designboom

JUNE 16, 2023

the site-specific diptyque project by matière première architecture features a split saltbox roof bridged by a transparent walkway. The post monochromatic house’s geometric forms frame natural plateau in canada appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

MAY 31, 2023

A sweeping, grass-topped concrete roof creates an artificial hill to conceal the Gurdau Winery in the Czech Republic , which has been designed by local practice Aleš Fiala Studio. Where the sloping roof meets the ground, it blends with a series of winding concrete walls supporting planters around a paved patio.

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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

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. The post Overhanging roof shelters wooden hall in Germany by Steimle Architekten appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Brigida González.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

Cupaclad was designed to have a natural, clean aesthetic that aims to adapt to any style of building, from the traditional to the contemporary. We offer] a natural product which has less environmental impact than any other alternative materials for roofs and façades." Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.

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Deezen

APRIL 30, 2023

An undulating concrete roof topped with grass covers this house in the Czech Republic, designed by local architecture studio RO_AR. 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".

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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

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

JANUARY 12, 2024

Infrastructure consultants AECOM and Spanish architecture studio Luis Vidal + Architects have created a terminal for Boston 's Logan Airport capped by a long, bright-red roof. The standing-seam metal roof was painted in Boston Red, a shade of prismatic paint custom-developed for the project at Monopol Color Lab in Switzerland.

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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

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

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

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

JANUARY 26, 2023

Italian architecture studio Piuarch has completed a production factory for fashion brand Fendi in Florence , which features a green roof to "look like a raised garden". The green roof was designed to blend into the landscape. The architecture thus establishes an open dialogue with its natural surroundings," he told Dezeen.

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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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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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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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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2022

Natural History Museum of Utah: A Museum Without Walls. The Natural History Museum rests at the threshold of urban and natural lands. The museum’s environmental features include a campus with one of Utah’s largest solar panel installations, a green roof, and two 10,000-gallon cisterns for irrigation. Design Workshop.

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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

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. In urban settings, there is disconnect between the user and nature," Studio Symbiosis pointed out. The studio covered the roof in plants.

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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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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

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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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

JANUARY 19, 2024

The site for the project is one of the few remaining areas of second growth forest within city limits. Great care was taken when siting the structure and parking lot within the environment, preserving 90% of the spectacular woodlands. A simple shed roof is supported by trusses. Large vine maples frame the entry to the building.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A Los Angeles entrepreneur is launching a glamping site in California that aims to attract urban professionals who want to commune with nature. Find Sanctuary is opening glamping sites in California. The sites feature compact cabins. "The The first site will be located in Big Bear. There are operable windows.

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Archinect

JANUARY 25, 2024

acre site and stands as a testament to architectural ingenuity and a profound appreciation of the natural world. Three interconnected wings with varying roof heights and pitches form the home’s massing concept. “As a long-time New Yorker, I’

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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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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The site is located in a cottage village outside the city, surrounded by a variety of modern manor buildings. The original shape of the house in the longitudinal direction does not have a clear distinction between walls and roof, being associated with the natural landscape - the outcropping of rocks near the Dnipro River.

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Archinect

AUGUST 10, 2023

Characterized by circular window openings and a timber reciprocal frame roof, the pavilion is intended to serve as a “warm, tactile space for children and families to enjoy.”

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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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Archinect

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It seeks to explore and embrace the limits of its implantation site, with the shape of its natural concrete roof that shelters - in addition to its functional program - some exterior patios, in an interesting play of solid and void, shade and natural light.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The house is laid out on the slope of an old orchard in mountainous surroundings, with the intention of having minimal impact on the site and natural vegetation. The volume is perforated with courtyards that break up the program and bring natural light inside.

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Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2022

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has completed a museum dedicated to music topped with an undulating roof punctuated by trees in Budapest 's City Park. . The museum, which was built on the site of the Hungexpo Offices, is surrounded by trees within Budapest 's City Park. The roof is punctured by numerous holes.

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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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Archinect

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Above, large dormer windows bring additional natural light into the space. Outside, brick and cedar “celebrate the duality of the site,” with brick used on the solid wall holding back the hillside, and a cedar roof wrapping down the facade fa.

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Architizer

JULY 20, 2022

The Nature and Wellbeing Centre appears through the trees when the visitors start walking towards the lakes. The structure emerges on both sides covered by a green roof, like slices of nature that would have been lifted up to open views onto the lakes. Nature and Wellbeing Centre Gallery. Project Status: Concept.

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