Tag Housing

08-05-2013

Pottgiesser: Maison L, living units surrounded by greenery

French architect Christian Pottgiesser experiments with a new kind of dwelling for a family living in the countryside outside Paris, combining architecture with greenery. The project’s form and composition allow the concrete construction to fit into the big garden like a work of contemporary art.

17-04-2013

FRPO Rodriguez & Oriol: MO house in Madrid

By interpreting the design of a house like that of a city area or urban community, the FRPO Rodriguez & Oriol studio has deconstructed residential architecture into a series of functions, combining them according to paths and focusing on what links the separate parts. Their choice of building materials was vital: crossed plywood panels that reflect the environmental sustainability of the work.

27-03-2013

François: “Urban college”, social housing in France

Champigny-sur-Marne, near Paris, sees the completion of the Urban Collage complex, designed by Maison Edouard François. The architect is famous in France and worldwide for his green architecture. Here, as in his recent work in the area of Les Vignoles in the capital, François reflects on the existing types of buildings present on site: his new social housing is a project that derives from the overlap of forms already present in the town’s memory.

20-03-2013

Chang Architects: house surrounded by nature in Singapore

Chang Architects’ Framed House in Singapore represents a new evolution of residential architecture. The home is the project of the combination of intersecting frames with a vertical orientation with glass walls in between them. The geometric effect offers multiple points of view looking out from inside the home and vice versa, while the building’s composition offers the perfect balance of transparency and privacy.

06-03-2013

H ARQUITECTES + dataAE, Student Housing in Sant Cugat

Architectural studios H ARQUITECTES and dataAE completed the construction of student housing for the faculty of architecture in Vallès.

27-02-2013

François: Residences and Eden Bio studio in Paris

Known for his study of the relationship between vegetation and architecture, Maison Edouard François redevelops a neighbourhood in eastern Paris by reclaiming historical forms of architecture and using typical local construction materials to build social housing and artists’ studios with a focus on environmental sustainability.

30-01-2013

Social Housing by Aguilera Guerrero in Tarragona.

The layout of the land greatly influenced the shape of the Social Housing complex in Tarragona, Catalonia (Spain) designed by Aguilera Guerrero’s architect firm.

27-12-2012

PASEL.KUENZEL ZEEUWS HOUSING, The Netherlands

pasel.künzel architects of the Netherlands recently completed 34 homes included in the masterplan for the town of Goes.