While remaining programmatically similar to the original ocean-view house, this project has transformed it completely. The roof of the existing house was removed and replaced by a curved roof that created spaces for clerestory windows at the heart of the house. The front of the house was demolished so that the floor of the main living areas could b...
Project name
Playa del Rey Residence
Architecture firm
West Edge Architects
Location
Playa Del Rey, California, USA
Photography
Taiyo Watanabe
Principal architect
Peter M. Mitsakos
Design team
Peter M. Mitsakos, Jason An, Bettina Villalba, Jeffrey Tonkin
Collaborators
Furnishings, Window Treatments & Accessories: James Buchan & Martha Moos
Interior design
West Edge Architects
Structural engineer
Ken Niver
Landscape
Lisa Gimmie, Landscape Architecture
Lighting
West Edge Architects with assistance from SCI Lighting Solutions
Supervision
Peter M. Mitsakos
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, V-ray
Construction
Wood Frame with some Steel
Material
Exterior Finish: Stucco Rainscreen
Typology
Residential › Single Family Residence
Set on a sliver of the Florida coast between the ocean and a tidal marsh, the Ponte Vedra Beach Residences offer refined simplicity that is suffused with the natural beauty of the surrounding tidal marsh. The houses are a stylish take on the Lowcountry vernacular, reimagining the stately geometries of the 18 th century in contemporary architecture...
Project name
Ponte Vedra Beach Residences
Architecture firm
Andre Kikoski
Location
Ponte Vedra Beach, St. Johns County, Florida, United States
Principal architect
Andre Kikoski
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Residential › House
Nature-inspired forms in architecture bring users close to the natural world. Traditional geometry of a single family house combined within floating forms protecting the community from the outside living in their own OASES.
Project name
Oases Biel-Benken by KOHLERSTRAUMANN
Architecture firm
KOHLERSTRAUMANN
Location
Biel -Benken, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
Tools used
Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Aaron Kohler, Marc Straumann
Design team
KOHLERSTRAUMANN
Visualization
KOHLERSTRAUMANN
Typology
Residential › House
A project that respected the Cork Oak in Celorico de Basto, Portugal, designed by Portuguese architecture firm Hugo Pereira Arquitetos. The objective of the project was the construction of a single-family house on a plot of extraordinary morphological characteristics, which remained almost intact and unchanged.
Project name
Cork Oak House
Architecture firm
Hugo Pereira Arquitetos
Location
Celorico de Basto, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio www.ivotavares.net
Principal architect
Hugo Pereira and Diogo Jordão
Tools used
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
