Tag Housing

05-08-2011

LAN: student residences in Paris

LAN architecture of Frances uses materials to characterise a student housing complex in the La Chapelle district of Paris, next to the redeveloped ZAC Pajol area. The themes of integration and privacy are addressed along with reduction of energy resources, earning the work Habitat et Environnement THPE certification in France.

11-07-2011

Pedro Reis: house in Melides

One volume inspired by the earth and another by the sky form a holiday house in Melides, Portugal, which Pedro Reis has arranged in a cross shape differentiating between main functions and accessory functions. Using big sky-frames on the upper level and prefabricated concrete the colour of the local humus on the lower level, the architect links the first with the sky and the second with the earth, marking the point where they come together with a pool of water.

11-07-2011

Cano Briceño: the home of the pianoforte

This home designed by Alfredo Cano Briceño for a musician in Puebla, in the mountainous centre of Mexico, is an architecture of the unfinished, in which the many structural and decorative materials are used in their unfinished form and create an apparent form which is in actual fact constantly evolving.

09-05-2011

A wooden house in Gerês National Park

The plan for a house in Gerês National Park in Portugal is an example of the kind of architecture that sets aside formal advocacy to draw its inspiration from nature and mould itself completely to its requirements, revealing one of the many faces of sustainability: the one based on attentive use of materials and interaction with the landscape.

11-04-2011

Sustainable architecture: a straw house

By combining “canonic” materials such as brick and glass with straw, architect Arjen Reas meets the needs of sustainability while permitting interaction between the environment and the landscape, between the private and the public. His plan for a home in Zoermeer (the Netherlands) is a work of contemporary form and content.

10-03-2011

Holiday home in Sajima

In Yasutaka, a tourist resort not far from Tokyo, a home on the waterfront stands out for its windows, each different in shape, as in an infants’ shape sorter. Designed as a home for brief holidays, the building features a dance of floor and wall covering materials on the inside.

11-01-2011

Barn conversion project in Switzerland

Clavienrossier’s plan to renovate an old home in the Swiss Alps reveals how much this building had been denied an identity of its own: its structure of local stone was concealed under several layers of plaster.