The new home increases in size and maintains scale by going vertical to seamlessly blend in with neighboring historic and eclectic homes. Montalba Architects completed construction on Founding Principal David Montalba’s personal residence thoughtfully designed around a vertical courtyard concept.
Project name
Vertical Courtyard House
Architecture firm
Montalba Architects
Location
Santa Monica, California, USA
Principal architect
David Montalba
Collaborators
M&M & Co. (Surveyor), Grover Hollingsworth and Associates (Soil)
Civil engineer
Wynn Engineering
Structural engineer
The Office of Gordon Polon
Environmental & MEP
PBS Engineers
Landscape
Elysian Landscapes
Lighting
Sean O’Connor Lighting
Material
Concrete, glass, wood, steel, stone
Typology
Residential › House
Award winning LaRue Architects designed a unique residence perched on a lakeside cliff with a 150 feet vertical drop, located on Austin’s beautiful Lake Travis.
Architecture firm
LaRue Architects
Location
Lake Travis. Texas, USA
Photography
Dror Baldinger
Principal architect
James LaRue
Design team
James LaRue; Richard Medina (Interior Design)
Collaborators
Gregory Deane (Owner’s suite). Butterflies, Shanny Lott (Fireplace)
Interior design
LaRue Architects and Karen Greiner Interiors
Landscape
Sitio Design, Curt Arnette
Material
Slab on grade, wood frame construction with stone, stucco, and metal panels and a metal roof
Typology
Residential › House
An abstract composition of contrasting textural elements, this design responds to a very inspiring client brief for a building that ‘should not look like a house’.
Project name
Brighton East 3
Architecture firm
Pleysier Perkins in collaboration with InForm
Location
Brighton East, Melbourne, Australia
Principal architect
Simon Perkins
Design team
InForm in coloration with Pleysier Perkins
Structural engineer
BDD Engineering
Landscape
Matt Walsham Landscape Architecture
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp
Material
Concrete, glass, wood, steel, stone
Typology
Residential › House
The Pildane project is a spacious villa for staying in the heart of the northern woodlands of Iran. Intertwined mountains inspire us.
Project name
Pildane House
Architecture firm
Shomali Design Studio
Location
Mazandaran, Iran
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray Renderer, 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
A House: A Village. All architecture carries implicitly its vocation of ruin, and such condition is the final form with which architecture enters in communion with nature and returns to it.
Architecture firm
Nanzer | Vitas
Location
Capilla del Monte, Córdoba, Argentina
Photography
Gonzalo Viramonte
Principal architect
Cristián Nanzer, Carolina Vitas
Design team
Cristián Nanzer, Carolina Vitas, María Laura Herrera
Interior design
María Laura Herrera
Material
Concrete, glass, wood, steel, stone
Typology
Residential › House
This villa, located on the surroundings of the city of Aveiro, is part of a consolidated residential area, but with low occupancy density, being part of a housing complex of allotment, with some lots already built. The proposed building is a non-homogeneous piece, composed of different volumes that form a single body.
Project name
Diagonal House (Casa Diagonal)
Architecture firm
Frari - architecture network
Location
Aveiro, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Maria João Fradinho
Design team
Jéssica Barreto, Ana Soares, Carlos Arroyo, Ana Rita Gomes
Civil engineer
Pedro Tavares - Engenharia de Projectos, Coordenação de Segurança e Direcção de Obras Lda.
Structural engineer
Pedro Tavares - Engenharia de Projectos, Coordenação de Segurança e Direcção de Obras Lda.
Construction
CIMAVE - Construtora e Imobiliária de Aveiro Lda.
Typology
Residential › House
Tailor-made for modern living, the Sussex house is a bold, contemporary form imbued with a sense of timelessness. A contemporary expression of raw materiality, showcasing bricks, bluestone and porcelain - personifying the mass of a boulder, delicately floating within the shallows of a deep blue body of pool water, the weighted walls are softened by...
Project name
Sussex House
Location
Brighton, Australia
Material
Bricks, bluestone, porcelain, glass, wood, steel, stone
Typology
Residential › House
Two-story residential house plus a basement in Hashtgerd, Iran. The land lies in an acre which was formerly fruit farm fields and overlooks a great view, surrounded by trees. The Area for each level is approximately 135 square meters. We tried to use few types of materials and the selected ones are fully adaptive to the geometry of the project.
Project name
Hashtgerd Villa
Architecture firm
Mehrdad Soheili, Meghmik GeorgeYan
Location
Hashtgerd, Karaj, Iran
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Mehrdad Soheili, Meghmik GeorgeYan
Design team
Leyla Asgari, Mehrdad Soheili
Visualization
Leyla Asgari
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Residential › House
