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JANUARY 16, 2025

Other challenges were to house the clients books and music collections in a flexible single display, and exhibit a collection of art and sentimental objects in a well-lit space without direct sunlight. The main triple-height living space sits at the front, following the sites geometry.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Project Details: Location: Whakamaru, New Zealand Architect: DCA Architects of Transformation / @ dca_architects Footprint: 3,218 square feet Builder: HRC Construction Structural Engineer: No.8 The clients had camped on the bare land for 14 years prior.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

Colien House steps down a sloped site in Barcelona "The central purpose was to answer the programme proposal made by the client by including a careful embodiment of the landscape, complying with the specific local rules and the relation of each of the four floors' elevation with the natural topography," Siza told Dezeen.

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JUNE 15, 2023

It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort. Two stone towers juxtapose the site's horizontal elements The architects also needed to consider how the landscape evolves throughout the year.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof , along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. The structures share a timber-and-metal material palette designed to create a "common language", the studio said.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

For Sixth and Guadalupe, these include targeted LEED Gold certification, Austin Energy Green Building (AEGB) 3-star rating, efficient utilities and a "pedestrian-oriented" site, marked with a greenspace tucked into a corner of its lot.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Nestled in a forested grove at the north end of a narrow, 10-acre site, the house is sheltered by oak, sweet gum, maple and persimmon trees, and opens onto an expansive view of a pond. A spacious, storage-filled kitchen (where the clients spend a majority of their time) opens onto this living space. Post it here.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

After living here for a couple years in a basic shed they built themselves, our clients began to map out locations for a new house with our help. The abandoned quarry, which supplied slabs to Albany, Kingston, and New York City in the 1800s, had become a spring-fed pond and the quarry tailings had become mossy hillocks.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

DataAE and Xavier Vendrell designed the project on a Barcelona hillside Claudi Aguiló and Albert Domingo, who run DataAE , and Xavier Vendrell Studio respectively, worked to create the project on a steep site at the edge of town. metre overhang that minimises the foundation in the rocky terrain.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Known as the Dogtrot House, the 3200-square foot (300-square metre) residence sits on a 10-acre site in Hillsborough, outside of Raleigh-Durham, that is densely wooded with oak, sweet gum, maple and persimmon trees and overlooks a pond. The photography is by Keith Isaacs.

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JANUARY 2, 2025

When our client expressed his wish to turn it into a home where he could gather his family for years to come, we agreed that this intervention should primarily respect the distinctive character of the site. Have one to share? Post it here.

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MAY 11, 2022

Atherton pavilions – The two pavilions nestled in this verdant landscape were a response to the clients’ vision for a deeper engagement with their lovely yard. The simplicity of the two structures belies the amount of coordination and engineering needed – from the design team and the builder. Project Status: Built.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The home is located on a steep site in Los Angeless Montecito Heights neighborhood. Flexible space is something that more and more clients are asking for," says Bnysz. There were a lot of days on site spent measuring, adjusting, prototyping, and doing it again." He also envisioned a house that folded. says Bnysz. "[The

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APRIL 21, 2023

The homeowners created the structures using stones collected on-site to connect their rural residence to the land. The clients erected and filled the gabion walls themselves. To support the client's busy lives as farmers and parents the space needed to feel calm, light-filled, and uplifting. Have one to share?

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MAY 17, 2022

Robert Gurney designed the house for a site near Washington DC. The client selected the furnishings. Structural engineer: United Structural Engineers, Inc. The post Robert Gurney creates North Adams House for suburban site near Washington DC appeared first on Dezeen. Project architect: Matt Stephens.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Satish Jassal Architects designed Haringey Brick Bungalow The 110-square-metre site and narrow passageway was "like building through a straw", dictating many design and construction decisions. Two green roofs top the building, characterised by their asymmetrical pyramid shapes topped with rooflights. The photography is by Richard Chivers.

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MAY 31, 2023

Project Details: Location: Ophir, Central Otago, New Zealand Architect: NOTT Architects Builder: Down to Earth Builders and Shamrock Builders Structural Engineer: Paula Hugens Photographer: Biddi Rowley / @ biddirowley From the Architect: " We worked closely with the clients to form a raw house for a raw landscape.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Completed in the spring of 2021, the 6,060-square-foot (563-square-metre) House on a Bay is composed of two distinct bars that sit atop a steep site overlooking a bay in Southport, Maine. Elliott Architects demolished the main house and relocated the other two structures to start the design with a clean slate.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

Piil was informed by Estonia's observation towers, which are often placed in scenic locations, and assembled on-site. A mesh floor creates a viewpoint inside the house Piil, which was constructed off-site, was designed as a private retreat. metres above ground and creates a sheltered outdoor space.

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APRIL 23, 2025

The site is situated between the Eski Bağdat Street and the coastline of the Sea of Marmara, with a clear and unobstructed view of the sea, a rare occurrence in the city. The building is the outcome of an intricate superposition of different site constraints fused with internal functional requirements.

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JUNE 30, 2022

This project is in the Glen Ellen region of Sonoma Valley in California and comprises three prefab structures—a Connect 6L model main house, a detached 400-square-foot, two-module prefab garage/playroom, and a 640-square-foot Connect 2 guest house.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville. The site came with challenges, such as fluctuating weather conditions and threats of wildfire. One side of the home is set at an angle, adding a dynamic quality to the plan.

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MARCH 18, 2024

UK architecture studio Richard Parr Associates has completed a single-storey family residence on a wild countryside site in Oxfordshire. Drawing on the local farmhouse typology, the home by Richard Parr Associates features a sloped-roof brick structure clad with charred timber and topped with corrugated metal roofing.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

Tucked away in a jungle, the 495-square-metre rental home sits on a gently sloping site near Chiquita Beach. We designed a strategy of aggregation by creating a network of triangular pergolas that can grow or contract, depending on the necessity of the client throughout the project," the firm said. Client: The Stroh Family.

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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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AUGUST 15, 2022

Raised above a floodplain on steel stilts , the single-storey March House replaces a former 1920s home in a row of summerhouses along the river bank close to the town of Marlow, where the client has lived for the past 19 years. One is used by the client and the other is designed for guests. Structural engineer: Price & Myers.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

The new rooms were raised up from the ground The house reminded the client of a trio of modernist villas in Sardinia, which he had admired since childhood stays at his family's vacation home on the Mediterranean island. When he bought the site on Manda Island, he decided to track down the architects behind these 1970s villas.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Situated on a narrow site between a fragment of the city's medieval wall and a branch of the river Dyle, the complex comprises a 14-storey tower, nine townhouses and a small apartment block united "into one coherent building". The photography is by Maxime Delvaux.

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JUNE 15, 2023

The footprint of this vacation home dances around the complex conditions of the site. Although the site is splendidly situated overlooking an ocean view to the southeast, there is an elevation gap of about 1.4 The result is a natural-feeling interior scale and a sense of affinity between the buildings and the site.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

Ambassador Crescent is positioned on a sloped site The house – a vacation home for clients who have previously worked with the studio on their Vancouver home and office interiors – slants toward the top of the mountain, diminishing its form and allowing it to disappear into the scenery. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Brazilian practice Studio KUNZ has created a compact gabled house that cantilevers from a sloped site in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Vertical wood slats wrap the base The arrangement creates makes the structure appear balanced atop a slate staircase that provides a rustic base for the home's clean white lines.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

It is also used to demonstrate the benefits of Passive House construction to prospective clients. As the existing home functioned well for the clients already, preference was given to create a new self-contained addition and use the budget to create moments of delight across the site," the architect added. "As

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JUNE 22, 2024

"We pride ourselves on being resourceful and making the most of a client's budget, and are always looking at ways of re-use and recycling," studio co-founder Lefkos Kyriacou told Dezeen. It connects to an existing public footpath and is designed to be wheelchair accessible. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Wraxall Yard complex, which also features a community space and a workshop, is part of a wider project by the owners of the site to provide universal access to the landscape and enhance the area's biodiversity. Extending from the south of the courtyard, other buildings on the site were converted into a workshop and a community space.

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MARCH 21, 2023

The clients hired Texas-based Specht Architects to build a 2,000-square-foot (186-square metre) minimalist house with floor-to-ceiling glass walls that afforded views of the surrounding meadow and large old-growth trees. The form and the approach to it creates a heightened drama that is extreme and somewhat unexpected."

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As the clients’ home and workspace, the three-story building is a project in being inventive with a minimal palette. The floor plan is informed by the sloping terrain of the site. Monolithic and modest in material, the textured lime render with the silver metals intends to be a refinement of British seaside architecture.

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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. Contractor: C.

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