HANS-house by M O D O. The top of this Australian house by architect Michael Ong of M O D O is a timber box that sits at an angle on top of the ground floor walls. The timber-clad first and second storeys project towards the street in front and across the garden at the back, where they create a canopy over the terrace. Bare masonry blocks create stark walls both inside and out at ground level, and also provide the structure for worktops in the kitchen.
Located in Victoria, the house provides a home for a couple and their children. Other popular residences we've featured in Australia include a steel-plated bunker and a house with marble brise-soleils. See all our stories about Australian houses » Photography is by Ricky Fung. Here's some more text from Michael Ong: The client’s brief was to design a home which played an active role in their everyday life, rather than a static shell. In HANS-house, instead of standing next to the backyard, the form cradles and pulls the landscape in and to the centre of the house. Terrace 9 Housing Complex / Atelier Zündel Cristea. The competition winning proposal for the Terrace 9 Housing Complex in Nanterre, France by Atelier Zündel Cristea aims to restore the human scale and legibility necessary for creating large and enjoyable public spaces, capable of attracting people from beyond the city and the Hauts de Seine region.
They do this by taking into account the urban project’s varying relief, both natural and artificial, with the coexistence of road and rail transportation networks and the structures of colossal scale such networks required. More images and architects’ description after the break. Extending out from the axis of La Défense, the site encompasses an exceptionally vast terrain, in which a train classification yard, railroad site, segment of highway, areas used for unregulated parking, all remain to be urbanized.
The block is within Nanterre’s municipal 9th Terrace, measuring around 113 meters by 21m wide. Our architectural project is not limited to volumes and facades. Haus mit Atelier / C18 Architekten. Architects: C18 Architekten Location: Waldstetten-Wißgoldingen, Germany Client: Georg Spreng Project Area: 615 sqm Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Brigida Gonzalez An intensive and stimulating dialog with our client inspired us to new views. It also inspired us to over think (some of) our beliefs. Several functions, representative and private areas were to relate to and, at the same time, to clearly distinguish themselves from each other.
A combination of differing relations, resulting not only from the topography but also from diverse requirements to the building, leads to an individual living space. Tailored to the particular requirements of the house owner, this habitat cannot be determined typologically. VillaLóla / ARKÍS architects. Architects: ARKÍS architects Location: Akureyri, Iceland Size: 128 sqm Completion: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy ARKÍS architects VillaLóla The design of villa Lóla was an especially enjoyable dialogue process between client and architect. Various ideas of materials, concepts and techniques where discussed in the process. Inspirations range from Swiss mountains cabins, a sea ranch in Sonoma County in California, and Japanese solutions in spatial efficiency. Furthermore, the framing of views was an important topic of discussion. The natural surroundings of the site and the fjord of Eyjarfjördur were key factors to address.
Design The client requested the possibility to divide the house into three spaces, or apartments that could be enlarged or reduced as needed. Location The experience of being on site played a major role in the design. Materials VillaLola is built with a frame of sustainable goal settings. Flooring is of robust wooden boards and concrete terrazzo. Living Foz / dEMM Arquitectura. Architects: dEMM Arquitectura, Paulo Fernandes da Silva Location: Porto, Portugal Collaborators: Isabela Neves, Tiago Soares Lopes Structural Engineering: Gepec Landscape Architect: arqt.OF, Daniel Monteiro Electrical Engineering: Ohm-e Mechanical Engineer: Get Contractor: J.
Camilo Constructed Area: 12.000 sqm + courtyard Project Year: 2008-2010 Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra and Pedro Lobo Located nearby Oporto’s seaside area, Living Foz is composed by 40 apartments distributed over 7 floors. Unleashing 30 percent of the plot area for a collective use garden, a relief to the neighboring construction is obtained. The balcony angle articulation creates spaces enriched by contrasts of light and shade, exposure and protection, emphasized by the contrast between the white cast-in-place concrete and the dark Glass Reinforced Concrete. . © Pedro Lobo © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra ground floor plan typical floor plan * Location to be used only as a reference. House in Fuji / LEVEL Architects. Architects: LEVEL Architects Location: Shizuoka, Japan Project Year: 2011Project Area: 193.91 sqm Photographs: Makoto Yoshida Since the house is surrounded by attractive scenery with a park nearby and distant views of the snow-capped Mt Fuji, we designed each section to be connected with the outside environment.
On the south side of the building, the roof slab was extended, creating an eave to protect residents from direct daylight in summer months. On the north side, areas were cut from the volume to allow daylight the daylight to enter the space. On the third floor, an open terrace was designed, which is where the best views of the nearby park and Mt. Fuji can be seen. On the 2nd floor, there are wooden louvers that run along the shape of building, providing privacy for residents. The first floor has an additional terrace area that is used as a golf practice area. The tilted wall of the north side provides privacy from the slope side and creates depth in the main bedroom. JD House / BAK Architects. The 20m x 30m plot of land in the coastal Mar Azul forest in Buenos Aires, Argentina is the site for BAK Architects‘ JD House, a residence designed in concrete, wood and glass and blended into the topography and vegetation on the site.
The preliminary specifications for the house required two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a large, flexible social area, integrated into the kitchen, that could accommodate different activities for the guests that are expected to visit. The client also specified that generous outdoor expansions were available on the site. More on the JD House after the break. The land on which the house is situated follows a gentle slope that provided a welcome challenge for the design of the house.
The house was conceived as two pure prisms, located in a clearing among trees of various heights, as intersecting perpendicular forms that joined at half levels. The house is accessed along the longest side through a deck that is raised above the natural terrain. Graticule House / David Jameson Architect. Graticule House is located in Great Falls, Virginia. Immersed within its forested site, the home’s stark white color stands out against the natural browns and greens that surround it.
Designed by David Jameson Architect, interior spaces merge into exterior spaces creating a unique dialogue with the home and its site. Architects: David Jameson Architect Location: Great Falls, Virginia, USA Contractor: MT Puskar Construction Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Nic Lehoux Photography Situated on a hillside site, the Graticule House is conceived to be a trace, or reference datum, allowing a reading of the relationship between the building and nature.
Fundamental to the conception of the house is the notion of cadence, where repetitious vertical and horizontal markers of the building’s tectonics are juxtaposed with the particularity of the forest and ground plane. Light and space are modulated by meshing ribbons of glass and wall planes that form a tessellation of solid and void. House in Koamicho / Suppose Design Office. Architects: Suppose design office Location: Koamicho, Hiroshima, Japan Site Area: 102.86 sqm Building Area: 62.80 sqm Total Floor Area: 121.97 sqm Project Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano When we normally feel “interior” or “exterior”, what are the causes? And what are the causes of feeling “open” or “narrow”? This is house designed with much thought to how, from those root causes, we define the conditions of a space. In a long, narrow space, we constructed walls, and by laying out a space in which we experience many rooms, we turn “narrowness” into “openness.
“Further, taking rooms and gardens as equivalent, we created spaces that are like the exteriors, calling them “garden rooms”. By moving from room to another room, we can alternately experience interior and exterior, and they become the place where every rooms are connected to the exterior. Casa en Playa en Las Arenas / Artadi Arquitecto. © Alexander Kornhuber Arquitectos: Artadi Arquitectos ( Javier Artadi Loayza) Ubicación: Las Arenas, Lima, Perú Asistentes: Oscar Luyo, Ivan Navas Area Techada: 238.00 m2 Fotografías: Alexander Kornhuber Imagen El proyecto consiste en una pequeña casa ubicada en una playa a 100 kilómetros al sur de la ciudad de Lima. Conceptualmente, el proyecto explora la expansión de los usos convencionales en una casa de playa.
Para ello se ha creado una especie de gran caja contenedora , un espacio total que integra plenamente la sala-comedor con la terraza-piscina – dentro de la cual se han diseñado diversos elementos ( convencionales y no convencionales) que permiten múltiples opciones de uso. Planta Primera Funcionalmente el volumen principal esta rodeado de las áreas de dormitorios y de servicio. Arq. Map Data Map data ©2014 Google Map * Ubicación aproximada, puede indicar ciudad/país y no necesariamente la dirección exacta.
Vacation Villas / Posto 9. Architects: Posto 9 Location: Manta Rota, Portugal Project Manager: Arq.ªJoana Castanheira, Arq.º André Ferreira Project Team: Arq.ª Joana Ribeiro Project Year: 2007 Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra These small vacation villas, were designed for an “anonymous” plot along the beach of Manta Rota on the Algarve Coast. Despite belonging to different clients, the two houses were designed together, becoming a one volume unit house, consisting of two twin sections. In each of the sections, the ground floor is occupied by a single space which makes up the lounge and kitchen areas, facing to the east and west respectively.
These spaces extend to the outside covered porches, expanding the available floor space, and protecting the interior from direct sunlight. The first floor is reserved for the private areas, with three bedrooms with the same dimensions, two of them facing east. . © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra Floor Plan. Sumikiri House / y+Mdo. The Sumikiri House is located within a residential neighborhood where there are existing older tenement houses in Amagasaki-City, Hyogo-Pref, Japan.
The existing fabric of the neighborhood consists of narrow roadways, about 4 meters, and dense housing with limited poor views. The house is located on a corner lot, and with the idea to maximize the lot the architects created a design that incorporated a lot of natural light and joyfulness for the family. Architect : y+Mdo Location: Amagasaki-City, Hyogo-Pref, Japan Project Architect: Masahiro Miyake Project Manager: Hidemasa Yoshimoto Project Area: 113.20 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of y+Mdo In the Sumikiri House the plan at ground level has its corner removed, appropriate to its name which means corner cutoff in Japanese, creating a garage space and a more open feel to the narrow lot.
A plain-woven iron grating on the façade of the house suspends out of the the missing corner and creates an interesting mix of transparency and privacy. Utsav House / Studio Mumbai. Architects: Studio Mumbai Location: Satirje, Maharashtra, India Principal Architect: Bijoy Jain Project Team: Roy Katz, Jeevaram Suthar, Pandurang Malekar, Mangesh Mhatre Structural Engineer: Dwijen Bhatt Photographs: Courtesy of Studio Mumbai On a barren plateau, a house is set low into the ground, protected by four black basalt walls that enclose a shaded courtyard, within which pools, pavilions and garden provide shelter for living.
Utsav house is a single family home in Satirje, Alibag a short boat ride from Mumbai. The spaces are arranged along the periphery walls that define and support the structures of the house. Different heights are created to suit the functions and dimensions of the interiors. Concrete slabs, basalt stone walls and wood for framing are used to construct the buildings, while walls and floor are stained in pigmented cement plaster to mimic the dry grasses of the summer, setting the buildings into the landscape. Stacking green / Vo Trong Nghia + Daisuke Sanuki + Shunri Nishizawa. Architects: Vo Trong Nghia, Daisuke Sanuki, Shunri Nishizawa (Vo Trong Nghia Co., ltd.)
Location: Saigon, Vietnam Photographers: Hiroyuki Oki Whoever wanders around Saigon, a chaotic city with the highest density of population in the world, can easily find flower-pots crampped and displayed here and there all around the streets. This interesting custom has formed the amused character of Saigon over a long period of time and Saigonese love their life with a large variety of tropical plants and flowers in their balconies, courtyards and streets. The house, designed for a thirty-years-old couple and their mother, is a typical tube house constructed on the plot 4m wide and 20m deep.
The front and back façades are entirely composed of layers of concrete planters cantilevered from two side walls. The distance between the planters and the height of the planters are adjusted according to the height of the plants, which varies from 25 cm to 40 cm. Casa Lik / Satoru Hirota Architects Casa Lik / Satoru Hirota Architects (22) Pirihueico House / Alejandro Aravena. Alejandro Aravena was selected as one of the 20 essential young architects by Icon. Architects: Alejandro Aravena, Jorge Christie, Victor Oddó Location: Pirihueico lake, Chile Built Area: 350sqm Construction start: 2003 Completion: 2004 Materials: Stone, Wood, Glass Budget: 1.000 US$ / m2 Photos: Cristobal Palma We were asked to design a summer/winter house in a remote landscape in the most southern part of Chile.
More than a design, the client wanted, first of all, an equation that included every possible aspect that one could consider to be included; the design then had to be just the resolution of that equation. Being the weather condition very extreme, we started taking as less risk as possible; that’s why we began from the double sloped conventional roof. Slowly, we moved on, deforming it, looking for the views, avoiding the winds, using the frame windows as the arriving or starting points of the slopes. Stones and wood came from the clearence made in the site for the house. Element house / Sami Rintala.
Poli House / Pezo von Ellrichshausen. BB / Yo Yamagata Architects. The Concave House / Tao Lei Architect Studio. Sky Garden House / Keiji Ashizawa Design. Classic: Cordoba House / Emilio Ambasz. House A+B / buerger katsota architects. Rural Mat / njiric+ arhitekti. 14 Social Housing Units In Barcelona / Batlle & Roig Architects. Rio Cedro House / Plan B Arquitectos. 4 Bungalows / Estudio Arquitectura Hago. Habitat 44 / TETRARC Architectes. Gorro Capucha / GrupoTalca. Lik House / Satoru Hirota Architects. PTL / Satoru Hirota Architects. Estate In Extremadura / Ábaton Architects. Atelier Tenjinyama / Ikimono Architects. Utriai Residence / Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners.