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Floating Roof House, Okayama, Japan, 2005 designed by Tezuka Architects

The house is located at the bottom of a hill. The floating roof allows the slope to continue through the internal space. -- ArchDaily

Source: Sam Noonan archdaily.com

Emu Bay House, Emu Bay, SA, Australia, 2008 designed by Max Pritchard Architect

The living area, with its dominant floating “lid” roof, emphasizes the drama of the exposed site. Two bedroom wings radiate from this core, and enclose a rear sheltered courtyard focusing on a wood fired pizza oven. Indented timber decks, either side of the living area, provide other options for sheltered outdoor living, with the choice dictated by wind direction.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Art Gray Photography archdaily.com

Trahan Ranch, Texas, USA, 2008 designed by Patrick Tighe Architecture

At the down slope side of the house, the structure becomes lighter and opens to the landscape. Steel pipe columns splay at unsuspecting angles dancing along the rugged landscape. -- ArchDaily

Source: Dianna Snape archdaily.com

Glenhope House, Melbourne, Australia, 2009 designed by JOH Architects

The main living, kitchen, dining and decks facing due north are under one long blade corrugated roof structure supported by high rustic timber trusses which are supported of a rammed earth blade wall. The rammed earth wall also separates these areas from the gallery walkway, which links all three wings and the building entries.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Iwan Baan archdaily.com

The FLOAT House – Make it Right, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2009 designed by Morphosis Architects

The FLOAT House is a new kind of house: a house that can sustain its own water and power needs; a house that can survive the floodwaters generated by a storm the size of Hurricane Katrina; and perhaps most importantly, a house that can be manufactured cheaply enough to function as low-income housing. 

Solar Power Generation: The roof supports solar panels that generate all of the house’s power, resulting in net-zero annual energy consumption. The chassis incorporates electrical systems to store and convert solar power for daily use, and to give back to the electrical grid during the temperate fall and spring months. 

Rainwater Collection: The sloped concave roof collects rainwater, and funnels it to cisterns housed in the chassis, where it is filtered and stored for daily use. -- ArchDaily

Source: Nelson Kon archdaily.com

FS House, Avaré, São Paulo, Brazil, 2009 designed by Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados

The house is a long single-floor pavilion that is inserted into the landscape as a horizontal line. This line is disturbed only by a great roof structure that, hovering above the pavilion, suggests the presence of a special place: a large covered terrace which is also the point of entry and central meeting place of the house. -- ArchDaily

Source: Joe Fletcher archdaily.com

Caterpillar House, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, 2010 designed by Feldman Architecture

Large south-facing glass doors open the main living area to a large covered contemporary porch and to an outdoor patio with sunshades that expand and contract to allow for a flexible entertaining area that responds to the client’s needs. -- ArchDaily

Source: Kenneth M. Wyner archdaily.com

Salop Gelman Residence, Carmel, California, USA, 2010 designed by Travis Price Architects

The large roof canopy is a direct function of full winter passive solar gain and full summer shading. Functional green design is celebrated by the metaphors of waters and nature in view. It is highly insulated, passively heated and cooled, as well as equipped with a solar domestic hot water system. The entire skin uses low embodied energy with brushed aluminum, indigenous stone and glass. The interior is all select cut lumber and engineered wood.  -- ArchDaily

Source: John Wilson archdaily.com

Leura Lane, South Australia, Australia designed by Bianca Scaife & Daniel Cooper

The living spaces are oriented to maximise solar gain in winter, with the large skillion roof calculated to provide summer shade.  High levels of bulk and reflective insulation are installed in both the walls and ceiling and all windows are double glazed with an argon-filled cavity. -- ArchDaily

Source: Peter Bennetts archdaily.com

Florida Beach House, Florida Beach, Australia, 2011 designed by Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects

the roof overhang is carefully sized to exclude summer sun and admit low-level winter sun. The stretched western overhang excludes the low level sun allowing the occupants to engage in comfort with the setting sun. -- ArchDaily

Source: Ed White archdaily.com

Lefebvre-Smyth Residence, Kaleden, BC, Canada, 2012 designed by CEI Architecture

The building form is primarily defined by the sloped roof. The roof slopes to the south as a shading device that blocks the extreme summer sun from penetrating into the living space. The shallow slope is repeated over the service block, which includes the garage, laundry facility and studio. -- ArchDaily

Source: Yoshihiro Koitani archdaily.com

Estar House, State of Mexico, Mexico, 2012 designed by REC Arquitectura

The house uses an L-shaped concrete wall that beyond working as a load-bearing wall, contains thermal inertia capabilities, storing and dissipating heat when it is needed by way of a heatsink in electronics, as the area where it is located tends to be cool-temperate. -- ArchDaily

Source: Anand Jaju archdaily.com

Bagrecha Residence, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 2013 designed by Cadence

A truss roof, which sloped upwards, gives the perception that the roof is diminishing. The terrace has a deck which interacts with the external landscape and acts as a public space for the residents. -- ArchDaily

Source: Richard Leo Johnson archdaily.com

A House Named Fred, Orange County, North Carolina, USA, 2013 designed by in situ studio

The house is low and long beneath the tree canopy, slightly lifted above the ground, with punctuations in the walls and roof that play off views of the forest. A folded metal skin shelters the house, providing protection on the north side and opening to the south to admit generous light. -- 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: The Michelle Litvin Studio archdaily.com

Illinois Residence, Northern, Illinois, USA, 2014 designed by Dirk Denison Architects

Located on a rolling and expansive site in Northern Illinois, the residence is designed as a collection of single storey pavilions systematically distributed into the landscape. The programmatic pavilions are collected under an undulating roof plane, visually connecting the activity of the natural landscape to the dynamic composition of the new residence. -- ArchDaily

Source: Purnesh Dev Photography archdaily.com

House in Mohali, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab, India, 2014 designed by Charged Voids

Although, the overall spirit of the space is strongly Indian in character with emphasis on transcendent spaces like the verandahs & covered terraces yet the architecture vocabulary is completely contemporary with a very universal detailing. -- ArchDaily

Source: Alberto Cosi archdaily.com

Trika Villa, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2014 designed by Chiangmai Life Construction

The whole roof is made of bamboo with a tar sheet sandwiched between the bamboo shingles for rain protection and insulation, creating open, naturally ventilated spaces. -- ArchDaily