April 5th, 2012 by By admin # Contemporary Designs Ideas, Garden House Design, Home Building Concepts, Home Design Ideas
This Creative Hill House Design in Melbourne Australia, this house design by Andrew Maynard Architects. House design strategy: outdoor space with great solar access, landscape with lots of vegetation providing shades and good ventilation. great space for gathering between friends and family under the stairs during night time, great outdoor space for kids to play and hold activities during daytime. good access from living space to the park Hill House Design Description from Architects: Hill House the problem/opportunity: Design is complex. There is little that is more complex to design than a home, however fundamental issues offer an architect a starting point; where is the sun? How do we capture it in winter, how do we exclude it in summer? The thin allotments that dominate Melbourne’s northern suburbs often provide indomitable constraints to solar access and therefore require the production of unorthodox ideas to overcome these constraints and convert them into opportunities. Hill House Original conditions: The site faces north therefore relegating the backyard, the family’s primary outdoor space, to shadow throughout the year. In the 90s a two storey extension was added reducing solar access even further while creating deep dark space within the house. A family of five
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April 5th, 2012 by By admin # Garden House Design, Home Design Ideas
This cool small beautiful guest house with beach view on a Barrier Island. This guest house for Casey Key House by TOTeMS Architecture. the guests house is set within a mature oak hammock along Sarasota Bay. The structure is inspired by the character of the live oaks, which have been shaped by the prevailing coastal winds from the west. Now look the Small Beautiful Guest House on a Barrier Island – Casey Key House with picture below: Small Beautiful Guest House Description from the architect: The Owner requested a design that was a “house in the trees”. A small program, including one bedroom, bath, living area with kitchenette, and a loft is organized to provide privacy between a neighboring property to the north, while offering broad views of the oak hammock to the south and west, and the intercoastal waterway to the east. Curved glulam pine beams, which are anchored to the elevated concrete slab at their base, curve up and over the entire space, reflect the arching quality of the live oak limbs. Ship lap cypress siding is used to clad the exterior walls and the interior walls between the glulam beams. The Guest House design is intended to
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April 1st, 2012 by By admin # Contemporary Designs Ideas, Home Building Concepts, Home Design Ideas
This cool Contemporary Casa Luz in Guatemala City by Paz Arquitectura. This House use of glass and continuity of exterior and interior materials seek to integrate the indoors with the outdoors, creating functional environments whose edges can be deleted to suit the inhabitant. Casa Luz in Guatemala City by Paz Arquitectura: “With intent to emphasize the structural elements, and to seek to highlight the local construction methods and materials, design work was done using fine timber formwork in order to leave a permanent imprint on the exposed concrete. The large windows explore the opportunities to open the space as much as possible, and using floor to ceiling windows allows the rooms to become a balcony. Existing vegetation is preserved so that when you open the windows you could have a visual relationship with the existing trees. White was used for horizontal and vertical planes (slabs and walls) in order to cause the spread of natural light. Materials such as tempered glass, wood and exposed concrete used in its size, and natural shades create an architecture that is restrained and straightforward.” Photography by Andres Asturias
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Tags: construction methods, cool outdoor design, tempered glass, paz arquitectura, house in guatemala city
March 13th, 2012 by By admin # Contemporary Designs Ideas, Home Building Concepts, Home Design Ideas
Here is the Contemporary Villa M in Austin, Texas by Brian Dillard Architecture. This contemporary and amazing two story house ideas with garden and swimming pool. Description from the architects: Villa M was designed by Brian Dillard Architecture for a client with Southern French roots living in Austin, Texas. The Austin architect wanted to embrace the owner’s heritage along with his appreciation for contemporary architecture, classic design, bright colors, and outdoor living. The house is organized around a central pool and garden area that is shared by the main house and pool house. Both enjoy large, multi-slide doors which open the spaces completely to the pool during nicer months. The red stucco volumes are inspired by the vernacular stucco of Nice, France where the owner is from. The parterre garden, tiled pool, and fountain along a central axis are also reminiscent of French influences. Strong design elements including the bright colors and general form of the house are softened by the use of classic, warm materials such as white oak wood paneling, terrazzo floors, and lueders limestone exterior pavers. The client’s furniture, Murano glass light fixtures, & art from the Saint Paul de Vence galleries further serve to further warm
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March 12th, 2012 by By admin # Contemporary Designs Ideas, Home Building Concepts, Home Design Ideas, Swimming Pool Designs
This the contemporary fieldview house design in East Hampton, New York by Blaze Makoid Architecture. Winner of the 2008 long chapter of the American Institute of architects commendation for outstanding achievement in residential design. Fieldview House Design in East Hampton by Blaze Makoid Architecture: Located on a flat, one acre flag lot with neighbors close to the front and side yards, this 4,000 square foot house is configured of three primary volumes arranged in an ‘C’ that frame the expansive, southern view of an adjacent, agricultural reserve. This view serves as a backdrop to an interwoven composition of interior and exterior spaces. Entry, through a glass void in the northern side of the house, is approached by a raised, stone walk, under an exaggerated uplighted canopy. The entry foyer, at the terminus of the outdoor pool, separates public space to the left and the private, two story bedroom wing to the right. An open floor plan contains living room, dining room and kitchen stretches along the length of the central outdoor patio. Large expanses of south facing glass help to dissolve interior/exterior relationships while a more selective glazing strategy locates individual windows in the predominately solid north, east and west
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March 8th, 2012 by By admin # Contemporary Designs Ideas, Home Building Concepts, Home Design Ideas
This cool house location with natural surrounding area in Marin county California, about 6.4 km/4 miles north of San Francisco. This Mill Valley Hillside Residence project in 2009 design by Berkeley-based studio McGlashan Architecture Mill Valley Hillside by McGlashan Architecture: “Type of Project The Mill Valley Hillside project is a residence for three generations, in two separate dwellings, under one green roof. It brings the grandparents closer to their children and grandchildren, yet carves out spaces tailored to each generation. Upstairs is formal, quiet and dramatic. Downstairs is warm and casual, from cozy window seats to a generous play areas for the boys, their pet rat, and their drum set. As family arrangements evolve, so can the house. The middle level can be shared variously between the two dwellings. Plentiful light, natural finishes, salvaged wood, and built-in elements hand-carved by the architect tie the living spaces together into an organic whole. It is all covered by a green roof, as if the living surface of the hillside was peeled up to create naturally conditioned living space below. With a minimum of disturbance and energy, a steep hillside is sculpted into a thriving family compound. Notable Points Planning conditions allowed for
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March 5th, 2012 by By admin # Home Building Concepts, Home Design Ideas
Moscow architectural studio Atrium Architects has designed the House in Gorky-6. This contemporary house design for a young family with a child on the top of a hill surrounded by pine trees near Moscow, Russia. Description from the architects: This house was designed for a young couple with a child. Their only wish was to have a contemporary piece of architecture. The site is situated not far from Moscow to the west. The house is positioned on the top of a hill surrounded by pine trees. The site has three directions with beautiful views, only the north view is worse, so the architects decided to close it off. This provoked the idea of folded plane, which is lifted a little above the ground and forms the space of the house. It creates a variety of inner and outer spaces which serve usual dwelling functions. At the same time the building is open to the sunlight, with windows throughout oriented towards natural light. You can feel the structure of folding in the house because of the open space plan where public zones flow into private areas and vice-versa. There is no difference in cladding of the outside and the inside. If
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