Housing

As a young office based in Brussels, Bauclub is regularly required to study the ordinary local typology and therefore reflect on how to position itself in relation to its identified constraints and opportunities. Berk is a transformation project of an ap

There are two houses in a quiet residential area with verdant greenery. One is Hiroyuki Unemori’s, who is the architect of UNEMORI ARCHITECTS, own house and the other is his sister-in-law’s family. While the two families wanted to live independently, they

Plan Común - La Fage house renovation, Saint-Beauzile 2021. Photos © Maxime Verret. [[MORE]]

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This is a townhouse located in Phan Thiet city, Binh Thuan province for a family of four. Right from the start, we approached the project with a limited budget and the basics demands required for a young family's life. These inputs set the direction to ap

BLAF's interest in sustainable construction is not limited to the energy performance of buildings. What characterizes BLAF is that we continue to respond in design to the increasingly complex issues of spatial planning, sustainability, affordability, circ

In the agglomeration of Zurich, a young family purchased a plot of land adjacent to their parental home in order to build two residential units for themselves and relatives. The designed figure is oriented towards the landscape in the southwest, which al

The Hirtenweg project is the result of a total contractor competition for affordable housing that was initiated by the public developer, Immobilien Basel-Stadt, in 2018. The new buildings at Hirtenweg integrate existing conditions - residential scale, nat

Almost effortlessly and without intervention, this transformation of a farmhouse in the heart of nature nestles between a found state of ruin and the utopia of a building that can one day be said to be «finished». In contrast to a form of finiteness, the

HHF has transformed a neglected courtyard with firewalls and parking spaces into 15 apartments and surrounding lush gardens. By combining “left-over” square meters of three existing parcels the project shows densification potentials by reclaiming seemingl

The Spaarndammerhart restores the urban fabric to the Spaarndammer neighbourhood. The street that disappeared in the 1970s for the construction of the local school, Spaarndammerschool, has been restored. The plan also brings back two street walls and adds

Emplaced in an East coast forest, a 1200sf retreat for family of writers and producers is planned for minimal ecological footprint. The site - accessible only by foot or light utility vehicle - was chosen in a sloped forest clearing punctuated by large bo

Clementine Blakemore Architects has completed the sensitive restoration of a series of derelict agricultural buildings into inclusive holiday accommodation, a community space, workshop and smallholding. The site forms part of a 250-acre organic farm withi

Two point buildings offset from one another allow outlooks and perspectives The green residential area is characterized by mostly small-scale buildings and a permeable and open settlement structure. The project with two four-storey, compact buildings is

In the quaint village of Bergen a modest white villa from the 1950s proved technically and structurally no longer sound for contemporary wishes and demands for living. Yet, after its new occupants, a young family, had lived in the dwelling for a number of

In this reconfiguration, FELT extends a detached single-family house near Ghent by adding a hat-shaped second story on top of the existing sixties bungalow. The new first floor with a diamond shaped central hall accommodates three bedrooms and a bathroom.

The Town House is located in the central street Lederergasse - a livable, quiet street that connects Linz's main square, via the tobacco factory, with the port. The existing building – its basic substance from the 16th century – has been renovated and exp

The Pottering Shed is a 30sqm artists studio located in Poole on the south coast of the UK. The studio is designed to feel like an upside down boat. A timber structure sits on a concrete shelf, projecting from the landscape over the beach below. The build

Tucked away on Lake Zell is a house to which the dead buzzword c-o-m-p-l-e-x, depleted of meaning from years of overuse, might genuinely apply. The starting point was formal and postmodern: Louis Kahn’s Trenton Bath House (NJ, 1955). Thus the house’s pyra

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A plot in the row is being built on for the first time. In a street with mostly monotonous houses from the 1950s and 1960s, the rare bay windows are the only inspiring elements. The design makes an interpretation of the typical aspects: the neutral red br

House in Ayameike designed by Ippei Komatsu Architects is an "unpredictable and open house to the future" located in Nara, Japan.

El proyecto se inicia a raíz de una convocatoria pública del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona para la cesión de uso del solar ubicado en el barrio de la Marina del Prat Vermell calificado como VPO con derecho de superficie en favor de cooperativas de vivienda du

Located in the rural community of Mercendarbe in Latvia, House Pienenītes consists of a family house, a barn and a small sauna building, the latter of which will be built by the client later on. It was designed by Studio VĪKSNE, an emerging London based

Twelve houses is a block with town houses in Sorgenfri, the oldest industrial area in Malmö. The neighbourhood grew out of old farming areas along the railroad leading south – eight blocks the size of Malmös city centre. Today the area is characterised by

The microhouse is called as “Seroro”, which means ‘vertically’ as the house is built vertically, rooms stacked vertically and its residents live in vertically. Seroro is located at the heart of Seoul where the price of land is excruciatingly high. However

For 4Rooms, an artist residency on the island of Kastellorizo, Silvia Fiorucci tapped five up-and-coming designers to make over one room each of a house.