Tag Housing

19-09-2012

Naf architect: leftover concrete home

Drawing inspiration from the spontaneous dwellings built on beaches and on riversides, the holiday home in Etajima, Japan, designed by Tetsuya Nakazono of naf architect & design is made from cement blocks using leftover building concrete. Meaning that even non-recyclable material can be used for sustainable building.

05-09-2012

Karawitz: passive home in France

Karawitz designs the second home recognised by the Passivhaus Institut in France, in Bessancourt. The value of the acknowledgement lies in having completed a project which is exemplary not only in terms of comfort and environmental sustainability but also in its architectural composition.

18-07-2012

Lovearchitecture: home in Ookayama

In Tokyo’s Ookayama district, famous in sustainable architecture circles for its building covered with solar panels measuring 100 metres by 30 metres, designed by the Tokyo Institute of Technology, stands a small private home built by Love Architecture with an exemplary internal layout and relationship with its surroundings.

27-06-2012

UID architects: Nest, the forest as home

Using the metaphor of the nest, Keisuke Maeda (UID) interweaves architecture and nature. In his plan for a house in a forest in Onomichi he uses materials to mark the planes of interaction between different spaces and functions while denying vertical barriers and designing façades encouraging visual interaction between inside and outside.

13-06-2012

TAO: riverside club house in Yancheng (China)

There are some interesting similarities and differences between Mies van der Rohe’s important Farnsworth House project and the clubhouse recently built by Chinese architect Hua Li. If we look at the design and the choice of structural and cladding materials, we can see how the contemporary project stands out from the masterpiece of the past to which it pays homage.

07-06-2012

James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive exhibition

The exhibition includes plans, models and documents of famous British architect James Frazer Stirling, material from the James Stirling/Michael Wilford fund kept at the CCA (Centre Canadien d'Architecture).

06-06-2012

Arolat: housing complex in Istanbul

EEA-Emre Arolat Architects, one of the most interesting Turkish architectural practices around at the moment, recently completed an important residential project in Göktürk, north of Istanbul. The architectural form of stone and wood establishes a harmonious dialogue with the many green areas and hanging gardens in the complex.

02-05-2012

Koji Kakiuchi: A wooden shelter in Nara

Combining local materials with references to the Shintoist tradition, Japanese architect Koji Kakiuchi designed and built a shelter in a stand of trees in the town of Nara which blends into the landscape and becomes an integral part of it. His purpose is contemplation of the vegetation and the search for a sustainable relationship between contemporary architecture and nature.