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Source: Vincent Monthiers archdaily.com

Nova Green, Bordeaux, France, 2012 designed by Agence Bernard Bühler

This building is marked by the game between the screens glazed colorated in green and the boxes in white aluminium which animate the façade on street. -- ArchDaily

Source: Niels Donkers archdaily.com

Cellebroedersstraat, Hasselt, Belgium, 2012 designed by a2o architecten

The wooden cladding extends to the top of the building and works with the window openings to create a new composition. Occasionally, the window frames break through the wooden cladding, interrupting the rhythm of the wooden facade. -- ArchDaily

Source: Ben Hosking archdaily.com

Blairgowrie House, Blairgowrie, Australia, 2012 designed by Wolveridge Architects

The block type form established from bringing the front of the dwelling forward and its western orientation influenced a design decision to create a complex series of openings in the façade,allowing forplenty of natural light to the children’s bedrooms within. The composition of openings is designed to restrict the inflow of undesirable west sun and provides a suitable level of visual engagement with the street. -- ArchDaily

Source: Michel Denancé archdaily.com

Boucicaut, 81 Rue des Cévennes, Paris, France, 2013 designed by MG-AU

.... in order to satisfy the architect/urban planner’s desire to differentiate the facades according to the direction they face, the surface of the walls is smoother, darker and glossy on walls facing north-east and north-west, and rough, light and matt on walls facing south-east and south-west, which are turned towards the sun. The position of the window in its thick frame, together with the presence and position of the sun-shading shutters also make it possible to differentiate thefacades. -- ArchDaily

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B.S.R 3, Kinneret Street 5, Bnei Brak, Israel, 2013 designed by Yashar Architects

An array of Terra cotta red “boxes” penetrate the tower’s skin at strategic points thus more unique office spaces are created. the boxes characterizes the building externally and frame important urban views internally. The result is a bold and well defined vertical building, a monolithic overall look with almost all of the floors unidentical in plan. -- ArchDaily

Source: Federico Cairoli archdaily.com

Quintana 4598, Quintana 4598, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013 designed by intile&rogers arquitectura

The projecting boxes, built in polycarbonate, extend the area of the units and compared with a balcony, allow their use independently of any weather restrictions. -- ArchDaily

Source: Cécile Septet archdaily.com

Canopia Park Housing, Mail Haroun Tazieff, 44300 Nantes, France, 2014 designed by BABIN+RENAUD

Shutters, balustrade and floors are as meticulously designed as the buildings’ architecture. Sparkling white, the innumerable vertical picture-windows, framed in shiny metal, jut out from the buildings’ minimalist surfaces. Opalescent glass, stainless-steel façades and sand-blasted concrete round out the project’s visual and tactile pallet, the distinctiveness of which is as restrained as it is refined. -- ArchDaily

Zig Zag 6

Source: Miguel de Guzmán archdaily.com

C.E.I.P Multiuse Room, Madrid, Spain, 2007 designed by Raúl del Valle

The light introduced into the multi-purpose spaces, is an even light that provides an homogeneous clarity. Light comes in through 6 sawtooth skylights, south oriented so to create direct effects of light. In order to have a balanced light, a hole of square proportions is added, which provides a visual connection with the outside. -- ArchDaily

Source: Bilyana Dimitrova archdaily.com

Sagaponac House, Cold Spring, New York, USA, 2007 designed by Stan Allen Architect

The active roofline and wood cladding recall vernacular traditions, while the open floor plan and interlocking of solid and void acknowledge contemporary, informal lifestyles. -- ArchDaily

Source: Roland Halbe archdaily.com

Auditorium And Congress Center Expo 2008, Zaragoza, Spain designed by Nieto Sobejando Arquitectos

The linear skylight, the true protagonist of the project, starts out as a plane folded in parallel bands, open alternatively toward the north and the south, repeated with variants whose dimension and height change depending on the spatial needs of the interior. -- 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: Fernando Alda archdaily.com

Professional Cooking School in Ancient Slaughterhouse, Medina-Sidonia, Cádiz, Spain, 2011 designed by Sol89

The Professional Cooking School uses this idea of the molded ceramic plane to draw its geometry. This roof lends unity to the built complex and interprets the traditional construction of the place, ceramic roofs and whitewashed walls. -- ArchDaily

Source: Sergio Pirrone archdaily.com

E+ Green Home, Kyeong Gi, South Korea designed by Unsangdong Architects

This green home includes diverse factors such as structural system, materials, spatial composition, landscape-enrichment and facilitated human life. E+ Green Home is defined as a new energy plus sustainable house by synthesizing all the optimized green technology and a string of intelligent energy saving system. The building has acquired Passive House Certificate from Passivhaus Institut in Germany.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Sergio Grazia archdaily.com

The Paper Nursery, 46 Rue Piat, 75020 Paris, France, 2014 designed by Wild Rabbits Architects

....the green rooftop is more iconic and it comunicates about a couple of issues unknown by many people like the stormwater, the biodiversity, the inertia or the sprinkling. Furthermore, it is a good way to remind this strong and ancient link between nature and architecture, wich at time creates nice things. -- ArchDaily

Source: Peter Bennetts archdaily.com

The New Kununurra Courthouse, Coolibah Drive, Kununurra WA 6743, Australia, 2014 designed by TAG Architects + iredale pedersen hook architects

The roof form of the building creates an immediate dialogue while creating a variety of volumes that respond to the program requirements for the interior spaces. The height of the roof is also carefully controlled to relate to the immediate adjacent buildings. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jomar Bragança archdaily.com

Serra Dourada Club - Alphaville, Brasil, 2015 designed by Gustavo Penna

It seeks to insert the new buildings, minimizing interventions in topography and preserving as much existing vegetation. Metal structure was the choice for the club pavilion, because it can cover large spans with structural parts of small dimensions, allowing, without further interference, the use of glass walls. The roof is made of thermo-acoustic metal tiles, clad in wooden slats on the bottom and wooden rulers at the top. -- ArchDaily

Raised Corners

Source: Arash Nasiri archdaily.com

Noor-e-Mobin Sports Hall, Bastam, Semnan, Iran, 2010 designed by FEA Studio

....this sports hall is a “panoramic view” itself, that the entire natural scenes can be observed from its inside. In this regard, double-glazed safe glasses with the thickness of 18 mm are used around the saloon. -- ArchDaily

Source: Code Architectural Design archdaily.com

GR230, Hokkaido, Japan, 2010 designed by Code Architectural Design

....a beautiful piece of architecture that commands a dignified presence during the foliage-rich summer months, and a quieter one that seemingly dissolves into the surrounding landscape during the long, reclusive winters. -- ArchDaily

Source: Luis Ontiveros archdaily.com

De Candido Express Supermarket, Maracaibo, Venezuela designed by NMD l NOMADAS

....we turned to origami, for its simplicity, firm softness, continuity in the enclosures, and versatile replicability in changing contexts. In origami, continuity of matter is required. In this case we used a sandwich sheet of pre-painted white galvanized steel. This allowed us to obtain, from a square-based rectangular initial base, the manufacturing of simple models to highly complex folds. -- ArchDaily

Source: Archi5 associated with Tecnova architecture archdaily.com

Antony-Multisports Complex, Rue de l’Annapurna, Antony, France, 2011 designed by Archi5 + Tecnova architecture

A mysterious big black box planted in an urban landscape. Curiosity is satisfied once the way to go in is found, on a raised corner where the entrance is located. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jens Kirchner archdaily.com

Hörsaalgebäude Osnabrück, Barbarastraße, Osnabrück, Germany, 2014 designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects

Because of this location and the position of the university building as “link”, the building is shaped like a volume of three floors with a cutaway at the bottom. The incision ensures a strong relationship with the outside area and gives the university building a clear, recognizable entrance: a striking building is created. -- ArchDaily

Source: Young-chae Park archdaily.com

Extrude, Hanam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea designed by studio GAON

Then we took the edge off the sharp triangle which the cars would conceptually run into. And we opened the west edge like a fish opening its mouth. -- ArchDaily

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Source: Rafael Vargas archdaily.com

Mercat Encants, Gran Via-Pl de les Glòries, Barcelona, Spain, 2013 designed by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

The great casing suspended as a canopy almost 25 metre high is a prominent landmark and protects shopkeepers and users from the sunlight. The casing is arranged by variable-width bands. Its underside presents different inclinations and becomes a mechanism of reflection of the city into the market. -- ArchDaily

Source: Michael Haug archdaily.com

Bahnhofplatz Winterthur, Bahnhofplatz, Winterthur, Switzerland, 2013 designed by Stutz Bolt Partner

The new project is unifying the square and we worked hard to keep the pedestrian level as open as possible, for a better orientation and to generate generosity. For this reason we created a big roof construction without visible columns. Also all the overhead lines are fixed directly on the roof and create a floating grid. The minimal and precise roof body brings a clear new organization of the urban space and stands as a welcoming sign for arriving visitors of Winterthur. -- ArchDaily

Source: Peppe Maisto archdaily.com

Piazza Garibaldi, Piazza Garibaldi, 80142 Naples, Italy, 2013 designed by Dominique Perrault Architecture

This infrastructure project, which includes a metro station, offers the opportunity to upgrade this lively urban space bustling with activity. Two stations share the piazza: open space, composed of urban parks, luxuriant gardens, large ponds, a protected area, a hypogeum covered with a large pergola and an open promenade with boutiques lining both sides. Though structurally and materially different, the new roof fits right into the alignment and the extension of the central station’s roof. -- ArchDaily

Source: David Armentor archdaily.com

Tulane Students Upcycle Traffic Signs into Shade Canopy , City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2013 designed by Tulane City Center

Tulane City Center and a team of Tulane architecture students worked together with the Lousiana Outdoor Outreach Program to design a shade structure made from traffic yield signs for a challenge course in City Park. Drawing inspiration from the surrounding tree canopy and the structure of the ropes course, the design team crafted a faceted, curving aluminum canopy suspended by steel cables with an earthen berm for seating below. -- ArchDaily

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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

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

Urban Elements: Train Stop

Source: Domyjinak archdaily.com

Train Stop Varnsdorf – Pivovar Kocour, Liberec, Czech Republic, 2013 designed by Domyjinak

The first private train stop in the public space and private administration in the Czech Republic.... The concept of the simple volume, two intersected open cubes, found the inspiration in wooden brewery boxes – beer basses. From the interior of these boxes a massive wooden bench with names of train stops on, protrudes into the space. The bench is carried by the logo of the brewery – steel „statue“ of the tomcat (“kocour” in Czech). -- ArchDaily

Buildings for boat

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Community Rowing Boathouse, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2008 designed by Anmahian Winton Architects

For inspiration for the wood Community Rowing Boathouse, the architects looked to regional vernacular linear buildings, such as covered bridges and tobacco sheds. Tobacco sheds provided a particularly compelling model because sculls and shells, like tobacco leaves, need proper ventilation. This observation led the architects to the idea of a kinetic building. -- Architectural Record

Source: Jorge Allende archdaily.com

Sports Technification Centre For Rowing And Canoeing, Orio, Basque Country, Spain, 2012 designed by U.T.E. Atristain Begiristain

The new steel columns hold the light plane corresponding to the cover. Thanks to these supports the cover can be a thin sheet giving a light character to the cover. The ceiling lights created from different glass folds on the cover sheet, add natural lighting to the building. -- ArchDaily

Source: Steve Hall Hedrich Blessing archdaily.com

WMS Boathouse at Clark Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2013 designed by Studio Gang Architects

The boathouse’s design translates the time-lapse motion of rowing into an architectural roof form, providing visual interest while also offering spatial and environmental advantages that allow the boathouse to adapt to Chicago’s distinctive seasonal changes. With structural truss shapes alternating between an inverted “V” and an “M,” the roof achieves a rhythmic modulation that lets in southern light through the building’s upper clerestory. -- ArchDaily

Source: James Ewing archdaily.com

Hudson River Education Center And Pavilion, Beacon, New York, USA designed by Architecture Research Office

While the Education Center is an iconic destination, the boat pavilion is conceived as a threshold in deference to the expansive Hudson River. The roof is a horizontal plane of corrugated steel that parallels a large wood deck from which boats launch. The painted steel structure is economical and sturdy. Secure storage for up to sixty-four kayaks or canoes, a changing room and storage area are enclosed by aluminum bar grating panels. The textures, patterns, orientation and details of the corrugated steel, wood deck and bar grating bring these ordinary elements into an elegant composition.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Montse Zamorano archdaily.com

Sotogrande’s Sailing School, Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain, 2013 designed by Héctor Fernández Elorza/HFE Arch + Carlos García Fernández

The pergola, constructed in front of the school, unifies all the project elements while also creating a shaded threshold, covering the exterior from direct sun exposure, stretching towards the southern end of the building. Seen from a distance, the school becomes a landmark near the port entrance. -- ArchDaily

Source: Nigel Young | Foster + Partners, archdaily.com

Yacht Club de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco, 2014 designed by Foster + Partners

The yacht club is the symbolic centrepiece of the Monaco’s remodelled harbour front. It celebrates the principality’s spectacular coastline and its nautical heritage, creating a series of deck-like terraces that step up along the harbour to offer unrivalled views out to races at sea or inland over the course of the renowned Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit. --  ArchDaily

Source: Arnaud Marthouret archdaily.com

A Modern Boathouse in a Canadian Landscape, Parry Sound District, ON, Canada, 2014 designed by Weiss Architecture & Urbanism Limited

Through careful form-making and the use of rustic materials, the project responds gently both to the natural and cultural context of the area, where historically built-form yields to the power of the landscape with its exposed and glacially carved granite and wind swept jack pines. -- ArchDaily

Source: Nigel Rigden archdaily.com

Portsoy Boatshed, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, UK, 2015 designed by Brown + Brown Architects

The job essentially comprises a modern timber building, which has been slipped inside a reconstructed stone skin. Due to the setting of an historic harbour, no new openings were permitted in the stone walls, resulting in most of the natural light coming via a ridge rooflight, which runs the length of the building. -- ArchDaily