Three different buildings surround a large inner space. In this courtyard we find the car park. Partially closed and covered with vegetation, it offers the backdrop to the scene.
The buildings contain dwellings. They vary in volume and floor plan, and set out to configure an urban form that adapts to the place and the use.
The dwellings aim to offer high levels of interior quality and all have large outdoor terraces.
Floating home by i29 architects is part of Schoonschip, a new floating village of 46 households that aims to create Europe’s most sustainable floating community. Based on an urban plan by Space&Matter, over 100 residents moved into and revitalized a disused canal and established themselves a living on the water. The location has a strong industrial past but today it is one of the most rapid changing city parts of Amsterdam transforming into a more multi functional living area. The new floating neighborhood is intended to be an urban ecosystem embedded within the fabric of the city: making full use of ambient energy and water for use and re-use, cycling nutrients and minimizing waste, plus creating space for natural biodiversity.
Glass walls open the living area to panoramic views of forest and ocean, while two fireplaces on either end anchor the space and provide a feeling of refuge. Cantilevering the house from its base provides space for ferns and beach salal to grow underneath the glass flooring that runs the perimeter of the main room, giving the sense of floating above the forest floor.
The most special feature of this house is the skylight from the 5th floor up to the 6th floor. Leaning back on the sofa and looking up, you will see the blue sky and white clouds framed as a picture that you used to draw in your childhood days – TYBOLD HOUSE – a peaceful space in the heart of the city.
TYBOLD HOUSE is located in a high-class urban area in Cau Giay district, Hanoi. It is a typical shophouse in the urban areas of Vietnam. This house has a facade which is designed in the same way as the others, therefore we cannot re-design it.
Design Team: Nguyen Ha Hoai Ly, Lai Hung Quyet, Nguyen Khac Tue, Trinh Trong Quyen, Doan Thi Huong, Truong Quang Dao, Ngo Thi Ngan Ha, Dang Quynh An, Vu Thi Thuy Ngan, Trinh Minh Thang
On the east side of Amstelveen’s centre, the Up Mountain residential building recently rose from the ground to tower above the shopping area like a mountain village. The building, which has a rising staggered formation, resembles ice floes stacked on top of each other, or a mountain village built against a slope. Indeed, Up Mountain is an appropriate name for this eye-catching structure that’s invigorating the city centre.
Programme: 45 dwellings total 8,500 m² GLA, 20,000 m² shopping, and 15,000 m² parking
Client: a.s.r. real estate and AM
Team Rijnboutt: Maarten Castelijns, Frederik Vermeesch, Ana Aguiar, André Meulenbelt, David Philipsen, Herdem Aytaç, Joost Verheus, Jordy van der Veen, Klaudia Lachcik, Lara Tjepkema, Margret van den Broek, Mateusz Rejniak, Max Both, Michael James Lucas, Niek Koning, Pieter Kramer, Raïsa de Haas, Raul Cioaba, Timo Gras, Winfried Verheul
The site is a standard City of Austin urban infill lot with several trees located along one side. Aiming to protect and embrace existing trees, the residence is configured as a series of deliberate steps surrounding a side yard and is hence titled “sideSTEP House.” This series of volumes allows a generous amount of diffuse and direct daylight throughout the year, as well as allowing for the new house to blend into the existing scale of its 1950’s neighborhood. With the carport facing the back alley, the one-story front massing functions either as a formal dining room or a ground floor home office with an eave height closely matching the immediate neighbor. Asymmetrical hipped roofs further acknowledge the existing neighborhood context while minimizing house profiles with low slopes. The massing volumes step up in height gradually towards the back and the alley side. A tongue & groove cedar-clad staircase volume breaks the horizontality of the hardie board siding on the remainder of the front façade.
The KC Apartment was designed for two sisters, offering a warm and sophisticated space for everyday life. In addition to two suites for the residents, the apartment offers one more suite for their parents, an intimate living room, a living and dining room, office, kitchen and service area. The clients’ style was implemented all throughout the design, providing the project with elegance and a touch of romanticism; while simultaneously combined with the architect’s style – contemporary and clean.
Above Hermosa Beach, near the Costa Rican town Uvita, on a steep 2.5-hectare tropical jungle slope – there is hidden Art Villas resort. COCO forms a part of the complex and represents a unique example of playful, glamping, sustainable and modern tropical architecture. When the investor approached the architects, he desired to create a place where the visitors merge with the surrounding nature, clear their mind and experience luxury and adventure at the same time. He wanted to create a place that digs deep into everyone´s heart.
Located on a triangular lot, the house occupies the area along the two short sides of the triangle, generating a large patio as a focus of the public areas. The private areas on the upper floor are hidden behind a wooden latticework that blocks the sunlight and keeps the rooms cool.
The Avala House is a residence situated in a pastural landscape on Avala mountain near Belgrade in Serbia. The house is a case study on how design effort can turn sufficiency into a desirable form for living.
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