This refreshing residence with rounded corners and an ice cube aspect is called ‘Lovelli Residence.’ The house built by Word of Mouth Studio, is 3,230 square foot two story home located in Seminyak, on the west coast of Bali.

What brings this light touch to this home are; the perfect proportions, the mix of white and green nature and the fact that all are angles rounded. Word of Mouth Studio has reached a dimension, giving this house a touch’Zen’ in all aspects, both with the layout of the rooms inside, the relationship between indoor and outdoor.


Word of Mouth Studio says;

We believe that space, volume, light and the natural flow around us have a great relevance on the way we feel and behave, so our approach to architecture is to achieve the best possible combination of these essentials in each project. Our designs in architecture are meant for greater interaction, multiple perspectives and contemporary comfort.

Our buildings are not meant to be serious nor heavy, but light and bright, with nature playing a vital role in our designs and in our lives.We are addicted to good architecture and design.

Week’nder by Lazor Office, is the sustainably designed and fabricated modern house, delivered for less. It utilizes the highest quality materials and building standards available, rendered in a casual, approachable, elegant style. Week’nder was fabricated off-site to save waste and reduce the environmental impact associated with site construction. The no-cut design, which conserves material and work, includes 2×6 framing and plywood sheets on concrete piers.

The structure was built off the ground to maintain the existing site; the site has water-permeable gravel in the driveway and irrigation-free native grasses everywhere else.

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The project area is of about 370 square meters, which have been efficiently divided into four separate homes: the first floor with its 80 square meters can comfortably host a small family of three, the two smaller studios on the intermediate level are ideal for young couples while the last and most spacious floor of 115 square meters is a stylish and sophisticated duplex, perfect for tenants with extravagant tastes.

The choice of materials contributes to the final sculpture-like character intended for the edifice: by using a black reflective metal to cover the external facade, an intense contrast with the adjacent houses was produced.

Although the building has no other windows, natural light enters through skylights atop each of the gables. The reinforced concrete beams funnel natural sunlight into the interior, shifting the atmosphere of the house throughout the day.

Conceived as a series of layers that gradually add more indoor elements, the rectangular layout places the private programs such as the bathroom and bedrooms to the north and communal spaces to the south.




Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Its form derives both from a wish to echo local traditions while providing something ‘refreshingly new’, and from memories of childhood holidays in England, spent in the attic bedrooms of gable-roofed B&Bs.

The upper storey is divided into four bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, over which the orange steel-clad roof is folded in peaks, and a library space providing access to the roof terrace. Bathtubs are placed in bedrooms rather than bathrooms to take advantage of the views out.

Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects

This fantastic house is realized by the very talented architects Ando studio based in Israel. The proportions are just beautiful and harmonious. The Inside rooms are integrated into these rectangle shape engraved by ancient alphbet, which allows light to pass through and reflect the words on the walls of the house. The inside rooms are looking to the outside thanks to the large glass doors. This creation is just amazing.

The glass pavilion overlooks two very defined areas: the first, toward the mountain, is a very private zone resulted in the area between the property line and the building setback line according to the local building code. The second is a garden overlooking the lake. In the same way, the bedrooms face a garden enclosed by the building and the perimeter wall.


Lying on the slope of a hill, on the shores of Lake Lugano, the villa consists of two volumes organized on different levels due to the particular topography of the site.

A polygonal shaped glass pavilion with rounded edges stands above a linear underground block. The living and dining room, the kitchen and storage spaces are located in the pavilion, while bedrooms, bathrooms and garage are in the lower level. Each level relates itself with independent outdoor spaces, which are closely related with the interiors.

The ring, obtained between the perimeter wall above and the pavilion, amplifies the interior space, with seems much larger than what it actually is. The ring-like space, that embraces the building on the north side, grants constant ventilation and natural light to the living areas, also due to the white cladding of the perimeter wall and white gravel which reflect the sunlight coming from the south.

The horizontal treatment of the perimeter wall emphasizes the scenography, creating moving shadow effects according to the different position of the sun in the sky. At the same time, a night-time artificial light scene is the ideal reverse field for the lake panorama.

All the additional functions of the pavilion are contained in a central lacquered wood block, which acts as a sort of a thick penetrable wall that separates the kitchen from the living room without dividing the space with doors, and in which are located the powder room, the kitchen, the stairs, bookcases, all mechanical systems and the technological and audio-video equipment.

Great attention is given to the environmental aspects, as the use of geothermal energy, roof gardens, the rain-water collection system, the choice of highly efficient low-emittance glass insulated with argon gas, to optimize the thermal efficiency of the shell and the use of natural sun shading as the placement of deciduous trees in the south-west area of the building.”

Photographs by Arch. Jacopo Mascheron

The architects designed a modern open plan space which houses a living area, gourmet kitchen that is equipped with upscale stainless steel appliances, bar and a video hall. The living area seems huge and this is possible due to the floor to ceiling windows and the skyscraper picture on one of the walls. Furthermore the bar has a sculpture like a mountain form behind it, which is also used for storage and captures light beautifully.

From a conceptual point of view the eco-friendly 2,228 square feet (207 square meters) loft was designed as a single open-plan space with a great lounge, containing a living room, gourmet kitchen, bar andvideo hall, all designed to meet the needs of a hectic family’s everyday life.

Photographs by Patrick Reynolds

The first floor is the main floor, the second floor is in relationship with the top floor bedroom. The house is build east side, facing the courtyard to enjoy the view on the terrace which extends to the nature and the city.

Are trying to level the cross section in the step of providing a kitchen and living room to match the slope of the mountain, between the north wall of the building is also a private garden by placing the clean mountain are planning to make a comfortable living environment to escape north to south wind.

The ribbon-like surfaces extend far beyond the perimeters of the fully glazed walls,
acting dually as protection from the elements and as exposed outdoor terraces.

The sculptural interior is treated minimally with neutral stone and concrete, which freely flow from one room to the next.

Location
Polygon 13, Parcel nº 245, Cretas, Teruel Province, Spain.

Architects
Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen

Associated Architects
Alberto Haering, Gonzalo Urbizu

Collaborators
Bernhard Maurer Valeria Farfan, Eleonora Bassi, Ana Franzisca Freese

Construction
ESTENTOR, Oscar Arias y Oscar Martin.

An arrangement of thin steel girders and glazing create openness and height, enabling the main interior space to readily register the ever-changing light of the sky. The muteness of buildings materials allow the apartment to blend into the clouds.

Greening the City The design makes a virtue of the development by introducing the activity of family life and a landscape of luscious greenery into the monochrome fabric of the urban skyline. White mesh cloaks the building, controlling sunlight into the apartment and providing an armature for fragrant climbers planted around the building perimeter. With time the apartment will be transformed by wisteria and jasmine, greening the city skyline.

Facing mount pilatus the white concrete elements are dotted with circular openings that allow glimpses into the two-levelled orangery with its exotic plants, as well as the lounge, the guest tract and the staircase accessed through one of the openings at the ground floor. The lake side with superb mountain views of the rigi and the bürgenstock shows off a protruding, glistering loggia made of round glass bricks. Very decorative, such elements are a strong contrast to the rough renderings of the side facades.

The basement nestles along the slope and opens into a large fitness area with a 25 meter pool, half inside, half outside, which is inserted in a white terrazzo plate. This terrazzo plate extends gracefully from the pool bar located inside along the boathouse made of white tinted, rough jetted concrete into lake lucerne.

Philippe Stuebi
Eberhard Tröger

Materials The waste materials provided a continuous stream of new incentives to develop and refine the design. New shapes and innovative construction methods were needed to incorporate the found materials. Construction The main structure is made out of steel profiles that previously made up a machine for textile production, an industry once very important in the region. One of these machines gave us enough steel to construct the whole villa.Facades The main facades are built with wood normally used for particleboard or for burning. TKF, a factory which produces cables, has large numbers of redundant cable reels, too damaged for further original use. The wooden slats which make up the core of these reels are generally undamaged and of a standard size. These slats, collected from a thousand reels, provided enough material for the facade.

The house was planned around a central courtyard in order to focus on life inside, with a window onto the sea view. Walls saturated with colour, an intriguing use of light and space, and soothing water features. The exterior gardens comprise regional vegetation such as olive trees and arid climate plants, on a base of yellow earth like that used in Seville’s bullring.