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” The Aurum House is composed by two stony modules which visually appear as strong volumes. The landscape turns around them, embracing the indoor spaces with its sinuous shapes. One of the pieces lays on the field while the other one floats and covers up the family life. Water becomes one of the main elements of the project, sliding down the golden wall and flowing through the house. This way water and rocks, fluidity and geometrical force define a house where every element is designed in order to better the inhabitants`life and create sensations. Every space guides you to a controlled sensation. The volumes are connected independently to the other facilities so that the house can function as a whole but also with a large autonomy of the two modules. A conciousness of the place adds to all these Concepts because the project is designed with respect for the situation and the environment. The project aims to create a sustainable house which consider the orientations, the winds, the sun, the light; the project not only lies inside the nature but it understand s it also, Works with it and does no harm to it.” Read the full story

Popularity: 6% [?]

We just caught wind of a beautiful new prefab that takes an innovative approach towards its own structural life-cycle. The Canada based Énóvo House features a sleek modular assembly that’s designed to evolve as the needs of its inhabitants change. [...] Read

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Bustler

” Following an intense program of site visits with each of the 20 architects who have been invited to design a villa in the beautiful Northeast Coast National Scenic Area, the projects are now ready. The architects presented their ideas in the course of a meeting that was held recently in Taipei. The projects testify a variety of tendencies and approaches. And it’s the very energy that derives from this linguistic heterogeneity that will define the distinctive character of NEXT-GENE20.

Now it’s time for a dialogue. The western model explores the eastern one, and vice versa. The 10 Taiwanese architects – Shu-Chang Kung, David Chun-Tei Tseng, Kris Yao, Jay Wen-Chieh Chiu, Kyle Chia-Kai Yang, Hsueh-Yi Chien, Irving Hung-Hui Huang, Ray Chen, Sheng-Yuan Huang, Yu-Tung Liu – and the 10 architects coming from outside Taiwan – Yung Ho Chang (China/USA), Julien De Smedt (Denmark/Belgium), GRAFT (Germany/USA/China), Akihisa Hirata (Japan), IaN+ (Italy), Kengo Kuma (Japan), Fernando Menis (Spain),Toshiko Mori (Japan/USA), MVRDV (The Netherlands), Hailim Suh (Korea) – mix their ideas together, have a dialogue, question each other. These are the premises for a true intercultural project. Read the full story

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Wallpaper

” Only an architectural enthusiast would endeavor to build a home on this extremely steep site at Separation Creek, above Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. With a forty-five degree incline, the property challenged both the owners and architects, Jackson Clements Burrows (JCB) Architects. ‘Most of the one hectare site was too steep to build on. Only a few hundred square metres offered space for a building,’ says architect Graham Burrows, one of three directors of the practice.
With a base footprint of approximately seven by nine metres, the new house appears to grow out of the dirt landscape like a tree. Rooms extend like branches from the central core, or ‘trunk’, reaching for the light and views over Bass Strait. ‘We wanted to create a dynamic sculptural object. But we also wanted to take advantage of the views,’ says Burrows. Read the full story

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FELIPE ASSADI + FRANCISCA PULIDO
ARCHITECTS

This is a contemporary modern house in Chilean countryside called Gatica House designed by Felipe Assadi+Francisca Pulido. Thehouse is raised from the coexistence of two domestic programs: a stable family made up of a marriage and a family visitor comprising 3 children and their families.

The scheme is in two parts: first, which takes place in a line composed of the access, dining halls and common master bedroom is understood as the “main house”. The second-which should not be divided from the past but whether to retain their individuality-is understood as the elastic programme, a portion that is inserted literally within the volume whose main use is preferably weekend.
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WALLPAPER

” The otherworldly landscape of Peneda-Gerês National Park, which lies just a stone’s throw from the Spanish border in Portugal’s northernmost tip, is home to the remarkable Casa no Gerês. The house is the first project by Porto-based architectural duo Graça Correia (a protégé of Souto Moura, who in turn was the star pupil of Álvaro Siza, the Portuguese Pritzker laureate) and her new partner, Italian Roberto Ragazzi.

The contemporary hillside shack
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The house’s story begins back in 2003 when Micé and Eduardo Pinto Ferreira, clients of Correia since the early 1990s, discovered by chance the 5,000 sq m site by the Cávado river while water-skiing in the region. ‘It was just what we were looking for: forested, flanked by a stream and with absolutely no buildings nearby,’ says Micé. Correia was the obvious choice for designing the weekend retreat that would replace the existing ruins on the plot. ‘We knew Graça Correia from previous projects. She had always surprised us with the beauty and originality of her work.’

Casa no Gerês: the first project by architectural duo Graça Correia and Italian Roberto Ragazzi
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Correia and Ragazzi were given a qualified carte blanche: they were allowed to do anything, providing they didn’t cut down any of the trees on site and managed the tricky balancing act of building the house in concrete while not isolating its inhabitants from their surroundings. The structure also had to house the couple and their grown-up child, although the planning permission allowed for a maximum size of just 60 sq m.”

The overhanging part of the house was a clever way of increasing floor space without damaging trees
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The house was built by a small, rural, family company
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The sturdiness of the house depends on a boat-shaped base engineered like a barge moored to the hill.
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The outer walls support only the flat roof, making the extra wide-side windows possible
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All the surfaces in the house, except the flooring, are covered with birch
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The living room featuring Paola Lenti sofas
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The suspended dining room
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The spartan Bulthaup kitchen

Architects: Graça Correia & Roberto Ragazzi - www.correiaragazzi.com

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WALLPAPER

“While many architects thrive on the thrill and prestige of starting from scratch, there are often times when only reconstruction will do. This refined rebuild involved the wholesale overhaul of a 19th-century weatherboard house, located close to the centre of Sydney.

Originally a worker’s cottage, the Lilyfield House was bought by a family that needed to maximise the available space without settling for an ersatz addition that simply mimicked the original architecture.

Nobbs Radford Architects stepped in with a design for a subtle modern extension, drawing inspiration from the humble original cottage, with its flanks clad in narrow wooden weatherboards, while still managing to convey a functional, standalone character. From the street, the new addition presents a striking geometric counterpart to the traditional pitched roof profile of the original house, with walls covered in industrial gauge steel and a monopitch roof that rises to a spiky peak.

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Hanger Prefab

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Arcspace

Hof is a new country residence in the Skakafjordur fjord, less than 100 kilometers from the Arctic Circle. The spectacular location, its remoteness and special program, fueled a unique rapport between the client, contractor and architect, resulting in a building that is in every respect a direct consequence of that collaboration.

The existing assemblage of buildings on the estate included a house, church, barn, and cowshed, clustered on a riverbank. Further inland are recently constructed horse stables.

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Modern Residential Design

Model Rebuild - When remodelling their own residence Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa could never have imagined the press and accolades that would be bestowed upon a build designed around their own very personal needs. Economical, solar powered, solar water heating, nearly off the power grid and with a fitting yet aesthetically contrasting extension. A rear extension that embraces the house’s 1920’s bungalow origins and pays homage to its design sake, the Paul Rudolph Umbrella House of 1953.

Overview and Plot
The lot, in Venice California, typical of the area, has two road frontages. This allowed the house’s orientation to be flipped, the crux of this build. With the living area and kitchen behind now facing the larger rear garden, an additional bedroom was added upstairs, and the second bedroom converted to an office. Most of all, the flip orients the house to the southern sun allowing the sun’s energy to be stored in the concrete eastern and western walls and floor.

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