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Primitive Hut
The primitive hut had been standard in architectural theory since Vitruvius. Marc-Antoine (Abbe) Laugier brought the idea to life with an image of the hut as the frontispiece for the second edition of Laugier's Essay on Architecture (1755).
It was sought to be the ideal principle for architecture or any structure at the time. Laugier believed it was the standard form which all architecture embodied. -- Wikipedia
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| Source: Åke E:son Lindman archdaily.com |
House Karlsson, Tidö-Lindö, Västerås, Sweden, 2002 designed by Tham & Videgård Hansson
A starting point has been the simple constructions of rural buildings and the architecture of Swedish barns and warehouses, some traces of which can still be seen within the type house sprawl of Tidö-Lindö. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: MVRDV |
Hagen Island, Ypenburg, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2003 designed by MVRDV
Building houses that avoid detail (one material, one type of doors, no gutters) reduces the costs. At the same time this leads to houses with a strong almost archetypical appearance. It's an ironic gesture to the omnipresent demand for the same type of houses in the Netherlands. -- architect's web site
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| 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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Ternat House, Ternat, Belgium, 2005 designed by V + bureau vers plus de bien-être
V+ bureau vers plus de bien-être (=V+, proud to be an architect/towards more than just well-being) proposed not to argue with local officials about an alternative appearance – bureaucracy is slow and rigid – but designed an entire different world in the interior, free of its ordinary shell. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Florian Holzherr archdaily.com |
Floating House, Ontario, Canada, 2005 designed by MOS Architects
This project intersects a vernacular house typology with the site-specific conditions of this unique place: an island on Lake Huron. The location on the Great Lakes imposed complexities to the house’s fabrication and construction, as well as its relationship to site. Annual cyclical change related to the change of seasons, compounded with escalating global environmental trends, cause Lake Huron’s water levels to vary drastically from month-to-month, year-to-year. To adapt to this constant, dynamic change, the house floats atop a structure of steel pontoons, allowing it to fluctuate along with the lake. -- ArchDaily
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Fjällhus Residence, Härjedalen, Sweden, 2005 designed by PS Arkitektur
The Mountain Lodge is a modern take of a traditional barn of the region in Härjedalen, Sweden. The Lodge comes as prefabricated wooden units. It was originally designed in 2005 by architect Peter Sahlin for his own family, as a vacation retreat in the fells of Härjedalen. Five houses have since then been produced in the region. The typical clients are urban professionals who desire a simple, compact, yet comfortable and modern vacation retreat. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: HVP archdaily.com |
Wurth House, Wormeldange, Luxembourg, 2007 designed by Hermann & Valentiny and Partners
The residents of Wormeldange quickly gave this house a nickname “the praying hand in the vineyard”. This is derived from the articulation of the building volume into “fingers” that only touch each other on the slope side. This treatment allowed the architect to introduce a great deal of light to the house. Two bands of windows in the roof and the façade interrupt the skin of the building, which is otherwise homogeneously clad with Corten steel. -- ArchDaily
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House Dijk, Blauwestad, The Netherlands, 2007 designed by Jager Janssen architecten
The facades and the roof of this dwelling comprise one entity. The skin, consisting of anthracite-coloured corrugated sheets, is open in strategic places in order to let the environment in. Maximizing this effect, the entire dwelling is positioned one meter above ground level, resulting on a spacious lower ground floor. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Paul Warchol archdaily.com |
Louver House, Long Island, New York, USA, 2007 designed by LSS
To satisfy a client’s passion for barns, we sought to capture the qualities of traditional barn structures (generous spaces; repetitive timber frames), while developing a modern building responding to the demands both of a residential program, and a site’s dramatic views of the adjacent corn field and nearby moody Atlantic coast. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Kaj Lergaard archdaily.com |
Sinus House, Denmark, 2007 designed by CEBRA
The concave cuttings in the long side of the wing house function as large reflectors of light, and irrespective of the position of the sun in relation to the house they secure that daylight is being let into the house – either directly through the large glass areas or reflected by the white surfaces opposite the glass areas. Even when the sunlight falls longitudinally on the façade the home will be filled with warm light. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Colomès + Nomdedeu Architectes archdaily.com |
Agence Commerciale Opac de l’Aube, Troyes, France, 2007 designed by Colomès + Nomdedeu
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The façades are glazed to allow users to work under a natural light. On the street side and part of the courtyard side, the building hides behind a wooden double-façade, light and changing, yet affirming its autonomy, allows to keep the contrast with the wood frame building to a minimum. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Iwan Baan archdaily.com |
Concrete Slit House, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, 2008 designed by AZL architects
The entire structure and roof are made from concrete pressed into a custom mould, handmade from five-centimeter horizontal wood strips to remain in scale with the adjacent century-old brick buildings. The slit in the concrete creates transparency as it responds to interior circulation, and provides different programmes with differing interior heights & elevations, thus crates in upper bedrooms half floor volume shifting for its privacy. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: moomoo Architects archdaily.com |
L House, Lodz, Poland, 2008 designed by moomoo Architects
It is the first house whose elevation has been made entirely of a plastic insulating material -Thermopian. Usually, this material has been used only for roofing. Thermopian has good thermal, acoustic and insulating properties and it can have any required colour. We were intent on the house form to relate to the proportions of a Polish house but at the same time we wanted it to be simple and redefined. One distinctive leaning wall is a result of a compromise between a simple shape and the local law, which requires building in line with plot borders. -- ArchDaily
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Oeken Pavilion, Oeken, The Netherlands, 2008 designed by FARO
The pavilion represents modern rural architecture: simple, practical and eloquent. Black and white are the traditional colours. The pavilion shows how minimal means can lead to large results. The building leaves a poetic impression of purity. The no-nonsense manner in which this ‘simple barn’ has a large panoramic window shows a pleasant openness to conventional styles. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Tomas Soucek archdaily.com |
Country House In Tupadly, Tupadly, Czech Republic, 2008 designed by OV-A
Our goal was to find the right measure of new elements and to maintain the original picturesque character of the country house. The old living part was only renovated, the cowshed, barn and attic were turned into new living spaces, their farm character was maintained. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Herzog De Meuron |
St. Jakob Tower, Basel, Switzerland , 2008 designed by Herzog & de Meuron
The tower's massing responds to the particular features of the site, the occupancy types, visual axes and shading requirements. The building houses apartments mainly on the southern elevation and upper tower levels, coupled with offices on the northern elevation. The tower reads as a crystalline glass volume with openings for balconies to serve the apartments. -- architect's web site
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The Dairy House, Hadspen Estate, Somerset, England designed by Skene Catling de la Peña
It was to be discreet with the intervention to appear as a natural extension of the existing structure. The design set out to appear ‘un-designed’.
The design was to combine privacy and seclusion with openness to the wider landscape. The inspiration was both literal, in the stacked timber in the yard opposite, and literary, in the 18th century ‘La Petite Maison – An Architectural Seduction’, architectural treatise and erotic novella by Jean-Francois de Bastide. -- ArchDaily
The Mill House, Malmö, Sweden designed by Wingårdhs Architects
Located in south Sweden near the city of Malmö, the Mill house is annexed to a old farm house. Designed by Scandinavian practice Wingårdhs architects, the vacation house was built to celebrate the ritual of sauna and bathing. -- archiechnophilia
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| Source: Edmund Sumner archdaily.com |
Balancing Barn, Suffolk, UK, 2010 designed by MVRDV
The traditional barn shape and reflective metal sheeting take their references from the local building vernacular. In this sense the Balancing Barn aims to live up to its educational goal in re-evaluating the countryside and making modern architecture accessible. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Ivan Nemec archdaily.com |
Family Houses, Popovicky, Czech Republic, 2010 designed by Jan Stempel
New family houses for different private clients are situated in a small village close to Prague. This location is very popular with young families with children. The parents work in Prague, but live in the country in a family house with a garden. This strong trend in the Czech Republic represents mainly standardized houses from catalogues. Those two presented houses – designed as an archetypal form of a house in central Europe – stand out of this mass production. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: MSB Architects archdaily.com |
Rehabilitation Of The Old Butter Factory, Calheta, Madeira Island, Portugal, 2010 designed by M.S.B Architects
Located in a residential neighborhood of single family houses, the old butter factory has the characteristic image of the other houses surrounding it, defined by a typical architecture, with simple constructive technics. The existing buildings are in an advanced state of disrepair. However, taking into consideration the architectural interest of the volume of the former factory it is our desire to recover what currently exists. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Ulia Maysova archdaily.com |
Standless Steel, Nikola-Lenivets, Russia, 2011 designed by FAS(t)
This project is simple and traditional in form, standing as an iconic image. From a distance the standless steel can be perceived as a monolithic laconic volume, with a rectangular plan, no doors, sloping roof and a maximum height of 5m. When viewed closely, the unsteady permeable characteristics are hard to miss, with curtains of metal chain. The surface is an opalescent and oscillating surface, responding to touch. Visitors can enter from anywhere with the subtle clanking of chains all around and rustling gravel beneath their feet. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Filip Dujardin archdaily.com |
House Bernheimbeuk, GB., Belgium, 2011 designed by architecten de vylder vinck taillieu
A small site. A small house. The small budget. An even smaller house. Square metres don’t matter. Mechanics of living versusunexpected sense of space. A small site. And huge trees. Tree in house. Tree in room. Room outside.The drawing. Or, rather, the tree.Or,rather, the column. That drawing. Is the sectionof the column on which andaround which the house rests. A column that has become atree.Among the other trees. Structure. As starting point. As finishing point. What is inbetween is a quest for makingand imagining. So howa column might be. Mightbecome. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Mike Sinclair archdaily.com |
Willoughby Design Barn, Weston, Missouri, USA, 2011 designed by el dorado
Complementing an existing 1880’s farmhouse on a working farm outside of Kansas City, Missouri, Willoughby Design Barn is utilized as an event space in connection with the client’s work as a graphic designer / business identity consultant. Aside from the industrial and agricultural functions that comprise the entire lower level of the barn, the program includes an open event space, an insulated and climate controlled utility / toilet room area, and a sleeping loft. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: James Ewing archdaily.com |
Hudson River Education Center And Pavilion, Beacon, New York, USA designed by Architecture Research Office
The barn is the sole survivor of Beacon’s industrial riverfront. This renovation preserves its simple, elemental structure but transforms its interior into a loft-like art studio. The program includes a new ground floor multipurpose space for lectures and exhibitions, two classrooms on the second floor, and support spaces. An artist’s studio is located in the top floor. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Miljenko Bernfest & Marko Salopek |
Gizmo, Shenzhen, China, 2011 designed by STUDIO UP
Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale takes place since 2005, with ‘urbanisation’ as a set long-term theme. In his curatorial statement for the 2011 Bienale, Terence Riley conceived a rather simple, axiomatic but powerful theme: Architecture creates cities – Cities create architecture. Setting the theme of lightness, Riley asks the pavilions to explore the idea of ‘light’ in both construction and concept, referencing also the (today much abused) theme of sustainability. As part of the UltraLight Village exhibition, STUDIO UP’s GIZMO questions the concept of lightness not as a physical condition, but as an experience. It serves as a device, challenging the ideas of interior and exterior, public and private space, nature and manufactured landscape. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Laura Stamer archdaily.com |
Mirror House, Copenhagen, Denmark designed by MLRP
Funhouse mirrors are mounted on the gabled ends of this playground pavilion in Copenhagen, as well as behind the doors. This engages a play with perspective, reflection and tranformation. Instead of a typical closed gable facade, the mirrored gables creates a sympathetic transition between built and landscape and reflects the surrounding park, playground and activity. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Martin Weiß archdaily.com |
Summer House In Southern Burgenland, Oberbergen, Austria designed by Judith Benzer Architektur
.... the building’s design is oriented by the cubature of the Kellerstöckel(wine house) typical of the Southern Burgenland region. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Alison Andersen archdaily.com |
Warburg House, Alberta, Canada, 2012 designed by bioi
As an extrusion of an iconic “house-shaped” form, the new house floats 200mm off of the ground. Positioned along a large clearing to the south of the farmyard, the new house opens itself to the southern sun and completes the enclosure of a small meadow to the east. -- ArchDailyRead a post from Jetson Green
CASsAPANCA, Ameno, Italy designed by ES-arch
As the 5th edition of the “Paesaggi Mirati” exhibition invited architects and designers to work on the idea of “diffuse museum”, they created an experience of a journey dedicated to multi-sensible tourism, made by cultural, responsible, sustainable and artistic choices. Their project is a space for art and sociality with a structure that allows people to sit, socialize, and look outside, but that has an interior, a room of diffuse museum, where it is possible to place artwork. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: core77.com |
A Better Post-It? And made from wood waste
Shibuya-based Naruse-Inokama Architects, comprised of Jun Inokuma and Yuri Naruse, takes wood waste from houses and turns that into paper. The resultant paper is then formed into a stack of Post-It-like sticky notes that are in turn shaped like little houses. (They're called IE-TAGs as "ie" is Japanese for "house.") -- Core77
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