A single-family home, including three stories and a basement, rises out of this single-front rectangular site.The ground floor provides access to the driveway, footpath, main foyer and service entrance, all of which are located at opposite ends of the property. It also houses the common and social spaces, including the living and dining rooms, study, kitchen, and guest bathroom. In terms of outdoor spaces, gardens are located at the front and rear of the property. A walkway extends along the property from the entrance to the rear garden, allowing access to the home over a basement garden.
We are on the hills of Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. As in a jazz song, this house is articulated according to a clear rule: open spaces and lots of light. But even the strictest of rules requires improvisation: therefore the blue color becomes the exception. We find it in the decomposed geometries of the ceramic coverings, or dosed in large homogeneous surfaces, the color becomes the protagonist of the space, giving freshness, dynamism, originality and cheerfulness to the home project.
A house on two floors, where all spaces, even the smallest and apparently uncomfortable ones, have been optimized and used to the best, using custom-made furnishings and ad hoc solutions to solve with creativity what only apparently seemed a limit.
Situated on a steep, westerly slope, approximately 20m above sea level, below one of Eckernförde’s most popular residential streets, this residence enjoys one of the most stunning views over the bay and the open Baltic Sea.
Casa Tojal is shy and bucolic, from a steep terrain surrounded by olive trees. In a torn gesture, it is born as an integral part of its landscape and it leans over the valley towards the garden that surrounds it.
The challenges and requirements that guided the project went mainly through the question of solar orientation, the framing of the best view (North / West) and a concern with the couple’s daily routine in a logic of different accesses, absence of obstacles and flow of circulation.
At the foot of a hill and surrounded by lush vegetation Casa M is located at the center of an exclusive paradise in which everything was considered in order to enjoy to the most the wonders of nature. This retreat is distributed in two generous levels that divide the public from the private areas, intended in the program to exploit the full potential of the communication between interior and exterior favoring each space with magnificent views.
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.
Modern single-family villa on 4 floors located in the beautiful coastal Spanish village Cambrils in Costa Dorada.
This project has been developed, designed and built by White Houses Costa Dorada’s team through a long and creative process in collaboration with the interior designer Susanna Cots, to obtain the perfect combination of modern architecture and comfortable living.
The design of this home arose out of a series of site challenges and constraints. The one-acre property and existing home sat within a protected area of the Santa Monica Mountains. New restrictions on development made it unfeasible to add anything outside the existing building footprint. The existing home had little architectural value: it was dark inside, and it had no contextual relationship to the site. Working within the existing footprint and rooflines, the design is a dramatic transformation from a generic tract house to a custom home that is responsive to its context and is a hybrid of modern ideals paired with conventional volumes.
La Héronnière’s conceptual approach proposes an interpretation of the notion of recycling.
We offer a reflection on the importance of maintaining a theoretical issue in our practice, which seems undermined by the public’s sole interest today in the technical dimension: “sustainable development”.
Located in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, this work constitutes a single-family residence on a plot of 779.19 square meters. An extensive lake located at the end of the terrain, the irregular plot design, the East-West longitudinal orientation and the need for a large protected social area were the issues that guided the resolutions of this project.
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