CLUM 23 – This villa is located within a quiet pine forested area, in the southern region of the Algarve, Portugal. It is located in a 4200m2 plot, and has a living area of 465m2, all on the ground floor, with garage and technical zones located in the basement.
The floor plan is organized along an L shaped geometry, from which it develops according to interior and exterior spaces.
Sunshine Beach House is a contemporary home inspired by the sun, surf, sand and waves.
The house has been designed for a young family of surfers with an active beach lifestyle. The ground floor kitchen and living areas open onto the garden and pool. The family can move seamlessly from house to garden, pool to beach, and back again. Bedrooms and bathrooms are located on the more private upper level.
Designed for an entrepreneur couple who wanted their home to reflect their love of art, this penthouse apartment in the Lombardy plains offers a spectacular view of snow-capped Alps in the distance.
The clients’ main requirement was a domestic atmosphere capable of dialoguing with their collection of vintage furnishings and contemporary art.
The client wished for an update to a residence on Central Park West, a complex task in a highly desirable Neo-Renaissance apartment building. Working with stringent restrictions protecting the building’s legacy, Rodney Lawrence transformed a graciously proportioned apartment into a sophisticated modern office annex.
As an extension of the client’s busy professional life, the 1,400-square-foot apartment would host business guests and private meetings. Finely tuned infrastructural updates would bring prewar-era rooms into the twenty-first century, prioritizing comfort and convenience within Lawrence’s decidedly contemporary design aesthetic.
Imagining a villa, one pictures a sprawling complex of buildings and land, echoing dynastic opulence. For this villa commission in a quiet village outside of Vienna, Austria, I was challenged with maximizing the volume of a difficult and narrow plot of land in order to create a modern living space for a two-generation family. The first impression of the construction is of a container as a living space. However, the eye is soon drawn to the discrepancies between the use of ninety degree angles and a slightly deviating complementary angle. The friction between the two angles, used both in the wall structure and the floor plan, can be felt as movement throughout the entire structure. From the intimate entrance to the large open plan living space, this interaction between the perpendicular and the oblique defines a certain perception that pervades the experience of the structure. The outlines and the façade of the new house are reminiscent of the unique and traditional craftwork of Viennese houses. In the last decades, this craftsman work has largely been given over in favor of the standardized use of polystyrene and external plaster.
The idyllic town of Margrethausen, a district of Albstadt, is embedded in the gently rolling hills of the Swabian Alb. hilly landscape of the Swabian Alb. The sloping property on the edge of the village next to the mighty monastery offers an unobstructed view southwards over meadows and forests. This special location prompted us to glaze the entire south side of the saddle roof house right up to the gable. An essential goal of the design and the express wish of the client was to use future-oriented, sustainable materials and to integrate the building harmoniously into its surroundings.
YSLA YamamuraSanzLaviña Architects was founded in 2016 by Spanish architect Natalia Sanz Laviña and Japanese architect and University professor Takeshi Yamamura, after years of experience in Paris, Tokyo and Barcelona, working for Kengo Kuma and Associates and Dominique Perrault Architecture. YSLA develops its work in both practice and academical fields looking for the inconspicuous elements or relations and aiming to design the architecture, the city, the landscape & the space mutually richer, unique and contemporary.
At its heart, this vacation house is about creating a place where a young family can gather away from the city to enjoy the outdoors and build a legacy of memories. Located on the ecotone, or border, between a Ponderosa pine forest and lake, the home is a framework for the family to experience nature. The house emphasizes the crossing point between these two ecological zones – a distinct yet subtle marker of the family’s presence and legacy.
The house is located in the Nervión neighborhood of Seville, within an urban fabric where all kinds of individual and collective dwellings currently coexist. Our plot is narrow and deep, between party walls, with a single facade to the street 7 m wide.
The owner’s initial wish was to have a rooftop garden for family enjoyment. Instead, it was decided to place the desired garden as a unitary part of the daytime area of the house, the whole occupying the entire first floor, from the open patio at the back of the plot, to the access street, to the one that leans out and looks.
Introvert’s house is a two-storey terrace house located within the residential neighborhoods’ in Kuala Lumpur with a standard lot size of 22 ft x 75 ft. The house is designed for a Chinese family of five with 1 helper. The client intended to renovate the house that they have been living in for 20 years by integrating more bedrooms for their grown-up kids and has a new quality of interior space.
The lack of greeneries and the dark and gloomy interior spaces are always the major drawbacks of the intermediate terrace houses in Malaysia due to their limited façade that exposed to the street and also dilemma between privacy, security, and community. Thus, the main idea of the project is to create an introverted house that still allows the owner to keep an eye on the streets as a community yet having its own privacy. A double volume of the semi-indoor courtyard has been the main space of the house.
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