Al-Sayed described the sequence of spaces that make up the home as "a rhythm that constantly fluctuates and blurs the distinction between inside and outside". "The materials are monolithic and reduced to a few elements so that the emphasis remains on the desert beyond, and the nuances of light and shade within and around the walls," he added. The initial approach to the villa does not reveal any..
The steeply pitched roof of this shingled chapel by Bernardo Bader Architects provides a dramatic worship space, which narrows towards a small window facing a grassy hillside in western Austria. The Dornbirn-based practice designed Chapel Salgenreute for a spot next to the Krumbacher moor in Austria's Vorarlberg state. It replaces an old chapel that had occupied the site for 200 years. Set on a ..
Stimulating young minds and bodies by providing hours upon hours of imaginative play is the sole purpose of the Five Fields Play Structure which was built by Matter Design Studio in the Five Fields Neighborhood Common Land in Lexington, MA. Completed in 2016, the designers were hired to create a "playscape" that wouldn't dictate but would instead allow the free reign of the neighborhood children..
Il progetto nasce dall’esigenza primaria del committente di proteggere i laboratori della formazione professionale dalle esondazioni del Lago Maggiore. Durisch+Nolli furono gli unici partecipanti al concorso per il nuovo centro che non progettarono il nuovo edificio su un terrapieno, ma su una piattaforma sospesa in calcestruzzo. Questa soluzione offre vantaggi sostanziali sul piano urbanistico ..
Spanish architects Jorge Vidal and Victor Rahola have partially submerged this Catalonian vineyard building in the ground, and linked it to the owner's house by a narrow tunnel.The Mont-Ras Winery in Girona is built into the slope of the vineyard terrain, leaving just one facade and the top of its flat roof fully on show. The side walls are faced in terracotta brick that tones with the colour of..
Situated on a 70-degree slope and accessible only by boat, Casa Lago Todos los Santos proved a challenge to build. The home, designed as a remote retreat for a Chilean couple and their three children, takes its name from the sprawling, 43,000-acre lake in Southern Chile’s Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park. The diverse landscape also encompasses mountains, volcanoes, waterfalls, and lush native..
bordering a lava field near the base of the bláfjöll mountain range in southern iceland local practice studio granda has completed the bakkaflot 14 residence. the home is situated on the edge of an established neighborhood on a trapezoidal site that widens along the south property line. replacing the original house, demolished materials were sorted and recycled into the new construction, cutting..
네덜란드 어느 농장에는 검정색으로 도색된 목재 헛간이 있는데, 이 곳은 양과 사람 모두를 위한 생활 공간으로 구분되어 있다. Rijswijk 헛간이라고 이름을 붙인 이 건물은 주변이 한세기는 제법 될 듯한 과수들로 둘러싸여져 있는데 암스테리담 기점으로 활동하는 Workshop Architecten이 1960년대에 생겨 허물어져가는 헛간을 창교 겸 양을 위한 휴식공간과 아파트를 겸한 현대적 건물로 탈바꿈시켰다. Workshop Architecten has created a blackened wood barn for a farm in the Netherlands, which is divided into separate living quarters for sheep and people. Named Barn R..
남부 티롤(South Tyrol)이라는 알프스 산맥으로 둘러싸인 이 지역에 자리한 유치원은 전통과 현대적 삶, 그리고 자연 간의 상호 교류가 이루어지는 공간이다. 목재로 구성된 유치원 건물은 주변을 둘러싼 거대한 벽 사이에서 보안을 유지하며 자리하고 있다. 경계선과 울타리 또한 마을의 구조를 결정하고 있는데, 사적인 공간과 공적인 공간로 마을을 구분하는 공간적인 경계를 분명히 하고 있지만 유치원이 가진 건축적인 간섭은 이러한 경계를 무너뜨리는 역할도 한다. Nestling within the village structure of Valdaora di Sotto in South Tyrol, the kindergarten building communicates the interplay between trad..
건조기후; 사막기후에 반응하는 건축이 시작된다. 라스베가스가 한눈에 내려다 보이는 언덕 위에 자리한 주거는 모듈화된 스틸프레임을 이용 제작, 구축된다. 낮과 밤, 기온차가 심한 기후를 고려, 주거의 일부분은 땅 속에 위치한다. 여기에 직사광선을 버퍼하기 위한 파티오가 적절하게 주거와 거주자를 보호한다. LA-based studio marmol radziner has shared images of their prefabricated las vegas house completed in 2009, overlooking the city of lights from a nearby hillside. the house is comprised of 36 prefabricated steel frame modules – ..