Viewing Tower in Dalfsen by Ateliereen Architecten
Ateliereen designed for the municipality of Dalfsen (NL), a twenty meters high viewing tower that provides a view over the river Vecht. Starting point for the design is a straight rectangular steel structure and staircase, which is covered with wooden slats.
From a distance the tower appears to be closed, but from the inside visitors can see the landscape through the wood.On the lower part of the facade there is a bigger distance between the slats than on the upper part. Going up, the view is more and more reduced. The density of the wood provokes the curiosity of the visitor. Peeking towards the landscape between the gaps of the wood! At the top the tower has sloping sides to direct the sight of the visitor towards the river.
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Shoffice by Platform 5 Architects
London basedArchitects, Platform 5 Architects have designed ‘Shoffice,’ a garden pavilion office. The glazed office space nestles into an extruded timber elliptical shell, reminiscent of a wood shaving, and forms a small terrace in the lawn. The interior is oak lined and fitted out with a cantilevered desk and storage. Two rooflights, one glazed above the desk with another open to the sky outside the office bring light into the work space.
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House H, Japan by Mattch Architecture
House H based in Japan by Mattch Architecture has very special external structure. The curved facade and the irregular shape of the roof tends to cut conventional corners. The highest point of the roof, a light source comes from the middle of the ceiling providing illuminating the courtyard of the house.
Glass walls slide back to connect the patio with the interior, where a kitchen, living room and dining room occupy one double-height space at the front of the building.
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Tokyo Apartment by Sou Fujimoto Architects
Architects Sou Fujimoto have designed this building in the center of Tokyo that looks like traditional house with sloping roofs, superimposed one above the other.Each apartment comprises two or three rooms connected over different levels by ladders and stairs both inside and outside the building.The architecture and configuration of the external staircase was created to give the impression to the resident that tEvery time he goes from a room to the another, it’s like going house to another. Read More…
Barcode Room by Studio 01
Barcode Room created by Alex Knezo and Akinori Hamada from Studio 01 features furniture-walls which move freely from side to side. The sliding partitions includes a kitchen, a bedroom and dining room that can be change depending the occupants’ daily needs.
The walls are attached to a ceiling rail and mounted on wheels. Additionally, when different furniture are unfolded or pulled out of the walls, windows through the space are created as both sides of the wall become connected by large openings. The dynamic quality of the space’s changeable size and continuity create a feeling of connectivity through the space which seems to virtually enlarges the small floor area. Read More…
‘Lohmann + Rauscher Store,’ in Vienna, Austria by Destilat Architecture & Design
Renown architecture and design studio, Destilat has recently developed a concept for the corporate architecture Lohmann & Rauscher, an internationally leading provider of future-oriented medical and hygiene products. The interior design concept focuses on representation of the company’s brand as well as its values and internationality and emphasises the company’s status.
Extensive wall-mounted elements that form a lamellar structure are one of the dominant characteristics of this concept. These elements neutralise problematic areas of the existing architecture and are integrated in the overall structure for product and brand presentation.
The concept was developed at company’s offices in Vienna and will now be realised at all other company sites around the world.
Ranger Cabin Vatnajokull National Park by Arkis Architects
The Pavilion built by Arkis Architects is in fact the work residence of three rangers working in the National Park. The building consists of three modules including a unit with bedroom and bathroom, the living room and kitchen with and the last being a workshop storage.The main objective of the design was to get a robust and simple building that will endure the harsh and ever changing weather. The building design, is based on a simple form and choice of materials, which fits well with the local authorities and create a pleasant environment to live in. The building is a wooden building covered with Corten steel.
The interior walls are covered with birch plywood white red white red interior floors as plywood birch oil birch raised floor.
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Cocoon Bedroom by i29 Architects
i29 Architects has created this romantic cocoon bedroomstructure which consists of a cocoon cube with a bed inside and a shower at the back of the bed. Practical to jump from the bed to the bathtub or from the bathtub to the bed. Read More…
Tree House in Belgium by Baumraum Architect
This oval-shaped house designed by Baumraum Architect built in the FOrest of Begium is divided in two, separating the space into two apartment.
Designed as an escape or retreat, the spaces provide an environment in which Business men can discuss sustainability within an inspirational context or even for scientists to temporarily reside whilst carrying out research.
The architects behind the design, Baumraum, have created a unique image for this project. The tree house was initially conceived as a sheet of paper which has been pleated so it encloses both the interior and exterior spaces.
The TREEHOUSE consists of five elements: two cabins on different levels, connecting terraces, a staircase and a connecting roof. In the lower cabin there is a coffee lounge, pantry, restroom and technology room. The upper room is dedicated to meetings and other events that are appropriate to a view from in amongst the surrounding trees.
Dacha’s Origami by Peter Kostelov
Dacha is a Russian word for seasonal or year-round second homes often located in the exurbs of Russian and post-Soviet cities. Architect Peter Kostelov has met the clients’ only to exchange ideas before the architect takes the project through to completion. The clients’s request was that their dacha, or summer house has to be a place for sport and exercise as well as sunbathing, barbecues and parties. As architects had free rein to design this house, they have created this friendly Dacha without any door or window, a little bit like a playground. Despite this house has a playground and relaxation area open to the outside, it also provides space for more privacy.
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Villa Rieteiland-Oost by Egeon Architecten
Villa Rieteiland-Oost has a facade entirely covered of wood paneling, on one side of the facade, they are applied horizontally while on the other side of the facade they are applied vertically. The spiral staircase on the outside fits entirely with the exterior of the facade and allows to access to the first floor from the outside of the house without having to go inside, which allows have some privacy.
The three levels of the residence accommodate the open plan living room on the bottom floor, the private areas in the middle, and an office space to literally top it all.The house is built from fair and sustainable materials and features a heat pump and low temperature underfloor heating, natural ventilation, high insulation values of roof walls and floor, special heat-resistant glass, a sedum roof, attention to thermal bridging details and orientation. Read More…
E’terra Samara Treehouse by Farrow Partnership Studio
E’terra Samara resort designed by Studio, Farrow Partnership is composed of tree-houses villas strewn in Canada’s Bruce Peninsula Forest
E’terra Samara Treehouse’architecture was inspired by the topography of a samara, a propeller-like seed capsule that falls from maple trees in autumn. Prefabricated off-site, the structures draw upon sailing boat construction techniques to create the smooth, curved shapes from locally-sourced, FSC-certified wood.Each treehouse is protected from the elements by a fabric ‘bonnet,’ which is intended to function like the leaves of a tree and will be constructed of PTFE fiberglass-coated non-toxic, flame-resistant, self-cleaning TiO2 fabric.
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Organic Pavilion by Riccardo Giovanetti for Sofia Interior Doors
Organic Pavilion was created by Design Riccardo Giovanetti for Sofia Interior Doors in Made Expo 2012. The project arises from the idea of exploiting a range of industrial products, completely altering their original intended use and turning them into structural elements of a vast architectural space. In the specific instance, this concerns a series of tiles made from recycled plastic; these eco-slabs, originally meant for gardens and green areas, has been used as tesserae to cover a big volume of sharp and rigorous shapes.
The final result is a neo organic architecture characterized from a peculiar transparency, in which the relation between the internal and the external surfaces is very close. At the same time the pavilion presents itself as a space with a very rich and articulated image in which depth, textures and the casual pattern of the structural elements are highlighted. The pavilion has been developed through a sequence of three distinct areas: a wide exhibition room at the entrance, intended to the exposition of the company’s doors, then a lounge area delimited by a big white wall and at last, a technical area, at the back. Read More…
Wadi Resort by Oppenheim Architecture & Design
Florida-based firm, Oppenheim Architecture, won a design competition with these plans for a new desert lodge proposal.
Here, where desert sand meets desert stone, we see a singular opportunity to devise a new contract between man and nature. Reinterpreting the way we have dealt with the earth, our proposal establishes a new benchmark for design, quality and sustainability in the natural environment. To live in harmony with the natural world, we must learn how to re-engage the land.
Earnest and timeless, the architecture is simultaneously powerful, yet comfortable; primitive, yet innovative; casual, yet elegant; raw, yet refined. The built form merges silently with its wondrous setting, exploiting and enhancing the natural beauty of the site to establish luxury lodge accommodations – that are uniquely beautiful and luxurious. Read More…
3M House in Austria by Destilat Architecture
The woodside property which slopes down steeply to the Danube lies at the foot of the Pöstlingberg surrounded by woods, fields and orchards.The forest protection zone and the development plan only allow the building to be situated in the north-eastern part of the property.
The objective was to integrate into the building concept, the uniqueness of the forest edge location, to ensure a simultaneous separation from the settlement while staging the view over the Danube Valley and over to the foothills of the Alps. The building’s floor plan is marked by the building windows and, following the topography, is stepped into split levels, which play with the surrounding outdoor space.
An exposed concrete body with flagged surface forms the center of the house. It penetrates the split levels staggered around it and is noticeably set into scene throughout the house by the surrounding constructions. Read More…
Residence in Ramat Hasharon by Levy:Chamizer Architects
We found on Contemporist these pictures about this amazing construction built in Israel by Levy:Chamizer Architects. This house is both sleek and refined, but the most impressive is the smoothness of the stucture of glass doors that brings lightness to the house.
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Gordons Bay House, Australia by Luigi Rosselli Architects
Set on the hillside overlooking the bay,Gordons Bay House built by Luigi Rosselli Architects consists of three levels, each level alternatively offset from the boundary by six degrees. The alternating orientation of each floor provides a response to different constraints imposed by the site.
The garage floor is skewed to provide easy access from the adjacent lane, while maximising the landscaped area at the front of the dwelling. The ground floor alternately angles northwest towards the view of the bay and the Clovelly headland.
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‘Narrowest House in the World’ Completed
The narrowest house in the world has been recently completed. Keret House opened its doors — or door. Designed by Jakub Szczęsny, the Keret House has 14 square metres of floorspace, and has an interior that varies in width from 72cm to 122cm. Visitors have to enter via a staircase that leads to a wooden ladder up through a trapdoor. According to Szczęsny the house wasn’t design to be a proper home but more as an artist studio.
