Month: April 2021

prefab cabin

Coming from the Netherlands, My Home Office is one such prefab unit that can be adapted to a variety of uses — a home office, an extra guest room — and it can even have a toilet and shower installed. https://www.treehugger.com/my-home-office-prefab-cabin-by-cosmas-bronsgeest-5179187

shoreline dwelling

Murdough Design Architects The wooden ceilings and spaces within are illuminated with dappled light, ever-changing with the weather, time, and season. The body and senses are engaged throughout the cabin and site in a narrative about one’s time and place on this lakeside idyll, providing a tranquil respite from plugged-in city life. https://www.archdaily.com/960798/shoreline-dwelling-murdough-design-architects

single family house with poolhouse

Oostkaai, Studio Ambacht The house is built with authentic, natural materials such as brick, concrete, and wood. Premium surfaces (walnut, dark oak and brown marble)were used along with truly ascetic ones such as polished concrete for the floors and exposed concrete for most of the ceilings. The facades are Kahn-inspired and made out of white-painted brick […]

wye river house

MGAO The proposed concept consists of 4 connected ‘Living Rooms’ joined to create an enfilade, the careful positioning of the blade walls and window openings creates privacy and reinforces the identity and function of each room within an essentially open plan. The openings on the Northern facade shift slightly in relation to the function of […]

casa sal

RIMA Design Group Our initial approach was to incorporate rammed earth construction to the most important spaces of the house and utilize a second material which is Concrete to express the other massing elements. The rammed earth walls are thermal insulating walls that also bring in warmth and humidity to the dry desert-scapes of the […]

ski slope residence

LaRue Architects The 4,100 SF one-story ‘Hill Country contemporary’ residence sits on a 1.2-acre site on the west bank of Austin, TX. The homeowners reached out to LaRue Architects to design their lakeside dream home. The lot had an existing house – built in the 1950s as a vacation lake cabin – typical for the area. […]

concrete house

Raw Architecture Workshop Concrete House is the first building in the world to be built of advanced Fibre Reinforced Concrete, a durable anti-cracking material developed by Cemex and tested for thermal and structural properties by the University of Zurich. https://www.archdaily.com/959601/concrete-house-raw-architecture-workshop?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1hnBJ6TMvJWpvAujMPAuxP3_pbXUj4CTsSERCsml5viNqLuhpa8rA1zgk

villa boréale

CARGO Architecture The project’s design comes from a desire to revisit the historical architecture of the New France dwelling into a contemporary vernacular cottage. The high pitch roof with shallow overhang is characteristic of this early form of dwellings.Local materials with natural finishes, such as Eastern cedar cladding contrast with the charcoal matt metal standing […]

loch tummel house

WT Architecture Partially buried in the landscape, the three-storey home emerges from a ruined walled garden to directly face the loch. According to the architect it was designed to enhance the surrounding scenic landscape, rather than hide within it. https://www.dezeen.com/2021/04/18/loch-tummel-house-scotland-wt-architecture/?fbclid=IwAR3z5PSCiy3oUcwpXK1oTDxtljq7NY4p1ZUijVHunImORFzw6j_GWIzqrSk