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H Arquitectes — Casa 712. © Adrià Goula .

Published on November 29, 2011. La propuesta pretende aprovechar toda la superficie ocupable de la parcela para poder construir la vivienda en una sola planta (baja). Esto comporta que la casa, en planta, sea un triángulo paralelo a los límites del solar, minimizando los espacios de circulación con un único distribuidor central, reduciendo el coste y permitiendo una relación constante entre el interior y el exterior. HARQUITECTES / house 712 / 2007-11 from harquitectes on Vimeo. Dada la diferencia de cota entre el solar y la calle, situada a un nivel más elevado, la cubierta triangular, casi un icono, se convierte en la cuarta fachada de la casa. . © H Arquitectes .

Casa da Ladeira by Oficina d’Arquitectura in Arouca, Portugal. ‘A mountain scenery with a harsh climate, dominated by granite rock where mankind little marked its presence comes the demand to create an object that will blend with the landscape.

House In Svitavy / OV-A. Architect: OV-A Location: Svitavy, Czech Republic Head Architects: Jiri Opocensky, Stepan Valouch Structural Engineering: Jan Pohl Site area: 816 sqm Built area: 105 sqm Total floor area: 194 sqmProject Year: 2007 Photographs: Lukas Zentel, Tomas Soucek The plot is located in a newly developed area on the outskirts of the city.

A varied mixture of housing is emerging as a result of unregulated development. The investors wished to introduce a calming element into the location, to have an economy house designed and to create their own enclave. Osthang / Daniel Fagerberg Arkitekter. Architect: Daniel Fagerberg Arkitekter, Location: Osthang, -Ramundberget, -Bruksvallarna, -Härjedalen, -SwedenProject Team: Daniel Fagerberg, Vincenzo Cassotta, Stefan Nyberg Size: 14apta 87kvm/88kvm Total: 1226sqm Project Year: 2007 Photo: PederSundström Background, strategy The Osthang ski resort was initiated in April 2006.

Working closely with the client, we led a record pace design and construction phase where the first flats were handed over in April 2007. Osthang is located in Ramundberget ski resort, towards the Norwegian border in Härjedalennorth westsweden. The five houses clings on to the steep Osthang cliff from where you have a magnificent view towards the surrounding mountain peaks. The site plan originates from the traditional base-court typology that provides Härjedalen with its special rural character. The five buildings are turned along altitude lines as the traditional farmsteads. Private Villa / doxiadis+ Wanting to preserve what was found by minimizing the building’s visual impact on the surroundings, but also to exploit the precious sea views, the house by doxiadis+ is nestled into the slope of the hill and most of its volume hidden underneath the earth like a snail.

Only two small volumes protrude, framing the views and signalling their presence, giving it the scale of the nearby traditional volumes and a very simple, almost poetic dimension. More images and architects’ description after the break. The untouched landscape of the plot is dominated by a small hillock, where due to plot lines the house must be located. The client brief demanded unusual working and storing spaces for an artist and emphasized the need for a central copula at its core. Pirehueico House, Pirihueico Lake, Chile, 2004 by Alejandro Aravena « archporn. Injidup Residence / Wright Feldhusen Architects. Architects: Wright Feldhusen Architects Location: Yallingup, Australia Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Patrick Bingham-Hall The exposed spectacular site has vast views of Injidup Beach.

The Busselton council imposed stringent building bulk and height guidelines; no portion of the building was to be higher then 4 metres above natural ground level. This therefore resulted in a low laconic single level residence. The client required holiday accommodation for their extended family and as such the sleeping requirements necessitated several bedrooms in separate zones to isolate young children from noisier areas.

The site is extremely exposed with the prevailing South Westerly breeze and hot afternoon sun setting into the main view. The house is devised as two intimate rammed earth sleeping wings that meet at the glazed pavilion that is the main living area. All building materials are included to deal with the harsh marine environment. Text provided by Wright Feldhusen Architects. House S / Roger Christ. Architects: Roger Christ Location: Wiesbaden, Germany Assistants: Ronni Neuber, Julia Url Structural Engineering: Schmitt + Thielmann und Partner Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 452 sqm Photographs: Thomas Herrmann This specific construction assignment is a central topic of today’s urban development: the roof area as building site which can be covered with independent buildings – urban compression by utilization of roof areas as valuable building land.

Thereby the architect is always confronted with the question of how to handle with the existing building in a contemporary sense. In the case of House S a 60´s bungalow, built by interior architect Wilfried Hilger for himself and his family. Hillside Habitat / Edwards Moore. Architects: Edwards Moore Location: Kinglake, Victoria, Australia Project Team: Juliet Moore, Ben Edwards Project Area: 135 sqm Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Peter Bennetts We have recently completed a new home built to replace one lost on Black Saturday on a steep mountain site overlooking the Kinglake National Park with views to the Mornington peninsular beyond,this exhilarating location with its towering eucalyptus trees and diminishing scars from that phenomenal day required a design response equally as unique.

The brief was to design a home that embraced the notion of living whilst engaging with the landscape surrounding it. We developed a biophilic design response considering every component of its surrounding environment. There is an instinctive, biological bond between humans and other living systems. The idea is that people thrive best in environments that have other forms of life around, and flourish in spaces that are more like habitats. São Francisco Xavier House / Nitsche. Architects: Nitsche Arquitetos Associados Location: Sao Francisco Xavier, Brazil Design Team: Lua Nitsche, Pedro Nitsche, João Nitsche, Tiago Kuniyoshi, Rafael Baravelli, Natassia Caldas Structural Engineer: Engenheiro Hélio Olga, FH engenharia Completion Date: 2010 Area: 24,000 sqm Photographs: Nelson Kon The challenge of this Project is to invent a new and unique space for human being, in an isolated location with impressive and exuberant nature and remarkable geography.

The region is like a “sea of mountains” with deep valleys, flowing rivers and waterfalls. Villa Soest / Zecc Architecten. Architect: Zecc Architecten Location: Soest, The Netherlands Client: Private Project year: 2007-2009 Photographs: Cornbread Works On a wide constructing site in the woods of Soest (The Netherlands) a new villa will be build.

Beautiful Houses: La Concha. House BFW / [tp3] architekten. Architects: [tp3] architekten Location: Altschwendt, Austria Project Year: 2010 Contractor: Kaplbau GmbH, Humer GmbH Photographs: Ulrich Kehrer We were presented with an exciting task in the summer.

Two families who are friends had clubbed together and bought a large plot of land, with the idea of sharing and coordinating the building and planning work. The project was all the more fascinating to us, as house-building is such a personal and individual task. However, both families agreed to coordinate the planning so a single unit would be evident despite the existence of two separate family houses, also including the possibility of a shared garden over the centre boundary. A single-story bungalow which incorporates the garages of both sections merges both building sections together like a strap which is clasping the two plots. Text provided by [tp3] architekten. Private house in Tallinn by KAMP Arhitektid. Estonian architects KAMP have completed a timber house outside Tallinn that's cranked around an oak tree. One side of the larch-clad house is single-storey to allow longer periods of sunlight to reach the rear deck.

Living on the Edge / Arjen Reas. Architects: Arjen Reas Location: Zoermeer, The Netherlands Project Area: 744 sqm Project Year: 2009-2010 Photographs: Kees Hageman This project is a private assignment for an entrepreneur from the city center, and the question was posed, how could the family find peace on the edge of that same city. The site located where the city and open planes meet, and therefore has an obvious recognition that cannot be ignored. In the earlier times people here used to work with shapes for houses that were pure and plain, haystacks were used as a cover for the roofs and the walls where made out of stones and a clay plaster.

The architect was challenged to fuse together traditional ideals with a contemporary house design, a cubistic shape placed in a desolate landscape, where all urban feeling is gone when you look at the surroundings. Contemporary rural living was chosen as a project to mix the two in pure form. New Dutch Design Lay-out. Casa Eagle Ridge / Gary Gladwish Architecture. OS House / Johnsen Schmaling Architects. Architect: Johnsen Schmaling Architects Location: Racine, Wisconsin Project Year: 2010 References: Johnsen Schmaling Architects Photographs: Johnsen Schmaling Architects The OS House by Johnsen Schmaling Architects is located in downtown Racine, Wisconsin and attempts to redefine the urban fabric of this historic rustbelt city. Sited on a narrow lot between a 3-story mansion and a mid-century ranch, the colorful 1,900sf residence is a welcome and dynamic intervention to the streetscape. The First Active House in Russia / POLYGON. Architect: POLYGON (Alexander Leonov, Svetlana Vasileva) Location: Moscow, Russia Project Team: Andrey Vasiliev, Mick Rammusen, Vera Leonova, Oleg Panitkov, Alexander Elokhov, Alexander Elchugin, Aleksey Knyazev Launched by: Zagorodny Proekt, VELUX Group Construction: NLK “Domostroyenie” Partners: Saint-Gobain, Danfoss, Schiedel AG, ICOPAL, Gaulhofer, Somfy, Dörken, Tremco Illbruck Project Area: 229 sqm Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Alexander Leonov, Torben Eskerod The project is organized and developed by one of the leading developers in the Moscow region, the Zagorodny Proekt company, in cooperation with the VELUX Group.

The First Active House in Russia is designed by the Russian architectural office POLYGON. An important aspect of the Active House concept is that of ‘integration’. The proportions and dimensions of the house have the appeal of a modern twist to traditional architecture. Text provided by POLYGON . YY by Yo Yamagata Architects.