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Brazilian Houses With “Balcony-Rooms”: When Living Extends From the Interior to the Exterior

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Summer House / Lucas Gonçalves Arquitetura. Image: © Keniche Santos A residential architectural project almost always seeks to integrate interior and exterior to get closer to nature and improve comfort or aesthetics. Considering living spaces, this dialogue between open and closed environments becomes even more relevant.

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Houses in Peru: 5 Projects That Use Cement Blocks in Their Construction

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Textile House / Ghezzi Novak. Image © Iván Salinero Beyond being a prefabricated material currently produced in large quantities, the use of concrete blocks in architecture continues to evolve to meet the demands and needs of contemporary societies that are constantly changing.

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Brick Houses in Spain: Modern Masonry Design for Home Interiors and Exteriors

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© Adria Goula The ample supply, durability, and affordability of brick makes it one of the most widely used and iconic materials in Spanish architecture, especially within the Mudejar tradition.

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Patio House by Palette Architecture

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Designed for a creative professional and his family, the Patio | House includes two rental units and a duplex owner-apartment. Our design intent was to preserve this patio and bring its quality of intimacy and openness into the body of the house.

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North Fork Bay House by Resolution: 4 Architecture

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With direct access to Great Peconic Bay, this prefab beach house is designed to be a weekend retreat for a young family of four from Brooklyn and a seasonal residence for their Florida-based grandparents. One gains entry via an open-riser exterior stair to a courtyard deck, where adjacent trees fill the view and sunlight flows into the house.

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TW Ryan Architecture clads pyramidal Montana house in weathering steel

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California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville.

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9 Simple Small House Designs: Guidelines On Types, Exterior & Interior Designs

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We all have a dream of living in a big house. Smaller homes can also fulfill all your wishes that a bigger house can. So today, we gathered up some simple small house design ideas. Building a house sometimes cost you a lot. But this is the only way to get the perfect house with all the requirements.

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