Modern Sustainable House | Malibu 5 | Kanner Architects

Vertically stacked and set into a hillside, Malibu 5 is a sustainable modern home constructed of environmentally friendly and recycled materials and designed to minimise energy use.

Conceived as a passive solar house that would make a minimal used of power grid, the house has photovoltaic panels on the roof......more

Modern Wooden House | Bohumileč House | Bohumileč | Czech Republic | Mimosa Architects

The wooden husk of the house hides the interior in white colours. Colourfulness of the house steps back the colourfulness of the surrounding green. The colours of the surroundings infiltrate the house and change it during the seasons.
From the north the house will be completed in the next period by the porch with the utility room, the store and the standing. The object of the sauna and the winter garden will be added to the eastern side of the house.......more

Modern Spanish House Design | Single Family House | Spain | YLAB Arquitectos

This family house is located next to an ancient wall, visible from the inside of the house, in contrast to the view from the opposite facade, wide and far. The long volume enhances the contrast between opposites. The house has a unique relationship with the solar: buried on the one side, flown on the other, horizontal to the landscape and quiet in the yard. The author of this project is the architect and Pet........more

Modern Australian House | Edward River House | Australia | Jackson Clement Burrows

The design of this farmhouse located on the Edward River near Deniliquin explores an interpretation of historic farm buildings in the local area typically constructed of timber frames and corrugated iron cladding. The house is traditionally sited adjacent to the river and the two storey structure is linked to a water tank tower which identifies its position nestled amongst the indigenous Red Gums on the river frontage..........more

Modern Belgian House | Lennox House | Leuven | Belgium | NEY + Partners

Building for activities with invalids and patient epileptics. The metal structure supports a roof out of wooden. The access to the buildings is done by a wood runway..........more

Farm House Design | Tokorozawa | Saitama | Japan | Studio Archifarm

The house is located in the farm at the corner of Nitta Sanfu and was developed during the Edo Period.
The site is a rich natural environment, surrounded by fields and woodlands.However, for many farmers the modern agricultural vehicles, are not enclosed within a building and normally would give unappealing sight.Thus, in this building, the request was not to allow the presence of eight vehicles.......more

Low Energy Family House | Steinfort | Luxembourg | Metaform

The monolithic aspect of this house finds its meaning in this flat land. This house seems to be "planted". The existence of a dense hedgerow at the bottom of the plot and the topography of the latter, led us to direct the "block" perpendicular to the street. This principle of plantation protects the overexposed garden from the gaze of others and gives it a more intimate character. Also, each ground-floor room has direct access to the garden.............more

Modern Private House | Vicenza | Italy | Studio Ricatti

The house is located in a popular residential neighborhood in Vicenza, dating back to the 70s, whose corner lot lies at the northern side of a recent parcelling out of the area.
The first goal of the project was to find the right relation with the surrounding context: we decided to develop the building along the east-west axis conceiving the southern façade as a screen able to filter the natural light and ensure the necessary privacy......more

Brazillian Modern House Design | Casa BF | Brazil | Humberto Hermeto

The premise of the project was to have a house as a platform with all the spaces in a single level (which should be as high as possible to take advantage of existing views). The owners had already purchased a lot, and off comes the complicated topography of the proposal.

With an average incline of 68% in the front of the property (more specifically in its first 10 meters), the ground presents the first obstacle to overcome: land works. A first simulation had a ramp going up but the cost of displacing dirt was so high that the idea was not feasible (the cost of moving earth and building foundations for the ramp exceeded the price paid for the property). In addition, this ramp would use more than 60% of the area, which made impossible the implementation of a project according to customer requirements.........more

Urban House Renovation | Queensland | Australia | Marc and Co

A renovation to an inner city Queenslander provided an opportunity enhance the character of the old, and provide architectural elements to move the house into the 21st century. The existing upper level is dedicated sleeping, sitting, and bathing. Under the existing house, a new living space flows into the garden, reinstating a relationship to the garden. The new steel structure is used as a datum, defining the old above and new below. The old floor structure is expressed as a reminder of days spent playing under Queenslanders..........more

Modern New Zealand House | Parihoa House | Auckland | Pattersons

A rural castle on a wind swept hill, this home responds to the environment as a fortress enclosing a luxury sanctuary for family living.......more

Mexican Modern House Design | Casa La Semilla | Morelos | Mexico | t3arc

The orientation of the house is north, as Jiutepec is a very hot state of Morelos, Mexico. The house barely has a master bedroom, and a small room for a child. The rest of the house is open, with a bar for cooking and eating and living areas together. In the south lawn, it forms an open area to be under the shade of the Ficus, while the north facade forms an open terrace in the sun like a pier, floating on a pond to retrieve clear water for irrigation .............more

Modern Concrete House Design | Cracked House | Gyeonggido | Korea | Mass Studies

The modestly-sized building (287㎡) contains six bedrooms, three kitchens, five bathrooms, one powder room, one common room (living room / dining room / library), and two connective spaces of minimum but suitable proportions. Each space is uniquely characterized by size, lighting conditions, etc. and joins together like an intricate puzzle. The exterior is finished in green exposed concrete to blend in with the surrounding nature, and the wall on the southern end of the garden is covered in a stainless steel mesh to encourage the greenery to spread vertically and envelope the building.........more

Private House Bellmund | Switzerland | EXH Design

This house for a family of four is located in Bellmund, Switzerland, nearby Biel. Situated on a small plot, the structure’s “house” shape maximizes its height to ensure views of Lake Biennem, while a terrace space is cut from the roof volume. The house has a wood structure, as is usual in Switzerland. The skin is clad in grey industrial panels – a rough and weather resistant material with low costs. In contrast to the modest and functional exterior, the wooden structure is revealed within to give the interior an inviting sense of warmth..........more
Photos by:
Philomène Hoël & Eik Frenzel.

Single Family House | House UV | Overijse | Belgium | B Architecten

A house that explores the subtle relation with its impressive nature surroundings......more

House Renovation And Transformation | Les Heures Claires | Belgium | Atelier d'Architecture Bruno Erpicum

The work involves renovating and transforming a house in the suburbs into a contemporary residential building. The owner wanted everything to have a fresh perspective, to be rethought and reworked: The architect took charge of the building and worked on it as if it were a sculpture which needs to be controlled from both the inside and the outside until a full appreciation is gained for the relationship the occupants have with the building in question. The architect will work on the house relentlessly, applying his formula of preference: “the right proportions shall have precedence over any form of decoration”. Since, two white walls have appeared on the avenue in the suburbs and two young trees can be seen in front of these walls which will grow and bear witness to the seasons of the year. As you enter the building, and before the family has a chance to extend its hospitality to you, a vast surface of water will arouse your senses.......more

Single Storey Austrian Modern House Design | House H | Syntax Architektur

The single storey house is built perpendicular of the old country inn.
Privacy and visual relationships are the key design factors. The low height of the building leads to a streamlined structure that consists of two surfaces: the white-plastered walls with transparent openings and clad with copper sheet metal roof. The main design element is the roof that grows out of the undulating terrain. On the side facing the slope, the shaft is carried down to the ground, so a private terrace with built-in green space is created. The reduction of the surface leads to an abstract, yet integrated into the landscape building volume.........more

Modern Home | Casa El Secreto | Zapopan Jal Mexico | divece

The architectural program stems from the need to build a tree house and yard, the main actor that links the elements of the program and becomes the source of illumination for living together with their inhabitants. The architectural concept is to make a home where space is shared and overlapping, fragmented and fused into one. Is an architecture of open space exchange character and end up forming a continuous space, interlace to string together a sequence of events that always go beyond their limits and are arranged focally in the central courtyard. The courtyard fills with his presence the interior spaces, but also becomes the visual bridge to the gardens and courtyards, takes advantage of his privileged position to remind the inhabitants of its proximity to the outside. The titration is dynamic and fragmented, it emphasizes the horizontal to the vertical for versatility in the composition of the spans and levels of transparency. The white walls light condition clarifies the volumes, framing material changes, textures, colors and are transformed on stage planned in the vegetation reinforces the close relationship between interior and exterior.......more

CO2 Neutral House | Velux Sunlighthouse | Pressbaum | Austria | Hein-Troy

Austria's first CO2-neutral house with fewer daylight factor

This house is the winner of the competition called Model Home 2020th.

The design responds in a specific way to the difficult circumstances of the property and its potential uses to the maximum. The living area is an incised atrium connected to the garden. The open roof space of the bedroom floor is marked by a series of skylights, the daylight from all sides lead into the interior.

With only 6 months of construction from groundbreaking to opening in October of 2010, the timber house is implemented in record time.

Heart of the home automation concept is the so-called energy roof. Two oriented south-west roof areas, with 48 m² of photovoltaic panels and sin 8 m² solar panels ........more

Beach House Design | Los Molles House | Cachagua | V Region | Chile | dRN

The irony of not having direct view of the ocean on a seaside house appears as a possibility for orienting this beach house towards a more unexpected landscape. The open horizon of the Pacific has been replaced by the view the near hillsides to the west, and to the protected space defined by a group of preexisting trees. This independent backyard, isolated from the intense summer life of the beach town of Cachagua, offers a calmed retreat to take distance from the city. Here, the close relation to topography stimulates spontaneous exterior circulations between rooms, giving the same relevance to the interior life of the house as to the exterior events, trying to enhance the informal condition of the beach house and the possibility of a life “outdoors”......more

Small Single Family House | Casa Garriga | Mirasol | Spain | EQUIP

Tub or Garriga House located in the urbanization of Mirasol, in Sant Cugat del Vallès, is built on a farm surrounded by other buildings. Oriented north to south, narrow, small and large, has a half-floor slope that divides the property in two parts. The regulation and measurement of solar forcing us to stand in the center of the plot in two halves in the inner part, the higher we place the pool and garden shared with a neighbor. On the outside and lower, is the entrance of the house. The project aims to bring the two parties The Tub House is open in one direction and closed in the other. The program is reattached and a continuous skin overlying making wall and ceiling. The foot appears to clarify the relationships between the program and location. The stays extend from one side to another and the housing is oriented from north to south, so the light can run inside a garden to another. A relationship means that the garden plants can run north under the housing forming a porch. Cross, these relationships we join the two parts of the house in one vacuum. The front-cover is lined with a smooth surface, gressite to light skating and tube tops are sealed with cement, a material texture-do that gives us depth pillars and floors are covered with a continuous-deck facade, which on one side, rests on a gravel pit filled with water works as a catcher, the other is suspended from the porch light turning the skin a light power inside, and we relate to the garden next door in the abroad........more
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House On The Hillside | Kilrenney Avenue Residence | Los Angeles | IKONIKO

Built and developed by Becker General Contractors in west Los Angeles, this house was completed in June 2009. By reorganizing and adding a significant amount of space to an original house volume, the new design takes full advantage of its hillside site by orienting spaces and views towards the surrounding landscape. Large windows and sliding glass doors allow lifestyles of leisure and work to expand out to the exterior. All spaces have access to numerous patios and balconies; allowing unexpected perspectives of the Los Angeles area.......more

Modern Japanese Tenement House Design | Static place | Ikimono Architects

It is the tenement house where 8 households live in.
There are a lot of losses to this building like a stone pit. It is it with the way of living to go back and forth in the average if the outside is out of it as for the ratio widely than the room of the floor space that I included to the roof terrace. The innumerable outside space possesses a power supply and water service in the exclusive possession space of each dwelling unit. But there is not the clear function as the room. By the device of the house hand, a parking lot, an atelier, a garden, dining, the gallery becomes the favorite space.
I want to think about relations with environment surrounding a person with a building and the person through a building. here, I regard the neighbor who lives in the same place as nature and a city and a similar environmental part, Because there is a neighbor, I thought about an amusement and discovery........more

Australian House Design | House At Coogee | MaSQ Architecture

The form of the house is derived from the limitations of its context. Neighbour views of Wedding Cake Island and the southeast needed to be maintained. The walls angle and tilt in plan and elevation in order to allow this to occur.

The house opens to the east and north which is its greatest aspect with the living room on the upper level to take advantage of the cooling breezes and views. The entry is slightly raised above the bedrooms and is intermediate to the living level. Views are slotted, contained or expanded depending on orientation and aspect.

The house is solid and robust to resist the battering of the elements. It can be dark, light, cool, or warm, responding to season and needs, providing its inhabitants the greatest amenity from which to contemplate nature..........more

California Single Family House | Vienna Way Residence | Venice | California |

Designed for a family, the Vienna Way Residence is located in Venice, California. Floor to ceiling glazing and connected outdoor living spaces seamlessly integrate the home with the California native landscape.

Two main volumes, anchored close to the boundaries of the property, divide the lot into thirds, bridged by a sunken kitchen in the center. The pool in the center of the outdoor courtyard visually unites the building forms. As the hub of the residence, the kitchen connects the public and private wings of the house and possesses expansive views of the pool, side and rear yards.......more