Ocean views and an authentic jungle experience merge to create a sanctuary of contemporary design, crafted with natural local materials.
Our international clients came to Costa Rica with the intent of creating an example of a more sustainable way of life, with a focus on well-being through connections to nature.
Villa DLM is part of a small site in a residential neighbourhood. It is a rational and introverted house, whose apparent privacy dissolves in the internal courtyard towards the garden.
The project idea is the composition of three simple volumes, which modulates the spaces of domestic life and establishes direct connections between the parts. Two parallelepipeds are arranged perpendicular to each other to form an L open towards the garden, the third stands on top of the previous ones maintaining its formal autonomy.
We designed our own residence and office on a narrow lot in the heart of the city where old and new streets are mixed together. Since it is in front of a train station and has the potential to be used for a variety of purposes, we thought we should create a place whereabouts rather than a house. It is a comfortable place to live that will continue to exist even after it leaves our hands and changes its use and owner.
As a method of creating a place to live, we did not construct the space itself, but tried to consciously embody each of the casual behaviors of people and make the space stand up. The form used in this project was the bay window.
Turning a crumbling structure into a high-performing and sustainable residential building that saves 72,000kWh of electricity a year.
More than half a century after a construction boom replaced the ornate Belle Epoque homes along Kokke’s coastline, the area is now filled with outdated, functionalist structures nearing the end of their lifespans. The West Side Residence was one such example. This post-war structure of little architectural value was crumbling and either needed to be repaired or demolished and replaced. The problem was deciding which. Some owners wanted to keep their apartments, while others wanted new, up-to-date homes.
The expressive nature of this three-story house is designed in a continuous movement that suggests, between its different rooms, a walkway from where to explore the landscape that expands in front of it.
Project Team: Fran Silvestre, Andrea Raga, David Cirocchi, Miguel Massa
Architect Partner: Manuel Suárez Arquitectos
Collaborators: María Masià, Pablo Camarasa, Ricardo Candela, Estefanía Soriano, Sevak Asatrián, Carlos Lucas, Jose Manuel Arnao, Andrea Baldo, Miguel Massa, Paloma Feng, Javi Herrero, Gino Brollo, Angelo Brollo, Paco Chinesta, Anna Alfanjarín, Laura Bueno, Toni Cremades, David Cirocchi, Gabriela Schinzel, Lucas Manuel, Nuria Doménech, Andrea Raga, Olga Martín, Valeria Fernandini, Víctor González, Sandra Insa, Gemma Aparicio, Ana de Pablo, Sara Atienza, Andrés Martínez
The CASAMIRADOR Savassi residential building, completed in 2021, is located in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and features boldly designed architecture that stands out in the local landscape. The building has 14 lofts and 24 studios, and is spread over nine floors in a construction located on a narrow lot, with a width of 12.7 meters. The challenge of its volumetric mathematics, to respect distances, was one of the factors that influenced non-obvious decisions resulting in architecture created with its own identity.
Saint Sebastian Street is a singular artery in the urban History of Braga.
Its layout coincides with the Decumanus Maximus of the roman Braga, rising from west to east towards the Forum, and it’s the final leg of both the Via XX (connecting Astorga to Braga partially by sea) and the Via XVI (connecting Lisbon to Braga by land). In consequence, this is an area of high archeological sensitivity.
The building ground is located slightly elevated on the edge of a housing development and boarders three-sided to the agricultural zone.
The wide open space is decisive to this architectural concept.
The house and its surrounding design are a part of this generous landscape space. Neither garden fencing nor plants should delineathe the perimeter border and restrict the openness of the landscape.
The design of this single-family house is part of a private condominium of two-family groups that together developed an urban division of 17 plots of land of between 650- 750 m2. Each family could develop their own project within the framework of the condominium regulations.
Four families (all young) entrusted us with their projects. Although the programs had many similarities in the description of the enclosures and their relationships, it was the identity of their imaginaries where the most radical differences appeared.
Article source: Yutaka Yoshida Archtect & Associates
The site is located in a dense neighborhood of low-rise postwar houses, a short distance from the streetcar line that connects central Hiroshima to the Port of Hiroshima. The site, where the client was born and raised, originally consisted of a two-story wooden house that had been extended and reconstructed to fill the entire site, in close proximity to an adjacent house. For the reconstruction, the design direction was set to actively create an exterior space in the densely populated surrounding environment, and to realize a rich, expansive, and continuous living space to the exterior.
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