Monday, March 3, 2014

Open Up 3

Source: Fernando Guerra – FG+SG archdaily.com
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Casa Madalena, 4400-431 Madalena, Portugal, 2008 designed by Carlos Castanheira
The central volume predominates in relation to the other two, being a two storey volume expressing the living and dining rooms with their double height ceilings. The geometrical dissimilarity between the volumes accentuates their differences. The connections between them are made by volumes with similar geometries. -- ArchDaily

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McCrae Residence, Collingwood, Australia, 2011 designed by Wolveridge Architects
Walking through the hallway to the living area, the generous courtyard opens up on the right hand side, providing light for the surrounding rooms and a private terrace for the inhabitants. The protected courtyard enables the rear lounge library to remain connected with the view beyond and provide an alternative outdoor location during inclement weather. -- ArchDaily
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Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park Nature Center, 1415 Darby Creek Drive, Galloway, Ohio, USA, 2012 designed by DesignGroup
The building recedes into the landscape, allowing the visitor to focus on the building’s surroundings, rather than the building itself. From the north, only the high roof of the building’s porch and main lobby is visible. -- ArchDaily

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4 Views, Winchester, Hampshire, UK, 2013 designed by AR Design Studio
The form of the replacement house is defined by four interlocking boxes, the negative space at their centre forms a ‘Zen’ garden, with a single olive tree at its heart. -- ArchDaily

Source: Tamara Uribe Photography archdaily.com

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PL2 House, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 2013 designed by Seijo Peon Arquitectos y Asociados
The house’s main access is across the terrace, following the diagonal main axis that crosses the site and from this one are unfold the main spaces; this axis also works as division between the service spaces and the served ones. -- ArchDaily

Source: Joana França archdaily.com

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D&P Residence, Brasília – Distrito Federal, Brasil, 2013 designed by Atelier Paralelo
This oblique tear articulates different functions that require natural lighting and ventilation, which is opposed to the necessary privacy and light control in bedrooms. Thus, it lights the couple’s closet, lights and ventilates the daughter’s suite and the office. -- ArchDaily

Source: Adrià Goula archdaily.com

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House in Front of a Stream, 17244 Cassà de la Selva, Girona, Spain designed by 05 AM Arquitectura
The whole house is in developed in the ground floor level, and is defined by two volumes that are adapted to the irregular shape of the plot, one of them is parallel to neighbour limit, and the other one is perpendicular to the street, being a little turned respect the other one, defining between them a protected space, sunny, saved from the vision from the public spaces, and open to the green plants of the stream. -- ArchDaily

Source: Joana França archdaily.com
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Popsonics House, Altiplano Leste - Paranoá, Brasília - DF, Brazil, 2014 designed by LAB606
The house is set in a privileged location with a bustling topography that allows the overview of its roof from different parts of the surroundings.  From this context the roof was conceived as if it were a fifth façade that contrasts plastically and chromatically with the hills and the landscape in which the home is located. -- ArchDaily

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