Tag Housing

24-12-2014

y+M design’s Rain Shelter House in Yanogo (Japan)

y+M design’s Rain Shelter House in Yanogo (Japan)is all about the relationship between home interiors and the sense of community. The young Japanese studio y+M design created the Rain Shelter House for a family consisting of a couple, their two children and the grandmother, reflecting on how people share spaces.

09-12-2014

Alberto Campo Baeza talks to Floornature

After contributing to the volume “Architecture on the web. A critical approach to communication”edited by Paolo Schianchi, Alberto Campo Baeza talks to Floornature in an interview describing his thoughts about communication in architecture, emphasising the importance of photographs, drawings and text in today’s world. He also talks about radical and drastic design of space, and explains why architecture is the best job in the world, with reference to his House of the Infinite.

03-12-2014

a21studĩo designs The Nest, a reporter’s home in Ho Chi Minh City

The young Vietnamese architects of a21studio designed The Nest, a reporter’s home in the Bình Thạnh district of Ho Chi Minh City. Made entirely of metal, The Nest was designed with a lightweight beam and pillar structure covered with a grid that becomes both a fence and a support for luxuriant vegetation.

26-11-2014

Smerin Architectsꞌ Red Bridge House in East Sussex (UK)

Smerin Architects of England created the Red Bridge House in East Sussex, in southern England. The Red Bridge House is a holiday home designed around the elements of the landscape: the forest, the river and farmland. Smerin Architects make the most of these elements in the homeꞌs internal spatial identity.

12-11-2014

Alberto Campo Baeza and the House of the Infinite in Cádiz (Spain)

Alberto Campo Baeza calls it the most radical house he has ever built. The House of the Infinite in Cádiz, an ancient port from which ships set off for the New World, is a manifesto of Alberto Campo Baeza’s poetics. Idea, space and light are expressed in the House of the Infinite, a lookout over the Atlantic Ocean.