In its various forms to live in a private house can express the desire to get back to a lost dimension.
In this project, shape is not context, is not reinterpretation of tradition and not even search for lost figurative relationships.
We want to fix the aspiration of a client's hobby: to cultivate a vegetable garden, and we made it with a pure external form. This form owes its origin from the ancestral child's drawing of a house. The aim precedes the practice to put contemporary architecture in fragile territorial context in order to reactivate new potential relationships. This statement of “la casa nell'orto” project contains all the energies that the clients put into this realization, with particular regards to innovative choices:
Originally built in the 1920’s, this house suffered numerous inharmonious modifications and additions requiring an almost surgical design approach. Reconfigured circulation, enhanced functionality, and a wholly new interior were the result of a substantial remodel where most of the upper floor and roof were strategically removed.
It is a small apartment, part of the Manor of Quinta da Arriaga, in Oeiras. The original house and its spaces of support, in the western limit of the Municipal Garden of Oeiras, were divided in smaller fractions.
Facing the street level, with a private access, confronts on the back the garden and a small water course. The apartment is divided into minimum spaces, crossed by a central corridor.
Breathe Architecture were initially engaged to build a larger house for a family of four, but after living overseas, they realised that they could live in a smaller footprint and the project evolved to the renovation of a heritage listed terrace house. Our clients loved the original character and stories that were attached to the house, so protecting that was important to them.
Going back to three years ago, the day when I thought of “Boundary House”.
I met Sun Zhaoyang in the winter evening of 2016. During the chat, I learned that he wanted to build a house for his parents in his hometown. His hometown is located in the village on the outskirts of Luohe City, Henan Province, China. The site is at the end of the village, facing the fields. What is in the distance? Hills, desulphurization towers and rock birds that don’t want to go back to the nest.
One Flowering Tree
The first thing is to build a circle of boundary wall. This is not our original intention, but the local convention. I am not disgusted with this, because the wall does not mean blocking. In my opinion, it likes a cell membrane, which constructing a mechanism for selecting and transmissing, and also setting a starting point and basis for our design.
The project is a retrofitted apartment located in Houhai Area, Shenzhen, China. The original space reflected the client's affection for Chinese-style design and wooden furniture. As approaching the project, AD ARCHITECTURE intended to break through the traditional design aesthetics and the sense of massiveness. The designers strove to incorporate contemporary elements into the design, inject a Zen ambience into the space in a logic manner, as well as deconstruct and reorganize spatial elements, so as to generate an austere and elegant Oriental aesthetic and showcase the contemporary concept of “affordable luxury”. In addition, they brought integrated smart home system, light control system, constant temperature, humidity and oxygen control system and as well as noise-free system into the space, aiming to provide a healthy and quality living environment.
Situated on a high floor of a residential building, the apartment enjoys a panoramic view of the nearby Sihai Park. Living in this space is a peaceful, graceful, comfortable and relaxing experience.
“Each process of change means an emergence, a development and a becoming and this is only imaginable in time” – Carl Menger.
The “Explanada Reform” arose from the need to adapt space and interior design to the changes experienced between differing generations, evolving and creating, bringing about as a result a new home.
All this led Pablo Muñoz Payá Architects to reorganise and carry out an integral reform of this home located in Petrer (Alicante), which has a surface area of 85m2.
Villa Cardo is a 3 bedroom house designed by Studio Andrew Trotter, who designed Masseria Moroseta.
Like the masseria, Villa Cardo has been built with local materials and using traditional methods of building, to ensure the Pugliese vernacular shines through, keeping the building light, airy and cool in the summer.
The house is within one hectare of land, filled with olive and almond tress, and with views to the sea from the roof terrace.
FAR HOMESTAY is built for a newly married couple who seek a residence they can both stay and operate a small homestay business near the sea at the same time.
The project is located at prime location less than 200 meters from the beach in Central Vietnam and is surrounded by peaceful, undeveloped wilderness.
The proposed solution by D1 satisfies business-cum-dwelling requirement while best utilizes all available factors surrounding the landscape. On the ground floor lies the spacious common space with communal kitchen and dining table where people can gather and share meals. The four guest rooms are located on the 1st floor while the owners' residence is pushed to the top (2nd floor) allowing for utmost privacy. There's also a rooftop for extra hanging out and environment contemplation.
Large windows and rounded corners that connect the interior with the outside, overflowing pool that joins the sea and light colors that illuminate all the corners of the house.
The house is characterized by the white color of the lime of the facades, the robust wooden beams inside, the rounded corners of all the walls and the overwhelming luminosity that floods each and every one of the rooms.
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