6Acres embodies contemporary Northwest architecture through its reverence for its surroundings, embrace of naturally elegant materials, and clean structural expression.
Situated on an extraordinary estate with several existing traditional-style buildings, including an adjoining pool house, the 18,194-square-foot home was designed to extend the contact between living space and landscape through transparency and erosion of mass. The building itself has a low, horizontal profile, punctuated by concrete chimneys that introduce verticality without dominating the airspace. An enclosed entry courtyard creates a sense of mystery and a meditative interstitial space, while further in, a repetition of vistas reveals the topography of the site and its abundance of earth and sky. An architectonic water feature on one level spills into an organic feature below, calling back to the natural beauty of the site.
Kor Architects design team
Matthew Kent, AIA, Principal
Brie Nakamuara, Project Architect
Joseph Daniele, Project Designer
Project team
Architecture: Kor Architects
Interior Design: Gregory Carmichael
Contractor: TOTH Construction
Civil Engineer: D.R. Strong Consulting Engineers, INC
Structural Engineer: Swenson Say Faget
Mechanical Engineer: Franklin Engineering
Geotechnical Engineer: PanGeo
Landscape: Alchemie Landscape Architecture
Lighting: Brian Hood Lighting
Acoustical Engineer: SoundSense acoustic consulting & design
Building Science Consultant: RDH
Renderings 3DQ Studio
The land is located in an area of maritime forest near the first stretch of oceanic beach in Uruguay. This presented a diversity of native species living together in a dense and difficult-to-access ecosystem with the presence of several specimens of eucalyptus, coronilla and aruera, among other species that they wanted to preserve to build their own narrative between the future architecture project and its immediate landscape. At the same time, the topography of the land presented a pronounced depression towards the rear and lateral zone, product of the presence of two small ravines that collect the runoff of natural water from the area and channel it towards the sea.
The building is a 7,200 square foot renovation/addition, in which we converted a typical residence into a New Orleans style Law office. It features two stories, with large balconies on the front elevation, and a center courtyard complete with brick pavers and a live oak tree as the focal point. It sits on a site on the Interstate 45, in The Woodlands, Texas.
The project is an extension designed to host private residential spaces as well as spaces for a local artists community. The intervention connects and mediates the presence of two existing volumes; it grows around the two separated units generating different light conditions, fusing in a non-linear sequence the existing programs and the “new”, which comprises of creative disciplines such as sculpting, painting, pottery. The volumes weave around in their bare materiality enveloping more private and secluded spaces, interiors that are of three types: meditation, rest and discussion.
A building that respects the land and the surrounding environment.
The land is located on the edge of a mountain forest in the Xinyi District of Taipei City (Central Business District of Taipei ). One side of the land faces the busy city while the other faces a vast mountain forest.
The land has a gentle slope of natural terrain that faces the sun. The land shape is also an irregular triangle.
The slightly contradictory environment of city and mountain terrain promotes the potential for different level of integration and transformation.
Therefore, in respect the land and the surrounding environment, our hope is to build a home belong- ing to the nature that anyone would want to live in.
Article source: Wei Yi International Design Associates
The concept, Wabi-Sabi, from Japanese aesthetics is the principle in the project. The materials with texture of modesty, rustic and asymmetry are used as the main substance in the space, trying to create an unrefined and lean atmosphere. Through the peculiarity of imperfection, the inhabitant are led to discern the hidden beauty of the truly excellence and here they can find their pure sanctuary from the turmoil world.
Main Material: oak veneered brushed and painted、special hand painting, German cement paint, titanium metal, Belgium chalkboard paint, grey glass, panDOMO, Engineered flooringns and thoughts are subside and dissolved into the state of serenity of heart.
Woodard Residence is a personal residence for a developer on an unused piece of land left from his recently completed mixed-use development. The clients sought to be tucked away from activity, but maintain views of the Mississippi River and the downtown Memphis skyline.
Superhouse is a brand and an ethos – a vision for what is possible in contemporary residential architecture. Superhouse want to create nothing but the 30 most exceptional houses in the world for the super-rich.
Superhouse has been created by Magnus Ström, founder of Ström Architects, based on the South coast of England. Inspiration for the Superhouse concept first came when Ström worked next to a world-renowned naval architect. This was when Superyachts were first brought to his attention, and it raised the questions: “Why couldn’t houses also reach the same heights of design quality and workmanship?” and “Why do ‘Superyachts’ exist, but ‘Superhouses’ don’t?”
This scheme placed first in the competition of ten Swiss-American team’s designs for the replacement of the Washington D.C. residence of the Swiss Ambassador. It is not only to be a private house but also a cultural gathering place on which standards and self-image of a country are measured.
Client: Swiss Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics (BBL)
Architects:
Steven Holl Architects: Steven Holl (design architect), Tim Bade, Stephen O’Dell (associate in charge), Olaf Schmidt (project architect), Arnault Biou, Peter Englaender, Annette Goderbauer, Li Hu, Irene Vogt (project team)
Rüssli Architekten: Mimi Kueh (project architect), Justin Rüssli (design architect), Andreas Gervasi, Phillip Röösli, Rafael Schnyder, Urs Zuercher(project team)
Structural engineer: A. F. & J. Steffen Consulting Engineers, Robert Silman Associates
Mechanical engineer: B2E Consulting Engineers, B+B Energietechnik AG
Interior designer: ZedNetwork Hannes Wettstein
General contractor: James G. Davis Construction, Niersberger Gebäudetechnik Pforzheim GmbH
Landscape architect: Robert GissingerL
Building area (square): 23,000sf/7010sm
Cost: $14,000,000
Construction period: December 2004 – September 2006 (more…)
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