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| Source: Mikael Olsson archdaily.com |
Summer House, Nannberga, Sweden, 2011 designed by General Architecture
The house was taken apart and moved to an old pasture along the shores of Lake Hjälmaren, a few kilometers from Arboga. Concrete plinths were cast as a new foundation before the timber structure was put back up again. -- ArchDaily
Forest Refuge, Wolfurt, Austria, 2011 designed by Bernd Riegger Architektur
This forest shelter, known as the ‘Waldsetzkasten’ [lit: forest display case] has been designed so as to appear from the outside as an open shelving unit. The surrounding display areas are used by the children for example as a place to store and exhibit all the wonderful things they have found, as an insect hotel or even as a place to leave food for the forest inhabitants. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Adrien Williams archdaily.com |
Les Marais, Wentworth-Nord, QC J0T, Canada, 2012 designed by Alain Carle Architecte
....This reduction of architectural expression to a single profile serves to reveal the void orchestrating around the “limits” of the whole. The specificity of the place therefore plays a central role in determining the arrangement of the three “icons” in the space. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Rafael Dubreu archdaily.com |
House In Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, UK, 2012 designed by Peter Feeny Architects
....a new build in order to maximize the relationship between the architecture and surrounding landscapes. Oak was selected to provide a universal and sustainable cladding material. Glazed perforations respond accordingly to each elevation providing a storyline between the interior function and the gardens or fields. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Andrew Lee archdaily.com |
Private Residence on Isle of Skye, Waternish, Isle of Skye, Highland IV55, UK, 2012 designed by Dualchas Architects
The design is directly inspired by a black shed on the adjacent croft, simple in form and clearly rooted to its landscape. The form developed out of a desire to lose the bulk of the relatively large building into the shadow of the cliff behind so that the 1 ½ storey element containing all the bedrooms sits behind the main simple communal living space in front. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Gaudenz Danuser archdaily.com |
Refugi Lieptgas, Flims, Lieptgas, 7018 Flims, Switzerland, 2012 designed by Architektin AAM
The new hut now stands as a petrification of the abandoned structure in exactly the same place. The timber log constuction of the old cabin was used as the formwork, the walls were cast massively in insulating concrete. The surface is rough, nature will soon reconquer the artefact. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Marion Lafogler archdaily.com |
Atelier Kitchen Haidacher, 39030 Perca Bolzano, Italy, 2013 designed by Lukas Mayr Architekt
From a design point of view, restraint was the rule: all of the walls, wall-building elements, the floor and the underside of the roof were burnished using black epoxy resin. The light is absorbed by these elements. So what remains is an atmosphere that becomes almost sacred in this context, with the focus strongly trained on the essential elements of the questions posed. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Thomas Jantscher archdaily.com |
Savioz House Conversion, Les Savioz, Marlens, France, 2013 designed by Savioz Fabrizzi Architectes
Our new intervention reveals the history of this building by showing all the materials used for the façade over the years. The original stones, the bricks added in the eighties and the contemporary concrete modifications are disclosed and a dark painting makes all these raw textures uniform. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Peter Jurkovič archdaily.com |
IST-Family House, 851 10 Čunovo, Slovakia, 2013 designed by JRKVC
....a fusion of old and contemporary architecture. The icon–shaped house has a small footprint, tiny picturesque windows and a porch. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Levente Sirokai archdaily.com |
The Long Brick House, Pilisborosjenő, Hungary, 2013 designed by Foldes Architects
....we discovered the great potential of the corridor concept. We turned this horizontal axis into a highly beneficial and unique element of the house, a 17 meter long wall of library. The house has a 50 cm thick brick wall, meeting the heating technological standards and giving sufficient thermal inertia. The ceiling slab is made of wood and the empty, well ventilated attic behaves as a „buffer zone” optimising the inner climate. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Yoon, Joonhwan archdaily.com |
Inbo Catholic Church, Ulsan, South Korea, 2013 designed by Archigroup MA
The segmented volumes of the church, separated by functions, are in harmony with the small scale of the rural town. The steep roof of the church harmonizes with surrounded mountains to become the symbolic center of the village. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Klaus Dieter Weiss archdaily.com |
House B in B, Drosselweg 8, 31675 Bückeburg, Germany, 2013 designed by Matti Schmalohr
The larch façade and on the roof underscores the monolithic character of the archetypal house. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Jérémie Souteyrat archdaily.com |
Transustainable House, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan, 2014 designed by SUGAWARADAISUKE
....this house expands the dwelling space both inside and outside, and converts the entire site into a group of spaces with different qualities. Private rooms are placed diagonally in the site, while common areas are created between them, transforming the rest of the site into ‘semi-indoor’ residential area. The ‘semi-indoor’ areas extend the resident’s spatial perception beyond the site boundary over the enclosed semi-transparent walls. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Timothy Hursley archdaily.com |
Lions Park Scouts, Lions Park, Greensboro, Alabama, USA, 2014 designed by Rural Studio
The Scout Hut structure consists of ten wooden trusses, or bents, supported on slender steel footing and resting on a concrete slab. The bents are made of true dimension, rough-cut pine 2x6s and 2x8s. Stacked horizontally within the sides of the bents are logs, 2” – 8” in diameter, which function as exterior cladding and provide ballast for the structure. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Finckh Architekten archdaily.com |
House F, Germany, 2014 designed by Finckh Architekten
....the long gable sides are covered with 6cm slim, highly insulating, translucent polycarbonate panels. in this way the maximum allowed internal space of 4,58m is obtained. this translucent thermal insulation facade heats and exposes the interior a natural way and ensures the privacy against the neighbors. This interplay between design and envelope, open and close, transparent and translucent surfaces dominate the interior and creates space for the unexpected. It forms a cosmos from different light and shadow provisions, flowing soft and widening to infinity -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Adolf Bereuter archdaily.com |
Haus Kaltschmieden, 6951, Austria, 2014 designed by Bernardo Bader Architects
The longish, seemingly composed building with a classic ridged roof already anticipates a farming building. It is no surprise in such an area where agriculture defines the landscape. Sheds and barns are widely scattered. The few, but precisely placed and well-proportioned openings in extraordinary formats are only noticed on a second glance. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: BoysPlayNice archdaily.com |
The Dox House, Pyšely, Czech Republic, 2014 designed by Mjölk architekti
Main view is open to the south in front of near forest. House efforts to embrace the inner central staircase. It´s doing not only because to divide interior´s spaces or create recesses of kitchen and study but let them interconnected as well. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Hammer Architects archdaily.com |
North Pamet Ridge House, Truro, MA, USA, 2014 designed by Hammer Architects
The design evolved to become an upside-down house with guest rooms on the lower level and the living spaces and master bedroom above. The simple shape with its nine and twelve gable roof can be viewed as an extruded Cape Cod cottage while the exposed wood structure recalls rustic cabins. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Maarten Laupman archdaily.com |
Blackbird, 5831 Boxmeer, Netherlands, 2014 designed by Onix Architects
The house has a barn like image which closely relates to the local farm architecture. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Pixelmoreno archdaily.com |
Sda, Tarragona, Tarragona, Spain, 2014 designed by NUA Arquitectures
The building was conceived with a double industrial-artisanal logic. The structural system and the lateral facades where built up with prefabricated metallic elements in order to shorten the construction time. The frontal facades were constructed by a fabric skin which contextualise the new equipment with its surroundings. The compact and hermetic nature of the building responds to climatic and security requirements, nevertheless when thecenter is on service, it opens to the users allowing natural light inside. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Florian Holzherr archdaily.com |
Holzhaus am Auerbach, Bavaria, Germany, 2015 designed by Arnhard & Eck
The wooden house its only four meters wide, the area kitchen / dining, living and sleeping is open-plan and connected by stairs, each half a level above the other. -- ArchDaily
