The Upside down is a single-family house located in the middle of a new development area in Zwingemberg, in the Bergstraße district in southern Hesse, Germany.
The idea of the architect was to play with different volumes in order to create three dimensional geometries in fassade and give them a dialogue between the inner and outer spaces of the building and the sourranded area.
The project consists in the transformation of a new apartment within an area of 42 m², located in the neighborhood of Pinheiros in São Paulo, Brazil. The idea of the client was to change the space, giving to it personality and functionality, without the necessity of demolition.
Assuming that, the first change was to take off the door that separated the bedroom from the living/kitchen, where we placed further a pivoting door. After that, the carpentry, the colors and the materials would be the protagonists of the space. In order to do that, we always like to choose an architectonic element to guide the conception of the project. In this case, the main theme were the orthogonal lines.
The intervened house is placed in Bairro da Encarnação, a Lisbon’s neighborhood built in 1938, well-known by its twin-houses typology. The new house was totally rebuilt from scratch, maintaining only the main façade and the tile roof design exactly as the original ones.
Regarding the house volumetry, a new ‘L’ volume was added to the original house image, resulting in the proposed expansion which stands out from the original architecture and volumetry. The house extension was made by advancing the house over the patio, from the rear and side elevations, which were designed in a different architectonic language regarding the original one, distinguishing the “old” from the “new”.
In one of our initial meetings with our clients, we shared a picture of a small airplane hangar showing an uninterrupted interior space under an arched structure. We suggested this technology as a probable solution for their need for a voluminous and well-lit living space. We had several reasons to think this would be the right choice. Firstly the site is under a flight path to the local airport and is intersected by a train track. We felt that by embracing industrial construction, we would transcend the perceived limitations of the nearness of the airport and train tracks. Secondly, the corrugated galvanized steel technology of this building system is very cost effective. And finally, we were all seduced by the idea of a large column-less self-supporting canopy that enclosed all the public spaces of the house in a one single large room.
The core concept behind Casa DZI is a merger between modern architecture and local mayan motifs and materials, as it is exemplified in the extense use of Chukum Stucco, the project is located just one mile from the Mayan archaeological site of Dzibilchaltún in a sustainable residential development; one of our main design concerns was to achieve the greatest comfort to the users while achieving the least carbon footprint possible considering that temperature in this region can rise up to 40°C during the day, we prioritized cross ventilation and thermal conductivity through thoughtful material selection, adequate orientation and the use of wind and shading analysis.
The lavish property lays in a Transylvanian mountain village among households spread along valley roads and up on mild hills. The main built volume, a horizontally spread topography feature partially masked by a sloping green roof and a mineral gabion wall cladding. Two traditional barn-like outgrowths articulate the construction. The required interior area is quite impressive, especially compared to the modest, traditional local households nearby. Shapes and materials were chosen to blend the expansive building in the special scenery. The solar layout, building energetics concepts has been subordinated to the panorama, opening towards North.
This semi-basement and ground floor house is located in A Coruña. It is implanted on the site considering the previous situation of the plot of land, and solving the different orientations of the volumes.
The landscape and siting of the different volumes with the slopes of the plot of land, becomes a key factor in this project.
According to this, several masonry stone platforms arise. Over them, the volumes sit with a zinc coating.
A House for All Seasons is a contemporary house designed for the evolving needs of a young family within the context of a heritage streetscape in inner-city Melbourne. The design of the form and facades of the house was carefully calibrated to the grain, scale and materiality of neighbouring dwellings. Innovative, efficient spatial planning provides a generosity of amenity within a compact footprint.
At about 260 sq meters (2800 sq ft) the house raises two stories in a triangular piece of ground, located in a private neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The architectural design and organization of the house, consisted in overlapping two parallel volumes one above the other, slightly displaced, articulating in the intersection the heart for the house, where the daytime activities are served.
The project designed by Nada comes from the need to refurbish a living space of 70m2 (754 ft), located in a multi-family building constructed in the 70s next to Passeig Picasso in Barcelona. The apartment overlooks the Parc de la Ciutadella, the greatest green space in the city centre.
The original state of this space was highly compartmentalized with unused spaces, and a complex circulation between disconnected spaces.
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