House like Garden / MARC KOEHLER ARCHITECTS
The 140 m² house is located on a small plot in IJburg; a recently developed suburb of the city of Amsterdam. The house is designed as a vertical garden giving space to flora and fauna to grow in a densly urbanised area. Closed private spaces contrast with open collective spaces, that seem to have been ‘carved out’ from the solid volume as a continous transparent void. In this way the interior space is visually and physically connected to the street, the garden and roof terraces...read more
Amsterdam Noordstrook Block A / Mecanoo and Dick van Gameren
To set into motion a large-scale renovation of the Delflandplein neighbourhood, the first new block has been designed to achieve maximum density: Noordstrook combines 170 affordable housing units, a community centre and commercial spaces in one volume. The U-shaped complex has a large variety of housing types and sizes...read more
Casa Kwantes / MVRDV
Casa Kwantes bases itself around the clients’ desire for seclusion and privacy, whilst having a maximum of daylight and open living spaces. From the road, the bare brick wall offers only a partial glimpse into the property and family life through an opening of the white brickwork façade - a subtle indented entrance leading into an initially dark and enclosed entrance hall...read more
York Street / Jackson Clements Burrows Architects
An existing heritage building is transformed through the introduction of a modern, two-storey addition that playfully re-interprets the distinctive geometry of the original dwelling through a contemporary lens. Capturing abundant natural light and garden aspects, the new addition employs a refined and subtle palette of brick, steel and timber...read more
JUANA AZURDUY / BAAG
Juana Azurduy 1635 is a residential building that consists of two four-story wings separated by an inner courtyard. It’s located on a low rise and residential Núñez neighborhood block, which stands out due to the fact that a public school, full of mature plantains and ash trees, takes up half of its surface. The building looks to provide an urban statement, making a point of considering the wall that divides it from the school a façade and not just a “blind” wall...read more
VH House / ODDO architects
The house is designed for 4-member family. The land of house is relatively small, 4x16 meters. It was used as garden with fruit trees and vegetable. The aim was to return this garden to family by applying maximum amount of greenery in the design...read more
Castle Lane / DROO
VI Castle Lane revisits a recurring element of English architecture through a novel interpretation of the bow window. Introducing contemporary design in a highly protected conservation area, the project’s complex volume uses its curving walls to negotiate conflicting urban scales; from mansions to townhouses...read more
Ozgol apartment / Hooba Design Group
The new urban development of Tehran in the recent decades has imposed alterations to the ratio of open and semi-open spaces to the closed spaces in residential units. These changes has enormously affected the lifestyle of Tehranians in the recent years to such and extend that smaller apartment units have minimum access to open or semi-open spaces...read more
HOUSE 1101 / HARQUITECTES
Not so many jobs begin like this one, with an owners' list of wishes and hopes for their new home. A list much closer to the principles and values architects usually work with, often secretly, than the ordinary expectations of those couples facing this unknown challenge. Lists always full of good intentions but often incomplete. This was the start, loaded with responsibility, yet an excellent start...read more
CASA BÚHO / BAAG
Within the framework of the housing loan program Pro.Cre.Ar, the project is being implemented in the outskirts of the city of La Plata (Provincia de Buenos Aires) In a still undeveloped area. It is part of the double challenge of colonizing an extensive land expanding a house that could not surpass 130m2, but considering the future consolidation of the urban landscape and its urban responses...read more
