The owner of this loft (located in Panamby – SP), 100m² (only on the first floor) called me with the intention of making it more integrated throughout its social area.
The plan floor did not have major modifications, we just demolished the walls of the toilet and left it smaller to give more amplitude to the room.
We had the minimalism as premise, keeping the colors gray, white, black and brown (wood). Some of the references were also the New York´s lofts, so the brick wall white (where the TV is), the wooden floor, the stairs and the lighting in black. And to give a more sophisticated touch, we designed the TV rack on the “pau ferro” that matched perfectly with the rest.
In the Atlantic island of São Miguel, in the Azores, an old stable from the beginning of the 20th century was converted into two guesthouses where history and contemporaneity coexist in balance.
The design's main goal was to keep the construction’s character, lines, and its rural atmosphere, while adapting the enclosed structure to a completely new typology and contemporary regulations. New openings where carefully shredded in the colored façades, as well as on the stone wall, and a new volume was added to the main construction, allowing for a second, smaller house to appear integrated in the whole.
Article source: Best Practice Architecture & Design
Seattle has been home one of the hottest housing markets in the United States for years. And with all that growth comes questions around urban density, affordability and the best ways to address the city’s growing housing needs.
Big Mouth House is an answer to those questions. Developed by three Seattle architects, this small multi-family project is a modern take on what a versatile, forward-thinking, multi-family living can look like. Each unit within the project is a flexible urban home with a studio space on the lower level, a main living area upstairs and a rooftop deck to take advantage of Seattle’s unbeatable city views.
Architects:Best Practice Architecture & Design [(Kailin Gregga – Best Practice Architecture), (Rob Humble – Hybrid Architecture), (Steven Lazen – Acting as a Sole Practitioner)]
Complete renovation of this house from the beginning of the 20th century in Marseille (France). Located close to the beaches and poorly oriented this house suffered from a significant lack of light. Customers also wanted to completely transform this house they had already been living in for a few decades. They asked the architects duo Christophe Pinero and Luc Lacortiglia to propose a renovation on the theme of “playfulness”.
Grammarly is a global company with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Kyiv. Grammarly is a digital writing assistant used by millions of people every day to make their communication clear and effective, wherever they type. Grammarly operates 24/7, with the extensive use of IT devices and a high volume of communication and data exchange, both within individual and group settings.
The presented project involves the refurbishing of an ancient Princes of Mérode Castle's outbuilding into a sports center. This process involves the renovation of an accommodation wing and the complete reconfiguration of an old barn volume into a dining hall, administration offices and a multi-functional sports space.
The People’s Chapel is a small church sitting on a 200sqm sliver of land in a mature landed residential estate. The original church occupied a single storey corner terrace built in the 1940s. Plans for rebuilding came about after heavy downpour in October 2010 caused serious damage, rendering it unsafe for occupation.
The unique setting of a religious building in a residential area caused concern to the planning authority. A protracted 4-year appeal process eventually rezoned the residential site as Place of Worship in April 2015, with the total floor area capped at original building footprint. Completed in September 2017, rebuilding this church took 7 years.
The V House design employs a simple ‘courtyard home’ concept, with the house embracing the irregularshaped site boundaries to leverage the north‐east orientation to the courtyard and connect to the water’s edge on the south (the ‘V’ stemming from the resultant plan form).
The planning creates an entry sequence starting at the street and establishing a transparent spine to the primary living spaces which hug the southern edge of the property. This decision is driven by the desire to create a transparent living pavilion that engages directly with the water’s edge while simultaneously embracing the north‐eastern pool and courtyard area. A predominant building form is, in turn, created on the first floor, where the private bedrooms and a snooker / games room enjoy a landscaped roof‐top terrace on the northern edge accessible from the courtyard below via a sculptural steel spiral stair.
Alibaba Group's new offices located in Azrielli buildings – Tel Aviv, Israel. The brief received by the clients was that they wanted the space to feel welcoming and up to date. They wanted the offices to become home to the workers and for them to feel that both the floor plan and materials all create a warm and sophisticated feeling. In addition, part of the brief was that we need to take into account the systems on site, which we mostly had to keep untouched, preserving what was already there and making the minimum amount of changes.
Agustín and Pilar lived in an apartment on the first floor of a small building that had been built in phases. It started as a single story workshop followed by an upstairs apartment add-on with a small 2.5 x 2.5 m patio. After buying the workshop, their wish was to unify the levels into a single family home, using all possible gross surface area and extending it with a penthouse. Three architectural elements show up that go beyond the basic refurbishment: a new attic, a new stair connecting it with the rest of the building, and a patio that now extends to the ground floor.
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