The Orb House created by Australian based architects Bojan Simic,inspired the dwellings of ancient Pompeii, created a tranquil introspective living environment based on the central courtyard typology around which all living, working and entertaining orbits. The building’s form and footprint is characterized by a curved central spine wall which defines two distinct zones – the ‘living’ zone within the rim and the ‘sleeping’ zone beyond. This defining rim provides interiors with a theatrical backdrop while creating intimate residual spaces externally.

Aspiring towards a future residential prototype the ‘Orb House’ adopts tried …

The Singapore based architecture firm Dlab recently completed a modern and sustainable house reconstruction in Margoliouth Road Singapore. This projects retains the majority of the existing 2 storey bungalow on the site, followed a Western model with open landscape. In the new design, architectural firm DLab questioned the relevance of this model in the tropical Singapore context where the usefulness of the lawn is very limited. The architects searched for an alternative strategy for dealing with external and internal spaces that would make the garden a more livable area …

This modern and stylish house created by Spanish architecture firm A-cero Architects in Pozuelo de Alarcón Madrid ( see another post of  Pozuelo de Alarcón house by A cero in housedesignidea.com). This house design in three plants, dividing its space in differentiated areas: a buried floor where is the facilities rooms, holiday room, movies room and a gymnasium with dressing room. The exterior walls are made of travertino Roman marble, solved in a system of ventilated front that it allows to put in value the aesthetic qualities of the …

The Horizontal House situated in naturally village in Shiga Japan, created by Japanese architects Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno for EASTERN Design Office. This house doesn’t like a house, designed shape of the house traces the boundary of the village. The material are used combine both of stone in exterior wall and wood in the interior. The sequence of the view that the slits cut out and the spaciousness at the entrance, because of the horizontal slits surrounding the whole house there is scenery wherever can see.

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The La Zagaleta House sited in a Southern Spain hillside, With stunning views across a valley towards distant mountains in the west. Designed by Peter Thomas de Cruz, the core of the house is a top lit double height gallery flooded with natural light that runs across the slope of the site. The prime living spaces are on the west side of the gallery whilst to the east ancillary accommodation and cooling courtyards are set into the hillside.

Punched holes in the gallery wall give glimpses of mountain views to the …

This minimalist M House located in Nagoya Japan, created by Michel Weenick and Brian White for Nagoya and Portland based architecture firm Architecturew. The house concept of box-shaped house, responding to limited street access and a cliffside site with sliding glass walls that allow the space to open to the sun, breezes and distant views afforded by the site. There is no specification of the roof, even its like has as a basement of supermarket. Showed the form of a broad and simplify the accessories and furniture so that this …