This house is located in an old sector of Chicureo, municipality of Colina, has a big terrain, which provides freedom of design in terms of the layout and orientation.
From the above, the real challenge is to achieve greater control and efficiency for external factors; as the great thermal oscillations between the seasons of the year, solar radiation, pollution and intrusions of third parties to the property. All this without sacrificing spatial quality, functionality, luminosity, views or ventilation.The house is arranged crosswise to the ground, orienting its main facade towards the west, which also faces the street.
This façade is made up of walls that are rather hermetic and, very controlled windows, and protected from sunlight after noon; besides minimizing the views from the street.
Housing architecture reflects the way in which we understand our being-in-the-world, and represents the conjunction of wishes, wills, emotions and ideals. The imagination process in the construction of space is, at the same time, the most basic and the most complex exercise, understanding that the house is life’s actual scenario.
We decided to abandon housing’s typological palette, rejecting trending catalogues that imprison new ways of imagining the house as a construction that must morph and transform according to life’s constant changes.
Residential house located in Puerto Varas southern Chile, with a rainy oceanic climate with high rainfall. The brief proposes de development of an efficient house in terms of environmental comfort, adapted to its climate and landscape. Trough the analysis of the microclimate, specifically wind and sun, the emplacement was defined: near de South boundary of the plot, in the highest topographic point near the river, oriented to the north with 15º rotation to the west and taking advantage of distant views to the landscape and Maullín river.
Ranchettes El Coronel Eco-Community is a new sustainable development located in Playas de Rosarito, in the state of Baja California, México. The main objective of this development is to establish a new type of eco- friendly development that interacts in a peaceful manner with its context. Situated on the northern flank of the Coronel hill and surrounded by natural landscape, untouched by settlers, this project will host a series of small ranch type properties or Ranchettes, that will serve as primary or vacation homes for future residents. With no type of infrastructure located within the site, all of the interventions done must be at the peak of sustainability. Producing its own energy, capturing any amount of moisture or precipitation, installing low tech and high tech water filtration and supply systems; areas for personal crops and using native vegetation to enhance the local landscape, and also, using local and recycled materials to better integrate with the context.
Article source: TCA | Thier + Curran Architects Inc.
Located in Hamilton’s James Street North Arts District, this infill project includes a new restaurant complete with rear sunken patio. Though one storey in height, the building has been carefully crafted to fit into its taller surroundings with a dramatic, steeply pitched roof, giving the appearance of a multi-storey structure. This move affords soaring interior spaces with exposed wood trusses and skylights, all overlooking the street theatre of James Street North with oversized windows. The entry doors have been recessed from the street and surrounded by bold tile to create a strong sense of arrival.
The site is located in the core area of Schlanders (South Tyrol in Italy), where stately homes and farmhouses are situated side by side, while modern buildings have filled up the open spaces in between. The building site is located in the old castle garden, which extends from the castle Schlandersburg to the residence Stainer. The site was built in 1977 with the Pension Schlossgarten. The castle garden is surrounded by a wall, which is subject to the ensemble protection, as well as the building belt around the plot to be building. The property can be reached from the court road south and from the Schönherrstraße north.
The volume of the house is partially pushed in the natural slope of the terrain resulting in a front facade that is limited in height. The addition of a long horizontal window (fenêtre en longeur) between ground and first floor gives the house a certain lightness as it seems to almost float above its base. As a result, the house stands modestly against the backdrop of the landscape.
Thus half buried in the natural slope of the terrain, the day zone is situated on the garden floor, the night zone and entrance on the street side. The resulting volume is a direct translation of the program.
Fortunen Arkitektur completes Norway’s first all-structural glass building The residents of Europe’s rainiest city finally gets to enjoy the atmosphere of a sidewalk restaurant while comfortably protected from the weather.
On the main street in the west-norwegian city of Bergen, Fortunen Arkitektur has completed a pavilion in all-structural glass: the first of its kind in the country. In a city characterized by its rapidly changing weather and (in)famous as the rainiest city in Europe, this project allows the dining guests to enjoy a sidewalk restaurant atmosphere despite the climate.
Sitting peacefully in an open field, this off‐the‐grid sustainable house captures the views without compromising on environmental performance.
Located at Franklinford in Victoria’s Central Highlands, the four‐bedroom home is shared between two families, providing a gathering place for the extended family and a place to relax and relish the joys of rural life.
The premises are easily accessible and fairly wide, located in a category 1 medium- and high-rise exclusive residential district, and have a busy road, albeit one-way, right in front and tall apartment buildings on both sides. This made it necessary for us to devise a way to achieve the duality of harmonization with the surrounding environment and the owner’s request for a quiet and free home, that is, a house which blocks the line of sight from the outside but is also spacious, and has a strong presence among tall buildings while also blending in with the scenery—we were required to achieve coexistence of conflicting elements (closeness/openness and assertion/harmonization of the house).
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