Thursday, October 20, 2011

Skin of Architecture: Punched Holes 2

Source: Preston Scott Cohen archdaily.com
Goodman House, Pine Plains, New York, USA, 2004 designed by Preston Scott Cohen
The enclosure wall with windows wraps the peripheral steel frame. It is as if nostalgia caused the emergence of a Modernist paradigm of construction more fitting to a commercial building than to a house. The relationship between compartmental and open spaces, small and large windows, refined and rustic structural components creates a rich and variable environment for living, entertainment, artistic production and exhibition.  -- ArchDaily

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Poli House, Coliumo peninsula, Chile, 2005 designed by Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects
The entire work was built with handmade concrete, using untreated wooden frames. The work was done with a small mixer and four wheelbarrows, in horizontal strata that matched the height of half a wooden board. We then used the same battered wood of the frames to line the interior and to build sliding panels that function both as doors to hide the services of the perimeter and as security shutters that cover the windows when the house is left alone. -- ArchDaily
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Fosc House, San Pedro, Chile, 2007 designed by Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects
The construction is a monolithic piece of concrete dyed green with a water repellent coat made of Copper Oxide. The openings, distributed according to orientation and programmatic needs, establish varying densities in the wall that wraps this silhouette. This wall is technically composed of two independent reinforced concrete walls (one of them structural) with an insulation layer in between.  -- ArchDaily

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Wolf House, San Pedro, Chile, 2007 designed by Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects
The coating is a continuous texture that guides the rainfall, in a bronze tone (unstable with the variations of natural light) that is barely interrupted by the glossy crystal cut-outs, aligned (without frames) with the outside wall. -- ArchDaily

Source: Kouji Okamoto archdaily.com
House with Square Opening, Fukutsu, Fukuoka, Japan, 2008 designed by NKS Architects
Through the various square openings perforated on exterior walls, they got the view to the sea, the forest, and the garden. -- ArchDaily

Source: Satoshi Asakawa archdaiily.com
HOUSE-K, Tokyo, Japan designed by K2YT
By incorporating the courtyard spaces into the house in the same manner as rooms, sufficient depths are provided from the streets, successfully shielding off views without use of curtains even for the largest fenestration. -- ArchDaily

Source: Artau Architecture archdaily.com
House Van de Vecken, Stavelot, Belgium, 2008 designed by Artau Architecture
This house, open to nature and sun, offers an unusual volumetry; It meets on one hand a planning constrain by being parallel to the road and on the other hand also displays multiple asymmetric openings on its southern side. The house sets on a steep land and enjoys a magnificent view across the forested area. -- ArchDaily

Source: Hiroshi Ueda archdaily.com
Mori x Hako, Fukuyama-city, Hiroshima, Japan, 2009 designed by UID Architects
The front and back surfaces of each of the four layers contribute to creating a diverse, interrelated space. The openings ensure the privacy of neighbouring tenants, while the opening and tightening of these openings at regular intervals allows one to be aware not only of vertical connections between floors and horizontal ones between front and back, but also another sort of distance that transcends physical sensations. -- ArchDaily

Source: Stefan Müller Naumann archdaily.com
House J, Landsberg, Germany, 2009 designed by Bembé Dellinger Architekten
Tidy gable houses alongside the new meadow – this was the concept of the development plan. On top of this, the plot was deep and the clients not necessarily conventional. The preference was for a more free-style way of living. -- ArchDaily

Source: Osamu Adachi archdaily.com
FRAME, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan, 2009 designed by Keikichi Yamauchi Architect and Associates
Since the attractive scenery is spread around the site, for this house it was planned to frame and capture various sceneries that are obtained from different directions or heights of one’s view. Greens of trees or sunlight through the trees enter the rooms as if through a “FRAME” of a picture that only exists here. -- ArchDaily

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Roomroom, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan, 2010 designed by Takeshi Hosaka
The house is a simple “box,” comprising two stories above ground: two small rooms on the first floor, a large room on the second floor, and a rooftop. Small windows the size of 200m by 200m were randomly placed on the walls, floors, and the roof. -- ArchDaily

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Cien House, Concepcion, Chile, 2011 designed by Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects
Starting with 12 identical square modules (11 indoors and one on the roof), they used perpendicular walls to divide the spaces in different ways, then arranged or stacked them to add another layer of variety. In the process, they designed a place that is both intellectually rigorous and spatially playful.-- Architectural Record
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Source: Marc Lins archdaily.com
Mountain Cabin, Laterns, Vorarlberg, Austria, 2011 designed by Marte.Marte Architekten
Fitting into the landscape as if it were a barn, the building, which is a fine example of the homogeneous use of materials, in this case, carefully hewn rough concrete, stands out against the meadow green and winter white. Its ashy-gray colour only contrasts slightly with the heavy oak front doors and the anthracite-coloured handrails blend in with the branches of the surrounding forest. As if they were punched into the walls, the square windows of different sizes are spread out across the walls, and their full effect is only achieved at the corners. -- ArchDaily

Source: Koji Fujii archdaily.com
RHYTHM and Plum Tree, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, 2012 designed by Keisuke Kawaguchi + K2-Design
The arrangement of the windows allows effective ventilation and lighting to produce comfortable living conditions. They also serve to create visual rhythm. -- ArchDaily

Source: Hannes Henz archdaily.com
New Concrete House, S.Abbondio, Switzerland, 2012 designed by Wespi de Meuron
The clear easy-cut volumetry and also the naturalistic materializing of the concrete in the same colour like the natural rocks, integrates the new building with caution in the heterogeneous area. Concrete gets the natural stone of the modern era,
The irregularly positioned window perforations maintain the monolith and create a sculptural unit. -- ArchDaily
Source: Seiya Miyamoto archdaily.com
Roji, Yoichi, Japan designed by Nadamoto Yukiko Architects
Roji means “alley” in Japanese.  In the Roji project, there is a narrow alley-like passage at the center of the building, and this indoor alley connects the private living space and the cafe, functioning as a main thoroughfare. -- ArchDaily

Source: Kim Jaekyeong archdaily.com
9X9 Experimental House, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, 2013 designed by Studio Archiholic
The glass wall keeps in contact with outside phenomena while zigzagging along the inner courtyard. As for the outside garden situated between the inner and outside areas, the boundary between inside and outside blurs, while light comes in through the 1.2 x 1.2m porous installed on the ceiling slab and advances further inside to drape shadows for the invisible border wall, or with rain or snow. -- ArchDaily

Source: Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma archdaily.com
Gago House, San Pedro de La Paz, Biobío Region, Chile, 2013 designed by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
The outer façade is lined with a ventilated sheet of boards and lightly framed glass panels. -- ArchDaily

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