Tag Ville

28-02-2020

Simone Subissati’s Casa di Confine

Simone Subissati’s Casa di Confine, or “Boundary House”, stands proudly erect on a hill in the province of Ancona, in the Italian region of Marche. The subdivision of space in the private residence is based on the floor plan of traditional rural homes in the area, while its appearance connects it with the radical Italian avant-garde movements of the sixties and seventies. The project is illustrated in a short documentary directed by Federica Biondi.

26-02-2020

Sergey Makhno’s Shkrub: twelve stories about a house with a thatched roof

Sergey Makhno presents Shkrub, the house he designed for himself and his family, with an important note that should sound as a warning for today’s residential architecture: "The more thoroughly you try to create the perfect interior, the more it looks like one for staying overnight rather than living". The description of Shrkub on the architect’s website tells twelve stories about “a house where the main thing is not the colour of the floor, but the kids' noise. From which, by the way, you cannot hide despite all the tricks of planning“.

12-02-2020

H&P Architects: Tube-house and “tropical cave” in Vietnam

Blending architecture and landscape is the goal of the “tropical cave”, as H&P Architects call their project transforming a Vietnamese tube-house into a new family residence in the city of Bac Ninh, near Hanoi.

05-02-2020

AUÁ arquitetos: Laguna House in Botucatu, Brazil

In the Laguna House in Botucatu, Brazil, AUÁ arquitetos have designed a home and refuge that brings nature indoors. The clients’ unusual request was for a house like a mountain chalet, which AUÁ interpreted as an expression of a need rather than in terms of image.

06-09-2019

Studio Wet: Borrero House in Alosno and critical pragmatism

In Borrero House in Alosno, in the south of Spain, Jose Gómez Mora and Daniel Montes of Studio Wet work on colour as the element of relationship with the context and rethink the order of the façades. The detail of the main façade is inflected according to the curved lines beloved by Mora and Montes.

04-09-2019

Luigi Rosselli Architects Hill House a panoramic viewpoint over Sydney

The Hill House residence designed by the architectural firm Luigi Rosselli Architects on Bellevue Hill, the hill overlooking Sydney, boasts a privileged view of the city and, especially, of Sydney Harbour. Inspired by the uniqueness of this location, the architects designed an architectural structure to provide the house with a panoramic viewpoint.

03-09-2019

Matthew Barnett Howland, Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton - Cork House

Energy efficiency and bio-architecture play an important role in the 2019 Stirling Prize. The shortlist of the prestigious prize awarded by the RIBA includes a project that boasts zero emissions and a drastically reduced carbon footprint: the Cork House designed by architect Matthew Barnett Howland with Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton.

14-03-2019

Opat Architects and the house in Red Hill South

What for Rowan Opat of Opat Architects was supposed to be a minor update of an existing holiday house in regional Victoria, Australia turned into a new architecture with minimum environmental impact and a new take on the relationship between what is manmade and what is nature.