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Marrowstone Island Residence: A Masterclass in Site Responsive Architecture

Architizer

So how does one build in a place like this? Shipley and Bates accomplished this feat through site-responsive design that blurs the line between interior and exterior. The client had passed through this part of the country during his time in the Navy and fell in love with it. The client was also based in Dallas at the time.

Site 78
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Architecture is Awesome: #32 Every Building is a Prototype

SW Oregon Architect

The series is my meditation on the awesome reasons why I was and continue to be attracted to the art of architecture. While iterative prototyping is a vital tool for design and innovation in many industries, the use of prototypes is severely limited in the production of architecture. Buildings vary widely in scope, design, and context.

Building 194
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Hebra Arquitectos tucks Lone Oak House within wooded site in Chile

Deezen

Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed an elevated home with steel pilotis and a V-shaped roof, aiming to create a building that "floats in the middle of the forest". It was commissioned during the pandemic as a second home for the client The design team had multiple goals for the project. The photography is by Marcos Zegers.

Site 144
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Habitable Form creates vertical house for woodsy site on South Carolina island

Deezen

Local architecture studio Habitable Form has created the timber-clad Victory Bay House to minimise disturbance to oak trees and to endure the storms and flooding that can strike its location along the Atlantic Seaboard. Adjacent to the property is a neighbourhood park. A guest bedroom is also found on this level.

Site 142
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Magpie House extension is a "personal museum" for client's furniture collection

Deezen

Architecture practice DGN Studio has extended a terraced home in east London with spaces and materials that form a backdrop to the client's mid-century furniture collection. It is designed as a backdrop to the client's furniture collection. The kitchen features wooden joinery. The photography is by Tim Crocker.

Client 145
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Drones take site assessments to new heights

BD+C

Drones take site assessments to new heights 0 qpurcell Mon, 06/12/2023 - 12:50 Drone Software Eric Vallejo, Director of Reality Capture and Geospatial Solutions, IMEG Corp., While photos and drawings can offer a small glimpse of an overall site, it can be challenging to visualize and understand how all elements relate to one another.

Site 98
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Schaum/Shieh "gently" conforms house to contours of steep Virginia site

Deezen

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. Our clients knew many hilly sites from growing up in the area and their time in Greece. We focused on the hill, the seasons, the distant view, and the intimate life of the site."

Site 141