A growing family sets out the necessity of enlarge their home of three rooms and 85m2 by adding a second apartment, originally with two rooms and 60m2. The main premise to keep in mind is that the family has to be able to keep on living in their own home during the construction course.
The morphologic analysis of the original apartment emphasize that the night space presented a functional distribution of three rooms and two bathrooms, with minimum circulation area and a suitable size. Furthermore, day space presented an excessive fragmentation and a smaller size. That’s why it is chosen to keep the night space and remodel and enlarge the day space, excluding the kitchen.
The Catskills are part of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York characterized by their forests and the great amount of water in the form of rivers, creeks and reservoirs. This region’s landscape inspired the Hudson River School during the mid 19th century1,2; under their three themes “discovery, settlement and exploration” their paintings depict the wild and changing beauty of these deciduous trees environments.
This project was for a house located in the corner of a densely populated area with various houses of different age, height, frontage, and color.The site is at the corner of a road with heavy traffic day and night despite its narrowness, and the adjacent house is built so close together, nearly touching the site boundary. Considering the noise and privacy, it was inevitable to adopt a structure that is closed to the surrounding environment. Therefore, the challenge was to prevent the room from having a locked-up feeling and to incorporate the natural environment.
Syncline ˈ(ˈsin-ˌklīn): a fold in stratified rock with younger layers closer to the center of the structure. The home sits on the lone syncline that runs through peninsular Halifax.
Located in the south end of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Syncline was designed for California-based Geoff and his husband, Nova Scotia-based James – the quiet, masculine modern form sits adjacent to Point Pleasant Park and overlooks the North-West Arm.
The first sea line of Santa Pola del Este is an attractive place to live in summer and winter. This residential building located in front of the beach allows you to live near the mediterranean sea surrounded by the Santa Pola mountain range. On a plot surrounded by public green spaces full of pine trees and native vegetation.
Two primary objectives were posed by the clients: house their collection of late 20th century artworks and design objects in spaces that compliment, but do not detract from their presence; accomplish this on a primary single continuous floor plane that allows for a graceful aging in place. Additionally, the client expressed a strong mistrust of open plans while at the same time a love for modernist spatial qualities. Finally, site the project on a shallow, tightly constrained and steeply sloping site.
The dwelling is conceived as a clearing in its surrounding pine forest.
Its contour folds, conditioned by the existing trees that guide its walls and volume.
The orography is decisive, with a descending slope towards the end of the plot. This allows to bury part of the construction, minimizing the impact of the 600 built square meters.
Formerly a railway enclave, the Clichy-Batignolles ecodistrict is reconquering this forgotten piece of Parisian ground. This major municipal project was envisioned as a response to the elevated need for housing while paving the way for a durable, mixed-use 21st century city. So much data that had to be compiled to come up with smart solutions for a multi-program block (nursing home, social housing, private housing, religious center, and retail businesses).
The Project arises in a small land with a slightly slope, in the vicinity of Ansião Village.
The departure point of the building is the permanent contact with nature. The construction is organized through a main axle which not only intend to solve all the workable programme, but also operate as a border element of the social and the private areas. This onestory house is elevated from the floor maintaining some connection points which intend to achieve a symbiotic relationship.
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