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The Atelierhaus for the german artist Markus Oehlen is located in a formerly illigal settlement in the north of Munich. Inbetween makeshift buildings a house was formed with just one room, constructed with just one layer. The materials concrete, pumice st

Danish-based NORRØN Architects breathe new life to abandon, yet unforgettable building mass. On the Danish peninsula Jungshoved, in the outskirts of the small town Roneklint, is located the first version of a new housing typology titled The Danish Cottage

Designed by Nori Architects for a young family with children, Minimum House located on a narrow plot in Toyota, Japan, introduces a new prototype of urban housing on a limited budget.

2100 meters above sea level. El Retiro, Colombia A house as of two separate structures linked by a path and a large garden in a forest clearing. What could have been a single larger house was planned as dispersed volumes positioned in a steep slope, each

The Wiener Werkbundsiedlung is located in the city district of Hietzing on the western edge of Vienna.

It is a summer house located on a slope in the shoreline of the lake, in the eastern part of Wielkopolska Voivodeship in Poland. The building is hidden deep inside the plot, dividing it into two zones. The technical part with a driveway and garage is loca

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

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

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

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

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

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

Architecture has an influence on nature, and nature has an influence on our architecture. Art also influences our architecture. A sculpture forms the basis of this residential volume. In our quest for buildability, affordability, circular, energetic and e

We had the opportunity to acquire a property at a very favorable price in a prominent location in the village of Berin- gen in Klettgau. We wanted to use this to implement our idea of architecture by means of a replacement building. In order for this to s

In 2018 the freelancing sculptural artist Ms. Monika Rienössl decided to return to the place she grew up and to renovate the abandoned house along the main street of the small village of Neuaigen in Lower Austria which was in a bad state of repair. For d

The Federal House provides a vessel through which to enable habitation and the ongoing experience of a particular place and time. Within the folding hills of its hinterland site, the home acts as both experiential container for this place and as a conditi

Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2019. First Prize This is a house for our mothers, both of whom always wanted to have bigger families and bigger houses in which to live together as families. Really, it is a house for any kind of big family, wh

The 199m2 retrofitted barn sits within a 25-acre site of green fields and is part of a wider long-term strategy, which is being developed by the clients and the practice, to regenerate and rewild the secluded site, turning an agricultural relic into the h

The building is a micro-density trial of 3 houses/studios paired, on a conventional lot in the Ducasse neighbourhood, on the northern outskirts of the central area of the city of Córdoba, very close to the Suquía River and Las Heras Park, a traditionally

In 1980, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers took part in a competition for a prototypal solar house to develop on a large scale in the community of Landstuhl in Germany and eventually through...

The house was built in 1969 by the architect Herbert Heinke as his own home and architecture office. In addition to these two functions, the house also has a small granny flat, the resident of which has lived there from the start and also lived there duri

Inspired by historic and modern precedents, and recalling the work of Hugh Newell Jacobsen, the aptly named Three Chimney House designed by TW Ryan Architecture strives for "timeless yet contemporary voice for Southern architecture in America."

One of the central concerns when building within an historical setting is that of authenticity. Without resorting to Ruskinian dogma, we might still acknowledge that much of the value of ancient buildings lies not just in their historic evidence of past c

Mandokoro House designed by Kenta Eto Atelier is a minimal residence located in Oita, Japan that hides an unconventional interior behind its protective façade.

Shota Nakanishi - Detached house, Kanazawa 2019. Photos © Shinkenchiku-Sha. [[MORE]]