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Luís Rebelo de Andrade, Tiago Rebelo de Andrade — Three Snake Houses. © Ricardo Oliveira Alves . Published on October 10, 2013. Along with the project Pedras Salgadas Park by architects Luís Rebelo de Andrade and Tiago Rebelo de Andrade, came the challenge of creating an object that could recreate the fantasy of the tree houses. The project for these houses was developed in partnership with the Modular System Company. The idea was to get an object that would be far away from the orthogonality and from pre-established concepts associated with the modular construction.
Sustainability and ecology have always been one of the major concerns during the development of the project. More models of these houses like the MOUNTAIN SNAKE HOUSE, the RIVER SNAKE HOUSE and the SAND SNAKE HOUSE, whose dimensions and materials are easily adapted to various climates and regions, are being developed and will soon be available to the public. . © Luís Rebelo de Andrade . House kn / Kochi Architect’s Studio.
Architects: Kochi Architect’s Studio Location: Miura, Kanagawa, Japan Architect In Charge: Kazuyasu Kochi + Mana Kochi Structural Engineer: MI+D architectural structure laboratory Constractor: Nakano Koumuten Area: 223 sqm Photographs: Nobumitsu Watanabe, Kazuyatsu Kochi A residence in Kanagawa Prefecture Japan. The scenery of the residential quarter in suburbs where the detached house with the garden lines up has extended. At first, I put a big box whole of the site, then make big void as a window. The relation “Garden and house” is improved to”The big box including the garden and environment around the site” in the scale. Houses. Studio 804 - Modular 3 Prefab House. Previously featured on Archinnovations for their Sustainable Prototype, Studio 804 is a design/build program at the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Studio 804 provides students with critical knowledge that prepares them for their future work as young architects in a rapidly changing and challenging profession. This is another tour-de-force by this program. Constructed in the spring of 2006, Modular 3 is a prefab house perched from the highest point in its local vicinity. It offers a magnificent view of the downtown Kansas City skyline, accentuated through extensive floor-to-ceiling glazing.
Chosen not only for its view, the siting of Modular 3 fills in a once vacant lot, intended as a part of the solution towards the renewal of the city. Wood is the natural material of choice for building the prefabricated units, as it is economical, easy to assemble, and flexible in maintaining structural tolerances. Trackback(0) Compact Kitchen Folds Up And Hides When Not Needed. Images credit Johanneke Procee Almost every kitchen you see, no matter how big or how small, seems to have the same form, an upper cabinet a foot deep, a lower cabinet two feet deep, and a counter in the middle. Really, little has changed since Christine Frederick in 1910. That's why Johanneke Procee's Keukenkabinet is so interesting; designed for small spaces, it hides the bulk of the kitchen away when you are not using it, freeing the space for other uses.
It might be perfect for a LifeEdited. From the designer's website: As increasing number of people move to the city, inner city living accommodation has got progressively smaller with even more studio apartments appearing on the market. Johanneke was inspired by her travels in South America where she says they define the space of a kitchen differently. More at Johanneke Procee, found on MaterialiciousMore on Kitchen Design:Counter Space: How The Modern Kitchen EvolvedIs It Time To Rethink the Built-In Kitchen? ALAIN BERTEAU DESIGNWORKS. Portable and Foldable Tiny House.
The company who makes this tiny house is called Habitaflex, and you might actually consider it a small house instead of a tiny one. Because it folds out large enough for an entire family to live in. It uses a crank system to fold and unfold. Plus keys to turn to lock and unlock for folding. No foundation is needed because the home can be built into a trailer that you can pull yourself. It comes with cabinets, kitchen sink, oven, fan, toilet, and a full sized shower. It would take you 2 to 3 hours for 2-3 people to set it up or put it away.
For rolling the walls together there is a rolling mechanism that is built in. The width of the house is 8 feet when it’s folded up into a trailer, here watch the video so you can see it for yourself in action… Below are more screen shots in case you have a slower connection or don’t want to stream video. The Habitaflex is a subsidiary of Maisons Laprise Inc who is a manufacturer of energy efficient prefab homes since 1989. John Paananen | suburban tipi. Ryu Umeharu house – Living large in a tiny bungalow « A Man with a Flashlight. Ryu Umeharu house – Living large in a tiny bungalow Near the south end of Okinawa there’s a community of artists living near the beach. Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of the mother of one of the founding artists, so there was a music festival and general open house. These pictures are from Ryu Umehara’s gallery space and cabin near the beach.
It’s a rectangle about 12 feet by 36 feet. The central two-thirds of the rectangle is a living room and gallery for Umeharu’s paintings; the rest is a kitchen and a bathroom. On the roof there’s a small bedroom. The rear wall of the living room opens onto a patio. “Outside” on the patio the interior flooring continues, and wooden slats and transparent corrugated plastic enclose the space visually and provide some protection from weather. The patio also gives access to two stairways (that shape on the bottom right is the second one) to the roof: One stairway rises past a shaft where plants grow up from the ground beneath the house: Like this: A Portable, Foldable House Made For Art Collectors | Co. Design. Recyclable materials are all the rage in architecture nowadays, but L.A. -based Michael Jantzen’s M-House is recyclable in a wildly different -- and infinitely more interesting -- way. You can break it down, then put it back together again, anywhere in the world, in virtually any shape, size, or configuration.
It’s the ultimate house for the 21st century nomad. Just ask Brad Pitt. [You'll definitely want to turn off your speakers for this one] It looks like a Cubist rendition of a Cape Cod. The trick: Modular panels that can be arranged, in countless permutations, around an open space frame made of seven interlocking cubes. The idea’s that by varying the placement and number of panels throughout the space frame, you can create pretty much any building imaginable, whether an intimate vacation home, a self-sufficient resort complex (powered by wind and solar energy) or a mother-in-law suite perched far (very far) from the main house -- or all three.
[Images courtesy of Michael Jantzen] Small and portable houses.