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

Single Family House | Enschede | The Netherlands | Cino Zucchi Architetti

The single-family house is part of a plan of urban reconstruction by Architekten Cie on an industrial area destroyed by the explosion of a fireworks warehouse. The design articulates the detailed volumetric prescriptions of the plan stressing the differences between a stately front in dark bricks and an informal back in frosted glass embracing a private garden.

Modern Single Family House Design | Alpes House | Lomas de Chapultepec | Mexico City | Not Only Architects

With this house project we experimented with a new design process. Breaking all the rules we started only with the basic drawings for floor plans, sections and facades.
The house final form was born out of sheer will to live and become what it wanted to become......more

Single Family Home | Loblolly House | Taylors Island | Maryland | Kieran Timberlake

Named for the tall pines that characterize its site on the Chesapeake Bay, this 2,200 square-foot single family residence seeks to deeply fuse the natural elements of this barrier island to architectural form. Positioned between a dense grove of loblolly pines and a lush foreground of saltmeadow cordgrass and the bay, the architecture is formed about and within the elements of trees, tall grasses, the sea, the horizon, the sky and the western sun that define the place of the house.......more

Single family house in Sent | Switzerland | Hans-Jörg Ruch Architecture

The vacation house is situated on a south facing terrace east of the Lower Engadine village of Sent, which itself stands on terraced terrain.
The house was located at the upper end of the building plot and its size kept to the minimum. On the one hand, this positioning made the most of the wonderful views and, on the other, it left the land, as far as possible, undisturbed. The intriguing appearance of the exterior facade on the whole building is due to the irregular positioning of large and small windows and the use of bevelled larch planking cut to size according to actual tree-growth.
Retaining the continuity of the unique terraced landscape, so distinctive in this place, and using wood as a contemporary building material were given equal importance in this project-Hans-Jörg Ruch Architecture

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King Residence | Santa Monica | California | John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects

Neighborliness: The King Residence rejects the standard public front yard/private backyard typology, opting instead for a structure whose living spaces and bedrooms open onto a relatively large garden and patio that faces the public streets and surrounding houses. While this arrangement puts much of the family’s communal and individual life on display, this is a positive feature for the Kings. The house’s blurring of public/private reinforces the sense of community that they embrace and encourage.

Siting and Massing: By setting the house towards the rear of the site, the house does not crowd the intersection. Read in a more volumetric way, the house is a solid mass in which one corner has been carved away, revealing the house’s inner life. But the structure can also be interpreted as series of planes, where angled walls that respond to the site’s wedged shape also contribute a degree of privacy for the house’s bedrooms. With a similar intent, the roof of the dining and “hangout” wing, angled to follow the gentle slope of the site, creates a sense of shelter for its inhabitants.

Materiality: Primarily composed of renewable materials such as plaster and cement board, the general permeability of the house is reinforced by its green and gray cement board painting pattern, designed to echo the dappled light one sees when looking through a tree towards a sun-filled sky. The wood screens, made of vertically-oriented Ipe, further help to dematerialize the structure’s opaque walls.

Light, Space, and Sustainability: Echoing the openness of the house to the neighborhood, the interior of the house is a series of free-flowing, continuous spaces that fosters a supportive, interactive family lifestyle. Generous use of skylights creates constantly changing light conditions that activate the interior. Extensive vertical glazing reduces the need for artificial lighting and enables ocean breezes to naturally ventilate the entire house, which does not include an air-conditioning system....more

Single Family House | Omer Arbel Office

There is a gentle slope from east to west and two masses of old growth forest defining two “outdoor rooms” each with a its own distinct ecology and conditions of light; the house is situated at the point of maximum tension in between these two environments, and as such acts at once to define the two as distinct, and also to offer a focused transition between them.

The design of the house itself began, as a point of departure, with a depository of one hundred year old Douglas Fir beams reclaimed from a series of demolished warehouses. The beams were of different lengths and cross sectional dimensions, and had astonishing proportions—some as long as 20 meters, some as deep as 90 cm. It was agreed that the beams were sacred artefacts in their current state and that we would not manipulate them or finish them in any way. Because the beams were of different lengths and sizes, we needed to commit to a geometry that would be able to accommodate the tremendous variety in dimension, while still allowing the possibility of narrating legible spaces. We settled on a triangular geometry.

Reclaimed beams were used to assemble triangular frames; these were folded to create a roof which would act as a secondary artificial landscape, which we draped over the gentle slope of the site. We manipulated the creases to create implicit and explicit relationships between indoor and outdoor space, such that every interior room had a corresponding exterior room.

In order to maximize ambiguity between interior and exterior space, we removed definition of one significant corner of each room by pulling the structure back from the corner itself (using bent steel columns in some cases), and introducing an accordion door system, such that the entire façade on both sides could retract and completely disappear.

We developed a detail that would allow the beams to define not only the ceilingscape of each interior room, but also to read strongly as elements of the building façade......more

Shaft House | Toronto Canada | Urbanscape Group

Shaft House is a new and innovative modern residential project that quickly garnered widespread interest in Toronto
—Home of The Week, Globe & Mail, August 2010.

Designed by Urbanscape Group partner Ali Malek-Zadeh and Reza Aliabadi—OAA of atelier rzlbd, Shaft House is a modern infill 2 ½ storey detached single family home. Shaft House is so called because the design revolves around a central skylight that opens to every level—flooding the home with natural sunlight—resulting a light and airy spacious feeling. The shaft of light coming from the southern exposure, cleverly divides the public and private areas of the house, with the northern side of the house reserved for bedrooms which employs a shading system on the street side of the residence to enhance privacy. The home can easily be configured for 2 or 3 bedrooms.....more

Single Family Home | The Ellis Park House | Toronto | Altius Architecture

4,300 sf. Single Family Home. Toronto, Ontario. Completed 2006.

The Ellis Park House was conceived as a contemporary ecological home in Toronto’s vibrant Bloor West Village neighbourhood.
Constructed on an overgrown infill site just steps to Bloor Street the house is earth sheltered into a hillside and enjoys spectacular vistas over High Park.
The holistic and integrated approach to sustainable design results in a bold modern house with exceptional green features.
Passive strategies shape the design and greatly reduce the energy loads while advanced active systems efficiently address what little loads remain.
The Ellis Park House exemplifies residential architecture that is responsive to its site, its urban context, the contemporary lifestyles of its occupants and their desire to minimize their environmental impact.
The home was constructed on an overgrown infill site, just steps from Bloor Street, that was considered unbuildable because of its 45 slope and shallow depth.
Where others saw obstacles, the design team saw potential for an earth sheltered home, ideally sited in an urban context with good solar orientation and exceptional vistas over Toronto’s High Park.........more

The house for the Schipper family in Venray Netherlands By JSA

Location:Venray

Client:mr and mrs Schipper

Design:1995

Realisation:1996

Surface:170 sq m

Building costs:118.000 euro

The house for the Schipper family in the Matterhornlaan in Venray forms part of an infill plan in the Veltum neighbourhood, which involves adding six new plots at the end of the street. To the south, the property borders on the grounds of an existing house and to the west and the north, new houses have been built. The eastern side of the property is not built up. This side also offers an attractive view of an adjoining wood.

Based on the constraints imposed by the location, a patio model has been developed in which the house provides its own privacy while at the same time full advantage is taken of the unimpeded view. In the patio area the ‘inner skin’ of the house is opened up as much as possible, allowing a view of both the inner garden and the adjoining countryside from all rooms. In contrast, the ‘outer skin’ of the house has a closed style and is constructed from variegated red brick with the occasional opening at strategic points.....more Photography: Bastiaan Ingenhousz

Single Family House | Mar Vista California | YU2E

Areas:
House- 2950 s.f.
Decks - 690 s.f.
Parking - Detached two car garage 484 s.f.
Recreation Room + Pool House - 459 s.f.

This was a first in a series of explorations of the single family suburban house. It is well documented that the single family program enables a relatively flexible and architecturally accommodating form.
It’s inherent “detached” quality panders to an individual’s tendency to be identified as separate or unique from the context.
This is especially pronounced in Mar Vista, a Venice Beach adjacent community with lots four times the size to contain four times more architecture.
But beyond the site, all other factors were finite and restricted.
While the zoning requirements were mild, the desires of the client did not match the resources available.
Big yards and large homes are difficult to marry even on a pretty generous lot. The usual budget constraints also limited the range of materials and systems available for implementation and relegated it to the ubiquitous Stucco and drywall over wood stick framing.
With the existing house footprint as a point of departure, an analysis of the private and public nature of the new program was conducted to determine the areas of all the desired as well as required spaces.
A distillation of their “privateness” separated them into different blocks that were “stacked” according to their relationship to use, circulation and adjacencies. This translated into a building with it’s program almost legible in its form.
It also resulted in varied setbacks beyond that usually required per zoning and made ample open space (yards and decks) possible.
Though the home was three stories tall, the extra open space negated the overall scale of the building.
The clean lines, stark finishes and modern nature are a departure from the mostly expected stylings of the surrounding neighborhood, but it does not stand overtly outside the edges of the standard suburban neighborhood.
There is transparency to the public side of domestic life. There is engagement with the public right-of-way with the requisite front lawn and mediating front porch and entry.
These are all elements found in classical homes that have been re-interpreted and re-expressed. .......more

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

Private House East Susex | england Designed By Abirarchitects

This new build two storey family house is located in a rural setting. Within the grounds of a listed building and surrounded by mature trees the site maintains a sense of separation and privacy through integration into the landscape.....more

Single Family House In Mollet | Girona | Spain | Mias Arquitectes

It is not a weekend house because the owner resides there during all the year. Its location in respect to the town of Mollet distinguishes it strategically. The existing construction, now a kitchen, permitted to fix a starting point for the project. The walls would extend in the same level of the already existing ones, or varying it slightly, zigzagging, in order to obtain the necessary spaces, changing of level to assume the slight topography of the lot. The construction would be horizontal, extended, gathering the landscape, moving delicately to obtain the best views, or closing small spaces, in a process of drawing and redrawing. The walls begin to be constructed between the pines, and they reach the existing building, surrounding it, and then turn down towards the olives. Constructing the necessary space and then fragmenting it to place over the house a study, an observatory… The windows stand out, simply, when they let show a fragment of the landscape......more
Site: Mollet de Peralada, Girona
Client: Private
Type: Single house
Project: 2000
Construction: 2004
Area: 230 m²
Budget: <1M€

Single Family House | House In Girona | Spain | Mias Arquitectes

The construction is organized trying to unfold topographically in the parcel. We started delineating all surfaces of the project, from the street to the inferior edge of the lot, from a corner to the other, following its’ contours, and trying to contain this topography. With lines that tried to recognize the lot and to reveal its qualities.....more
Site: Caselles d’Avall, Girona
Client Private
Type Single house
Project 2002
Construction 2005
Area 500 m²B
udget <1M€

Single Family House In Tàrrega | Spain Designed By GCA Arquitectos Associados

New building of a single family house
A two-story single family home uses materials such as exposed concrete, IPE wood, and slate. The backyard terrace serves as an extension of interior living spaces and simple cantilevered spaces help to shelter the entryway and back patio....more

Villa D | Single family house | Stockholm, Sweden | RB Arkitektur AB

"Villa D is a single family house situated south-east of Stockholm, high above street-level, on a rocky and steep site that overlooks a beautiful surrounding.
Two main criteria of this single family house were considered in the design phase – the client’s wish to access the highest point of the site, and an aim to limit the amount of blasted rock. We chose to design a clearly defined volume that shoots out from the rock, creating a dramatic effect worthy the site.
The result is a long rectangular shaped plan, integrated into the rock on one end, cantilevered with an inclined gable on the other.
In order to fulfill the client’s wish of accessing the highest point of the site, living room, dining and kitchen areas are placed on the first floor with access to large terraces, while bedrooms are on the ground floor. A skylight stands above the staircase making the access to the first floor bright and inviting.
While the house has a dramatic 2-story façade facing the street, its opposite face presents a discreet single storey turned towards a dense forest.
The structure of this single family house is a combined timber and steel construction with facades clad in wooden panels. The panels have been given a grey tone as a way of borrowing the colours of the surrounding nature"





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