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Contemporary House Design »

[3 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]
Contemporary Fractured Residence by Studio H:T

The Fractured Residence designed by AIA Colorado’s 2010 Young Architect of the Year awarded Studio H:T in Boulder Colorado. The project creates spatial experience from the fracture implied by splayed property lines. The resulting volumetric fissure of the building mass organizes the horizontal circulation and creates the space of the stair cavern. The fracture also serves as a connector between the two entries of the long narrow dwelling, thus remediating the challenging circulation issues of building from street to street with a sectional shift of almost 40?. The unique spatial …

Tropical House Design »

[15 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]
Polo Club Bungalow in Selangor by Masyerin M.N. Architect

Masyerin M.N. Architect created a contemporary bungalow situated within the gated community of Polo Club in Damansara near Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. The brief was to design and build an exclusive yet practical bungalow to home a medium size family consisting of 5 to 6 family members. The design, programme and cost of the bungalow had to be tailor made to cater to the lifestyle, needs and budget of potential buyers looking to live within the vicinity.
The building program was derived based on characteristics of the site. In general, this home …

Hills House Design »

[19 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Spanish Marble Hillside House in A Coruña by A-cero Architects

Spanish based architecture firm, A-Cero well known with modern architectural plan, with stylish and update conceptual design. This architect was design modern house located in a triangular shape site and with the added problem of a great slope in A Coruña Spain. The projects configure the different inside and outside spaces, development related directly with the sculptural “task” of extracting material of a compact volume. The house is, this way, clearly open to the sea and radically closed to the boundary of the access road.

The chromatic option of black …

Hills House Design »

[10 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Hill House Design in Pacific Palisades by Johnston Marklee and Associates

This is the amazing landscaping of concrete hill house design by Johnston Marklee & ASSOCIATES situated in the Pacific Palisades. This house located at downhill slope with panoramic views of Santa Monica Canyon. The design of the house utilizes the restriction of hillside and zoning ordinance to create a spatial and structural opportunity – adopting the zoning envelope as a building form. The dynamic form minimizes distinction between roof and wall planes while maximizing interior and exterior. Visit the architect’s website to get more information.-via

Sustainable House Design »

[2 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
DT House-Sustainable House Design in Portugal by Jorge Graça Costa Architect

Jorge Graça Costa Architect was completed design house with energy-efficient principles near the capital city of Lisbon, Portugal. This house have good passive cooling and heating qualities, uses 4 times less energy for cooling than a standard dwelling would in Portuguese summers. DT House’s composition explores the contrast between social areas of the lower level and private areas located on the upper floor.

Natural lighting is also enhanced to better serve the lower level, where the social, collective functions, are located. To improve passive cooling profiting from sea breezes, it was …

Architectural Design »

[2 Oct 2009 | One Comment | ]
Colorful Educational Centre-Day Care de kleine Kikker by Drost + van Veen architecten

This is new colorful building conceived as a contemporary type of farm located in 520 sqm of De Uithof, Utrecht, The Netherlands and was designed by Drost + van Veen architecten. The coloured facade and the aluminium roof contrast the rustic environment. The silhouette of the pointed roof refers to the existing farm building.

Towards the back of the building, it transforms into a modernistic, functional building, with a flat roof, instead of a farm. The new extension contains four children’s groups, age 0-4. The building is symmetrical and is …