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Design: Barrionuevo Sierchuk Arquitectas. The site for this property is 2.000 sqm, facing the northeast, looking at the Canal Arias river, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. The new building is 450 sqm in area and it is designed for a couple without kids.
Design: Parque Humano. Contemporary residence in Mexico: living, dining, kitchen and multipurpose room, 3 bedrooms, gazebo and swimming pool. This house is an exploration on the trace of a variety of formal and architectural lineages in the ongoing transformation of the modern dwelling that ranges from Neutra’s Kaufmann House to the Case Study Housing Program.
Design: P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S. This is a 2,000 sqft single-family house located in the outskirts of Rosario. The building is a spatial and physical attempt to challenge the planar stability and homogeneity of the Pampa’s landscape in a domestic setting
Design: SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects. “The clients, a couple from New York wanted a holiday home in the Southern hemisphere for summer vacations. Aware of contemporary architectural trends, they requested a sculptured building with clean horizontal lines, large areas of glass and screens creating a space that is ‘open as well as private’.
Their brief was a 2-bedroomed home with indoor / outdoor living spaces and a studio to be used in their photographic and film related occupations,” says Project Partner, Stefan Antoni.
Design: Fahlander Arkitekter AB. The summerhouse is located between two fjords on the Swedish northern west coast. The site is surrounded by a national park and nature characterised by rounded granite rocks and windswept trees.
For many generations, members of a large family have spent their summers here. There are no visible plot boundaries, living standards are simple, the sea and the surrounding nature are the main attractions.
Architect: (se)arch architekten bda. In some ways, the architect duo of Stefanie and Stephan Eberding have followed the tradition of avant-garde flexibility projects of Classic Moderne with their experimental living House G12 at Überlingen on the lake Constance.
This new design was also based on the idea of extending the available space and experience of space by making the inner space configuration flexible.
Design: McClean Design. Designed for a family with three small girls this house needed to respond to the busy street it is located on. We came up with a sequence of entry which uses several devices to separate the occupants from the noise beyond.
The drive court is screened from the street by high gates and tall landscaped elements. This area connects to an inner courtyard through a curving glass screen designed to allow the light to pass through but shield from the cars and noise.
Design: PAUL CREMOUX studio. Located at Tres Vidas Golf Course seashore of the Pacific Ocean, this house is integrated by a set of boxes that are displayed in order to enjoy a variety of different views.
The heart of the house remains as an open central space which gathers the ground level deck and the swimming pool area. These four boxes integrate indoors and outdoors, relating private areas with the public ones. Designed to produce large overhangs, concrete boxes act as grate shaders ideal for this tropical climate.
Design: Khosla Associates. The brief for this house was a well-articulated document that delved into the nuances of how this family of 3 wanted to live. The family, comprising an entrepreneur-industrialist, married to a bohemian writer and with a teenage daughter, wanted the house to reflect the diverse range of their lives.
The clients required privacy from staff and casual visitors. They needed a peaceful oasis from the stresses of life.
Design: project A01 architects. The idea to build a residence with a central courtyard, following the well-known case study houses, was the initial approach for the project
Design: 24.7 Arquitetura Design
The site is located in Sousas, one of four districts from the city of Campinas-São Paulo, a place that keeps very peculiar characteristics, with provincial air, protected from Campinas high degree of industrialization even though being situated only 10 km from the busy downtown.
The building sits over the highest part of condo and overlooks Serra das Cabras southwest portion, the highest point of Campinas.
The black house – Casa Negra – is for a young couple. This building design by Andrés Remy Arquitectos is located 30km away from Buenos Aires. The lot, 20 m wide and 50 m long, has amazing views to the lake.
Design: Steven Holl Architects. The Daeyang Gallery and House in Seoul, Korea has received a 2012 Annual Design Review Award in the Live Category. 29 May 2012 – About the Daeyang Gallery and House, which opened in June 2012, juror Mark Yoes particularly noted “the way the project integrates ideas about natural light, water, landscape, and materiality into such a coherent statement.”
Design: e|348 arquitectura. It is a building consisting of two distinct adjacent and interrelated volumes, the housing itself – consisting of two stories plus a penthouse – and a garage. Although the volume, apparently, is being treated as a solid monolith, it is fully traversed, with vertical and horizontal voids.
Design: Scott Allen, Olson Sundberg Kunding Allen (OSKA) Architects. Tucked against the wall of a natural cliff and right on the water’s edge in Gig Harbor, Washington, this project answered the unique challenges of its site. The footprint for the new structure replaces an old guest house and boathouse, and was limited in its size by an agreement through a regulatory process.
Contemporary House in Pontevedra design by irisarri-piñera, architects. The first step by the architects to the deep and narrow site, on a steep slope, suspended above the estuary and the distant ocean horizon, with Vigo city below.
Design: UNStudio Architects. Sadly on February 5th 2008 this family summerhouse in Catskills, Upstate New York was destroyed by fire. The house was a simple rectilinear form floating above landscape, thus evoking seminal modern houses by Mies van er Rohe (Farnsworth) and Philip Johnson in America. The residential building was realised in April 2007.