Primitive Hut 5

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Primitive Hut 4

Source: Matías Silva & Arquitectos archdaily.com

Bascuñan House, Lago Panguipulli, Puerto Montt, Los Lagos, Chile, 2010 designed by Matías Silva Aldunate Architect

A house that could exploit the space as efficiently as possible, resulting in a cottage-style house. -- ArchDaily

Source: Mike Sinclair archdaily.com

The Shed, Missouri, USA, 2010 designed by Hufft Projects

The construction method is an exercise in celebrating the logic and clarity of prefabrication. Conceived as a kit of parts, the elegant building’s steel frame combines modular wall components, roof trusses, and battens, all of which were assembled on site and clad with a rain-screen of White Oak taken from the property. This rain-screen wraps the walls, roof, and soffit and is expressed as a singular element. A galvanized metal fascia speaks to the structure beneath the skin. Polygal end walls with large operable doors complete the tripartite material composition. -- ArchDaily

Source: Sergio Camplone archdaily.com

D Opera, 65024 Manoppello PE, Italy, 2011 designed by Studio Zero85

The formal purity takes the shape of barns and houses land extensively in the area. -- ArchDaily

Source: Steve Maylone archdaily.com

The Matchbox House, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 2012 designed by Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism

The concept for the house is a matchbox in which the four inner quadrants (cedar siding) slip past one another within the outer sleeve (standing seam metal wrapper).  By doing so, each end of the inner quadrants either juts out past the outer sleeve, or is pushed into it, thereby creating outdoor space that is still within the confines of the sleeve. -- ArchDaily

Source: Alison Andersen archdaily.com

Warburg House, Warburg, Alberta, Canada, 2012 designed by bioi

Supported by two steel frames, the simple form creates a singular interior volume. The exterior skin is draped in black corrugated steel sheets long enough to extend the full length of the house. Both the east and west end-walls are punched into the form to create an announcement of entry and provide a small weather break for the entry doors on either side. -- ArchDaily

Source: 2by4-architects archdaily.com

Island House, Loosdrechtse , The Netherlands, 2012 designed by 2by4-architects

The house is a subtle frame that captures the view from the inside out and outside in. Completely anticipating on the client’s needs 2by4 has designed the house in such a way that it can customize the interaction with the surrounding nature. One of the glass facades can be completely opened so that the wooden outdoor terrace becomes part of the interior. -- ArchDaily

Source: Søren Harder Nielsenarchdaily.com

Split View Mountain Lodge, Buskerud, Norway, 2013 designed by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter

The extruded form of the structure frames the spectacular views from within the cabin, while strategically positioned smaller openings along its volume provides glimpses of the immediate surroundings. -- ArchDaily

Source: Paul Kozlowski archdaily.com

Individual House, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France, 2013 designed by N+B Architectes

Three built undulating bodies take place in the slope and stretch as slender overhanging the landscape. Interconnected by a simple entity, new spaces are made possible by the establishment of protected terraces and outdoor spaces. -- ArchDaily

Source: Kjetil Nordø archdaily.com

Hunter´s Hall, 830 15 Duved, Sweden, 2013 designed by Bergersen Arkitekter

The architecture is given a masculine expression, founded on a clear form and precise and refined detailing. The building interprets and translates into a modern language the medieval longhouse and the archetypical historic halls of the area. -- ArchDaily

Source: José Campos archdaily.com

House in Bela Vista, Av. da Bela Vista, 3830 Gafanha da Encarnação, Portugal, 2013 designed by RVdM Arquitectos

The relation between volumes and spaces takes place both inside and outside, dismantling the apparent stability that the stereotypical shape of the house features. The main volume floats over the surrounding walls. -- ArchDaily

Source: Whitt Preston archdaily.com

Farmhouse, North Island, Waikato, New Zealand designed by RTA Studio

Drawing from the rural vernacular, a collection of forms was conceived to engage the local environment. Three open ended pitched roofed pavilions were arranged to accommodate the three distinct functions of the house: living, family sleeping and guest sleeping with flat roofed service pods linking them together. This arrangement serves to capture views, both intimate and vast as well as provide a variety of sheltered outdoor living spaces, either private or communal. This allows the house to offer a variety of separated private spaces or communal entertainment spaces. -- ArchDaily

Source: Francesco Mattuzzi archdaily.com

Courmayeur Ski & Snowboard School, Courmayeur AO, Italy, 2015 designed by LEAPfactory

Thanks to the new LEAPs3 construction system, the building was assembled in only one week, right in the middle of the winter season. It offers high-performance construction technology, sophisticated design and customized interior finishes. -- ArchDaily

Source: Sergio Grazia archdaily.com

Louise Michel and Louis Aragon High Schools, Gisors, France, 2015 designed by archi5

The bridge building gives access to the Louise Michel high school playground from the Louis Aragon main playground. It creates a link contributing to the unity of the whole site. -- ArchDaily

Primitive Hut 3

Source: Jürg Zimmermann archdaily.com

Duplex House in Küsnacht, Küsnacht, Switzerland, 2007 designed by Rossetti + Wyss Architekten

The building area of 430sqm generates living space for two units. Due to the small available space, the levels are arranged vertically. The new building reacts with the exterior to its surroundings: the structure, the gable, the position and the outer surface are in harmony with the environment. -- ArchDaily

Source: Linda Blatzek archdaily.com

Kasel, Kasel, Germany, 2009 designed by Architekten Stein Hemmes Wirtz

The +Energy House is located in the wine community Kasel, in the Ruwer valley, and repeats the two storey with a gable roof structure in the village. Currently it is used as an office, but can be converted to a home when needed. The elongated structure was built with solid wood construction on a concrete floor slab. All structural and partition walls are made of solid wood plate elements, which remain undisguised in the interior, where an ivory-colored glaze applied to the walls and ceillings reveals the texture of the wood structure. -- ArchDaily

Source: Karawitz Architecture archdaily.com

Passive House, Bessancourt, France, 2009 designed by Karawitz Architecture

Aesthetically, this house is a sculptural and abstract replica of a traditional house.  The design by Karawitz Architecture reveals a double faced site sensitive house that is closed on the North to limit energy loss and opened on the South to take benefit of free sunshine. -- ArchDaily

Source: Roger Frei archdaily.com

Rhine Falls Visitor Center, Laufen-Uhwiesen, Switzerland, 2010 designed by Leuppi & Schafroth Architekten

Located in Canton Zurich, the Rhine Falls visitor center defines the entry to Laufen castle and the pathway leading to Europe’s largest waterfall. The program required integrating a souvenir shop, bistro, public toilet facilities and a multipurpose hall into an existing staff house. The difficult task of transforming the nondescript house into a public building was achieved by extending the pitched roof and developing a new skin that wraps the entire structure. The new façade, made of weatherproof steel plates, forms a suit of armor that unifies the building into a primary form. -- ArchDaily

Source: Koen Van Damme archdaily.com

DC2 Residence, Tielrode, Temse, Belgium, 2011 designed by Vincent Van Duysen Architects

The concept of Van Duysen to go back to the simple rural building typology (a long volume parallel to the street, with a 45° gable roof) refers to the tradition of simple farm houses in the region. -- ArchDaily

Source: Joachim Belaieff archdaily.com

Gotland Summer House, Gotland, Sweden, 2012 designed by Enflo Arkitekter

A summer house for a young family. The site on the Swedish island Gotland in the Baltic Sea is surrounded by open fields to the north and low forest in the south.Local building traditions are important in this region, as well as for the architect and client. -- ArchDaily

Source: a2o architecten archdaily.com

Alden Biesen, Alden-Biesen, Belgium, 2012 designed by a2o architecten

The building is restricted in materials and details by merely providing a shape that creates space. The steel frame, which includes minimal facilities to make the construction weather-tight, forms the basis of the volume. The wooden elements complete the shape. The simplicity of its shape is extended to its usage. Large folding doors make entry and exit of machinery easy. The facade apertures are covered by wooden cladding that acts as a filter. The newly added shape speaks the same language as the existing buildings, but distinguishes its role by the materials used. The building takes a modest attitude against the historic setting and the landscape. It is flexible in its use and can be disassembled. -- ArchDaily

Source: Robin Hayes archdaily.com

Gammelgarn Mattsarve, Ängmansvägen, Katthammarsvik, Sweden, 2012 designed by LLP Arkitektkontor

The very small house is kept low and has been placed In the middle of the site, with a garden with some fruit trees facing the road and a private side facing the heath. The entrance to the road is withdrawn under a roof of corrugated polycarbonate greenhouse panels. To the north a series of window doors. At the entrance it is possible to look right through the building from north to south. An open kitchen/livingroom extends from the entrance with a fireplace and further along the windows to the north, with a separate entrance in the western wall. A cloakroom and bathroom with elevated windows facing the terrace. Bedrooms to the east. -- ArchDaily

Source: Takumi Ota archdaily.com

Kinubashi Pharmacy, Tochigi, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, 2012 designed by Soeda and associates Architects

In response to such surrounding condition, we come to a conclusion that a simple and large pitched roof would work best to prevent accumulation of falling leaves. Therefore we design the whole building as a pitched-roof volume. Instead of installing windows on the south and the north facades, we decide to provide operable skylights on the roof to let natural light and wind inside. Several skylights are located within the northern portion of the roof with consideration to prevent direct intense sunlight in summer. -- ArchDaily

Source: Juan Baraja archdaily.com

Portable House ÁPH80, Spain, 2013 designed by Ábaton Arquitectura

ÁBATON has developed the ÁPH80 series as a dwelling ideal for 2 people, easily transported by road and ready to be placed almost anywhere. The proportions are the result of a thorough study by our architects’ team so that the different spaces are recognizable and the feeling indoors is one of fullness. It is a simple yet sturdy construction made of materials chosen to provide both comfort and balance. -- ArchDaily

Source: Kai Nakamura archdaily.com

Koya No Sumika, Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, 2013 designed by mA-style Architects

A V-beam roof truss is made with 62mm panels and structural plywood on both sides, and it is topped with a 69mm thin roof. By overlapping the bearing walls and the V-beam frame, and by using a variety of finishes, contrasting spaces are created and a sense of scale in the vertical direction is born in the flat house. -- ArchDaily

Source: Hwang Hyochel archdaily.com

Low Cost House, Jangheung-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea, 2013 designed by JYA-RCHITECTS

The huge budget issue naturally led us to find ideas to save the costs while creating a larger space. A room to cut costs was finally found in building materials. What we chose was ‘container houses’ which could minimize both field works and construction time. -- ArchDaily

Source: Alfonso Herranz archdaily.com

Meeting Bar, Plaza Castilla, Madrid, Spain, 2013 designed by Losada García arquitectos

The light structure bolted, the set of interior finishes and the construction of the facade through light facade systems, manifest the spirit to reach a constructive system responsible, fast, economic, tech: prefabrication. -- ArchDail

Source: Mathieu Noël archdaily.com

Maison Simon, 70 Rue de Pont de Planches, 70130 Vezet, France, 2013 designed by Mathieu Noël & Élodie Bonnefous architectes

The house position is closest to the path, frees up space for the future garden. Explicitly referring to the archetype of the “Monopoly” house, the house is a simple volume that develops while length.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Moritz Bernoully archdaily.com

House in Hollansche Rading, Hollandsche Rading, The Netherlands, 2013 designed by Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten

In the facades, an idiosyncratic play of proportions, geometries and secondary elements like canopies and downpipes gives the constructions a strong personality. -- ArchDaily

Source: Hiroki Kawata archdaily.com

4n House, Ikoma, Nara, Japan, 2013 designed by ninkipen!

The site had been divided into two levels with a retaining wall, and vehicle access was to the lower level only. We removed the wall, connecting the two levels with a gentle slope, and floated the house above it. By elevating the house on piloti we created good views and an all weather outdoor space which is also a children’s playground and the entrance porch. -- ArchDaily

Source: Ioana Marinescu archdaily.com

House in Balsthal, Balsthal, Switzerland, 2013 designed by Pascal Flammer Architekten

This timber house is about different ways of perceiving the landscape surrounding it.   -- ArchDaily

Source: Wai Ming Ng archdaily.com

Writer’s Shed, Hackney, London, UK, 2014 designed by WSD Architecture

Drawing on the historically intimate relationship between writers and their shed’s, the space was conceived as a haven in the city; a fairy-tale hut at the bottom of the garden where the client could retreat and immerse himself in his work. The offset pitch of the roof allowed for a large north-facing skylight; flooding the workspace with natural light. -- ArchDaily

Source: Greg Richardson Photography archdaily.com

Black Gables, Louisdale, NS, Canada, 2014 designed by Omar Gandhi Architect

Black Gables are simply put, two modest sized gabled buildings, jet black, with a metal roof. The two buildings, one for primary living and the other for a studio and darkroom are located at skewed angles to one another so as to take advantage of the best views, exposure to appropriate daylighting and an overall playful composition. -- ArchDaily

Source: Miran Kambič archdaily.com

The Black Barn, Šentrupert, Slovenia, 2014 designed by Arhitektura d.o.o.

Although the client’s idea of a modern hayrack which would function both as a barn house and prominent protocol house seemed controversial at first, however, the idea revealed a great archetypal and development potential, which is inherent in the architecture of a hayrack in Slovenian cultural awareness. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jeremías Gonzalez archdaily.com

Maison L, Bruz, France, 2014 designed by Atelier 56S

These are characterised by a compact and simple volume with a two slope slate roof.  Since we could not create openings of more than 1.4 metre, we used brise soleils to enclose the first floor completely. When fully open, the brise soleils have a width of 6.5 metres, offering excellent views to the nearby park. -- ArchDaily