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SAOTA lines Los Angeles house with white metal screen

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SAOTA has completed a residence on an elevated site in Los Angeles The project was designed by Cape Town-based SAOTA , alongside US architect and developer David Maman and the Belgian interior designer Dieter Vander Velpen. The screens are meant to be "a pristine, clean element" that floats over a monolithic base.

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Worrell Yeung balances cascading cantilevers for Connecticut lake house

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Brooklyn studio Worrell Yeung designed a timber-clad lake house with cantilevered roof planes that cascade down s sloped near Connecticut 's Candlewood Lake. The house has concrete cantilevered roof planes “Part of the goal of the project was to minimize the house's presence and perceived size from the street," said principal Jejon Yeung.

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Raised on a plateau

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In doing so, a feeling of floating has been imbued to the home which effectively floats above the rocky terrain of the land below. Here a series of sweeping organic voids are carved into a series of horizontal and vertical concrete planes, allowing light to penetrate deep into the building through extensive glazing and skylights.

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A 5 centimeters concrete plane that folds generates inertia and because of an absolutely elemental reasoning, a plate becomes a structural support. Project Description. (“Text as submitted by the architects”). This little project is redefined in the need to generate shelter. This way, an 7×5 excavation.

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ARQBR creates circular church with monumental steeple in Brasilia

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ARQBR completed the 3,900-square metre (40,000-square foot) concrete facility for the Church of the Holy Family in 2022, as an extension of Lucio Costa's Pilot Project for the capital of Brazil. The complex includes an existing church building, a linear annex, a floating disk nave, and a low-slung parish house.

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Olson Kundig creates floating Water Cabin in Seattle's Portage Bay

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Knotty cedar and galvanised steel were used to form a two-storey, floating home by US firm Olson Kundig that draws upon cabin architecture. It serves as a full-time residence for a client who previously rented a floating house in the area and decided to build his own home there when a lot became available.

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Metal Screens Form a "Skin" Around This Revived ’80s-Built Home in Australia

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Project Details: Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia Architect: State of Kin / @stateofkin Footprint: 3,509 square feet Structural Engineer: Forth Engineering Photographer: Jack Lovel From the Architects: " The original home was a fitting example of the typical ’70 and ’80s suburban development in the area. "The Have one to share?

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