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Mascara wooden house by mA-style architects. Part of this wooden house in Japan by mA-style architects is lifted off the ground and curved like the hull of a boat (+ slideshow). Glass screens on opposite sides of the living room separate the level floor surface from the curved outer edges, creating balconies that double up as sun loungers. Positioned at the building's centre, the room is sandwiched between a pair of narrow two-storey wings that contain the other rooms of the two-bedroom family home.

A kitchen and dining room are located in the east wing, where a ridged wooden ceiling arches up around the edges of the children's bedroom above. The master bedroom and bathroom occupy the two floors of the opposite wing, which is only just wide enough to fit a double bed inside. Entrances to the house are positioned on both sides of this wing and lead in through a concealed porch. DCPP ARQUITECTOS - Project - Calero House. Calero is a residential project located in San Angel, in the south of Mexico City.

DCPP ARQUITECTOS - Project - Calero House

The plot had an existing construction made out of brick and tile, which had to be respected. The new proposal had to be solved with the minimum materials, minimum cost, and the minimum elements. The project was conceived under the premise of reusing the necessary elements to materialize an architectural construction, in this case the centering wood. The remainder material becomes the construction itself and is treated and used with honesty, it is reused but not modified. Kamogawa House. S11 House / ArchiCentre. Architects: ArchiCentre Location: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia Architect In Charge: Tan Loke Mun Civil & Structural: Jurutera Perunding TSSC Landscape: Tan Loke Mun Contractor: Atlantic Builders Year: 2012 Photographs: Lin Ho The S11 house is located in an established older suburb of Petaling Jaya.

S11 House / ArchiCentre

The existing old house on the site was built in the early 1960’s and had become dilapidated and run-down over the years. A new green tropical house was planned for the site and conceptualized along the lines of a tree. The large tree canopy would cover and shelter the living spaces underneath it. Åre Solbringen. Archdaily. Architects: Shinichi Ogawa & Associates Location: Tochigi, Japan Total Floor Space: 155.71 sqm Site Area: 315.51 sqm Area: 163.93 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of Shinichi Ogawa & Associates The white house of one-story is located in a calm residential area.

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The symmetric elevation is composed of a white cubic volume as Living/Dining space, and a low volume that enclose the central cube. Living/Dining space has 6m high ceiling, and its northern wall is a high and large book-shelf that will be completely filled with a lot of books.The opposite wall is open to the southern court yard, and takes in various natural elements.

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Maison/Théatre à Saint Jean de Gonville (Architecture Ossature bois) - Olivier Juredieu Architecte, Peintre, Photographe. W Window House / Alphaville Architects. Guesthouse / HHF architects + Ai Weiwei. Architects: HHF architects + Ai Weiwei Location: Ancram, New York, USA Design Team: Mio Tsunemaya, Madeleine Kessler, Jeff Mansfield Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Iwan Baan.

Guesthouse / HHF architects + Ai Weiwei

Unou House / Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates. Architects: Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates Location: Toyota Aichi, Japan Design Team: Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates Project Area: 83.48 sqm Structure Company: Tatsumi Terado Structural Studio Construction Company: Toyonaka construction Ltd As the surrounding of a site, a residence stands in a row in the north-and-south side, and the east-and-west side is a place where a comparatively good field of view.

Unou House / Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates

For this site which has good view, we put two “frames”. One is vertical frame at east. The other is horizontal frame at west. I have an idea that the residence should be a one room. Concretely, we use wooden frame which use auxiliary as window or door frame. Archdaily. Architects: Thanlab Office / Han Tao, Guo Xi, Ma Lina, Zim He, Wang Mohan, Johnny Huang Location: Beijing, China Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 1,107 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Thanlab Office Project Background The project base is located at the core of the 798 Art Zone and is currently a dilapidated storehouse, which may be dismantled for reconstruction. 798 today is in a transition from an art zone to a cultural and commercial tourism destination.

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Compared with the normal internal restructuring manners prevalent at 798, the reconstruction will make use of the opportunity to reconsider relationship between art and commerce and their future trend. This is the start of how we set out on this project. “798 3.0” / Reconsideration of Relationship between Art and Commerce Hollow Tree Structure In this project, the structural relationship will be a kind of hollow tree structure. ASH House / I.R.A. Architects: International Royal Architecture Location: Hokkaido, Japan Design Team: Akinori Kasegai , Daisuke Tsunakawa Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy of I.R.A.

ASH House / I.R.A

Collaborators: Hideyuki Hagiuda A site is a city area in Asahikawa-shi, Hokkaido, Japan. When considering the house built on the heavy snowfall background of the arctic cold which will be midwinter-20 ℃, we paid our attention to “snow” and a “roof.” Although the proposal with various roof forms of a snowy country residence is made, generally, only equipment and cost are considered and it is hardly related to the “space” in which people live. Ca’Paco / Equipo Olivares Arquitectos. Architects: Equipo Olivares Arquitectos Location: Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain Design Team: Javier Pérez-Alcalde Schwartz, Fernando Aguarta García, Fermín García Morales Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Lluís Casals Promotor: Francisco Delgado González Builder: Jesús Lorenzo Construcciones S.L.

Ca’Paco / Equipo Olivares Arquitectos

The house is located on the road to Tejina, in an area called Pozo Cabildo, with heavy traffic and close topographic references as (Mesa Mota) or further ones as (el Teide) as unique relevant points. Book Tower House by Platform 5 Architects. Walls of books fold around a wooden staircase in this renovation and extension to a north London home by Hackney studio Platform 5 Architects.

Book Tower House by Platform 5 Architects

"A key part of the brief was to house the client's extensive collection of books," Platform 5's Patrick Michell told Dezeen. "We proposed a double-height library wrapped around a stair. " The oak bookcases stagger up around the edge of the stairwell, finishing at a first-floor study space that cantilevers out over the room below. "The dramatic space was perfect for a small desk perched off the landing, with views to the floor below and out through the window," said Michell. Platform 5 Architects also added an extension to the kitchen, doubling the size of the space to accommodate a new dining area with an exposed brick wall.

Archdaily. Architects: Ian MacDonald Architect Location: Caledon, ON, Canada Project Team: Ian MacDonald, Michael Attard, Nova Tayona, Adam Blakeley, Patrick Liu Area: 4,300 sq ft Year: 2010 Photographs: Tom Arban This retreat for a family of four is located on a 90-acre property of rolling meadow with an historic farmhouse and barn. Our objective was to create a quiet dwelling that preserves a meaningful connection with its landscape and with its historic settlement.

The “obvious” location for the house might have been a hill overlooking the landscape, but the visual presentation from this site would have been overwhelmed by the road and by neighbouring houses. MSB Architects - Project - Balancal House. This house is situated on a very striking slope, and the house had to be designed in order to reduce the environmental impact on the landscape.

We had to define the threshold and the other implantation quota in connection with the other surrounding buildings. Those made us think the best lay out possible for the house. So we favoured the privacy, the view on Funchal bay, to obtain a maximum sun expose. We managed to establish a harmony between the big differences of level of the different houses respecting the natural landscape. Costa Esmeralda House.