A recent competition set by the NRW Forum in Dusseldorf called for contestants to design homes using a single shipping container. The concept for the design was to literally turn the container on its head, allowing the compact home to be assembled on the smallest of infill sites in any city. Selected submissions will go on display at the NRW Forum from June until September 2011.
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“AGe House” by Marco Bernardini
AGe Houset by Marco Bernardini has been build in a hill and seamlessly becomes part of its natural surroundings using supplies that seamlessly unify the construction to its natural surroundings.
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Alam Family Residence by ID-EA
This house has been designed by ID-EA for the Los Angeles-based ‘s Alam Family in Jakarta, Indonesia. The residence hosts two generations and three households in a single three-storey building. The frontage of the house is in a way antithetical to the surrounding, in which houses are mostly covered with massive fences and guard booths. Alam Family Residence prefers sharing the front yard and pushes the privacy screen onto the façade. 
The highly articulated concrete wall acts as graphical breathing brise-soleil, preventing overheating on building skin, filtering abstract light qualities while transforming space throughout the day and night. The roofscape geometry is driven by maximizing roof accessibility that connects the two-storey to three-storey portion of the house which ends on a spectacular view to the east of the site, a marina that is more than just a pier with its recreational, scenic and historical value. The roof deck works as an alternative outdoor space for play and interaction or simply a place to enjoy the sunrise, while the extensive green roofs help serving the enhancement of urban ecosystems. 
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