This contemporary mountain residence offers attractive modern elements including copper barrel roofs and a sleek, chef-inspired kitchen. The stunning views are maximized from all angles, yet privacy is key thanks to the home’s strategic design. The entry offers a secluded courtyard feel and many South facing windows help to significantly reduce energy usage in the winter. The expansive kitchen, living room, dining and family areas are designed as a completely open floor plan which gives the large house the vibrancy and cozy comfort of a smaller residence. The house offers all the luxury amenities a resident could dream of including a state of the art media room, and a master bedroom of around 2000 sq ft with his and hers closets, extravagant guest bedrooms and bathrooms galore, a modern kitchen, lounge area, den, offices.
The project has been developed specially for popular TV show «Dachniy Otvet» (Eng: the village talks). The idea of the show is that for those owners of country houses and cottages, who agreed to participate in the experiment, the invited designers or architects do re-planning of a part of their cottage. The important moment is that the house owners pay nothing for reconstruction, but at the same time they can’t influence the result, so it comes always unexpected for them. The architects in their turn try to offer the most original solutions.
In this case the object is an ordinary two-storey house made of brick, with a mansard. It has an attached basement on which its owners, a family of university teachers with three young sons, planned to make a covered terrace.
Summer Terrace
Architects: za bor architects / Arseniy Borisenko, Peter Zaytsev
A Room for London is a competition for temporary demountable hotel room for up to two guests on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London during the Olympic year of 2012.
A Room for London - View 1
Type : hospitality
Location : roof of Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London
Date : November, 2010
Status : competition
Client : Living Architecture, Artangel, Southbank Centre
Area : 45 sq. m.
Credits : Vlado Valkof – project architect, Anne Valkof, Ulysses Carmona – designers, Ivan Dimov, Oleg Topalov – rendering
What is long-lasting and what is recycle friendly was one of the key questions, the architects were able to follow in the project for a metal recycle plant, where they first accumulate and then separate different waste metals and prepare them for reuse. The project consists of an immense production plateau and two small buildings on the edge of it.
Haifa University is built on the projection of a ridge of Mount Carmel that looks over the bay of this Mediterranean city. The site chosen for the Student Center building overlooks a deep valley as well as the bay and has a steep topography. Its upper part abuts the scenic road that extends through the entire campus, ending at the site. In order not to interfere with the view, the building’s roof had to be set below the level of the scenic road.
Haifa University Student Center by Chutin Architects
Architects – Chyutin Architects Ltd.
Location- Haifa, Israel
Client- Haifa University
Team- Bracha Chyutin, Michael Chyutin, Ethel Rosenhek, Joseph Perez
The Urban Context: Haifa is the main northern city of Israel, situated on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, on the slops of Mount Carmel. The building site is located at Haifa’s downtown area, between two roads that define its boundary. The lower avenue serves as a main city thoroughfare, linking the city of Haifa to the northern part of Israel. The topographical situation is unique as the topographical soaring of Mount Carmel begins at the site’s longitude parallel. As a result, the building’s positioning is “double faced,” i.e., one side facing the mountain and the other facing the sea. The structure has two public entrances. The main entrance leads from the urban square in the west directly to the upper entrance level. The secondary entrance from the urban square on the eastern side of the structure leads to the lower entrance level. The building’s entrance square from the west is a meeting point of main urban pedestrian routes.
The clients, a composer and a photographer, wanted a small house to replace a dilapidated shack on their secluded property.Due to the pace of their careers and travel schedules, they wanted the house to be a refuge that drew from and was connected to the land.The clients view of their role as custodians of this beautiful site bolstered their motivation to design and build as sustainability as possible – an objective shared by the architects as well.The surrounding vistas consist of rolling hills with dense covers of various species of native California trees.This context in concert with the owners’ and designers’ principles of environmental stewardship, were the guiding inspirations for the placement, form, and materials of the house.
The villa is located on a large hill plot with outstanding views to surrounding landscape.The volume of the building is designed as single storey as the main client requirement was a barrier free space. This horizontal concept has produced an intense spatial relationship of all the interior spaces with the surrounding garden. The exterior – interior relationship is freely based on Wrightian ideas for prerie houses, which many Czech architects have adopted subsequently.
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