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Villa K2 is a timber-clad house with a multi-pitched roof

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Francois Verhoeven Architects has completed a house in a Dutch village featuring a roof with three sloping sections that incorporate skylights , sedum and concealed solar panels. Villa K2 features a multi-pitched roof. Read: Villa SG21 is a monolithic blackened-wood house topped with a turfed roof.

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nARCHITECTS tops New York nature centre with a mass-timber roof

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"As an example of holistic integration between architecture, landscape, ecology, engineering, and exhibition content, the Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center provides a public laboratory for learning how feats of human engineering and forces of nature intertwine and overlap," the studio said. Structural engineer: Silman.

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Field Architecture clads flowing Sonoma house in copper

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California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. Palo Alto-based Field Architecture designed the home around the presence and absence of water in the unique microclimate, with the project completed in 2021. the studio said.

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Villa MKZ by Takeshi Hirobe Architects

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At our first client presentation, we proposed a plan comprised of interconnected triangles, but this design was not rigidly fixed; rather, our approach allowed for the forms to be adjusted by “pinching” the roof peaks as we developed a more detailed plan.

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Splyce Design centres Vancouver house around "weightless" staircase

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Completed in 2021, the 5,700-square-foot (530-square-metre) residence, known as Yield House, is oriented east-west and responds to the varied setting in both directions. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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John Friedman and Alice Kimm include dining room crane in Los Angeles house

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John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK) completed the house – and 540-square foot (50-square metre) accessory dwelling unit (ADU) – in November 2021. The ground floor includes a multipurpose family room that leads out to the pool deck, which is set at the same height as the roof of the pink accessory dwelling unit (ADU).

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Tokyo Institute of Technology Hisao & Hiroko Taki Plaza by Kengo Kuma and Associates

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Photo ©︎ Kawasumi-Kobayashi Kenji The “roof” which is composed of stepped greenery and bleachers, resonates with the green slanted wall of the adjacent library, collectively creating a green valley. Photo ©︎ Kawasumi-Kobayashi Kenji This resulted in a roof silhouette that resembles the landscape of a river delta that spills into the campus.