Santa Cruz Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

In recent years, companies have been working on a solution to this problem: solar glass (often referred to as “solar windows”), which can turn windows into power-generating panels. What is Solar Glass? The most common type of solar glass is thin-film modules (e.g. Why Use Solar Glass? Where Can it be Used?

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Ingenhoven Architects has created a series of buildings topped with large, overhanging thatched roofs for the Lanserhof Sylt health resort on the Germany island of Sylt. Its building is topped with a thatch roof that measures 7,100 square metres – making it the largest in Europe.

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The Spaces

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The geometric villa, an early example of postmodernism , was designed by Belgian architect Hugo Lejon as his own home, on the site of a 1930s Jos Chabot house near the Bosbeek River in Willebroek. The transparent curved roof and banks of glazing on the top floor overlook a lush garden. Photography: ArchitectenWoning.

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. The roof features a rounded triangle roof opening made of aluminium. The materials are durable and designed to weather over time.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

Studio Symbiosis has completed a villa in Delhi, India , that rises up from its landscaped grounds, forming a terraced roof that is covered with plants to maximise the site's green area. A stepped walkway built into the ramp-like roof form leads up from the entrance to a shaded outdoor living space.

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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. Centred around a skylit, concrete spiral stair, the home's spaces fan out to fill the triangular site, overlooking a paved terrace that wraps its eastern edge.

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2022

Francois Verhoeven Architects has completed a house in a Dutch village featuring a roof with three sloping sections that incorporate skylights , sedum and concealed solar panels. Villa K2 features a multi-pitched roof. Read: Villa SG21 is a monolithic blackened-wood house topped with a turfed roof.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

The site formerly held a run-down, 1940s dwelling that was owned by the clients. For the sloped site, the team conceived a 4,233-square-foot (393-square-metre) dwelling with facades clad in glazed brick and charred cypress. Large windows and skylights illuminate the upper level. A metal screen marks the home's entrance.

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2022

The 528-square-metre residence sits on a slight slope that is mirrored in the angles of its roof. In this case, the shape is the result of our site analysis and the idea of proposing a house that felt strongly connected to the place," studio principal Pedro López González told Dezeen. "In Black marble floors match the dark exterior.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

Architecture practice Studio Zhu-Pei drew on traditional Chinese architecture to create the sweeping concrete roofs and stone walls of the Zibo OCT Art Centre in the eastern province of Shandong. In between these blocks, a number of alleyway-like spaces between the high masonry walls are sheltered by the oversized eaves of the concrete roofs.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Raised above its sloping site on a concrete podium containing garage space, GRAAM Architecture 's design was informed by a desire to use materials and companies local to the area. The choice of materials means the structure could be entirely dry-process built, with the concrete elements prefabricated before being brought to the site.

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Deezen

JULY 31, 2022

US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. During the project's inception, designers from Manhattan's Desai Chia Architecture visited the site in different seasons to understand the climate and terrain.

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Dwell

APRIL 29, 2022

The 6,500-square foot home comprises three wood-and-glass volumes set on varying levels to correspond with the sloping site. Beautifully designed with floor-to-ceiling windows giving a beautiful view of the landscape and property from almost every room. acres From the agent: "Stunning modern home set on 1.7

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Dwell

JULY 28, 2023

Its low-slung form and green roof give it a low profile that lets the alpine setting shine. The spaces are sited between two natural mounds in the surrounding tussock. Between these forms, interior spaces are laid out around a sheltered courtyard, under an engineered-timber roof plane. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

Located near the coast of Gangwha County, the chapel sits at the top of a site that slopes down towards the sea, hugged from behind by dense forest and mountains. On the opposite wall, an organ is built into the exposed concrete, while narrow stained-glass windows are set within deep, faceted reveals on the southeast side.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Birds, butterflies and trees are considered co-owners of Labri, a glass house in Vietnam designed by local studio Nguyen Khai Architects & Associates. The 55-square-metre home, which is shortlisted in the Urban house category of the Dezeen Awards , was commissioned by a couple for a site beside a large pond in the city of Hue.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2023

It features reclaimed materials from an old warehouse on the site Dailly's exterior is kept minimal, with white-painted walls animated by large windows, portions of green tiles and exposed brickwork. The sloping roof considerably increases the feeling of space," said Busana.

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Deezen

JULY 15, 2022

Rather than opting for a new-build house like so many of the other properties nearby, the owners asked A202 Arhitekti to develop a proposal that would retain the character of the existing pitched-roof dwelling while adapting it for modern living. The bright lounge area is connected to the adjacent garden by a large sliding glass door.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2024

A private roof terrace enclosed by greenery features in Hidden Garden House, a Sydney home reconfigured by Australian studio Sam Crawford Architects. metre-high glass openings that lead out to a landscaped patio. Down from the entry hall is a spacious ground-floor kitchen and dining area, which is illuminated by 4.5-metre-high

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2024

The Infinite Rise is located near the village of Anaikatti on an elevated, rocky site that provides expansive views across the surrounding mountain ranges. Looking to disrupt the site as little as possible, Earthscape Studio dug into the land to create a partially sunken, semicircular home, wrapped by a gabion wall to help it blend in.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Named I/O Cabin, the wooden holiday home was raised off the ground with wooden pillars and perches on the sloped terrain of the site. The structure is raised from the ground by wooden pillars The hilly site is formed of solid rock and looks out to the south west coast, with views to Denmark across the Skagerrak strait.

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Archinect

MAY 2, 2022

This sporting facility forms a continuity with the architectural heritage already present on the site of the Saint Nazaire sports centre. Made entirely of raw concrete, with large irregular plate glass windows, the gymnasium symbolises the desire to create generous volumes as a function of their internal use.

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Deezen

APRIL 16, 2024

Its design is intended to "celebrate the essence" of south Indian architecture A central staircase stands alongside this atrium, with arched openings finished with panes of fluted glass. On its opposite side, a pink-granite bar overlooks the southern end of the ground floor. "[The The photography is by Pankaj Anand.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Named Buitenverblijf Nest, the dwelling is located at Buitenplaats Koningsweg, a wooded site at the edge of the Hoge Veluwe National Park in the Netherlands, which was formerly occupied by barracks. It is intended to blend in with the site "We came up with the idea to hide our folly high up in the trees, like a bird nest," i29 told Dezeen.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Tasked with doubling the usable space of the site as well as bringing its environmental performance up to modern standards, Stanton Williams reconfigured the building's layout while retaining its historic character. The photography is courtesy of Stanton Williams.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In response to the surrounding canopy of trees, Blurring Boundaries designed the home to have a curving form, which wraps around five of the existing mango trees on the site. By prioritising a seamless flow and letting the roof's form define the structure's massing, we wanted to create a truly unique and artistic living space."

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2023

Located in a conservation area in Aberdeen, the home nestles in a dipped area at the north of its site and comprises cantilevering volumes clad in timber battens. Timber is married with board-marked concrete "Most of the spaces on the ground floor are light and open, with full-height glass linking them to the garden," Brown explained. "We

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Villa K340 is a house by Francois Verhoeven Architects The area, which is characterised by its architectural diversity, has been divided by city planners into a range of "residential atmospheres", with Villa K340 occupying a site intended for more modern designs. The garage at the front of the home is topped by a green roof.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Danish studio Norm Architects has created a retreat for gastro-tourists on an old farm in Sweden , positioning seven wooden villas around a lake and using glass corridors to amplify "connections with the surroundings". Each villa also has a sauna Norm Architects was founded in 2008 by Kasper Rønn Von Lotzbeck and Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen.

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Deezen

AUGUST 1, 2023

Local studio FGMF has used translucent screens and metallic panels to enclose a residence on a sloping site near São Paulo. Large windows, screens and sliding glass doors throughout the home open the residence to the outdoors. Large windows, screens and sliding glass doors throughout the home open the residence to the outdoors.

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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. Located on the urban edge of the town, the house caters to the client's love of the countryside with warm wood accents that reference the araucaria trees that frame the sloping site.

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Deezen

MARCH 12, 2024

Located outside of Montevideo on a beachfront site, the Médano El Pinar apartment complex will be comprised of approximately 120 luxury, multi-family residences of one to five bedrooms. It is the last project designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, who died last year.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

British architecture studio Witherford Watson Mann has inserted an oak -framed structure into a narrow site within the Grade I-listed Clare College at Cambridge University. The facade of the new structure is defined by rhythmic timber columns that have been infilled with exposed brick on the lower floor and glazed openings on the upper level.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Think Zaha Hadid Architect ’s expressive Al Janoub Stadium in Qatar or Paris’s Tennis De La Cavalerie, with its magnificent timber diagrid roof. Swaths of glass envelop the structure’s eastern aspect, revealing unimpeded views over the tennis courts. This revival of a hallowed sporting site has been sensitively negotiated.

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Deezen

JUNE 29, 2023

Recycled metal sheeting and repurposed wood and glass form Tree House by the Lake, a home in Vietnam designed by local studio H2. It is located in Vietnam's Chau Duc District Trees are also integrated directly into the design of the home, growing through its terrace, voids and roof via openings. The photography is by Dũng Huỳnh.

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