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Residential business conditions weaken while remodeling remains popular, says AIA Home Design Trends Survey

Archinect

The AIA Home Design Trends Survey for Q4 2023 focused on the theme ‘neighborhood and community design,’ and revealed a desire among clients for simpler detailing on home exteriors and more windows. Home exterior trends from the latest AIA survey.

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What If You Added a Window?

Dwell

At least once a week, I look at one particular wall in my living room and wonder why the person who built this place didn’t put a window there. So I decided to investigate the reality of adding a window and whether there are better options for more light than having somebody cut a big hole in the side of your house.

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Modu clads Houston building with "self-cooling" exterior

Deezen

Brooklyn-based studio Modu has created a building envelope that lowers the ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior of this Houston building. Each tenant will be provided with both an interior and exterior space. A bamboo grove will also provide additional shade.

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Big Windows and White Interiors Punch Up a Gloomy ’60s California Beach House

Dwell

The idea was to take the existing house and give it new life—one that met the needs and aesthetics of our designer clients. We chose to utilize a dark cedar exterior to ground the home within the surrounding dunes and a contrasting natural cedar to accentuate the point of entry. The client described it as living inside a tree.

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SMStudio includes pool with underwater windows in "bold" Vancouver house

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Gridded fibre-cement cladding and a swimming pool with underwater windows feature at the East Van Residence in Vancouver by Canadian firm SMStudio. The project's swimming pool features underwater windows The studio conceived a 251-square-metre, three-storey house that was designed to be a "bold yet friendly addition to the neighbourhood".

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"The exterior walls will make an excellent canvas for Banksy" says commenter

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HW Studio creates austere white home in Mexico to evoke "sense of security" "Pretty intense spaces" Readers were unsure about the house, especially due to its few windows. JZ found the spaces "pretty intense" and "monkish" and wondered whether the clients would be able to "maintain the purity of the interior as they break it in".

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Odile Decq builds all-glass Maison de Verre for client with vision loss

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Architect Odile Decq has completed a house in France with walls of translucent glass, to create the optimal lighting conditions for a client with vision impairment. The house has some small windows, for additional ventilation. There are also some windows, to allow additional ventilation. The photography is by Philippe Ruault.

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