“House in the hill” is a family house located in the town of Sinsacate, about 55 km away from the city of Cordoba.
It sits on the Camino Real, an old area for the exchange of horses and rest for travelers who were heading to Upper Peru in times of the Viceroyalty of the “Río de la Plata”. Over the years it began to be used by some families of Cordoba for their rest during the summer months.
The land where the house is implanted presents a natural elevation generating a podium where the house is placed in a sculptural way and they grant exceptional visuals from inside.
This new 1200 square foot cabin was built across the yard from an existing stacked log cabin. A courtyard was created in the open clearing between the two cabins, with a new minimal wood shed acting as third “wall”. All roof slopes on the new shed and cabin match the slope of the existing cabin. All new finishes are intentionally rough. The new cabin is stuccoed with the same deep texture as the existing cabin, to disguise their May – September romance. Hornby-Island-curves and hand-hewn finishes make the new cabin comfortable and low-key, adding an instant patina to this family compound designed for year-round island living.
Each international metropolis has its landmarks, such as One 57 in New York, One Hyde Park in London, One Shenzhen Bay, and Beijing’s One Sanlitun. Situated at the busiest and prosperous commercial hub of Beijing, One Sanlitun soars into the skyline and enjoys a rare serene ambience. In the skyscraper, CCD created a series of luxury serviced apartments themed on various century-old brands including Armani, Aston Martin, Chanel, Hermès, Bottega Veneta and Fendi, by incorporating elements and styles of those classic brands into the interior design.
This large wooded site is on a small bay on Lake Washington in the Washington Park neighborhood of Seattle. The parcel enjoys sweeping views of Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains was well suited for our client’s collection of specimen trees. The client’s dream was to find a waterfront property with perfect exposure that would allow them to build a garden that could accommodate these woodland treasures. Loving the calming effect of water—outings rowing along its shores, and viewing the nearby eagles, otters, and blue herons the couple was most fond of Japanese gardens because of their serenity and beauty. For over twenty years they had amassed an impressive collection of plants which they lovingly cared for and painstakingly pruned, consistent with the traditions of Japanese landscaping. For them, the garden was as important as the home.
Located in a residential neighborhood within the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, Casa DSPR is developed in 3 levels; At street level there is the main entrance that has two entrances, vehicular and pedestrian separated by a stone wall located inside a pond that leads to the entrance of the house.
The new homes in Wendelstrand are part of a new district planned for a site at the Landvetter lake, in Gothenburg, Sweden. Tham & Videgård’s contribution is a solid timber version of the Vertical village scheme T&V designed for a site in Stockholm in 2009. The idea is to propose an alternative to the row house typology, offering each unit a private garden with keeping of the same efficient density as standard row-houses. This is achieved with vertical massing rather than horizontal, where compact three level homes sit in rounded plots defined by high hedges of flowering bushes.
Unikato supposed to stand in the center of Katowice – once a dynamically developing industrial city. The testimony of that era are the impressive modernist buildings. Today, the city is experiencing a demographic crisis and suffers from sub-urbanization. There is a lack of new residential buildings, and the city is subordinated to car traffic generated by people coming here every day to work from the sprawling suburbs. Unikato is to be an impulse to reverse this negative trend and to breathe new life into the area.
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The project budget was extremely low. The investor provided funds only for a cheap finish – styrofoam, plaster, white plastic windows – and for the balconies, which were to be a storage space for small apartments.
This project cares to solve the uncharacterized and irregular geometry of the apartment, while at the same time showcasing some of its best qualities, such as the solar exposure and its relationship with the windows, balconies and the surrounding views. The ideal of the house as an urban refuge can be explored with a similar importance, stripped from the city buzz.
Commissioned by a young couple with three children, the house was built on one of the few remaining plots at a downtown neighborhood in São Paulo, and was conceived to conform to the original site in order to double as a country house on weekends and free time.
The idea was to design a house that wasn’t built over the garden, but rather under it. To that end, a reinforced concrete shell supports a thick layer of substrate able to sustain medium-sized trees. The house program is sheltered under this structure, split between service, living and sleeping blocks, while leisure space (barbecue area, play area and sauna) is located above it, taking advantage of the green neighborhood.
The Project is developed in an existing dwelling located in a residential area of el Sardinero, an exclusive neighbourhood with magnificent views of the Cantabric Sea.
The dwelling belongs to the attic level that seizes the whole plan extension of the building. In its origin, the house had an outdated plan distribution. The access hall had no natural light nor air and the access to the different rooms was handled by a long corridor.
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