The study concerns a traditional two-volume building extending over two floors, with an enclosed courtyard area and orchard, in the area of Mylopotamos, specifically in the traditional settlement of Margarites. The construction of the building dates back to around 1900 and its construction material is stone, with a wooden roof and clay roof tiles....
Project name
Mylopotamos House
Architecture firm
Zeropixel Architects
Location
Margarites Mylopotamos, Crete, Greece
Principal architect
Dimitris Koudounakis
Design team
Evelina Koutsoupaki
Visualization
Maria Drempela, Evgenia Hatziioannou
Typology
Residential › House
This is a renovation of a duplex roof-top apartment overlooking the Palace Museum in Taipei. The project was a long time in the making spanning four years. The main issue was the vertical connection between the two floors involving the placement of the connecting stair, the appropriate double interior volume space and the area of roof terrace requi...
Project name
WO Residence
Architecture firm
Ho + Hou Studio Architects
Location
Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan
Photography
CK Liao Studio
Principal architect
Albert Ho, Jen Suh Hou
Design team
L L Chen, Ya Ting Yang
Collaborators
One Dust Service Surface
Interior design
Ho + Hou Studio Architect
Environmental & MEP engineering
Lighting
Ho + Hou Studio Architect
Material
Lime Stone Flooring, Verde Green Marble, Walnut, Oak, Mortex Specialty Paint finish
Construction
Cathay Construction
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp
Typology
Residential › Apartment
Real de Los Reyes is a housing project designed by the architectural firm Miguel de la Torre mta+v. The spaces of the houses are designed to be versatile for daily life, meetings or rest. It offers the possibility of customizing the finishes according to the preferences and needs of its inhabitants. It has 13 houses, from 320 m2, distributed on thr...
Project name
Real de los Reyes
Architecture firm
Miguel de la Torre mta+v Diseño y Arquitectura
Location
Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
Principal architect
Miguel de la Torre
Design team
Rodrigo Márquez, Perla Chávez
Tools used
ArchiCAD, Revit, Autodes 3ds Max, SketchUp
Material
Concrete, Steel, Glass
Typology
Residential › Houses
Mahtabi, literally, “lit by the moon” in Persian, is the name of the Iranian traditional terraces, where the people use to sleep at night, while enjoying the summertime starry nights. Plot is located outside the old town of Golpayegan, a city in the central part of Iran with mountainous and variable climate: warm in summer and cold in winter. The b...
Project name
Mahtabi House
Architecture firm
Habibeh Madjdabadi Studio
Principal architect
Habibeh Madjdabad
Collaborators
Kamran Afshar Naderi (text)
Visualization
Hossein Bashari ,Shirin Ashar, Tarranom Maveddat
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Residential › House
Located in Algarve, on the south coast of Portugal, the proposal takes its cues from the historical and contemporary heritage of the region. The result sees a cloister-like configuration that poetically interplays with the central courtyard, along with landscaped areas and terraces, thus obscuring the boundaries between nature and the built space....
Architecture firm
OODA Architecture
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD
Collaborators
Afaconsult, P4 - Artes e Técnicas da Paisagem
Typology
Residential › Apartments
You can find 122 new mailboxes on Zeeburgereiland. Meet the new residential building: Terrazza! This sculptural building establises a connection with the neighborhood on every side. For example, some of the houses are connected to the street by stairs and terraces. But more notable are the courtyards.
Architecture firm
M3H Architects
Location
Zeeburgereiland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Design team
Machiel Spaan, Marc Reniers
Collaborators
Bouwfonds Property Development (BPD), INBO architecten, Cauberg Huygen
Construction
ERA Contour, Goudstikker - de Vries
Typology
Residential › Apartments
Cvet32 Courtyard, a cozy living room in the city center by UTRO Studio. The territory of the apartment house is rather small, the building itself is bounded by historical buildings of Moscow's downtown, andalarge part of the site is occupied by fire access roads. Our main objective was to create a minimalistic courtyard design that would evoke a fe...
Project name
Cvet32 Courtyard
Architecture firm
UTRO Studio
Location
Tsvetnoy Blvd, 32, Moscow, Russia
Photography
Daniil Annenkov
Principal architect
Marina Yarmarkina, Alena Zaytseva, Olga Rokal
Design team
Marina Yarmarkina, Alena Zaytseva, Olga Rokal, Margarita Leonova
Built area
800 square meters
Site area
800 square meters
Lighting
studio “Kultura Sveta”
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Client
HUTTON Development
Typology
Residential › Landscaping
Award-winning division of Arquitectonica concludes a two-year project in Miami Beach that embodies sustainable beauty and the future of urban residential design. As the first reconstruction in its 22-year history, structural integrity and preventative maintenance put focus on a broad renovation of the property’s foundation and façade
Written by
Elliott Stares
Photography
Courtesy of Continuum
