Article source: arqflores / architect Juan Carlos Flores
This is when I began playing with this new language of architecture. The client requested organic forms for their oceanfront home on the Pacific Coast of Mexico.
These shapes are caressed by the sea air as the sun gently travels its curves.
The building is located in the historical center of a small town, in a densely built-up area that does not offer particularly fine views towards around. The property, donated to a young boy by his grandmother, had been subjected in the past to a major restructuring but presented some critical issues that compromised the use and that had to be resolved with radical interventions. First of all the lack of light in the interior.
noa* (network of architecture) established, starting from the place – the quarry / Renon, a design concept, which implements the stone wall in the same way as it is used in the vineyards – as a supporting element.
„…Architecture on this particular place has to meet nature on the most natural way…“
This 230m2 private house was designed as a residence in the surroundings of Vienna to create holiday feeling 12 month of the year. The 2 storey building provides an astonishing view of the vineyards, presenting the viewers a colourful play throughout the 4 seasons. While the first floor solely acts as a functional area, comprising of the garage, storage rooms and a functional kitchen to serve food at the pool, the second floor opens up as a spacious living and sleeping area. The terrace in the second floor with the glass ceiling is the perfect spot to follow the sunrise and enjoy breakfast. The surrounding garden forms an ideal interface between the modern building and the surrounding nature.
noa* (network of architecture) completes a traditional urban residential house and adds a contemporary volume, which grows into the vineyards of Gries.
“…the material penetration of the old and the new create a field of confrontation of the generations – an untamed urge for transformation…”
As rapid industrialization and urbanization made people flock in the cities, housing spaces have developed by focusing on quantity rather than quality. In this background, most citizens are used to saying that “My dream is to go down to the quiet countryside and live there by building a house if I earn money.”
The site is located in the residential area where about 30 minutes by car from Nagoya Station. Specialty material in Central area in Japan is SANSYU tile stile the roof and KISO cypress is impression of strong, It is a dirt floor and outer wall plastering using silica sand that not only timber, are produced in Seto-city famous for its good quality soil. I am trying to fusion of lifestyle and modern materials and traditional techniques. I have tried that life style and modern technology and traditional materials are fused. By superimposing the client interaction and dialogue with local material and interaction with the construction company and a craftsman, “Housing is only here,” which nestled in the area is completed.
Z-Balca House reconsiders some of Lagula’s formal and material premises previously used in PGAC. The origin of such questioning comes from the PGAC management itself, who was interested in a non-conventional building, and interested in the use of dry construction technologies.
The ML House is located in Oeiras, an area – considered by many – as one of the best in Europe as far as Life Quality is concerned. Included in a single family villa neighborhood, the project was focused on a new construction in the available plot according to the proposed program while maximizing the available land.
The house is situated in an environmentally sensitive area with a fragile dune scape. The ocean resides within walking distance and becomes visually apparent on the second floor and roof deck. With the ocean comes the harsh salt air.
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