Elemental Home: An approach to envisioning a home that is essential in its form and program necessity. Situated as a rendezvous location in Joshua Tree, home to the spark of a new creative AirBnB architectural oasis, the Elemental Home synthesizes all aspects of living into a pristine and proportionally divine living quarter.
Project name
Elemental Home
Location
Joshua Tree, California, USA
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, V-Ray Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Abe Salman
Typology
Residential › House
The economic conditions of Middle Eastern countries have made small-scale spaces less popular. The existence of these economic conditions in the profession of architecture has also been influential.
Architecture firm
Ev Design Office
Location
Deylaman, Gilan, Iran
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Mojtaba Naghizadeh, Nastaran Tavakoli
Design team
Parisa Azizi, Mohammad Hosseini Baraftabi, Amin Malekzadeh
Visualization
Parisa Azizi
Status
Under construction
Typology
Residential › House
The defining characteristic of this house is its contextual responsiveness. While contemporary in expression, it relates to its location in Chicago's leafy Lincoln Square neighborhood. in a number of ways. Its scale aligns with the surrounding century-old houses.
Project name
Eastwood Residence
Architecture firm
Searl Lamaster Howe Architects
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Principal architect
Greg Howe, Pam Lamaster
Design team
Greg Howe, Pam Lamaster
Interior design
Homeowner
Structural engineer
Robert Darvas and Associates
Environmental & MEP
Searl Lamaster Howe
Lighting
Searl Lamaster Howe
Visualization
Searl Lamaster Howe
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD
Material
Brick, Cement Board
Typology
Residential › House
Recently, many companies and building owners have been taking an interest in smart buildings for offices. So what does this mean? Like other things that have become smart, smart buildings also mean the same thing. They focus on improving control over the building's operation and environment.
Written by
Genevieve Ebeb Barro
Photography
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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
Beach Sky Villa is defined on a 615-square-meter site on the south shore of the Caspian Sea in a
neighborhood with a predominantly villa-like texture and green nature.
The design of this house had two major challenges; first, how the villa having different spatial approaches
interacts with the various structures in the area, and second, the dy...
Project name
Beach Sky Villa
Architecture firm
Vahid Joudi Studio
Location
Royan, Mazandaran, Iran
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Lumion
Principal architect
Vahid Joudi
Collaborators
Behrooz Ghaemi
Visualization
Anisa Motahar
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Residential › House
CENTRUM Group presented their concept for a new "Opera for All" in Düsseldorf to the public. At the center of the concept are two high points that face each other harmoniously.
Project name
Duett Düsseldorf
Architecture firm
CENTRUM Group, Snøhetta
Location
Düsseldorf, Germany
Collaborators
Bollinger+Grohmann, Theatre Project, Drees & Sommer
Typology
Cultural › Opera House, residential, hotel, office, commercial
According to the general definition, the term sustainable architecture refers to a high-tech, ecologically-oriented approach to architecture. To put it simply, its core goal is to design ecologically-conscious buildings that minimize humanity’s impact on the environment.
Written by
Dorothy Starling
Photography
Gábor Molnár (cover image), Victor Garcia
The project was launched with the ambitious objective of transforming a former coal-mining area into a landscape park, which is not only a model for the landscape design that is so essential in China, but also contains a building infrastructure that can be used for researching into and offering people access to and information about natural ecosyst...
Project name
Taiyuan Botanical Garden
Architecture firm
Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (DMAA)
Location
Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, China
Design team
Maria Dirnberger, Volker Gessendorfer, Bernd Heger, Tom Peter-Hindelang, Klara Jörg, Rangel Karaivanov, Leonard Kern, Kinga Kwasny, Toni Nachev, Martin Schneider, Petras Vestartas
Collaborators
Institute of Shanghai Architectural Design & Research (Co.,Ltd.), Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure, Yiju Ding
Structural engineer
Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure, StructureCraft
Environmental & MEP
Cody Energy Design
Landscape
Valentien+Valentien Landschaftsarchitekten und Stadtplaner SRL, Beijing BLDJ Landscape Architecture Insitute Co.,Ltd.
Client
Botanical Garden Taiyuan
Typology
Cultural › Greenhouse, Landscape, Museum, Restaurant
Designed by Mexican architecture studio GAS Architectures, Contact Pavilion is located near of the crop circles on the Glastonbury fields.
Project name
Contact Pavilion
Architecture firm
GAS Architectures
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshoper, Lumion, Adobe After Effects
Principal architect
Germán Sandoval
Design team
Kesia Devallentier, Germán Sandoval
Visualization
GAS Architectures
Typology
Cultural › Pavilion
