Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

An angular English home extension and a timber-clad Guatemalan retreat feature in our roundup of buildings with butterfly roofs. Otherwise known as inverted-pitched roofs, the V-shaped structures take their name from the angled form of a butterfly's wings. Here are eight buildings with butterfly roofs from the Dezeen archive.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This project is a weekend house in the mountains of the Sierra de Arteaga, in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico. The house is laid out on the slope of an old orchard in mountainous surroundings, with the intention of having minimal impact on the site and natural vegetation.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Mexican studio COA Arquitectura has enclosed a winery outside of Guadalajara with a corrugated steel sawtooth roof and rammed earth walls. The main building is divided into two volumes A sawtooth steel roof covers the length of the facilities, lying exposed and uncovered by the stone walls on its far side.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has topped a home extension with a steeply-angled roof clad with red pigmented zinc in East Dulwich, London. Home to a family of seven, Proctor & Shaw designed the project as an extension to an existing Edwardian house, extending the ground-floor kitchen and dining room.

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Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

Weathering steel and accoya wood wrap the exterior of the Alta House, which was created by US studio Lever Architecture to embrace the "sublime mountain landscape". Located in the small Wyoming town of Alta, the house serves as a holiday home for an outdoor-loving couple from Portland, Oregon. Situated on a half-acre (0.2-hectare)

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Dwell

MARCH 12, 2024

The desert city of Scottsdale, Arizona, is set within the sprawling Sonoran Desert and overlooked by the majestic McDowell Mountains, so it’s no surprise that this spectacular landscape plays a pivotal role in shaping much of the area’s architecture. Modern Sunset House is located on 14 acres of hillside.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Located at the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in California, the Mountain House sits as a “meticulously designed and thoughtfully crafted residential structure” in sixty acres of forest, according to the property’s realtors, Sotheby's.

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Architizer

MAY 20, 2024

Utah is a land of striking contrasts and otherworldly landscapes, and its architectural identity is deeply rooted in the state’s history and culture. This influence can be seen in adobe and sandstone incorporating natural elements such as wood and stone into these structures. Architects: Want to have your project featured?

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Deezen

AUGUST 15, 2022

A concrete house in the rainforest, a rammed earth home in a mountainous landscape and a red-painted steel structure in the city of São Paulo are included in this roundup of 10 Brazilian houses from the Dezeen archive. Here are 10 contemporary houses in Brazil: Photo is by André Nazareth.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a bookstore wrapped with an undulating steel roof resembling "outstretched arms" in Nagano, Japan. Named Karuizawa Commongrounds Bookstore, the 495-square-metre bookstore is an extension of a two-storey building previously used as a seminar house by Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University.

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Deezen

APRIL 24, 2023

Iruarrizaga designed the 500-square-metre house with a timber-clad upper level that bridges two rectangular concrete structures. The home is located by a lake in southern Chile Large windows on all sides of the upper level provide views of the surrounding landscape, including the lake, mountains and nearby Mocho Choshuenco volcano.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Architecture studio Edition Office has created a three-bedroom house with a cutout roof and fibre-cement cladding in Mossy Point, Australia. Elevated on parallel blockwork walls within a peaceful, wooded area, the home comprises a two-storey structure with a dramatic aperture in the roofline that forms a sheltered outdoor dining space.

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2022

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. The bungalow is intended to fit into the existing neighbourhood, which comprises detached houses built alongside a series of manmade waterways.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

"The design was generally inspired by the vernacular language of the agricultural landscape based on the origins of the site and its surroundings," the studio said. The vertical, white-wood cladding and standing-seam metal roof reference regional agrarian buildings, but with contemporary refinement. The photography is by Josée Marino.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Located in West Los Angeles on a busy thoroughfare, the project is called The Jagger – named after the massive sawtooth roof that tops it.

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Architizer

APRIL 30, 2024

They can be material structures that connect two (or more!) Beyond spanning from point A to B, architects are designing bridges as inhabitable structures to build connections between people and places. Architects: Want to have your project featured? Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters.

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

Located on the northern shore of Lake Constance in the Radolfzell district, the timber building contains sports courts and a stage for events, unified by a cantilevered roof overhead. The building is largely made from spruce wood "The Lake Constance region is characterised by its rural structures," studio architect Michaela Afife told Dezeen.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Lime-washed bricks and a black overhanging roof characterise this house that Dutch studio Chris Collaris Architects has completed in a verdant garden near Eindhoven , the Netherlands. The garden organisation is connected to the structure of the house," said Collaris. Here, warm timber joists line the ceilings.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Lama is formed of a vertical staircase tower, offering views out over the Andes Mountains, while Rosa is a glass room set into a hillside beneath a horizontal concrete roof slab. Perched atop a hill rock, this 40-square-metre structure is primarily defined by its horizontal geometries.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2024

Pyramidal Corten steel roofs define a distillery designed by ODOS Architects on the outskirts of Monasterevin in rural County Kildare, Ireland. The buildings of the old Ballykelly mill now contain exhibition halls and flexible office space for the Church of Oak, and are topped with a new roof terrace.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

US studio CLB Architects has created a retreat in rural Wyoming that has three wood-clad structures, with a creek running underneath the primary residence. Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of "tectonic structures" set within a diverse ecosystem.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

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. "The

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Deezen

MARCH 24, 2022

Studio MK27 has designed a Brazilian seaside villa with wide openings to frame views of the surrounding landscape "like a wide-angle camera". Vista House is located in Trancoso, a tranquil seaside town in Brazil's Bahia province. Studio MK27 designed Vista House with a smaller envelope nested under a long gabled roof.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. Named Madrone Ridge, the 4,920 square-foot (460 square-metre) house sits within the watershed of northern California's Russian River. the studio said. "By

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A spiralling cable-net roof modelled in the image of a Fibonacci sequence tops a new public greenhouse designed by Canadian studio KPMB Architects in Winnipeg. KPMB Architects developed the design in partnership with Architecture49 and Blackwell Structural Engineers.

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Architizer

MAY 22, 2024

But what about when the setting, the landscape onto and into which we build, is utilized as an integral part of the structure? They are a continuation of landscapes reimagined as materials. The post Sustainable Practice: 7 Legendary Designs Using the Landscape as an Architectural Material appeared first on Journal.

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Deezen

AUGUST 14, 2023

An oversized roof and wooden structure define this pavilion by Chilean studio DRAA , which aims to bring "a piece of Patagonian shade" to Le Festival des Cabanes in France. While directing the view towards the alpine landscapes, our wish is to offer a piece of Patagonian shade."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Architecture studio NWLND Rogiers Vandeputte has built a pool house from red concrete within the wooded garden of a home in Flanders, Belgium. Solid red concrete pavilion walls contain the swimming pond and pool house. The Refuge has a curved concrete roof that spans across the length of the pavilion.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Tembo Tembo's rammed earth walls blend into the landscape of the game reserve This setting was a large point of inspiration for Paris-based Studio Asaï , which decided to construct the home from rammed earth, emulating the materiality of towering termite nests that can be seen across the reserve. The photography is by Adrien Dirand.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. We were there in midsummer. The spindle shape — fatter in the middle, thinner in the ends — is also useful.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Indian architecture studio Nowhere has renovated a house in Hyderabad called Mayalogili, coating it with a rough red-brown plaster made with brick and marble dust produced during the project. On the roof of Mayalogili is a small pavilion-like space, clad entirely in thin, translucent marble panels. The photography is by Vivek Eadara.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Dutch studio WillemsenU has completed a house that is partially buried underground to blend in with its rural surroundings in Eindhoven , the Netherlands. Appropriately called The House Under the Ground, the home is designed by WillemsenU to "enhance the beauty" of its site and act as a retreat for the couple who own it.

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2022

Mexico City -based Lopez Gonzalez Studio has carved a terrace into a gabled rooftop on a black house in Xalapa, Veracruz. Designed for a growing family, the House in Xalapa is a three-storey structure set against a backdrop of lush vegetation. The House in Xalapa was designed as an abstracted version of a typical gabled home.

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Deezen

AUGUST 26, 2022

There are practically no doors in this Hawaii retreat by Craig Steely Architecture that has a triangular inner courtyard , massive skylight and a cantilevered roof. The house earned its nickname, Musubi, from one of the builders who remarked that its triangular shape resembles the popular Japanese rice snack also known as onigiri.

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Deezen

JULY 31, 2022

US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. Roughly rectangular in plan, the dwelling has cutouts, cantilevers and multiple sloped roofs that combine in a sculptural way. Oak trees protect the home from glare and heat.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2023

A stadium by Zaha Hadid Architects and housing by Adjaye Associates feature in this roundup of upcoming wooden buildings , curated as part of our Timber Revolution series. According to the studio, the 5,000-seat venue will be built almost entirely from wood – including its overhanging roof, structure and cladding.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2024

French studio Barrault Pressacco has completed the 102LET house outside Montpellier , mimicking the area's suburban architecture to conceal an interior defined by bright, open spaces. At the front of 102LET, a wall of sliding glass doors opens onto a covered patio, sheltered by a tiled pitched roof, typical of the area.

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