Habitus Living

AUGUST 13, 2023

Simplicity – in the most complimentary sense – is the quality that carries all the way through from the clients’ brief to the finished object. “Initially we explored other locations on the site for the house, but we kept coming back to the thought of the reflections, light and movement that the water would provide,” he adds.

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Architizer

MAY 6, 2024

With its neverending waterfalls, mountains and evergreen forests, all interwoven with mist, the raw beauty of this unique American landscape is unparalleled. Shipley and Bates accomplished this feat through site-responsive design that blurs the line between interior and exterior. So how does one build in a place like this?

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A flowing landscape of grass-topped, terracotta-coloured concrete animates the Chaohu Natural and Cultural Centre designed by Chinese studio Change Architects to reference mountains in Anhui province. Designed by the German-based studio Ippolito Fleitz Group , they are intended to echo the flowing form of the exterior.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2023

London practice ZMMA has transformed the home of artist Thomas Gainsborough in Sudbury, Suffolk , into a gallery and museum with a material palette of redbrick and flint informed by his landscape paintings. It has a red brick and flint exterior. The studio referenced Gainsborough's local landscape paintings.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 21, 2022

London studio Hayhurst & Co has completed the Edith Neville Primary School near King's Cross, with pockets of landscape and external play spaces wrapped by a filigree screen of white aluminium mesh. A zigzagging canopy bridges the interior and exterior. The school was wrapped in a white aluminium mesh.

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Deezen

JANUARY 11, 2023

Occupying a site formerly used by Plymouth University , the project involved the construction of a new teaching building and the refurbishment of the adjacent Owen Theatre, the two of which are connected by a glass link bridge. The post Stride Treglown completes site for the Deaf Academy in Exmouth appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2022

US studio Heliotrope Architects has minimized site disturbances while creating a cedar -clad holiday home on a wooded hillside in the Pacific Northwest. The clients initially tapped Seattle's Heliotrope Architects to consult on the site selection and then hired the firm to design the dwelling itself. "We Cabinetry: Space Theory.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Nowhere has renovated a house in Hyderabad called Mayalogili Alongside brick and marble dust, the studio also used plants and soil from the site to create tactile internal finishes that "weave in the materiality of the landscape", it said.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville.

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Deezen

JUNE 2, 2024

F+G Architectes has created wooden stables outside Lyon "Drawing inspiration from agricultural traditions, the contemporary architecture reimagines the use of wood and concrete, creating a calm and serene atmosphere in perfect harmony with the surrounding landscape," studio founder Frederic Grandvaux told Dezeen.

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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

MARCH 21, 2024

Wendell Burnette Architects used Corten steel to clad a cabin in Arizona designed to capture views while disappearing into the landscape like a "dark shadow". The home was designed "to recede into the landscape" "This home is designed to recede into the landscape as a dark shadow," said Phoenix-based studio Wendell Burnette Architects.

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Deezen

JUNE 12, 2024

It is organised into a series of distinct areas across a large site surrounded by trees, following the path of the sun and separated by small courtyards. Each of the primary rooms on the ground floor opens either to landscaped external areas, internal open-to-sky courtyards, or in some cases, both," explained the studio.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

bath house out of two volumes with floor-to-ceiling glazed ends that float above the landscape. The north volume is oriented along a direct east-to-west axis and contains the private spaces, while the south volume, rotated 45 degrees along the canyon's axis, holds the public gathering spaces that overlook the landscape and city below.

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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. Below are a few ways in which architects have made the most of sloped sites to create unique homes and public buildings. when seen from certain angles.

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Deezen

MAY 6, 2024

Located in Mandrem, a small town in the north of the state, the homes are intended to mirror the character of the local area, including its colourful architecture and landscapes. It] has a rich mix of local tradition and international appeal, boosting the senses with colourful textures, landscapes and water bodies," he told Dezeen.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware. For a sandy site that faces the water, the team created a rectilinear, three-storey building that totals 5,842 square feet (542 square metres). The staircase is made of white oak and steel.

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Dwell

MAY 10, 2023

As well as the living pavilion, there is a two-story sleeping pavilion at the back of the site with a roof terrace capturing the evening sun. Clad in New Zealand-grown Monterey cypress, a timber that omits a fragrant, spicy scent, the entry nook is a cave-like space.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Peninsula House has a curved form crafted from rammed earth Instead of designing an orthogonal volume, Wood Marsh took cues from the shape of the coastline and the meandering paths leading to the site. This was designed to be in strong contrast to the powerful, windswept exterior landscape," said Marsh. "It

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Deezen

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Rich hues and curving geometries feature throughout Somers House, an L-shaped coastal home that Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has added to a coastal site in Victoria. A sweeping semicircular opening in the facade of the raised wing frames a bridge that connects the home's first-floor entrance to the sloping landscape.

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Deezen

MARCH 16, 2024

Krasnyk House's form mimics the typical architecture of the Hutsuls – an ethnic group from the mountains of western Ukraine – and blends it with contemporary materials and finishes. Here, a panoramic triangular window provides views out across the landscape.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The stone facade draws on fossils Fossil Building is topped by a green roof, helping it to blend into the stepped hillside when viewed from above and opening up to the landscape from below. "My This gives all of the classrooms access to a landscaped outdoor area sheltered by the overhang of the first floor above.

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Dwell

MARCH 15, 2024

Sited on an oversize lakefront lot in Winter Haven, this residence stands as a testament to architectural brilliance, providing total privacy in a cul-de-sac setting and non-HOA private community. The front yard features low-maintenance landscaping, including Florida natives and succulent plants.

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Deezen

APRIL 19, 2024

Replacing a former gymnasium on the same site, the building slots in between the school to the north and a sprawling brick piazza to the south created by local studio Archea Associati in 2010. Contrasting this grey exterior, the inside of the gym has been finished with a datum of bright yellow across the ground floor level.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2024

Local architecture studio Bockus Payne has renovated a 1970s commercial skyscraper in Oklahoma City , reformatting its interiors and landscape and completely replacing its exterior glazing. A series of tree wells on the site extended down to an underground concourse.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2023

Named O Lofos, or The Hill, the holiday home is located in the foothills of Mount Thryptis, a mountain on the eastern side of the Greek island, and is designed by Block722 to blend in with the surrounding landscape. In response to the site's steep slope, the blocks of the home sit on two different levels set within a staggered outdoor space.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Our site was challenging, with pre-existing interface to the east and proposed planning for an apartment building of a similar scale at the rear," explained the studio. Fortunately, just prior to construction, the council acquired the rear site and approved a public park instead."

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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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JUNE 14, 2024

Initially completed by CLB in 2003, the 2,400 square-foot home straddles both spatial and budgetary constraints on a picturesque site with a small buildable area. Photo © Matthew Millman A continuous band of glazed clerestories demarcate the high ceilings from exterior walls and filter sunlight into the interior.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Spiralling ramps provide vehicle access to the carpark Using the site's level change as an advantage, the new car park meets the level of the town to allow it to connect seamlessly to the new public square, which is finished with planting and paved seating areas. The photography is by Gregor Schmidt.

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Deezen

APRIL 19, 2023

Overlooking a lake in a wooded area called Devil's Glen, the home was designed by StudioAC to have a minimal impact on the landscape while allowing its inhabitants to take in the expansive views. The interior frames views of a lake StudioAC was founded in 2015 by architects Jennifer Kudlats and designer Andrew Hill.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Copera’s Garden – is a scenic space within an industrial landscape. The contrast between both worlds produces a surprising place, a synthetic hybrid landscape, between the natural and the artificial where industrial materials are intermingled with those from the agricultural world. Project Status: Built. Year: 2021. They are happy.

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Architizer

JANUARY 26, 2023

The exterior is clad in a rain screen of weathered steel that recalls the site’s steel mill history, with an exposed mass timber interior. miles from the site. The cost of bringing a sanitary sewer to the site was $2.0M – threatening the viability of the entire development.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

South African architecture studio SAOTA has completed an angular residence in the Los Angeles hills meant to provide privacy while drawing in the "calmness and serenity" of the surrounding landscape. The elevated site provides sweeping views of the undulating terrain and the distant ocean. Different treatments were used on the facades.

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2023

Archio was selected as the designer following a public vote by the community, and subsequently ran a three-day co-design workshop on the site to involve the future residents in the design process. In the landscape a 'carpet' of clay bricks are laid in a herringbone pattern outside the homes.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The home overlooks the Pacific Ocean The steep site overlooks the Pacific Ocean, so the team used the house's organisation to choreograph movement toward the shoreline. The top floor cantilevers over the main level with an exterior terraced garden that wraps around the plan. The photography is by Hufton + Crow Photography.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

acre site with a steep drop-off. Cedar cladding covers the home's exterior From the exterior, the house appears to be two simple gabled buildings wrapped in vertical western red cedar, connected by a slate-coloured walkway. Prefabricated wood trusses extend the vaulted ceiling into a loft space that overlooks the family areas.

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