The idea of this reform was, on the one hand, to relocate the living room and turn it into the heart of the house along with the kitchen and dining room, generating a single large common space that would open completely to the garden and, on the other hand, generate a vestibular space of arrival and circulation that will work in a very fluid way. Both ideas are formalized with a set of curved walls that in the case of the large common space zoning their various functionalities and, in the case of the lobby, gently and dynamically direct towards the bedrooms located at the ends or towards that main space of the house in the center. Finally, the master bedroom has also been conceived as a unique space whose protagonist is a central piece of curved glass shower.
The more you try to explain such things as happiness and serenity, the further the turbulent flow of everyday life moves away from them. The more thoroughly you try to create the perfect interior, the more it looks like the one for staying overnight rather than living.
Today we are going to tell some stories about a house where the main thing is not the color of the floor, but the kids’ noise. From which, by the way, you cannot hide despite all the tricks of planning.
When Stephan Vary and his architecture and design studio Labvert were recently contracted to redecorate an apartment in a nineteenth-century building in the 8th district of Vienna, there was a special challenge in store for them. The clients were friends of Vary’s, a cosmopolitan married couple with residences in Paris and Vienna and a great passion for design. This undoubtedly made the assignment more demanding, but simultaneously more appealing as well—for it offered the possibility of a creative exchange at eye level. The result is a uniquely holistic approach in which architecture, layout organization and furniture design harmonize perfectly. Instead of a heterogeneous mix-and-match, all materials, colours and shapes are meticulously coordinated throughout the entire apartment. Taking inspiration from the mid-century style, the overall concept pays tribute to the heyday of interior design in the 1950s and 60s. Using natural materials and colours wherever possible, a contemporary and one-of-a-kind living space was created. As such, a hint of Wiener Werkstätte is discernible in the approach as well, since a significant number of furniture items, installations and accessories were exclusively designed and hand-made for the occasion.
Designed to be a low-cost house, but with refined rooms and concepts regarding the distribution of spatial functions and visual aspects, the Casa Bloco was conceived as a single-story residence from an oriental bias. The use of concrete blocks and wood, without external coating, exposed crudely in essence, are part of the compositional intention of the house.
The whole project was conceived with sophisticated yet simple solutions, easy execution and monitoring at the construction site.The house forms itself around an inner courtyard, carefully designed to create a contemplative environment. It was composed with ornamental plants, a koi pond and a green wall made with steel cables over the concrete blocks, where the vegetation settles in a simple and natural way. A barbecue and a balcony make up the leisure area that connects with the courtyard, creating an open space for living and well-being.
Two new apartment buildings enclosing a shared inner courtyard are being constructed in a partly landmarked environment near Prinzregentenstrasse and the Friedensengel at the centre of the suburbs Haidhausen and Bogenhausen. On the Trogerstrasse side, the front building carefully closes the existing gap in the block edge and shows formal consideration for the landmarked environment. This is reflected by the saddleback roof, two bay windows towards the street, a plinth, and a classically graceful design language. The various elements create a balance between the individuality of the building and the adjacent neighbourhood of the square.
The property is situated in the East part of the island facing Naxos. The plot is a steep olive grove. Earth is retained by dry stone walls which look like threads on the ground looking from above. The concept is to weave with the existing landscape, creating a new reality. A barrier is created by the body of the building in order to create protected courtyards from violent winds, a micro clime. The building is stretching out winding among the olive trees. Its various thresholds correspond to different courtyards. Life is organized around three olive trees. They become “important”. The house becomes the canvas for the promotion of the natural.
Despite the large offer of apartments in Brasilia, few of them offer versatile plans adapted to a contemporary way of living. The couple, Juliana and Alison, sought out CoDA to transform their apartment into a more cozy and functional space.
The couple’s demands included a desire to expand their family in the future and to have a more stylish apartment. Among the favorite activities was the taste for cooking and receiving friends. From the beginning, the idea was to divide the space into two clear areas, the social, as integrated as possible, and the intimate, with the couple’s suite, the baby’s room and an office, occasionally transformed into a guest room.
Flipê, designed by the Brazilian architects partners Gabriela Mestriner and Natalia Minas, was born from the desire to assume a meaning about their production. A young office, made up of a team, set. We know the importance of the whole, that nothing alone has a complete result, and we bring this vision to our creations.
Our own language and personality is the starting point for any project, but we believe is it only complete once you find the customer, the use and the experience in space.
The architecture is created to meet the spatial needs of those who inhabit, so we must create spaces not only to supply them, but atmospheres to experience, where you can project personalities, modify it, belong to each other.
The shade of black works as a base and marks a major element in evidence in this project. A black hall, protagonist, but executed simply, only demarcated through painting, bringing the contrast of material and effect, constituting the passage.
The black linear rises from the front door permeates the hall till the gourmet area, all of it in parallel with the dining table witch turns into a terrace island. Together they create a continuous relation between social environments and a direct integration between people who experience the space, and besides dynamically allow the glass door to close between table and bench.
The continuity follows on the bookcase, that emerges from the hall, with parallel planes in steel plates, still black, but cut by a transverse elements that bring to the dark starting tone a warmer woody materiality, contrasted on a white background, which permeates all over the room and happens in the same language in the suite.
Tom Godden Architects was engaged by a private client to combat the archaic heritage planning policies and complex brief for a new residential dwelling in Victoria Park, Western Australia. The subdivided lot was tight in dimension, with a mature verge tree located on the preferred access corner to the South East. A series of unsightly boundary finishes from the neighbouring dwellings scarred the fabric of the site.
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