Single family house renovation. Published in DIVISARE BOOKS issue #95

The project is a non-invasive single family house in the middle of a rural building block. Although mainly underground, it looks out over the surroundings. The main asset is the logical tectonic structure, which gives birth to both the spatial and -via th

gjG House is one of the experimental houses BLAF architecten is known for in Flanders and beyond. It is part of their research called ‘Brick Wall City’, that addresses the precise relationship between material, construction and the appearance of brick arc

Suzu is a project in Kyoto, Japan, that consisted of the renovation of two houses that co-inhabit the same land but that more than seven decades separate their architectural styles and construction methods. The two houses share the same entrance from the

No context is irrelevant to a new building. And often the site itself generates conditions affecting the project in almost every decision. This is not the case with this house. The sun, the geometry of the plot -almost square with a chamfer-, a neighbour

House C-VL – an original take on a bungalow renovation In renovating this 1960s-era bungalow, certain areas in the house were kept undefined. This left a lot of room for the personal interpretation of the residents, so that the house came to life very spo

Una casa per medici nel villaggio maasai di Maji Moto, Tanzania. A doctor's house in Maji Moto maasai village, Tanzania

The original bungalow was built by a social housing organization called

In the context of the Rüttenersch housing estate of same-style houses, this building was planned in 1929 by architect Wilhelm Fleisch on behalf of the city of Dornbirn. It was extended to the north garden side in 1935 by the Cartellieri family by an extra

A townhouse is entirely renovated for a new composed family. Only the front part is preserved. A relatively heavy programme and a north-facing rear facade require a well-considered compact stacking. The classic dark core is lit up by means of a void. A co

More compact living is necessary. Including in the suburbs. A plot on which there used to be a single-family house is divided into 2 plots. Within the austere constraints of the municipality's regulations, we strive to create architecture that is modest a

A simple gabled form glad in corrugated metal encloses a porous series of internal and exterior spaces at this house near Tsukimiyama Station in Kobe by Tato Architects.

A charming, small-scale house wins Sweden’s oldest and most prestigious architecture award, beating out Bjarke Ingels Group and Wingårdhs.

A design was made for an urban renewal area in the Hague Moerwijk district. It forms an ensemble of housing around a characteristic church, a monastery and a fraternity, built in the Bossche School architecture of the famous Van der Laan family. From this

The place: At the top of a mountain, in the Calandaíma river valley, it found La Cascajosa, a recreational house 2 hours away from Bogotá.

This house stands in a new residential district in the mountains, which was put up for sale in the 1990s. The region has a slightly cool and wet climate, when looking at the other houses in the vicinity; you can see that many of them feature lean-to-shed

Depending on where you stand, the Fagan’s self-built home ‘Die Es’ has a mountain or seaside backdrop. ‘Die Es’—meaning ‘the hearth—is situated on the Atlantic Seaboard in Camps Bay, but it feels more like it’s on a little farm with its own private nature reserve.

Architecture | Villa Idun-Lee is a project where experimental lust is combined with pragmatism.

Polyphonic At this house - a residence designed for a family of four - it was requested that everyone in the family should be able to feel the presence of each other regardless of where they are in the house. The design is based on the fixed topography of

El trabajo realizado para la familia Núñez consistió en la transformación de un antiguo departamento en una casa urbana contemporánea. El proyecto se resume en cuatro operaciones puntuales que buscan poner en relación la organización existente con el nu

La casa está situada en Villa Adelina, un barrio ubicado en el norte de la provincia de Buenos Aires donde conviven grandes comercios, industria y vivienda. La construcción se ubica próxima a la calle en un lote donde ya existe una casa prefabricada que