Dick Clark Architecture has designed the a house in Austin, Texas. The house has a 3kw solar panel system, instant hot water heaters, bio foam insulation, rain water collection that irrigates a good portion of the lot, very efficient mechanical systems, and low e glass. [Read more...]
The Eels Lake Residence designed by Altius Architecture in Apsley, Ontario, Canada. The home immerses itself in the surroundings, drawing from the beauty of the entire site, in addition to the powerful focus of the lake. Clean, modern spaces, rich in material and texture, in concert with a solid sustainable foundation results in enduring architecture.
Through the use of a consistent palette of materials, wall and ceiling cladding link the interior with exterior. The varied textures of the simple volumes and planes provide a subtle but distinct reading of space. [Read more...]
This beautiful house in Cedar Hill, the edge of an escarpment zone, the house is organized along a native, stacked stone wall 182 feet long and 21 feet high. Designed by Cunningham Architects, the east facing wall is a highly insulated load bearing masonry wall faced in native fieldstone. The mono-sloped roof is composed of 10? SIPs on laminated wood beams, allowing 8? long cantilevers over the west facing glazing. Simple slab on grade concrete floors are punctuated by inset end grain Mesquite wood zones. Natural pigmented cement plaster, other Texas woods, copper, slate and glass round out the material palette. /via
This modern contemporary house design by Jakob Bader Architecture in Munich-Unterfoehring, Germany. Designed with the beautiful red color for the exterior wall, minimalist interior home. This is a large house on a small plot of land and an even smaller budget. Namely House V, is a large house on a small plot of land and an even smaller budget. On the outside it is very red and on the inside very raw. The house is well insulated and includes a geothermal pump and air-handling system minimising operation and maintenance costs. House V is not specifically an “Environmental” house but rather just simple and smart.
In the cellar there is plenty of storage space and the all-important control room, the holy crypt of the contemporary house where the technological controls for the house are located. The adjustment for these controls is by touchscreen, internet and iPhone for making changes when out and about.
House V is modern but not perfectionist. It is outwardly sculptural and symbolic and inside raw and even abrasive; unlike many other contemporary houses which are smooth, sexy and dead boring. House V is human. The casual details are not spectacular but the concept: as a whole it is a harmony of volume, layout, facades, structure, technical configuration and inner organisation.
Text: Jakob Bader Architecture
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