Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. We looked to the bush – those forested, undeveloped areas of nature that surround the house – while allowing the built structures to adapt to the natural terrain," the studio said.

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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

APRIL 25, 2022

Zigzag in plan, the wood-framed building stretches across the site, bending at several points to create porches and courtyards. The building's different parts are topped with either single-slope or gabled roofs, all of which are covered with standing seam metal. Civil engineering: Ecological Design Group. Irrigation: Aqueous.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

HGA has created a pair of mass-timber buildings at Bowdoin College in Maine While different in size and colour, the buildings have asymmetrical pitched roofs that "play off each other from different vantage points". Gibbons Hall holds a collection of Arctic objects The surrounding landscape was informed by Arctic topography.

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BD+C

JUNE 5, 2023

It is essential that structural engineers have a strong understanding of wind behavior, structural behavior, knowledge of building codes, and repair requirements. Meanwhile the edges and corners of roofs experience higher wind pressures compared to the middle of the roof.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

Civil Engineering 113

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang has expanded a California college through the addition of mass-timber structures that were informed by how fungi grow in the wild. Three simple, bow-shaped structures were placed to its southeast to house students. Kresge College is a part of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Dwell

MARCH 19, 2024

As avid cooks and entertainers they sought to create a large kitchen and informal dining and family area that supported a ‘no fuss,’ casual approach to living that engendered a sense of ease. Have one to share? Post it here. Conceived as a garden room, the design directly grounds and orients the occupants toward their garden.

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Deezen

JANUARY 7, 2023

Instead of creating a single, static volume, the studio designed a 220-metre-long glass corridor informed by the area's topography, which winds around and above the site to create a central courtyard and small garden spaces. It rises and falls with the site's level changes. Aji stone lines its roof.

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Deezen

JUNE 13, 2023

"As you get closer you will see the sharp edges and geometries that come from a digital fabrication workshop rather than a traditional construction site." An art gallery occupies the arched space While its shape is informed by rural barns, it is also designed to create an interior that is an impressive space for displaying art.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A sloping fibreglass roof and a glass facade characterise New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro 's first completed single-family residential project, which has been photographed officially for the first time by Iwan Baan. It is really surreal and magical in the whole; the whole roof just feels like it's floating."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The team sought to oppose the recent suburban-style development of the surrounding neighbourhood "Steel Louise is a single-family, urban infill house that reckons with dramatic contradictions between its site's past and present, becoming a private house with a unique public persona." The photography is by Keith Isaacs.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2023

The studio gutted and expanded the 4,650-square-foot (430-square metre) rectangular home into an L-shaped plan with overlapping roofs. The home was informed by vernacular agricultural buildings Clad in a dark metal roof and custom dark green stained cypress in a varied batten pattern, the main house references and updates agrarian vernacular.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2023

The home was informed by Long Island's agricultural buildings In elevation, the light-coloured home has the shape of a low-lying triangle with the corners cut off, but the plan consists of two rectangular forms that shift past each other. Square steel columns rise out of mahogany decking. The photography is by Keith Scott Morton.

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2023

The site is a highly prominent location within the Dartmouth Park Conservation Area, so the design process involved lengthy consultation. The height matches a petrol station previously on the site. Because of the stepped nature of the site, this lower level does not feel like a basement," said Ben-Grunberg and Woolfson.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

"The goal of the project is to maintain and enhance the public and free character of the site, seeking not to impose, but to gently uplift it," explained Kéré Architecture. Kamwokya Community Centre is raised on a stepped concrete platform, protecting the site from the frequent flooding that occurs after heavy rainfall.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The building is volumetrically oriented to the geometry of the site and also widens out in the direction of the shore. The shape of the building is stepped with sweeping curves, which structure the volume visually. The rear-ventilated wood construction made of rhombus strips in glazed ash structures the façade vertically.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The house has a single-pitch zinc roof, untainted and bright-rolled. The floor plan is informed by the sloping terrain of the site. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2024

The team embarked on designing a sustainable and contextually sensitive house, a process that involved hiking the 15-acre (six-hectare) site and camping out there. One finds a clear and fluid layout inside The home has a concrete base and a structural frame made of glue-laminated timber.

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 4, 2024

How to leverage regenerative principles to design for both the site and the building occupants through a partnership with nature. • In a first for Nike, products can move from sketch to prototype to final design to retail fixture all under one roof. A 260 kW photovoltaic array screens rooftop mechanical units from view.

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e-architect

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The original layout of the house consists of a living wing facing the street and behind this, a sleeping wing, separated from the street by the living wing and situated on a lower portion of the site so that one descends down the thresholds from the public to private realms. Site size: 953 sqm. Structural Engineer: Theuns Grobler.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

It is a nautical reference, as the studio was informed by the vernacular architecture of rural Ontario for the house's design, materiality, and colour selection, which includes a mixture of seasonal and permanent beach houses and farms. The underside of the roof deck, wood framing, exterior framing and white sheathing were also left exposed.

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Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2022

The CAMPout House is located on a gently sloping site in Truckee, a mountain town just north of the lake known for its skiing , hiking and water sports. CAMPout House sits on a gently sloping site. The house's design was informed by its occupants' active lifestyle. Structural engineer: CFBR Structural Group.

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Dwell

JULY 16, 2022

The completed home, arranged over four slightly separated levels, follows the natural slope of the site. Beyond, and slightly lower than the entrance, an informal living, dining, and galley kitchen open out onto a terrace toward a walled rear garden. The entrance volume comprises two bedrooms, circulation, and bathroom.

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 18, 2024

Image © SO – IL A courtyard garden at the heart of the museum centers nature on the site, drawing daylight into the interior. Rather than a single monolithic structure, dispersed volumes gather around this central space. The museum’s design adheres to the rigorous Living Building Challenge 4.0/Core

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aasarchitecture

MAY 24, 2024

The second-floor studios – for drawing, design, printmaking, painting, woodworking, and cinema – are efficiently organized around a ‘Commons’ gathering space for students which doubles as an informal presentation space. All the trees on site were maintained and their roots were protected during the entire construction process.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The roof is undulating, and the facades are clad in burnt wood. The interiors were informed by the client's love of layers and texture Throughout the home, large stretches of glass offer sweeping views of the majestic terrain. A fourth structure is planned for the site and will have a spiritual function.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The building is made up of curved shapes informed by the Earth's rotation and the changing of seasons Built on a former oil field, the 280-acre (113-hectare) museum property includes multiple buildings, a large parking lot, and a sunken lawn ringed by a massive earthen berm. The Oklahoma River runs alongside the site.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

With a grass-topped, arched roof it was designed to be both contemporary and integrated into the landscape. The site is extremely visually sensitive and open countryside views are highly protected within the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty," he told Dezeen. Structural engineer: Structure Workshop.

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e-architect

JULY 7, 2023

Overall site planning and space program information was provided by the Jackson Hole Airport based on existing constraints, increasing demand, as well as future phasing and growth of airport development. The new facility provides a simple, site sensitive yet bold solution.

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e-architect

MARCH 7, 2023

The colors and scale are also reminiscent of an archeological site, further invoking historical references. The structure makes use of compression and tension members to reduce its steel volume by 20% compared to traditional designs, creating the effect of a roof that floats above the continuous glass wall. 2019 – June.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The expression and prominent siting of these structures was seen as an eye saw and their dilapidated condition at end of life. The new amenities building seeks to recede into the dramatic rock outcrop landscape on which it is sited.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Architecture studios Kuehn Malvezzi , Pelletier de Fontenay and Jodoin Lamarre Pratte Architectes have created an insect zoo and museum in a glazed sawtooth-roof building with interior spaces that emulate the experience of being a bug. The main component is a two-storey glass building with a rectangular plan and sawtooth roof.

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2022

"The design reflects the character of the various informal farmsteads that surround the green, which continues to be grazed by cows and other animals," the architects pointed out. The new amenities include a single-storey staff accommodation block that is slotted between two existing brick buildings near the site's entrance.

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aasarchitecture

JULY 28, 2023

CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, together with Italo Rota, has unveiled a new hospitality project called Roccia in the hills of Monferrato, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This allows the complex to be habitable again while preserving the antiquity of the old structure and the natural elements that have taken hold.

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e-architect

JULY 5, 2023

The podium level is visually connected with an inner courtyard to the ground floor and childcare activities below as well as a 7th story and roof space above, dedicated to urban agriculture and food production for residents.

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aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Wah Riverside E18 Residence is a multifamily housing project with over 110 apartment units on a tight site surrounded by dense residential neighborhoods. Wah E18 Residence explores how building shape informed by site-specific criteria and solar access can expand potential to positively impact its community and urban environment.

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