Tree House Design - wooden house

Tree House designed by Sander Architects, located in Wilmington, Delaware.

From the heart to a quiet forest in Wilmington, Delaware, this contemporary tree house was admittedly a labor of love for architect Whitney Sander of Sander Architects. With a rushing stream at its feet, Tree House features a spectacular spiral staircase, running up the front of the home, past the modern Juliet-inspired balcony, and the expanse of glass that forms the front facade. The home’s very vertical construction places the master bedroom and living at the top, among the trees, with a rooftop deck as the most luxurious crowning touch.

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Yakisugi House - Japanese House Design

Yakisugi House designed by Terunobu Fujimori architect, located in Nagano, Japan.

The unique Yakisugi House in Nagano, Japan, blends modern design innovation with traditional Japanese architecture and a French inspiration, for a truly one-of-a-kind house design. For Yakisugi House, the inspiration came from the compact cave dwellings near the Caves of Lascaux in France. This unusual residential design comes clad in charred cedar boards, and surrounded by 1,825m2 of landscaped property, sculptural plants and a spring-fed stream.

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Aquino House - Luxury Home Design

Aquino House, the single-family residence is located on a steeped lot in front of federal government lands and aside a river.

The house is configured by orthogonal shapes and materials such as wood, stone and metal without artificial claddings. It stands with no protagonism against the rich and abundant surroundings.

A series of spatial and comfort requirements led to juxtaposed concepts. The family wished for large open areas that could somehow, blend with the nature around, bluring the lines between “inside” and “outside”. Another request was an isolated studio with room for thousands of books, compact discs and LP’s, which must maintain related with the exterior.

The main intention was for each interior space to face the river or the old amate tree, which is located towards east and has a 30 meter extended foliage that appears to envelop the house.

The small pool of stone and its red cedar surrounding pavement stands as the most intimate space concealed between the house and one of the perimeter retaining walls.

Architects: Augusto Fernandez Mas (K+A Diseño)
Location: Cuernavacas, Morelos, Mexico
Project year: 2005
Construction year: 2006
Collaborators: Edurne Turcott Unzueta, David Alba
Landscape: Mario de la Garza & Daniel Aguilar
Woodwork: Fernando Acevedo
Structural Engineer: Enrique Garcia
Constructed Area: 490 sqm
Photographs: Fernando Cordero

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Glass and Concrete House Design - Beach House

Glass and Concrete House, the contemporary beach house designed by Corona y P. Amaral Arquitect, located in Tenerife of the Canary Islands, Spain.

Its monumental, modern appeal comes from an imposing concrete and glass facade, which frames views of water and sky from every room in the house. Enjoying vibrant sunsets and an endless horizon from an expansive outdoor patio, the modern home overlooks a spectacular 1,000-meter-long black-sand beach below.

The home’s modern interiors are influenced by the home’s main construction materials – concrete and glass – which give the rooms their cool, contemporary ambience.

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Mount Baker Residense - home design

Mount Baker Residense designed by Pb Elemental Architecture, located in the Mount Baker neighborhood of Seattle, this dramatic home is perched on a hill, high above the street. The design captures the territorial views of the surrounding rooftops with floor to ceiling glass and roof top deck.

The 3,600 sqft home includes four bedrooms, two and a half baths, and a large open living floor with ten foot-tall ceilings and a two car garage with a 400 sqft roof deck above. Additionally, the home includes a separate, one bedroom apartment unit on the lower level, complete with a wrap-around patio.

The structure was conceived as the juxtaposition of three pure volumes, each containing a unique programmatic element. In turn, each element is clad with clear cedar, cement board or concrete to emphasize the massing.

Architects: Pb Elemental Architecture
Location: Seattle, Washington, US
Structural Engineer: Pangeo
Landscape: Volz Landscaping
Constructed Area: 2.940 sqft (273 sqm)
Project year: 2007
Construction year: 2008
Photographs: Pb Elemental Architectur



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Red House - Home Design

Red House designed by group8 Architects, located in Crans-Près-Céligny, Switzerland.

The red houses place themselves in this type of problem, planting another object in this saturated suburban landscape. In this case, the purpose would be not to build an object but a small ‘ensemble’: a little community of individuals who can, through the new scale of the intervention, constitute a good mixture of urban and landscape architecture.

The geometry and the volume of each houses serves another purpose: to propose a rich typology, capable of creating an experience of diversity of spaces inside the appartments. The important loggias in each volume enhance this idea. Not only the villas possess exterior terraces but they also have these big loggias, and protected exterior space.

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Japan Modern Architecture

Japan Modern Architecture designed by Nakayama Architects, located in Sapporo, Japan.

With the objective to make the most of every inch, the house architecture is a simple box, but that’s as far as simplicity goes in this elaborate design. From the weathered, rust-colored exterior to the artistic interiors, the home’s mature presence makes its way indoors through carefully contemplated finishes. Unassuming perforated walls cast a spectacular sun-lit pattern reminiscent of detailed delicate filigree work.

Exposed beams stretch from wall to wall, while a wonderful staircase makes its way from level to level. This ambitious architecture aimed to create true privacy for residents, and as a result the architects planned the house so as to maximize the area between private and public living spaces. The result is a floor plan that puts the two bedrooms and bathroom on one level, and the living room, dining room, kitchen and workroom on another.

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Seifert House - modern house

Seifert House designed by Michael Shamiyeh Architect, located in Volkersdorf, Enns, Austria.

The house was built as a passive house (no cooling or heating required) with an incredible low budget, within a construction period of less than seven months.

Architect : Michael Shamiyeh - BAU|KULTUR, Austria
Location : Volkersdorf, Enns, Austria
Structure Engineer : Helmut Schiebel
Contractor : Winfried Orth
Materials : Concrete & Glass
Photographs : Paul Ott

The conception of the house became a deep engagement with Mies, in particular with the Farnsworth House, and the question of how a space should be constituted in order to open itself to the surrounding by simultaneously offering privacy. Furthermore, it became an investigation of how much freedom in space effectively determines the way of living in contrast to a few certain spatial determinations that liberate. Whereas the first model refers to Rietveld’s attempts to create freedom e.g. by means of sliding doors etc. the later model refers to Mies’ structured open plan.

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Modern Tree House

Modern Tree House Designed by Frank Harmon Architect, located in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Set on a steep escarpment and surrounded by 150-year-old birch and oak trees. Home sits high above ground on wood trusses and concrete piers, allowing water to run freely beneath it and appearing as though it’s ready to take flight.

The home’s glass-and-steel facade draws a fine line between the raw outdoors and a modern interior, which is finished with glossy cherry-wood floors, exposed wood columns and beams, and a staircase constructed of salvaged steel.

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