Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

The timber cabin is wrapped by an external skin clad with cedar shingles "The idea behind the Monocoque Cabin was inspired by the construction techniques used in the aerospace and automotive industries, which are renowned for their efficient material utilization," Markos told Dezeen. metres-wide, 3.5-metres-tall

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Architizer

AUGUST 2, 2022

Meant as a second home for quiet retreats as well as larger gatherings, eventually the clients moved in permanently to take advantage of the scenery, outdoor activities, and remoteness of the rural site. Preserving the site for enjoyment also meant respecting it by incorporating sustainable practices and technologies into the design.

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Design Thoughts Architects

JULY 4, 2023

Introduction- Constructing your dream home can be a thrilling adventure. However, it may become challenging, particularly if you have a tight schedule and insufficient time to oversee home construction advancement first-hand. Without regular monitoring, deviations from the design and substandard construction practices may go unnoticed.

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Architizer

JANUARY 26, 2023

miles from the site. The cost of bringing a sanitary sewer to the site was $2.0M – threatening the viability of the entire development. Working with our civil and plumbing engineers, we developed a design for an on-site black water treatment system where the outflow was clean water.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 22, 2024

Over three decades, von Werz designed and built numerous works of various types and programs, with the Bavarian State Archaeological Museum, constructed between 1970 and 1975, standing out as one of the most prominent examples of new museum architecture in Germany at the time.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

Located near the coast of Gangwha County, the chapel sits at the top of a site that slopes down towards the sea, hugged from behind by dense forest and mountains. Equipment engineer: Jusung Eng. Mechanical engineer: Jusung Eng. Electrical engineer: Hangil Eng.

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Architizer

AUGUST 2, 2022

Fort 137 – The clients sought an environmentally conscious home with a direct relationship to its site to function as a base camp for their active lifestyle. In response, the residence is an open structure, organized into three layers, which radiate from a communal nucleus to a periphery of private zones. Project Status: Built.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Project Details: Location: Melbourne, Australia Architect: MRTN Architects / @ mrtn_architects Footprint: 86 and 235 square feet Builder: Rod Greaves Structural Engineer: C. The site was a fairly typical suburban backyard but with more of a bush feeling to it rather than a mowed lawn. "It

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It provides parking storage for 4,000 bicycles at Amsterdam Central Station IJboulevard sits within the River IJ and was prefabricated off-site, allowing the station to continue to function optimally throughout the construction process. The photography is by Ossip van Duivenbode.

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Dwell

JUNE 30, 2022

This project is in the Glen Ellen region of Sonoma Valley in California and comprises three prefab structures—a Connect 6L model main house, a detached 400-square-foot, two-module prefab garage/playroom, and a 640-square-foot Connect 2 guest house.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 10, 2024

Sited on Wurundjeri Country, the design approach of Hermon fell into two separate camps. The former accommodates the client’s need for a home suitable for hosting and conducive to the contemporary lifestyle of a family of four. The outdoor pavilion has a green roof, to amplify the ventilation and improve the ecology of the site.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2023

The home occupies a verdant site in the Thu Duc district that is often flooded by a nearby river, requiring Vietnamese studio SDA to elevate its lowest level above ground by one metre. This house focuses on the active outdoor life in Vietnam, with a new frame and structural design to realise it," it continued.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

House, the home sits on a farmland site and is covered with a series of berms, while multiple trumpet-shaped pillars of varying heights create wave-like levels along the expanse of its footprint. Previously, Omer Arbel Office released a film detailing the construction of House 75.9

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 24, 2024

The Opticum is an interdisciplinary research building for Leibniz University of Hanover currently under construction on the Science Park site located in the urban district of Marienwerder. The building is designed and positioned on the site to allow for future redevelopment and modular expansion.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Brazilian practice Studio KUNZ has created a compact gabled house that cantilevers from a sloped site in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Vertical wood slats wrap the base The arrangement creates makes the structure appear balanced atop a slate staircase that provides a rustic base for the home's clean white lines.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Completed in the spring of 2021, the 6,060-square-foot (563-square-metre) House on a Bay is composed of two distinct bars that sit atop a steep site overlooking a bay in Southport, Maine. Elliott Architects demolished the main house and relocated the other two structures to start the design with a clean slate.

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BD+C

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Hill The selected site, located on the south side of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, was anything but typical. The stepped approach allowed us to avoid those potential hurdles while making use of the lower portion of the site. Working with clients who lacked prior construction experience had its own set of challenges and advantages.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2023

Waechter Architecture has completed an "all-wood" commercial building in Portland , which it says is the first commercial building in Oregon to "use mass timber construction for all components of the building". It has a central courtyard The construction process was modular with a cross-section that is "basically the same everywhere".

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Deezen

AUGUST 10, 2022

Architectuur Maken acted as main contractor for the project, working with structural engineer Transistor, ecological and landscape advisors from Dutch firm Eelerwoude and the local municipality. Hardwearing materials were used for its construction. Client: Municipality of Tilburg. Contractor: J.A. Van Gisbergen.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 14, 2019

In the beginning, when you are starting to plan your budget for building a new house, residential construction costs are not that complicated unless you really want to make them that way. Let’s start by identifying that hard costs are the physical assets that you need to acquire to complete your construction project.

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Set at 8,900 feet, the short construction window necessitated an innovative approach. Photo © Boone Speed Employing modular and prefabricated construction, enabled the construction timeline to be compressed into a brief five-month window. Unpretentious and inviting, the exterior is expressed in reclaimed wood.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The structure comprises a maze of cavernous spaces separated by arched openings and stalagmite-like columns, all crafted from concrete that is covered in mud. It was constructed by pouring concrete into holes dug in the ground, which acted as a textured mould. Structural engineer: Jun Sato. Client: Motonori Hirata.

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Architizer

AUGUST 1, 2022

The site is part of an undulating landscape of silt mounds that stretch along either sides of the Sabarmati river. Yes it was critical and formed the core of all decisions related to site selection, orientation, shielding from the heat and the management of water. How have your clients responded to the finished project?

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Deezen

AUGUST 26, 2022

It is also used to demonstrate the benefits of Passive House construction to prospective clients. As the existing home functioned well for the clients already, preference was given to create a new self-contained addition and use the budget to create moments of delight across the site," the architect added. "As

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

"The goal of the project is to maintain and enhance the public and free character of the site, seeking not to impose, but to gently uplift it," explained Kéré Architecture. Kamwokya Community Centre is raised on a stepped concrete platform, protecting the site from the frequent flooding that occurs after heavy rainfall.

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The Arch Insider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

If one is choosing architecture as a career, one would essentially be responsible for planning, designing, and overseeing the construction of a building. Architects also play a major role in reducing the impact of construction on our environment. Creative problem solver: Clients keep throwing unique problems at architects.

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The Arch Insider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

If one is choosing architecture as a career, one would essentially be responsible for planning, designing, and overseeing the construction of a building. Architects also play a major role in reducing the impact of construction on our environment. Creative problem solver: Clients keep throwing unique problems at architects.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Six Square House was constructed on a verdant site. Photo is by Alan Tansey Brooklyn -based Young Projects made a range of updates to the property including adding an addition to the 1850s farmhouse, which sits at the front of the site, and a pool, terrace and pool house in the rear of the lot.

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Dwell

AUGUST 22, 2022

Our clients have three teenage children, so space was at a premium and the main driver behind the renovation was to create spaces where family members can choose to be alone, or come together. Another design challenge was to maximize every aspect of the site while respecting and responding to the dense inner-suburban context.

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Dwell

JUNE 9, 2023

We also propose a discounted architectural fee if the client is willing to offer us more of a say in the design." Photo by Helge Skodvin The result is a tiny, 538-square-foot studio—Stefanescu says it’s "like a child’s drawing of a house"—that cantilevers out from a sloped site in the garden to perch atop a boulder.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This proximity challenged the architects to introduce light into the property and provide smoother access to the small garden, without compromising the clients’ privacy. The four-story Victorian house was in poor condition and had been arranged into three small, disconnected flats.

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

In Situ Studio wrapped the visitor centre in dark-coloured steel In Situ Studio's addition to the site is located on the south edge of the park near a tapering brick smokestack – left over from a demolished children's prison – and shelter, grab-and-go concessions, bathroom facilities, and visitor information.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2022

Naturehumaine constructed a two-part cottage in Quebec. The client's functional needs are strategically distributed inside two independent volumes connected by a walkway forming a breach through the house," said the Montreal -based architects. "The Project credits: General contractor: Constructions Boivin.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Local materials and a mass-timber frame were used A terrace on the second floor looks out over the adjoining outdoor spaces and Heritage Park , a forested area which contains newly established greenspace and an assortment of historic immigrant-built buildings brought to the site from across the upper midwest region.

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Habitus Living

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The residence is positioned on what was the site of an Ampol petrol station, which the clients owned and operated for 30 years. Having decommissioned the site, a corner parcel was retained for the owners to build on. Giving the heritage the presence it needed, Cownie’s design philosophy goes beyond the traditional.

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aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Building on a site that is at high risk of and requires extensive ground improvements, how might we create a substructure that is naturally isolated from earthquake loads, floods, and rising sea levels? How might we rethink the ground conditions to minimize the impacts of earthquakes? Is it possible to have a building with no foundation?

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Dwell

JUNE 22, 2023

The result is a building which sits within the site with the grace of a living object. It is largely constructed out of natural materials and has a swathe of living elements which enhance the connection with the surrounding ecology. The clients owned a small holiday cottage on the site whilst living in London for work.

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