The Grant Park House began with a classic Atlanta craftsman style bungalow in the historic Grant Park neighborhood that was in need of significant repair. The extensive renovation to the roof that was required allowed for a complete reconceiving of the home in plan and section, creating a new sky-lit single volume and wide open living spaces with a...
Project name
Grant Park House - Atlanta
Architecture firm
ARCHITECTUREFIRM
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Principal architect
Adam Ruffin
Collaborators
Carie Davis
Interior design
ARCHITECTUREFIRM / CARIE DAVIS
Visualization
ARCHITECTUREFIRM
Material
Wood framing within large expanses of soft white and plaster walls
Budget
WITHHELD AT CLIENT’S REQUEST
Typology
Residential › House
Maintaining a smoothly functioning home is quite a challenge for most homeowners. Whether you want to live in the house by yourself or give it to your tenant, you will have to repair both major and minor problems.
Photography
Momentbloom (cover image), Erik Mclean
Series of design research proposals introduce the idea of a house as a place where we live and work simultaneously. We work anywhere, anytime. We meet, tweet, and chat from home as much more as we used to do it before, so the house projects shall evolve to meet these emerged features of human beings.
Project name
The House – a place to live and work
Architecture firm
Mind Design
Tools used
Autodesk Maya, Rhinoceros 3D, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Miroslav Naskov
Visualization
Miroslav Naskov
Typology
Residential › House
Completed in 2018 by Russian architceture firm Snegiri Architects, the cottage was created as a “passive house”, with the ability to save 90 percent more energy than a regular home thanks to a little technical know-how.
Architecture firm
Snegiri Architects
Photography
Nikita Kapiturov
Principal architect
Nikita Kapiturov
Design team
Snegiri Architecture
Interior design
Nikita Kapiturov
Visualization
Victoria Dementieva
Material
Foundation with cold-proof Swedish plate, carcass with monolith, with cold-proof mineral wool covered with larix wood saturated in natural flax oil
Typology
Residential › House
The Havacil House is a weekend holiday home located on a site surrounded by the jungles and mountains of Ramsar city. It has a cubic shape combined with sloping roofs.
Project name
Havacil House
Architecture firm
Shomali Design Studio
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
The building industry utilizes a range of construction materials for the many elements of a home structure. Architects are discussing the load-bearing capacities of the materials they create with structural engineers.
Written by
Benjamin Brauer
Algarve, in the South of Portugal does not only live by the sea. Proof of this is the village of São Bartolomeu de Messines, municipality of Silves - located in the interior of the Algarve, far from the mass tourism that occupies the whole coast, and privileged by the mountains that surround the whole region.
Project name
House in Messines
Architecture firm
Vitor Vilhena Arquitectura
Location
São Bartolomeu de Messines, Algarve, Portugal
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Principal architect
Vitor Vilhena
Collaborators
Vitor Vilhena, Fábio Guimarães, Nuno Gonçalves, João Simões
Civil engineer
PLANN Engineer
Structural engineer
PLANN Engineer
Supervision
Vitor Vilhena Architecture
Construction
Window to the Future, lda
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
The Three Dragons House is a creative architectural proposal that rescues and integrates the existent and the new, giving the house unity and harmony.
Project name
Three Dragons House (Casa Tres Dragones)
Architecture firm
Taller Estilo Arquitectura
Location
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
Principal architect
Víctor Alejandro Cruz Domínguez, Iván Atahualpa Hernández Salazar, Luís Armando Estrada Aguilar
Collaborators
Silvia Cuitún Coronado,Pedro Quintal Ruz, Carlos Marrufo Tamayo
Construction
Taller Estilo Arquitectura S de R.L de C.V.
Material
Stone, Wood, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
