Designed by Zak Architecture, Assembly House For New Hawaiian home is located in North Kona, United States. The assemblage of pavilions on the site defines the garden spaces, creating additional public gathering areas and secluded sanctuaries. Each building is deliberately placed within the site to achieve a dialogue with the garden. The interior bathroom enclosures open onto exterior shower gardens,...
Designed by Lehrer Architects, The Canyon Residence is located in Los Angeles, United States. Horizontal and vertical view slots are integrated throughout the house, as are sightlines to the entire property from every vantage point. Spectacular and at one with nature, the steel-frame structure is clad in smooth white stucco and expanses of sliding glass walls that literally open out to the garden and...
Designed by Kieran Timberlake Architects, Loblolly house is located in Maryland, United States. This project proposes a new, more efficient method of building through the use of building information modeling (BIM) and integrated component assemblies. The thousands of parts that make up a house were collapsed into a small number of offsite fabricated cartridges and blocks and simply attached to an industrial...
Designed by Jean Paul Cazedessus, Boomerang house is located in Tilaran, Costa Rica. This green home, combining a copper standing seam roof with a living grass roof and walls, is built to a structural resistance of 8.0 on the Richter scale – one of many unique architectural features in the custom designed home. Cazedessus’ design incorporates this durability with a blend of rustic modernism....
Bahia House that located in Salvador, Brazil, was designed by Studio MK27. These Bahian houses have roofs of clay – a banal material made in a rustic manner – and wooden ceilings. The openings have large panels of wooden Mashrabiyas brought to Brazil by the Portuguese colonial architecture since the first centuries of its occupation of the American territories, and its origin is of an Arabian...