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Category: Architecture, House Tags: designstudio, Indonesia, Tropical architecture
Indonesia-based architectural firm designstudio has designed the Cigadung House in Indonesia. + Project description courtesy designstudio It is a concept of stacked house/villa approached in an urban site at Jalan Cigadung, Bandung, and West Java, Indonesia. It derives from the ‘crowd’ of its residential complex that challenges us to recreate the program within the site. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected Tags: Singapore, Stair, Swimming pool, Tropical architecture, Wallflower
Singaporean architectural practice Wallflower Architecture + Design recently has completed the Sun Cap House located in Sentosa Cove, Singapore. Although the site was devoid of any development during the inception of the project, it was foreseen that the future built environment would be dense with neighbouring residences barely metres away on either side. The tropical [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, designstudio, Indonesia, Swimming pool, Tropical architecture
The Indonesian architectural practice designstudio has designed the Green House (Rumah Hijau) which was developed from a concept of a modern house that interact fully with the surrounding environment and derived from ‘green concept understanding’ to optimize the design approaches with major concern from two aspects which are electricity management with optimum natural light & [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Architecture Award, Reflective pool, Singapore, Tropical architecture, Wallflower
Wallflower Architecture + Design has won the 10th Singapore Institute of Architects Design Award (Individual House Category) for a project titled ‘Water-Cooled House‘. The project is hidden away from the road, the site is surrounded by a verdant screen of mature trees from adjacent properties. Breezes blowing transversely across the site being another notable aspect [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Denmark, Landscape architecture, Perforated, Thailand, Tropical architecture, Waterfront architecture, WE Architecture, White
The young Danish architectural firm, WE Architecture, designed this TT-Villa located in one of the most attractive island in asia – Phuket, Thailand. The house is composed of 3 linear forms which are well integrated into the landscape. We have chosen to split the program of the house into three categories. These are divided on [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Residential, Selected Tags: Glass, NBBJ, Peter Pran, Singapore, Skyscrapers, Tim Griffith, Tropical architecture, Waterfront architecture
The Sail @ Marina Bay by NBBJ is the mixed-use building comprising apartment units, several restaurants, health clubs, recreation decks with pools and tennis courts, and parking. As the 10th largest residential high-rise in the world, and the largest high-rise in Singapore, the Sail @ Marina Bay has become Singapore’s newest city icon. It carves [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Formwerkz Architects, Reflective pool, Singapore, Swimming pool, Tropical architecture
Singapore-based Formwerkz Architects recently has completed the S House along Lorong Selangat, Singapore. The house is consisted of 4 levels with each unique formal characteristics in responding to different programmatic demands. We derived formal strategies that celebrate these vertically stratified spaces, making the transition from one level to the next an experience. Formwerkz Architects + [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Philippines, Tropical architecture, Zubu Design
Philippines-based Zubu Design Associates has designed this house at Xavier Estate which features continuous strip, linearity and randomness. + Project description courtesy of Zubu Design Associates House at Xavier Estate Design Model: continuous strip, linearity, randomness The house is located on a rectangular corner lot, with this opportunity of 2 exposed view from the street [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel Tags: Australia NewZealand, ESD design, Landscape architecture, Omiros One Architecture, Swimming pool, Timber, Tropical architecture
Ala Moana, is a recently completed project on Hamilton Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The house was designed by Australian architect Omiros One Architecture to maximize the views and set at different levels to follow the natural ground slope with minimal cutting into the site. Together with the harmonious exterior colour scheme, these elements diffuse [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Concrete, Formwerkz Architects, Lattice screen, Singapore, Tropical architecture
The ‘Alley-way’ House, is an intermediate terrace house designed by Singapore-based Formwerkz Architects for a family of four and their pets in Singapore. The transparency of the alleyway spaces is only fleetingly noticeable from the street when the dwelling is viewed head-on, blurring the boundary between the street and the “alleyway’. Formwerkz Architects + Architect’s [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Concrete, Formwerkz Architects, Singapore, Swimming pool, Timber, Tropical architecture
Singaporean practice Formwerkz Architects has completed a modern tropical house in Singapore. Hierarchies of spaces (and family cells) were carefully expressed in choice materials and architectural languages… Communal spaces were designed as light and open, inviting structures. Formwerkz Architects + Architect’s Statement courtesy of Formwerkz Architects How will you engage the very traditional Asian Concept [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: K2Ld Architects, Singapore, Swimming pool, Tropical architecture
K2Ld Architects has designed a private house – Khai House located in Singapore. The transparency and boundlessness are the key features of the house design. The approach to spatial definition is most vigorously pursued at ground level, where there are spaces but with no trace of rooms bounded by walls. K2Ld Architects + Project description [...]
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