The Olhavaca house is subtly perched on a rural landscape. Its shape surrounds the top of the hill, where everything looks at the mountains in the distance. Wooden gates control privacy and the entry of the setting sun.
Project name
Olhavaca House
Architecture firm
Tetro Arquitetura
Location
Nova Lima, Brazil
Tools used
SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, Igor Macedo
Visualization
Igor Macedo
Typology
Residential › House
The Iranian design studio, Shomali Design Studio, led by Yaser and Yasin Rashid Shomali, recently designed a unique villa with extraordinary design courage. You can see sloping roofs (standing seem) as their signature and characteristic here in this villa too.
Architecture firm
Shomali Design Studio
Location
Mazandaran, Iran
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
Yaser Rashid Shomali & Yasin Rashid Shomali
Typology
Residential › House
Built on a lush hillside, Islita offers residents and visitors a unique, eco-friendly and thoughtful way of life in harmony with nature. The Islita Villas embody the idea of emphasizing authenticity and identity to recreate the symbiosis of man and environment, while maintaining the balance between privacy and socialization.
Project name
The Islita, Costa Rica
Architecture firm
APD Arquitectos
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer, Unreal Engine, Autodesk Revit, Adobe Photoshop
Collaborators
Anna Sheikina
Visualization
Alena Valyavko
Client
The Islita, Costa Rica
Typology
Residential › House
The brief was to construct a party hideout space for the client along with his family and friends, providing adequate privacy from the adjacent plots.
The site is located in a gated community of 200 plots in Karamsad, Gujrat. The site is 50 feet by 83 feet plot with south facing approach road and adjacent plots on the east and west. The site is co...
Project name
Desert Villa
Architecture firm
Ace Associates
Location
Karamsad, Anand, Gujarat, India
Photography
Inclined Studio
Principal architect
Ashish Patel, Nikhil Patel, Nilesh Dalsania, Vasudev Sheta
Typology
Residential › House
This 360 sf. structure is located on a remote 60 acre, privately owned second-growth forest in Sullivan County, NY. It is sited on a steep, isolated area of the property with no vehicular access, no piped water and no electricity.
Project name
Half-Tree House
Architecture firm
Jacobschang Architecture
Location
Barryville, Sullivan County, New York, United States
Principal architect
Mike Jacobs
Design team
Mike Jacobs, Biayna Bogosian, Forrest Jessee, Leopold Lambert.
Typology
Residential › House
"Villa The Three Bests" is based on a concept for nature tourism located on the coast with the aim of bringing us closer to this type of natural maritime environment, it has 3 suites that move at different heights to take advantage of the views and connect with each other to use the structure and generate a unified concept that has a relationship b...
Project name
Villa The Three Bests
Architecture firm
Veliz Arquitecto
Location
Maldives Islands
Tools used
SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Jorge Luis Veliz Quintana
Design team
Jorge Luis Veliz Quintana
Visualization
Veliz Arquitecto
Typology
Hospitality, Hotel
The CE House is situated at the São Thiago Condominium in Cacupé, city of Florianópolis, Southern Brazil. It was located in the highest position of the site with great views of the sea and the green area around.
Architecture firm
Jobim Carlevaro Arquitetos
Location
Cacupé, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Photography
Leonardo Finotti
Principal architect
Marcos Jobim, Silvana Carlevaro
Collaborators
Paola Carlevaro, Eduardo Piovesan e Marcela Karam
Structural engineer
Stabile Assessoria Consultoria e Projetos de Estruturas
Landscape
JA8 Arquitetura da Paisagem
Lighting
Consultant: Allume Iluminação
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
The ER house is a renovation and expansion project for the upper floor of an existing house, which previously had only a suite and a small office. The project was based on the creation of two extra suites, a small deposit and the remodeling of the existing office. With that in mind, the adaptation of the facade respected the original preexisting 2....
Architecture firm
Jobim Carlevaro Arquitetos
Location
Lagoa da Conceição, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Photography
Leonardo Finotti
Principal architect
Marcos Jobim, Silvana Carlevaro
Collaborators
Nivaldo Pontel, Bruna Sardá e Luiz Pelegrini
Structural engineer
Engenharia Grande Sul cálculo estrutural, JF engenharia projetos
Landscape
JA8 Arquitetura da Paisagem
Lighting
Consultant: Nilson Silva Iluminação
Construction
CUBO engenharia
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House