Articles in the House Design Category
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This impressive EDDI’s House was designed by Japan architects Edward Suzuki Associates. The concept of design is “Going to go out,” meaning that the house has a terrace outside in the middle of each house to each room and looked out. In addition, the balcony is placed above and adjacent to the terrace overlooking the center was such that the combination of space open to create an interface “between right outside and the inside which acts a filter, buffer, or a cushion between two zones. This way the design so …
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The Concrete House II is the latest project by Spain based architecture studio A-Cero Architects, built in the capital city of Spain, Madrid. The building seems to be hidden between concrete walls and vegetable ramps that extend up to the roof. They are dyed in dark gray and contain, between them, vegetation areas that seem to climb towards the sky. The house´s façade show a spectacular organic view of the whole house and so even the hard concrete shows its most kind face.
The back front of the house is totally …
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Australian Architecture Firm Bark Architects presents beautiful beach house in Marcus Beach Melbourne. 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 …
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The Colman Triplex House has views of downtown Seattle across a park that lies both to the east and north. To allow each dwelling to inhabit a specific portion of the site, the sloping topography was reshaped into two distinct levels. Within a primary box-like form the design team responded to budget and strict land use limitations on building height and lot coverage to configure three separate dwellings that each provides direct and visual access to landscape and exterior space. The organization of the dwellings are free to rotate or …
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This modern house was designed by Greece architect Nikos Koukourakis with natural light to travel through every space of the house, reducing the amount of energy needed to illuminate the house. The building dominates with its clean-cut lines, while its volume is split, without being dissolved, from the rich perimetric openings giving to it an airy sense via to their exposure to natural light. The big glass surfaces leave a permanently open dialogue with outside, without creating the least sense of isolation in the interior of the house. This house …
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The Manifesto House designed by James & Mau Architecture for Infiniski, a Chile based company that specialize in building eco-friendly houses and buildings based on the use of recycled, reused and non polluting materials. This house divided in two levels and uses 3 recycled maritime containers as structure. A container cut in two parts on the first level is used as the support structure for the containers on the second level. This structure in the form a bridge creates an extra space in between the container structure, isolated with thermo …
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This “Bamboo House” designed in Solar Decathlon in Madrid Spain by Chinese team from Tongji University. This house primarily out of bamboo, with Eco-friendly material. The raw material is also locally cultivated and has a very short and efficient renewable cycle of 5 years. The bamboo house minimizes CO2 emission levels throughout the whole production phase. The house features two curved roofs and a solar-facing wall which are clad with photovoltaic panels that can generate enough energy to sustain the house, and potentially sell back to the grid. Another highlight …
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Sited on eastern coast of North Bruny Island Tasmania, Hobart’s Sullivans Cove based architects Dock4 Architecture created contemporary timber house. This “white Perrin” house have dramatic views over Storm Bay to Cape Raoul and deep ocean beyond. his prompted the design approach that the building should be anchored to the steep slope while leaning out towards the views. The challenge for the architects is to capture the site stunning views to the east and south-east while creating an energy efficient building gathering solar warmth from the north. Energy efficiency was …
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Situated in small town of Zaragoza Spain, this Double House designed by Langarita Navarro architects. This house sited northward slope overlooking a wide, cultivated valley within the boundaries of the mountain town of Algairén, devoted mainly to the production of wine and oil. The land is part of an olive grove, annexed to the perimeter of the village. The house is positioned on the north side along the length of the developmental limit in order to gain a small garden and a vegetable patch to the south and have privacy …
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Besonias Almeida Kruk Architects as well known as BAK Architects just finished a concrete forest house in Mar Azul Argentina. The house is developed in a concrete and glass prism that highlights the different levels at which this resolved. Access to the main floor of the house save a slope through a concrete staircase. Once through the front door and from a small hall can be seen the two flights of stairs leading down half a level up, the master bedroom with attached bath and a half level down, a …




