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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Brazil, Landscape architecture, Mareines + Patalano Arquitetura, Stair, Swimming pool, Timber, Waterfront architecture
Brazil-based firm Mareines + Patalano Arquitetura has designed the Leaf House in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We see it as low-tech ecoefficiency, where it has the greatest impact, the concept of the architectural design. Our practice, luckily in agreement with our client, understand the idea of a tropical beach house as a mean to enhance [...]
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Category: Interior, Office, Selected Tags: Concrete, Mareines + Patalano Arquitetura, Stair, Timber, Workplace
The design of Glem offices by Mareines + Patalano Arquitetura in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is defined by it’s odd location, under a triangular end of a concrete stand for rowing competitions. Besides the fact that the first of the three floors is semi-buried and the roof is public seating made of concrete, thus not [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Selected Tags: Concrete, Gudmundur Jonsson, Landscape architecture, Stair, Timber
Designed by Gudmundur Jonsson Architects, the concept of Casa G is based on reading and feedback to the landscape it exists on. The characteristic landscape situation and view differences distinctively in each direction. Towards south the view to the sea and islands, towards north the characteristic triangular mountain, towards east the glacier and towards west [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Poland, Timber
The housing estate in Ostrow (Poland) was designed by Konrad Idaszewski Architekt in 2007. The whole development consist of 8 separate buildngs – first building finalized in 2009. As an overall majority of the accommodation in that town are single family houses – the main task was to design higher buildings which would be local-friendly. [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Brazil, Fernanda Marques, Loft, Stone, Timber, Tropical architecture
Daylight, highlighted textures, fully open to the outside. In 250m², Fernanda Marques has created a dream escape from urban frenzy. After her resounding success of her in Casa Cor’s 2008 edition, Fernanda Marques now presents her 2009 version of her Loft 24/7. This time, in the form of a spacious bungalow, of about 250m², where [...]
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Category: Interior, Selected Tags: Brazil, Display design, Fernanda Marques, Fluid form, Timber
Project conceived for the 2009 Boa Mesa Exhibit, which the architect in a close collaboration with Todeschini, emphasized her very best visionary style. On a 194 square meter area, Fernanda presented a very peculiar version of the contemporary kitchen: one of the most sought after spaces in the show. The wooden ceiling, made of sheets [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Architects Eat, Australia NewZealand, James Coombe, Landscape architecture, Lattice screen, swimming, Timber
Designed by Australian architectural firm Architects EAT, Linear House is situated on a slight hill, 500m away from the Portsea back beach. The site is a relatively large and newly subdivided lot of 2600m2, and the client wanted a holiday house that will eventually become their permanent family home. Architects EAT calls the underlying principle of [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Architects Eat, Australia NewZealand, Courtyard architecture, James Coombe, Stair, Timber
Open House is an Australian house designed by Architects EAT. The internal planning strategies are devoted to the layering of spaces, and orchestrating the sequences in a mise-en-scene liked methodology. Architects EAT have opened up the interior, got rid of the original rabbit warren internal walls, and starting from the dramatic suspended black raw steel [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Lattice screen, Paratelier, Portugal, Timber
In Portugal, the recently completed Guest House by PARATELIER designed to integrate into the area of sand dunes near the Atlantic Ocean, it functions as a temporary house for guests, parking area and agricultural storage for agricultural activities. Location In the vast nature reserve of “pinhal da Comporta” recognized for its typical coastal habitat of [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Japanese architecture, Lattice screen, Mitsutomo Matsunami Architect, Stair, Timber
Japanese architect Mitsutomo Matsunami has designed a private residence in Matsugaoka, Hyogo-prefecture, Japan. The design was developed and based on client’s brief which are to create visual privacy, even if the site is surrounded by adjacent houses. to provide a place where to enjoy view of Satsuki Mountain to create the sense of spaciousness, and [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Australia NewZealand, BKK architects, Timber
Boundary House by BKK architects is a private house in Melbourne Vic, Australia, the placement of the existing residence on the site presented a series of rather awkward residual spaces. The brief was to increase the size of the residence and retain a sense of landscape. Orientation of the residence meant that the existing kitchen [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, BKK architects, Folding architecture, Landscape architecture, Swimming pool, Timber
Entering this home begins with the decision to leave the city. The recurring ritual that plays out in the journey to the holiday home is integral to the conception of this house: the car and its contained interior; the stop off for provisions in the last town before arrival; getting out and unchaining the entry [...]
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