Final Wooden House, the innovative bungalow that is located in Kumamoto, Japan. the Final Wooden House designed Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto is the World Architecture Festival Awards which subsequently won the Private House category.
House of Convexities is a two level home designed by Antonino Cardillo architect with Spanish traditional dance at its heart. Flamenco inspires the lines of the building playing with perspective and light throughout the user’s transition. The beauty of creative arts is that they can converge in many ways, music and lyrics, costume and theatre and, as illustrated by Antonino Cardillo’s House of Convexities in Barcelona, architecture and dance.
Inside a house among coarse Mediterranean glades and corrugated stone walls, a slanting light, pierced by innumerable narrow repeated blades, inscribes and describes the walls with its impermanent, mutable hand. How many possible stories will this light tell over the course of a year?
A curved wall jokes with the light. The light bathes the wall, but reaches the moment and the place in which, going beyond the curve, it takes a tangent, deciding what will be lit and what will be dark. And this movement suggests the indefinite, mutability, shading, ineffability.
Thus architecture becomes light interpreted through the “limbs” of the architecture. Like shadows of flesh on flesh, whose forms are both definite and defining.
Here, as in a Flamenco dance, the body breaks up, invading the space moving through its potential articulations without, however, defining the void, or, interpreting the many possibilities of moving within it: fleshy and sensual, but equally incisive and precise. Secret but luminous. Closed but open to a multitude of possibilities. A body inside another body. Compressed, suspended and continuous in its curvilinear trajectory.
And yet, as in a Flamenco dance, the development of movement, its indefinable ardour, is made real by the successive instant. That solemn, still instant that seems to challenge eternity.
Thus, smooth, tall and still, a wall opposes silence. And such stillness paradoxically supports the preceding movement, giving sense to its being."
This residence was designed by Shigeru Kuwahara Architects for a couple and a dog is located in Kanagawa, a typical satellite town, 30 minutes train traveling distance from the heart of Tokyo, Japan. The rapid expansion of Tokyo had already involved this area 20 years ago, but there are still some woods secured from the development. The site was a left piece at the edge of urbanisation, a very calm environment with the rich sunlight on the southern slope of a small hill and the view to the green park. However, this fragment was an irregularly shaped trapezoid.
Escaping from the difficult condition of the site shape, the plan study was started from the centre of the site looking for the gentle connection to those good environments. The architects placed three certain functions in ideal positions in relation both to the site orientation and to each other, connected those with the uncertain functioned space, and created one homogenous and trifurcated room. Although the space is continuous, the trifurcation system can softly divide functions and generously allow multiple usages. via house design news
The Louis bedroom range is part of an exclusive collection of furniture designed by British designer John Reeves for Heal's. The Louis bed frame with its innovate 'split leg technique' offers a beautiful curve that is simple and elegant.
Architects: Architecture W
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Project Team: Michel Weenick, Yukiko Iwanaga, Brian White
Client: Michel Weenick
Project Year: 2005
Constructed Area: 320 sqm
Structural Engineer: Structure NANA
Photographer: Andy Boone
Designed by Architecture W, this house design 320 sqm that located in one of Nagoya’s more attractive residential neighborhoods, but with only 2.5 meters of dead end street access and set on a difficult site that steps down from this access level a total of 7 meters, Michel Weenick's M-House is designed to both address the site conditions that rendered the site “unbuildable” by the local real estate community and provide for a simple, modern lifestyle for the American owner/architect and his family.
In addition to the challenge provided by the site itself, the house design also addresses the conceptual challenges of planning for a multi generational/multi national family, as well the even bigger challenge of securing precious views, sunlight, and breezes in the context of a cramped traditional Japanese neighborhood. Despite the difficulty in accessing and actually building on the site, it was the property’s one redeeming feature, its location at the edge of a cliff that hovers over the northern part of Nagoya that inspired the design of the house.
A hybrid structural system made up of simple reinforced concrete, concrete incased steel, and a pair of 3 meter tall steel trusses, all running inside the east and west walls of the house, allow the design to accommodate a variety of site and program conditions while also allowing for the north and south elevations to be composed entirely of sliding glass walls that capture the views, sunlight, and breezes(essential to surviving the smog and humidity present during Nagoya’s summer months) that make this building site so special.
This house designed by Australian architects Dale Jones-Evan, Folded House that located in Sydney grows into it’s surroundings. Since its opening in 2004 the building has integrated with its surroundings becoming one.
It’s form attaches itself to the back of a Victorian Italianate villa on a large site in coastal Bronte. The copper form is weighted over the south side - glazed strip framing a terrace and coastal views. The form refolds itself as an eyelid to the north tempering the Australian light, while the final fold takes place outside the envelope touching the ground to the west to shield low level west sun and heat.
This house, the letter 'K' was designed by ARM, Ashton Raggatt McDougall is located in Bellarine Peninsula, Regional Melbourne, Australia. The clients’ brief was to design an intelligent, environmentally friendly holiday house to which they could retire in the future. Visually the size of the building appears as a large explosion of form but internally it is quite modest, with a site footprint of less that 10%.
Beginning with the letter ‘K’ was not entirely arbitrary as our clients’ family name begins with the letter, and we had tried exploring writing and letters before, and also the space between letters as negative objects. We decided to use the Kmart ‘K’ for our K, now making it the size of a house. Eventually by cutting the K in half across the middle and rotating the two pieces, the house began to emerge as a composition suspended along the maximum building height envelope to achieve the best sea views. Under this we projected its shadow to form the ground level accommodation including the entry and space for two cars. From the start we wanted to paint the entire house red but due to council regulations and our client’s wishes we made it Grey instead and are probably glad we did.
Cladding both ‘K’ and shadow in the same timber paneling allowed the house to achieve a single dynamic as if inspired more by ships than signage, more like a rather racy ark than the sign and its shadow. Yet it is really the projection of these shadows which defines the large timber decks, especially at the front which provide an elevated platform directly off both the living spaces and the main bedroom. Inside this theme of timber underfoot has been used throughout the living spaces using polished bamboo.
The kitchen joinery, pantry wall, big sliding door and the enormous ceiling-high bookshelf ‘K’ are all painted brilliant, glossy red. As a plan the house is simple with the ground floor cut into the sloping site and entered directly off the car park with mudroom and storage, two bedrooms, bathrooms and home cinema, then up to the long living, dining and kitchen, all facing north and open each end, east to the sea and west to the garden. The main bedroom and another bedroom form the other half of the house at this level, with a spiral stair to the library above. This is a ship lap weatherboard house in the tradition of the seaside shack. It has bold and legible forms and an easy live ability that belies its extreme derivation in the shape of that K.
VS Houses that designed by RamÃrez Buxeda Arquitectos is located in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, USA. The houses design exist between a “rural feeling” access road in the fringe of suburbia and a high speed expressway. The site straddles a ridge between two creeks, one of which divides San Juan, the capital city of Puerto Rico from Guaynabo, a main suburb of the capital city. The contextual duality of the rural-like suburbia vs. the high speed expressway and city frames the project.
The home project is a speculative development and the client is a for-profit corporation. The program was dictated by the needs of the market, four bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms with all the other spaces typical of sub-urban living.
As part of the conceptual process three questions generated the initial thought: How can two houses reconcile the contextual duality of the site? How can two houses be equal yet assert their individuality at the same time? How can two houses correspond, talk, communicate and engage each other? The three questions were engaged by implementing spatial, volumetric, visual, material and textural “interlocks.”
The VS Houses look at the view of an old 60 feet high bamboo grove lining the creek 50 feet below and turn towards their courtyard. The double height space (living / dining areas) mediate the two. The exposed concrete structural skeleton provides the frame for the light filters: blue green translucent channel glass, aluminum louvers, powder coated Grey perforated corrugated steel screen, fixed and operable blue green impact resistant glass and the weathering steel sliding gates.
Kew House was designed by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects in Melbourne, Australia. Located at the end of a cul de sac in the coveted Yarra Boulevard neighborhood—a residential area following the flow of the Yarra River—the land falls away 11.5 feet from street level to the former tennis court below. The hill falls again beyond this area, creating a precipice from which the river and a golf course can be seen. “The dramatic fall of the land puts you at eye level with the canopies of eucalyptus trees and abundant birdlife and bushland,” says Bos. “We saw the ground plane as an artificial scar on the landscape, and wanted the new building to effect a new condition that repaired and reconnected with the landscape.”
The architects created a three-part, two-toned, steel-and-copper-titanium-alloy-clad form for the house that would telescope progressively from front to back. The three shells that make up the horizontal stacking-block form contain an entry shell with study and garage, a middle shell with bedrooms, bathrooms, and laundry, and an end shell with kitchen, dining, and living areas.
The three forms are suspended in the tree canopy with a supporting structure of circular two-tone columns. Beneath this platform level is a glazed area with an additional bedroom, bathroom, storage, and living areas, a floor of synthetic grass (the last vestige of the tennis court) and a children’s play area. “We saw the cladding as evoking the alternate colors of new and old growth bark of the once-dominant indigenous red river gum trees,” says Bos. “The satin finish of the Color bond contrasts with the dull matte of the Rheinzink, like the top and underside and of a leaf sweeping backwards and forwards in the wind.” More practical is the fact that the house uses passive thermal heating and cooling techniques, with a northern orientation, overhangs and minimal openings to the west, as well as operable windows in all rooms and a main hallway acting as a breezeway corridor.
Floating Box House was designed by Peter L. Gluck and Partners in Westlake Hills, Texas
This 3300 SF residence occupies an irregularly shaped, sloping site overlooking Lake Washington with views of the Cascade range from Mt. Baker in the North to Mt. Rainier in the South.
The house was designed by architect Adams Mohler Ghillino is anchored to its sloping site at the upper northwest corner by a cast-in-place concrete garage. A semi-detached, single story studio sets atop the garage and cantilevers to create a covered path to the entry. The three story volume of the main house occupies the lower southeast corner of the site with an open living/dining/kitchen space on the main floor, master bedroom suite and study on the upper floor, and children’s bedrooms and play area on the lower floor.
The 700 Palms Residence designed by Steven Ehrlich in 2003 is located in Venice, Los Angeles, California. The house expresses a counterpoint between a sense of harmony and tranquility with flowing, dynamic spaces.
Flexibility and transformation are fully realized through the use of wood-and-steel frame structure, enclosed and shielded for privacy by a roll-down scrim hung on a skeletal steel frame.
This home designed by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allenoom on Mercer Island utilizes the elemental natures of concrete, steel and glass to create a family refuge. Two concrete structures, which house the garage, mudroom, and a play area, present themselves to the street.
Between them runs an exposed steel bridge which leads over a private courtyard and into the main house. A bent plate steel staircase descends into an open plan, double-height living space, which is dominated by an immense concrete fireplace and chimney (in the living room) and a massive black granite-covered island (in the kitchen). Floor to ceiling windows provide unimpeded views of the water from the courtyard or inside the house.
Production houses tend to be rather bland, average, and uninspiring, but occasionally we’ll see one of these companies prove that they’re capable of putting out something a little more interesting.
Some examples of this design Stainless steel kitchen appliances Kitchen Help Oak floors. design to provide convenience in the kitchen cooking or caring. putting back all the furniture, artwork, hanging, etc.. kitchen beautifully simple style of pure white light. they are one of the few splurges in the kitchen.
This vacation home, The Klein bottle, designed by McBride Charles Ryan and located in outside Melbourne Australia is a descriptive model of a surface developed by topological mathematicians. Klein bottle, mobius strips, boy surfaces, unique surfaces that while they may be distorted remain topologically the same. I.e. a donut will remain topologically a donut if you twist and distort it, it will only change topologically if it is cut.
The surfaces that mathematicians have developed hold intrigue for architects as they hold a promise of new spatial relationships and configurations. Technology (CAD) has played an important part in all this, it is now more possible to efficiently describe more complex shapes and spaces and communicate these to the build. Previously the more orthogonal means of communication – plans, sections and elevations naturally encourage buildings which are more easily described in these terms, i.e. boxes.
This holiday house is situated on the Mornington Peninsula 1.5 hrs drive from Melbourne. It is located within the tee–tree on the sand dunes, a short distance from the wild 16th beach. From the outset MCR wanted a building that nestled within the tree line. That talked about journey and the playfulness of holiday time. What began as a spiral or shell like building developed into a more complex spiral, the Klein bottle. MCR were keen to be topologically true to the Klein bottle but it had to function as a home. We thought an origami version of the bottle would be achievable and hold some ironic fascination. (The resulting FC version also has a comforting relationship to the tradition of the Aussie cement sheet beach house).
The building (we think) is also within that tradition of the use of an experimental geometry that could be adapted to more suitably meet contemporary needs, and desires. In that sense it is within the heroic tradition of invigorating the very nature of the home, most notable of this tradition would be the great experimental heroic houses by Melbourne architects in the 50’s (McIntyre and Boyd in particular).
The house revolves around a central courtyard, a grand regal stair connecting all the levels. There is a sense of both being near and far to all occupants. Its endless, curling shell-like quality particularly in the tee tree brings about a comforting togetherness.
This house design located in Singapore, on Sentosa Cove Island differs from the rest of the water-front houses because of its tall and narrow proportion. Cutting into an existing hill slope, the house rises 5 storeys from the road level. The master bedroom is located on the highest level with the best views to the city.
The entire front of the house designed by Timur Designs LLP is made of timber balconies, which cantilever off the house like a 3-dimensional wooden screen. The internal spaces are designed to be totally porous, with the living and dining pavilions totally unenclosed.
These “interior” spaces open into a pool and deck area, which continue to step up the natural slope of the hill, creating a central valley-like oasis into which all rooms on the upper levels open.
The design of this house demonstrates true tropical living where the focus is on the relationship between the interior spaces and their surrounding.
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