This house is implanted in the middle of a pine wood forest, in Comporta, Portugal. The house was designed as a one level unit composed of two bodies, a social body, open to the outside and a private body, closed onto itself. In the social body, there´s an open space area composed of a living room, a dining room, an open kitchen and a social bathroom. Connecting the social area to the private, there´s a high corridor that commemorates the transition of spaces. In the private area, one finds two bedrooms, one bathroom and one suite with a closet and serving bathroom.
This 900 square foot off grid retreat, situated on the family’s cattle farm in Appalachian Ohio, blends old and new technologies to create a self-sustaining home. South facing glazing in the living room provides views across a seven acre lake, and is also integral to the passive solar design which generates heat when coupled with the concrete finish floors. Additional sustainable features include a fresh water cistern supplied by a natural spring that runs along the building site; electricity generated by a solar cell array; and spray foam insulated walls and ceilings. The exterior is clad with a Corten metal standing seam roof and burnt cedar siding with Douglas fir columns. The interior layout features two bedrooms and a single bath, along with a great room and kitchen.
On a corner allotment with typical multiple additions, the task was to create a new family home with work, living and play areas and to facilitate art.
The addition needed to respect the location and the original structure but also had to introduce new areas, which would be far more fluid and flexible than the traditional period stock would normally allow.
Article source: LR Studio, KatagiriArchitecture + Design
Casa Westway is a renovation projects of a single family house built in the late 50’s in downtown of McAllen Texas. The original house was constructed as a single rectangular footprint with a typical south Texas two pitched roofs which represents a very distinctive house prototype of his time in this region.
The client wanted a cabin for the whole family, but at the same time it needed to be divisible in some way. The solution was a cluster of three structures, which can be used individually. Each of the buildings is defined as a clarified geometric volume, organized around the outdoor area that binds them together as one unit. Toward the northeast, a hill borders and defines the site, together with the view in the opposite direction. The spatial interaction between landscape and the structure creates a beneficial micro climate. This is reflected by the structures’ southwest orientation, where the gable end is glazed. In the other directions the buildings appear more closed.
Bela Krajina or White Carniola is a small traditional region in southeastern part of Slovenija. It is characterised by low carst hills, beautiful birch forests, vast wineyards and beautiful contryside. There are 4 dominant architectural typologies. So called Uskoški dvor is an arrangement of single storey building sets organised around the common court. Since the client had a relatively large plot and his wish was that the whole building develops in the ground-floor, this typology seemed as a perfect starting point.
In this design, contemporary style, the architect Marcelo Sodré, created a town home with integrated around a central landscaped courtyard environment, providing privacy and keeping the modernity of the work over the years.
Its pre-existence allows dazzling a House classified by the Oporto City Hall, a garden and a vegetable garden. The house was converted into two apartments keeping its original features; the principal garden remained, in the vegetable garden two houses were built. The common garage relates all the elements to each other.
The project is located in resort house area which is 30 minutes drive towards west from center of Fukuoka city, Japan. The site has over 14meters difference of elevation, and is the only one which remains original terrain.
He requires a shelter to express the powerful reflection of nature in his paintings. In the other hand. She needs a greenhouse to summarize the diversity of that nature. He is the foundation of the family. She is tenderness, passion and hope.
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