Shallstar Pavillon at Detourart Design Festival, Hong Kong by Matsys
Shellstar, commissioned for Detourart design festival in Hong Kong was designed to be an iconic gathering place for the festival attendees.
Located on an empty lot within the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong, the temporary pavilion maximizes its spatial performance while minimizing structure and material.
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Gallery House by Platform 5 Architects
Gallery House project by Platform 5 Architects will be a four-bedroom family home set in a large woodland clearing on the outskirts of St Albans.
Influenced by local vernacular agricultural buildings, the house is designed as a loose arrangement of rectangular forms to create a series of layers, courtyards and walkways forming living spaces surrounded by art and nature.
A series of brick columns will support an external galleried walkway around the perimeter of the house, at focal points there are “covered external rooms” that provide shelter whilst maintaining a strong connection with the woodland setting. Above, a timber-clad first floor will be arranged as an informal composition of overlapping roofs and terraces offering long views over the landscape. 
Katleman Residence by Marmol Radziner
The Rose House was designed by architects Conrad Buff, Dennis Straub, and Don Hensman in 1963 for Helen Rose, a well-known Hollywood costume designer. In 1999, owner and interior designer Carole Katleman approached the firm to restore the home to its original design, while undertaking sensitive upgrades to the house to accommodate a contemporary lifestyle. In keeping with the house’s modern character, emphasis was placed on well-crafted details and honest simplicity in design. From the main entry, the view unfolds through transparent glass walls, across the pool terrace, towards the Santa Monica Mountains.
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‘Seaview House,’ in Australia by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects
‘Seaview House’ is built by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects located in old Barwon Heads on a street which accommodates an eclectic mix of post war beach houses dominated by single storey weatherboard dwellings. Contemporary architectural houses are now weaving their way into the surrounding streets, a reflection of a shifting property market.
The planning arrangement of the house is split into three primary pavilions arrangements separated by glazed links – south, northwest and northeast, all of which embrace a north facing courtyard garden protected from prevailing breezes.
The owners are well known to Jon Clements who has spent many years visiting both their beach shack and their rural bluestone farmhouse which overlooks the Moorabool valley west of Geelong. The design of the house was carefully conceived to embrace the essence of their existing rural and coastal lifestyle and to ultimately accommodate the later stages of their lives.
The clients were not convinced that they needed a garage (they have always parked on the street) however the inclusion of a single car garage to accommodate a car or boat was up for consideration. Part of the concern in relation to the garage was the impact of its presentation to the streetscape which was an obvious concern, combined with the fact that the south side of the site (the obvious side for the garage) had exceptional views to the Barwon Estuary.
Agricultural Construction by IUT Grupo
The agricultural project built by Grupo IUT was one of the winners of Performance Architecture, an international competition organised by MoMA curator Pedro Gadanho to create temporary urban interventions for the European Capital of Culture 2012.
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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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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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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…
The Middlebrook Studios by CCS
CCS Architecture recently completed The Middlebrook Studios, consisting of four new studios based in the coastal hills of Woodside, CA.
The project was conceived as a memorial to Diane Middlebrook, an accomplished writer and teacher, and late wife of program founder Carl Djerassi. Though the studios are designed to be used by artists of all disciplines, special attention was made to cater to the specific needs of writers, where quiet contemplation, free from distraction, is a welcome amenity. Read More…
Olympic Shooting Venue by Magma Architecture
London and Berlin-based Magma Architecture has designed three polkadot tents to house the shooting competitions at this year’s London Olympics. Façades and interiors reflect the cheerful mood of the occasion and the dynamics of the shooting sport.
The significant design includes three volumes entirely coated in a double curved PVC membrane. The upper red, turquoise and pink holes will serve as ventilation, while the lower ones as entrances.
The client, the Olympic Delivery Authority, wanted sustainable features, so the temporary spaces will be reused for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and can afterwards be reused or recycled. Read More…
The G-Pod
Created from responsibly farmed pine and fine weather resistant materials, The G-Pod, draws inspiration from contemporary design nestled in a classic wooden structure that “mimics” its environment. The G-Pod’s rotating design allows it to be “Rotated” into different positions for a change in view, or to avoid wind, rain, sun glare, and other harsh natural conditions. 8.2′H x 8.0′Round. Read More…
Håkansson Tegman House by Johan Sundberg Architect
Hakansson Tegman House based in the city of Höllviken, Sweden has been completed by Johan Sundberg. The clients commissioned a modern and nature-oriented one story house where sensuous qualities were the most important parameters throughout the design process.
The architects says:
“Höllviken south of Malmö was originally a seaside resort, but the forested rows of summer houses are continuously being transformed into a carpet of permanent housing. The site is a somewhat complicated corner plot with roads to the north and west.
‘Fincube,’ Prefab House by Studio Aisslinger
Fincube Prefab House is a sustainable & transportable low-energy house built by Studio Aisslinger. Made entirely of local wood, the building provides 47 m2 of living space with a minimal CO2 footprint: local suppliers and local crafts using local long-lasting and recyclable materials manufactured with the precision and care of tyrolese handwork. It can easily be dismantled and rebuilt on a new site, and even more important for nature hideaways: it requires minimum soil sealing.
Developed with a South Tyrolian team, the FINCUBE was created 1200m above sea level near Bozen in Northern Italy, with a brilliant view of the famous Dolomite mountains. The hideaway-innature nomadic housing concept is since recently exhibited as a prototype in Ritten, above Bozen. Read More…
BIG St. Petersburg Pier Concept by West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture
Wave Pier is one of three shortlisted proposals for the St. Petersburg Pier International Design Competition. The Wave tries to connect the water and the city of Petersburg by emphasizing the possibility of achieving unity through physical contact. The programmatic concept includes a museum, observation deck, playgrounds and green areas. The loop-shaped structure mimics the physiology of the water wave: it goes underwater and rises in order to frame a swimming pool and holding areas for kayaks, canoes and small boats.
Shea Homes by kitHAUS
Their versatile modules have been adapted as add-on office space for homes, writers/artists studios and more, but Shea Homes development project in San Diego is using one in a new way – as a high end leasing office at their site. The project was completed in 3 weeks, and the module is fully insulated, heated and air conditioned. Read More…
‘Nakahouse’ House by XTEN Architecture
This construction is impressive in its simplicity, its proportions and its exposure in relation to the surrounding landscape. Nakahouse is an abstract remodel of a 1960′s hillside home located high in the Hollywood Hills, just below the Hollywood sign.The interior was entirely reconfigured by XTEN Architecture, terraces and floor-to-ceiling windows connect with the panoramic view from the steep hillside location.
The exterior walls are smooth black plaster, designed to render the building as a singular sculptural object set within the lush natural setting. A series of abstract indoor-outdoor spaces with framed views to nature are rendered in white surfaces of various materials and finishes; lacquered cabinetry, matte white quartz, epoxy resin floors and decks.
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Whatami Pavilion at the MAXXI by stARTT
‘Whatami’ pavilion by Italian firm stARTT has won the first international edition of the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program and is now open to the public. The project, situated within the piazza of Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI museum in Rome, is a collateral event of MoMA PS1′s young architects program now in its 12th year in new york city.
Taking place for the first time in Italy, the installation sees the museum’s external spaces transformed into a garden of undulating green islands peppered with abstract, poppy-red sculptures.The place is scheduled to host a series of summer events. Read More…
