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Farm buildings inform Sonoma ADU by Schwartz and Architecture

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"Their original, steeply sloped roofs are now drooping into low-slung structures, peeling apart, allowing in unexpected puddles of natural light, and revealing fragments of their interior framing to the outside elements," the team said. Exterior walls are wrapped in Alaskan yellow cedar with a weathered finish.

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Japanese architecture informs design of Minnesota house by Salmela Architect

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The design draws upon two references: a cluster of shed-roof agricultural buildings and a Japanese courtyard house with sheltered, exterior walkways. The interior boasts a simple and minimal material palette. Structural engineer: Meyer Borgman Johnson. It sits on an east-west axis and looks upon a gently rolling field.

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RED Arquitectos integrates corn millstone into facade of Mexican house

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Casa que Da is conceived as a pre-Hispanic codex, which expresses through its spatiality and iconography, the knowledge of the earth and its materiality," RED Arquitectos principal Susana López González told Dezeen. Rogelio Rojas Castro Structural engineering: Ing.

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Robert Gurney clads gabled Delaware house with cedar shingles

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Its design was informed by local vernacular architecture The building is divided into several gabled -roof volumes, with a glazed connector at the centre. Its space are connected by a central space "These materials are intended to be durable and sustainable," the team said of the exterior cladding.

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HGX Design creates house that "flows like music" in the Hudson Valley

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New York architecture studio HGX Design has created a linear, glass-fronted home in the Hudson Valley informed by the "individual notes of a music composition". The structure's horizontal form was informed by the vernacular architecture of the surrounding farmland.

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HGA creates two mass-timber buildings for Bowdoin College in Maine

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The buildings sit next to a grove of pine trees The materiality was influenced by the region's forests and the existing brick buildings at Bowdoin College, which was established in 1794, "at the dawn of the American republic". Gibbons Hall holds a collection of Arctic objects The surrounding landscape was informed by Arctic topography.

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Water Cabin // Olson Kundig

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While this home is surrounded by water rather than trees and overlooks a high-traffic waterway, it shares much with the cabin, such as the low-key use of natural materials, the attention to detail, and the intimate sense of scale and proportion.” –Jim Water Cabin’s materiality draws inspiration from the weathered informality of a cabin.