Klopf Architecture and Outer space Landscape Architects designed a new warm, modern, open, indoor-outdoor home in Los Altos, California. Inspired by mid-century modern homes but looking for something completely new and custom, the owners, a couple with two children, bought an older ranch style home with the intention of replacing it.
Created on a grid, the house is designed to be at rest with differentiated spaces for activities; living, playing, cooking, dining and a piano space. The low-sloping gable roof over the great room brings a grand feeling to the space. The clerestory windows at the high sloping roof make the grand space light and airy.
Upon entering the house, an open atrium entry in the middle of the house provides light and nature to the great room. The Heath tile wall at the back of the atrium blocks direct view of the rear yard from the entry door for privacy.
V-House was built on one of the highest-lying parcel of Üröm – Rókahegy, a hilly area North-East of Budapest, at the end of 2015. We were assigned to design a two-generation family house while keeping eye on the best possible utilization of land installation indicators, and creating a demanding and innovatively built environment that adequately represents the characteristics of the suburban living environment of today.
What benefits can a museum design bring to the fragmented, undistinguished and often criticized environment of new suburban sprawl? In addressing this challenge, this project uses architecture to package the latent social potential of the museum typology in a way that redefines the suburb. By symbolically embodying the story of the region, and emotionally engaging people with its architecture, the Museum is the vehicle to spiritually connect people to where they live, giving the suburban environment a sense of community.
The motto is an archetype. The seat of the family is the foundation, architecturally expressed by elementary geometric form with local traditional elements.
The client´s interest was to build an ancestral residence in a beatiful location, overlooking the spindler basin. The task was to devise a house that overcomes generations with its durability and form. Parents, like a founders of an ancestral Cottage, will live here, children and grandchildren, will visit them. In winter on skis, in summer on bike. Love of sport is one of the reasons for meeting of the whole family.
An undeveloped 5 acre lot had been a gathering place for the client’s family since the 1970’s. This beautiful lakefront oasis – known affectionately as The Narrows – lies just a few miles outside of downtown Austin. The owners insisted on a simple, humble, yet unique cabin to host their family gatherings and quiet weekend retreats.
The starting point of this project was the analysis of the feasibility of maintaining the original construction in the lot, considering a deep reform, or the complete demolition to build a new residency.
After studying the brief desired by the future residents, the implantation of the old house and the analysis of the structural system of the existing construction that did not allow great interventions, we concluded that we would achieve a better result considering the conception of a new residence.
Location: São Paulo, SP (biggest city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil)
Photography: Maira Acayaba, Matheus Ribeiro
Software used: ArchiCAD
Architecture and Lighting Design: DMDV arquitetos – André Dias Dantas, Bruno Vitorino, Renato Dalla Marta, Maíra Baltrusch, Rafhael Silva, Fernanda Miguel, Victor Vernaglia, Aline Pinheiro, Ronielle Laurentino and Fabiana Kalaigian. (authors)
With this significant building AllesWirdGut marks the structural upgrading of this part of the inner city of Erlangen in Bavaria. The new Provincial Government Office forms the pivotal element of the district development. The development responds to regional and supraregional relations and links important inner-city connections. Several finger-like structures gather around an atrium and resemble a four-leaf clover. Open spaces are created around the building by moving the building from its immediate property lines, which complement and enhance the public space in terms of quality.
Team Execution: Bernhard Schnetz, Christian Zotz, Christof Braun, Ferdinand Kersten, Katharina Kuchler, Michael Strixner, Nadine Tschinke, Petra Panna Nagy
A modest family home nestled amongst the foothills of the Port hills in Heathcote Valley, Christchurch- a rebuild option for clients who were keen to stay within their community after the 2011 earthquakes. The house, like the section, is naturally orientated towards the valley and features a longitudinal stretch of windows offering magnificent views across the valley and an intimacy with the surrounding landscape. The band of sliding doors below opens onto an expansive deck- blurring the boundary between man-made house and the natural surroundings. The northern ‘glass house’ end of the house sits under generous overhanging eaves giving an illusion of the house disappearing into the trees beyond. A double height space is located behind a portion of the ‘glass house’ allowing natural daylight to filter into the first floor common areas. The house is a good example of what can be achieved with a modest budget and well thought-out economical design.
This development of 185 dwellings for purchase (studios to four-bedroom apartments), distributed between seven collective buildings, are integrated within the project to restructure the Marcel Cachin area, which aims to improve the lived environment of the inhabitants, making the quarter accessible in order to create an urban centre, while respecting the principle of sustainable development.
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