With one parent working from home, and 2 active young boys, it was clear that this family wanted to significantly improve the way they spent their days. Their starting point was a small pre-loved 1930’s double brick bungalow, and a very tight budget.
As a verbally active family, it was important to incorporate in the design the active use of words; and the storage and presentation of their books.
Our client also required spaces that were flexible, and materials that were robust. And they wanted to do this without having to resort to “open plan” living.
This SAOTA designed family home is positioned below Lion’s Head; with views of Table Mountain, Lion’s Head, Signal Hill, the city of Cape Town and the mountains of the Boland and the winelands in the distance, the architecture is shaped to take in as much of the surrounding as is possible. The strongest gesture is the inverted pyramid roof which creates a clerestory window around the upper level. It allows the building to open up, capturing views of Table Mountain and Lion’s Head that would otherwise have been lost. This has also opened up views of the sky bringing the sun and moon into the home, heightening the connection to nature and its cycles.
The main idea was to create something different and original. Not just a single-family house, but an abstract form.
We wanted to create a building that refers to the mountainous area, a house that seems to be a result of tectonics and not design processes.
This thought was the starting point of the project and the frame that kept the space composition in check.
Therefore, we tried to design and implement the concept of a space by escaping the standards associated with single-family houses. We wanted this house to emeryt like an erratic boulder embedded in a mountain slope, not an architectural form with walls, windows and a roof.
A single-family residence on a narrow site, this stunning home built for entertaining, features a unique lap-pool abutting a double height social space which spills out to the rear BBQ area. Living green wall screens to the front and side façades provide privacy and a sense of retreat.
The clients’ brief was for a home which could be both a springboard for entertaining and a private family retreat. The site constraints and the practice’s commitment to passive solar design and natural daylighting drove much of the resulting form.
In a privileged landscape environment, a set of single-family homes is adapted to the topography of the site and seeking good orientation and visuals.
The main set of the house is articulated by two volumes of inverted inclined roofs. The main body is dedicated to the day area on the ground floor and night area on the first floor, the smaller body occupies the space of the master suite. Around these volumes are articulated a set of porches and pergolas that have the purpose of extending the house to the garden to colonize the exterior space helped by a system of carpentry that disappear from the envelope.
The result is a set of similar but unique homes, either because of their orientation or the articulation of volumes.
The aim of the project was to expand an existing building by three sleeping rooms, a bathroom and an undefined space that could be used freely by the children. The direct access to the garden from the main building, as well as an existing tree should be maintained, leaving just a small space to locate the extension.
The concept for the Barrington Residence, a single family home designed by Eric Rosen Architects completed in April of 2015, was derived from the site and context, the client’s desire for an indoor/outdoor living experience afforded by the southern California climate and inspiration from noted artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s Splitting.
Located at, 3030 Chapman, Gallot Lofts is a multi-family residential building. I believe the project would be interesting to readers as it presents a context uncommonly found in architecture publications, it is an example of a unique design strategy at the rough edges of what some consider to be a rough city. The project is located in Jingletown, a neighborhood at the edge of East Oakland, CA. which is at the geographical and theoretical center of the Bay Area housing crisis. The city of Oakland is rapidly growing due to housing cost pressure from San Francisco, and projects of this type are springing up throughout the area.
“Un Patio” is a single-family housing project, located north of the city of Mérida in the state of Yucatán, on a rectangular plot of approximately 24 x 39 m, oriented east-west.
The project is planned for a family where coexistence with art is fundamental, a central space is conceptualized, where the art, the user and the natural elements converge daily, resulting in a quadrangle containing a concentric central courtyard , which responds to a set of intersected volumes.
The site is located on a hill below the forest, almost at the end of the street. Building activity in this neighbourhood began in the inter-war period, when large villas of several floors were built. In the course of the following years the place became more dense as the original gardens were divided into smaller lots, where newer houses of smaller–scale started to appear.
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