Archive for the ‘House’ Category
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Article source: Infiniski
Putting together two small penthouses duplex gave us the opportunity to reorganize and treat the resulting space as a non-urban single family house.
This way it’s divided into a floor for night programme and another one for common day areas. These include an exterior prolongation in a terrace, treated as a garden to enhance the “single family house” sensation despite being in the city. Wood is used on floors, walls and ceilings as a natural material from rural houses.
 Image Courtesy © Matías Pérez Illeras
- Architects: James & Mau
- Project: Duplex Santa Engracia
- Location: Madrid, Spain
- Photography: Matías Pérez Illeras
- Built meters: 150m2
- Year: 2010
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Article source: MUÑOZ ARQUITECTOS ASOCIADOS S. C. P.
We received a commission from a married couple to design a house to be built on a small plot (with an 8-meter frontage and a depth of 30 meters) inserted within a dense and difficult context. The couple, whose children had already left home, asked us for a simple house, obstruction-free and with a strongly contemporary feel.
 Image Courtesy © David Cervera
- Architects: MUÑOZ ARQUITECTOS ASOCIADOS S. C. P. (Javier Muñoz Menéndez)
- Project: Two courtyards
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Photography: David Cervera
- Other Participants: Arch. Gareth Lowe Negrón, Arch. Iza Pérez Jaramillo, Arch. Javier Ceballos Cabañas.
- Suppliers / Products: Ing. Jorge Pino Gamboa / Construction
- Constructed area: 219.55 (m2)
- Year: 2015
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Tags: California, United States
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Article source: Klopf Architecture
Klopf Architecture, Outer Space Landscape Architects, Sezen & Moon Structural Engineer and Flegels Construction updated a classic Eichler open, indoor-outdoor home.
Everyone loved the classic, original bones of this house, but it was in need of a major facelift both inside and out. The owners also wanted to remove the barriers between the kitchen and great room, and increase the size of the master bathroom as well as make other layout changes. No addition to the house was contemplated.
 Image Courtesy © Mariko Reed
- Architects: Klopf Architecture
- Project: Mountain View Double Gable Eichler Remodel
- Location: California, USA
- Photography: Mariko Reed
- Software used: ArchiCAD
- Project Team: John Klopf, AIA, Klara Kevane, and Yegvenia Torres-Zavala
- Landscape Architect: Outer Space Landscape Architects
- Structural Engineer: Sezen & Moon
- Contractor: Flegels Construction
- Landscape Contractor: Roco’s Gardening & Arroyo Vista Landscaping, Inc.
- Year completed: 2015
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Tags: California, USA
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Article source: fala atelier
The project started with an unconventional request from an open minded couple: within a very tight budget, to convert a windowless 200m2 garage into a house. The proposed intervention intended the clearest reading possible of the existing structure, emphasising its strength. While the garage was careless and grey, the house is clean and white; its materiality is flat, its light is abstract. Two generous bathrooms were included behind a curved wall, where a broken corner was before; the walls and ceilings were painted in white and the floor covered in a continuous polished concrete surface; the existing skylights we’re rethought. No other change felt necessary. Carefully placed elements organize the living areas: a marble kitchen, curtains, potted plants. Along with the furniture, the free standing elements carry the flexible identity of the house, hinting its domesticity while punctuating the abstract volume with color.
 Image Courtesy © fala atelier
- Architects: fala atelier
- Project: Garage House
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- Project Team: Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, Ahmed Belkhodja, Mariana Silva, Camelia Petre, Clara Pailler
- Consultants: Paulo Sousa
- Year: September 2015 – April 2016
- Status: Private Commission; Built
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Tags: Lisbon, Portugal
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Friday, January 13th, 2017
Article source: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
Casa Invisibile is a flexible housing unit, which consists of a prefabricated wood structure designed for turnkey implementation at any designated site. Maximum flexibility and spatial quality are the key elements in its concept of development. The open layout is structured by a chimney and a wet cell creating three spatial units that provide for individual use and design. The structure and ambience of the rooms are characterised by the use of domestic woods. The mounting framework and fitments of the housing unit are exclusively assembled from prefabricated elements at the factory. The overall dimensions are 14.50 x 3.50 meters, which provides for easy transportation by lorry. Design and texture of the interior design and façade can be determined by the client from various options listed in a design catalogue. This provides for tailor-made design options for the housing units as well as for flexible pricing options. Through modular element construction and the intensive use of wood, the housing units can be completely disassembled thus minimizing their environmental footprint. By combining innovation and mobility at a reasonable price, Casa Invisibile is a product that offers a ground breaking alternative in an increasingly critical housing situation.
 Image Courtesy © Christian Brandstaetter
- Architects: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
- Project: Casa Invisibile
- Location: Various
- Photography: Christian Brandstaetter
- Project manager: Gerhard Goelles
- Gross floor area: 50 m²
- Net floor area: 45 m²
- Construction volume: 160 m³
- Start of planning: 02/2013
- Start of construction: 05/2013
- Completion: 07/2013
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Friday, January 13th, 2017
Article source: A D Lab Pte Ltd
This quiet low-rise cul-de-sac of semi detached houses at Jalan Binchang is similar to many in Singapore. Constructed mostly in the 1970’s, the pairs of two storey brick houses are now at the stage in their building lifespan where renovation is eminent. The designers saw the development of the quaint neighborhood and its natural evolution as a main source of inspiration in the design of no. 67 Jalan Binchang. They brainstormed on how to enlarge and rejuvenate the existing semi detached house while maintaining a harmony with the existing built environment, the history of tropical residential buildings and with the natural environment. The designers looked at the existing building as one would study a living organism that needed to adapt to a new environment. Instead of demolishing its embedded history and reinventing it as something completely new, they decided to use its structure, its internal logic of organization and meaning as a starting point to the design, and to build upon this pre-existing pattern and structure to evolve it into a new form and space. The architects find it important to study how space can evolve with time and with the changing conditions of the inhabitants so that the lifespan of construction can be increased. Also as a way of reducing waste, savings cost on the project, and minimizing disruption to the neighbor’s house, the designers decided to retain the entire 2-storey semi detached house on the site. Between this structure and a newly added 2 storey plus attic extension, a gap between the old and new structures was kept to bring light and wind through the house as well as to allow for the settlement of the new structure independently from the old. The internal building’s logic of the front facing public room, rear facing services and private second storey of the existing house was maintained and carried over to the side extension.
 Image Courtesy © Edward Hendricks, CI & A Photography
- Architects: A D Lab Pte Ltd
- Project: The Re-wrapped House
- Location: 67 Jalan Binchang, Singapore
- Photography: Edward Hendricks, CI & A Photography
- Project Team Members: Warren Liu, Wu Yanling, Anna May Manrique, Najeeb Rahmat
- Builder/ Construction Company: Newell Builders Pte Ltd
- Building Surveyor: LEE BOON HAW Registered Surveyor
- Quantity Surveyor: CCL CHARTERED SURVEYORS PTE LTD
- Civil and Structural Engineering Firm: EPM CONSULTANTS
- Site Area (sq-ft or sq-metres): 496.80 sq metres
- Total Floor Area (sq-ft or sq-metres): 529.55 sq metres
- Time to complete (Number of months): 9 – 12 months
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Tags: Jalan Binchang, Singapore
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Friday, January 13th, 2017
Article source: TSC Architects
This house offers the family a life to live closer to green. Living room is that the sash is completely full open, and has a space to feel the green integrated north garden and south garden. On 2nd floor balcony, planters are placed randomly, which makes a series of green together with green in front and back of the building. These plants help to cool down the temperature , block sunshine and offer privacy for residents. Planted zone with a vertical ties forms a favorable environment for the residential and region.
 Image Courtesy © Masato Kawano(Nacasa ＆ Partners Inc.)
- Architects: TSC Architects (Yoshiaki Tanaka)
- Project: House in Yatomigaoka
- Location: Aichi, Japan
- Photography: Masato Kawano(Nacasa ＆ Partners Inc.)
- Site area: 400.63 sqm
- Built area: 118.52 sqm
- Total floor area: 279.47 sqm
- Design time: 2013
- Completion: 2015
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Tags: Aichi, Japan
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Friday, January 13th, 2017
Article source: MOUNT FUJI ARCHITECTS STUDIO
“dialogue” between the old and the new “substance”
This is a house to be built in Tokyo, for a movie producer couple.
This architecture is consisted by combining L-shaped blocks of reinforced concrete and sequential frames of box-shaped engineer-wood. We put bedrooms, film archive and galley in solid concrete part for security, and living room in engineer-wood part for openness.
As material that consist an open space that is 6m in height, 5.5m in width, 14m in depth, we choose thin engineer-wood (38mmx287mm).
Main theme for this architecture is to bring out a sense of mass and material, which were denied by modern architecture which pursued “white, flat wall” as a style.
We intentionally left the wood grain of mold on the surface of concrete, and choose textured stones and irons.
It goes without saying that a house is a relaxing place. A house like a white-cube, surrounded by flat, white walls everywhere, gives a person very abstract image.
But that image could only be sensed when we use intellective part of our brain.
The problem is that we’re not all-intellective-creature. For the people like this client, who do enough intellectual labor on a daily basis, white-cube would only bring sense of fatigue.
The role of architecture, especially the ones for living, is to soothe the sensory side of people, not to stimulate the intellectual side. That’s my take.
Sure, intellectual living would have got some meaning as a fashion at the time when modern architecture was born.
However, now that it became a part of everyday life, its identity has been lost.
We have to examine whether our approach is rational or not every time we build architecture.
 Image Courtesy © Ryota Atarashi
- Architects: MOUNT FUJI ARCHITECTS STUDIO
- Project: M3・KG
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Photography: Ryota Atarashi, Satoshi Asakawa
- Design Team: Masahiro Harada + MAO (principals-in-charge) Naoto Ishii, Shohei Kuma, Yusuke Kakinoki
- Consultants:
- Structural engineering: Jun Sato structural engineers
- MEP:
- Buildings General Contractor: Eiger co.,ltd.
- Structure: Reinforced concrete. partly wood frame
- Site area:177.27m2
- Building area: 106.33m2
- Total floor area: 259.72m2
- Number of stories: 2 story + 1 basement
- Project year: 2006
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Tags: Japan, Tokyo
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Thursday, January 12th, 2017
Article source: AR Design Studio
AR Design Studio is delighted to announce the recent planning approval for its latest project, The Hidden House.
Situated in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, The Hidden House is a four bedroom home that has been fastidiously engineered to sit seamlessly within its stunning surroundings. Set on a disused riding school that was once a scar upon the countryside, the house has been designed to complete the landscape. The house’s geometry was informed by the North Downs’ geological arrangements. By embracing the erosion patterns of the area, the form was sculpted to become a continuation of the hill in which it sits. Taking further measures to blend the house in to the landscape, the project form uses ‘Dazzle Camouflage’, a tactic employed by ships during the First World War to deceive the eye and create illusions that help break up the solid mass.
 Image Courtesy © AR Design Studio
- Architects: AR Design Studio
- Project: The Hidden House
- Location: London, England
- Visuals: AR Design Studio
- Sketches: Mike Ibbotson- Ibbotson Studios
- Size: GIA 500m2
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Tags: England, London
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Thursday, January 12th, 2017
Article source: Equipe Lamas
The architecture of the House 28 is an extension of the arid and lush landscape from the Cerrado Biome. A family that sought tranquility and connection with nature commissioned this urban refuge located 10 minutes away from the national congress of Brasilia.
The area of 7000 m2 enabled to spread 850m2 of construction on the ground. Gardens permeate the volumetry and generous windows of wood and glass connect the interior to the landscape.
 Image Courtesy © Haruo Mikami
- Architects: Equipe Lamas
- Project: House 28
- Location: SMDB conjunto 28 Lago sul, Brasília DF, Brasil
- Photography: Haruo Mikami
- Engineering and incorporation: Ruy Lamas
- Architect Responsible: Samuel Lamas
- Team: Samuel Lamas, Ruy Lamas, Anderson Magallães
- Area (m2): 850m2
- Year of conclusion: 2016
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Tags: Brasil, Brasília - DF
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