It can get boring to look at the same house set up year after year. However, the idea of doing a random home upgrade gives chills to most homeowners as they think it is an expensive affair. Upgrading your home doesn't have to be a costly affair as there are simple but very effective methods that make all the difference. Here are some simple home up...
Photography
Mueen Agherdien
''El Alambique'' house, located in the Puembo region at the outskirts of Quito, between the Chiche and Guambí rivers has been located at a sloped site, overlooking a ravine. One of the design challenges was to sort out a home with a 70% first floor architectural program under the sloped topographic conditions, while allowing the internal garden to...
Project name
¨EL Alambique¨ House
Architecture firm
Najas Arquitectos
Location
Puembo, Quito, Ecuador
Principal architect
Esteban Najas
Design team
Esteban Najas, Daniel Charry, Andrés Lucero, Sebastián Montenegro, Nicolás Morabowen, José Fernandez Salvador, Rommel Antamba
Collaborators
Nicolás Morabowen, José Fernandez Salvador, Rommel Antamba
Interior design
Maria Isabel Chacon , KOIA
Civil engineer
Nicolás Morabowen, José Fernandez Salvador
Structural engineer
Nicolás Morabowen, José Fernandez Salvador
Environmental & MEP
Najas Arquitectos
Landscape
Najas Arquitectos
Supervision
Najas Arquitectos
Visualization
Najas Arquitectos
Tools used
SketchUp, Lumion
Construction
Najas Arquitectos
Material
Concrete, Glass, Wood, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
A warm corner throughout the year or throughout the summer in our case, a bathroom outside is feasible. It is refreshing, original and very exotic. Bathing, grooming or grooming under the sunlight or the stars at night is a pleasure if we have enough space and budget to earn an extra bath at home.
Project name
Exotic Bathroom
Architecture firm
Veliz Arquitecto
Tools used
SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Jorge Luis Veliz Quintana
Visualization
Veliz Arquitecto
The annual KOŁO contest for conceptual design of the facility with public toilet function, organized by Geberit in Poland, always arouses great interest among beginning architects and architecture students.
Organizer
Geberit sp. z o.o., ul. Postępu 1, 02-676 Warsaw
Category
The conceptual design of the facility with public toilet function
Eligibility
This is an open contest, and any adult natural persons with full legal capacity and place of residence in Poland, in another Member State of the European Union, or in Ukraine or Belarus shall be eligible to participate, provided that their submitted works will not be related to their business activity and will not be produced as part of their business. Employees, associates, and representatives of the Organizer and the Partner, individuals involved in the organization of the Contest, as well as their close family members shall not be eligible for the Contest. The close family member shall be understood as: the spouse, ascendants, descendants, siblings, relatives in the same line or degree, adoptive persons and their spouses, as well as cohabitants. The Organizer reserves the right to request written statements from the Contest Participants to confirm that the aforesaid conditions have been met.
Register
www.konkurskolo.pl
Awards & Prizes
Grand Prix 19 000 PLN, Honours: 7 000 PLN, 3 000 PLN, 1 000 PLN Special Prizes: 3 000 PLN, 2 000 PLN, Debut of the year
Entries deadline
Queries may be sent to the Organizer via the electronic registration form by 7 June 2021 (subject: "2021 Koło Contest"). Participants may upload their Works at www.konkurskolo.pl Website until 11 October 2021, 23:59
Venue
Huciska Glade, in Chochołowska Valley, Tatra National Park
The rebirth of traditional architecture. Southern Fujian, located on the southeast coast of China, is the beginning of the "Maritime Silk Road" in history, and has been an important maritime transportation hub since ancient times.
Project name
Xiangyuxiangyuan Home Stay
Architecture firm
The Design Institute of Landscape & Architecture China Academy of Art Co., Ltd.
Location
Dazhai Village, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China
Photography
AOGVISION, Kobe Photography Studio
Principal architect
Huang Zhiyong
Design team
Lin Miao, Yang Jian, Wang Jiejie, Jiang Fangjun, Lin Yongfeng
Collaborators
Yongfeng Lin (Decoration Design)
Lighting
HangZhou LEHAN Lighting Engineering Co., Ltd.，Sidon Lighting Yang Pinglan
Material
Wood, Glass, Stone, Steel
Client
Xiamen Xiangyu Group Corporation；Xiamen Xiangan
Typology
Hospitality › Hostel
In Design of this W.C., the better visual connection between the interior space and the surrounding environment have been considered. There has been defined new quality due to this Visual connection between the interior space and mountains through Their reflections on the interior side walls mirrors and the transparent ceiling and wall.
Project name
Mountain rest room
Architecture firm
Didformat Studio
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Amirhossein Nourbakhsh
Visualization
Amirhossein Nourbakhsh
When a few years ago a married couple found their charming old house not far from Kyiv, they only ever intended it to be a country retreat, a place to escape to and from the city on the weekends. Then came the pandemic and our customers discovered something of a taste for country life. That’s why they spend most of their time at the house.
Architecture firm
Men Bureau
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Revit Architecture, Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Oleksandr Maruzhenko
Typology
Residential › House
Having your own newly-constructed home can be a great milestone in your life. Instead of paying rent for a house you'll never own, a newly-built living space personalized for your needs can be an amazing option. This is especially true if you're looking to build a family and grow old with them there.
Photography
Vecislavas Popa
The monumental spaces of a 17th century monastery are brought back to life in Arco, Alto Garda, where noa* network of architecture has transformed them into a unique hotel, while conserving the charm of the original architecture and its atmosphere of peace and meditation. In the garden, the spa is inspired by certain typical rural constructions, wh...
Architecture firm
noa* network of architecture
Location
Arco, Trentino, Italy
Photography
Alex Filz, Andrea Dal Negro (drone images)
Built area
520 m² (wellness)
Site area
3.780 m² (monastero)
Material
Wood, Glass, Stone
Client
Stephanie Happacher & Manuel Mutschlechner
Typology
Hospitality › Hotel, Wellness
Ali Goshtasbi Rad: The idea here is to create a form whose base is a square and follows the lines of the surrounding streets and rises to a circular shape which is an ideal form for wind force resistance.
Project name
Concept 1806 Square to Circle Tower
Architecture firm
AGR Studio
Visualization
Ali Goshtasbi Rad
Tools used
SketchUp, V-ray
Principal architect
Ali Goshtasbi Rad
Typology
Commercial › Office
