Sheds are small, attractive structures with a single-story roof placed in a backyard, garden, farm, or another open area for a variety of purposes.
The Leaf house is a private residence of a Multigenerational family of six adults and two kids, located in a newly developed residential colony of the city, desigend by Indian architecture firm SPAN Architects. Site is a flat rectangular piece of land with 50 feet of frontage and 120 feet in depth, having its approach from east.
Project by the Block Research Group (BRG) at ETH Zurich and Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design Group (ZHACODE), in collaboration with incremental3D, made possible by Holcim.
The D21 Beach House, located in Riviera de São Lourenço beach, near São Paulo, was designed as an “L” shaped plan in an area of 525.00m² as an architectural feature. The project is signed by Raiz Arquitetura, led by the architects Alexandre Ferraz and Elias Souza, who have in their portfolio several high-end houses at the brazilian coast.
Certain cities around the world are destinations for people who want to live in a particular way. New York City for culture, Paris for romance, Los Angeles for a fabulous lifestyle, Milan for shopping, Rio for Carnival, and Miami for partying.
Aedas recently won an international competition held by China Resources Land and China Resources Snow Breweries, and took on the large-scale urban regeneration project.
Both new and old houses alike can look a bit downcast and old-fashioned, even if they have recently been remodeled. Getting the modern look is not easy to achieve, and if it is not done correctly you could end up with mismatched spaces and different styles that do not complement each other.
Inspired by Cambodia’s traditional Khmer housing, the new retreat hut reinforces the significance of the gable roof with a uniform roof erected around a raised platform for living. The potential of the hut on stilts not only prevents flooding but also threads lightly onto the landscape.