Dutch Architecture firm GROUP A have completed the Villa Bussum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The car-porch is located at the basement level where is reached via a sloping path, serving as a transitional space between front yard and back yard.
Called Villa Bussum, the project features a 15 metre-wide window overlooking the rear garden and a distorted, pitched roof. The design for the villa by GROUP A appears both modern and [Read more...]
This is a wooden guest house design by Air Architecture, the wooden house designed for an anthropologist to store the collection he gathered during 20 years in Asia and host visiting Buddhist scholars. The structure is a wood frame clad with a clear polycarbonate skin. The clear plastic skin creates an optical illusion with the sunlight that makes the project disappear at some times like a mirage and thus creates a minimal impact to the existing house and neighborhood. The project uses solar panels on the roof and plans to add some wind turbines to be fully off the grid as this is a prototype for an habitat that the client will build in Sri Lanka and Taiwan. [Read more...]
Archimania Architects have designed this modern orange house to urban family life, set in a New Urban community on the edge of Downtown Memphis. This house build in 2,833 SF and the cost was $100.81, meanwhile the construction cost was $285,616. The front elevation is composed of an orange-clad corrugated metal volume cantilevered over the lower level, clad in cementitious panels. Entry is made between the primary orange mass and secondary mass housing the office, rendered in redwood. The western wall is constructed with double-height glass covered by an exaggerated overhang, while the east side is used clerestory glass wall. The house gets lots of sunlight during the day and could brighten up the whole interior. This three-bedroom urban house is very open and comfortable, though it is designed in low budget.
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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
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