To the casual observer, Japan may seem slow to fishing at the current environmental trend that has taken the world by storm architectural. But an awareness and appreciation of the environment has been embedded in the construction of his house, for centuries, for example, ventilation and natural lighting, which has become so fashionable these days, has always been practiced in urban and rural Japanese architecture. Faced with a site where single-family homes coexist amiably with small fields of cabbages and carrots, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto de l'Atelier Bow-Wow unsurprisingly turned to the traditional know-how of inspiration.
The aim of the architect and his student employees of the Tokyo Institute of Technology was not simply a new house, but a new house suitable for the types of typical agricultural site suburbs ringing the outskirts of many Japanese cities. Located on the outskirts of Sendai, a city of 1 million located 190 miles north of Tokyo, this 2500-square-foot property belongs to a residential community that has sprouted in the 1960's, when the area was mostly farmland. One by one, homes cropped up, but as in many districts comparable growth has slowed in recent years, as the country's population has decreased the appeal of suburban life diminished, and a young Japanese begun migrating or downtown Tokyo.
Swimming against the tide, Tsukamoto its clients, a couple with a young child, has decided not only to return to the suburbs, but to rely on family farmland directly in front of the Women, Children of the home. Expressive and open to the street, their house is not exactly custom with its mix staid environs. Although it looks like a big grown to many, Nora stands between House-pitched roof homes clad with metal or stucco siding. But it is not totally out of place, either. Comfortably familiar without being nostalgic, Nora House, or "home field," shares many elements with Japan minka traditional farms to a covered porch, fluid interior space, timber, and most importantly, a wonderful roof that hovers over Whole protected building.
Although slightly reduced compared with its historical background (while contemporary townhouses tend to be small, historic minka farms are usually huge), Nora House reads as a single story, barnlike building. Consistent with this outside, the interior is basically a large area. "In Tokyo, we have much to a piece of life, but in a more vertical," says Tsukamoto. "Here, we developed the idea horizontally." Spanning a height of 9 feet differential-up in the storage area marks the lowest point in your house, and the daughter of the playground the highest point of the functional area in this house are on Étalée nine distinct levels. Satisfying customer demand for a house with a continuous interior space without much partitions, short runs of stairs without distinguishing zones that separate them completely. Three independent partitions function as dividers and additional lateral bracing.
.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Nora House, Sendai, Japan
Maltman Bungalows, Los Angeles, California
You can find almost anything in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles: a pair of sneakers in a limited edition, an obscure gourmet cheese, or a copy of Da Vinci Code Mandarin. What has not been available for much of the last decade, the gentrification that has taken full hold in the region, is a single-family home with an architecture of Appeals for less than about $ 800000.
Thanks to a unique effort of the city planning department, a local promoter, and a pair of preservation architects, which ultimately changed late last year with the opening, or rather the reopening of the Maltman - Bungalows on Maltman Avenue, near the District south of the ridge. Built in 1926, 17 bungalows line up in two rows and moderately injured on a plot of land less than 1 / 4 mile of a lively and walkable stretch of Sunset Boulevard. They constitute one of the many villages in bungalows "built in and around Los Angeles in the early 20th century.
Executed in a style Spanish rationalized by Irving Gill, with red tile parapets and simple, elegant profiles, the bungalows one bedroom measuring about 700 square feet each. (There is one two-bedroom unit.) Everyone has to be a modest decline, a small private garden, and an attached garage barely big enough to hold a Mini Cooper. The skyline of downtown Los Angeles, about 5 miles to the southeast, peeks on a nearby hill.
Designed as rental housing by an architect whose name is lost to history, bungalows Maltman had lost much of their original charm by the 1990's. The same is true of other chalet villages across the city. As grew up in Los Angeles denser over the last decade, however, and as apartment living has grown more popular as an affordable alternative to the soaring prices of houses and long, officials in the planning office the city has begun to seek ways to bring them back to life. The effort received a significant boost when the city council at the end of 2004, has adopted the so-called small-Lot Subdivision Ordinance. In some areas already zoned for multifamily housing, the ordinance has allowed single-family homes to be built or leasing of existing units such as those on Maltman be converted into a single family on the status of individual lots of less than 5000 square feet.
Although the ordinance was drafted in part to encourage the construction of new chalet villages, it has been slow to gain momentum with developers. Sluggishness that prompted officials to start planning some encouraging openness developers to scout for existing court which could be converted into collections modest single-family homes.
Christopher Hawthorne is guest editor for this issue and the architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times..
A Modern Classic, Clean-lined sensibilities define a Salt Lake City residence
The Japanese term Wabi Sabi describes a basic concept that emphasizes a partnership with Mother Nature, harmony with the seasons, unpretentious and a foundation in all things organic. The house Clark in Salt Lake City, beautifully expresses this concept through its subtle design, climate-sensitive landscaping, indoor environment, particularly in the way building owners approached from zero in a historic district.
From the planning phase and Marybeth Michael Clark knew exactly what they did not want to. Off by the "starter castle" trend in housing construction which began in 1980 and is now pervasive, the Clarks wanted a house that makes sense, with functional rooms and spaces useful.
The Clarks decision to raze their existing home and begin new has come with its own set of challenges. Located on a street corner near the venerable Salt Lake Country Club, the house was among the dozens of one-story 1940's ranch-style homes. The Clarks are conscious of not wanting to jar the flow of the district by building a McMansion.
The first step was to nail a compatible design team to Michael first tour to a friend and interior designer Gail Madison Goodhue Santa Cruz, California. Then, after a Sarah Susanka's book The Not So Big House, which urges the construction of houses to satisfy the soul not impress the neighbors, the couple decided to seek an architect with a similar philosophy. The state by state list of the book's Web site led them to Kenton Peters K2 Design. Contractor Doug Rosenbaum has worked with the owners on a business plan; local landscape architect Mark Vlasic rounded to the team. Although designers had not worked before, they immediately discovered that they could work well together.
The Clarks have a laundry list of ideas and guidelines for the design table. Marybeth did not want a large room, separate lounge, but dining, kitchen and spaces that flows naturally from one to another. Mike wanted a private courtyard and a house that was wired to handle advanced lighting and the Internet and audio systems. Both were impressed by boats: their efficient use of space, compartments, and how everything is distorted.
Among the main green which are incorporated in the structure of Tectum ceiling panels, which are ideal for audio, made from renewable wood and style. The homeowners also installed bamboo floors, insulation concrete walls, and an efficient passive cooling system, with large overhangs to block direct sunlight and high-level clerestory windows.
Both the architect and interior designer has responded to the desire of Clarks uncluttered, peaceful and eastern Wabi Sabi influence. To achieve this goal in architecture, Peters nestled down in the corner house and lot at the rear of the street. The indispensable first floor has been built so it is imperceptible to the approach. Many trees, especially tall, fragrant pine forest, were rescued. Mark Vlasic native herbal and design of water accentuate the mountain setting and the atmosphere of a Japanese garden.
Modern and comfortable, the house is structurally while providing adequate space to receive and separate play areas for the Clarks' two children. The interior designer has chosen natural hues for the interior finishing and some textile materials to reinforce a calm atmosphere.
While Clark did not base their design ideals on the wishes of their neighbours, they were aware of the importance of being responsible neighbour-citizens. As a gesture of goodwill, the contractor gave gift baskets to the owners of nearby houses during the dustiest, sale time of demolition and construction. The lesson here seems to be that when creating a home in a modern classic, Leave It to Beaver-style, with a conscience and extending the proverbial olive branch may go a long way..
Interior House, Haute Design
Few elements of art, architecture and interior design as if masterfully blended in this renovated house Boulder, a direct reflection of the consistency of the design team met and interacted from the outset. All decisions were considered by the multiple views of architects, interior designers and homeowners. The result is perfectly merged and intertwining streams of space and design, with every aspect geared to the needs artful taste and lifestyle of the owners.
Located on a pine-studded hill overlooking a lake, with views of the Flatiron Mountains, the spectacular site, which sold the house, the 1970, the structure itself could not have been more inappropriate. Not only home date, but later additions proved awkward and no sense of flow. The new owners had doubts about their purchases and even planned to resell, but the site drawing held until their return, they decided to remodel and move in.
The couple has hired interior designer Annette Stelmack, who helped to realize that a clean slate to create the sophisticated, contemporary house they wanted nothing less would paint on the problems. Stelmack and his colleague Angie Pache brought in architects Hans Berglund and Doug Graybeal, with whom they had a long working relationship.
As project manager, Stelmack began working with an intense two-day working session to focus on solutions, sketch ideas, and make decisions.
The site and views have pushed the design, which was attended by gutting the interior, replacing two staircases with a central staircase, reconfiguring rooms, and the opening of the long, in the south of the extent of the house at a time. "It was a bit of a puzzle to dismantle and put together so it looked like the house was designed from scratch," Graybeal.
Having both the time and interest, homeowners were closely involved in the process. They brought to the table a creative vision for a contemporary house that includes heat and nature, and their passion for art. As the owners of works of art commissioned to submit to their homes, designers and architects worked together to ensure the house itself is a work of art.
Form blends with function in a more sculptural dramatically in this house. Clients arrive via a pivot of 7 feet wide glass and metal front of the door and are gently guided to the house by a curved wood sculpture which serves as a powder room wall. A floating staircase faux-a delicious piece of sculpture of steel, wood and glass-is the key to improving the plan of the building. "It creates the heart of the house. Designed by the architects, the staircase was designed by artist Wayne Brungard of Longmont Lakewood glass and designer J. Gorsuch Collins, two local artisans put into circulation in the project. "We have worked with many local artists who created incredible unique pieces at a Mesquite wood, custom cabinetry, stainless steel architectural accents. Customers were intrigued.
The range of colours and materials has a sophisticated yet organic natural beauty, with a commitment to environmentally friendly materials. Integral plaster in a taupe shade sand walls is dressed in a smooth finish, inviting to the touch. Underfoot, luminous limestone tile floors complement the walls in color and texture. A rich variety of renewable wood (beech, sycamore, maple, bamboo, and myrtle) offers warm, natural colors and intriguing patterns that balance elegant glass and stainless steel surfaces.
Built-in furniture is integrated into the architecture: the custom entertainment units, columns of wood and woodworking, art niches, a stainless steel bar, and sculptural stack. Their clean, contemporary lines are repeated. In the furniture-extra-long sofas and coffee tables oversized custom-tailored to space and the proportions of 8000-square-foot house.
Highly textured fabrics such as chenille, butter-soft leather and suede, and lush carpets of wool and silk have been chosen for their appeal soft and subtle. The finished house is a highly personal reflection of the owners and a tribute to the skills of the design team. Based in Denver, Nancy Milligan writes for Better Homes and Gardens and Traditional Home publications.
.
A House Kissed by the Sun
Most couples plan their future dream house to compose a list of their favorite architectural details and lifestyle amenities. Few, however, are likely to draw up a plan for construction game plan as complete as the document drafted by Carol and John Harkness. At their meeting with the architect Kevin Burke, an architect associated with Carney Architects in Jackson, Wyoming, to discuss building their retirement home in Teton Village, Wyoming, they arrived with a six-page (single-spaced) project "brief" detailing the precise requirements for the home. And these are not even notes on the usual aesthetic concerns for facilities and finishes; their very detailed punch list explored all passive solar heating to the specifications of handicapped accessible elevators and doors.
Although John and Carol have both environments technical curiosity outweighs the construction of many customers at home customers do. He worked as a chemical engineer at the prestigious Argonne National Laboratory, it is a software developer. In addition, John had already equipped their home in a suburb of Chicago with passive solar features. Now they were in Wyoming retirement, the couple asked even more energy efficiency and adaptability at home, they were based on a half-acre lot at the base of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.
One of the objectives of the couple was to make the house thoroughly for the disabled, especially because John has a brother with muscular dystrophy. They also agreed that it should be heated and cooled with the active and passive systems to the fullest extent possible, both for energy conservation and long-term financial benefits.
The 4,300-square-foot house is on a steep meadow near the base of the station. Avid skiers and mountaineers, John and Carol selected a batch that allow them to walk easily on slopes and near a music festival.
Despite the Harknesses list of mandates for home, ironically, its architectural design was also influenced by restrictions set by the former owner of the property. Clad in cedar siding copper bump-outs, the house has a sloping roof metal which does not obstruct the neighbor's point of view of the mountains. A wall of windows on the rear of the house opens to the views of the valley.
The Harknesses provided at home easily accommodate changes in lifestyle May they face as they age. With Burke, the couple has charted the three-house in areas with a self-contained ground floor serving more than their daily work needs, including a bedroom, living room and dining room bath and kitchen. A suite on the top floor, which can be reached by an elevator, most of the characteristics of accessibility for disabled occupants accessories, including hand rails in a bathroom and wide doors. The lowest level features another room, study, workshop, and two bathrooms.
Technically, the house is more efficient and more environmentally friendly than anything can recall Burke building, "he says. Most building materials were selected for their environmental sensitivity and sustainability, such as flooring inside-based cork, a renewable resource. The crossing outside is made of recycled plastic.
The "super-insulated" building envelope goes far beyond typical standards for houses in the region. An air-to-air heat exchanger introduced fresh air using hot air at home to preheat the fresh air outside its entrance.
Equipped with technical features, but the transmission of warmth and intimacy with a generous use of natural materials, the house Harkness makes a strong case for owners to take charge of their "domestic engineering."
An editor of Architectural Record, New York, William Weathersby, Jr. has also written for Elle Decor, Metropolis and the Robb Report ...
H16 House, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
It’s hardly a secret that Germany has long been at the forefront of energy-saving design. Even back in the early Modern days, its health-oriented obsession with getting natural light and cross ventilation into living quarters paved the way for later passive-energy-saving strategies. In the 1920s, “zeilenbau” planning principles, calling for long, narrow housing blocks to be placed in parallel rows on a north-south axis, allowed sun and air to easily penetrate interior spaces. Although the idea itself was not new, the urban scale of its application offered a model for future problem solving.
Today, German architects and engineers are advancing strategies for sustainable design that go far beyond the zeilenbau thinking, as demonstrated by the efforts of Werner Sobek. A structural engineer famous for such adventurous mega-schemes as Sony Plaza in Berlin (2000) and the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok [RECORD, August 2007, page 108]—both designed by Murphy/Jahn—Sobek also runs the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design in Stuttgart.
Since Sobek was trained as an architect as well as an engineer, he also likes to design buildings on his own. In 2000, he built a house for himself, named R128, in Stuttgart, that explored a number of sustainable strategies. In 2006, Sobek completed his latest house, H16, for a young family in the village of Tieringen, not far from Stuttgart. The house, which he maintains is fully recyclable with zero emissions and zero energy use, sits atop a knoll, on a 17,028-square-foot site overlooking the picturesque village. The owner, Helmut Link, whose family business, Interstuhl Büromöbel, a furniture manufacturer, is located in Tieringen, wanted a Modern, flat-roofed house, with a full south-facing view—and no curtains. The town authorities favor the more gemütlich gabled-and-stuccoed residential architecture. But Link, his wife, Georgia, and Sobek persevered. It got approved.
From the slope to the south of the house, one immediately apprehends its straightforward parti. A glass-and-steel volume, approximately 23 feet deep and 56 feet long, devoted to the living, dining, and kitchen areas, rests on a deeper, steel-framed base, containing bedrooms, roomy baths, and an office. Enclosed by charcoal-black, non-load-bearing, precast-concrete panels, this volume is about 31 feet deep and 54 feet long. Operable, double-paned, narrow windows, between 16 inches and 3 feet in width and a little over 8 feet high, bring light and air into these lower-level quarters. A third, beige-precast-concrete volume, linked by a terrace and roof deck, contains the garage and service equipment for the 4,200-square-foot residence.
.
High Country Lodge, Highway
Before commencing the construction of their new home, Buffalo Rixon architect and his wife Katherine studied vacant lots closely. Very close. They pitched tepee in the remote Idaho canyon where their house would be located off the road between Ketchum and Hailey, and has spent many hours in the study of light and learning about how the wind cascades down of the valley.
Perched at 5815 feet in a steep, serenely calm meadow of wild sage and freely roaming wildlife near the base of the snowy mountains Pioneer, Rixons house is unique, even within the premises of the eclectic architecture. Several styles are blended into the two-story, 3340-square-foot house: There is evidence from the Norwegian language rural households for years 1700, as well as 19th century Adirondack style, and a strong dose of the early 20th century, National Park Service Apartments, a sentimental tribute to Buffalo, memories of the park Yellowstone structures growing-up process. Turning from the outside, the stone base housing rock worthy Montana foam is siding new board of cedarwood; red barn siding liberally trims outside to accentuate the ground Norwegian. Just down the slope of the main house is a way similar to 1200 square feet of hosts.
For the first time visitors the most striking feature of the house, which is tucked away on 78 hectares at the end of a meandering 1,400-foot driveway, is its 28-foot-high gabled living room window. From the inside, the couple has a sweeping view of a distant ridge of rolling wooded hills, the night, the interior lighting of the window turns into a beacon in the dark canyon of coal darkness. Buffalo (his real name), a partner of Ketchum Ruscitto / Latham / Blanton Architectura, included a utility window seat for reading or napping, one of many gestures of the design he had made to turn the house inviting family home.
Except for the small separate study to the left of the entrance, the ground floor is a single, large area encompassing dining, kitchen and areas, all with oak floors rustic white. Chevrons and column positions in the exhibition are generously expanded recovered in the woods 100 years, stores in the Northwest, while doors, baseboards, wainscoting and windows feature alder. A green light from the foam-hued rock Montana is the focal point of rooms.
Throughout the house of the architect produced a varied visual experience that averted a cavernous distinctive look by creating space. The trick, Buffalo explains, "is to define the space by the relationship between the levels of floor and ceiling of the aircraft, using the relationship between the two design elements to create more intimate spaces and niches." is also important to articulate roof to define more precisely the rooms.
Intimacy in the dining room was created by the reduction in the ceiling, the salon vault fir beams climbs to change the mood. In addition delimitation of outer space is the kitchen ceiling, which hangs over a butcher block-topped island. Complete with wine and storage rack drawers, the island has been designed as a functional piece of furniture, and is used for family meals. Counters in the room are black with granite sharpened alder wood cabinets.
Midway switchback up wooden stairs to the second floor is 20 feet high for a window of sight until private canyon where the family loves to hike. Upstairs, a large curtainless windows protruding from the roof steep slopes offer maximum views. Outside the window of the master bedroom elk, deer, bobcat, and grouse roam with a view, and at night, Katherine said, the sky and the stars "are introduced into the house through the vast Extended glass.
Buffalo and Katherine used a palette of various colours and a generous selection of wood to further emphasise the locker room personalities. Tons neutral thanks for the life and walls of the dining room and a selection of soothing yellow sun, Oxford gray, pale green and define the rooms. The traditional master bath features bright yellow walls painted white with trim and cabinetry combined with green marble counters.
"We wanted a down-to-earth, look timeless, natural materials and design elements found in traditional houses and farms throughout the century," says Katherine, a real estate broker, and the mother of 11 months Taylor. "We wanted to examine how it in the 1920, 1960 or 2005."
Buffalo, whose father, Carl, was the builder, was thinking ahead when he drew his original plan. By including another child's bedroom, he recognized her Katherine and her desire for a family housing development. "We wanted a house that creates a sense of comfort," he explains, "both for our present life and the evolution of the family in the future."
Pat Murphy, a former Florida and Arizona journalist, editor and publisher, is a freelance writer living in Ketchum, Idaho..
Glenburn House, Victoria, Australia
Eighty percent of Australians live within 80 miles of the sea, 50 percent of the country's homes sit less than 8 km from the beach. When Sean Godsell Architects began his last experience with an ecological standpoint, the rectangular shape residential, Glenburn House, of course, he built a first prototype on the coast. The precursor of this system, the Beach House St. Andrews, which is located on a peninsula south of Melbourne, is high on stilts above the dunes, oriented perpendicular to the sea, and acts as a telescope at the horizon, where the sky and Ocean meet.
In Glenburn, a rural area 90 minutes north-east of Melbourne, the relationship between the house and the water is reinterpreted. The box is described as a ship slicing through the swells of the earth. Instead of facing water, here is the house for a long time, the north-east side in terms of the offer living space and the guest room of the remote Australia heights of the Great Dividing Range, mountains that separate the coast populated eastern desert of the Interior Island-continent.
Contrary to the house with simple shapes, a scenic loop road to the finish Melba Highway (named after a 19th century opera star from Melbourne, Dame Nellie Melba) leads to the construction in a valley north of the site. Seen from afar, the steel rust red box looks enormous breasts as she tracks. The winding roads, however, leads to high ground behind the house, where a long ravine, you see the volume's midsection opening to the southwest. Parking the car, the house has remarkably reduced to the size of a two-car garage.
You can enter the house through the garage via a mudroom or stride along the north face of the official entry placed midway through the box. This entry through the plane of the cut along a central axis and lead to another opening, which allows access to the long ravine glimpsed before. Inside, the residency program should be simple-living, eating, sleeping and bathing areas are imposed within a rectangle, and even a bit like the procession at home playing with your perception, the interior is equally surprising.
Glenburn, Victoria, Australia
Sean Godsell Architects
With the Glenburn House in rural Australia, Sean Godsell perfects an ecofriendly prototype.
.
Dairy House, Somerset, England
The new words in the fashion of the 21st century, "organic", "green", "sustainable", have flooded today architectural vocabulary despite their indifference to the definition. When you get down to it, whether a work of architecture "green" is usually a shade of gray.
Architect Charlotte Skene Catling, director of the firm Skene Catling de la Peña, raise your shoulders off entirely rigorous environment characterization of the principles that have guided the renovation of her and more than a 1902 building in the historic, 850-acre Hadspen estate in Somerset, England. Although the demolition of the old building and replace it, it would have been much less expensive, she and her client saw the value in maintaining the integrity of the masonry timeworn structure and its role in the mass as a whole . Catling gutted and renovated the building's roof, the shingles recovered wood floor, adding an extension dressed in oak and glass that houses the space of movement between the first and second floors, as well as three bathrooms. A joint, 215-square-foot pool acts as a heat sink to a source of biomass energy in the summer.
But more than just staying home to the modest size (just over 2000 square feet) and reducing energy use, Catling sought to keep the local project. The oak, with layers of glass float dressed as the extension of the second floor, just cords stored in sheds in front of the Dairy House. Catling regional hired workers who live within 20 miles of the site: a carpenter who built the extension, a glass laminator responsible for adherence to the expansion of layers of glass, and a stonecutter who restored the brick walls and walkways and fashion pool of slate mined locally. These initiatives also represent an important part of sustainability that his client-savvy, Niall Hobhouse, calls "social sustainability".
Hobhouse sought Catling, an old friend, to help it review the design of dairy products with the intent to rent the house. However, once that work has begun on the renovation of the building, which was a cheese facility until the 1960's, the customer sees an ideal retreat for himself, friends and family.
Hobhouse, whose commissions Robert Smithson madness on the ground and a succession of Hadspen Parabola reimagine beloved garden has created controversy in the field of landscape design was intrigued by the question of how to insert in the modern architecture of old houses. In England, where many old buildings are "listed" or landmarked, the issue is particularly burdensome. Often, houses are to be restored to resemble the period pieces or extensions modern overwhelm and undermine the old structure. For this project, Catling suggested something between the two, she added more quietly, using transparency to dematerialize its bulk.
Dairy House, Somerset, England
Skene Catling de la Peña combines sustainability and seduction at the Dairy House in Somerset, England
.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Coexisting with the Environment, Snowmass, Colorado
"I can not believe that we live here." That was three and a half years since my husband, Kelly, and I moved into the house respectful of the environment we have built in Old Snowmass, Colorado, and one or the other of us still Declare these words on a regular basis. Sometimes it is the locale, a sage and scrub oak-covered hill with 360-degree view of snowy peaks, rolling meadows, and the red-rock ridges. At other times, the house itself is the object of our admiration.
At 2400 square feet, it's a house of the peanut, at least in the Roaring Fork Valley, where more than 10000 square feet trophy homes are as common as private jets to their owners in the fly. But it is heavy on the heart and proof of what is possible with a combination of vision, research, procedures, and tenacity.
The right architect is also an important ingredient. For our project, we turned to Tim Hagman, director of Basalt Hagman Architects, whose innovative use of materials and award-winning contemporary style meshed with what we had in mind. "The first time I met Linda and Kelly, they lived in Los Angeles, and Old Snowmass is a part-time vacation home," recalls Hagman. "They brought images of the tip of the project design and have ideas for a big, LA type of house. The first house has been designed over 5000 square feet and consists of three separate buildings."
Soon after, Kelly and I moved to Aspen full time, and our idea of what a mountain home should be developed. We became intrigued by the growing trend towards environmentally sensitive construction. "The more we learn, the more it made sense for us to build a sustainable house that fit into the earth," reports Kelly. "We decided to scale down the size and find ways to integrate technology saving energy and materials, such as straw bales, without sacrificing design."
Hagman reaction to the new leadership was "Impressive, let's go for it." So the next set of plans was a modern level of the house on three levels which, in the earth, the straw bales Features walls, and called for poured concrete floor and renewable bamboo. corrugated steel and standing seam roofs, and a combination of custom sheet metal, concrete-panel Hardi (durable, fire-resistant fiber-cement siding made of natural materials as the premium cement, sand, natural fibers, and water), and hand-trowled Stucco, cuffs round materials. Willmar windows were a good dive.
"The resulting design was much smaller, simpler and simpler than the original, with a roof reflecting the shape of the earth and of a roof that recalls its historic peak Victorian barns locally," said Hagman. "We have directed south to catch the sunlight and solar energy potential, and to lounge and master bedroom high levels of profit from the Snowmass and Mount Sopris views."
While construction has been a collaborative process (our general contractor, Jeffrey Mann, helped us get the project off the ground), we no longer have a source of work for ourselves-a process that Kelly, who works in the production of television programmes, compared to the production of a show. "It starts with a solid script, or the design in this case," he says. "Then you assemble a team of contractors, framers, plumbers, electricians, painters. Predproizvodnja handles licensing and engineering; postproduction is the precision work."
.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Dogtrot House, Poplarville, MS
The right house was born while they were busy making other plans, by Allan and Nancy Bissinger. The couple, who have three adult children and live most of the year in New Orleans, has hired New Orleans-company Waggonner & Ball Mac architects to design a small cottage on their 40 acres of property in rural areas of southern Mississippi hills overlooking a small pond. "Our plan was to have Mac Ball design person / party and eventually build a house much higher in the pond, but because the small house is functional, we decided to postpone the construction of something else." Explains Nancy.
Ball designed the 850-square-foot home (which also has 395-square feet of storage space, a 316-square-foot dining porch and a 200-square-foot screened porch) as a modern "dogtrot "Prototype, to guide the vernacular surrounding landscape and architecture. Small farms, with interruptions, pine and scrub land, barns, tin sheds, mobile homes, and chicken cooperatives. Typical in the rural South, dogtrot buildings covered an open space between two spaces, providing shelter, wind zone during collect the hot summers. In Bissinger home, this area serves a meal informal porch towards the pond. It quickly became the favorite of the couple's home.
Waggonner & Ball project designer Catherine Smith said: "The materials and design are all very simple." Wood-frame house is located on a concrete block untreated base. Stained-board and batten means of "Avoidance is interlaced with horizontal weatherboard siding. A diagonal slope single joint standing metal roof juxtaposed with a vertical form of free masonry fireplace in the dogtrot space, while large steps and raised in a smock Concrete extend this area still in the landscape.
The open porch divides the living space and screening porch storage / work room. Smith says efficient use of space is the key inside. The show is a double-height space volume with a loft above sleeping closets and a bathroom. According to Nancy, the little house turned out to be the perfect respite to the busy couple of urban life. "Allan likes to say that we have a mini-vacation every weekend," she said. "We fly fish in our pond, watching the birds of many species nest in the yard and we enjoy their families, Allan rides his tractor to clear brush, grass and plants on the property, I remove the weeds and maintain our (mostly) landscapes, our friends and family visit and we enjoy peace and tranquillity with them. Our three grown children also enjoy peace and tranquillity. We hope one day to teach grandchildren about the joys of life. "
Dogtrot House
Poplarville, MS
Waggonner & Ball Architects
via archrecord.construction
.
Franco Residence
Felicio Franco (a hairdresser who owns two salons) 's house, designed by architect David Stern, AIA, the Boston venture Stern McCafferty Architecture and Interiors. Built in Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal, is known for its beautiful scenery and picturesque villages ( "as if Switzerland and Hawaii has a child," said www.azores.com), and there is a certain quality of light which gives a magical dimension to everyday life. The white stucco dwellings are simplistic in form, and use lots of tile and wood.
Franco Residence had a three-bedroom 3,500-square-foot house that is on a three acres on Clark's Cove and its vineyard in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Although the specific form of house seems perfectly placed on the site, Stern revealed that, due to a complex network of restraint site wetlands-reverse view corridor limits, utility easements, flood-plan restrictions and zoning restrictions there was a close topographic opportunity for the placement. As the perfect haircut you did not know that you wanted, the house stands out from its surroundings, more traditional neighbors, but its site is quite naturally.
There are two volumes of substance, face north-west which is straight and contains the entry facade, the other facing south, which is open and transparent. The house was designed with the main living areas and master suite on the second floor to capture views and light. The lower deck, on the other hand, and with less glass and opacity, houses for the continuation of Franco daughter and granddaughter.
The interior is simple and uncluttered palette, with aluminium, glass, wood milled, and plaster as the main materials and mahogany for the continuation of the main bridge. Light takes center stage as an important element too. Without things, and now without her daughter and granddaughter in the house, Franco and his wife say that their house is exactly what should be the house: a refuge and a place physically and emotionally refuel per day
Franco Residence
South Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Stern McCafferty Architecture and Interiors
via archrecord.construction
.
Galland House, Laval, Quebec, Canada
Did you know? Redesign or adding to an existing building is often more difficult than starting from scratch. Why that his is it? because to do or create a joint rather than complete, but does not copy the original structure, adds that the space of flows from old to new construction, and becomes a transparent part of the whole can challenge even the most experienced architects. Presented to both an opportunity and a challenge for Raouf Boutros, director of Montreal, Boutros + Pratte, the creation of a 600 square feet in a traditional house in the town of Laval, less than an hour north of Hotel on the banks of the Riviere-des-Prairies.
The owners had built the first house on their 20,000-square-foot property in 1990 without the aid of an architect. The pine nuts, coated steel roof and exterior walls of stone have a picturesque reflects the feeling that the region of style, but had no particular architectural uniqueness. The owners knew they would extend their hand and has created a concrete slab at the rear of the building. When they were ready to add, they came to Boutros with special needs help public living space, a new bedroom and study, and a little more storage. Boutros decided that the two floors consist of three parts would be better with the new fair ground-floor sitting evenly on the slab foundation. A new wooden floor was extended from inside outside, forming a bridge that follows the stone wall of the house. On the second floor, room and study sit on top of the living room in a volume larger than consoles on three sides, strong enough to bear the burden of snow typical of the region freezing winter.
While Boutros and his team initially thought they would go with a roof acute for the addition, the exploration and study official brought the architects to the conclusion that a flat roof would simplify the volumes of the house as a whole, and preserve the domination of the roof of the building. Inside the second floor, the team created a slatted cedar bridge connecting the initial volume of the addition. Adding design continues his speech with subtle natural wood coating on walls, wood-framed windows at the top (bottom has a panoramic view with a wall of windows broken with the six structural columns that support the false floor ), Neutral and brown linoleum floors upstairs.
Galland House
Laval, Quebec, Canada
Boutros + Pratte
via archrecord.construction
.
Gradman House, Inverness Park, California
"I like to say that this house tiptoes on earth," says Robert SWATT, director of Emeryville, California-company SWATT architects, high upsloped site dictated the unusual design solution, "This piece of very old cedar trees natural and retaining walls that we do not want to disturb. Our goal was to work with the land. "As an enigma, a house maybe five levels but all on a story? But in fact the answer to this question is the solution to design challenge of Marc and Elaine Gradman vacation home in Inverness Park, California, on the 2,515-square-foot three-bedroom home.
SWATT and his team began by creating a caring Switchback road to develop materials on the site-60 feet above the street, which would later be the only access at home. A common structure-Pier and beam-exceptionally supports a plan of sight, which made it possible to design SWATT each of the five grade levels, as a "needle thread", "Every major space has access to the outside" , He said, "And because each grade level, we can create terraces instead of bridges, which means much less impact on the earth." Gradmans, who have two adult children and live mostly in the nearby city of Palo Alto, CA, didn 't have too many applications for their second home, other than it is relatively small, with a modern aesthetic, easy access to the beautiful views Forest south-west and Tomales Bay in the north, and that the color palette for materials is cut and complementary to the natural environment.
For this ideal level of sunlight, SWATT created a corridor of movement with a functioning linear skylights down over the length of the house. "Normally we deal with residences designed with narrow wings with space for movement to a party that serves the spaces on the other side," he said. "Not this house. We wanted to highlight maximum, but also shade where appropriate, we constructed the false overhang that shoots through space and above the terrace outside the living room. It gives a real horizontality to space. "Glulam beams of Douglas fir support the false, while horizontal planks of cedar outside coated other areas who are not dressed in gray charcoal-stucco. Cast in place concrete fact terraces, and all outdoor areas are left without any decorative landscaping indigenous plantations.
The main entrance of the house is actually in the middle, vertically, with bedroom up a half flight of stairs, the living room a few stairs, the dining room and kitchen least a few more stairs. "One of the biggest surprises for me is the kitchen," says Elaine Gradman. "When I saw the plans as the weakest parts of the house, four stages of the dining room, I thought, oh no, it feels like a dungeon. I could not have been more surprised. The view from this room-the town of Point Reyes Station and the hills beyond, the wetlands of Tomales Bay and Lagunitas Creek, the Douglas fir forest, being able to see the sun rise over the hills in the morning, the corner window that allows no interruption in the visibility-makes it more special room for me. The colors of the kitchen, yellow, blue-gray cabinets, black granite reflecting the hills, sun, water and fog special atmosphere of West Marin. "
"You can not really appreciate the house of the Inside Looking Out," says Gradman. "Seeing from the outside, you can not fully appreciate the volume levels, and views of the surrounding natural landscape. Walking through the house, up and down the ever changing levels, you are constantly exposed to a view of something new. As you climb the stairs, you can see higher and higher above the usual level of the average room. Your eyes and goes and on hills. It 'there is no sense of confinement, only a sense of scale. In this house, every time you turn around, you see on the windows, corner, or skylights to all the beauty around you. It does really feel like a Treehouse. You are returned and all perched at the same time."
Gradman House
Inverness Park, California
Swatt Architects
via archrecord.construction
.
Healdsburg House, Healdsburg, California
Mark Horton, director of San Francisco-based architecture Mark Horton, made this dream come true-twice-for her own mother, Yvonne. Located at the extreme end of Healdsburg, on a hill overlooking the city, the 1800-square-foot three-bedroom, two bathroom house is both simple and convenient. "My mother wanted a" no maintenance "home", says Horton, "and while some maintenance is always required, I wanted to give him as a simple home to take care of as possible. The structure and materials this house accede to the idea."
In fact, "The first house I designed for my parents was much bigger, on a vineyard, and their lifestyle to fit the time," he says. Look at this house, www.mh-a.com/architecture/residential/healdsburg_I/. While Horton's parents loved the house, things have changed, and with its 80 years, mother now on his own, she needed to be closer to amenities, and to live on one level.
A gutterless, acute metal roof begins at home ground on the north side. The four-sided roof plan is pent in the east / west, forming a protective cover for the rectangular volume. Exterior siding materials metals, both flat and horizontally ribbed; flooring concrete for the covered patio; aluminum windows and a substance which is not completely without maintenance, knotty pine siding. Inside, the pine continues, covering a wall containing storage cabinets and moving the length of the house, dividing public and private spaces. The basic plan is two rectangles that switching off of one another, with public spaces located in a volume open. "We chose the pin, because this is not sophisticated equipment, but it provides such a juxtaposition with the metal on the outside," said Horton. The ceiling is also lined with pine, bamboo flooring and cherry wood cabinets fill out the simple, warm interior finishes.
While it was important that the program dispense with multiple levels and steps, Horton found ways to vary the design elements, so the house didn’t become a static object. He used different kinds of glass in the windows, including a horizontally striated glass in the kitchen (“It looks like carbonated water,” he says), and added a red-glass window in a reading nook off the dining room. “That reading nook has a long horizontal window at waist level,” says Horton, “so you can perfectly see the hills when you’re sitting at the dining table. The little red window was a folly, really. It reminds me of wine, and the sun coming through it adds interesting color to the house.” Also adding an interesting flavor to the home are the three large globe lighting fixtures that hover above the dining table and light the large open volume. “I saw them as large clouds in that big space,” says Horton.
The house is well suited to Yvonne Horton, who is not your type 80 years-you'll find no doilies in this house, she still works as a real estate brokerage, tending his garden and four hives, and leads an active life . "We all progress or regress, you can say, at some point in life," she said. "This house is perfect for my needs. Sunset is my favorite time in the house. I watch the sun descend below the hills and knowing that this life, and this house is me. "
Who would not want a house in the wine region of California, one in particular designed specifically for you?
Healdsburg House
Healdsburg, California
Mark Horton Architecture
via archrecord.construction
.
LAMPS PLUS Elizabethan Style Iron Wall Art Hanging
A richly decorated room, the wall is hung art ideal to accentuate the entrance halls, corridors, seating and more areas. It is decorated with leaves and rolls in antique bronze finish with a wood finish background. 35 "high. 27 1 / 2" wide.
LAMPS PLUS Elizabethan Style Iron Wall Art Hanging
Rectangular Rust Finish Wall Mirror
Add light and depth to your home inside this solid wall mirror. Features rust finish a frame with an open branch. Also a beveled edges for a nice effect. Rectangular shape. From Franklin Iron Works ®. 28 "wide. 36" high.
Franklin Iron Works® Rectangular Rust Finish Wall Mirror
LAMPS PLUS Half Arch Leaf and Vine Iron Screen Wall Art
This beautiful art piece is a tribute to nature and all its glory. Improve your home decor with this sculpted garden. Bronze Green arrival.
LAMPS PLUS Half Arch Leaf and Vine Iron Screen Wall Art
Agapanthus Framed Art Print by Danhui Nai
About this picture
* Artist: Danhui Nai
* Title: Agapanthus Framed Art Print
* Frame: Burnished Bronze - 3"
* Mat: Dove/Mist
* Image Dimensions: 35.76 in. W x 23.69 in. H
* Outside Frame Dimensions: 46.8 in. W x 34.7 in. H
Agapanthus Framed Art Print by Danhui Nai,46.8 in. x 34.7 in. Framed
LAMPS PLUS Chinese Zodiac Wall Art
Wall of wood-frame art represents the Chinese zodiac animals. The wall art has a matte print Chinese border. 36 1 / 2 inches wide, 15 "high and 1 1 / 2" deep.
LAMPS PLUS Chinese Zodiac Wall Art
LAMPS PLUS Moorish Arch Wall Mirror
Framework decorative wall mirrors look in entrances and corridors. It has a scroll with gold and highlights an arc top. Also a glass beveled edges for a beautiful finish. 46 "high. 29" wide.
LAMPS PLUS Moorish Arch Wall Mirror
The Singing Butler Framed Canvas Art by Jack Vettriano,29.1 x 24.1 Framed
In 1999, during its first intercontinental exhibition was held in New York, the work of this Scottish-born artist has skyrocketed in popularity. His use of nostalgia for the years 1920 to create grounds romantic settings remains a favorite style with decorators the USA and Great Britain.
* Artist: Jack Vettriano
* Title: The Singing Butler Framed art canvas
* Reference: Gold raised Rope - 2.75 "
* Image Dimensions: 23.56 inches x 18.56 W in H
* Excluding Framework Dimensions: 29.1 x 24.1 W in H
* The canvas transfer process involves lifting the image of a printing paper, transfer and merger permanently to the canvas, which gives it a texture unlike standard paper prints. You'll love the rich depth and beauty that our artist-grade canvas adds to your visual experience. The surface is deeper, giving it qualities of both a bright and a matte finish at the same time. The colors seem more dynamic and realistic, and the play has finished the feeling of an artist original.
The Singing Butler Framed Canvas Art by Jack Vettriano,29.1 x 24.1 Framed
Black Mirrored Glass Wall Clock
This face open clock features black mirror glass for the hour and minute markers. Contemporary hands of money open play time with great precision quartz movement. Requires a "AA" batteries, not included. Guaranteed by a three-year manufacturer's warranty.
Black Mirrored Glass Wall Clock,14.1
Antique Parchment
Our beautiful mirror has designed a ledge for placing small objects, 3 hooks for hanging hats or jackets, decorative moldings at the top and a soft curve at the bottom it add charm to any room decor.
Carolina Cottage 2832 AP Harvest Mirror, Antique Parchment
HM Sunshine Burst Mirror
The retro appeal of this Sunshine Burst mirror will not be lost today on the mod decorators. The two sleekly organic and geometric, it could easily have made a striking accent to a Le Corbusier chaise longue in 50 years. Now, his style is reflected in the nature inspired and wonderfully versatile, following the trend wall decor that is both attractive and functional. GRAND A measure 49.6 inches in diameter, this distinctive piece holds a beveled mirror in its center surrounded by a large decorative border that provides a solid point of view. From there, spread thin metal rods to create a dynamic design that incorporates both the balance and spontaneity. With a cool metallic silver and a thin 2.4-inch depth, Sunshine Burst a look is bold, but not overbearing, it creates an atmosphere more ethereal than a declaration of weight. No Assembly is required.
Stunning break mirror sun shining characteristics, silvery "bundles" arising from rounding centre. Slim son metal create a unique special effect that the theatre will add any room of your house. Central beveled mirror catches the light is beautiful and framed by a halo dark metal. Be sure to become one of your favorite wall accents, try suspended the room where it can be seen. Position in a foyer, entry or any well-lit, sunny room where they can be admired and appreciated.
HM Sunshine Burst Mirror
Heinfeld Residence, Newport Beach, Calif.
Object of any nature whatsoever if it strongly better designed, high capacity and desire can produce a maximum of masterpiece, which is the logical consequence of a creative process. As the latter housing construction for example. This house of the 4,500-square-foot home designed by Heinfeld for himself, his wife and their teenage daughter.
The house, which occupies a 9000-square-foot corner lot on a hilltop, about one kilometer from the beach, enjoying the cool climate in California. On 2 floors, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths wrapper around a central courtyard on 3 sides, with handheld screen and glass doors opening to the outside space (and a solar heated swimming pool) on the south-west coast . A double-height great room becomes even greater when the doors are open and hidden in the walls. Private spaces, including 3 of 4 rooms, are located high on the sides of the large room with a perforated plywood deck on the second story between them. The materials are simple and cost-effective, with recyclable items used whenever possible.
Heinfeld included 5.3 KW photovoltaic panels in the roof, which provide almost all the house's energy needs. Other features include a green GLULAM (Glue laminated timber) and composite beams, a roof overlooking the south-west on exposed parts, a window is almost guidance, mechanical windows and sunscreens in all rooms for shading and cross-ventilation, yet isolated translucent skylights in the great hall, a recirculating hot water pump and efficient lighting everywhere. The simple cut palette includes plaster painted outside, Douglas fir and white coating of paint on gypsum board (VOCs without painting) inside, terrazzo floors and kitchen cabinets maple down, and recycled-content carpet tiles at the top. They chose to put our money in the volume of the house, rather than in expensive materials. A portion of this volume includes a four-garage located on the north side of the house, even if they do not have four cars and one of the cars they have is a hybrid.
Heinfeld APL has to do landscaping. Rocks, plants and modern elements of cement are pleasantly arranged on all parts of Xeriscaped landscape, adding to the simple elegance of the house. On the whole, this is a package that Heinfeld said even adopted gather more difficult with his client, his wife. "She wanted me to treat it as if it was a real client," he said, "so I had him sign off on the plans." And while he admits that his daughter is not as sold on a modern design than the rest of the family, he says the house has enough space for everyone to have their own personality. "His room is where she lives, and it can do what it likes with it," he said. A real household California, with consciousness.
Pressures for architects to design their own houses are often keep the plot forever. The house must be a masterpiece-a poster for children architect design principles, paid for, this time by the architect. For Dan Heinfeld, FAIA, president of the LPA-an Irvine, California, architecture, planning, interior design, landscaping, and graphics firm that specializes in sustainable architecture-designing an home in Newport Beach, California, provides all the stress, and then some.
This article is I take away from article of Ingrid Spencer, in architectural record.
Heinfeld Residence, Newport Beach, Calif.
LPA, Inc.
.
House At Wind Point, Hunt County, Texas
Founder and chairman of The Container Store, Garrett Boone has traveled the world and seen a lot of great architecture. But it was his stay in a converted barn architect outside Frankfurt, Germany, which made him realize he had never actually owned and lived in the house a source of inspiration. they have three adult children and spend most of their time in Dallas, had purchased a heavily wooded five acres of land in eastern Texas, on the east shore of Lake Tawakoni. So they have decided on their own Innisfree built, and they hired Max Levy, FAIA, Dallas-Max Levy, an architect, to design it. Levy, known for his small hands on practice and carefully crafted modernist design, said that the program called for a 3000-square-foot house with a sort of communion with the outside spaces.
The complex consists of seven separate buildings-the main kitchen / dining / living room with a screened porch, a master suite, three guest room buildings, a dormitory, and boats, connected by a sidewalk-ipe Wood raised. Oriented with breaks in mind, each building is its own private sanctuary. Levy called "windshield structures," little by each structure takes the form of a box gabled basic interest lies in the details, such as windows. Mesh boxes built in aluminium tubes and projection screens each building at different heights, windows that swing. While the buildings use a geothermal heating and cooling system, Levy notes that this is not the greener aspect of the project.
Levy inexpensive used throughout the project, including industrial fans, MDF lining, linoleum war, aluminum window windows and doors, and money-bowl bulbs with white vinyl discs on the wall behind them to reflect light. Industrial for lighting was also used in cooking and dining areas. While the Boones were keen on the idea of the separate structures, they were not sure whether the casing Levy has chosen for each building-three-tab shingles composition, colors environmentally friendly, including green , Black and gray.
"Why would we need in addition to any other space than this?" S'interroge Garrett. The 1200-square-foot main building, where the kitchen and dining areas are located, boasts built-in window seats and storage of 37 feet from Long Island, and a wood stove, behind which the Keats poem is inscribed . "There is a spiritual quality of this place," said Garrett Boone. His wife Cecilia agreement. "There are areas where you can just sit and be, places of solitude. And then there's the friendliness of the warm and informal kitchen." The house has changed their lives more ' one. They are ready to abandon their homes in Dallas, with its acre plot, and buying a condominium for use as a pied-à-terre.
House At Wind Point
Hunt County, Texas
Max Levy Architect
via archrecord.construction.com
.
Kessler Residence, Chevy Chase, Md.
Terms that come to mind to describe the architecture of the city of Chevy Chase, Maryland, a few kilometres outside Washington, DC, is classical, romantic and nostalgic. Architect Robert Gurney, FAIA, director of the Alexandria, Virginia-based company name, designed a house (a house on a typical street in this city, despite its facade and roof shingles acute) seamlessly fits into the district and his own modern aesthetic and that of its customers.
In this house, 3800 square feet, you will find that fewer surprises. The house uses the techniques of universal design of the cellar to the attic of the third floor, all aspects that are neither obvious nor institutional. Gurney said: "One of Kesslers of twin daughters has cerebral palsy and uses either a walker, crutches or a cane to get around," the Kesslers wanted her to have full access to all parts of the house , And that's what we 'Ai done. But the way we did, it means you May not notice that if it was pointed out to you. "Wider doors, open spaces life, a lift, continues to smooth transitions between and within rooms, low temperature, removing kitchen counters, Isabel Kessler can navigate on the house itself. It has its own small refrigerator in the kitchen.
Organized around a 75-foot-long therapeutic pool on its south side, the house is long and narrow to accommodate the 150 feet deep lot (which was previously empty, but for a shedlike garage, and served as a side yard for the adjacent house). A three-storey, 36 feet wide, 18 feet deep with a volume strongly roof pitch is the threshold between the history and context of the modernist house. In a contiguous, flat-roofed two-storey second volume of the house extends to the rear of the lot, the integration of modernity with tradition.
By playing with the series of planar elements, Gurney and Kesslers agreed that it would be a home without wasting space. For efficiency in mind, Gurney designed a plan kitchen, living room and dining room on the first floor, with a positioning Mondrianlike large windows overlooking the courtyard and pool outside. Three rooms take the second floor, and Kessler office (he and his wife are both lawyers) is located in the attic under the roof acute volume. The Kesslers not opted for the garage, with the ground for storage. According to the effectiveness of space, designed Gurney more each room, an abundance of systems bear cabinets beechwood. Other materials including mahogany and lead-coated copper on the siding, black with steel frames for glass and panels of translucent fiberglass that form a collage of windows, Brazilian cherry floors inside, graphite slate floors in the lobby, a fireplace and ground face block of cement.
For the Kesslers, the house is both a refuge and a culmination of two years of waiting and an act of faith. "I thought Robert Gurney going to the AIA offices and looking through portfolios," said Kessler, adding that limited to five architects and interviewed each, to find Gurney be the one who "clicked" he and his wife. "After that Bob would in our old house once a week and sit down at our table to talk about the latest incarnation of the design for hours at a time. I remember Isabel and Olivia bringing in their small rug and fall asleep under the table while we adults and then on architecture. It was exciting to go through the process, and letting the elderly, crowded segment of our lives behind for this new design and new house. And because it has a universal design, who knows, maybe we'll stay here until we are really old. We certainly possible."
.
via arcrecord.construction
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Ottoman 2.0 Calf and Foot massager - Black BPO
NEW OTTOMAN 2.0 calf & Robotic Massage feet - Human Touch Technology ® Interactive Health is the next generation of robotic technology massage. developed in cooperation with the medical community, this technology offers a whole new level of functionality massage, imitating the techniques used by chiropractors and massage therapists. (approximately 20 "tall, 23" wide and 12 "deep) - $ 249.95
Ottoman 2.0 Calf and Foot massager - Black BPO
Prepac Manhattan 6 Drawer Espresso Dresser
Get it minimalist in your home, characteristics of style Espresso Finish six drawers size style of solid wood furniture legs brushed nickel buttons solid metal drawers for the right term, while metal roller glides with stops in safe Made of wood composite and easy-to - clean melamine laminate ready to assemble.
Prepac EBK-8400 Manhattan 6 Drawer Espresso Dresser
Friday, April 18, 2008
Mississippi River Bluff Home, Mendota, MN
The Mississippi River Bluff Home, 7500 square feet, five-bedroom house Mendota, Minnesota since its completion has won numerous local and national awards for its architecture, the site was deprived of representation for architects who want to show great form and detailing their employees and organized visits drinks. Overlooking both the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, and the silhouette of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Home Bluff is one of five on 6 hectares subdivided lot provided by the manufacturer Millerville Inc. (two others are built, with more than two pipeline). Other houses have been completed already sold, and offers have come for the two who are still unbuilt. "The contemporary-style house is quite a departure for manufacturers," says Todd Hansen, AIA, partner in charge of Minneapolis venture albertsson Architecture Hansen who has designed all five houses. "This house will be a single customer. But there are many old and new houses for families with many children, nannies and live in extended family for whom a house this size works well, "he said." Yet I am agreement that is unique to see a speculative house of this magnitude."
The hiker than 60 years to occupy 1.14 acres have prejudge the house ecological footprint. The team constructed above the large, rectangular foundation, after the destruction of the house. Hansen founded the simple pine nuts outside on vernacular forms Midwest farm-style houses and barns. He used recycled Douglas fir for the post and beams, which varies in height along the house. Fabrics coating cedar shingles, acute and fiberglass shingles and metal standing seam roofs pay off a traditional look.
The generous interior spaces, elegant and minimal, on the other hand, were designed to express the heat and modernism. The two-storey house has a 1,911-square-foot finished basement, which houses a room and a strengthened, conversation pit circular black-and-brick fireplace salvaged and rebuilt from the existing home. The ground floor has a 1,047-square-foot open containing cooking, eating and living spaces. Organized along the line of bluff, these areas contain service areas "Hidden in Plain Sight" behind a wall of cabinets and a large mirror ( "a tribute to Adolf Loos," said Hansen in the mirror). With the abundance of windows on the north side of the house, a "light follow" plus-windowed dome skylight that illuminates-space. The 660-square-foot master suite is also located on the ground floor, which is a guest room with two other rooms on the second floor.
The natural color of wood used throughout the house, like cherry for stair railings, reclaimed Jarrah (an Australian hardwood) for the majority of floors and floor coverings cork used in the family room-provides the Heat large spaces. Grating barnlike interior millwork on the ceilings and walls give the texture. The lighting is soft and weak, and living spaces in particular, where lighting is mounted on son strung in space, an intimate feel belies the large tracts.
Ray Miller, Millerville the owner said: "Even if it was very much a collaboration, my partner really wanted this house to be a more modern than what I have in general." "We were able to inject over a serene, Scandinavians look into this house than in others on the ground, "agreed Hansen. Examples can be found in the rooms as the master bathroom, where architects have used back-painted , Sand-skip sheet of glass instead of tile. "Some visitors have commented that they see an Asian influence, as well," he said. "We tried to ensure that each space warm and welcoming, while respecting the objectives of the use of fingerprints and taking advantage of the site."
"I take the reins back on other houses, which are more traditional, more painted millwork, colour, enamel tiles, etc. However, this is the one who receives such an incredible response. But there is always a risk in this case, "he said." There is just a small population who are interested in this something contemporary. A buyer will come."
.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Off-Use house, Los Angeles, California
Average house lists for about $ 700000 in Los Angeles, where every inch of the city of 469 square miles east-almost coveted. The reasons why you can count on one hand, and a few lots remain empty. Area complications or sentimental value could keep a parcel of land to be sold and developed the plot or perhaps desirable that nobody can know what or how to build.
Partners architects in the architecture firm P XS, Linda Pollari (chairman of the Department of Architecture / landscape / Interiors at Otis College of Art and Design while Somol, director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago, lives in Chicago) and Robert Somol want to own a house in LA, they went on a mission to find one of these unwanted empty lots. Reducing the bottom two, they ardently pursued both of who owned them, then write letters, asking, doing their utmost to convince the owners to sell. They even went so far as to pass through the design process for the two separate lots in the hope that it would not be for nothing. It was not. The approximately 8000-square-foot piece of land they purchased on the corner of Olympic Boulevard and Highland Avenue South was part of a family succession since the 1920's. The impossible-Olympic busy intersection is essentially a period of six lanes, some 80000 cars a rush every day. Not exactly the place where one might expect to find a peaceful solution home with an oasis of greenery outside.
Although not quite quiet, the house is a study of site-specific architecture. Without embracing the street, Pollari and Somol sought to engage with him. The years 1840 square-feet of combined office and a bedroom, two bathrooms, with pool, integrated into the landscape and carport, pushed to the edge of the site to the street with a 104-foot-long piece of shiny steel Galvanized - A real barrier that appears as a kind of billboard for buses, cars and pedestrians passing by. On the wall on the inside, from floor to ceiling shelves built in stifles its books in the office area, while two long strip windows offer a glimpse of the street scene. Desktop combined kitchen / living room gallery at the east end of volume, no doors interrupt the flow.
The materials are modest and give a wink to the 1920 Spanish colonial houses in the region. The walls of stucco, rock, and purple-stained Douglas fir, separated by glass and form the north side of the house. "There is a tile wall still to come," Pollari said, "but will have to wait until I can afford it." The interior is all sealed concrete floor, while the terrace surrounding the kidney shaped pool is dressed in white, Penny tiles round. Why have a word more refined outside the interior? "It was a last-minute correction damaged a concrete bridge," said Pollari. "But it's so easy to maintain that I adore. "Ease of maintenance is the key to this house, both inside and outside, because of the location." brake dust is really dirty, "she said.
Despite the constant cleaning and a little noise, Pollari said his house could not agree to his best. "The room is glass on both sides and this point of view of terrarium outside, with the pool as a night when it is dark, it is my favorite room forever," she said. "You're protected when you return with opaque walls, and then you see a green corridor outside."
On the architecture of protection is one thing, but what about the effective protection? Pollari said because the area is so busy, she feels perfectly at ease. "There is an enormous kind of security to be on such trafficking corner," she says, "and since the city put into circulation device, it has become even more secure." Pollari told the camera in place - accidents that have already a kind of constant macabre theatre for the district-have minimized, and whenever the camera takes a picture is like a flash in the house. "It is moments like these, when the drama of the streets finds its way into the house, realizes that Pollari she is happy to be home.
Off-Use
Los Angeles, California
P XS
via architecture record.
Shenandoah Retreat house, Warren County, Virginia
In this region, where Colonial is king, clean lines and spare spaces are not popular flavor, Roxanne Fischer and Donald Orlic, two scientists from the National Institutes of Health, finding Burton Carter Architects in Berryville, Virginia-based, as the local architects who do modern, to build a house with a modern aesthetic on their 24 acres of property on the north fork of the Shenandoah River. "Our tastes are for architecture that is not decorative, and that we appreciate own scientists, organized spaces." Explains Mr. Fischer.
Fischer and Orlic wanted as many strategies for saving energy as possible into the design, and a minimal aesthetic, they wanted a house with a large, a place where they could view the vast collection of works of art they have accumulated, particularly the large pieces created by artist Fischer son, Jonathan Feldschuh and living space open where they could entertain family and friends (the couple has six children and nine grandchildren between them). With these needs in mind, Carter + Burton principal Jim Burton, AIA, its partner Carter Page, the firm interior Michelle Timberlake and his design team put on the creation of 4000 square feet, two bedrooms retirement.
The construction of the house in the slope of the site, the architects have sought to take advantage of sun exposure and the design of glass walls banked on the south side, with a strong north wall as a thermal barrier with clerestory windows to allow some northern light. The thrown to the ground to allow water to flow under the house, the master bedroom wing and lobby (which come to you as you enter the house after crossing a concrete bridge) is separated from the kitchen / dining room / lounge on a staircase tower. Burton and his team have created home-tree-like spaces with tour staircase, which became a vertical gallery for art and is used to ventilate the house with a fireplace. There is also a main office or loft above the living room giving the family tree who feel-house. Cave-like space has been created in the basement, which is carved into the hill, surrounded by earth and concrete and the extension to a terrace.
Concrete plays a major role in this project. The paid up is the basic foundation of the house and stood across the counter height to height over essentially the kitchen. Walls support are also made of concrete, as is the tower, which recalls the vernacular fire rounds found in the region. Exposed interior concrete walls provide the structure and balance for the concrete floor and chimneys. A geothermal heating system keeps the soil warm during the winter months, while cedar siding vertical adds figurative heat of the house ceilings and externally. Structural stress skin panels on the roof that extends up to a maximum of 18 feet by 4 feet consoles provide a profile thin roof and eliminate the need for rafters. Levels of terraces and wooden bridges, and a spa custom log home on the landscape and bring even more heat to the vertical concrete volumes.
Inside, a minimum of the range of materials continues, while art becomes an integral part of the design. A solution was found by construction in a bank of closets, mechanical space, benches, shelves and north along the spine of movement, then the creation of giant sliding panels that hide storage. Two of these groups hold large paintings by the son of Roxanne. "The interior spaces are durable, and both adults and children-friendly," said Timberlake, interior designer for the project. "Kids can ride their bikes in the house!" Accepts Fischer. "We do not have to worry about the surface." Less than two hours drive from their Washington, DC home, Fischer and Orlic spend every weekend at retirement, and hope to retire to it. "Whenever we go out there, I'm always amazed at the place," says Fischer. "Even with a very nice person you eventually get used to seeing them and stop marveling at their beauty, but not with this house. It has changed us in many ways-expanded our vision of architecture. We now have a large collection of books on architecture in our library, and we have made pilgrimages to Bilbao and other places to learn more. Having this house has nourished our minds, and this is a wonderful place to feed our friends and family."
Shenandoah Retreat
Warren County, Virginia
Carter + Burton Architecture
via architecture record
.
Soaring Wings house, Austin, Texas
"I fell on a rock, the project has literally almost killed me." Says the architect Winn Wittman, director of Austin venture Winn Wittman Architecture. Broke his back, for Wittman, the construction of a house on the specifications that demonstrate his talents and architecture vision was more than a challenge, it is dangerous. While managing the construction of the 6,100-square-foot Soaring Wings home.
The three-story, four bedrooms, six bath house is now owned and occupied by buyers met: a couple and their two children who lived before in a high-rise in Houston. Wittman can talk about the difficult process, even laugh. "This house completely adapted to McPikes," said Wittman buyers. "It is encouraging to note that my vision is now theirs, and it feels like destiny that they bought the house." Contessa McPike ok. "Our plan was to build our own house, but when I walked in this I felt a spirit associated with them instantly. The quality and know-how are so high and so specific, it seems absurd that this was a specification home."
Wittman's vision for the house is far from simple in the beginning, but he continued to evolve, even in the four-year construction phase. What began as a two-story home on a single lot has become a three-story steel house on two lots (1.6 acres) without barred holder. Ipe wood bridges-coated copper, shellstone coating, 146 windows, a book of 3000 granite bathtub, and even a concrete mixed with orange slice candy and Gummi bears are some of the materials and products used. The house, with its two giant copper-plated wings (hence the name), is divided into two volumes, both public and private, connected by a two-story glass and steel bridge. With no designated or front to back, the house has its main entrance-accessible via a staircase of pink sandstone-Arizona under the bridge. The top of the staircase leading to a private black granite-paved courtyard carved into the hill, with a saltwater pool and waterfall. The pool crosses the corner of the house, giving visitors inside the living room the feeling that they are standing in the pool itself.
The use of glass, maple floors, cabinets and vertical grain fir through the house inside, which opened plan kitchen / living / dining room. As the design has evolved, Wittman made more storage is needed, he says if a basement and thrown into a wine cellar and elevator for good measure.
"This house was my dream project," Wittman said. "It took four years, a lot of commitment and, sometimes, it seems it was not worth." Architect, who is also a piano player and author, compared the house to a composition by many. "It is not yet done so," he said. "I am currently working with owners to submit a street home to tie the landscape. The project has proved to be worth its complexity."
Soaring Wings
Austin, Texas
Winn Wittman Architecture
.
Bar House, Aspen, Colo
Do you like modern design? In the city of New York architect Peter Gluck, because he recognizes that his creations are "bold modern", and that the concepts underlying the site and out of the program. So do not go to him for a traditional cookie-cutter house.
This house is located in Aspen, Colorado Nestled in a deep, narrow valley surrounded by mountains, and with a river on one side and a scenic route over the other, the site was both dramatic and difficult. The client knew Gluck to live in the house that already existed here as the sun reached the bottom of the valley only from the south, and existing home and those nearby had been built without this fact in mind.
The program is clear: This house has one room for each customer four young children, a guest room, and plenty of space to store kayaks, skis and bicycles. In addition, the family wanted the outdoors to be a part of their lives indoors. "This is a home not only to live but to stay in," said Gluck for customers.
Gluck designed the 5,750-square-foot house into two parts: an elongated, two-story volume with kitchen, living room, dining rooms and first floor and the bedrooms and bathrooms on the second floor, and a discreet separate guest suite the house by a driveway. The second floor spaces are placed in a single corridor loaded on the south side of the second floor, allowing a clear view of the valley and the admission of sunlight in each room. An exterior staircase on the north side protected leads to a roof deck. The ground floor is partly below ground, with glass on three sides a magnificent view of supply and in particular in the winter sun to penetrate into the slot. A total of near the entrance provides coverage during harsh weather conditions and storage for sports gear. It is also a large mudroom at the entrance of the house, where each family member has its own space to leave coats and boots.
Some simple formulas and simple, durable materials finalizing the design, as well as the efficiency of heating and cooling. The house is fully dressed in ipe wood, inside and finishes on concrete floors, wenge wood, built in cabinetmaking and English at the bottom of the floor sycamore, and deployment of panels of fabric that act as shades for Most glass southern exposure. According to the client, a flat roof in a valley does not have a problem with holding the snow.
The exterior, because the valley siting does not include many level surfaces, Gluck created walls of concrete that broaden the areas flat. It is still an area on the south side that can be flooded and used for ice skating, even though the client admits he never did.
Oriented for passive solar and built to take advantage of sight, Gluck said his client family feels almost as if they are sometimes camping. "We've always felt like our old house was to protect us from outside, but in a bad way of keeping us to know the environment," he says. "We were always looking around a corner or sticking his head out the window, trying to see nature. With this house, we are warm inside, and yet we are always conscious of the changing seasons and attractive. We do not want to exclude nature. We want to be a part of it, and in this house, we are."
Bar House, Aspen, Colo
Peter L. Gluck and Partners, Architects
via architecture record
.
Austerlitz Residence, Austerlitz, N.Y.
Designed by Cambridge, Mass-based architecture Anmahian Winton Architects, celebrated food writer and editor of the magazine Gourmet Ruth Reichl and her husband, TV producer Michael Singer press, getting away means lowering the volume of New York and seeking refuge in their 2500 square - foot weekend house on 35 acres of land in the Berkshires. There's nothing like to avoid a retreat for the occupied countries Manhattanites.
Nick Winton said: "This house is very simple, with exposure to landscape and casual for a lifetime and open." On a spectacular high plateau overlooking the valley of the Hudson River, history-one, three bedroom house is organized in a plane close can simplify volumes and high performance parapet roof designed to support, not surrender, the snow. The house has two main parts, one of which is closed with floor to ceiling, shelves and an "bridge" which is entering the space. Opposite the library, walls of glass expose the spectacular landscape framed by a stone terrace and the false roof. "From the house you're looking to bottom, so you can see hawks playing on the breezes over the valley. "Dit-Reichl.
At the heart of this house is a room which contains the single life, a library and dining areas, all anchored by a horseshoe-shaped open kitchen, and together with the elegant and simple texture of maple wood. Out of this grand space is the master suite, which contains a bathroom that opens to a private garden and an outdoor shower.
Although it is generally the architect who brings a landscape architect to clients attention, in this case Cambridge-based landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, a friend of Reichl and Singer, was the person who suggested Anmahian Winton for 'employment. According to Winton, in collaboration with renowned landscape architect is a treat. "The exterior of the house is a stucco shade depending on the landscape-a bluestone dust," he said. "Michael planted ivy that consume these walls and mixing the house and landscape to be beautiful." Van Valkenburgh also designed a steel and wood trellis for climbing wisteria. Reichl said that the interior / exterior of the printing house, it's really special.
Austerlitz Residence
Austerlitz, N.Y.
Anmahian Winton Architects
Via architecture record
Kangaroo Valley House, New South Wales
Kangaroo Valley House is located near a cliff edge and surrounded by a sturdy bush. A road meanders gradual approach allows a developer of the house that appears defensive and misleading in scale.
The house is composed of a family of containers, covered and open to the sky. The geometry of the house is simply being quietly orthogonal spaces arranged in a spectacular natural landscape. The simplicity of space configurations and together form a misconception of the capacity building to offer different lifestyles that meet the seasonal and diurnal changes.
Outside the winter months, the terrace, living volume and south of the outer courtyard represent a long flexible living space, oriented north to south, while in the cold months, life is understood in one direction east to west with fire in the centre.
Concrete is used as a robust material where connections are made on the ground echoed massive shelf of organic rock formations. Copper is used as a craft and patinaed surface color that makes the connection, the colors of the environment and high Bloodwood Stringybark. The wood is used on the external surfaces of life as a rich interior, but unlike the sheath and structural materials.
Australian Building by Turner + Associates
Completion Date: 2006
Use: Residential
Site Area: 100 hectares
Gross Floor Area: 325 sqm
Photographs: Brett Boardman
via architect.co.uk
.
Signal Station House
The design of the new building was designed as a simple box sitting next to the original octagonal tower, but isolated to maintain a respectful separation and emphasize the distinct form of the original structure. Its location and orientation aims to meet the exposed coastal location of the site, the movement of the sun, and points of view, while maximizing the other garden.
The new building is physically connected to the tower using a single dependency floor at the base of the tower as a "plug" connection to link the old and new buildings. In the north, the building is against the wall, with windows framing individual view on the river. The firm is largely and west walls of a sandwich while glass lying south.
A light wooden box along the spine of the new structure allows light to penetrate the heart of the building and emphasizes the circulation space between the main rooms. The internal surfaces are articulated with overlapping plans wall and folding forms, which run between, and integrate different areas - for example, a dark gray concrete work around the kitchen cooking, drops in arrivals and becomes a step that is the threshold of the dining room. It folds up to become a bench in the floor disappears, and reappears in the garden to form a bench outside.
Rooms at the rear (north) are utility / bathrooms, which are in space angle between the light-box and the cliff wall. The lower part of the roof over these areas is done with a rubber membrane, which overlooks the north and lying around and between the tower and extension to form a canopy of entry.
The construction methods and materials
The project was implemented in two phases by contractors. Wherever possible, the construction of the extension and renovation of the original building materials using environmentally friendly.
During Phase 1, the original signal tower was brought down inside the brick walls and concrete floors, a new wooden staircase has been installed and the walls were re-directed using sheepswool insulation advice and clay, clay with a plaster-finishing (as a more sustainable alternative to the plasterboard and gypsum plaster). The windows were replaced with wood and acute double-glazing, and the flat concrete roof was insulated with cork and sealed using a rubber membrane EPDM. A new slapping was formed between the tower and nearby dependency to create a lobby and a new tile floor was installed throughout the building, the sub-heating pipes.
During Phase 2, the extension has been built with a "Masonite" structure of wood, manufactured off-site and pre-insulated with cellulose (recycled newsprint) insulation. It was erected in 3 days established on a concrete base and steel frame portal south along the altitude. The main walls are a "breathable" construction, untreated with Scottish Douglas Fir coating, woodwool slab and finished with a lime and white harl correspond to the original tour.
The main roof of the extension is planted with grass roofs, where in the Corbusian idiom, the land of the impression has been replanted above (literally, as the soil of the base was set aside and reused here ). This was thought to be the most environmentally and aesthetically friendly introduction to this place. The site is aimed mainly at the Forth Rail Bridge above, using grass on the roof garden and minimise the visual impact of the extension from above. There are also additional benefits other acoustic insulation and increased thermal mass. To avoid the standard bulky eaves common with grass roofs, before a gradual decrease eaves detail on the front elevation.
A phase of construction waste management strategy was put in place to minimize the need for the transport of waste to landfills during the project. All waste untreated wood has been retained for use in both wood stoves in the tower renovated, while brick and rubble was retained for use as fill and sub-base under the extension.
The brief
The original signal tower is a list B ex-Ministry of Defence signal station, perched on a cliff overlooking the Firth of Forth, near the Forth Rail Bridge. It was purchased by Dr M. Sheehan and Millar in August 2001. Their original mission was to renovate the existing tower and add a large modern extension to create a new family home.
Icosis architecture, Scotland: Photos
Forth Rail Bridge House, North Queensferry, Edinburgh by architects Icosis
Guest: Dr. Sue Sheehan and Mr. Euan Millar.
via architect.co.uk.
The Millar house
Millar The house is located south of the Campsie Fells base adjacent to a coniferous forest, which covers the lower slopes. The project was completed by jmarchitects Glasgow office in August.
The new house is built on the grounds of a large villa in which the existing customer
lived before the construction of their new home and is placed on the site to maximize views to the south, and in light of the living spaces and rooms.
On this point, to the south, the site slopes away from the new house giving the new house a feeling of being high in the landscape. A large wooden bridge placed against the wall of life floats on the landscape and masks the junction of the house with the ground.
The new house has a zinc roof and is lined with oak councils organized in steel panels with chains on the first floor level of development of large windows of the salon south of the altitude.
Due to the approval of gardens lounge was placed at ground level and is reached through a double-height entrance hall staircase with stainless steel.
Make connections visual space to space is a feature of the house. In the space of life double doors on each side of the foyer allow 2 rooms along the south side to be linked. The show was also designed to fill the depth of the house and windows on the north side align with openings in the south, to give through views to the lower gardens. In short, the house although formal in nature took its clues from the context and makes a modest contribution to the debate on the provision of housing in rural areas.
Architects jmarchitects
Client: Mr & Mrs Millar
Engineer: Adams Partnership
Quantity Surveyor: Dunne Mitchell Aikman
Contractor: McDaid Building Services
Budget: £240k.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
419 Tower Drive by Sprinkle Robey Architects, San Antonio, Texas
How many bedrooms and bathrooms to improve to an owner of the future, freshment a family such as the need to make a solid investment house, so when people make an architect to renovate or improve for a house there, they bring a significant amount in mind sale value of return. For Kathy Kich, whose rent San Antonio-based Sprinkle Robey Architects to renovate and expand its 2,178-square-foot, one bedroom, a gabled roof on a house deep, went 2.25-acre place in near the hill of San Antonio, she only think about doing this full house for herself and her husband, Gary has the same taste, he hoped that the plans, they went forward its design.
Until four years design phase to start and stop the 1960 bachelorette pad remade in a 3440-square foot nest for two people, with a boxlike further north and south. He was on all points of using the space efficiently. The original stucco considered modest house outside, but inside, the living space was more impressive then a passerby might think, with a terrazzo floor, an imposing 12-foot fireplace, a wall glass, a field wall, and a cathedral ceiling. Kich wanted to keep the living space intact, so that the architects left the kitchen alone, and retained and added to the wall fields. imitating room on the south wing of balance and weight of the addition. They also echoed the wall of glass throughout the renovation, providing sufficiently distinct views of the vernacular plantations surrounding the house.
As most of the project, a budget issue, so that the architects used all kinds coatings on various additions rather than fields which, in its entirety is expensive. Sheet metal and stucco were the materials of choice. Galvanized steel umbrellas complete modern additions and provide a place of jasmine and trumpet vines to climb.
The interior boasts clean simple materials such as custom millwork birch, which provides large amounts of storage systems without adding cabinets and red oak-plank floors. The new guest suite / office even has a Murphy bed to keep space as versatile as possible. For Kich, adaptability of space is paramount to all rooms, except the master bathroom. The bathroom of decadently large, tiled room, which has a dual dimension bathtub, a buck double shower, Mexican onyx counters and a glass wall overlooking the courtyard and its Japanese garden and koi pond. They have a total confidentiality. This opening continues to the house, with windows everywhere.
Externally, a homeless individual stone is almost invisible behind bamboo plants. A 7-foot stone wall surrounding the courtyard, keeping the pool and cabana away many deer that frequent the area, letting them wander in front of the house, but keep it back for ourselves. She held four weddings at home this day, including his own, and said that a house to receive, it is perfect.
Located at 419 Tower Drive, San Antonio, Texas, 78232
via archrecord.construction 
.
Alan-Voo Family House by Neil M. Denari Architects
The architecture is a practical purpose, and most buildings were constructed for housing activity or sheltering object. That is why we begin by considering the function, space and internal environment. In general, we see the outside of a building first and it is very easy to just look at this problem and limit its appreciation to the facade. This can lead to a very superficial understanding of buildings, 
especially when the discussionis mainly whether a likees forms and decoration. May We love the outdoors, but we find reasons to build a circle of structures or activities or to ourselves and protect our property against weather and other environmental elements such as noise. May We need a controlled temperature, security againts theft, damage or fire, and privacy. Various activities such as work, recreation, education of a family and worship require different types of buildings, perhaps in places, with different interior spaces, environments and form. The functions of the buildings are often complex and they are not all the utilities in line to serve a practical purpose. Many buildings are designed to express emotions and ideas symbolize what can be important to determine the final form of the building.
This architecture not just style but also the materialization of a form provided by the institution recent materials technology. On the other hand, the architecture is the application of a concept reflecting the lifestyle of the owner. Accordingly, the architecture is inherently an innovation that converge for example materials maximum capacity freshment give the holder.
Modern tradition rarely make a change fairly average. This issue affect style of life of human beings, such as the application of recent technical contruction for approval.
The house was completed in July 2007. Here are some photos of Alan Voo-Family House in Los Angeles, CA practice Neil M. Denari Architects. This strategy amounts to a new scale of 16 linear feet house being added to the existing home. Multi-tones, bright colors accentuate the new coins, which suggests a graphic expression representing the family of his interests. The renovation was necessary to reflect the creativity of its inhabitants - a movie trailer director, graphic designer and illustrator, and their three daughters. The extension includes a glass-enclosed lounge at ground level and surrounded master bedroom on the first floor.
Via Deezeen
.
F-117 Stealth Fighter House
Some buildings are built as planned, others are changing, some architects to design their buildings from the outside, others from the inside out, others attach great importance on the taxiway. The relationship between the spaces friend the building as a whole will depend on factors such as these. In considering where to find spaces or rooms architects to reflect on how they should be used. Today, we believe a better kitchen is located near the dining room so that food comes hot on the table. In medieval Britain, the kitchen was built sometimes separated from the rest of the house because of fire danger. Some large institutions such as hospitals or prisons inevitably have kitchens away from consumption because patients or prisoners can not be brought to a large dining room, but eat in each of the many areas or cells.
James Stirling at the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1984, would like to encourage people to visit the museum so he designed the building around a series of pedestrian routes, courtyards and terraces that encourage passers in the complex. There they can see the sculpture and tantalising get a glimpse of works of art in the building.
Architects with a classically trained will tend to begin with a single geometric shape like a cube, in which they will then distribute the different functional areas necessary, seeking as much as possible symmetrically. We'll see it when you look at the plans Syon House. Modernist architects of the twentieth century, as Walter Gropius, first identified the appropriate size lor the function of individual rooms or spaces that make up a building and then sought practical ways to establish a link between them, thus creating buildings irregular outline. A good example of this is the Bauhaus to Ucssau building, a design school in Germany, 1925-6. The carpentry and weaving workshops and the preliminary course studios are in a bloc. This is linked to the classroom, laboratories and libraries, which are in another block by a bndge on a road containing offices for THF administration of the school. A third wing contains the hall, canteen, kitchen and, finally, several students hostel. Each area is clearly defined by its distinct form.
The house that inspired by F-117 Stealth Fighter, designed by German architect Meixner Schluter Wendt is a building that comes from the creative and original idea. This house has segmentation into three parts: room and bathroom, cellar, garden glass wrapped level (including the kitchen and family room). Really beautiful and shiny.
.
East Lothian House, Scotland: Paterson Architects
A new bedroom, 3 wood within 120m ² house built on the edge of a traditional East Lothian farm steading. Clad in western red cedar superstructure is on a concrete base watertight shut down the site in the classroom.
Designed as a modern interpretation of tradition rural dwellings, the house relies on the language autonomous agricultural structures and their settings in rural areas often sharply, but opposition to their harmonious environment.
The building, which is expected to reverse, provides sleeping and sanitary facilities on the ground floor with an open plan living space on the first. Large openings are carefully placed to take advantage of views over the Firth of Forth to the North and East, with other views of Edinburgh to the west, while minimizing lose sight of neighbouring properties. The sun and daylight are deeply in the plan by two major general rooflights.
House images : Keith Hunter
East Lothian house : RIAS Andrew Doolan Award for Architecture 2006 shortlist
Budget: £200,000 Completed: October 2005
Architect: Paterson Architects
Three Seton Mains EH32 OPG 01875 852211
Contractor: John A Smith and Son Ltd,
Gilmerton, Athelstaneford, North Berwick, East Lothian EH39 ELQ
East Lothian House : Building PR from Paterson Architects 14.11.05.
Lauder Road house, Edinburgh by LORN MACNEAL ARCHITECTS
No. 2C Lauder Road, is building a new home completed residential development in West Thorne, the former historically listed in Annex Sick Children's Hospital.
It is contained in an awkward sloping site formerly occupied by a single storey pavilion Victoria and gardens.
The planning restrictions included minimize the border heights in line with the single storey garage adjacent to and ensuring the confidentiality have been met by creating opportunities mainly on the back and front. These constraints appear to be any obstacle to any possibility of creating a three-storey house of 3800 square feet.
The slope site was used for an advantage, creating the main rooms on the upper deck, using the covered bridge partially elements at the rear to get off in the south-west of garden furniture and garden.
The main floor rooms are large, open spaces family, all sufficiently flexible to be closed using the large sliding glass door elements. This is particularly drawn to the south and west light as it filters through the trees on the boundaries.
The single roof height is a strong architectural element to create in the arrivals lounge and corridor spaces, but maintaining privacy in the kitchen and dining areas.
In order to provide gravity, an additional floor was introduced in the form of a tower element, many across the Grange, imitating the Italian tour of the West Thorne. The central tower marks the entrance to the house outside, and provides a sense of drama, light and space at the entrance to the stairwell.
Throughout the house attention positioning of windows and rooflights as well as clear-story windows in the living room combined with the sloping ceiling to ensure daylight floods through the building.
The ground floor with four bedrooms and a storage, with utility and double garage was partially sank to the ground to ensure optimum accommodation in the building height limited.
Outside, the building is carefully carved, with the roof zinc dressed. The walls are a mixture of surrender, iroko and zinc panels. The forms rout in the natural landscape by a partial random rubble using recycled stone.
Lauder Road house, Edinburgh
New Build Home
2C Lauder Road, Edinburgh - LORN MACNEAL ARCHITECTS
via architect.co.uk
.
ViILA NM, New York, USA
In many buildings access from one room to another is by spaces or other communication areas, corridors, hallways or rooms so that different users do not have to spend unnecessarily through rooms achieve the spaces they need inside the building. If more than one floor then there will be stairs or elevators. Good planning is required to make the roads short and direct. In Victorian country houses the route through the house and location of the rooms are linked not only for aesthetic and practical issues but also the well-Jill Franklin As stated in the examination of communication areas, "dinner road was noble, servants and invisible cabbage boiled kept at bay. The corridors and stairways were either large and very obvious to guide and impress clients or hidden away and reduce, for agents to use. 
As we have seen for some architects the route through the building becomes an important part of the design and control much of the general provision. Le Corbusier villas of the late 1920's, such as double villa La Roche-Jeanneret, Paris (now Foundation Ie Corbusier), have ramps and stairs to reach the parkway archi-turale. This was designed to offer a pleasant and varied walk from the evolution of visual experiences inside the building. In the lobby of the house of Raoul La Roche, 1923, space is exciting. The room rises through the two floors above him and may be overlooked by people standing on balconies at each level. Architects plans are extremely valuable in helping us to understand the relative importance, distribution and relations between the spaces in buildings.
Unfortunately February 5, 2008 at NM villa of New York was destroyed by fire.
The house was completed in April 2007 and was presented in a number of magazine articles, including a feature in The New York Times Magazine (October 2007). Villa NM also received a prize in the 2007 Biennale Miami and was the runner in the "Best New Private House in the category Wallpaper * Design Awards 2008.
UNStudio hopes to be able to rebuild Villa NM in the future.
UNStudio Press Release 180208
Family summerhouse
Family house: simple recilinear form floating above landscape thus evoking seminal modern houses by Mies van er Rohe (Farnsworth) and Philip Johnson in America
ViILA NM, New York, USA
2000-07; destr. 2008
UNStudio Architects
Via architect.co.uk.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Kiyonobu Nakagame Architects, Japan
Some device have been made by kiyonobu nakagame architects:
'house in minami boso'
'house in futamatagawa'
'house is mitsuike'
'house is mitsuike'
'house in nakadai 2'
'atelier in tsurumi'
'house in kasumi'
We do not associate modern tall, glass-walled office buildings with chimneys at roof level because they tend to employ central heating. Many may have windows that do not open because mechanical means are used to condition the air. Although the Romans developed systems of underfloor heating known as hypocausts, it was not until the mid-nineteenth century that it became common in commercial and public buildings to use boilers to generate hot water or steam which was distributed by pipes and radiators throughout the building. By contrast buildings in hot climates often need the air within to be cooled by fans and refrigeration to create a comfortable environment. Air conditioning first became widely available in industrial and commercial buildings, cinemas and theatres early in the twentieth century, particularly in the United States, but in recent years we have come to recognise that sealed interior environments with air conditioning need very careful design, otherwise they may lead to sick building syndrome and encourage Legionnaire's disease and allergic reactions.
Kiyonobu nakagame architects and associates is a japanese architecture studio specializing in contemporary
residential projects. The firm was founded in 1995 and is based in yokohama city. Here is a small selection of
the firm's unique small scale projects..
Art House, Tokyo
If you are interested and wish to see this building directly, it was Scurry around the backstreets Jingumae way to Tokyo to find it. This small studio to live and lounge was covered in black paint with a beautiful mural elegant, describes the show its own brand to swallow its two walls exposed. The hand-painted model is not unlike a reversal of Rorschach inkblot drawing. Yet the display fits perfectly symmetrical with the centre piece - a woman overwhelmed by the surrounding plumage. And while the windows are large and serious, they do not distort the image. Instead, they punch the design with different levels of intensity, which reveals the largest and smallest details of what lies below.
Inside, space has been deliberately simplified so as not to compete with the eye-catching exterior. The blackened wood surfaces sit quietly against the enlargement of windows, decorated with cream-coloured stores. Although the theme of male and female is still true everywhere. The angular planes of the structure repeat in the difficult conditions lines of furniture and effeminate fresco is imitated by the soft lighting inside. A smart yet simple piece that respects the duality of the building - somewhere to live and work - just fun interconnection of the two..
Afshar House, Edinburgh
We're not clear on the function of some old structures such as Stonehenge, Wiltshire. Stonehenge was probably not shelter anyone or anything, but May have provided guidance for ceremonies and rituals and an evolution, but carefully considered the report on the increase and setting of the sun and moon. Some religious buildings in some cultures and periods seem to embody something of the spirit of religion. May they also be designed to put the faithful in a state of mind or even attract non-beiievers the faith. The interior space medieval cathedrals are often large and great height. 
That can not be considered only in terms of acoustics or airspace and the requirements of the clergy and congregation. The space creates an unbearable feeling of admiration in those visiting the building. The height is often exaggerated by many vertical wells thin "on the walls and gathered around battery." Properly these trees seem directly on the eve heavenwards. We could see the dome "form of Indian stupa" as having been obtained from the former tumulus for practical reasons. The round shape and circling path encourage the faithful to move around the building which, according to tradition, contains the ashes of Buddha and his disciples. However, the stupa hemispherical shape is also imbued with cosmic svmbolism, which represents the dome of the sky or the lotus flower which is itselt symbolic place of the gods. The finial at the top with an umbrella-as suggested by ascending levels sky gods or the trunk of a tree cosmic.
The symbolism is not confined to the religious sphere, he secular counterparts. In the late eighteenth century in France, some architects has become particularly interested in the symbolic aspect of architecture. Claude-Nicolas Ledoux of the house and studio of coopers, c. 1804, is composed of shapes that look like double interlocking barrels. The form follows Product resident occupation is the manufacturing barrels. Often, the shapes of buildings are a mixture of practices, expression and symbolic functions and we discuss these in greater depth than we explore space, internal environment and shape of buildings.
The Afshars Edinburgh are developers, their society WADA has picked up numerous awards - a score distinguished Edinburgh, brothers from Iran.
Afshar House, Edinburgh by Oberlanders Architects
.
Duncan House, Kinloch, Fife, Scotland
So far, we talked about buildings in terms of space and how these spaces house various activities. The buildings are also on creating a comfortable and safe to work, live or housing objects. The temperature, light and noise transmission must be controlled, May we need to fire warning and we often need hygiene facilities. 
A building with many floors as a shopping mall, apartment block or offices May require mechanical means of access such as elevators and escalators. The space must be found to house these services and pipes and son.
A new creation of a private house in a fenced garden listed in the county of Fife, the project combines customers desire for a "glass house with a formal response to the geometry of the surrounding walls, paths and borders of what was the first fruit of the garden house nearby.
Two "fat" masonry walls are set into the garden to define the house and the new spaces around it. The first through the garden wall to lead visitors in a garden entrance, while their screening of the main areas of the house. The second wall is the first perpendicular to the axis of the original central path through the garden. The wall screens rooms and bathrooms that look is on a private orchard. The main living spaces sit within the angle of two walls, facing south towards the main garden.
House in Kinloch by Gareth Hoskins Architects, Glasgow, Scotland
OS house, Spain by Nolaster architects
Today environmentally conscious architects are seeking 
passive means of controlling the interior environment of buildings in order to reduce global warming and energy consumption. Reintroducing massive stone or brick loadbearing walls 
offers good thermal
insulation, and many small windows, roof lights and light wells can be
included to admit as much natural 'ight as possible. In Hyderabad Sind, in west Pakistan, where
temperatures may exceed 50°C, it has been the tradition for 500 years to install windscoops on roofs to channel the cool breezes into the rooms. Today green architects are re-exploring natural ventilation in buildings. They may utilise the thermo-syphonic stack effect created by vents in roofs, towers or chimneys. In addition by locating windows on opposite sides of rooms cross ventilation encourages a breeze to cool the interior. In the summer the vents encourage warm air to lise out of the building and at the same time bring cool air flowing down into it. At the DC Montfort University Engineering Building, 1993, Alan Short & Brian Pord, the use of numerous computers by the staff and students within the building creates tremendous heat. In winter this can be exploited to reduce the need for artificial means of heating. In warm weather the heat generated by the computers is too much and lias to be expelled through vents in the roof and chimneys. These chimneys have a dual role of expelling warm air and catching breezes which can be circulated around the building to cool or ventilate it passively.
Ever so often, david basulto from plataforma arquitectura sends us a link to another interesting architectural project featured on his site. His latest submission is yet another unique project. Located in Cantabria, Spain and designed by Nolaster architects, this residence is perched on a gorgeous coast side. The 'os house' was
completed in 2005 and designed to create a usable space under the house that is sheltered from the wind. It is situated to take advantage of solar gain and cross ventilation. A green roof adds further protection from the elements and creates more outdoor space that is integrated into the landscape.
Onigiri House in Oita, Japan by NKS Architects
Wood represent favorite materials to fill space in. besides owning multifarious [of] fibre and beautiful colour, wood can to create atmosphere " warm" and experience of.
The small wooden house located in the countryside village was designed for an old couple. The design purpose was to create the maximum volume within the limited cost, and to interweave the house with the surrounding nature.
Because the region is famous for the cedar wood production and for the shipbuilding, we decided to use the thick cedar board of 50 mm x 245 mm x 4 m as the structure usually used for the ship scaffolding, which was comparably low cost and high quality. The simple tube shape with the quasi-triangular section was chosen for creating the maximum interior volume and for the structural stability. There are the structural connection boxes and the small windows at the top and the two-bottom facets part of the tube.
Through 
these windows the light and the wind are introduced into the interior, while the tube end has the full opening towards the nature. Since the flooding has happened occasionally in this region, the house is elevated on the foundation poles. The shape of the house seems to be a kind of ark.
Onigiri House, Oita, Japan-NKS Architects
Built: 2005 The entire house is made from Cedar.
Photos: Kouji Okamoto
Another wicked cool house: Norimaki House
Monday, April 14, 2008
Herringbone Homes designed by Alison Brooks Architects
Locating the source of materials is important in understanding the social organisation, the time, the energy consumpfon and effort that went into the acquisition, manufacture or transportation of the materials. A quarry mnv be local bur u may not be easy to extract ;he good quality stone. The huge monoliths-' that form the stone circle at Stonehenge, near Amesbury in Wiltshire, constructed in 2100 BC were brought by late Neolithic people over 135 miles from Cam Meini, Dyfed, Wales. The fact that these stones were transported such a distance indicates something of the sophisticated social organization of these people and the significance which they attached to this site. Many of the large medieval cathedrals and European building projects employed English lead for their roofs, windows and rainwater drainage systems and there are records of the lead being taker, in cans across die bleak and hilly moors to Boston and the Humber for shipment to the continent in the twelfth century. " Rivers were also used to transport this material to the coast and we know that until the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Derbyshire lead fields in England were amongst the richest in Europe.
Some architects tried to play down the visual impact of such necessary services, hiding much of the equipment in the basement or the atric, within the walls or under the floors. Central heating radiators and pipes are often devised to intrude as little is possible. By contrast the traditional fireplace has played a major role in the form of buildings, for an open fire was often a focal point either as an open hearth at the centre of the room around which people gathered or as a fireplace with mantelpiece at one end of the room. Inglenook fireplaces further welcomed occupants to sit in the drought-free warm space located around the fire. The fireplace has come to symbolist the heart of the home. With the arts and crafts revival of vernacular architectural forms in the late nineteenth century in both Britain and the United States, the inglenook fireplace was nostalgically reintroduced into bungalows. A Good example is the Gamble House, by Greene and Greene, 1908-9, in Los-Angeles, California, with its 16-foot-wide inglenook.
This set of two homes in london's south end were designed by alison brooks architects to blend into the wooded surroundings. To achieve this, the exterior is clad in a herringbone pattern of wood. this pattern is repeated on other elements throughout the homes and property. The result is an optical illusion of faceted surfaces that appear to protrude from the walls. The interiors are very spare, centered around an m.c. escher-like staircase that looks like it's hang from the floor above.
House Design by Cardillo in Italia
Location of mountain district earn to become alternative to develop;build a house, villa and also resort, since the area give landscape and different freshment from forest of urban concrete. besides air which still be fresh and far from town bustle, location of mountain district represent one of solution to we want to rest at the same time enjoy more easy going atmosphere.
Demand of space functions which inovatif reached from beautiful device. Cardillo has created a concrete ellipse that dilates to the east and west. Built on a hillside somewhere in Italy, it also just happens to look like a grey blob squatting on a hill. Inside you’re met with an enormous curve that sweeps across the central hall, forcing the eye to look down through the space at the brutal lines of the rest of the house. A smooth exterior hides the phantasmagoria of shapes inside.
The other rooms are built around the dramatic opening. A kitchen at one end, the guest room at the other. Up a darkened circular staircase lies the mezzanine bedroom fitted out with the absolute minimal of disruption to the form of the interior. It’s all wonderfully cohesive. But at the same time, you can’t help but think, ‘where do all the people go?’ The unrelenting stylising says this isn’t a space to be lived in. Rather, it’s a place to be seen in.
But at the same time, you can’t help but wonder what life must be like living here. The deep excavations in the outer wall reveal jagged pockets of the outside world at random. Outside, forests and mountains. Inside, lifeless concrete forged into geometric shapes. But the clever thing about the positioning of the windows is, it lets different types of light to fill different parts of the house. Direct sunlight beams into the main hall, while refracted light from trees outside filters into the smaller side windows. Creating instant moods inside according to the weather outside.
As this is going on, the building remains in its original essence: colourless or tending to grey. A challenging house that makes you love it for its ingenuity, but hate it for its formality. Either way, we can’t decide.
The Chalet, House Design in Swiss
The wooden dwellings with sloping roof and overhanging eaves, are as much a part of the Swiss landscape as the Alps themselves. The single storey bunkers traditionally served as seasonal farms for dairy cattle in the summer months, and haven’t changed much since these humble beginnings. The “Chalet” is by far the most famous product of Swiss architecture.
But high up on a mountain pass in the Bernese Oberland, a new type of seasonal home has emerged as a stark contrast to the timber heavy squats the country is so famed for. With its back turned to the harsh northerly winds, this contemporary take on the log cabin straddles the vistas to the south via a huge five meter glass pane that invites the landscape to fill its vast, open plan spaces.
Swiss planning regulators favor lots of small, pokey windows, this house is anything but. Rather than shielding its inhabitants from the outdoors, the house embraces the mountainous terrain, with large glass doors opening out onto the wooden terrace that appears to float alongside the house.
With its elegant, concrete slab base, it juts out into the landscape like a beached vessel. The domineering fireplace runs through the core of the building, dragging its brutal lines from the basement to the roof three floors above.
Up the handsome open-tread staircase the bedrooms and bathrooms blend into a continuous passage that invites you to keep moving. The large, panoramic windows throughout keep the house light and airy, while the double insulated walls and thick wood decking keep the cool temperatures out. The sparse furnishings and sleek lines are a bold statement that matches the buildings unrelenting exterior. Rather than cluttering the house with gaudy ornaments and stuffy fixtures, it plays on the sparse landscape it so elegantly sits in.
Traditional chalets have a tendency to shy away from the landscape, sealing off its inhabitants to the beauty of the environment it inhabits. This building however, embraces the countryside with an unyielding arrogance and swagger. Perching precariously at the tip of a mountain, it stares boldly at its surroundings. The interior eschews its contemporary credentials with clean, simple lines and muted colors. But at the same time, it feels traditional, homely, and welcoming. A small homage to the portly abodes that continue to dominate the Swiss landscape.
Austria's Summer House with Contemporary Style
Form follow function, that's which must be always remembered when we will designing a house. The holiday home or summer-house by definition, is a building constructed with a strictly defined personality. For the temporary inhabitant, it is to provide a sense of escape without abandonment, and leisure without effort. It’s very existence is to promote feelings and moods not experienced in our everyday lives. A temporary euphoria squeezed between four walls for a period of the users choosing. It is a social engineer’s architectural dream.
This idea of temporary elation has existed for centuries. But the concept exploded with the onset of modernism and the twentieth century. A newly emerging middle class sought escapism from the polluted cities while still enjoying the comforts of their newly industrialized homes. A Modernist belief that experience was shaped through design spearheaded the mass-production of seasonal dwelling. Le Corbusier described buildings as “machines for living” and architecture was bent to supply the petit bourgeoisie’s need for leisure and relaxation. Buildings were simplified, historical references and ornament were removed in favor of promoting the beauty of modern materials and construction. Concrete and its featureless character became the material of choice in the construction of buildings throughout Europe and North America. Their homogenous appearance celebrated by Brutalist architects but condemned by post-modernists for their flagrant disregard towards the social, historic, and architectural environment of its surroundings.
This form of design is considered to be archaic in its principles. Concrete is seen to be aesthetically vacuous, and is used structurally rather than visually. Instead, glass facades and organic materials are a building’s ornaments. But a team of architects in Austria have resurrected the ideological trappings of modernist thinkers to create a unique and eerily beautiful interpretation of the holiday villa. Set on lake Millstatter See in Austria, this four-story villa is an ode to the idealism of the holiday homes of old, but simultaneously sits in the avant-garde.
Much of the design was adapted from the hotel that stood previously on the original plot, and can be seen in the bold and unrelenting expanses of concrete. But rather than mask the commanding stretches of grey matter, the team have embraced and adorned the blank walls to become a key part of the building’s persona. The vast expanses complemented by materials that not only enhance the concrete’s authority, but also mimic it in character. Pale, smooth furniture occupy the inside, while white decking and exposed brick-work dominate the outside. The effect of which, can feel arresting at first, but develops a strange allure when looked at up close.
The building is a prime example of the brutal, unrelenting style of design from the 1950s, but the overhaul of ideas has transformed it into a testament to the contemporary. The fluid transition between interior and exterior, coupled with the large openings throughout the build, allow nature to flow through the cold interior, giving it a warm and organic feel. While the geometric shapes of the building draw imposing silhouettes on the lake and the surrounding countryside.
The minimal material concept; structural concrete in combination with white painted wood and metal surfaces, lends the building a monolithic character. But the upper floors of the building have an intimate, personal feel that doesn’t compromise the need for personal space.
It’s a building that screams arrogance and in places can feel a little soulless. But the sheer audacity of its form juxtaposed with its purpose as a leisure facility, offers an intriguing concept that hasn’t been seen since Modernism dared to challenge the purpose of design and the human condition.
House W, House Design by Pott Architecture
This House was completed in 2006 by HamannPottArchitekten (now Pott Architecture) and architect, Urlich Hamann, the sustainability of House L provide various ecological considerations as well, including a minimum demand on resources.
A lot of architects struggle when faced with the possibility of compromising their own vision for that of a client’s. Ingo Pott and his practice’s multidisciplinary approach however, invite the minds of creative professionals in hopes they may provide additional stimulus in designs. Every aspect of their body of work centres around the philosophy that cultural exchange generates creativity.
House W considers the changing needs of a growing family by including space to come together and space to spend individually. Pott Architects tend to draw from an eastern mentality with respect to time and place. Both the structure and the surrounding environment are treated as one, and effectively, the design for each private house, including this one, could not be constructed anywhere but it’s present setting. Architect Urlich Hamann effortlessly placed the house in the surrounding environment, and perhaps established a design philosophy carried through in subsequent projects.
One such project, House L, is sited in a wooded site on the slope of a hill. Leaving work and the city behind was the family’s primary objective when choosing this serene environment well outside Berlin. Following through with a commitment to integration in the surrounding, the interior and exterior space blend into one.
From within, large open spaces framed in sweeping glass sheets allow for a heightened awareness of the passing of time. Both subtle and dramatic differences in light as the day gives way to night, as well as the changing of the seasons seamlessly synthesise man and nature.
The Small House of Box
Perity a designed newly be felt when us have experienced of it own in space exploration created. that's one of contemplation to comprehend a creation object.
Target of architecture design is improving quality of human life, both for someone use it in long-range and also a given time period.
Architecture theorys teach that evolution happened in concept from a art ecletic become a conceptual art. symbols usage sometime often be seen, to identify the beauty of visual.
Casa Pentimento with Prefab Home
The subject of materials and construction concerns not only physical uses but also the- production of materials and the nature of the building industry. 
Buildings have been built of a verv wide range of materials, the most common being timber, baked and unbaked clay, stone, slate, reeds, grass or straw, glass, concrete, iron and steel. The fabric of a building, the choice of materials and constructional system sets limits as well as creating opportunities for architects and builders.
Some materials such as brick, wood and stone may be very familiar but it takes careful observation to enable us to recognise 
particular varieties of timber such as oak or ash, and it takes experience to learn the difference between the many varieties of stone such as sandstone, limestone and granite. The best way to become adept at recognising these differences is to travel widely to look at the materials used in buildings, read a guide on the local architecture which identifies materials and indicates which are used in particular buildings, and visit geological or local museums which often display local building materials.
J
ust fast progressively the epoch progress, now we the easier life, more instan. Now we needn't await for the time old ones in make a building, omit just chain hence become, very easy and quickly too.
The 'casa pentimento' is a prefab house located in quito, ecuador designed by jose maria sáez and david barragán. The unique homes makes use of specially designed modular concrete pieces that form the home's mainstructure. The blocks are designed to stack on top of one another. They provide shade, while leaving room for ventilation. 
They are very appropriate for the hot ecuadorian climate.
The architects have also designed these blocks to serve as more than just a structure. The slots in the blocks provide space to insert other pieces like stair treads or a table on the interior, or to provide room for plants on the exterior. They can be combined in a number of ways to serve multiple functions depending on the walls context.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
The Bell-Simpson House, Milton of Campsie, Scotland
The Bell-Simpson House is a 1950's brick bungalow situated between Strathblane and Milton of Campsie in Stirlingshire and enjoys an uninterrupted aspect to the Campsie Hills. In 2003, our Client requested that the property be extended to accommodate two large living spaces and study, which were not possible within the restricted existing property.
The form of the extension is derived from the existing storey and a half dwelling on the site.
The extension is positioned to the north of the existing dwelling within the sloped rear garden. Formally, it is detached from the existing dwelling by a single-storey glazed flat roofed ‘box’ which doubles as a second means of entry. In plan form the extension has a deliberately casual relationship with the existing dwelling in order to signify that an additive process has been undertaken. Although contrary with local planning guidelines, since the new extension does not blend seamlessly with the existing house, this is consistent with the surrounding rural pattern of agricultural development where structures are added in response to functional necessity. This pattern is seen to have value by means of its honest and rational expression of development.
The envelope of the building is treated in a homogenous manner in order to reinforce the notion of a uniform skin. All components, wall, roof, windows and doors are pulled flush to the outer face of the building envelope so there is no hierarchy between elements. This is an attempt to create an architecture that is stripped of articulation and expression, appearing generic in its formal language.
As the site rises to the north the building form is stepped down in the landscape. A retaining wall wraps around the extension on three sides to create a strong sense of protection and enclosure.
Internally, there is a clear contrast between the two storeys. On the lower level the ceiling is deliberately below that which we would expect and focuses on the primary aspect towards the enclosed brick courtyard space to the north and west. Consequently there is a sense of a flat interior space from which the adjacent space has been extended. This notion is further reinforced by the continuous walnut flooring that extends from the interior to the exterior courtyard. From this level a fully clad walls and stair create a timber ‘sleeve’ that has been ‘inserted’ into the building. Off this staircase is a small study with slot window, which focus on the peaks of the Campsie Hills beyond.
In contrast, the upper level is a full storey and a half in height. Here, two large muted gable walls and large areas of glazing dominate this living space. The focal point of this room is the ‘folded window’ that wraps from the roof to the hip and down to the lower level. This glazing pattern is both technically innovative and, as with the rest of the building, is finished to the highest standard. This floor level is lined along its length by an apex roof light that again takes the form of an inserted ‘object’, also containing all lighting for this level. A slotted void to the lower level can also be found at this storey.
Rosedene, Strathblane Rd
Practical Completion: Oct 2004
Contract Sum: £80k
Photos of this modern scottish house by Adrian Welch
via architect.co.uk
Glasgow House, Private House in Scotland
In designing house, architect or designer interior have to consider matters start from expense aspect, function, dimension, contruction, materials, come up with aspect finishing.
To chosen contemporary modern dressy house is sliverring its bearing with function and certain esthetics want to be reached. Generally furniture and contemporary modern accessory own to form simpel according to with an eye to dweller ( form, follow, and function). Its detail signalize coherent lines composition ( clean lines) and the geometric form. 
Typical marking its contemporary presented through application of substances and high technology vitriform, husk sintetis, metal and also contruction become militant concrete. Combination with materials experience of ligneous and petrify to give warm feeling and freshment at one blow " mellowing" stiff impression. Processing finishing also signalize character each materials cover texture of colour and motif and also be supported by arranging the correct irradiating. Accuration factor in workmanship, freshment in practical usage and also and easy to in treatment, becoming attention in designed contemporary modern.
This contemporary Glasgow house was one of eight RIBA Award-winning buildings in Scotland in 2003
Waddell House images keith hunter by studio KAP, Architects.
owner: Andrew Waddell, 54 Aytoun Road Pollockshields.
cost £180,000
Tumbaco Valley, House Design in Quito, Equador
Not having a site when we started design
on our house,
we set out an elemental scheme that could work both in Quito 
and the valleys east of the city; this meant distilling our experience into an abstracted form, inspired in the work of Donald Judd, that could be placed in any of the sites we would be likely to find: an open ended box, whose spatial limits would be the eastern and western ranges of the Andes.
As we had no actual place, we looked to the spaces we felt our own, and found the patio as the essential place maker throughout our architectural history.
On the other hand was our fascination for the prototypical glass house and its possibilities in our year round temperate climate.
While the patio creates a sense of place it has to be enclosed in order to work, so the mountains can’t become the spatial limit. The glass house is perfect for that unlimited sense of space; the addition of a patio to the glass house gave us the chance to adapt to the different site possibilities.
We separated the private and public spaces defining a patio, the service spaces and circulation could be added as a plug-in as needed depending on site conditions, further defining the patio.
Finally this diagram could be fitted into the open ended box according to specific site conditions that would define orientation, size and proportion.
Construction and choice of materials were parallel considerations to the design concepts, and were decided on similar premises: a building system that could be modulated and would allow decision making based on varying budget and site conditions.
A light steel structure on a concrete plinth supports the rusted steel and plywood open ended box. Circulation, service spaces, and the elements that make the house function are inserted in white and enclosed in polycarbonate for protection from the stronger western sun. All services run concentrated parallel to circulation, rain water is kept separate from drainage, it is surface collected, and flows down the rusted ends of the box into the ground.
Main materials:
Open ended box
3 mm cold rolled steel, rusted and weather coated, for exterior planes.
9 mm varnished plywood for walls and ceiling inner planes and 15 mm varnished plywood for the floor plane (marine plywood for the outside)
Functioning elements
Concrete floors polished and painted white
Drywall ceiling and partition walls, plastered and painted white
Sandblasted glass and polycarbonate partitions
8mm polycarbonate enclosure, translucent and ice finishes
8mm single pane transparent glass with aluminium bracing and doors
Structure:
Reinforced concrete plinth and foundations, reinforced concrete ground floor slabs
Steel columns, 160 mm HEB sections, rusted and coated
Steel beams, 200 mm IPN and rectangular sections, painted, 150 mm rectangular section substructure, painted
First floor and roof, reinforced concrete slabs over steel deck, weatherproof white paint (with polyester reinforcement on roof)
Via architect.co.uk
arquitectura x
ADRIAN MORENO AND MARIA SAMANIEGO
BUILT AREA: 380 m2 including garages
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: PEDRO CAICEDO
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER: PEDRO FREILE
SERVICES ENGINEER: RAUL CUEVA
CONSTRUCTION: ADRIAN MORENO, ON SITE SUPERVISION: CARLOS GUERRA
PHOTOGRAPHS: SEBASTIAN CRESPO
Av. Granda Centeno 1114 y Bobadilla #16, Quito, Ecuador
Gross House Conversion by Mathias Mueller / Daniel Niggli, Zurich
In fact, all the clients originally wanted was a larger living room window – now their three children live in a patio house of their own.
From a present-day perspective the use of space in this 1960s development of single-storey row houses with basement seems wasteful. The layout of the estate is far from dense, and in terms of the density permitted by the building regulations there are reserves of potentially usable space. But exploiting the permitted density means conducting intensive negotiations with all neighbours affected before any new building project can be started.
As, according to the building regulations, underground buildings do not count as utilization of space, we suggested to the clients making an underground patio house as a “second house” of their own. So we place an independent underground patio house beside the existing house, without adding a single square metre of surface area above ground thus eliminating the necessity of obtaining the neighbours’ approval.
While two differently shaped courtyards are incised in the garden, the new bedrooms and a bathroom are attached to the existing basement. A former crawl space was converted into a home cinema and new hobby room. A huge screen fills one of the narrow sides of the room while the opposite wall is completely covered with mirrored-glass. Backlit panels with cut-out patterns are located on the side walls, offering specific lighting situations depending on different uses.
A narrow stairs connects the upper house with the lower one. The gaze is directed through the new south window into the garden. The garden is cleared out almost completely and later filled up again. Through large areas of glazing in the patio and the new windows on the ground floor the principal orientation of the house is now south-west.
The courtyards are painted white to transport the maximum amount of light. The bays between the railing uprights are filled with a transparent mesh material. Two circular roof lights provide additional light for the children’s bedrooms. They can be closed off with horizontal sliding shutters.
The house and the garden interlock. The increased amount of space underground allowed separate rooms at ground floor level to be combined increasing the size of the living room and giving this initially small and compartmented house a certain expansiveness and generosity.
Project Name: Gross House Conversion
Location: Greifensee, north of Zurich
Client: private
Project Type: Building
Architects: EM2N : Mathias Mueller / Daniel Niggli, Zurich
Contractors:
Structural Engineers: Tragwerk Bauingenieure GmbH, Zurich
Direct commission Winter 2003
Start of construction April 2004
Completion January 2008 (second stage)
Total Floor Area:
new building part basement 67 m2
conversion ground floor 127 m2
Costs: EUR 0.55 Mio
via architect.co.uk
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
House Baetens, Private Dwelling in Holland
Generally, we don't realize that designed follow to play a part in to assist amenity and freshment live us. Objects around we such as place sleep, cupboard;locker, rack, desk, and the balmy supply such as chair, Television, and the visual audio equipments which we use, until the 
kitchen equipments, equipments eat and drink tea, even until the clothes which we wear have through a[n long process, that is process designed.
Process designed the through a lot of step such as researching into, scheme, production process, followed marketing and distribution entangling various science discipline. The step are we don't realize if/when we feel balmy use an product and take delight in to form an object wear. but if object wear the don't fulfill conditions which we desire and fail to run its function, newly conscious us that the object not designed better.
A object with designed good have to fulfill a lot of conditions such as production process, election of type of good raw material, durable, sold, and aesthetic.
The intersection of a planned green strip and an existing avenue provide an architectural opportunity to this two-storey dwelling. The first floor appears to be cumbersome and heavy materialized: dark bricks with continuous seams result in an abstract rugged character. The second floor will be a wooden shaft: lighter in colour, weight and design.
Project details
* Project Name: House Baetens
* Client: Baetens family
* Project Type: private dwelling
* Principal Designer/s: JagerJanssen architects BNA
* Design Team: Alex Jager, Rogier Janssen, Rob Bergervoet
* Contractor/s: Bussman Bouw
* Date of commencement of project: 2005
* Date of completion of project: 02/2007
* Location of site: Sneeuwjacht, Elst GLD, Holland
* Site Area: 700 sq. m.
* Built-up Area: 220 sq. m.
Twist the Box House
Designed product to fulfill various function seldom disregard esthetics element. but so also on the contrary, if product more major esthetics element hence the aspect form and its function is uncared.
House requirement as living better more major function, while forming to accomodate the function. A lot of reference you to get for your inspiration in designing by xself a house for the you unassisted architect, you can get it through internet, magazine, books, and others. 
But is possible that house suited for you. Since a designed to be designed pursuant to environmental factor, target, assess, requirement, and that cause every designed different place or farm, differing state, differing region, differing culture, will own designed to differ also perhaps.
Such as this house picture, could probably be builded in your place owning close rainfall. Possible without we realize that human being own effort area, exasperation, talent and different ability. doctor handle health, police take care of security, and many more, inclusive of more architect comprehend about architecture.
House on Wildcat Creek, Prefab Home by Dustin Ehrlich
Target culminate from architecture is space creation, always and no matter where, that architecture go together artistic space creation yielded from a idea. something new will always inspire to us. architecture do not aside from since representing real shares from our life everyday.
The House on Wildcat Creek is a custom prefab home near in Chapel Hill, NC., designed by architect Dustin Ehrlich for his parents, and built by Wieler (client for the first Dwell Home). The exterior material choices of rusted corrugated metal, stone and wood draw inspiration from the aging local tobacco barns, one of which is sited adjacent to the house. The modular construction allowed for an efficient schedule and a minimum amount of construction waste.
Casa en Sta, House Design in Margarita - Mallorca
Because most buildings shelter and contain activities and objects, they are about space enclosed by floors, walls, ceilings or roofs. The space inside may be a cosy sitting-room, a dance floor or an open-plan:;' office. We usually think of this space as being inside, but it may also
b
e outside and include a court
yard or a walled garden. It may also be a transitional space that is neither inside nor out but flows between the two, such as a verandah, covered terrace or an op
en area under the building. Flowing internal spaces and the use of transitio
nal spaces can be found in the Kobi
e House, Chicago, 1909, by Frank Lloyd Wright. The living, dining and rela
xation areas are not separately enclosed spaces but open into each other aroi:nd a central fhcplace. Bands of windows, balconies, terraces and projecting eaves partially define 
and create transitional spaces close to the house before it merges into the open space of the garden. Wright's houses tended to be built in suburban locations, yet his passion for nature and for the wide open prairies of the United States imbues his domestic architecture. Space is created underneath tower-block flats which are on pilotis. These enable the air to circulate under the building, provide a sheltered place for children to play in bad weather, and offer views through and past the building. Because we see through the space underneath, the building appears to float and to be lighter than it is in fact. Shelter in the form of a huge umbrella is how we might describe a railway station train shed. At St Pancras Station, London, by W.H. Barlow & R.M. Ordish, 1863-5,
the iron and glass roof spans a vast space over the lines and platforms so that passengers waiting to board the trains are sheltered from the weather. One end of the shed is totally open so that trains can enter the terminus. The enormous space above passengers' heads and the open end of the shed would have served to disperse the smoke from the steam trains in the era before electric and diesel engines.
House on the Fichtestrasse, designed by Biehler Weith
Walls define or subdivide space and affect the way we experience it. 
The transparent glass walls of iron and glass buildings like the Crystal Palace, 1851, or the 
Palm House at Kew do not sharply define the barrier between inside and out visually. From outside we can see what goes on inside and vice versa. When dark glass is used the effect is rather different. The dark glass wall in Norman Foster's Willis, Faber & Dumas building in Ipswich, 1977, acts as a mirror and on a sunny day the form of the building becomes ambiguous because of all the reflections of the adjacent townscape. By contrast at night when the lights are on inside the walls dissolve completely and the interior is revealed. The Barcelona Pavilion (now known as the German Pavilion) was designed by Mies van der Rohe for the international exhibition in Barcelona in 1929 to be part of space rather than enclose it. The roof defines the space below it but the glass walls do not always meet to subdivide the space fully. Instead of corners there are gaps which allow people to move fully around the freestanding wails. The walls of glass direct the flow of visitors through the building and their transparency denies any sense of enclosure and gives a feeling of space and light throughout. In traditional Japanese domestic architecture the spaces arc subdivided not by iliick walls but translucent paper screens and movable partitions, some not even reaching the ceiling, so there is little sense of enclosure. We need to be aware of the way buildings define and enclose space, and how the experience of space relates to the materials deployed.
About this house:
House on the Fichtestrasse – Biehler Weith Associated
The architects, Biehler Weith Associated wrapped an aluminium-clad extension around a plain white box built in 1929, something caught our eye. The design team has labelled the House on Fichtestrasse Atmospheric Metamorphosis, implying a dynamic, new form has materialized from the original.
The house is perched on a hill overlooking rolling vineyard and the town of Heilbronn just north of Stuttgart, Germany. The renovation and addition to the exterior provides dramatic interior spatial configurations. Oversized windows allow light to penetrate and enhance the stark white living space, while modern furniture and lighting make us forget the fact the original building has been here nearly eighty years. By Andrew J Weiner - Pics by Brigida Gonzalez
MacCalman House, Bearsden by Davis Duncan Architects
Architecture is a practical subject and most buildings were built for the purpose of housing an activity or sheltering objects. It is for this reason that we start by looking at function, space and the internal environment. 
understanding of buildings, particularly where the discussion is mainly
about whether one likes the forms and the decoration. We may love the great outdoors but we find reasons to build structures to encircle our activities or to protect ourselves and our goods from the weather and other environmental elements such as noise. We may need a controlled temperature, security against theft, damage or fire, and privacy. Different activities such as work, recreation, bringing up a family and worship require different kinds of buildings, perhaps in special locations, with varying internal spaces, environments and form. The functions of buildings are often complex and they are not all utilitarian in the sense of serving a practical purpose. Many buildings are designed to express emotions or'symbolise ideas and this can be of importance in determiningWe usually see the exterior of a building first and it is very easy just to look at this and confine one's appreciation to the facade. This can Jead to a very superficial the final form of the building.
MacCalman House, 18 Kilmardinny Avenue, Bearsden
Davis Duncan Architects
Practical Completion: Nov 2004
Contract Sum: £400k
Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe in Illinois, USA
Not many realized, there is a environment minimize which stay in us power, what in it we earn to apply ‘ policys’ our own. Environment minimize that is house omit our own. In It, we own ability to conduct repairs minimize having an effect on big at environmental quality and the quality live a us family.
First matter are we which can do is realizing how the environment impact generated by our house existence. Still there any remained green farm to fulfill our own oxygen requirement? Each and everyone require to minimize 1,2 m2 grass above land for the oxygen requirement. Matter of this means, if there are five people of family member, we require to minimize 6 green m2 area, or equivalent with fairish page yard 3 m x 2 m. whether your house page yard have fulfilled your own oxygen requirement?
As possible we dont develop;build a full-house and dont leave over the a length between thumb edge even also for the green farm. Negative impact will be direct felt by ourselves. If space requirement will be imperative felt additional, adding building floor become two floor earn made by a compared to to better alternative close entire/all farm which we own with building. Initially possibly will be felt costlier, but the much more felt benefit is big than nominal amount unlimited. From economic facet of building, of course economize nya of operating expenses for that spaces later will very felt with existence of lighting and refreshing experience of that.
Start in this time down our way, by becoming friendly resident of environment. Its meaning, we give a few possible the negative impact to our environment. little by little we earn to start to perform simple repairs to increase the environmental quality about us. Environment in power....
This building is Farnsworth House, located 14520 River Road, Plano, Illinois, USA
Mies van der Rohe, Architect
Key Illinois Building
Client: Built for Dr. Edith Farnsworth, she sold the house in 1972 to Lord Palumbo
Directions: head southwest from Chicago
Date: 1950
Mathematic to Architecture Design
This is a content about ideas in architecture and ideas of architecture. Now this is a very large subject, about which many volumes have been written, almost all of them concerned with ideas of the imagination. The ideas discussed in this content are ideas of a different sort: ideas of the intellect, of reasoning. Such things are commonly believed to be the province of engineering and science and mathematics, and really not of much interest to the art of architecture. Nothing could be further from the truth.
It is the aim of this book to show that although architecture is usually thought to be product of acts of inspired creation. it is also the product of acts of inspired reason; to demonstrate that science and mathematics are portions of our intellectual culture that cannot be set apart from architecture and left to the engineers to worry about, but are the concern of all of us.
Several themes run through the following chapters. At the highest level, these is the notion of the pervasiveness of mathematics in the western intellectual tradition. The extraordinary ubiquity of mathematics in our culture is not due to its instrumental efficacy, that is, to the fact that is useful for solving practical problems. The peculiar and revered position of ancient mathematics claim to provide absolutely certain knowledge.
From the birth of mathematics as an independent body of knowledge, fathered by the classical Greeks, and for a period of over 2000 years, mathematics pursued truth, Under the powerful influence of Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle, mathematics and philosophy became intertwined, sharing as they did the requirement for ironclad proofs of statements. The mission of philosophy, it was held, was to discover the true knowledge behind the change and illusion, the veil of opinion and deceptive appearance of this world. In this quest, mathematics had a special place, for mathematics knowledge was the outstanding example of knowledge independent of sense experience. It was certain, objective and eternal.
To archieve its marvelous and powerful results, mathematics relied on a special method, namely, that of deductive proof from self-evident axioms. Deductive reasoning, by its very nature, guarantees the truth of what is deduced if its axioms are truths. By utilizing this seemingly clear, infallible, and impeccable logic, mathematicians produce seemingly irrefutable conclusions.
Observatory House, Quito, Ecuador
During the renaissance in Europe architects became very interested in recreating what they saw as the beauty and harmony of the universe in their buildings. Architects used proportion to relate each part of a building to every other part harmoniously and they sought mathematical relationships for the length, 
width and height of rooms. 
Andrea Palladio utilised three different sets of ratios to obtain good proportions in his villas and churches in Italy. These were based on arithmetic, geometric and harmonic relationships. The first might give a room which measures 6 feet by 12 feet, with a height of 9 feet. The terms 6, 9, 12 are related arithmetically because the second term exceeds the first by the same amount as the third term exceeds the second. In geometric proportion the first terra relates to the second as 
the second to the third. We might then have a room which measures 4 feet by 9 feet with a height ol 6 feet, because the width of the room is two-thirds or the height, and the height is two-thirds of the length. In the more complex final example the terms are in harmonic proportion when the difference of the two extreme terms from the third or intermediate term are in the same proportion. For example, if a room measures 6 feet wide by 12 feet long and 8 feet high the intermediate measurement is that of the height which is 8 feet. The smallest dimension is the width which is 6 feet and the difference between 6 feet and 8 feet is 2 feet or a third of 6 feet. The largest dimension is the length at 12 feet and the difference between it and the height is 4 icet which is a third of the length.
contemporary building marking :
Eksterior
- light materials wall and non stuktur
- forming building facade more simpel, generally more amount using vertical line element and horizontal
- a lot of contemporary building use materials steel
- plate roof
Interior:
- Low Plafond
- materials of massif wall and light transparent
- aperture its building is wide (door, windows, etc), to exploit natural view, wind and daylight.
- terrace;core and gallery enough
- warm material furniture, traditional exploration
- indoor plant.
About this building :
Adrian Moreno Núñez
María Samaniego Ponce
Structural Design: Patricio Ribadeneira
Project: 2003-04
Construction: 2004
Photographs: Sebastián Crespo
House 3 by Arquitectura x in Ecuador
This content I take away from e-architec.co.uk, I take some content hit house there, since my plan wish to collect result of house device exist in the world. assortedly form building face, colour, theme, architecture style (contemporary, classic, modern of minimalist, mediteran, country, etc.), concept, and the architect whoever designing the house, what according to delicate me, interesting, unique, functional, and can be made a reference to myself or others.
The built context consists mainly of colonial style houses with a total disregard for the local topography, landscape or climate. Located on a valley to the east of Quito, the area enjoys a temperate climate all year round and is a privileged setting due to its proximity to the local mountain ranges.
On a relatively small site enclosed by three roads, (with mandatory setback of 5m) with a strong negative gradient and an unavoidable location (due to road levels and accessibility) of the garages, two primary decisions were made; to place the house on the highest fringe of the site next to the only neighbouring lot, and to consolidate and level the ground with retaining walls that act as a plinth, a typical resource of the architecture of Quito, which allows the site to be raised over the busiest roads and the immediate buildings, projecting the space towards the landscape beyond.
The need to maximize the outdoor areas, lead to the definition of the 3 basic elements that make up the house:
The orange socle, set back next to the only party wall and protecting the living spaces from the strong western sun, includes all the service areas, ground floor circulation, garages and a shaded entrance patio.
The white bar, raised on extremely slender pilotis (calculated for earthquake resistance) containing bedrooms and private areas closed to the neighbouring house and the western sun by circulation and baths, opened to the views and morning sun, with public areas limited by glass below.
The third element encloses the main living areas and defines the vertical connections, a hovering and folding concrete plane that encloses and projects the interior spaces across the site creating different relationships with the gardens, the mountains and the sky.
Arquitectura x
Adrian Moreno Núñez
María Samaniego Ponce
Project: 2001-02
Construction: 2002-04
Structural Design: Diego Robalino
Photographs: Sebastián Crespo
House Design Oriented with Climate
Earth offer to human being all kinds of living space with different climate, start from desert of sand and pole which have the extreme temperature until gulf of mediteran and savanna which have the ideal climate.
With this different characteristic, human being as earth dweller claimed in order to earn to own stategy by xself to earn to live on in it. So also in founding a dwelling, needed by a special strategy in technics develop;build until his items election in order to be reached by freshment for his dweller. Glass use duplicate at window and door at Dwelling in European is one of human being response to winter owning sun intensity lower and the air temperature come near dot 0 degree celcius. Strive this for the air anticipation chilled by which come into building with do not hinder entry of sunshine.
Freshment a dwelling become of vital importance since automatically, human being always answer to external temperature of body by feeling sensation chilled or the heat accepted by husk. Utilized this sensation to give sinyal at other body shares to defend body condition remain to at temperature 37 degree celcius. At temperature of this is organ of human being body earn to function better. Sweat is body response in discharging heat of if external temperature mount. On the contrary, if downhill external temperature, blood pressure decrease in the effort lessening heat from within body. According to research, air temperature gyrate 27,5 degree celcius represent balmy temperature zona for human being.
Back in january we published an article on the architecture studio FAR. marc frohn from FAR recently informed
us that they are now offering people the opportunity to purchase drawings and other planning material of their
'wall house' via the net.
Four different packages are available through the 'your wall house' website that allow people to buy drawings of
the house, the rights to construct their own wall house and also the possibility to collaborate with FAR on a project.
This type of transaction is unprecedented in the architectural community; however, we are excited about the fresh
and innovative potential of opening the wall house to new places and people via the internet.' MF
