Brookes Street House in Brisbane, Australia by James Russell Architect
Nestled between two 19th century state heritage-listed buildings in Fortitude Valley, the Brookes Street house by James Russell Architect is a modern, raw, cubby-like home for a family of four. Whilst high density development was permitted under the planning scheme, it was decided that a small-scale proposal that enhanced the experience of the listed buildings was more appropriate.
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Edge House Ⅲ , South Korea by Noriyoshi Morimura Architects & Associates
Edge House Ⅲ by Noriyoshi Morimura Architects & Associates is built South Korea in a natural environment in the mountains, overlooking the city. The place is reachable from the main town of Seoul in just 10 minutes by car.
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. Read More…
Solo House Casa Pezo by Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects
Solo House by Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects as part of the Solo Houses, Signature Houses Collection, a series of eight to ten vacation homes designed by some of the talented young international designers. Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects, Mos Office, Didier Faustino and his studio Mésarchitectures, Sou Fujimoto, Studio Mumbai, and TNA – Takei-Nabeshima-Architects are among the architects designing the 200 sqm size homes, with the first collection to be set in the countryside of Matarraña. Their project SOLO HOUSES, located on the heights of Matarranya, in south Catalonia, Spain, proposes a villa that is totally open to the countryside, a cross between a patio and an observation post, whose heavy base acts as foundation.
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Villa Welpeloo, Holland by 2012Architects
Created by 2012Architects, Villa Welpeloo was designed for clients Tjibbe Knol and Ingrid Blans. “Reused materials account for 60 percent of the structure,” says Jongert. “And that goes up to as much as 90 percent when it comes to the interior.” The benefit of this approach, which Jongert and Bergsma like to call “recyclicity” or “superuse,” is, of course, a greatly reduced construction carbon footprint, due to material recycling and lower transportation costs. But it’s also, insists Jongert, “a way to reach a very high level of lively aesthetics.”
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Averby Villa by John Robert Nilsson
This 250 square meter dream home is designed by architect John Robert Nilsson in Sweden. This chalet has been built with the strictest requirements in terms of design and precision manufacturing. The villa is characterized by simple shapes, clean lines and perfect proportions in finesse. Simple shapes and clean lines characterize the design. For the inside they have used materials such as Limestone, silvery white ash, matte white painted walls. An infinity pool is at the outer edge of the stone block and the stairs leading down to the bay and the pier.
House on Pali Hill inMumbai, India by Studio Mumbai Architect
The House on Pali Hill was designed by Studio Mumbai Architect as a refuge from the bustle of Mumbai. An existing house on a narrow plot was stripped until only the concrete skeleton remained. It is a haven of peace in the midst of this great city that runs 24 hours over 24 hours. The surrounding trees and wood screens create an intimate setting and ensure protection against the urban environment of Mumbai. The building is constructed from a series of Louvres made from hardy species of palm. Light filters through the house just as it does through a the trees.
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Zig Zag House, Washington by David Coleman Architecture
This 2400 square foot house built by David Coleman Architecture explores the notion of edges and intersections. From the street, the building is understated and deceptively simple. A garden wall defines the edge between public and private. A wooden bridge leads over a reflecting pool, accessing the entry courtyard. Read More…
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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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…
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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Euclid Avenue House by Levitt Goodman Architects
Architects Dean Goodman and Janna Levitt, of Toronto-based Levitt Goodman Architects , designed this lovely downtown Toronto house for themselves and their teenage children. The house comprises two stories and a basement, and is both surrounded and topped by ample native foliage, both wild and cultivated, so the views from the windows give it an unexpectedly rural feel for its urban location.
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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…
Juniper House in Gotland, Sweden by Hans Murman Architects
In Gotland, Sweden the house designed by Hans Murman Architects, the Juniper House becomes barely visible, mirroring its surroundings with its façade. A wall of glass from ceiling to floor stands towards the minimal yard. From the interior you have a strong feeling of being in the nature. Both light and the path “flow” through the house and a terrace of white local limestone separates the kitchen from the master bedroom.
The façade is a playful comment to the Gotland authority’s ambition to not let modern architecture be visual in the landscape. It is also an experiment and investigation in what you see and do not see of a house and how this affects you and how you experience colour, texture, surface, material, transparency, inside contra outside light on and through the façades. 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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Uboat, Floating Home by Wyatt Little
Wyatt Little came up with an inexpensive housing solution for water surfaces called the Uboat. This little floating home boasts a deck on all four sides extends out to form both entry and porch space and includes a matched roofline above providing shelter and area for an extensive green roof and solar panels to generate your own green energy.
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K House in Bellarine, Australia by ARM Architecture
The dazzling K house on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula is the work of Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM) Architects. The purpose was to create a house where they could retire for the family whose name begins with letter “K”. The house was planed to be painted in entirely red but due to council regulations it become gray with a lot of red furniture pieces inside.
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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.
