The Fabric Façade Studio House, a small house building with unusual facade presented by Rob Veening architects. The house completed with minimally sized and narrow but spacious, open and giving one a sense of freedom and movement. One of the most expensive items in a building budget is the facade which is usually the first item that is reduced in ambition. This always has serious consequence for the architectural image.

The municipality of Almere has C2C in high esteem and even drafted its “Almere Principles”! This course offered a chance …

The Estoril Sol Residence building situated near the mouth of the Vale da Ribeira de la Castellana, designed by by Gonçalo Byrne. The complex establishes a new relationship with its surrounding territory, reshaping and qualifying this important entrance to the village of Cascais. The 15-storey buildings are founded on a common platform that hosts access, services and leisure areas. Its 110 rooms stand out for the large variation and careful detailing. Glass panels encased in aluminum frames clad the unit, reflecting the diverse landscape that surrounds the building. inside, select …

The 23.2 House is a single family house created by Omer Arbel architect sited on a large rural acreage outside Vancouver in the West Coast of Canada. The design of the house itself began, as a point of departure, with a depository of one hundred year old Douglas Fir beams reclaimed from a series of burned down ware- houses. The beams were of different lengths and cross sectional dimensions, and had astonishing proportions – some as long as 20 meters, some as deep as 90 cm. It was agreed that …

The Xi Gallery building sited adjacent to Hapjeong Subway Station along the ‘Yangwha Expressway’ in Seogyo-dong, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Projected by SKM Architects, this is a temporary facility for developers to sell apartments that they have developed. These facilities are commonly called ‘Model Houses’ or ‘Sample Houses’ and are made out of reusable steel structures and economical modular panels and normally destroyed after 3~5 years of use. Also, the facility has temporary building permits from the city which last about 3~5 years of occupation.

“Xi” – the brand name for …

The “Stairscraper” designed by International firm Nabito for cultural exchange, uses, programs and activities in relation with work, communication and leisure in New York. This housing project is impossible today without thinking of something much more complex, but simply the solution to meet a social need and right. In housing today, the motto “TOTAL HOUSING” seems justified. It represents the idea of understanding a wider habitat, a system of complex social relationships with the environment in search of enjoyment of life, mixing different ambits and different uses.

The Stairscraper is a …

Valle House by Materia Architecture

Materia Architecture has finished “the Valle House” in Mexico City, Mexico.The house responds with courage to the obvious physical and natural conditions of the immediate context. The design means the pursuit of an architectural character feeds contrast exercises. Minimum and refined materials textures are facing artisanal solid organic forms of balance implied transparent and black boxes, light versus heavy. All these elements are organized and placed under the interior spaces that surround programming thus expressing the relationship between public and private. The walls are carved entered …

The Becerril House was built in 408 m2 site area in Baja California México, designed by Gracia Studio. This project has a loft which was designed later as a separate prefabricated house which handles and manages the same language and interact with the house originally designed. The linear approach of this project and its gap to the west boundary are important part for the design of this house in Tijuana. The main reason is for search to create a private space and open but at the same time you have …

The 45 Faber Park project design aimed to maximize outdoor space whilst not compromising living areas. The priority of creating an open living space with a direct relationship to a large outdoor space in a clean contemporary aesthetic became a driving force in the scheme. The concept of defining the bedroom areas and activity spaces as separate elements allowed for the final scheme to be reached. In second storey, the house represent more private area, with cantilever which gives the entrance to the house an enclosed, protected feel. The social …

The Marcus Beach house was designed by Australian architecture practice Bark Architects. This house celebrates a natural, coastal setting providing its occupants with an inextricable relationship to the landscape and sensitive surrounding environment. The dwelling explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and integrating indoor / outdoor spaces within dynamic patterns of light and shadow, being a simple frame to enable a contemporary sustainable lifestyle to unfold. The house is open and light and possesses simple sustainable design principles to passively defend the occupants from the elements. Windows and …