The site is located in the dense residential area of Narayama, Akita city, facing a row of a thousand cherry trees lining the bank of the Taihei River. The house is designed for a couple and their child on a small land of 92.5 msq, located at the fork of a road.
What was required from the design:
A house with the ability to open out to its the surroundings, despite the harsh Akita snow, and enjoy the view of the cherry blossom trees lining the Taihei River from the comfort of the house.
Located in Urayama, Nishi ward, Niigata City, the site is located atop a sand dune hill formed by the Sea of Japan. The site area is 200 msq; a size which makes the land too small to divide and a little too large to sell alone. The main road in front of the site, has been constructed by contributing private land from each plot. At the back of the site, a narrow lane runs through the plot and leads to a large local park.
With this site, our design direction was to maximize the utility of the open space mandated by the regulation and make it viable public space. With only 50% building coverage rate, we sought to give function to the this empty public area.
This historic villa from the interwar period is located in Wrocław, in the district which is under conservation protection. The main objective of reconstruction was restoring the modernist character of the building, which has been lost as a result of a previous repair. For this purpose, the windows and their dimensions were changed , to adapt to the original state of the building.
This renovation and addition to a 1920’s era brick Cape Cod involved the addition of a second floor, and a thorough-going renovation to the first floor. A landscape and hardscape plan rounded out the remaking of this home.
A central stair core for this ” sustainable saltbox ” was designed, around which the spaces of the house revolve. The heart of this home is the stair space, with places to hang out, see and be seen, and through which light is brought into the home and reflected throughout.
The owners of this house loved the location and views but wanted to make some notable updates and expand their less than perfect 80’s era home. The house which sits on a steep slope has a unique layout as you enter from a bridge at the upper living level and descend to the private sleeping areas and ultimately to the lowest garage floor below. The scope of the project included a modest addition on the 2 uppermost floors including a 3rd bedroom/ home office on the mid-level and kitchen expansion on the upper level. In addition, there is a new exterior steel fabricated stairway leading to an expansive new roof deck. The new mid floor bedroom/ office provides a new more direct connection to their private garden, and the expanded upper level is now large enough to accommodate a huge dinner parties prepared in a home chef’s dream kitchen. The powder room has been relocated partially over the stair and under a large custom skylight which allows natural light to seep deep into the lower levels.
Marmalade Lane, Cambridge’s first cohousing development, is now complete and welcoming K1 Cohousing members. This marks the culmination of eighteen years of work by the group, and comes at a moment when custom-build and community-led housing are being recognised by the government as viable and attractive models for future housing.
The development comprises 42 homes – a mix of two- to five-bedroom terraced houses and one- and two-bedroom apartments. In common with other cohousing communities now established in the UK, Marmalade Lane’s shared spaces and communal facilities, designed to foster community spirit and sustainable living, are integral to the development. These include extensive shared gardens as the focal space of the community, with areas for growing food, play, socialising and quiet contemplation, and a flexible ‘common house’ with a play room, guest bedrooms, laundry facilities, meeting rooms, and a large hall and kitchen for shared meals and parties. A separate workshop and gym are located elsewhere on site. All residents are members of K1 Cohousing, have a stake in the common parts and contribute to the management of the community. Fulfilling the group’s aspiration for mixed, intergenerational living, the multi-national group includes families with young children, retired and young professional couples and single-person households of different ages.
The apartment interiors and the lobbies carry similar design aesthetics: bright hues are contrasted with darker tones. Light colored materials were given preference due to the modest sizes of the apartments, but darker shades of the natural marble textures of Onyx and Cala Catta accentuate and sharpen the spaces. The vertical wooden detailing and the see-through partitions are giving more depth to the interiors of these small apartments.
The main entrance of Batumi Boulevard Residence, on the other hand, is quite massive and it's shared with a hotel, allocated to the first three floors of the building. Space is lofty and darker shades were comfortably embraced here.
A wavy and bold logo was also designed specifically for this project.
This is a project that appears on the seashore, near a preexistence of a protected smokestack from the beginning of the 20th century, that informs us of the industrial activity in that area, at that time the industrial outskirts of Malaga. Pairs of identical buildings were built, as if they were twins, on the seafront, like an extension of Malaga center, and converted it into a new promenade for the city, close to where the economic crisis had left the last two land plots unbuilt near the industrial vestige. Now, after more than a decade, this place is completed with two “stepbrothers” projects; by the same mother (the city plots) but different fathers (the architects of each project). The project aims to make it easier to understand the place linked to the smokestack of the twentieth century. In fact, it proposes a materiality that dialogues with it, but using bricks with a different technique, assuming a new contemporaneity and forming an abstract and massive facade in glassfibre reinforced concrete (GRC).
Collaborators: José Luis Lucas Trujillo, Architect (Preliminary Project, Basic Project, Execution Project) / Juan de Dios Tunis Jerónimo, Architect (Preliminary Project, Basic Project, Execution Project) / Antonio Jesús Fernández Tapia, Architect (Execution Project) / David García Gallego, Architect (Infographics) / Ana Muñoz Miranda, Technical Architect (Measurements and Budget) / Pedro Antonio González Garrido, Technical Architect (Health and Safety Study) / Mar Martín de las Mulas Moreno, Architect (End of Work) / José Díaz Montes, Architect (End of Work) / Ángel Aguilera Delgado, Architecture Student (End of Work) / Enrico Tossici, Architecture Student (End of Work) / Joana Medina Martín, Student Interior Design (End of Work)
Surveyor: Juan Barrionuevo Polo
Technical Consultants: Manuel Gómez Pastor (Installation) / Francisco López Julián (Telecomunications) / CALCONSA XXI SLU – Miguel Ángel Maíso Rodríguez (Estructure)
Developer/Owner: RENTURNOGA S.L.
Construction Company: Ferrovial Agroman SA
Surface Area: 6.750 sq m over ground / 4.001,70 sq m underground
The field is elongated, rural, planted with olive trees. The land is dominant. –How could a residence rise out of the ground, how could it be confined to a roof? The residence is its roof. A 60 meters long one. While approaching the plot, it can be perceived as a slightly elevated strip of earthy crust in front of the distant mountains of Euboea. It can be walked on. The roof is born from and returns back to the ground; it is planted likewise: helichrysum, drosanthemum, lavender, gauras, thyme. The roof’s shape is rhomboid and the living space is hosted under its central, maximum width area, while the sleeping quarters occupy the edges.
The interior design project by StudioColnaghi, APTO JJ is a 165.00 m² apartment project in the city of Novo Hamburgo, RS – Brazil.
The project contemplates an apartment with with double ceiling in the living area with large glazed area that soon was point of departure for appreciation of the visual and sensation of greater amplitude in the space.
We developed several layout studies until we got the “island” configuration of the dinning / bar lounge giving greater flexibility of circulation and appreciation of the large glass / cellar in the background. Customers like the idea of a good space to invite friends and family but also that it is intimate for moments only in the family, so the big sofa has this idea. The social being also takes into account for this configuration that much of the time will be a place of familiar coexistence and comfort. The sofa with chaise besides valuing the space is also the perfect mobile to just enjoy the moment.
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