Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Indian architecture studio Nowhere has renovated a house in Hyderabad called Mayalogili, coating it with a rough red-brown plaster made with brick and marble dust produced during the project. Walls of shutters can be opened to overlook the landscape and an adjacent bamboo structure containing a bathroom.

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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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Architizer

APRIL 30, 2024

They can be material structures that connect two (or more!) Beyond spanning from point A to B, architects are designing bridges as inhabitable structures to build connections between people and places. Architects: Want to have your project featured? Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

series, we've collected 10 recently completed and upcoming buildings that show the potential of structural stone as a modern construction material. In this roundup, we collect 10 diverse projects that demonstrate this concept, including social housing, a winery with a rippling facade and an oval-shaped school. This week, Stone Age 2.0

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Glazed brick and charred cypress wrap the exterior of a partly sunken North Carolina home designed by architecture firm In Situ Studio. Located in an inner suburb of Raleigh, HUUS house sits in a leafy neighbourhood with homes built between the 1940s and 1970s. Part of the HUUS house is sunken in the ground.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

US studio CLB Architects has created a retreat in rural Wyoming that has three wood-clad structures, with a creek running underneath the primary residence. Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of "tectonic structures" set within a diverse ecosystem.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Architecture firm Alterstudio has completed a tower-like house in Texas that rises up from a steep, wooded site that was long overlooked "as a possible home site". Built for a married couple in Austin , the house feels immersed in the wilderness but is, in fact, surrounded by "very ordinary, suburban conditions".

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Archinect

MARCH 29, 2024

Located in the south of France, between Montpellier and the sea, the project involved the conversion of a warehouse into housing. The challenge was to propose a type of housing adapted to the Mediterranean climate and customs, while maintaining the industrial character of the site.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

"The design was generally inspired by the vernacular language of the agricultural landscape based on the origins of the site and its surroundings," the studio said. The original house was later demolished. Wooden gabled houses are not uncommon in the area, as the pitched roof helps shed snow each winter.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Envisioned as a home that embraces the outdoors, the residence is composed of four structures housing the home’s separate functions. Only six trees were removed to build all four structures.

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Deezen

JULY 8, 2022

Sustainably-sourced timber has been used for the structure, cladding and interior of this mews home in Highgate, London , designed by local architect Russell Jones. The entire exterior is clad with Siberian larch. metre garage width, proximity of adjoining structures and required setbacks," explained Russell Jones.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a "full-scale sustainable development". On the courtyard-facing facade, light metals and paints contrast with the greys of the exterior. The photography is by David Boyer.

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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. It has a textured brick exterior. The home was built on an infill site.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. Appearing as two distinct buildings, the structure has a front facade along Sullivan Place and a front facade along Washington Avenue.

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Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

Spanish architecture studios SelgasCano and Diego Cano used multi-coloured tubes made from recycled aluminium to clad a house on a steep site in Los Angeles. This covering makes a powerful impact on the house, wraps completely around it, and frames the view in the large terrace."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Called Peninsula House, the dwelling is located near the town of Flinders, overlooking the Bass Strait and surrounded by farmland. 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.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

US studio Robert Gurney Architect has completed a beachfront house in Delaware consisting of "simple and pure forms" wrapped in white cedar, salvaged barn wood and fibre-cement panels. Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware.

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Deezen

MARCH 31, 2024

The 19th-century villas in the suburbs of Paris informed the arched windows and sloping roofs of this social housing block in France , completed by local studio SOA Architectes. The studio drew from the historic villas found nearby to create a structure that would "stand out" while also respecting its parkland setting.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

Telescope House offers framed views of Sedona The 1,600-square-foot (149-square-metre) cabin is a nature retreat for a couple who ultimately plan to live there full-time. When not staying at the house, the clients rent it out. The scenic area is known for its red-coloured rock formations, outdoor activities and arts scene.

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

London-based practice Studio Bark has unveiled plans for Breach House, a water-powered family home located in Leicestershire, UK. Making use of the site's location among a network of small brooks, streams and ponds, run-off water from the surrounding fields will be used to provide a portion of the home's energy needs.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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Deezen

JUNE 23, 2022

Architecture firm Estudio MMX has spread CAB House in Mexico City over four levels by using a series of towering volumes to integrate the building into a steep site. The project was designed for a site with a natural ravine at the bottom, which Estudio MMX wanted to integrate into the planning. The home has three bedrooms. "At

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Archinect

MARCH 24, 2023

This project is, in a sense, born of the land, its striking slanted roof mimicking the natural topography of the site. Local zoning code dictated that the maximum building height be measured from existing natural grade at each point along the length of the structure, and from this design parameter emerged the form of the house.

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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. The foundations are meanwhile built from recycled concrete.

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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. The team covered the structure with berms, which rise out of the flat landscape of the surrounding agricultural fields.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

"My intention was to design sustainable houses with biophilic interiors," said Štěpánová. Their facades are clad in rammed earth The identical rectangular plans have only three solid exterior walls, constructed of rammed clay that was excavated from the site.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

UK architecture firm Studio Egret West has shared its plans to create housing within two concrete 1960s buildings in London , which were formerly the headquarters of food company Heinz. Studio Egret West has received planning permission to create 124 apartments across the two office buildings while preserving their external concrete frames.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2023

German designers Julian Krüger and Benjamin Kemper have created Digital House, a micro home that can be built without using nails or screws and was designed to be easy to disassemble. Two people can quickly assemble the house without traditional hardware such as screws or nails and the need for further tools," he continued.

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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. Vertical wood slats wrap the base The arrangement creates makes the structure appear balanced atop a slate staircase that provides a rustic base for the home's clean white lines.

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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

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. Appropriately called T House, the home was created by Spridd for a family, along with a separate guest apartment for an elderly relative.

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Deezen

JULY 21, 2022

Architecture studio SPF Architects has completed a sports facility in Los Angeles consisting of two separate buildings that were built using pre-engineered metal structures in order to not disrupt activity at the site. The PEMBs consist of the structure and an exterior, which consists of insulated rib metal panels.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Stradella Ridge house sits on a steep, triangular property in Bel Air, an affluent neighbourhood in the foothills of the Santa Monica mountains. The elevated site provides sweeping views of the undulating terrain and the distant ocean. Different treatments were used on the facades. The photography is by Mike Kelley.

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designboom

AUGUST 9, 2022

the wooden structure undulates across the site, hosting multiple programs, while the renovated exterior features six yards of different scales and functions. The post archstudio enlivens courtyard house in beijing with new, multipurpose wooden extension appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

AUGUST 31, 2023

Steeply-pitched roofs animate two of the homes in this roundup , which spotlights Dezeen's top five houses of the month for August 2023. Also on the list is a dwelling decorated with shiny green tiles, a trapezoidal concrete home and a beach house clad in blackened wood.

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