Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. We looked to the bush – those forested, undeveloped areas of nature that surround the house – while allowing the built structures to adapt to the natural terrain," the studio said.

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Dwell

JULY 20, 2022

The site sits on a north facing slope and looks down to the Martis Valley and up to Lookout Mountain through a natural screen of 100-year-old Jeffrey pine trees. A thin steel shed roof pitches up to open the interior to the south sun and frame views to the ski runs on the mountain.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We hope Kingsbury Commons sets a standard for Austin parks by integrating fun and play within nature.". The embedded recreational amenities encourage visitors – both young and grown – to interact with nature and central Texas geology. Visitors are encouraged to interact with nature. The team restored a 1920s Tudor cottage.

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Dwell

MARCH 4, 2025

The choreography of inhabitation is characterized by guests who eddy inside and out, into and out of the ground and bodies of water, collecting themselves in and around the sunken living room or one of several pool rooms: some for wading, some for diving, some for lounging in the shade provided by the extended beams of the roof.

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The roof was also renovated, with the roof edge raised slightly so that the newly installed solar panels appeared to be sunken into the roof. Together with the residents, we adhered to the principle of preserving as much as possible of the original house and integrating it into nature in a modest way. Post it here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

This projection helped us to minimize the impact on this natural site and reduce excavation.". Employing the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of wabi-sabi – the beauty of the imperfect and incomplete – the north volume uses a natural cedar finish while on the south volume, the cedar has been stained black. Photo is by Lucy Call.

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Dwell

AUGUST 15, 2024

Set on an undulating dune, the dwelling is comprised of three semi-buried pavilions connected by a lush green roof. This connection takes into account the natural topography, and uses the existing unevenness to build a shelter, a place without time, where the void and the view are framed. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Its design is based on natural landscapes and prioritises helping visitors to connect to the outside, enticing them away from their screens. The columns flatten at their peaks to evoke a tree canopy One of the library's most notable details is its tall, slender columns that "mushroom into flat panels" at their peak to support the roof.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Project Details: Location: Melbourne, Australia Architect: LLDS / @ llds_architecture Footprint: 880 square feet Structural Engineer: Bollinger+Grohmann Civil Engineer: R. Sited on a narrow plot, the main design move was to elevate the ground to form a roof garden to address the lack of garden spaces. Have one to share?

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Deezen

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Walls were clad in stone and hemlock wood, and the house was topped with a metal gabled roof. There also is a large, angled roof cutout that demarcates a front courtyard. There also is a roof deck. In plan, the home is a long bar with a sawtooth formation along one side. Communal areas convene in the central portion of the plan.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Built near the village of Aldbury, the home is set within the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. With a grass-topped, arched roof it was designed to be both contemporary and integrated into the landscape. Electrical engineer: Aura. Civil engineer: Genever & Partners. Ecology: MKEcology.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The stone-clad Connecticut retreat is surprisingly advanced with a steel frame, glass sliders, geothermal heating and cooling, and a motorized roof hatch to the deck. Inspired by a childhood dream of Thoreau’s Walden Pond, he wanted to create a small and simple, yet modern studio in which to write, reflect, and enjoy nature. "To

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Immersing guests in the natural landscape of the wooded site along the Fraser River, the project touches lightly on the land with elevated cabins and a network of boardwalks that maximise interaction with the mountain site while preserving the trees and natural watershed.

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Deezen

APRIL 21, 2023

Chicago-based Studio Gang has completed the overall of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, Arkansas , with the addition of a sculptural folded concrete roof. Both of the entrances are covered by the roof as it cantilevers above the glass entryways.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Local architecture studio Lemay aimed to rethink the relationship between "the built and the natural" in its revamp of Théâtre de Verdure, which consists of a stage on an island and a fan-shaped seating area. The team aimed to accomplish several goals, including honouring the site's history and making the most of the natural setting.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A metal roof and glass facade contrast the brick station. Photo is by Aogvision These underground waiting halls havemetal roofs equipped with solar panels that power the station, contrasting the brick exterior of the old station front. Commercial and cultural spaces are added to the south square.

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Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2022

Nestled within a pine forest – in the shadow of an 8,000-foot extinct volcano in the Sierra Nevada range – the dwelling serves as a nature retreat for a tech company CEO and his family, who live in San Francisco. Atop the front portion of the house, a thin, shed roof is lifted up, making way for clerestories.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Settled on the edge of a meadow surrounded by spruce trees, the massing of the two-bedroom, rectangular house follows the natural grade, never rising more than 15 feet (4.5

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The guest house – a nearly symmetrical 550-square foot (51 square metre) pavilion – works in dialogue with the existing home, weighing the main home's rough masonry with the guest house's steel-framed roof and three-sided glazing.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson used engineered timber and a cantilevered roof for Caymus-Suisun Winery to create a contemporary winery with a "new architectural language for the region". The space is shaded by a large cantilevered roof that is designed to "hover weightlessly overhead while focusing views to nearby mountain ranges".

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Deezen

JULY 11, 2023

Bands of local stone wrap the Youngmeyer Field Station, which was designed and built by Kansas studio Hutton to integrate with the natural topography and operate off the grid. To maintain a discrete profile, the team created a "clean roof line" with a sculpted edge.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This resulted in an estimated 60 per cent reduction in carbon emissions for the team's first full-scale demo project, built inside Cambridge University 's Civil Engineering Department. Since concrete is the world's most widely consumed material after water [.] This creates panels that are lighter and use 70 per cent less material.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2023

Contrasting the stark white of the upper floor, the planted roof hangs down and allows vines to move up the elevation, creating a 'green wall' that camouflages part of the home in the existing grove of oak trees." Civil engineer: Jorge G. Connectivity within the home, despite the size, was important," the studio said.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2022

A jagged roof tops the project. The building is topped with a sawtooth roof , which takes cues from the gabled roofs and porches historically found in the area, before the construction of a freeway in the 1960s decimated the neighbourhood. Structural engineer: KPFF Consulting Engineers. Developer: project^.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

HGA has created a pair of mass-timber buildings at Bowdoin College in Maine While different in size and colour, the buildings have asymmetrical pitched roofs that "play off each other from different vantage points". Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades. The photography is by Michael Moran.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2024

Local architecture studio Modern Office of Design + Architecture has wrapped a multifamily housing development in wood siding and topped it with ramped roof gardens in Calgary , Alberta. Known as GROW, the project includes 20 residential units and a 0.6-acre

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2023

Wood elements were included inside "It was important for the clients that this roof deck was publicly accessible without compromising the privacy of their bedroom," the team said. Overall, the house has the character of a nature retreat while allowing for full-time use. From this elevated perch, one can catch views of the bay.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

An overhanging roof provides shade "The new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form," said GO'C , a Seattle-based firm. A variety of openings were incorporated to form communal spaces, provide views and bring in natural light and air. The home is designed to be rooted to the landscape.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Read: Ingenhoven Architects tops island health resort with Europe's largest thatched roof Two of the lecture halls are double-height, while the remainder of the second- and third-storey spaces were filled with study halls and smaller classrooms. The photography is by Patrick Price.

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Deezen

JUNE 25, 2024

A prism was chosen for the architecture "The design is a prism for amplifying the relationships between humans and their built, social and natural environments," the studio added. Much of the building's energy needs are met by a 100kW solar array that extends across the roof.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Located in Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula, the rambler-style home utilized the trees for the roof and a coffee table, too. The house is 1,700 square feet, and reaches into the landscape with a sheltering roof and screen walls to create usable outdoor spaces on all sides. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The main volume of the 3,632-square-foot house is oriented along an east-west axis, which allows the living spaces to take full advantage of southern light, while its asymmetrically gabled roof orients the interiors toward the primary views. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects.

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Deezen

JUNE 22, 2023

Called Sheerness Dockyard Church, the grade II*-listed building has been upgraded with a new roof and interior spaces designed by Hugh Broughton Architects to replace ones gutted by fire in 2001. This includes the church's parapets and its roof, which is animated by steel and timber flitch trusses. It features steel link bridges.

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e-architect

MARCH 23, 2025

The result is a serene and tranquil retreat that harmoniously coexists with its breathtaking natural surroundings. Pre-finished wood siding from Maibec and metal roofing were selected to withstand high winds and salt spray off of the water.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Architecture studios Kuehn Malvezzi , Pelletier de Fontenay and Jodoin Lamarre Pratte Architectes have created an insect zoo and museum in a glazed sawtooth-roof building with interior spaces that emulate the experience of being a bug. Its new building was designed to embody a novel approach to learning about the natural world.

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aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In honoring this conception of the Center as a contemplative retreat to nature, the design team looked to create a liminal space that would provoke curiosity and excitement for the surrounding scenery while simultaneously providing a legible point of arrival and orientation. Image © EskewDumezRipple. Source by EskewDumezRipple.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Our design response is a spacious, off white and simple pitched roof classical form with slender exposed structural steel work creating a functional and elegant, light-filled interior. © H2o Architects. © H2o Architects. © H2o Architects. © H2o Architects. McKinnon Secondary College Gymnasium Gallery.

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