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Sustainable Practice: 7 Legendary Designs Using the Landscape as an Architectural Material

Architizer

Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. We’ve looked at a number of highly technical projects, nevertheless materials have usually been natural, or as natural as possible. They are a continuation of landscapes reimagined as materials. Building huge resorts is another.

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Blending In with Nature: The Inspiration Behind COMMOD-Haus GmbH’s Weekend Home

Architizer

Project Status: Built Year: 2021 Size: 0 sqft – 1000 sqft The Little Black One – The ambition of this project was to design a house that blended so perfectly into the breathtaking landscape as if it had always been there. Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design?

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Nature Without Ecology

Landscape Architecture Magazine

A kind of manual for designing nature without ecology is found in the series of artful drawings that reveal a strategy for working with plants through quantity, species, spacing, and cultivar. Each tome is a reminder that Oudolf’s prolific publishing career is as profuse as his “nature-like” style. © Piet Oudolf.

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Timeless lines framing the landscape

Habitus Living

A handful of key features of this new house stand out straight away – the clean, minimalist lines that are all the more effective for their scale and strong geometry; a restrained selection of timbers and concrete; fluidity between indoors and outdoors; and, perhaps most strikingly, the connection to nature.

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Garden Circle House by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design

Archinect

A four-bedroom home in midtown Toronto designed by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design, Garden Circle House is a response to the client’s desire for a sustainable home inspired by nature, connected to the outdoors and awash in daylight.

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Base Camp by Johnston Architects

Archinect

The spatial organization allows one to reorient and reconnect with nature between activities. Basecamp is used as both family get away and as hosting space for their clients from around the world, allowing people who would normally meet in corporate board rooms to build consensus in an inspiring setting.

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A Sawtooth Roofline Meets Deco-Inspired Curves at This Family Home in Australia

Dwell

Taking subtle cues from the Capri Theatre, deco-inspired curves appear throughout the dwelling, while dramatic geometric forms—lightly placed— introduce passive thermal control. We began designing the home for our clients who were expecting their first child and looking to build their family home.