Dwell

JANUARY 5, 2024

Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. From prefab tiny houses and modular cabin kits to entire homes ready to ship, their projects represent some of the best ideas in the industry. Do you know a prefab brand that should be on our radar?

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Dwell

APRIL 21, 2023

The homeowners created the structures using stones collected on-site to connect their rural residence to the land. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The clients erected and filled the gabion walls themselves. Have one to share?

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

From a zigzagging minimalist home in Spain to a compact self-build project in the UK, here are the most popular houses featured on Dezeen this month. Also on the list is a Y-shaped house in Canada, a blocky concrete dwelling in Portugal and a sprawling residence among Australian farmland.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 28, 2023

On the boards in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood is a new house for a three-peat client of Faulkner Architects. It is to replace an existing 1904 house that had lost its historic integrity due to renovations over the last 120 years. A photovoltaic array on the roof deck earns a planned net-zero annual energy usage.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2023

<p>This is a house for a couple living in a suburban residential area. Although the couple's living space was important, they also needed a spacious interior capable of accommodating a large number of guests, as the clients often entertained visitors related to their work or hobbies.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2023

Satish Jassal Architects designed Haringey Brick Bungalow The 110-square-metre site and narrow passageway was "like building through a straw", dictating many design and construction decisions. Two green roofs top the building, characterised by their asymmetrical pyramid shapes topped with rooflights.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A small triangular site guided the geometric form of Butterfly House, an accessible home that London studio Oliver Leech Architects has added to the corner of a garden in Surrey. However, we wanted to make sure it was visually and practically disconnected from the main house so that it felt truly like a new home."

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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. During the project's inception, designers from Manhattan's Desai Chia Architecture visited the site in different seasons to understand the climate and terrain.

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Deezen

MAY 12, 2024

A semi-enclosed, winding extension that aims to facilitate "inside-outside living" defines Ring House, a 1930s villa in Slovenia renovated by local studio OFIS Arhitekti. Photo by Tomaz Gregoric Ring House's extension follows the site's topography, sloping gently to the south, away from the home.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Irregularly placed square openings puncture the thick concrete exterior of SV House in Portugal , recently completed by architecture studio Spaceworkers. Located on a sloping site near the town of Sobrado, the blocky, three-storey home occupies a plot once occupied by the home of the client's grandfather.

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Deezen

JULY 1, 2023

British studio Ström Architects has completed a minimalist home in Cheltenham, UK , which references modernist Case Study Houses in California. Aptly named Case House, it is defined by pared-back finishes and forms, and layers of walls and gardens that buffer its light, airy interiors from the adjacent busy road.

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2022

A hipped roof covered in stepped tiles tops this extension to a home on a suburban estate in Epsom, Surrey , designed by London-based studio Oliver Leech Architects. Hipped House is a home in Epson, Surrey that was designed by Oliver Leech Architects. The studio covered the roof in stepped tiles. Photography is by Ståle Eriksen.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has created a minimalist white house in Alicante , which winds through the landscape to enhance its relationship with the outdoors. Named Sabater House, the Spanish dwelling unfolds through a series of intersecting, elongated forms that ascend upwards over its 780-square-metre site.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Mole Architects fleshed out a prefab timber frame with passive house design principles, and placed living areas on the second level to provide its retiree-owner with great views. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share?

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Deezen

JULY 15, 2022

Slovenian architecture studio A202 Arhitekti has added a timber-lined extension and mezzanine bedroom to a derelict house in the town of Domžale, Slovenia. The owners of House MM decided to retain the shell of the property, which dates from the beginning of the 20th century and was one of few remaining traditional homes in the neighbourhood.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Birds, butterflies and trees are considered co-owners of Labri, a glass house in Vietnam designed by local studio Nguyen Khai Architects & Associates. The 55-square-metre home, which is shortlisted in the Urban house category of the Dezeen Awards , was commissioned by a couple for a site beside a large pond in the city of Hue.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2023

Local practice Platform 5 Architects has completed NW10 House, a family home on an infill site in north London with exposed concrete interiors and a textured brick exterior. NW10 House was designed by Platform 5 Architects. The home was built on an infill site. It has a textured brick exterior.

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. The roof features a rounded triangle roof opening made of aluminium. Project credits: Client: North Carolina Museum of Art Contractor: Frank L.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Called House in Ancede, the house sits on the site of a former stone ruin that it was required to roughly match in terms of its footprint and volume. Atelier Local has created House in Ancede "The house is a reconstruction of sorts," said the studio's co-founders Maria Rebelo and João Paupério.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Vertical louvres adorn the facades of The H Residence, a mixed-use housing complex completed by architecture studio Tariq Khayyat Design Partners in Dubai. With the complex being located on a sloping site, TKDP designed each townhouse with a small front yard and back garden raised above ground level.

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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. Located on the urban edge of the town, the house caters to the client's love of the countryside with warm wood accents that reference the araucaria trees that frame the sloping site.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 5, 2023

An "urban farm" rooftop garden , planted terraces and a fish-pond atrium characterise this renovated house in Melbourne , designed by Austin Maynard Architects. The renovated site now includes five distinct garden areas. This left a dwelling that the studio described as "muddled, confused, dark and in a sad state of disrepair".

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The polycarbonate-lined Green House that architecture studio Hayhurst & Co slotted into a tight site in London has been named the RIBA 's House of the Year for 2023. It was hailed by the jury of this year's RIBA House of the Year prize as "a true oasis within the city".

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Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2024

German studio Atelier ST has completed Duplex, a generous family house near Leipzig that was designed to look like two semi-detached properties. The starting point for the design came from a "run-down and mould-infested" house that stood on the site previously. This led to the use of arches and circles for doorways and windows.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Brazilian architecture studio DB Arquitetos has completed a holiday home surrounded by a wooden screen in a forested site outside of São Paulo , Brazil. The five-level house is delicately stacked along a steep slope in a densely vegetated site. The two-tiered roof is supported by round concrete columns.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Presented at this year's Designblok festival in Prague , Cake Houses is a modular home concept that allows clients to design bespoke homes via an online configurator. Founded by Matyáš Švejdík, Pavel Špringl and Šimon Marek, the team behind the Cake Houses project describes it as an "architectural recipe for modular wooden houses".

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A blocky form animated by hit-and-miss brickwork defines Peckham House, a self-build project by architecture studio Surman Weston that draws on its surroundings in southeast London. Peckham House was designed for and built by the directors of Surman Weston , Tom Surman and Percy Weston.

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MARCH 21, 2023

The clients hired Texas-based Specht Architects to build a 2,000-square-foot (186-square metre) minimalist house with floor-to-ceiling glass walls that afforded views of the surrounding meadow and large old-growth trees. The axial approach includes replanted natural grasses The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre)

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

A grassy mound conceals this brick pool house, which architecture studio Knox Bhavan has designed to be "virtually invisible" within the grounds of a Georgian home in Kent. A grassy mound conceals the building The pool house sits beside a paved area that surrounds a rectangular swimming pool at the centre of the garden.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Ayrton House will offer 60 purpose built, self-contained, one, two and three-bed apartments – many with sweeping views over Totteridge Common – exclusively to independently minded people in later life, with communal features including a restaurant, club room, licensed bar and wellness suite, as well as landscaped gardens.

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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. Mature trees, which were planted in the hollow interiors of the columns, spring out of the roof line.

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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2023

A mid-century house originally designed by British architect Trevor Dannatt has undergone a sensitive restoration by architecture studio Coppin Dockray in north London. Coppin Dockray has overhauled Hampstead House in London. It was barely insulated, the roof was failing," the studio's co-founder Sandra Coppin told Dezeen.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 3, 2023

27 House, which has been overhauled by architecture firm Estudio Estudio in a way that honours the historic building's original character. The house been overhauled to honour the historic building's original character Originally built in the 1930s, the stucco-clad dwelling had endured years of neglect, said local firm Estudio Estudio.

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Deezen

APRIL 10, 2023

Mexico City-based architect Manuel Cervantes Estudio has designed DIY housing that relies on passive, vernacular construction strategies to "help families build their living spaces in a better and smarter way." Completed in 2022, Rural Nicolas Housing is a continuation of Manuel Cervantes Estudio's "assisted self-production" in Mexico.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2023

Architecture studio SDA has completed the Floating House, a concrete-framed home on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City that is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding. It is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding "We composed the house as three slabs floating above the ground," explained SDA.

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