aasarchitecture

APRIL 17, 2024

A unique experience center for the famed Swedish brands, Volvo Cars and Volvo Group, World of Volvo is designed around Scandinavian values of freedom of movement, access to nature and openness and inclusion. “As a brand Volvo is rooted in a Swedish pride for producing and manufacturing quality for everyone. Source by Henning Larsen.

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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. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The 215-square-foot addition utilizes the sustainable material as cladding that matches the neighborhood’s brick and as a non-toxic insulation. Sustainable material choices and low U-values were chosen throughout for all new elements, including triple glazing throughout by Ecovia. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. If you were to draw a force diagram, you'd need more material in the middle, so naturally it's a win-win," she said.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

The timber cabin is wrapped by an external skin clad with cedar shingles "The idea behind the Monocoque Cabin was inspired by the construction techniques used in the aerospace and automotive industries, which are renowned for their efficient material utilization," Markos told Dezeen. The photography is by Peter Markos and Efe Onikinci.

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Deezen

JANUARY 28, 2024

Originally built in the 1920s to give tuberculosis patients access to the healing power of nature, the historic structure is now a five-star wellness retreat. Manna offers 32 rooms fitted out with natural materials and neutral tones, plus gym and spa facilities and a restaurant focused on local produce.

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Dwell

JULY 20, 2022

The site sits on a north facing slope and looks down to the Martis Valley and up to Lookout Mountain through a natural screen of 100-year-old Jeffrey pine trees. A thin steel shed roof pitches up to open the interior to the south sun and frame views to the ski runs on the mountain.

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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. Settled on the edge of a meadow surrounded by spruce trees, the massing of the two-bedroom, rectangular house follows the natural grade, never rising more than 15 feet (4.5

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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". Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades. The photography is by Michael Moran.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2024

The ADU is part of a family estate During the design process, they looked to farm structures that dot Sonoma Valley, many of which are dilapidated and have "their own strange elegance", the team said. Inside, one finds bright rooms, a neutral colour palette and earthy materials.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The addition is a linear box with a wrapping screened porch – in cedar to reference the surrounding trees and serve as a carbon-sequestering material – its profile slants toward the rear of the house and dips down to touch the ground plane. Great effort was taken to translate that as a window to frame views," the team said.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These natural materials will age gracefully over time without loss of their inherent character and life, to safeguard the long-term visual quality of the building and the sense of place and community that it represents," he added. The photography is courtesy of John McAslan + Partners.

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Dwell

JANUARY 4, 2024

It’s slotted in a row of brick residences but connects with the outdoors via the screens, glazing at the rear, and a skylight roof. The site now sits between two-story brick houses with pitched tile roofs built in the 2000s and already sub-divided into flats. "Tom Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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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Dwell

APRIL 14, 2023

Staggered bricks give the retreat’s facade a defined jaw that’s complemented by a generous amount of glass and a butterfly roof. The open floor plan and large windows bring in ample natural light and offer breathtaking views of the surrounding landscape of Ahmednagar. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2023

This projection helped us to minimize the impact on this natural site and reduce excavation.". Employing the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of wabi-sabi – the beauty of the imperfect and incomplete – the north volume uses a natural cedar finish while on the south volume, the cedar has been stained black. Photo is by Lucy Call.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The structure was created simply by installing a roof over the RC foundation deeply rooted underground. Structural calculations dictate the roof slope of a 60-degree-angle to withstand the snow load. The interior is filled with natural light from a big triangle window. The triangular prism in nature.

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Deezen

JULY 31, 2023

Stirling Prize-winning studio Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed a prefabricated steel-framed home with a pyramidal copper roof overlooking a tidal saltmarsh on the Isle of Wight. The home is characterised by four pyramidal ridges of deep brown patinated copper which form its roof.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The building’s subdued appearance in the space is achieved by the low floating roof, under which the surrounding landscape is allowed to flow across the pool. At the same time, the roof of the structure is the volume housing all the programme which does not require a direct contact with the water surfaces.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 18, 2024

Design for integration & Design for Discovery: The Science Station is integrated into the broader context of the high desert and the immediate context of the new OSU-Cascades campus in form and materiality. Photo © Alan Brandt Open, airy labs flooded with natural light accommodate an array of experiments, activities, and student groups.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Ben Callery Architects performs an epic renovation at the rear of a bungalow that maximizes a nature-loving family’s connection with the outdoors. Victoria ash lining boards, Tasmanian oak flooring, and silvertop ash slats bathed in natural light express the warmth inherent in this place.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Two green roofs top the building, characterised by their asymmetrical pyramid shapes topped with rooflights. The bricks were stacked vertically at the base of the home and horizontally near the roof to create variation in the facade.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Large stretches of glass break up the cladding and bring in natural light. The interior spaces are generous and airy Within the home, one finds generous, airy rooms that engage with the natural environment. Atop the roof, the team placed a pool, a cabana, an outdoor theatre and space for grilling and cooking.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Typical to apartments at the time, the existing floor plan presented a clear division between living and bedroom/ bathing spaces, and original large windows provided ample natural light and effective ventilation. The ceiling is insulated and the roof window is double-glazed to minimize additional heat gain and retain winter warmth.

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Deezen

MAY 12, 2023

On the exterior, the individual forms are wrapped in dark charred cypress and a patinated, standing-seam zinc roof that reflects the browns, greens and greys of the forest and lake and are intended to weather over time. The photography is by Paul Warchol.

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2023

Located in Encinar de los Reyes, on the northern outskirts of the Spanish capital, Reggio School is a six-storey building featuring cork walls, concrete arches, porthole windows and zigzagging roofs. Reggio School features cork walls, concrete arches and zigzagging roofs. Structural engineering: Qube Ingeniería de Estructuras.

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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. Its new building was designed to embody a novel approach to learning about the natural world.

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Deezen

AUGUST 26, 2022

Built to the international Passive House standard, sustainability is at the core of the project – embodied between the natural material palette, high performance design and strong biophilic connection," said Symes. The building's two wings are topped with green roofs planted with drought tolerant native species.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2023

Strang Design wrapped the second storey in vertical ipe wood fins The two levels of the home are materially distinct. Contrasting the stark white of the upper floor, the planted roof hangs down and allows vines to move up the elevation, creating a 'green wall' that camouflages part of the home in the existing grove of oak trees."

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

The facades create "compressed" and "expanding" interior corners According to the studio, the design created interior spaces similar to an attic or an apartment in a mansard roof. "On And then there's the tower that relates to this larger scale, yet also natural context."

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Dwell

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Instead, the design of BD House became a layered transformation in which cultural heritage, sustainable transformation, and the rich natural qualities of the area combine. In the curved veranda that connects these wings, a tree has been planted that pokes through the veranda roof giving shape to the transition between inside and outside.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2024

The quincha walls reuse soil and adobe from the site and use more straw to lighten and insulate the material.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

"We wanted our expansion to retain the qualities of surprise and free-spiritedness that have defined Kresge College, while at the same time opening it up to students of all abilities, the incredible natural ecology of its site, and the larger university community beyond." The photography is by Jason O'Rear.

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Dwell

JANUARY 18, 2024

Using rugged materials that reflect the desert fabric (Cor-Ten steel, split-face concrete block, and cedar), the structure naturally blends in and ages with its surroundings. This helps minimize the visual impact from afar while maintaining spectacular views on the interior.

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Deezen

JUNE 20, 2023

Located in the neighborhood of Lavaca, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the design had to adhere to Historic Design Guidelines that required a front porch, specific roof profiles, window proportions and materials. The photography is by Timothy Hursley.

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