Santa Cruz Architect

MAY 4, 2024

Photo by Voll Arkitekter + Rikardo Foto Mass timber construction has revolutionized the architectural landscape, offering a sustainable and innovative alternative to traditional building materials. Engineered wood products are used in a variety of applications, from home construction to commercial buildings to industrial products.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2023

A curved roof tops Byró Architekti's Cabin Above the Town, a red timber-clad cabin informed by the surrounding Czech hills. Situated on the border between the city and the countryside, the cabin is nestled into the side of Svatobor Hill, a forested site in the foothills of the Czech Republic's Šumava mountains.

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Deezen

AUGUST 20, 2023

A series of brick plinths on the perimeter of the oval-shaped site support the vaulted roof and create a series of arched openings of different heights that lead inside. The post Flowing vaulted roofs top Tarang arts space by The Grid Architects appeared first on Dezeen. It is sheltered by undulating vaults.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Instead, the studio decided to create a 1,500-square-foot (139-square-metre) structure on the site that consists of a gallery and gathering space and a utilities area, separated by a courtyard. Also important was the remediation of the contaminated site, often referred to as a brownfield site.

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Deezen

AUGUST 22, 2023

Defined by their steeply pitched roofs that extend to reach near ground level, A-frame homes became popular in the 1950s, 60s and 70s and are now seeing a resurgence with modern interpretations being designed around the world. Corrugated black metal panels cover the roof of the upper level, where beds are placed.

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Architizer

JUNE 2, 2022

Despite technical complications involved in construction, inclined sites can invoke inspiring new architectural possibilities that just aren’t possible on flat sites. Floating buildings can be constructed on slopes either by using a taller foundation or supports. Villa Vals by SeARCH , Vals, Switzerland.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Architecture and construction go hand-in-hand. But as technology advances and we continue to dream up new ways to design where we live, work and play, what happens when humans are slowly removed from construction and how we build? If such a thing exists, what exactly is human-free construction? Check out the full schedule !

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2024

The students constructed Field Station as part of the Architectural Association's Design + Make Programme, which also saw the construction of Sawmill Shelter in 2017. Each component was scanned and placed into a computer model before areas for each connection were cut using a robotic arm.

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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2024

This week on Dezeen , La Sagrada Familia Foundation announced that Antoni Gaudí's landmark church in Barcelona is finally set to be completed in 2026. The foundation told news site CNN that construction on the church, which began in 1882, is set to finish in two years , 100 years after the death of its architect.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Added to a narrow site in a forest in north Germany, Digital House was constructed from recycled aluminium and timber and can be assembled by two people without the use of traditional hardware. These aluminium sheets are laser cut to include all required fastening details and are attached to a sub-construction," Kemper continued.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Several communities worldwide don’t necessarily have the same access to new-age materials, construction techniques or the funds to actualize these grand visions. Given that the site is located in paddy fields in the mountains there, the structure is built using layers of walls to adapt to the topography. School of Alfa Omega.

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Deezen

MARCH 22, 2024

The Obama Foundation and US architecture studio Moody Nolan have released images of an athletic facility to be built on the Obama Presidential Center campus in Chicago. Sustainable design strategies include geothermal heating and cooling, according to the team and an array of solar panels are pictured on the roof.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

River Bend Residence is a tranquil home designed to sit lightly upon the land, minimising disruption to the site and existing trees," said Lake Flato Architects , which has offices in San Antonio and Austin. The buildings are topped with tall, pyramidal hipped roofs. A portion of the dwelling is lifted above the site by concrete piers.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But as he started looking into the new codes, he found that the planning, permitting, and construction of ADUs remained prohibitively complex. Villa’s prefabs are constructed from kiln-dried lumber frames, asphalt roof shingles, and fiber cement lap siding. There had to be a better way," Connolly remembers saying.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2024

British studio Tikari Works has completed an outbuilding for a south London residence that is framed by a latticed timber roof structure and configured to weave around a Lebanese cedar tree. Internally, this creates a sense of compression and expansion that is used to organise the building functions without the need for physical boundaries."

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2023

Located on the outskirts of Jundiaí, the residential complex had been used for over forty years by the same family, becoming a hodge-podge of disparate forms constructed by different generations. Previously, Denis Joelsons worked with Gabriela Baraúna Uchida to tuck a sloped roof house into the hillside in Mantiqueira Mountains.

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Dwell

JULY 14, 2023

Simultaneously, the roofscape becomes an extension of the undulating dunescape, which encompasses the site and surrounds. For the post’s foundations, an innovative methodology was implemented, whereby all of the excavated soil was reused. Secondly, the entire structure was raised off the terrain on timber posts.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Photo by Casey Dunn Josey Pavilion, Decatur, Texas, USA (2014) Josey Pavilion is a 5,400-square-foot (502 square metres) open-air pavilion that serves as visitor centre and educational facility for the environmental group Dixon Water Foundation. Inside, high pyramidal hipped roofs were lined with warm wood.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Eight Types in Rural Construction |Rural construction on renovation of dazhixianxian B&BThe B&B is located on the bank of Fuxian Lake in Yunnan, China. The goal of Eight Types in Rural Construction is to find out suitable local architectural prototypes on the premise of design dialectical thinking.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Raked concrete covers this T-shaped house , which architecture studio Spridd has slotted into a sloped site surrounded by trees on the island of Nacka in Stockholm. The house is located in Nacka "The T-shape enables a minimal excavation as it only requires a small foundation at the bottom," Spridd told Dezeen.

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Architecture Ideas

OCTOBER 23, 2023

From planning to on-site construction, a lot goes behind building a house. Let’s understand every phase of the construction with a step-by-step guide on how to build a house. Key Considerations Before Building Your Own House The idea to build your own house can be challenging if you don’t begin on a firm foundation.

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Design Thoughts Architects

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Top 10 Fascinating Secrets To Consider Before Constructing Your New Home. Before Constructing Your New Home: One of the most thrilling and difficult experiences of our lives may be thinking to relocate to a new home. The construction of a new home begins even before the foundation is put down. Let’s get started. .

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Deezen

JULY 22, 2023

Indian architecture practice Studio Array has used hand-woven bamboo screens to wrap this home and artist's studio in Delhi, which incorporated existing foundations and columns. Studio Array has created a home and artist's studio in Delhi A previous attempt to construct a building on the site had left foundations and columns in place.

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Deezen

AUGUST 17, 2023

Denis Joelsons designed the house in São Paulo, Brazil The house is oriented towards its garden, which features sinuous stone walls that loop and overlap, anchoring the house into the site, while narrow stone steps connect the flat grassed areas that mitigate the site's slope. The photography is by Pedro Kok and Rodrigo Fonseca.

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Deezen

MAY 3, 2024

Located in a park in the town of Miyoshi, the building has a wooden frame covered with rammed earth made with soil sourced from construction sites and mixed with hydrated lime. The material covers the wooden frames of the two curving walls that enclose the public toilet, which is topped by a gently curving timber roof with skylights.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

One of the last structures designed by Hadid, the tents were created by Zaha Hadid Architects ( ZHA ) in collaboration with non-profit Education Above All Foundation ( EAA ) as schools and health clinics for displaced populations throughout the Middle East. The tents were built on-site using modular components.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Having both worked in small-scale construction for the past decade, the pair had talked about making prefabs with the same sort of modularity as Lego blocks , where rooms could easily attach onto a base model. The obvious advantage of prefabrication is the limited time on site, which means minimal disruption of down time for the resort.

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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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Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2024

The building is constructed from low-cement concrete "Only upon entering the building does the complexity reveal itself," they told Dezeen. The starting point for the design came from a "run-down and mould-infested" house that stood on the site previously. The foundations are meanwhile built from recycled concrete.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Marc Thorpe has created a holiday home in the Catskills for himself and family The cabin sits on a forested site in the western Catskills, near the hamlet of Roscoe. The house integrates sustainable technology Prior to the Fremont House, the couple built a 500-square-foot (46-square-metre) dwelling on the site called Edifice Cabin.

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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 14, 2023

Revisiting the site as an urban sociocultural campus, they act together to revive the notion of public space and integrate the long-neglected area into Jihlava’s city center. On its roof rests an outdoor track, further enriching the building’s sports functionality and inviting audiences to look upon the surrounding views of the city.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial has opened with installations focusing on monumentality, race and material innovations on show at sites throughout Chicago. The event was set up to be a "love letter to Chicago" that would create an ongoing dialogue that takes the "whole city as a site", according to the curators.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Constructed using local materials, the centre provides a freely accessible library, classrooms, exercise spaces, gardens, an outdoor theatre and sports courts, built and operated by the community. It was constructed using local materials. GAC has been working for over a decade with communities in rural Rwanda.

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Deezen

JULY 12, 2023

Angel Yard is located in Upper Edmonton, north London It does this with a minimal amount of construction work. New barrel-vaulted roofs were installed above the garages, increasing head height inside, and each one was given a glazed "shopfront" in place of the old roller shutters.

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Deezen

AUGUST 17, 2023

The structure was predominantly prefabricated, meaning it was delivered to the site in sections before being connected with on-site welding, helping to reduce construction time. There are no foundations in the river over which the bridge spans, and instead it sits on piers on each bank.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

According to Kampala-based Localworks , all materials used to construct it came from local resources, including the walls that are built from earthbags filled with soil from the site. The building's walls are built from earthbag construction. V-shaped columns support the roof.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Caukin Studio designed the building's structure so that it could be entirely constructed from locally sourced materials. The team amended the design as construction took place to incorporate available materials. Above the classrooms, the steel roof sits on steel trusses to allow air into the buildings.

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