Dwell

JANUARY 15, 2024

In Valle de Bravo, Ignacio Urquiza and Ana Paula de Alba craft an elemental home that embraces its wild, cliffside site. At this home just a few hours outside Mexico City, the bathroom is built around a boulder. In some ways, you have. It is a special place to them, and they were adamant about preserving it.

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Deezen

APRIL 30, 2023

Located alongside a wildlife corridor at the edge of the Hlubocepy district in Prague, the family home is designed to be a "bridge between the urban and the natural". Czech studio RO_AR has created a house in the Hlubocepy district "Urban space surrounds the site on the south and east sides," explained studio founder Szymon Rozwałka.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Vancouver-based Omer Arbel Office (OAO) has completed work on their award-winning project 75.9 , a new construction of a private home located adjacent to a hayfield in rural British Columbia. A demonstration column had to be constructed on the site in order to get the clients' final approval.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 26, 2023

” The home, named Cherry Valley House, sits on a steep ridge that descends to the lakeshore. Above, large dormer windows bring additional natural light into the space.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Built on the shores of Lake Revdor, the three-level Break Residence was commissioned to fulfill the client’s wish of building a home on the land of his ancestors and is described by the design team as “a place of welcoming and gathering” for the small surrounding community.

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Deezen

MAY 15, 2024

A 36-metre-tall concrete silo has been converted into a dramatic hotel lobby at Bacalan Block – the transformation of a former factory site in Bordeaux into a mixed-use development by Colboc Sachet Architects. The post Vestiges of industry inform hotel complex on former factory site in Bordeaux appeared first on Dezeen.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Studio Gang has revealed plans for the new home of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Upstate New York. Nelson Byrd Woltz will provide landscaping for the site, a 98-acre former golf course that was donated to the company in 2020.

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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". The site had long been overlooked as feasible for home construction. Alterstudio saw potential and let the constraints guide the home's design.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Habitable Form has created a timber-clad house on Kiawah Island in South Carolina The site conditions drove the design by architecture studio Habitable Form , which has an office nearby, on Johns Island. It was designed for a retired couple who wanted a retreat-like home where they could spend time with their adult children and grandchildren.

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Deezen

MAY 25, 2024

Greek studio Doriza Design has converted a 19th-century stone building into Drakoni House, a holiday home in Crete with purposefully rough and imperfect details. Read: Block722 nestles O Lofos house into Crete mountainside "The signs of modernity arise punctually and naturally due to the inevitable functional readjustment," said the studio.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

Thick walls of local stone shelter Caochan na Creige, a home in Scotland 's Outer Hebrides by local practice Izat Arundell designed to "sit respectfully in the landscape". Looking to blend the home in with its dramatic surroundings, Izat Arundell finished the simple, timber-frame structure with blocks of local stone called Lewisian Gneiss.

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2024

Large rocks from the surrounding area are suspended in a gabion wall around The Infinite Rise, a holiday home in southern India by local architecture practice Earthscape Studio. The Infinite Rise is located near the village of Anaikatti on an elevated, rocky site that provides expansive views across the surrounding mountain ranges.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Located in Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula, the rambler-style home utilized the trees for the roof and a coffee table, too. On a secluded wooded site, the new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form. Cedar milled on site was used to create the entry door, entry benches, and east privacy fence.

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Architizer

MAY 6, 2024

Nowhere else in North America does nature feel so powerful, otherworldly and sublime than the Pacific Northwest. It cannot be easy to create a residence that appears at home in the wildest corner of the frontier. Shipley and Bates accomplished this feat through site-responsive design that blurs the line between interior and exterior.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. The one-story home unfurls in a 120-foot-long (36-metre) horizontal line that runs parallel to the topography, with its front elevated to meet wooden terraces, and portions of the back sitting flat on the slope.

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ArchDaily

MAY 14, 2024

“Valckensteyn” is a circular design featuring a 12-story timber structure and 82 homes. Situated within Pendrecht, a post-war neighborhood in Rotterdam , it sits on the site of a residential flat bearing the same name, demolished a decade ago. Read more »

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designboom

APRIL 17, 2023

the home is designed to harmonize contemporary design with the site's rural heritage. The post preserving history, embracing nature: CLB architects’ black fox ranch in jackson, wyoming appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A kind of manual for designing nature without ecology is found in the series of artful drawings that reveal a strategy for working with plants through quantity, species, spacing, and cultivar. Each tome is a reminder that Oudolf’s prolific publishing career is as profuse as his “nature-like” style. © Piet Oudolf.

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Deezen

AUGUST 30, 2022

A void punctures the centre of this compact concrete home, which Japanese studio Noriaki Hanaoka Architecture has elevated over a sloping site in Chiba Prefecture. Torus House sits on a steeply sloping site in Chiba Prefecture. Noriaki Hanaoka Architecture divided the home into two halves. The concrete is left exposed.

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Urban Design Associates

JULY 28, 2023

There is beauty in the desert landscape, and that aesthetic can make for an incredible home design. Aligning with the natural environment not only provides a rich color palette and a variety of materials to work with, but also helps you create a luxury desert home design that can withstand a demanding climate.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Informed by the greenhouses that once occupied the site, local architecture studio Hayhurst and Co added bamboo planting behind polycarbonate screens to the facade of a family home in London. An atrium at the centre of the home lets natural light into the interior and naturally cools the house by stack ventilation.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Indonesian practice Stilt Studios has completed a series of "nature-centric" villas for the Grün Uluwatu resort in Bali , which are elevated on steel columns to sit among the tree canopy. This approach allows for a more sustainable and harmonious coexistence between the built environment and nature,” he added.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Project Details: Location: Bharuch, Gujarat, India Architect: Samira Rathod Design Atelier / @ samira_rathod Photographer: Niveditaa Gupta / @ niveditaagupta From the Architect: " We believe that architecture is a response to many parameters, including context, site, vegetation, geography, and climate.

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Deezen

APRIL 30, 2024

Architecture studio Unknown Works has renovated a terraced London house called Oasis, adding a side and rear extension to create a flexible interior and maximise natural light. The post Unknown Works revamps co-founder's "cramped" Victorian home in London appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Lorenzo Zandri.

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Architizer

MARCH 2, 2023

Michaela Maresch: COMMOD “The Little Black One” was definitely inspired by nature. The Little Black is an amazing example of how architecture can set the stage for the beauty of nature. I think that people currently desire to live closer to nature than ever before and this house reflects a simple yet stunning way to do so.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

Photo is by Benjamin Benschneider The site is reached by boat, and a winding path leads from a dock through a wooded area and into a sunlit meadow. When new owners purchased the property in 2016, they engaged us to make additions to the site that respected the natural character of the sparsely populated island," the firm said.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A cantilevering concrete canopy shelters a new entrance at this extension to a modernist-style home in Ardèche, which has been completed by French practice Alors Studio. This creates an axis that leads past a small seating area into the home's central block.

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Deezen

APRIL 19, 2023

Copenhagen-based Natural Material Studio and designer Zuzanna Skurka have created an installation at Milan design week from soft bio textiles made from surplus bricks. The formation of brick-based textiles hangs from metal bars where meat once hung at the site. And that's the beauty and honesty of it."

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We all have an intuition that natural light and views of the outdoors have a positive effect on how people feel in their homes. A home in rural Michigan embodies the findings from Marvin’s Shining a Light on Happiness and Well-Being study. We’re drawn to natural light. How does daylight affect happiness and well-being?

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Named Haringey Brick Bungalow, the 66-square-metre home is accessed through a one-metre-wide passageway hidden between the high street's commercial premises. This was a very tricky backland site, but the key message is that with careful planning, you can succeed," said Satish Jassal Architects founder Satish Jassal.

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2024

In this lookbook , we've collected eight homes from Vietnam to the USA that are kept ventilated and illuminated by central courtyards. Courtyards have been used in ancient and contemporary architecture as a tool to trap and funnel breezes and natural light into the core of a building.

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Habitus Living

APRIL 12, 2022

The trail and sites explore the rich Aboriginal culture of the Jardwadjali and Djab Wurrung Peoples who have lived in these ranges for thousands of years. Every site responds to the vivid landscape around it. And for every step of the way, a new vista, of art or nature, awaits. Communal shelter at Barigar. Project details.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

River Bend Residence overlooks the Guadalupe River Respecting the natural setting was a guiding concern for the design team, as the home sits on a wooded perch overlooking the Guadalupe River. A portion of the dwelling is lifted above the site by concrete piers. Large skylights at the tip of each roof capture daylight.

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Deezen

APRIL 21, 2024

Shades of green, red and yellow run throughout this lookbook , which collects nine home interiors enlivened by colourful window frames. The irregularly placed windows help enliven the otherwise neutral finishes to the home while adding a sense of "individuality" to its uniform structure, the studio said.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Brooklyn-based Home Studios has turned a conference centre in Northern California back into a luxury hotel , as originally intended by the property's founder: the inventor of the radio. The Lodge at Marconi sits on a 62-acre site next to Tomales Bay, within the picturesque Marconi State Historic Park – a 1.5-hour

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Dwell

AUGUST 9, 2023

Wong, the radiant post-and-beam home comes with glazing galore and a private guesthouse. Wong, this post-and-beam, midcentury home incorporates classic modernist design elements like wood paneling, tongue-and groove ceilings, clerestory windows, and walls of glass. The home has a wide brick driveway and several covered parking spots.

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