The young filmmaker Zach Both and his girlfriend have recently built a modern yurt just outside of Portland, Oregon, United States. Last fall, after traveling North America in a self-built campervan for almost four years, my girlfriend and I retired this nomadic lifestyle for life in a yurt on an island just outside of Portland, OR.
Project name
Brilliant modern yurt
Architecture firm
Zach Both
Location
Portland, Oregon, United States
Principal architect
Zach Both
Typology
Residential › Yurt
The villa was built on one of the most beautiful locations of Budaliget. The flat site is located on a former airport field, in the exact center of the area, which previously functioned as the airport runway. The lot was completely empty - looking at it in its natural state one gets to see picturesque views with beautiful large trees all over the l...
The Cape Town-based architectural firm SAOTA has designed "Le Pine" a family summer house in Saint Tropez, France, that has a dramatically folded floating roof.
Project description by the architects:
This family summer house in Saint Tropez, France designed by SAOTA, is a contemporary interpr...
The AV house is located in a steep slope. It is an uneven terrain next to a gorge that looks to the south, and it does not face the sea at the east. In order to not miss this view and to protect it from the wind, the house was partially rotated facing east, offering direct visual access to the Pacific Ocean.
Architecture firm
Romero Valente Architects
Location
Maitencillo, Marbella, Valparaíso Region, Chile
Photography
Pablo Casals Aguirre
Principal architect
Cristián Romero Valente
Structural engineer
Ruiz y Saavedra
Material
Reinforced concrete, Steel, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
The Mérida-based architectural studio Laboratorio de Arquitectura has designed "Casa Gemela" a seaside concrete house that located in Ixil, Yucatan, Mexico.
Project description by the architects:
The house is inmersed in te Yucatan coast in a 7 meters front seaview. With the intention of resp...
The Tonekabon-based architectural office mrk office has designed "Rostam White Villa" a single family modern villa that located in the city of Shahsavar, Mazandaran, Iran.
Project description by the architects:
For a long time, the town villas of the Northern cities of Iran have created diffe...
Inserted in a plot of land of irregular geometry and surrounded by constructions of little architectural value, this villa emerges as a consequence of its constraints.
Architecture firm
Paulo Martins Arquitectura & Design
Location
Sever do Vouga, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Paulo Martins
Collaborators
Bruno Alvarinhas
Structural engineer
R5 Engineers
Construction
Fecha Coutinho Construções
Typology
Residential › House
The Buenos Aires-based architectural office Barrionuevo Villanueva Arquitectos has designed "Castaños House" that located in Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Project description by the architects:
We try to understand this work as a succession of defined areas that are put in relation to others...
