Environmentally friendly structures, often known as green buildings, have a reduced carbon footprint compared to other traditional architectures. Green architects employ a wide range of strategies to lessen a building's reliance on external energy sources and boost its capacity to capture or create its own.
Photography
Josh Sorenson
The Surly Crab is a modern beach house located on Hood Canal in Washington state. Views to the west take in the waterway and the Olympic Mountains. Inland from the home is a lush forest with ferns, native rhododendrons, madrona, and fir trees.
Project name
The Surly Crab
Architecture firm
Eerkes Architects
Location
Hood Canal, Seabeck, Washington, USA
Principal architect
Les Eerke
Collaborators
Allworth Design (landscape architecture), Quantum Consulting Engineers (structural engineering), Fradkin Fine Construction (general contractor)
Visualization
Notion Workshop
Typology
Residential › House
Omaha Beach is one of New Zealand’s best white sand beaches. It is located on the north island, circa 70km north of Auckland. Our design is for a family home on one of the last remaining front-line plots, enjoying extraordinary views of Omaha Bay and the Hauraki Gulf.
Project name
House on Omaha Beach
Architecture firm
Ström Architects
Location
Tāwharanui Peninsula, Auckland, New Zealand
Principal architect
Magnus Ström
Typology
Residential › House
Located in the small town of Troncones a few minutes away from the International Airport of Zihuatanejo, considered a world renowned secret getaway and an excellent surf destination, Lo Sereno emerges as a private refuge by the Pacific Coast beach.
Written by
Lo Sereno Casa de Playa
Pisqal is a small cabin with 70 square meters area. It has an A-frame style with a cubic form in order to have more space than A-frame. It's a two-story building. each floor is 35 square meters. The kitchen and living area are on the first floor and two master bedrooms are on the second.
Architecture firm
Shomali Design Studio
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop, Lumion, Adobe After Effects
Principal architect
Yaser Rashid Shomali & Yasin Rashid Shomali
Design team
Yaser Rashid Shomali & Yasin Rashid Shomali
Visualization
Shomali Design Studio
Typology
Residential › House
Designed by Mexican architecture studio GAS Architectures, Tulum House is located in Quintana Roo, Mexico. the program is developed in two levels, near of a private beach, blending the topography, the environment and the parametric design for created a housing design of a comfortable spaces with all the amenities and the luxury green nature.
Architecture firm
GAS Architectures
Location
Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshoper, Lumion, Adobe After Effects
Principal architect
Germán Sandoval
Design team
Germán Sandoval, Kesia Devallentier
Visualization
GAS Architectures
Typology
Residential › House
Villa Destiny Tulum has been designed by Kauslab By Adrian Gómez ART based on an entire artistic, architectural and conceptual proposal. It not only contemplates the design of the interior spaces of the house but also part of the same natural environment where it is located in the Sian Ka'an reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site; a place where the...
Project name
Villa Destiny Tulum
Architecture firm
Kauslab By Adrian Gómez ART
Location
Reserva de la biosfera de Sian Ka’an, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Photography
Enderson Perez, Adrian Gómez ART, Bombay Estudio (drone images)
Principal architect
Adrian Gomez, Enderson Pérez
Design team
Adrian Gómez, Enderson Pérez
Collaborators
Luis Martínez, Carolina Almaguer
Interior design
Kauslab by Adrian Gómez Art
Landscape
Kauslab By Adrian Gómez ART
Structural engineer
Difica
Environmental & MEP
Difica
Visualization
Enderson Pérez
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, AutoCAD, V-ray, SketchUp
Client
Villa Destiny Tulum
Typology
Residential › House
Two years two months and two days, the writer Henry David Thoreau lived in a cabin which he built himself in Walden Pond, Massachusetts, his childhood town. In just about a space of 3 m x 4.5 meters lakeside, he developed himself as an individual isolated from society looking for inspiration of the natural and its origins.
Project name
La Casa del Sapo
Architecture firm
Espacio 18 Arquitectura
Location
Zapotengo, Oaxaca, Mexico
Photography
Onnis Luque, Fabian Martinez
Principal architect
Carla Osorio Jimenez, Mario Alberto Ávila López, Sonia Morales, Andrea Rodriguez and Arantza Toledo
Collaborators
Mario Fernandez and Paulina chagoya (Carpentry)
Interior design
Espacio 18 Arquitectura, Mario Fernandez and Paulina Chagoya
Structural engineer
José Luis Contreras Pisson
Landscape
Mario Fernandez and Paulina Chagoya
Construction
Victor Chagoya, Mario Fernandez, Paulina Chagoya, Freddy, Mariela, Candido, Jorge, Cruz Hernández, Jesús Hernández, Coco y Espacio 18 Arquitectura
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Stone
Typology
Residential › House
