Tetro Arquitetura: The mountain house is set in the hillside, blades cut the terrain allowing an intense relationship with the materiality of the place rocks.
Project name
Mountain House
Architecture firm
Tetro Arquitetura
Location
Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, Igor Macedo
Visualization
Igor Macedo and Matheus Rosendo
Typology
Residential › House
Completed in 2012 by renowned Mexican architect Javier Senosiain, The Tree House located in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. This house was built on a 15m X 15m area. Once the work was finished, it could be merged with another adjacent land having the same measures which allowed us to have a larger garden. A particular feature of the property was that w...
Project name
The Tree House
Architecture firm
Javier Senosiain / Arquitectura Organica
Location
Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico
Photography
Francisco Lubbert
Principal architect
Javier Senosiain Aguilar
Typology
Residential › House
Designed to receive a family living abroad, the country house in the interior of São Paulo needed to accommodate them during long seasons in Brazil. Located in Quinta da Baroneza, with 1,100m², the challenge was, in addition to thinking about the program for prolonged uses, solving the implantation in the very inclined terrain.
Project name
EQ Residence
Architecture firm
Gilda Meirelles Arquitetura
Location
Bragança Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
Photography
Evelyn Muller
Principal architect
Gilda Meirelles
Material
Wood, Concrete, Metal, Stone
Typology
Residential › Houses
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos: Placed on top of historic Hollywood Hills, the ones which draw Los Angeles profile where part of Case Study Houses program was built. The project lays on the ground, adapting to its hard slope and conditions, carrying out a change of direction at house level in order to frame the horizon of the city till the ocean.
Project name
House in Hollywood Hills
Architecture firm
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Location
Los Angeles, California, USA
Principal architect
Fran Silvestre
Design team
Fran Silvestre, Maria Masià, David Sastre, Álvaro Olivares
Collaborators
Estefanía Soriano, Esther Sanchís, Eduardo Sancho, Vicente Picó, Diego Civera, Fran Ayala, Ángel Fito, Pablo Camarasa, Sandra Insa, Santiago Dueña, Ricardo Candela, Rubén March, José Manuel Arnao. Manuelian Architects (Partner)
Interior design
Alfaro Hofmann
Typology
Residential › Houses
Designed by Kulthome, Dzoraghbyur Cascade House is located in a village of the Kotayk Province of Armenia. The total surface of the building does not exceed 300 m² . In Dzoraghbyur cascade house was used black tuff, travertine, as well as some other raw stones. All these have combined and merged with nature and the result is this magnificent mansio...
Project name
Dzoraghbyur Cascade House
Architecture firm
Kulthome
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Ilustrator
Typology
Residential › Houses
Do you know how easy it is to improve your home! The best part is that you have endless options to exploit. With a home improvement, you stand a chance of making the place look magnificent. Also, you enhance the strength of different structures. If you are a DIY enthusiast, then these operations will bring more excitement.
Photography
Robin van Geenen (Cover image), Jonathan Borba, Im3rd Media
The Greek architecture practice K-Studio has recently completed Villa Mandra, a single-family home located on the hill of Aleomandra in Mykonos, Greece. Sitting on the ridge of the hill of Aleomandra in Mykonos yet almost entirely hidden from view, Villa Mandra looks straight out to sea and the sunset over the neighbouring island of Delos.
Project name
Villa Mandra
Architecture firm
K-Studio
Photography
Claus Brechenmacher and Reiner Baumann
Design team
Dimitris Karampatakis, Ileana Vlassopoulou, Alexandros Zomas, Antonella Theodorakatou, Christos Papachristodoulou, Christos Spetseris
Collaborators
Maria Mposgana - Matoula Kazakidou, Davide Santiccioli, Panagiotis Stathis
Structural engineer
Chryssanthos Kaligeros
Environmental & MEP
Giorgos Kavoulakos
Construction
ECC - George Tsikouras
Lighting
Dimitris Kouvalis-HALO
Material
Wood, Concrete, Metal, Stone
Typology
Residential, Houses
Manuel Monteserin: A library that looks to the future by learning from tradition. This project seeks to maintain a balance between the traditional use of a library and the new uses demanded by contemporary citizens.
Project name
Songdo Library
Architecture firm
Manuel Monteserin
Location
Songdo, South Korea
Principal architect
Manuel A. Monteserín
Design team
Manuel A. Monteserín Lahoz, Lucía de Ancos, Virginia Herrera, Javier Simó, Ignacio A. Monteserín Lahoz, Aman Rai, María Mallo, Yeonghwa Choe
Collaborators
Show me The Project, Manu-Facturas
Visualization
Show me The Project
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max , V-ray, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Ilustrator
Typology
Cultural, Library, Public space
Yousef Sattari / View Studio: The reason for designing this bathroom is the combination of organic architecture and modern architecture. Combining interior and exterior Minimal interference with the natural environment Materials: For this reason, we tried to use natural materials in space, such as floor materials, which are sand, as well as part of...
Project name
Bath and nature
Architecture firm
View Studio
Tools used
SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Yousef Sattari
Design team
Yousef Sattari
Visualization
Yousef Sattari
A first excerpt – the Netherlands Pavilion. Photographer Piet Niemann re-visited the EXPO-site and documented the current state in a comprehensive body of work, 20 years after the world fair took place. The first extract of this project focuses exclusively on the icon and most popular Pavilion of the time – the Netherlands Pavilion.
Photographer
Piet Niemann
Tools used
Cambo Actus, Capture One, Adobe Photoshop
Project name
The Netherlands Pavilion of the Expo 2000 – 20 years after the world fair took place
Location
Hanover, Germany
