Modern life has become full of responsibilities and all sorts of tasks that we sometimes forget to stop, take a breather, and just relax.
Photography
Victor Garcia (cover image), Spacejoy
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
MASK Architects has designed the world's first steel 3D printed structure of modular houses for Nivola Museum’s visitors,Tourists and Artists in Orani, city of Sardinia.Öznur Pınar Çer and Danilo Petta have Inspired from the work of "Costantino Nivola", they have designed “Exosteel Mother Nature” modular houses which they have taken inspiration fro...
Project name
Exosteel Mother Nature Modular Prefabricated Living Museum Houses
Architecture firm
MASK Architects
Location
Orani, Sardinia, Italy
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshoper, Autodesk 3ds Max, CATIA Design, Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Öznur Pınar Çer and Danilo Petta
Collaborators
Sarje Nagda (Press Report)
Visualization
MASK Architects
Built area
127 m² (3.Floor)
Right in the heart of Siwa Oasis, Western Desert- Egypt, Ethnic Chalet is designed to capture the very distinct spiritual energy of the desert and interpret the local inputs.
Project name
Ethnic Chalet
Architecture firm
Swarm Design Studio
Location
Siwa Oasis, Egypt
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Mirna A.Emad
Visualization
Mirna A.Emad
Typology
Residential › House
Even two identically built homes can look different depending on how they’re accented. Letting creeping ivy grow on a trellis can offset a Lannon Stone façade, while a metal roof can better-accent the peaks of a roof.
Written by
Touchstone Lights
Photography
Alexandre Zveiger
