Piled Up 4

Source: UNI archdaily.com

XS House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2006 designed by UNI

this is, three rotated 16-by-22-foot boxes with four-corner-skylights, giving rooms natural light with minimum windows and maximum privacy, something that is all too important when there are four houses on just two lots, especially when the designs draw as much attention as they do.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Luuk Kramer archdaily.com

Modern Villa, Den Haag, the Netherlands, 2009 designed by BBVH Architecten

The dynamic architecture is characterized by it’s dark colors and large cantilevering terraces. Oriented at the waterfront, the house is designed to enjoy the view of the surroundings.  -- ArchDaily

  Source: Rondero Carpena Arquitectos, Luisa Marti and COR & Partners

Corazon Sur Pueblo, Pueblo, Mexico designed by Rondero Carpena Arquitectos, Luisa Marti and COR & Partners

Corazon Sur Pueblo is a proposal for a Library Park that will function as the heart of Puebla, Mexico, a city where infrastructure, services, and education are scarce. -- ArchDaily

Source: Marcel van der Burg

V21K07, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2010 designed by Pasel.Kuenzel

In order to profit the most from direct sunlight and the panoramic views over the city the functions of the house were piled up in a rather unusual way.

The living area with its generous southeast-orientated roof terrace is situated on the top floor. As there are no partition walls, the open space allows for stunning views over the historical centre of Leiden. -- ArchDaily

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Antilia, Altamont Road, South Mumbai, India, 2010 designed by Perkins & Will

a house – yes, one house – priced at $1 billion dollars.  With a price tag like that, India’s richest man, and Forbes’s fourth richest man, Mukesh Ambani, along with his wife and three childen, will be calling the world’s most expensive residence “home.” -- ArchDaily

Perkins + Will Debunks Antilia Myths -- Architectural Record

This Luxurious House Is Not a Home -- The New York Times

Source: May Lin Le Goff

Abelia, Ardmore Park, Singapore

Home For Family Of Three Is Entire 11-Storey Condo

.... billionaire Peter Lim, his wife Cherie and his 85-year-old mother have an entire 11-storey condo - and pool - at Ardmore Park to themselves. No noisy neighbours, no barking dogs, no learner trumpeters practising in the apartment next door.  -- Property Highlights of Singapore

Source: Tonatiuh Ambrosetti archdaily.com

Fünf Häuser, Zürich, Switzerland, 2011 designed by TIP

The building can be seen as a collage of a selection of typical housing types found in the immediate surroundings of the plot. The types are stacked vertically due to the small footprint of the plot, with each type presenting a different typology vis-à-vis its outside spaces and views, according to the level at which it is situated.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Pierre-Alain Dupraz archdaily.com

Villa préfabriqué, Collonges, Switzerland, 2012 designed by Pierre-Alain Dupraz

Designed for a single family, the home is constructed from a series of prefabricated reinforced rectangular concrete boxes, paired and stacked adjacently to – and on top of – one another in order to mold the dwelling to the sloping landscape and accommodate the programmatical necessities. -- ArchDaily

Source: Tim Crocker archdaily.com

Slip House, Brixton, London, UK, 2012 designed by Carl Turner Architects

Occupying one of four plots forming a gap in a typical Brixton terrace, Slip House constitutes a new prototype for adaptable terraced housing. Three simple ‘slipped’ orthogonal box forms break up the bulk of the building and give it it’s striking sculptural quality. -- ArchDaily

Source: Adrien Williams archdaily.com

Stacked House, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2013 designed by NatureHumaine

The site is located in a back alley of Montréal’s Plateau neighborhood and the design reflects the patchwork of extensions and renovations typically found in Plateau alleyways. The constraints of the site called for a house that was built upwards versus outwards. Four boxes clad in different materials are stacked one on top of the other. -- ArchDaily

Source: Chevalier Morales Architectes archdaily.com

Résidence Roy-Lawrence, Quebec, Canada, 2014 designed by Chevalier Morales Architectes

....the final version of residence could be read as a composition of three distinct formal elements stacked on top of each other: a solid concrete base anchored to the rocky ground, a post and beam frame allowing total fenestration on the panorama, and a large protective roof which projects itself into an important cantilever over the garage entrance. -- ArchDaily

Source: Edmund Sumner archdaily.com

Lattice House, Sidhra, Jammu, India, 2015 designed by Sameep Padora & Associates

The house is broken into a series of horizontal bands mimicking the incremental nature of growth of the neighbouring buildings, the architectural form of which is a mere derivative of changing space requirements of a family over a period of time. These bands hence became a kind of building block on our site, moving in or out in response to the light requirements of the spaces they encompass. -- ArchDaily