The North Carlton Green House, a small green house designed by Zen Architects in Melbourne. The small site be used to maximum potential to increase the size of the house and also the garden space. Garden is integrated into the building to create a living, breathing, sustainable space that is a delight to inhabit. Two courtyards contain garden beds that protrude into the house and a pond that reflects light onto the ceiling. A rooftop garden provides more garden and first floor planter boxes act as privacy screens. A curtain …

The three levels “Lulu Kati Kati House” sited too steep to be a road, located in the middle of suburban Melville, Johannesburg. This house designed by Kate Otten Architects, suspended between the urban high street and the Melville nature conservancy; suspended between the natural rock face and an 80 year Dombeya tree; suspended, quite literally, from 6 massive gum poles, 9,5m high, each weighing over half a ton. Building and landscape are integrated and intertwined. Views are framed, exposed, focused, created, and reflected.

The house is entered at street level, …

The Kerr Gulch Highlands House designed with organic modern style by Brian Ojala and Aaron Ojala with Entasis Group. This house situated at 2888 Highlands View Drive located on a pine-forested ridge in the foothills west of Denver. The home uses green design by natural solar orientation. Since the home it rotated 15 degrees counterclockwise, it receives natural sun light on all sides of the home even in the winter. The home uses evergreen trees for natural shading in the summer, hydronic radiant floor systems, reclaimed timbers throughout, …

Sited on sandy waterfront only minutes from the Bainbridge Island, the architect from ‘Bainbridgeislandmodernhome’ created a contemporary house. This house design with “green concept” future thinking, design with sustainable material and concept. In the exterior, this house is comprised of clear tongue-and-groove cedar that is vertically mounted to the roofline and a rainscreen siding system made of Cembonit panels. The Cembonit panels shield a waterproof membrane that allows an exchange of inside and outside air. The purpose is to create a healthier interior air quality by allowing the home to …

Designed with serve educational space for learning about nature and sustainability in Camp Twin Lakes Rutledge – Georgia, the Atlanta based architecture firm Lord, Aeck & Sargent design a “Green House” treehouse for a camp. This Treehouse constructed as an extension to Camp Twin Lakes, a camp dedicated to kids with special needs, this treehouse is not only beautiful, fun and kid friendly, but green.

The treehouse has a 1,700 square-foot roof garden, domed skylights, 1.4 kW solar array that powers the ceiling fans and misting system, two composting toilets, and …

Brazil based architects Andrade Morettin Arquitetos was design a modern house with dense forest vegetation, in the surroundings of the city of Sao Paulo. The privileged geography of the place – a true amphitheatre with access at the higher part – suggests an occupation that respects its natural characteristics.

This platform of reinforced concrete was cut and folded, adapting it to the site and creating distinct functional regions. In the west wing a swimming pool and external living space were created. In between the two wings, protected by a suspended volume …