Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

L-shaped in plan, the house consists of rectilinear volumes with flat roofs to prevent dangerous snow slides. Alta House is in Wyoming Portland-based Lever Architecture sought to create a durable home that could withstand the region's harsh winter weather while capitalising on the picturesque setting. The photography is by Lara Swimmer.

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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. The roofs – composed of two triangular planes each that slope toward the centre – collect rainwater and redirect it to river-rock basins.

Civil Engineering 144

Civil Engineering Housing Architecture Engineering 144

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. Post it here.

Civil Engineering 91

Civil Engineering Utilities Engineering Engineering 91

Deezen

JULY 31, 2022

US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. Roughly rectangular in plan, the dwelling has cutouts, cantilevers and multiple sloped roofs that combine in a sculptural way. Desai Chia created "winged" roofs for the house.

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Roofing Housing Civil Engineering Restoration 112

Dwell

JULY 20, 2022

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. Double-thick eight-inch concrete walls fitted with foam insulation extend up to the roof on the low side. Clerestory windows enclose the triangular space between the roof and concrete walls.

Civil Engineering 145

Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Engineering Engineering 145

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

JANUARY 20, 2024

Supported by the internal concrete walls, this allows a small light gap to be created between the facade and the roof. Read: Loenen Pavilion offers space to rest and reflect in Dutch war cemetery Above, a facade of layered, poured concrete surrounds the upper story.

Civil Engineering 139

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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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Dwell

MARCH 19, 2024

Kitchen, living, and dining spaces are lightly contained by a floating roof, folded to capture northern light and facilitate the capture of easterly breezes. Structural simplicity and legibility dissolves the southern and eastern edge, with banks of sliding doors fully retracting to enable a seamless connection with the garden."

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Deezen

AUGUST 2, 2024

The U-shaped facility is oriented around nature, including courtyard Sycamore trees and ample outdoor space for teaching Staggered volumes help minimise sound transfer between classrooms, and deep roof overhangs provide shade while "creating a soft natural light that is comfortable for children with visual impairments".

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 12, 2023

the complex consists of two semi-cylindrical, prefabricated steel warehouse buildings, notable for their arching roof forms and con-nected via an enclosed walkway. While much of the existing structures will remain intact, Skylab has reworked the layout and is updating the buildings through a strategic set of insertions and modifica-tions.

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Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Design Engineering 96

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. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 12, 2024

When open, the large roof overhang provides protection from rain and sun, and enables parents easy access to their kids playing in the adjacent 14,000-square-foot plaza. Inside, the structure includes a partitionable, multi-use assembly space for public gatherings, music performances, dance classes, movies, and more.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2023

The studio gutted and expanded the 4,650-square-foot (430-square metre) rectangular home into an L-shaped plan with overlapping roofs. The home was informed by vernacular agricultural buildings Clad in a dark metal roof and custom dark green stained cypress in a varied batten pattern, the main house references and updates agrarian vernacular.

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Renovation Building Civil Engineering Engineering 145

aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Beyond 1,000 square feet of gallery space, an occupiable green roof, a small dining area and café, gift shop, visitor restrooms, and offices for botanic gardens administrative staff. Source by EskewDumezRipple. Image © EskewDumezRipple. Image © EskewDumezRipple.

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2024

One finds a clear and fluid layout inside The home has a concrete base and a structural frame made of glue-laminated timber. Standing-seam zinc panels wrap the walls and roof, forming a tough shell that helps protect the home from the bright sun and the wildfires that erupt in the area.

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Housing Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering 125

aasarchitecture

AUGUST 14, 2024

Site specific energy reduction strategies included: relying on the site to reduce building energy use, a horizontal geo-exchange heat pump system provides 50% of heating and all cooling needs and orienting the roof to accommodate photovoltaic panels. Photo © Josh Partee Large wood roof overhangs extend inside as interior ceilings.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A sloping fibreglass roof and a glass facade characterise New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro 's first completed single-family residential project, which has been photographed officially for the first time by Iwan Baan. It is really surreal and magical in the whole; the whole roof just feels like it's floating."

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Housing Consulting Roofing Engineering 140

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. The Jeanne Gang -led studio, united eight previous structures, that have been built for the museum complex since it opened in 1937, with the concrete canopy.

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Art Building Civil Engineering Roofing 125

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. The photography is by CreatAR Images, unless stated otherwise.

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Consulting Civil Engineering Transportation Engineering 132

Deezen

JULY 17, 2024

The courtyard was once an enclosed auditorium, but due to the 1980s fire, the roof was burned and never replaced, leaving it open to elements as it exists today. Dan Patry, Jason Cone, Ignacio Arizmendi The post Jones Studio and Chris Winters Associates restore Phoenix abbey to be "garden in a ruin" appeared first on Dezeen.

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Restoration Civil Engineering Utilities Engineering 130

Deezen

JUNE 25, 2024

Much of the building's energy needs are met by a 100kW solar array that extends across the roof. Strategies include an air-tight building envelope and a high-capacity energy recovery ventilation system.

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Sustainability Civil Engineering Education Engineering 133

Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

The home is topped with a green roof. The home is topped by a green roof planted with local grasses that camouflages the home in its context. Civil engineer: McNeil Engineering. Structural engineer: Structural Design Studio. The photography is by Matt Winquist unless otherwise stated. .

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

These hold classrooms and utilise the slope with three storeys that line up with the two-storey central structure. The largest of these protrusions features a smaller lecture hall on the top level, with a roof that slopes up and out in a sizeable lip.

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Consulting Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Residential 132

Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

According to the team, it was informed by the Engawa, an element of Japanese architecture that resembles a veranda or porch that runs along the perimeter of a structure. We have created a Japanese-style porch design that not only continues the interior space for tasting drinks, etc.

Civil Engineering 133

Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering Windows 133

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".

Civil Engineering 98

Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering Glass 98

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The team came up with "low-cost, high-impact design techniques" The project involved refurbishing the stucco-clad motels – one had nondescript structures, and the other had two long bars topped with traditional clay-tile roofs.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It is known for its visitor's center and for the Steve Jobs Theater , both of which feature pavilion-like structures with glass walls and thin cantilevered roofing. The team worked with scientists and craftspeople for the project Apple Park was designed by UK studio Foster + Partners. The photography is by Iwan Baan.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

The rough and robust stone exterior juxtaposes the refined interior The house limits environmental impacts through its photovoltaic panel infrastructure and ballast roofing – which extend the effects of passive cooling, thermal mass and radiant heating – to create an oasis in the desert valley.

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Housing Building Civil Engineering Structural Engineering 112

Deezen

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Nature Activity Centre has an overhanging roof The different areas carved out within the landscape are the Evolution Garden, the Nature Activity Centre, the Nature Discovery Garden and the Garden Kitchen. It is crowned by an overhanging roof made from timber, which integrates a rainwater collection system.

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Nature Consulting Landscape Civil Engineering 122

Deezen

JULY 22, 2024

Beginning in 2022, the scope of the restoration included updates to structural and cosmetic elements including improvements to site drainage, cladding and interior finishings, replacement of the roof and skylights , window repairs, artwork conservation and a complete replacement of the building's mechanical and electrical systems.

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Restoration Glass Housing Civil Engineering 132

Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2022

Atop the front portion of the house, a thin, shed roof is lifted up, making way for clerestories. Other projects by the studio include a house that offers views of the Pacific Crest mountains in every room, and a holiday home in wine country that features an asymmetrical roof and facades wrapped in salvaged wood and weathering steel.

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Housing Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering 145

Deezen

MARCH 19, 2024

The roof is designed to accommodate solar arrays in the future. Aiming to garner a LEED Silver status, the building utilizes a hydronic heating system and high-efficiency vertically flooded heat exchangers, which are primarily located on the top floor for direct exhaust.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

With a grass-topped, arched roof it was designed to be both contemporary and integrated into the landscape. The building itself is a very simple rectangular form but set within a curved courtyard landscape to provide, together with the arched roof, an organic natural flowing form," explained Kirkland. Electrical engineer: Aura.

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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 metal staircase leads to a herb garden on the roof Exterior walls are made of Norman-sized black bricks with deeply raked mortar joints.

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Housing Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering 122

aasarchitecture

APRIL 18, 2024

Photo © Alan Brandt The 3,750-square-foot shed-roofed building, sited on the campus’ public threshold, puts science education on display. Electrical Engineer: Interface Engineering Landscape: Walker Macy Acoustical Engineer: Acoustic Design Studio, Inc.

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Architect Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Students 59

Architizer

MAY 11, 2022

General Contractor: Baywest Builders Civil Engineer: Lea + Braze Engineering Inc Landscape Design: Variegated Green Structural Engineer: BKG Structural Engineers Geotechnical Consultant: Romig Engineers Inc Arborist: Urban Tree Management Lighting Designer: Tucci Lighting Photography: Adam Rouse.

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