Archive for the ‘House’ Category
Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
Article source: Florian Busch Architects
The brief for this house in what is often referred to as one of the world’s best winter destinations was straightforward: simple, energy-efficient, maintenance-free. By far the best piece left in a fairly large development of mostly quaint variations of the theme “mountain chalet” (and their to our brief inevitably opposed manifestations), the site added to that straightforwardness: Its asset —unhindered views of the volcano Yotei to the east— dictated the orientation; our nonchalant disinterest in (and consequential avoiding of) the neighbouring houses fine-tuned placement.
 Image Courtesy © Florian Busch Architects
- Architects: Florian Busch Architects
- Project: K House
- Location: Niseko, Hokkaido, Japan
- Project Team:
- FBA: Florian Busch, Sachiko Miyazaki, Suguru Takahashi, Renee Reder
- Contractor: Wakisaka Corporation
- Gross Floor Area: 180m² + 17m² terrace
- Completion: 2017
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Tags: Japan, Niseko
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
Article source: KUD – Kavellaris Urban Design
The St. Joseph project is a luxury residential development situated in Abbottsford, Victoria. Due to its historical significance the site has become part of the cultural landscape within the area, demanding a highly responsive and respectful design outcome. Our primary objective was to incorporate the critical components of school’s culture and history as a celebration and balance of the past and the future – creating ‘future heritage’ for the next generation. We were interested in exploring ways to interpret and represent the critical ‘story’ that created the culture and history of St Joseph’s Technical School. The design intent was to recreate multiple simultaneous layers of history within the articulated screens that wrap around the street frontage facades. The faceted panels create a “Lenticular Image”; an optical phenomenon whereby singular segments of an image converge at specific points of view to recreate the completed image.
 Image Courtesy © KUD
- Architects: KUD
- Project: St Joseph
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Site size: 4825 m2
- Building levels: 4
- Completion date: 2016 (more…)
Tags: Australia, Melbourne
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
Article source: BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group
An old African saying says: It takes a village to raise a child. The LEGO House could be conceived as a village for playing and learning – an urban space as much as architecture. As much for Billund’s visitors as for its citizens, public without and within.
 Image Courtesy © BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group
- Architects: BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group
- Project: The Lego House
- Location: Billund, Denmark
- Client: LegoLego
- Partners in Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Finn Nørkjær, Andreas Klok Pedersen
- Project Leader: Brian Yang
- Project Manager: Ariel Norback Wallner
- Project Architect: Søren Askehave
- Project Architect, Facades: Snorre Nash
- Collaborators: Cowi, Raa
- Size: 12.000 m2
- Status: Under Construction
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Tags: Billund, Denmark
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
Article source: Tense Architecture Network
The location, on a small hill, is privileged. The longitudinal field is open to the south and the view of mountain Youhtas. How can a linear residence deal with the intense cretan light? The house necessarily unfolds along the south side, the side of the sun: through a double curvature the building is bend by the power of the sun’s path from east to west.
 Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis
- Architects: Tense Architecture Network
- Project: Residence in Herakleon
- Location: Herakleon, Crete, Greece
- Photography: Petros Perakis
- Project team: Tilemachos Andrianopoulos, Kostas Mavros
- Collaborating architects: Thanos Bampanelos, Grigoris Stavridakis
- Structural Design: Athanasios Kontizas
- Building technology: Arvanitis Spiros
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Tags: Greece, Herakleon
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Friday, March 31st, 2017
Article source: KUD – Kavellaris Urban Design
Located in the Inner suburb of Ivanhoe, sits a seemingly calm, unassuming modern suburban home in its moat of Australian granetic sand. The house is a clever orchestration of balancing tension that has created wondrous moments throughout. Makris house can be read as a conversation of dualities, of heavy and lightness, public and private and of light and darkness. The first expression of this tension can be seen from street façade, essentially two forms bifurcated by a double height black void, which forms a grand recessive entry. On the one side we have a solid, rigid, rectilinear form, seeming weighed down by its own mass. On the other, elevated from the earth by a shard of black glass, symbolic of emptiness or absence.
 Image Courtesy © KUD – Kavellaris Urban Design
- Architects: KUD – Kavellaris Urban Design
- Project: Ivanhoe House
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Building levels: 1
- Project size: 370 m2
- Completion date: 2017
- Building levels: 1 (more…)
Tags: Australia, Melbourne
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Friday, March 31st, 2017
Article source: Anagram Architects
Brief
Artrovert is our project to design a studio in a peri-urban artists’ colony, Kaladham, in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The 280 sqm. studio is built on a 300 sqm trapezoidal plot which is one of 216 arranged in an octagonal grid. Our client-collaborator is a multi-media artist whose politically charged works interrogate binaries, challenge representation and explore the anti-aesthetic.Equally unconventionally, her vision for her studio was not the typical introverted artist’s “cave” but rather an extroverted residency where the creation of art and the living of the artist are shared with her precinct. Acutely aware of Kaladham’s location at the urban edge, she hopes such an outward expression and blurring of territory would lay seeds of well-knit social networks for a growing community.
 Image Courtesy © Anagram Architects
- Architects: Anagram Architects
- Project: Artrovert: Conversations in Grey
- Location: Greater Noida, India
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Tags: Greater Noida, India
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Friday, March 31st, 2017
Article source: Shift architecture urbanism
Matryoskha House transforms an early 20th century townhouse into two high-end apartments by radically opening it up. Situated in the center of Rotterdam, the house was in a derelict state due the previous owner’s conversion of it into a sub-standard workers’ hotel. Bothered by the neglect, a neighbor acquired the property and gave Shift architecture urbanism the commission to give it an extreme makeover.
 Image Courtesy © NoortjeKnulst
- Architects: Shift architecture urbanism
- Project: Matryoshka house
- Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Photography: NoortjeKnulst
- Team: Thijs van Bijsterveldt , Oana Rades, Harm Timmermans, Thomas Grievink, Sara Frikech
- Partner: Makina
- Structural engineer: B2CO
- Construction: 13 Speciaal
- Interior construction: 13 Speciaal Metal cupboards, Ben Werkt Kitchen
- Interior: DaphnaLaurens, FabriekNL, Intrigue collection, Michael Schoner, Os Δ Oos, Palau, Truly Truly
- Year: 2017
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Tags: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Friday, March 31st, 2017
Article source: Tense Architecture Network
The field is elongated, rural, planted with olive trees. The land is dominant. –How could a residence rise out of the ground, how could it be confined to a roof? The residence is its roof. A 60 meters long one. While approaching the plot, it can be perceived as a slightly elevated strip of earthy crust in front of the distant mountains of Euboea. It can be walked on. The roof is born from and returns back to the ground; it is planted likewise: helichrysum, drosanthemum, lavender, gauras, thyme. The roof’s shape is rhomboid and the living space is hosted under its central, maximum width area, while the sleeping quarters occupy the edges.
 Image Courtesy © Filippo Poli
- Architects: Tense Architecture Network
- Project: Residence in Sikamino
- Location: Sikamino, Greece
- Photography: Filippo Poli
- Project team: Tilemachos Andrianopoulos, Kostas Mavros
- Collaborating architect: Thanos Bampanelos
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Tags: Greece, Sikamino
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2017
Article source: ALPHAVILLE architects
This is a residential house located in the densely populated periphery of Osaka, surrounded by small traditional commercial houses. By combining simple manipulations and traditional elements such as the earthen floor (Japanese Doma), we created a space that is simple but has dynamic nuances.
 Image Courtesy © Kei Sugino
- Architects: ALPHAVILLE architects
- Project: House Twisted
- Location: Osaka, Japan
- Photography: Kei Sugino and Ichiro Sugioka
- Structural Engineer: Kazuo Takeguchi
- Structure System: Steel
- Site Area: 184.76m2
- Building Area: 84.46m2
- Total Floor Area: 99.83m2
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Tags: Japan, Osaka
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2017
Article source: SAOTA
- What is the size and measurement undercover of the house, and the entire stand/property?
Entire building area – 1624m²
Undercover balconies – 136m²
Site – 940m²
- What existed before the land was purchased?
There was a small 60’s style house on the site with multiple floor level changes making it impossible to salvage.
 Front elevation of the property from the ocean side, Image Courtesy © Adam Letch
- Architects: SAOTA
- Project: Nettleton 199
- Location: Clifton, Cape Town, South Africa
- Photography: Adam Letch
- Project Team: Greg Truen, Stefan Antoni, Teswill Sars
- Interior Design: OKHA Interiors
- Project Team: Jack Nieuwoudt
- Completion Date: 2011
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Tags: Clifton, South Africa
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