Gale’s Residence is a complete remodeling of a 1970s terrace house located in a hilly suburb of Kuala Lumpur. The brief was to reconfigure the layout and to transform an interior that was dark, cloistered, and suffered from many poorly designed spaces; into one that feels bright, spacious, and well organized.
At the onset, lengthy conversations took place with the owner to either up-cycle the existing frame or instead extend with a second floor (a common scenario in the region with the underlying motive to optimize value). The final decision to up-cycle and to dwell in optimizing the one-storey model resulted from the owner’s desire to enhance the building’s original character.
The flagstone house is set in one of the most picturesque and welcoming places in the interior of Minas, where life remains peaceful among the mountains and valleys of Serra do Espinhaço, Milho Verde.
The architecture of the house uses local materials to fit into the landscape. On the ground, the entire floor is made of stone, with no distinction between inside and outside. A continuity of the flagstone of the waterfalls in the background. The bedrooms, on the other hand, float on a wooden structure.
A place to curl up around the delicacies prepared on the wood stove, and rest your eyes on the horizon.
Article source: Nicolás Loi + Arquitectos Asociados
The project involves a single family vacation house located in Marbella, Chile. The house faces a golf course, and has a double “L” shape, with the main volume including the most important spaces of the house overlooking towards the golf course. The secondary volume contains the service area, located towards the back yard, and the Quincho area, located facing the main garden.
Our interests were piqued when a client approached our practice wanting to explore the potential for how a 120m2, 1960s mid-century apartment could be reworked to support their current aesthetic, serving as an inner city alternative to their previous substantial family home.
This renovation of an 80 year old modernist apartment was for a couple who believed that with the right design they could replace their beautifully appointed family residence with a lifestyle less reliant on cars in an area walking distance to work, having a smaller carbon footprint. Their brief called for a feeling of spaciousness and uncompromised quality.
House J is situated on top of a high hill, on the edge of a single-family housing area. The architectural concept is based on the site: the building has a closed rear towards the North and East where the neighboring houses are, and it opens to the South and West, towards a natural forest. The house curves around an old pine tree, forming a lap with a sunny and sheltered courtyard. The free form and lush garden create a contrast to the rectangular building.
To create a beach house that formed a series of spaces that could be utilised by a multi-generational family. The pavilion style arrangement needed a connectivity, while still remaining separate from one another. The buildings were placed to maximise ocean views, as well as provide a protected courtyard for entertaining.
Designs for The Forestias– a new residential-led masterplan with a large forest at its heart – have been revealed. Located on the outskirts of Bangkok, the pioneering development addresses the growing disconnect between contemporary city life and family traditions, underpinned by the idea of health and wellbeing. It focusses on the themes of serving the community, promoting multi-generational family co-living and reconnecting with nature, providing a template for healthier and happier urban living in Thailand. The entire development is based on smart city principles, with autonomous vehicles, smart meters and sensor networks.
Southern Quarters is a large-scale renovation project in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Some of the wooden houses on the site were derelict or in the state of disrepair. Urban sprawl, proximity to the city centre and transport networks necessitated designing new, denser and more varied accommodation in the area. Brusnika launched the plot redevelopment project in 2018.
Our Ruskin Street Residence was designed for one of the now adult children of one of our earliest residential commissions over twenty-five years ago.
While smaller than our usual projects it is a very special outcome that is very representative of the sentiments behind many of our projects.
The front six rooms of the Edwardian heritage listed terrace was retained and extensively renovated to a new house standard. Rooms were reorganised to accommodate three bedrooms with bathrooms and robes, the existing details modified to accolade the new layouts as if they had always been there.
With each project, we seek to find a sense of identity through a key project material, something the client can take ownership of. At Anderson Road, this came in the form of a brick. The brick denotes the domestic, a singular and humble building block when, treated correctly, creates buildings of instant permanence and opportunities for delicate detailing. The dusty pink and red tones of the brick, with the blurring of a flush struck mortar, reference the client’s heritage while providing the physical and conceptual backbone of the new home.
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