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Modular, Photovoltaic, Green or Blue Roofs: How to Choose the Best Waterproofing System?

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Living-Garden House In Katowice / KWK PROMES. Image © Jakub Certowicz Among the "Five Points of New Architecture" formulated by Le Corbusier , terrace gardens figure as a way to take advantage of a building's so-called fifth facade, either as leisure areas or landscaping spaces. Read more »

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4 Solutions for Roofs without Eaves (and their Construction Details)

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Image © Sergio Camplone In his Robie House , Frank Lloyd Wright created an ingenious arrangement of public and private spaces that slowly moving away from the street through a series of horizontal planes. But for some time now, we have seen plenty of projects with sloping roofs without eaves, forming pure and unornamented volumes.

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madeiguincho repurposes cargo container as tiny house with sunken roof terrace

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The post madeiguincho repurposes cargo container as tiny house with sunken roof terrace appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the wooden interiors are kept simple and snug with an L-shaped layout and ample daylight filtering through several windows.

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The DHaus Company revamps London house with butterfly-roof extension

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An inverted-pitch roof and angular brick cladding characterise the Butterfly House extension, which architecture studio The DHaus Company has added to a terraced home in north London. The DHaus Company has created an extension with a butterfly roof "The butterfly roof is visually striking," The DHaus Company told Dezeen.

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Eight buildings with inverted-pitched roofs that resemble butterfly wings

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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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planted green roofs crown nirvana house by atelierM in buenos aires

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The post planted green roofs crown nirvana house by atelierM in buenos aires appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the design concept by atelierm emphasizes topographical integration, shaping a three-level garden.

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Klein Dytham Architecture wraps Karuizawa Commongrounds Bookstore with "flowing" steel roof

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Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a bookstore wrapped with an undulating steel roof resembling "outstretched arms" in Nagano, Japan. Located at the foot of Mount Asama, the space was designed by Klein Dytham Architecture to be a community hub for the local residents.

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