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Dossier : le bioclimatisme et la construction bioclimatique à la loupe. Ce dossier décrit les mécanismes physiques et physiologiques qui permettent de concevoir un habitat bioclimatique qui ne consomme pas du tout d'énergie pour assurer le confort thermique de ses occupants. Il s'agit de l'explication détaillée de la démarche de construction dite " bioclimatique" ou "solaire", appliquée à un climat semi-continental tempéré (France). Dossier réalisé par Ugo Degrigny Que signifie "bioclimatique", quel est son origine ? ^ Haut de page Construire bioclimatique veut dire construire en prenant en compte les interactions entre le climat et l'écosystème. Plus simplement, qu'on construit en s'adaptant au mieux au site de la construction. Se protéger des aléas du climat (froid/chaud, vent, pluie etc.)Profiter des bienfaits du climat (lumière, chaleur ou fraîcheur naturelle selon la saison, brise douce, etc.)

Se protéger ses aléas du climat est le premier but de la démarche bioclimatique, car c'est historiquement la première fonction de l'habitat. 3- L'hygrométrie : Modern But Traditional House Design – House Ö. House “Ö” is designed by Erginoglu & Calislar Architects to give its owners a modern life style but keeping the style of the area. It is situated in Bodrum, holiday district in Turkey. Outside it looks like the house designed in traditional side but inside everything corresponds to modern needs. The kitchen is open plan on the ground floor and the bedroom is upstairs. The living room with fireplace is on the mid level connecting private and service areas. Swimming pool separates the neatly building from the garden and raw rocks outside the site.

The absence of walls which usually separate living areas and large windows with spectacular surrounding views add the feeling of transparency to the house. [Erginoglu & Calislar Architects] Erginoglu & Calislar Architect, holiday house, holiday house design, stone house design, traditional house, traditional house design, Turkey house design, Turkey houses. Sky Garden House. I think one of the reasons that many are skeptical about environmental design is because they think its terribly complex and costly. It does take a bit more effort on the front end, but it's definitely not rocket science.

This architecture by Guz Architects is a wonderfully developed minimalistic design with a curvilinear flare that really brings out the organic coverings. I'm most impressed with how design facilitates the needs of the plants and shrubs located throughout the house. See more at Guz Architects. Margarido House / Onion Flats. This single family home in the hills of Oakland, CA, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge and all of San Francisco, is designed to merge comfortably into it’s difficult and steeply sloped site.

It is also meant to provide a tranquil yet inspiring setting for a young couple, their two children and their aging in-laws. The physical site offered the project its greatest challenge and direction. It’s 17% slope coupled with height restrictions and adjacencies to neighboring homes required that the building be “bunkered” into the landscape. This became the source of the project’s programmatic, spatial and architectural strategy, which is centered around the entry or “knuckle” of the building. Architect: Onion Flats (Plumbob Llc) Location: Oakland, California, USA Owner / Developer: Mike McDonald (McDonald Construction & Development Inc.)

This ‘knuckle’ functions as a ‘de-bunkering’ device for the building. Sustainable Elements: Explosive Mix: Regional Cabin Meets Concrete Modernism. The entire time I lived in Seattle, there was something about architecture of the Northwest that defied description but defined much of the amazing work found in the area. This lake house (designed by Tom Kundig but built in Northern Idaho)?

Embodies some of the best aspects of regional Modernism that spreads out from around Puget Sound. Pop the top, and see what surprises burst from the box. Concrete walls shoot up on three sides, while a giant pivot-opening, garage-style, box-window facade flips open toward the adjacent lake. The top seems to tip up as well, held aloft by a layer of glazing that drops in light along all four sides of the roof.

The material pallete is unpretentious and low maintenance – concrete block, steel beams, plywood ceilings and copious glass – but the deployment is downright stunning. Creative accents abound, from splashes of color to reused pipes for the fireplace, chimney and a second-story ladder. Optical Glass House by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP. A tree-filled courtyard is glimpsed through the shimmering glass-brick facade of this house in Hiroshima, designed by Japanese architect Hiroshi Nakamura (+ movie).

Optical Glass House was constructed beside a busy road, so Hiroshi Nakamura and his studio NAP wanted to create a private oasis where residents could still make out the movements of people and traffic beyond the walls. "The serene soundless scenery of the passing cars and trams imparts richness to life in the house," said the architect. The garden is raised up to first floor level to make room for a garage below and the architects used 6,000 specially made glass blocks to build a two-storey-high wall in front of it. The wall was too tall to support itself, so the blocks had to be bolted together.

As light filters through the glass it creates dancing patterns across the walls and over a group of maple, ash and holly trees. Residents are faced with the staircase upon first entering the house. Optical Glass House Waterfall. 4.5×20 House / AHL architects associates. Architects: AHL architects associates Location: Hanoi, Vietnam Architects In Charge: Hung Dao , Tuan Anh Mai, Son Chu, Hieu Hoang, Nghia Mai, Tung Nguyen, Truc Anh Nguyen Area: 90.0 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Anh Duc Le This house was designed for a young family with one children and grand mother, located in Van Phu new urban area in Ha Noi, Vietnam. The existing design is boring (like thounsands of other houses in Vietnam): lost of natural lighting and ventilation; simple space with core (staircase and toilet) in the middle and two bedrooms at two sides.

Client (young family) needs something different from the existing. They need their own house, their style. Based on their requirements, the program is quite simple: garage (for 2 cars), kitchen on the 1st floor, bedroom (for grand mother) and living room on the 2nd floor, master bedrooms on the 3rd floor, small guest room, sky terrace and worship on the 4th floor…but they need the architetcts focus on the creation of public spaces. Green Renovation / Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Architects: Vo Trong Nghia Architects Location: Hanoi, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi, Vietnam Architect In Charge: Vo Trong Nghia, Takashi Niwa, Tran Thi Hang Project Architects: Ngo Thuy Duong, An Viet Dung Contractor: Wind and Water House JSC Area: 387.0 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Courtesy of Vo Trong Nghia Architects, Hiroyuki Oki From the architect. Vietnam’s fast development raises many urban problems; less green space, electricity shortages and flooding. The increasing number of motorbikes are causing traffic jams and serious air pollution.

“Greenfall renovation”, a prototypical single house renovation in Hanoi, was designed against this backdrop, returning greenery to the city and encouraging a comfortable living environment to both the resident and the neighbors. To remedy this situation, the house is renovated to live with green and abundant light. This system of green façade and roof is prototypical and applicable to all buildings in tropical climates. Green Renovation / Vo Trong Nghia Architects. House for Trees / Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Architects: Vo Trong Nghia Architects Location: Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Architects In Charge: Vo Trong Nghia, Masaaki Iwamoto, Kosuke Nishijima Area: 226 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki Project Architect: Nguyen Tat Dat Contractor: Wind and Water House JSC Construction Cost: 156,000 USD From the architect.

Under rapid urbanization, cities in Vietnam have diverged far from their origins as sprawling tropical forests. In Ho Chi Minh City, for example, only 0.25% area of the entire city is covered with greenery. House for Trees, a prototypical house within a tight budget of 156,000 USD, is an effort to change this situation.

Urban context The house is located in Tan Binh district, one of the most densely populated residential areas in Ho Chi Minh City, where many small houses are crowded together. Planning Fitting into the informal shape of the site, five boxes are positioned to create a central courtyard and small gardens in between. Material. Gia Lai House / Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Architects: Vo Trong Nghia Architects – Vo Trong Nghia, Daisuke Sanuki, Shunri Nishizawa Location: Gia Lai, Vietnam Contractor: wind and water house JSC Total Floor Area: 510 sqm Building Height: 11.5m (3stories) Completion date: Oct. 2011 Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki This is an individual residence located in Gia Lai city, Middle Vietnam.

The site is 7 m wide and 40 m deep, which is the typical conditions for ”Tube House” in Vietnam. As is often the case with “Tube House”, Housing Planning is strongly influenced only by the layout of “Rooms” and “Corridor” since too many bedrooms are required in a narrow site. In this case, we designed the corridor not as a simple and boring path but as a continuous and sequential space which becomes Living space, Dining space and also outside Living space, changing its width and height as people step into the house. For the wall of this corridor, we stacked 4m-length granite stones made in Gia Lai city as a reflector of the various top-light. 30 Open Floor Plan Living Rooms Inspiring a Sophisticated Lifestyle.

Designing an open floor plan can be a great way to make your living areas seem more spacious. What is the first aspect that comes to mind when thinking about modern living rooms? For us it’s openness. And since we already featured a post on Freshome showcasing 26 wonderful living room ideas, we decided to continue this amazing display with 30 open floor plan living rooms that are very much in agreement with the modern interior design trends. Not too long ago, our writer Ronique wrote a post called The Pros and Cons of Having an Open Floor Plan Home, where she mentioned how today the open floor plan is a sought after amenity in any home, as half walls and visual dividers allow a family to converse and interact. In this post we did not only gather interiors that have the ability to connect, but also fascinating rooms with a well defined personality and a highly appealing look.

Modern Home Design Ideas, Pictures, Remodel, and Decor - page 2. Traditional Home Design Ideas, Pictures, Remodel, and Decor - page 2. How to Build a Pergola - DIY Building a Pergola. Here's a structure that won't provide shelter from wind or rain, and is only marginally better when it comes to the midday sun. So, why build it? Because in the absence of walls and a roof, it defines an outdoor space without constraining it. It's a unique architectural blend that places you both inside and out at the same time. The structure is called a pergola, and it's just the thing to bring backyard landscaping to life. Our pergola fits on an 8-ft. square, but it's easy to modify it to suit your site. Model designed in Alibre Design Xpress. Download a larger animated PDF of this project with a printable step-by-step guide (Requires Adobe Reader).

Installing the Posts The posts are composed of pressure-treated 4 x 4 cores that are sheathed with 1 x cedar. Lay out the post positions and mark the screw locations [1]. We used 1/4-in. Hold each post plumb and drive nails through the anchors into the wood [3]. Then secure each end with four 3-in. Then, make the curved end cuts [7].

Apartments. Bright,spacious and dynamic, this colorful apartment in Warsaw, Poland seems to have it all. Designed by Plasterlina, this stylish urban refuge perfectly balances modern decorating with comfortable living. The focal point of the open plan living room seems to be a striped carpet with a rich chromatic tone, setting a cheerful vibe for the entire space. […] The House About to Launch is a mini-sized and sun-drenched apartment located in Tainan City, Taiwan. It is a special home that acts as a daily reminder for its owner- a fighter engineer- to dream and fly. South African born designer Louis Henri Buhrmann creates “sophisticated luxury combined with comfort and calm”, completing glamorous apartments in London, the Cote d’Azur, Paris and Dubai.

Green Design: Synagogue Turned Into a Modern Penthouse. Located in East Village, the building in here used to be a synagogue until the 80s and later transformed in five stunning contemporary residences. Its new owners, Dominique Camacho and Gary Hirschkron decided to keep the eco-friendly theme going by making the home as transparent as possible while still ensuring privacy. By using low-impact materials for renovation, the designers revamped the whole interior and added a downstairs lounge, a second-floor library and a third-floor bedroom to the existing structure.

With an extensive use of glass and wood that adds a minimalistic touch while blurring the lines between the surroundings and the home itself, it’s the Spacious interiors and the ambient lighting that makes it all the more cozy. – via GreenPacks. Beautiful Warehouse Conversion in Melbourne.

By Eric • Feb 14, 2011 • Selected Work Spotted on MBP, here is a completely renovated apartment located in a historic building in Melbourne, Australia. This three bedroom, two bathroom residence is on sale and according to the agent, “this superlative warehouse conversion in “Leicester House”, an historic 1880′s building, provides privacy and vast spaces. It features soaring warehouse ceilings, huge original arched timber windows, exposed red brick walls, imposing brick archways of 65 cm depth and high gloss timber floors. By day it is imposing and by night dramatic.” The exposed brick walls and the high concrete ceilings make this apartment feel like a loft. Sold! Photos courtesy of MDP Click any photo to see a larger image - Use buttons or j/k/arrow keys to navigate through the articles.

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