Modern Horizontal House | North Penn House | Indianapolis | Deborah Berke Partners

This new 3,500 square foot house is defined by the juxtaposition of its horizontal planes with the dramatic topography of the wooded site, including a sloping landscape at the rear of the house down to a meadow below. A long roof with big overhangs, tall sliding glass doors, and Indiana limestone floors, which extend out to terraces, connect the indoors to the outdoors: the changing seasons become a vibrant backdrop to everyday life. Zinc panels and mahogany doors and windows combine with the light gray pavers in a modern, yet warm palette of materials......more

Brick & Glass House | Villa SR | Netherlands | Reitsema and Partners Architects

The view of the Holterberg was leading for the design. A massive brick wall on the street side offers the home privacy in contrast to the rear that is completely made of glass. This creates a panoramic view. By shifting the storage room and the living area apart, a view through the neighborhood is created on the landscape behind. By lifting the house, the garden becomes part of its environment and the residents have an unobstructed view. A small patio with an opening on the street side provides contact with the neighborhood and also ensures that the kitchen is heated by the morning sun. The concrete roof rests on a few walls and three slender columns. This creates a free floor plan with an obvious outside-outside relationship with the private domain.....more

Modern Minimalist House | Herne Bay House | Cox's bay | Canada | Lloyd Hartley Architects

At the end of a long driveway and nestled amongst the neighbouring houses and established pohutukawa trees, an existing 1960’s brick & tile home sat stubbornly in the middle of the site. While functional, the existing dwelling provided a confronting car-centric entry and failed to engage with the landscape or the spectacular views over Cox’s Bay.

Lloyd Hartley were asked to transform this house into a modern home that responds to its context and provides a private city oasis for a young family......more

A Modern Concrete House | Yokohama | Japan | Torafu

This site is located in a quiet residential region reclaimed on a hill of Yokohama. With neighboring houses lined very close together, this flag-shaped site meets a road at a verge of no more than 3 meters in width. Since the site is tilted to the north, and the neighboring house to the south is two-storied and built on a tiered, higher ground, at first it seemed almost impossible to let in light from the south, although the client, a married couple who has lived in this place for a long time, wanted a small but sunshiny house of one-story just as their child became independent from them........more

Modern Minimalist House Design | House In Ookayama | Japan | Torafu

Two generations live in this three-storied wooden house located in a Tokyo residential area. The site corresponds to a 4.7 m wide × 16.5 m long fringe of the land where the owner's parents lived. Furthermore, the site is enclosed by buildings on three sides while its northern side abuts directly on the street. The layout was designed to alleviate the impression of narrowness of the frontage inasmuch as possible and make the best use of the site's conditions within the maximum volume allowed by setback restrictions. To minimize pressure from the corridor on the frontage path we devised a basic plan that placed the entrance and stairs at the center while the bedroom and public areas are divided on a north-south axis..........more

[KO] mic House By Synn Architekten

The simple garden house for a collector is divided into the rich trees. As a sort of small museum offers the warped cube storage space and presentation area. The irregularly set windows convey the idea of the cabinet and frame as the end points of the route-views and vistas in the garden. A level ceiling increases to the garden-oriented living room, sits down in the bedroom above it (with a glazed-sided corner bay window) and continue deforming the cube at this point.....more

House N By Synn Architekten

The design provides two views, one into the square, both of which are open to the garden through glass walls. All other facades offer only selective views.
The house offers all the important rooms on one level, a spacious living-dining room and bedrooms overlooking the garden. The pool is right outside the sheltered terrace to the water element involved in the experience of space........more

Elise House By Synn Architekten

The house has a pitched roof with a large space for each area of ​​life: living area with adjoining kitchen and nursery on the ground floor and staggered up the bedroom. The cubes are connected by a backbone of the adjacent level raised to form a distinct boundary with the garden - it is to remain a municipal building, surrounded by the garden as a deeper level.....more

Aliens Rivulet House | Room 11

The client wish for the kitchen to be the heart of the home generated the internal layout. The house revolves around this heart and eventually lifts to peer over the first level ring. Voids make the heart visible from most spaces within the house. The compact plan is made to feel larger employing these voids. Internal and external spaces are blurred at one extreme, and highly contained at others.....more

House In Marilia | Sao Paulo | Brazil | GroupoSP

The house is located in the city of Marilia, about 450 miles northwest of Sao Paulo, characterized by its subtropical climate and high temperatures. The land where this house is situated on the edge of the urbanized area of the city on a hill with gentle slope.
The topography has been exploited by drawing three levels: the lower level houses the garage and services, the intermediate level is the balcony and the upper level is occupied by the living room and bedrooms.
The living room and bedrooms are focused on the longitudinal bar in reinforced concrete served by a shade structure defined by a cross and setting up an airy open balcony that serves the landscape. Below lie the services and the garage. The bar is closed and regulated by their external openings are ye break-wood furnishings.
A closed and an open house at the same time, a shadow for the activities, a window into the landscape.....more

House Uc | Setagaya Tokyo Japan | Miyahara Architect Office

House Uc is a residence designed for a couple in their 30s and their daughter. It is located in the quiet residential area of Tokyo standing on a small and narrow site of irregular shape - a result of the recent trend of dividing property into smaller segments each time it is sold and bought due to inheritance issues and market availability. The site measures approximately 57 m2 in size: approximately 12 meters deep, 6 meters across where it faces the north road, and 2.7 meters across at the deepest end. The design for House Uc therefore needed to focus on the ideal form of an urban detached house within the constraints of the site itself as well as laws and regulations.

The client felt that a residence was a form of self-exposure to the outer world. In order to live up to his expectations, House Uc was designed to imply the essence of the house within the urban context by bringing out the characteristics of the finishing material that was chosen together with the client. The concrete exterior walls were coated with lean-mix acrylic paint, resulting in a black mottled effect according to the difference in the degree of water absorption and smoothness of the surface. The zinc-coated steel sashes on the east side were dipped in phosphate to strengthen the zinc layer, and the difference in the amount of zinc coating on the sashes projected a black patchy effect. The mottled exterior walls and patterned sashes are the result of chance (nature) and display a certain beauty, in a sense similar to human beings – people are attractive, pockmarks and all.

The east face was provided as a baseline to anchor the intensely irregular shape of the site. All partitions, equipment, etc. were positioned originating from the north-most corner of the east face. Natural lighting was no exception. Over 20 windows made of raw brass were randomly placed on the east face, allowing natural light to filter in through the golden screens in a nonuniform pattern. This irregular pattern of light provided by the east face or baseline wall will leave an impression on the residents’ minds, helping them with spatial orientation and becoming a trigger for daily actions; the design hopes to enhance spatial comfort for the residents by promoting the automatism of daily actions.

For the interior of the house, the first floor consists of an independent bedroom and bathroom. The second floor has a main room with a ceiling that partially opens onto the third floor; this aspect and the stairs made of perforated metal also contribute to the open feel of the main bedroom and tearoom on the third floor. The partitions were made of transparent glass and Japanese paper blinds so as not to divide the atmosphere. The third floor tearoom defined by the sudare or Japanese wooden blinds is the only space that opens out towards the south. Here, the residents can enjoy the view of the century-old landmark, the water tower - a positive reminder of the continuous flow of time......more
Location : Setagaya Tokyo Japan
Design : 2004.05-2005.05
Construction : 2005.05-2005.12
Total floor area : 91 sq.m

ISMAEIL VILLA | Mirdif Dubai | X-Architects

This small house for a family of four is an attempt to create a pure architectural space. All materials including walls, floors ceilings have been simplified as much as possible. The materials enclose a space where nothing but the apertures and the volumes enclosed are stressed. The sizes of the aperture were determined by the relation between floor areas and height and total volume.....more

C House | Arakawa-ku, Tokyo | Power Unit Studio

In downtown Tokyo, two brotherly residences are located in the same site. The two places with "C" type sections face each other and stand in parallel without contact. In one of the "C" type spaces, there is a living room and dining room on the three different floor levels. Another "C" type space across the stairwell is used for multiple purposes.The private rooms and the bathroom are arranged linearly on the first floor.The glass wall along the corridor connects the private alley-space in front of the residence and the internal space.....more
location:Arakawa-ku, Tokyo
main use:private residence
site area:116.27m2
building area:67.71m2
total floor area:108.04m2
structure:wood, partly steel frame
complete:May.2001

Kingston House Designed By Room 11

A place of calm and repose. An opposite to the clients busy lifestyle. A place of rest. Strong connections are drawn with both the immediate and the distant landscape. Voids are sliced through the building to allow sunlight and trees. Trees act as a seasonal body clock and alter the hue of the building as leaves move from green to red to white blossoms. The voids connect the building to the rock shelf, the trees, the immediate, allowing these elements to permeate the living and sleeping areas....more

Hill House | The Hague The Netherlands | 123DV Architecture

Project: Hill House
Status: completed 2010
Location: The Hague, The Netherlands
Program: private residence
Size: 298 m2
Design team: Liong Lie, Jasper Polak, Sophie Pfeiffer
Photography: Cristian Richters

This house partly rests on an existing hill. The overhang of the house functions as a canopy for the entrance. The living area is connected to the garden with a terrace on the hill. .....more

T-HOUSE | Kanagawa Japan By Kubota Architect Atelier

T-HOUSE / Kanagawa

Site area:260.52m2
Built area:81.75m2
Total floor area:114.47m2
Structure　　:Reinforced concrete construction(partly steel-framereinforced concrete)
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Shimouma House | Tokyo | Kazuya Saito Architects

The site is located in a relatively dense residential area in Tokyo, on corner lot surrounded by roads on three sides, the shape of frontage 4m, 11m long and deep. The South has a shopping mall atmosphere was originally the west alley, facing the residential area north of the east site boundary is approaching the neighbors until the last minute. Mother and child clients are working together, often work-related stuff. Narrow frontage strip of land, surrounding environment fit different personalities clash, a lot of things we will continue to increase in the future. Advanced plan design elements such as a clue.

Secured parking in the narrow grounds, and essentially three-story room and arranging the desired structure was wooden and the budget. The client has a square image of the house, because space is needed on the construction scaffolding on the east side, with a footprint of 3.6m frontage, it is determined that the natural rate applied Volume sky. Spraying exterior walls and dark brown finish, each a different angle with the wall is the result of friendly faces to look like different viewing angle. Side of the road, only to be easily obtained from the daylight openings, windows and plumbing and ventilation all together on the east side. Because the parking lot does not have to cut our deep roots, and trace around the well site had been left in the upper half of the frontage for large glulam beams = 1.8m and has a Kyantireba.

Configuration space, together with three first-floor room 区切Rubeki, second floor studio space and one floor was divided into three loosely by seismic braces, the roof terrace is provided. For clients that have their own rhythm of life, a story his mother, the child's third floor, roof and floor and shared the second floor. Stairs connecting them, deliberately shifting positions to put down floors in the longitudinal direction, and walked around the room spinning long, as has been planned over the opening and storage racks. And more stuff, a little on the shelves and storage change the view from the opening, the change in sequence casual every day reminiscent of the street corners somewhere, we have the depth to the space and opportunity to enrich the lives of everyday ......more

Single Family House | House AM | Stuttgart | Germany | DITTEL Architekten

The villa, located in the best area for viewing Stuttgart, offers a fantastic view of the city from all three floors and provides a place to live luxuriously. The house was completely gutted and then renovated from the ground up. The front, which faces the city, was completely opened up, in order to optimize the view of the city. A free floor plan offering a lot of space for flexibility, along with architectural materials coordinated with each other provide flowing transitions of the individual living areas, which work well together. The form language has been minimized and kept clean, on the inside and on the outside, underlining the spaciousness and openness of this residential house. The opened front and the many open areas with their positive visual relationships contribute to a modern and very Mediterranean feel. There is a double garage on the ground floor level. A guest restroom and an open patio are attached to the entryway area, which floods the entire ground floor with light. The ground floor also offers the owners of the house a sauna area and relaxation area. The second floor has living, eating, and kitchen areas. In addition, there is a spacious terrace area on that floor, which – in one direction - orients itself toward the city, and in the other, toward the garden; protected and private. The third floor has a master bedroom with a bath, and a second room. An office for receiving clients, and a spacious second bathroom complete the villa..........more

Minimalist Home | JaG's House | Matador

Single-family home for professional.
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