Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Architect Odile Decq has completed a house in France with walls of translucent glass, to create the optimal lighting conditions for a client with vision impairment. The tilted shape allowed for the optimisation of the orientation of the glazed surfaces on the roof," she explained. The house is entered via an enclosed terrace.

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Dwell

JUNE 15, 2022

To fit in synergistically with the residential area surrounding the client’s house, one of the requirements was that the exterior should look like a ‘conventionally shaped house’. We started planning with this concept in mind. "To

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Deezen

JULY 23, 2024

The five-bedroom family home is constructed from wood and defined by its origami-like, wood-clad roof, which pays homage to local buildings and agricultural structures in nearby villages. We want the building to feel agricultural, hence the gabled ends, but also nod to the variety of domestic roof pitches found in the local area."

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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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Deezen

APRIL 22, 2024

Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti has completed Frame House, a family home in Ljubljana clad in red-brick tiles that play on the area's pitched-roof buildings. This shelters a paved entrance patio intended as a place for the client's children to play.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Architecture practice THISS Studio has reconfigured the dark interior of an interwar house in east London, adding an extension characterised by timber joinery and a curved aluminium roof. The extension has a curved aluminium roof Sunny Side Up expands the home's ground floor by three metres and contains a light-filled dining space.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed an elevated home with steel pilotis and a V-shaped roof, aiming to create a building that "floats in the middle of the forest". It was commissioned during the pandemic as a second home for the client The design team had multiple goals for the project.

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. The roof features a rounded triangle roof opening made of aluminium. Project credits: Client: North Carolina Museum of Art Contractor: Frank L.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The idea was to take the existing house and give it new life—one that met the needs and aesthetics of our designer clients. We chose to utilize a dark cedar exterior to ground the home within the surrounding dunes and a contrasting natural cedar to accentuate the point of entry. The client described it as living inside a tree.

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Archinect

MARCH 6, 2023

An amazing client who wanted to push the envelope on both material choice and green building integration. The open plan interior is achieved by CLT panels which form the walls and roof, vaulted, with no interior beams or ties, and without the use of an exterior steel frame.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville. "The

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2024

Italian studio Messner Architects has extended and reconfigured a house in South Tyrol to create three apartments , each with a contrasting exterior finish of plaster, wood and metal. While the existing structure was left largely unchanged, Messner Architects removed its gabled roof to create an expanded second floor.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed a single-family residence in Oregon with a dark exterior and interconnected spaces without corridors that was built using American-made cross-laminated timber. The shed roof – capped in standing seam metal – creates a series of narrow, slanted interior spaces.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2024

Local studio Atelier Hajný has created a charred timber-clad housing block near Prague that references a holiday cabin visited by the client since his childhood. The photography is by Radek Úlehla The post Atelier Hajný references rural Czech cabins for triangular housing block appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Nestled within a compact plot on the site of an existing home, the building is designed as future-proof accommodation for the client's elderly mother and a live-in carer. Butterfly House is designed to be accessible for the client's elderly mother Three volumes topped with pitched roofs intersect to form the two-bedroom house.

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Deezen

MAY 26, 2024

It features handcrafted concrete corbels Aiming to create a dialogue between the materiality of the Victorian home and the extension, Grafted used red bricks and pigmented precast concrete on the exterior. The timber roof structure of the extension is expressed internally The timber roof structure of the extension is expressed internally.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

Daniel Canda has renovated a 1980s residence in Argentina Faced between updating an existing structure or building anew for a client, Canda & Associados (C&A) ultimately chose to renovate. "If The team kept much of the bottom half of the house intact, removing interior walls and flattening its original gabled roof.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The interior features a C-shaped plan An exterior staircase – shaded by a black partition lattice made of local purple rosewood – leads up to a roof terrace with 360-degree views. The client named the house Casa que Da (House that Gives) to reference the act of "giving" in a culinary context.

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SW Oregon Architect

JULY 3, 2022

Historians attribute its architectural significance to its quintessential combination of Prairie Style features, notably the design’s decidedly horizontal emphasis, structurally expressive brick piers and cantilevered roofs, continuous bands of windows, not to mention its influence upon domestic design and lifestyle. Detail view, exterior.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Totalling 1,500 square feet (139 square metres), the house came with an irregular, pyramid-like roof and cedar-shingle cladding, both inside and out. Working closely with the clients, the architects set out to brighten up the interior and improve the views. In contrast to the interior, the home's exterior was kept dark.

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Deezen

MARCH 27, 2022

Blackened wood and large stretches of glass form the exterior of a 1970s home that has been renovated by American studio Anacapa Architecture. Working closely with the clients – an opera singer and a talent manager – the architects focused on interventions that would open the house up to the environment. Photo is by Erin Feinblatt.

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Deezen

JUNE 25, 2024

Teak details have been repurposed from the client's old house A family room opens onto the two courtyards on the first floor and connects the two ensuite bedrooms to the north and south. Designed to "gradually unfold", a living room is tucked behind this kitchen garden, leading into the main bedroom, family bathroom and utility room.

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2023

US studio CLB Architects has designed a cedar-clad home and barn in Wyoming for clients who love horses and wanted to return their property to its historic roots as a working ranch. CLB Architects gave the home a long, low roof To design the project, the team drew upon the site's history as a working cattle ranch.

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Deezen

JULY 4, 2024

The pavilion is located at the end of a large garden near the Vltava River and is designed for the clients to use as a shed in adverse weather and for overnight stays in the summer months. It has a folding facade that opens it up to the garden "The clients were looking for a new backstage to their garden," explained Byró Architekti. "We

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2024

Dino's Famous Chicken is run by four sisters who from LA who wanted to pay homage to the city and their Greek family heritage as part of the exterior and interior refresh of the chain's first location. At night, lighting installed behind the porous walls shines through the geometric openings in the blocks.

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Deezen

MAY 29, 2024

Located on the site of a former soy sauce factory, the open single-storey home was designed for a client who requested bright spaces with ample access to the outdoors. A sliding door lined in polycarbonate leads to a courtyard As a close connection to the outdoors was crucial for the client, Chidori Studio organised Hokuriku Residence No.

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Industrial Home Exterior Clients 122

Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Clerestory windows beneath the roof draw daylight into the interior Each half of the building contains a block with a bathroom and kitchen, while the remainder of the space has been left open and flexible, with staircases leading up to two small mezzanine levels containing a sitting area and a bed. The photography is by Ooki Jingu.

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Deezen

AUGUST 24, 2024

In addition to the interior transformation, Giona Bierens de Haan Architectures replaced the chalet's roof and added new openings while retaining the exterior, which featured a combination of the original facade and 1980s additions. The photography is by Dylan Perrenoud.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2024

Alabama forms the site for Fowl River Cabin "When looking at the site and analysing the client's goals for the project, we knew that the siting of the building and the way it interacted with the river and trees was going to be just as crucial as the design itself," the Tall Architects team told Dezeen.

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Deezen

JULY 16, 2024

Raised on a concrete plinth, the geometric home accommodates three generations of the client's family and is topped with a roof pitched in various directions to form multiple peaks. Inside, rooms and corridors wrap around the courtyard with those directly bordering it featuring floor-to-ceiling glazing.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Local practice Studio Ellsinger has topped a small holiday cabin on Sweden 's west coast with a hat-shaped aluminium roof to "trigger curiosity" and offer protection from its wild surroundings. The clients had bought a very rural and wild plot on the west coast of Sweden, and they wanted a similar approach," he continued.

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Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2022

Non-combustible materials form the exterior of a cabin near Lake Tahoe that was designed by US studio Faulkner Architects to serve as a "base camp" for an active family. Exterior walls consist of concrete and 16-gauge weathering steel – materials that are known for being non-combustible and could help the building survive a wildfire.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Architect Melissa Shin works alongside her client to create a tiny backyard house in Silicon Valley with vivid green tile and a bright pink door. The client and architect became close friends over those four years, which enhanced Shin’s vision for the design. The upside?

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2022

A cluster of wood-clad buildings surround a central courtyard at this Minnesota residence by US firm Salmela Architect that was designed for clients who formerly lived in Japan. The house rests on a fifty-acre (20-hectare) parcel, the majority of which the clients granted to the Minnesota Land Trust for permanent conservation.

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Deezen

JUNE 12, 2022

One of the client's main priorities for the new construction was to be able to move seamlessly between exterior and interior living spaces. "[We] We] quickly realized that the goals of the clients aligned almost perfectly with the attributes of ranch houses, or ramblers, which debuted in the 1930s," said The Ranch Mine.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Set in a small town named Somers on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, the home was designed to offer a place of retreat for the client's family and features earthy colours chosen by the studio to evoke a sense of peace. The spatial arrangement supports privacy and separation but makes coming together effortless and celebrated."

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

Tianfu Museum of Chinese Medicine's curved structure is topped with an undulating roof clad with perforated aluminium panels, which links up with the circular walkway. It sits level with an exterior sunken plaza, which is connected to the main plaza by large steps and offers additional space to host recreational activities.

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