Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

Located on the northern shore of Lake Constance in the Radolfzell district, the timber building contains sports courts and a stage for events, unified by a cantilevered roof overhead. Wood has always been a traditional building material in this region too. The photography is by Brigida González.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Intersecting blockwork walls and an overhanging zinc roof characterise Simba Vision Montessori School in rural Tanzania by local studio Architectural Pioneering Consultants. These include making use of local materials with tactile qualities and ensuring a building is formed of interconnected spaces that are tailored to children's activities.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

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 Read: Mithun revamps iconic 1960s Sea Ranch Lodge in northern California The guest rooms are bright and airy, with the colours of the natural surroundings subtly reflected in the furnishings.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

A pair of stone towers and a thatched -roof palapa are among the features at a nature retreat in southern Mexico designed by architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo. It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort.

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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 house is organized along one long horizontal line The grey metal roof reflects the area's rolling hills. Our clients knew many hilly sites from growing up in the area and their time in Greece.

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Deezen

MAY 29, 2023

Chinese practice Wang Chong Studio used rustic stone walls and a sloping roof to help this art museum blend into its rocky site in China's Henan Province. Named Taihang Xinyu Art Museum, the museum is built around an old warehouse on the site, which backs onto Taihang Mountain and sits alongside the Cangxi River.

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Deezen

JUNE 4, 2023

An undulating green roof and timber cladding help this Suffolk house by MAP Architecture and Jon Broome Architects, which was designed to Passivhaus standards, blend into the surrounding wetland. The internal ceiling battens are made using an Ash facing piece with a softwood core to allow the battens to follow the roof curve," said Mawson.

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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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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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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Satish Jassal Architects designed Haringey Brick Bungalow The 110-square-metre site and narrow passageway was "like building through a straw", dictating many design and construction decisions. Two green roofs top the building, characterised by their asymmetrical pyramid shapes topped with rooflights.

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Architizer

APRIL 4, 2024

Nestled in the heart of America, Arkansas is rich in natural beauty and cultural heritage. Known for its picturesque landscapes, including the majestic Ozark Mountains and the winding Arkansas River, the state’s architecture is grounded in its natural surroundings.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Dark timber and stone feature throughout Dalarö House, a summer holiday home that US studio Olson Kundig has added to a rocky waterside site in Sweden. Designed to blend in with the landscape, the home is built around rocks and features exposed natural materials that reference the surrounding stones and pine trees.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Due to its location on the edge of the Česky Kras nature reserve southwest of Prague, the project was required to visually blend in with the local vernacular, with regulations specifying a simple gable-roof form with rounded eaves. Meanwhile, the roof is lined with traditional tiles called bobrovka.

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

An enormous thatched roof structure with open sides covers the communal areas of this home perched on a rocky cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Mexico by Zozaya Arquitectos. The structure features an enormous open thatched roof. Two levels make up the home, which is accessed from the top due to the site conditions.

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Habitus Living

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Designed to embrace the beauty of the natural environment and provide the perfect balance of form and function, this double-storey extension seamlessly blends into the existing weatherboard worker’s cottage. Materiality throughout is an important consideration that works hand-in-hand with the architectural form.

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Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2023

Belgian studio Notan Office has completed Duchesse, a series of homes positioned around a communal garden on an old industrial site in Brussels. Duchesse's design also aims to preserve the site's historic significance by retaining existing elements while revamping others with new tiled volumes.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Above, large dormer windows bring additional natural light into the space. Image credit: Felix Michaud Image credit: Felix Michaud The home’s contemporary spatial sequencing is contrasted by materiality drawing inspiration from the area’s agrarian architecture.

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Architizer

JANUARY 31, 2023

Architecture is defined by materials. One of the most significant designers in contemporary architecture, Kengo Kuma ’s work builds upon a legacy of Japanese craftsmanship while rethinking how we use materials. The site was formerly a tea field that formed a hillside. Subscribe to our newsletter for updates.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Architecture studio Dallas Pierce Quintero has completed a cluster of houses in London with sawtooth roofs and corrugated-metal cladding that nod to the site's former use as a builders' yard. The Forest Houses have sawtooth roofs and corrugated-metal cladding. Their design references the site's former use as a builders' yard.

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Dwell

AUGUST 3, 2022

PAD Studio replaced a rundown cottage with a new gable-roofed timber design that looks as if it’d been there all along. PAD studio was commissioned to reorganize an existing ramshackle cottage on the site. The interior palette of natural materials was chosen to bounce light throughout the home.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

How and where to site buildings, which materials to use and which design standards to follow. Roofs could be designed and built to withstand the strongest winds possible, such as a powerful tornado passing over. Roofs could be designed and built to withstand the strongest winds possible, such as a powerful tornado passing over.

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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

MAY 9, 2024

Nowhere has renovated a house in Hyderabad called Mayalogili Alongside brick and marble dust, the studio also used plants and soil from the site to create tactile internal finishes that "weave in the materiality of the landscape", it said.

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Deezen

JUNE 29, 2023

Located on the shores of Da Bang Lake in the Chau Duc District in Vietnam, the home was commissioned by an elderly couple and designed by H2 to bring them and their grandchildren closer to nature. It is enveloped by a forest and was built from local scrap materials to reduce its impact on the surrounding landscape.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2023

A curved roof tops Byró Architekti's Cabin Above the Town, a red timber-clad cabin informed by the surrounding Czech hills. Situated on the border between the city and the countryside, the cabin is nestled into the side of Svatobor Hill, a forested site in the foothills of the Czech Republic's Šumava mountains.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Chinese practice Arch Studio has renovated and extended a courtyard home called Mixed House on the outskirts of Beijing , China, by inserting a timber structure topped by a wavy roof. Topped with a wave-like roof and filled with new living areas, this wooden volume also splits the existing courtyard into a series of smaller external spaces.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Cesar Mancillas designed the concrete house in Baja California The narrow property is only 12 metres wide and has a gradient leading from public to private programs along its 40-metre site. On the site's eastern edge, the main facade is a rolling garage door, which provides a transition from the street to the house.

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Deezen

JULY 13, 2022

Di Frenna Arquitectos used natural materials such as stone, rammed earth , carrizo weaves and a traditional form of stucco to make Espacio Kaab in the Mexican city of Comala appear "as a volume that emerged organically from the ground". The project is located on a semi-arid site. The ground floor is sunken.

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Archinect

JUNE 29, 2022

The clients share an affinity for Hawai’i and Polynesia, for modern art and design, and for the beauty of natural materials and craftsmanship. The 9,902-square-foot residence’s hipped roofs are the most visible expression of its organization. The 47,337-square-foot site plan expresses an idealized.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The houses below are the product of architectural experimentation with design forms, local materials and vernacular styles, ultimately seeking to live harmoniously with their surroundings. Nestled on a steep slope overlooking the stunning Hekerua Bay, this tri-module retreat gently weaves itself into the natural landscape. Cora House.

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2022

A hipped roof covered in stepped tiles tops this extension to a home on a suburban estate in Epsom, Surrey , designed by London-based studio Oliver Leech Architects. The choice of the external materials was our biggest design challenge.we The choice of the external materials was our biggest design challenge.we

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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. Images by Benedikt Markel.

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Arcmax Architects

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

India, the USA, and the UK are leading the charge, adopting innovative green practices in resort site planning to meet the growing demand for eco-friendly travel options. Resorts in India are increasingly using local materials, solar energy, and water conservation systems to minimize their environmental impact.

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Architizer

MAY 4, 2023

Often, the expression of this negotiation between form and use plays out in materials, the many assemblies and combinations that define what we experience. But it wasn’t until the 19th century that the material began gaining new architectural applications outside roofing. inch (40 mm) panels.

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Architizer

JUNE 19, 2023

That is, moving away from the more human elements involved in their manufacture resulted in products that were standardized and more universally available, rendering their former manufacturing sites obsolete. The glory days of the factory date back to the early 20th century, when it was erected as a massive brick production site.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Natural materials and large windows overlooking a garden are used to create an atmosphere of warmth and comfort at this dental clinic in Japan, designed by local studio TSC Architects. The clinic's examination rooms sit off a central corridor that zig-zags across the site to make room for the existing planting.

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