House on Salt Marshes | Salt Box | New Jersey | Parnagian Architects

A 2,400 square foot home sited in the low lying, flood prone salt marshes of New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay. The client’s brief was to design a lasting replacement for a multi-generational family home that had been damaged beyond repair during Hurricane Sandy. The site is situated at the end of a small peninsula, bound directly to the west by a commercial shipyard and marina, and to the north, south and east by expansive views of the Barnegat Bay. .......more

Modern Wooden House | Zilvar | Czech Republic | ASGK Architecture & Design

The experimental low-energy wooden house Zilvar won honorable mention the Architecture Grand Prix in 2014 in the Family House category. The land is located in the outskirts of a small quiet village surrounded by fields, meadows and woods and is the ideal place for peace and relaxation. The investor decided to construct a weekend house which is designed as one living space with two galleries which provides maximum communication with the garden. Its unconventional shape opens up views of the old oak tree and pond, and across the terrace to the garden’s central section......more

Timber Retreat Cabin | Sunset Cabin | Lake Simcoe | Canada | Taylor Smyth Architects

Nestled into a slope on the southern shore of Lake Simcoe, this one room sleeping cabin is a simple but sophisticated Canadian bunkie, evoking the “primitive hut” of branches constructed in the wilderness.

The clients desired a private retreat from the main cottage further up the hill that would also enhance their enjoyment of the surrounding landscape in a location previously used to watch the sunset.

The fully insulated glass cabin is encased on three sides by cedar slats.
A green roof is planted with sedums and herbs to camouflage views of the cabin from the main cottage. The minimal furnishing includes a bed with built-in drawers, a wall of storage cabinets and a wood-burning stove. All interior surfaces, including floor and ceiling, are fabricated of birch veneer plywood........more

Modern Timber House Design | Sam's Creek | Bridgehampton | New York | Bates Masi Architects

A series of open-ended boxes, each tailored to a portion of the architectural program focuses the view from the street though the house to the landscape in the rear. Mahogany boards wrap floors, ceilings, and walls to heighten the perspectival view and provide privacy from neighbors. Each box has independent audio, video, and climate control to operate autonomously and the length, height, and volume of each box is adjusted to appropriately encase the program. Interstitial spaces between the arranged boxes are gardens and patios. The overlap of the boxes creates thresholds that highlight interesting moments. With each box occupying a specific program, the multitasking of different events is achieved.........more

Swedish Wooden House On Stilt | Woodlands Country Club | Örkelljunga | Sweden | Henning Larsen Architects

The vision of the Woodlands Country Club have been to combine Scandinavian simplicity with the North American wooden house architecture hence integrating the houses in the surrounding landscape – the ideal conditions for a stay in the great scenery viewing the golf course.
In order to use the existing values of the landscape the houses are built on pillars, so you get the feeling of floating on the slopes between the treetops. Furthermore the houses have been arranged in order to create the most peaceful and private surroundings for each house.

All the houses are placed so they have the best possible view and ideal conditions for sunlight be leading the natural sunlight through the large windows. The selection of natural materials and the construction of the building ensure a perfect indoor climate with optimal air circulation and moisture insulation. .....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

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

Timber House | Island Bach 1 | Great Barrier Island | Herbstarchitects

This bach on Great Barrier Island has a clarity of vision combined with a profound humility. A tower and a pavilion are sheathed in weathered timber planks that offer protection from the elements, but can be slid back to allow an engagement with the environment. Interior and exterior distinctions are blurred and at night it radiates like a Japanese lantern. In this building the bach tradition is combined with modernist formal sensibility to produce a sublime piece of architecture............more

Timber House Design | Cabin on Flathead Lake Polson | Montana | Andersson Wise

Situated above a steep cliff, called the Matterhorn by locals, and amongst 200-foot-tall Ponderosa pine, the cabin on Flathead Lake was designed to quietly enjoy the panoramic lake views and activity of the osprey......more

House in Pikovice | Pikovice | Czech Republic | mjolk

Two years ago, a good friend of ours and his wife decided to buy a plot of land sloping northward close to the river Sazava. The natural environment of the village of Pikovice near the town of Davle offers, first and foremost, a tranquil home to be enjoyed every day – and yet it lies within an easy driving distance of the Prague ring road. The newlyweds’ worldview and their determination to build something new led to a decision to design a wooden house that would be neither big nor small and would meet the requirements of healthy living while economizing energy consumption. The house is a cuboid with a flat green roof and two outside entrances. An outside staircase leading from the ground level to the second above-ground story bites off a wedge from the upper part of the cuboid...........more

Timber House Design | Courtyard Beach House | Leeton Pointon Architects

Designed to be enveloped by climbing plants, the restrained timber façade will evolve as it weathers to a silvery grey. The house surrounds two courtyards, giving a strong sense of arrival via a ‘gangplank’ where one can ceremoniously retreat from working life.........more

Tropical Beach House | Smith House | Limon | Costa Rica | Benjamin Garcia Saxe

This beach house for Tom and Annie Smith is located less than 100 meters from the Caribbean Sea and surrounded by a lush tropical rainforest. They wished to provide a view to the ocean from every space in the house while also integrating the large trees in the forest around them. The house was then placed longitudinally along the beachfront dividing the private (bedrooms) and public spaces (living, dining, and kitchen) with the entrance. A corridor along the back acts as the umbilical cord for all the spaces while providing a very open view to the forest.......more

Modern Single Family Home | Little Big House | Mount Wellington Australia | Room 11

Thomas Bailey and Megan Baynes designed and built this house for themselves in Fern Tree upon the eastern slopes of Mount Wellington high above Hobart. The siting is mindful of its context; positioned close to and perpendicular to the curvilinear Huon Road. The house, on a vacant lot between established houses and gardens, is defensive and diagrammatic.
Tucked carefully between cadastral constraints and a magnificent birch tree, the footprint has been kept deliberately small. The dwelling is stacked across two levels which step to match the undulating terrain.It’s just a box. A clean volume with two exceptions; a service core and an entry air-lock.The house is designed to be intensely private. Apertures are purposefully positioned to create pure window types opening to either garden, sky or shadow. Polycarbonate cladding on the eastern and western facades render luminous shadow walls which enable the house to be concurrently light and contained......more

Great Barrier House | Great Barrier Island | New Zealand | Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects

The house is nestled in a beautifully private setting surrounded with large Puriri trees, Blackwoods and other natives. The building form is elevated for flood protection, and acknowledges the hill to the west, lifting towards it’s elevation. The living zone opens completely to this setting, and the timber exoskeleton references the surrounding trees. The bedrooms all have protected outdoor space, being closely located to the trees for increased privacy. The house is located to protect the existing vegetation and to make the most of the sun and the native bird life on the property. Being on Great Barrier Island, the building also needed to be sustainable - the following abstract from an e-mail received from the Clients refers to this point: “The outdoor room is a place we spend much of our time, eating, reading, doing homework and siesta-ing; but the feeling of being indoors on those hot summer days with all doors open is also fantastic. Not cold enough (owing to that great low E glass and good design) for fires yet - we have had 2 only for ambience, not heat. “It is an astonishingly decadent feeling lying in a bath of free water, heated by the sun, pumped by solar power. Free as anything! Hot water gets up to 68 degrees in the tank from the sun, and has to be cooled to come out the tap. “With 9 staying and all the laptops, music, washing etc we’ve only run the generator 3 times ever. All the irrigation systems do clever things. So it’s more than a PC nod to sustainability, as you know from all our fussing about timbers and paints.”....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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Passive House | Villa Nyberg | Borlänge,Sweden | Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture

Kjellgren Kaminsky has produced Swedens first series of passive houses sold as type houses in collaboration with Emrahus, our goal is to make this environmentally friendly building technique available for all. Villa Nyberg is the first one to get built. The villa has been customized for the Nyberg family and is situated in Borlänge, central Sweden.
Passive houses are extremely well-insulated buildings that are largely heated by the energy already present in the building - people and our household equipment generate a lot of energy. Our energy simulations show that this villa will have an energy consumption for heating of only 25 kWh/m²year........more

House Of The Interior | San Sebastion, Sao Paulo | Brazil | GroupoSP

This house is affiliated to the proposal from the home of St. Francis Xavier: an attempt to make architecture within the possibilities and limited resources.
This is a summer house located in the hinterland of Juquehy near the beginning of the Sierra, in a characteristically urban lot.
The living space is defined by the layout of the bedrooms and the hydraulic block with kitchen and bathrooms.
The room connects to the dormitories through a wooden deck longitudinal. We decided to offer all the environments look more widely marked by the original cover, on the east face, concentrating on the border services facing the lot next door.
Thus the internal spaces are enlargedwith setbacks and eliminates the difficulty imposed by the limits of the lot.
The house was built by local labor using traditional techniques.
The plan for coverage in a single water rests on the wooden structure of the room and the walls of the dormitories.
The slab of concrete block with a hydraulic foot right of 2.05m, is in the gutter all the water that collects longitudinal.
A stone wall defines the boundary area of the house and organize the input.
Large banners fixed glass allow light to enter the house and the visual and let the light spill at night, marking the landscape of this place.....more

Hurteau Miller Residence | Québec | Kariouk Associates

The spatial system of this cottage is conceived as a porous and open ground-floor that supports a solid, “private”, volume above. All of the primary living and communal functions, such as the indoor and outdoor living rooms, kitchen and eating area, and sauna open either literally or volumetrically to the surrounding lakeshore. The master bedroom suite is also placed on the ground floor since the house is meant to be a home for a lifetime and issues of future accessibility are thus addressed. The upper volume, a heavier wooden box clad of Western Red cedar, is cradled by the seemingly delicate armature below and houses spaces that are introverted, namely the son’s bedroom and guest sleeping areas. This dropping of the second-floor volume into the ground-floor level is meant to create spatial interest and intimacy throughout the large, communal areas of the interior while minimizing the house’s presence from the exterior......more

Putney Mountain Residence | Vermont | KWSA

The site on the southwestern slope of Putney Mountain is characterized by heavily wooded terrain, large outcroppings of ledge, and dramatic sweeping views. Three clearings in the woods frame the approach to the house from the east and open up the site to the surrounding landscape. The house consists of three simple volumes arranged around a large outcropping of exposed ledge. A living volume faces the western mountains, sleeping quarters face a southern meadow, and a shed volume houses storage and mechanical equipment. Putney Mountain house was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal Weekend Journal on Friday 30 January 2009.....more

Granite Mountain Cabin | Arizona | Lawrence Architecture

This 2,160 SF vacation home for an active family of four has an "L"-shaped plan with the main living spaces in one wing and the private spaces in the other. The house opens out to the substantial westerly views, while the kitchen (in the corner of the L) looks back to an aspen grove and a seasonal wetland. A garage and apartment for guests are connected via a breezeway. The general contractor was The Patterson Company......more