Detached two-storey villa with a main facade orientation to the south facing the garden, which faces residential rooms and large glazed areas. Towards the street there are the utility rooms of the house lighted by strip windows. Direct contact with the garden is located on the ground floor of the house with a glass-sliding opening, which opens to the terrace. The house is designed in a functionalist style, using contemporary modern materials and technologies. The roofs of the house are green, replacing the greenery that took the house out of the garden.
A house that produces so much energy that you can also charge your car with it. That was the goal of Marjo Dashorst and Han Roebers in the realization of their new home in Zutphen, the Netherlands. An 8 kW heat pump with a closed source at a depth of 180 meters, a heat exchanger in the ventilation system, and 32 solar panels with an installed capacity of 9.6 kW are the most important installations that prove this to be true.
The urbanization land, rectangular and elongated, parallel to the confronting street, is located in the municipality of Viana do Castelo, parish of Areosa, northern Portugal. Region with ocean proximity, temperate climate with cool summer and moderate winter.
Urbanização Areosa comes from an order to design a subdivision of townhouses, for which it would be planned to sell plots of land individually with project type, thus maintaining the unit of the set. Architectural management process that has become somewhat difficult and long with its own specificities for each plot over a period of several years.
It is located on the edge of Lake Rapel, two hours from the city of Santiago de Chile.
The project is composed of three levels. On the upper floor are the common spaces of living room, kitchen, dining room, terrace and services. This level has a roof, an inclined plane that gives hierarchy to the spaces with their height ranging from 4m to 2.7m.
On the middle floor, the three bedrooms and bathrooms are located, and finally the lower floor has a versatile living space, with a second terrace, which connects with the ground and the lake.
With its genesis on a preexisting ruin of a single storey house built in local basalt stone masonry, Casa Atlântico put forward its transformation. The existing walls were, thus, the anchor point of the intervention, now converted into an exterior patio, a negative space within the new construction. The objective is now to occupy two levels of dwelling space, where a main house and two independent studios are layout, all benefiting with privileged views facing west towards the ocean, and to the surrounding natural and rural scenery. The U-shaped volumetric arrangement of the house emphasizes these views in an integrated and fluid approach, without imposing itself drastically.
Full access to the green meadows from the living areas and framed views of the snowy Alps has formed The Mountain House in Austria.
The element of a wooden bench in the kitchen (Eckbank) is an essential part of an Austrian home. In this house the bench is located at the key point where the house meets the green sloping hills. Together with a staircase, this element forms the heart of the house and highlights the special feature of the unique landscape. The only terrace is located at the end of the narrow house on top of an existing small foundation. The rest of the glass façade allows direct access between the common areas and the green meadows.
This park-like plot comprises a collection of single-story, freely arranged spaces. The individual structures are held together by a continuous roof edge, which creates a transition with the undulating roof landscape. The volumes take their inspiration and height from the natural contours of the area and integrate themselves harmoniously into the verdant environment. This basic meandering shape disguises the actual size of the house, and its projections and recesses allow it to merge with the landscape of the surrounding parkland. All rooms have direct garden access and, depending on their aspect, attractive views of the park towards the mountain panorama or down towards the Lake Zurich basin. At the center of the floor plan lies an atrium that provides attractive lighting and brings living nature into the heart of the house. The basement is completely below ground and is only visible near the existing supporting wall.
Private house is designed in a terrainy and picturesque location with a panoramic view of Vilnius city. Additional advantage of the lot is green surroundings near a public park. These qualities have become an inspiration for the house concept with panoramic windows facade and large terraces.
Natural and long lasting materials are used for exterior finishing. The stone facades are combined with emalit glass and large windows.
Form of the building is minimalistic and rational with an area of 180,97 sq. meters. Functionally it is divided into two levels: main living spaces and covered patio on the ground floor and bedrooms on the second level.
This duplex was completed in July 2019 but, the story started when we were approached by a couple of “Mum and dad” investors who had acquired the site to build a home for themselves and another to rent or sell, with the possibility of selling both. They described themselves as “nearly-empty nesters looking to downsize” and wanted to develop for that market. The site was on a corner and at 552 sqm, not large. It was constrained by a sandstone retaining wall on one street frontage and a small landscaped road reserve at the end of the other street, forming a view corridor for surrounding properties. The area had been steep,rocky terrain until around the 1930’s to 40’s with much of the housing of that era still intact, the existing duplex on there being typical. The rear of the site had an easement for power lines and a large native tree which had to be retained. The property beyond was a three story dwelling with multiple windows.
Shanchuan Township, surrounded by mountains, which is located at the southernmost tip of Anji County, Hangzhou City, China. We designed a police room at the entrance of the local central elementary school and served as the entrance node to its hot spring resort.
Architecture is a special kind of living body. When it begins to talk to the horizon, it will gain a transcendental power. This power creates an atmosphere that is intoxicating. This time we hope to use a small building to deeply embed a high pitch in the earth movement.
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