Posts Tagged as: Residential Architecture

St Joseph Residence I | Wheeler Kearns Architect

Sited upon a coastal dune landscape, St Joseph Residence I designed by Wheeler Kearns Architect seeks proportional balance. Balance between elemental exposure and domestic intimacy of prospect and refuge.

Jack Fruit Garden Residence | Wallmakers

The Jackfruit Garden Residence as the name suggests is a house for Mr. Riaz, whose very design arose from trying to retain the huge jackfruit tree growing in one corner of the site. Another consideration to keep in mind was that designing for a large family also meant that privacy was of utmost importance if we wanted the common spaces to be inclusive.

Calçada House | Ren Ito Arq.

Calçada House is located in Vila de Paraíso in the north of Portugal. There were existing house from 18th century and several annex buildings with several trees in old manor with 5000m2.

House in fontaínhas | fala

House in fontaínhas is structured within overlapping antagonistic spatial structures. The ground floor is conceived as one uninterrupted space defined by a free curved wall. It is a volatile room with only one corner and two continuous white surfaces opening up to the vivid garden.

Fireworks in white | fala

Fireworks in white designed by fala in Porto, Portugal. The project is a familiar exercise of fitting in ambiguous programs, correcting mistakes and introducing an insistent order. Almost pure interior, the space is an elaborate composition of fearless geometries.

Apartamento na Almirante Reis | BALA atelier

Apartamento na Almirante Reis designed by BALA atelier in Lisboa, Portugal. The genesis of the rehabilitation intervention for this 90 m2 apartment, in addition to to counter the weak pre-existing conditions of habitability, efforts were also made to preserve the historical legacy of this constructive typology.

Ovoid | GreyScale Design Studio

Ovoid – the name comes from the egg shaped pillars that stretch across the front deck. This holiday home nestled in the greenest depth of “The Coffee brewing and Co.” coffee estate, is a contemporary adaptation of the local architecture with pitched roofing.

Vinod Residence | Murali Architects

Vinod Residence has been positioned in a residential zone in Coimbatore, with a rustic yet futuristic parametric façade. Privacy being the most vital factor, the façade gets a rustic double skin.

Six houses and a garden | fala

Two buildings with a similar appearance, one very long and another very short. Six houses – four identical and two exceptional – around one common garden, hidden inside a city block.

A home for the Guptas | Raghuveer Kathpalia

A home for the Guptas designed by Raghuveer Kathpalia is a home for a family of 7 people and it is located in Sanand, Gujarat. The home has been an inquiry into what it means to settle, one of the many ways in which one can do that.

Call for Entries: ‘HOME’ 2121| Future Architecture

Home 2121, an architecture competition organized by Archiol invites all designers to explore ideas of residential architecture for the future.

T house | CTA | Creative Architects

T house was created by two blocks stay about two corners of the house, two void spaces between two functional blocks, combining garden and common activities to ensure that all spaces are illuminated by natural light.

Small house with a monumental shower | fala

Small house with a monumental shower designed by fala is a tall tower is standing in paradoxical independence, refusing to be serious, making a courageous formal statement. A monumental object for a non-monumental program.

Banh Cam’s Country House | Plus Idea Studio

Plus idea studio responds to vietnam‘s hot tropical climate with this multi-generational family home in tây ninh. Banh Cam’s Country House, designed for a photographer, her parents, and her siblings, the single-story dwelling focuses on connectivity between generations, and connectivity to green spaces.

Scaffold House | Gaurav Roy Choudhury Architects

The Scaffold House is a low-cost renovation project based in Bangalore, in which the original load bearing building had three apartments has been converted into two duplex houses. The original building was built on a square 60’x60′ corner site by the clients, as a retirement home.

Trapezioma (Trapezoidal Brick + Omah (house)) | Andyrahman Architect

As oma or omah (local language for: house), Trapezioma house is an inseparable part of the neighborhood/village, it is not a house that stands totally alone as an “individual house”. Conceptually, it is a house that has a double existence: as itself and at the same time as a unit with the other houses in this village.

Garden House | Austin Maynard Architects

Garden House was designed by Austin Maynard Architects in Melbourne, Australia to function off grid. The house is completely self-powered, all-electric with no connection to the gas network. Hot water, space heating and cooling, hydronic heating, pool heating – is all supplied by highly efficient heat pumps.

Rock House – weekend villa | The Grid Architects

Rock House – weekend villa, intimate weekend home situated near Ahmedabad is birthed from the desire to be one with nature. It has been shaped and worked by locals’ hands using local materials — especially Dhrangadhdra stone.

Casa em Santarém | dp Arquitectos

Casa em Santarém is located on the perimeter of an allotment, overlooking the countryside. It is organized with service area on the North side, social area in the center, and a bedroom area on the other end, all facing the generous patio with swimming pool.

Uneven house | fala

Uneven house designd by fala in Porto, Portugal is a ground floor shop and its basement were to be converted into an apartment. An extension in the back was demolished to provide a garden, from which the new house would become the plinth to a cheerless 1960’s housing block.

Brickly Affair | GreyScale Design Studio

In Brickly Affair it was an interesting task to include all the client’s needs in a tight site of a typical setting in urban Bangalore. The two driving ideas for this project were, toying with the basic elements of construction to come up with the statement feature, and making the house focus inwards.

81 Trans-(parent) | Touch Architect

81 Trans-(parent) in Bangkok, Thailand is with a TRANSITION or go-through space like a TRANSPARENT area which can be seen and accessed from every single space while still keep privacy from neighbourhood.

Ottiqa House | Fabian Tan Architect

Ottiqa House set in the hillside of the affluent area owned by a young couple, about to start a family. The brief was to accommodate a place that will provide a calm simple lifestyle. A design strategy on the idea of ‘extensions’ was devised, questioning its definition that morphed into an overall scheme of extending architecture through volume, voids, and openings.

Wall House | CTA | Creative Architects

Wall House is made up of eight separate spaces surrounded by ordinary walls. These eight blocks are interspersed and intersect at a common space, which is formed by the ‘breathing walls’.

The Concrete Home | Dan and Hila Israelevitz Architects

The Concrete Home which brings together opposites, the combination of enclosing opacity with airy open spaces and the drama created by different masses and volumes is only part of this home by Hila and Dan Israelevitz, owners of Israelevitz Architects.

Am House | AmDesign Architects + Time Architects + CTA | Creative Architects

Am House is a product of 3 young architects (now with 3 studios). The garden house is built on a 3,500 sq. m of land in Can Giuoc, Long An province. It takes 45 minutes driving from District 7, Ho Chi Minh city.

Casa Martinez | BHY arquitectos

This project consists on the refurbishment and extension of a “Casa Chorizo”, a traditional housing typology that arose in Buenos Aires in the late 20th century, representative of the urban middle class and the immigration waves of the time.

Call for Entries: Residential Rush

The competition “Residential Rush” focuses on residence design only as a theme with fixed minimum deliverables

Xerolithi | Sinas Architects

The main focus of the Xerolithi design was to create a house that blends in its natural environment. An environment comprised of steep dirt and gravel slopes, dressed with scattered wild thorny bushes, and beautiful large rock formations.

Takenoyama House 3 | Tomoaki Uno Architects

Takenoyama House 3 is designed by Tomoaki Uno Architects in Aichi, Japan. It was very difficult to come up with a plan to take advantage of this location after resolving landslide structures, their laws and possible construction methods.

White Cliff House | RDMA

White Cliff House designed by RDMA in Bandung, Indonesia, on a narrow sloped land measuring 6,5 x 25 meter, 3 programs were built within steps and planter boxes arranged naturally as a hardscape stretched from the lowest to the highest point of the land. They are 2 lofts serves as guest houses and a 2 storey house for the property owner at the top.

CP Residence | Studionine Architects

Project Description (Text as submitted by architect) Designed by Studionine Architects, this residence in suburban Ahmedabad revels in delicate tracery and the warmth of natural light. As a response to the client’s needs of simplicity, low-maintenance and soothing spaces, this home, designed specifically for an elderly couple unfolds through simple, efficient planning. Beginning with a […]

House with a curved wall | Fala

House with a curved wall designed by Fala Architects is a project within an extremely low budget, the decrepit original construction was reset to the bare structural existence of its perimeter walls. The inner space was solved with the precise placement of a gently curved wall as a separation between the public and private programs under a new light roof.

Cuckoo’s Nest | Between Spaces

Cuckoo’s Nest in Bangalore, Karnataka designed by Between Spaces is built on a corner plot measuring 45’x75’ with roads on the western and northern edge in a gated layout and surrounded by a silver oak tree and some palm trees.

Bangalove Residence | Rodrigo Simão Arquitetura

Bangalove Residence designed by Rodrigo Simão Arquitetura is a conversion of a weekend cottage into a permanent residence, fulfilling demands of a family with kids, with varandas, terraces and comfortable acesses to the garden, stimulating an open air modus vivendi.

J House | y0 Design Architect

J House designed by y0 Design Architect is heavily influenced by the Japanese modern houses design, such as the efficient arrangement of the spaces, utilizing many openings for maximum natural lighting and ventilation, using Zen garden philosophy for outdoor areas to minimize maintenance.

Time House | X11 Design Studio

Time House is located in the plateau city of Kon Tum, where the Dak Bla river consolidate fertile alluvium. The house is built on a plot of land with an area of 8,4x56m, on a potential road.

House That Rains Light | LIJO.RENY.architects

The ‘House That Rains Light’designed by LIJO.RENY.architects re-imagines dappled shade under the trees, informal kids play nooks, gardens with flowers, birds and butterflies, all lost to rapid urbanization, while being confined to a tight plot within a typical residential layout.

2Hien | CTA | Creative Architects

In 2Hien in Tay Ninh, apart from two awnings arranged at the front and back of the house, there are also two other verandas inside the house, surrounded by old fish-scale tiles re-used from the old house, creating emotions for this particular space.

Águas Claras Residence | Rodrigo Simão Arquitetura

A house conceived as a contemplation platform, wide open to the views and to maximize sunlight, so vital in a mountain climate. The whole house develops in one level, suspended from the ground, protected by a generous overhanging roof, accessed through a stone floor forecourt, avoiding rain water, so intense in the region, keeping the house free from moisture.

White Skube House | Srijit Srinivas – ARCHITECTS

White Skube House was intended to house their joint family consisting of their son and his wife, as well their daughter – all of whom are medical doctors.The skewed shape of the restricted plot footprint organically allowed for a skewed cuboid (or ‘SKUBE’) form to emerge. This was presciently painted in white to augment the sereneness of the morphed platonic form – highlighted as it were by the pandemonium of its busy surrounding neighborhood.

Whidbey Island Farm Retreat | mwworks

Located on a rural site on Whidbey Island, the home tucks into the edge of a densely forested hillside out of respect for turn-of-the-century agricultural buildings located on this rural site, overlooking chicken sheds, a weathered red barn, cattle fields and a fishing pond.

A Home in Between | Ego Design Studio

Ego Design Studio is an attempted mediation between user and designer- the former accommodating the intimate spatial personalisation and memory formation by the client, while the latter becomes the image, or signature, of the architect.

House in Melides II | Aires Mateus

House in Melides II Breaks the program, veils of intimacy are created between the various spaces. A modern house with three small houses are drawn. The main construction shelters the kitchen, living room and master suite.

House in Vale das Videiras | Rodrigo Simão Arquitetura

House in Vale das Videiras idealized as a weekend house by nature for a writer and a plastic artist, with the possibility of becoming a permanent home. Also can accomodate well the adults son and daughter with children when the family gathers.

Kecherile Veedu | Finder Studio

‘Kecheriyile Veedu’ is an attempt at recalling the memories of the sound of raindrops falling in the courtyard, people sitting and conversing around it, the feeling of the warmth of mud walls and wood, the coziness of spaces; one may find him or herself drifting into their nostalgic memories of yesteryears every once in a while.

In-Sight House | Touch Architect

Initiative design of IN-SIGHT House in Bangkok, Thailand was directly portrayed into simple 6 boxes which are 3 existing and 3 expanding. Some of the boxes are converted to be an outdoor open space area, which are courtyard with large tree, and roof top garden.

Home of Blended Pluralities | Ego Design Studio

Home of Blended Pluralities in Poojapura, Trivandrum, deisgned by Ego Design Studio explores spaces of traditional content, entwined with the features of a modern home. Both the spatial constructs interact and explore each other, through the gardens associated with the mango trees- who existed before all.

Sands Point Residence | HMA2 Architects

On a dramatic bluff overlooking Long Island Sound, an 8,000 square foot Sands Point Residencewelcomes family and friends to enjoy good views, good food, and good company.

Park Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects

Park Street House has been designed to create an intensely private residential space for a young family. The exterior of the house is informed by observations of everyday urban buildings.

House in Samambaia | Rodrigo Simão Arquitetura

House in Samambaia was built for the architect and his family, preserving relief, stones and native trees, creating functional spaces that integrate domestic life with the nature of the place.

Campo Alegre | Costa Lima Arquitectos

Campo Alegre is located on a collective housing building from the early 70s and oriented to the east, south and west, enjoying a remarkable sun exposure and a privileged view over the river.

Cork Oak House | Hugo Pereira Arquitetos

The objective of the Cork Oak House was the construction of a single family house on a plot of extraordinary morphological characteristics, which remained almost intact and unchanged.

Cube House | RDMA

Cube House is located in the land of factory area with one big main road inside as a connection. Because of the context, a sense of privacy must be achieved without fence or fortress. The space is defined by using a layering method to generate high privacy yet un-massive border.

House in Famalicao | Pedro Lima da Costa, Arquitectura

The organization of the House in Famalicao’s spaces developed from the street, with the pedestrian entrance, garage and kitchen, and reserving the rooms and living room for a more interior plan, with orientation mostly to the south.

Mazanka Apartment | Sergey Makhno Architects

Mazanka is an apartment in a Kyiv skyscraper with a view of the Dnipro river, where ancient construction technologies were used. In the Ukrainian language, мазанка (mazanka) means a small village house built of wood, clay, and reeds.

Halaman -The Courtyard House | Zero studio

Halaman – The Courtyard House set in a packed residential area in Aluva, a town in Kerala with a typical dense fabric, this house feels like an escapade to serenity from all the urban commotion.

The Lap Pool House | Aristides Dallas Architects

The Lap Pool House in Tinos, inspired by the cavities and ledges of the rocks, emerges from the natural landscape as a man-made cave, re-creating spatial points of exposure and introversion.

A Hill Side House | Abramson Architects

The layered design of A Hill Side House caters to the homeowners’ need for a full-time residence and part-time wellness retreat. Supporting these goals, a “show garage” doubles as an open-air yoga studio and stepped pathways provide full access to distant parts of the steep site.

Camilo Apartment | Taller David Dana Arquitectura

Camilo Apartment is a residential project where the selection of materials and furniture broadens the user’s perception, in which lighting is not a separate element, but implies the spirit of the space.

Ecological house | Dan and Hila Israelevitz Architects

Ecological house, which is located in the northern part of Israel, is built on about 10000 square meters land, 3000 out of which has been processed for construction (the rest being agricultural land). The built area of the house spans across an area of about 500 m2 and includes 7 rooms.

Stack-cube House | Touch Architect

Limitation of Stack-cube House size which is located in an owner’s existing hen farm, to fit in 340 square meters with plenty of functions requirement, was the first move to create this house. In order to reduce the size, it has to be stacked a level on top of the other into a cube space to provide a square floor plan.

Takahashi – Harb Loft and Library | Naomi Darling Architecture LLC

The Takahashi-Harb Loft and Library is an interior renovation and conversion of an existing ground floor walk-out basement and two-car garage into one-bedroom loft-style mother-in-law apartment and separate library workspace.

Balmoral House | Chrofi

The Balmoral House is located within the lower north-shore suburb of Balmoral. The site presents many difficulties being wedged shaped, on the low side of the street, hemmed in by two substantial existing houses and with just half the land area of its neighbours.

The Elemental house | Modo Designs

The Elemental house situated in one of the developing parts of north west Ahmedabad is a dwelling place for three generation of a family. The site has linear proportions with an existing neem tree on western part, and the house layout exploits this linearity of the site through a unique organization of three layers of open spaces, the front garden, the central courtyard and the backyard.

Lar Familiar | Paulo Moreira Architectures

Lar Familiar was renovated during the COVID-19 pandemic. This meant that the construction process had to be adapted for safety reasons, especially as the site had no outside space. In the hall, an area of transition from outdoors to indoors, a small sink and a shoe rack were installed to encourage new domestic habits.

Casa Ocoxal | A-001 Taller de Arquitectura

Casa Ocoxal sits in a forest neighboring the town of Valle de Bravo, approximately 160 kilometers away from Mexico City, in a piece of land of 9,000 m2 that works as a productive microsystem into which the house respectfully integrates itself.

Powell Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects

Occupying a compact site in South Yarra, Powell Street House 1930’s duplex comprised a ground floor and first floor apartment, each with its own external access. The owners wished to unite these two dwellings to form a single residence.

Shikor – A Country house | Spatial Architects

Shikor – A Country House intention was to create scope for children & grandchildren to visit the village and enjoy their own quality time during vacations as well as pass the baton of succession. Here the journey begins.

Church Point House | Chrofi

Church Point House’s design responds to a steep one directional Western facing site overlooking Sydney’s Pittwater. A large sunken courtyard is cut into the escarpment at the rear of the dwelling, providing a meditative and calming outlook from adjoining spaces, a juxtaposition to the site’s expansive and sometimes extreme primary aspect. Transparency within the dwelling’s core provides an interconnectivity between these contrasting edges allowing the habitants to experience an ever-changing quality of light and atmosphere, whilst connecting to the landscape.

Paracaima | Perez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados

Casa Paracaima is a private residence in Mexico City. The 360m2 house consists of two concrete volumes in a 400 m2 site. As the location had a number of restrictions in its front and sides, we used those restrictions to shape the house and establish its orientation and the maximum amount of open areas in the plan.

Ribas House | Estudio MRGB

Placed 20 kilometers apart from Brasília’s Plano Piloto center, the Casa Ribas overhangs in a plot with reduced dimensions and appropriates it in a way to balance the privacy-conviviality binom.

L House | Alexander Symes Architect

The L-shaped house formed a new western entry to the property to curate the appreciation of the natural bushland setting as you enter the site. The low window-to-wall ratio on the west enabled a celebration of the sleek zincalume cladding.

House Enfold | TOUCH Architect

Minimum land size for single-detached house in Thailand following the building regulations which is 200 square meters, defined a space for small single house. House Enfold was designed for a single family recently married, who wants to fit in all functions, consist of 3-bedroom, and 2-bathroom.

Residence for Two Collectors | Wheeler Kearns Architects

After a lengthy search, a full penthouse floor of a Chicago high-rise was discovered that afforded 11 foot high ceilings, a double height space looking south to the city, and 360 degrees views. The site was gutted to a shell condition, awaiting the new interventions.

Courtyard House for FABPREFAB | Chrofi

Courtyard House is a prefabricated, off grid, modern interpretation of the traditional Australian rural home, developed in collaboration with FABPREFAB. The verandah is enlarged to become an outdoor room, whilst a sliding screen to the rear of the dwelling allows flexibility between providing an intimate courtyard or opening up to the expansive landscape.

Northwest Apartment 307 | ArqBr Arquitetura e Urbanismo

The renovation of the 43m² apartment, located in one of the new super-floors of the Northwest of Brasilia, consisted in integrating the spaces through carpentry pieces, allowing, when desirable, its separation.

Villa G01 | Mask Architects

Öznur Pınar ÇER and Danilo PETTA, the founders of Mask Architects designed the “Villa G01” “Rock and Cave” special, unique luxury villa with panoramic sea view, located in one of the most exclusive areas of Northern Sardinia.

Casa Mais Linda | Leo Romano

Located in the Condominium Terras de São José, in Itu, São Paulo, the 1100m2 residence received from the owners the affectionate name of “The most beautiful house”. The wide sloping terrain protects a portion of native forest. In this way, the project appropriates these characteristics for the definition of the architectural party.

Artist Residence | Heliotrope Architects

When a young couple approached Heliotrope Architects and asked them to design a home with an art studio inside, all parties sat around the table contributing ideas – some atypical. The couple, an artist and an engineer, listed several additional criteria for their new home: a contemporary style, but not out of place with the rest of the Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Upside Down Akubra House | Alexander Symes Architect

Located in the middle of a bull paddock sits an off-grid home inspired by the iconic Australian Akubra hat. This inspiration came about at the first meeting with the clients on their bull farm, around 50mins south east of Tamworth.

Lune de Sang Pavilion | Chrofi

Lune de Sang is a unique multi-generational venture that will see a former dairying property transformed into a sustainably-harvested forest, bringing back a pocket of subtropical rainforest to the Byron Bay hinterland.

Guths Apartment | ArqBr Arquitetura e Urbanismo

Güths Apartment 190m² , located on the residential scale of Brasília, has been renovated with modifications in almost all its environments: living room and dining room, TV room, balconies, kitchen, office, suites, bathrooms and toilet.

Casa Da Mata | Leo Romano

Casa da Mata is located in a residential condominium in the city of Goiânia, in Goiás. The implantation took place on a triangular land, in which the largest edge is parallel to a native forest.

InStone | Atelier DRK

In an early seventies building, Atelier DRK found an uncharacterized apartment, too compartmentalized and with little natural light. The challenge was to bring a contemporary language ensuring the comfort of modern living under controlled costs.

Green House Green | Anderman Architects

On one side of the Green House Green, Anderman Architects designed a vertical garden, high and narrow, rising from the basement up to the sky, And on the other side, the main garden. Horizontal and conventional. They planned the two walls dividing the house and the gardens as transparent walls

Villa Agava | Driss Kettani Architecte

Villa Agava is a semi-detached villa and is projected on a north-south facing plot and plays on a facade on a blind street by opening completely to the side and the garden to the south. The obligation to fit on the existing neighboring house and the rules of forced setbacks predefine the plan silhouette.

42 Wagholi | Dar & Wagh

42 Wagholi is a weekend house, set in the rural hinterland outside Pune, India. For the owners, this is a counterpoint to their city home; a place to enjoy nature and spend time with family and friends.

Santo Tirso House | Hous3

From the road you can see the Santo Tirso House, on a small hill, with a dark silhouette in sharp contrast to its natural environment, offering a wide view over Santo Tirso. Its simple lines are the reinterpretation of the stereotype of the traditional Portuguese house, gable roof.

Pachuca | Perez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados

The project Pachuca was developed in a lot where two apartments where projected as private houses. They wanted them to not have any neighbours, that’s why the lot is surrounded by three main axes, taking the longest one as reference.

Casa Rio | Paulo Merlini Arquitetos

Casa Rio results from the remodeling of an old farmhouse located in a yet very rural city. By disassembling the poor materials of the old facade we discovered that the house was actually made up of three small houses built according to the needs of the former owner.

The Spirala Community Home

The Spirala Community Home competition is tasking participants with creating a central structure to act as the heart of the community: spaces where residents can live, learn, connect and celebrate together.

Guths House | ArqBr Arquitetura e Urbanismo

Guths House is located in a suburban residential area near Brasilia, Brazil. The clients’ wish was to have a three hundred square meter ground level house built, focused on common and leisure areas, initially for weekends and celebrations.

Tybold House | Landmak Architecture, JSC

TYBOLD HOUSE is located in a high-class urban area in Cau Giay district, Hanoi. It is a typical shophouse in the urban areas of Vietnam. This house has a facade which is designed in the same way as the others, therefore we cannot re-design it.

East Village Karrinyup | Hames Sharley

Hames Sharley is proud to have designed the first stage of the East Village Karrinyup residences for Blackburne. This important milestone starts to complete the picture of this $800 million mixed-use activity centre development with AMP.

Paraiso | Perez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados

Paraiso is a weekend house within a golf course in a residential area near Cuernavaca, Morelos. It stands on flat ground, neighboring two-story houses on both sides.

CH house | ODDO Architects

CH house is designed for three family generation who wanted to create a harmonious space in the hectic city in order to enhance traditional family ’s life.The site of the house is a typical plot for long and narrow local tube houses, in case of CH house – 4,2 m width by 35 m length.

Villa Z | Siana Architecte

The Villa Z is a product of very strict city regulations, ones that ultimately confined the building into a 15m distance in a tight square. Their principal intention was to go out from the cube perception to answer to the client program.

Edificio Turin | C2D

The Edificio Turin consists of four apartments, one per floor, each one having its own unique typology. It adds to the larger renovation of the city fabric through a subtle integration into a particularly historically-rich area.