Modern House Design in Las Rozas by A-cero Architects

This modern house situated in Las Rozas Madrid, designed by Madrid based architecture firm A-Cero. The pedestrian access takes place by the ground floor where are located the most social rooms such living room, lounge and dining room in the right side of the house. In the left side are the following rooms: a bathroom, cleaning room, a courtyard, kitchen – office, a larder and a cleaning room. The first floor has 273,46m2 and includes the following rooms: two children bedrooms with dressing-rooms, bathrooms and a living room; a guests’ bedroom with bathroom; the main bedroom with two dressing-rooms and bathroom; a study that he communicates with a footbridge – library (to which also one gains access from the main bedroom) and two small courtyards. The basement includes facility quarters, storage room, quarter of implements for the garden and bicycles, interior swimming pool, gymnasium, sauna, massages room, cinema room and cellar. Interiors stand out for their diaphanous distribution. Furthermore, these colours create a spaciousness sensation in the house.


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The Park BOX House Design in Portland - Oregon by PATH Architecture

PATH Architecture complete design house located in Unthank Park in Portland Oregon named The Park Box. This is a two unit row house constructed on a standard 50’ x 100’ corner Portland lot. The developer and designer of the project is also the owner of the east unit.
The placement on the site provides each unit with a large private deck on opposite ends of the site, one with a large yard. This arrangement provides the most privacy while allowing for the main floor to feel like a large indoor / outdoor room with the deck perceived as an extension of the interior space.

The placement on the site provides each unit with a large private deck on opposite ends of the site, one with a large yard. This arrangement provides the most privacy while allowing for the main floor to feel like a large indoor / outdoor room with the deck perceived as an extension of the interior space.The design balances access to natural light and views of the park with the need for privacy by offsetting floor to ceiling windows to the side of each room to wash light into the space while minimizing direct views into the space from outside. The repeating pattern of windows on the façade places windows in different locations on the interior of the mirrored floor plans. On the east unit the main floor window on the south side is located on large stair landing, providing for abundant light washing the interior demising wall between units. On the west unit, the same main floor window occurs at the corner of the unit, creating an opportunity for an oversized wrap around bay window seat.

The entire building was pushed to the west on the site to preserve a large Douglas fir tree, providing an opportunity to extend a portion of the east unit out beyond the main volume of the box. The master bedroom extends out over the deck below to create a large covered outdoor dining space. This extra floor area made room to remove some of the second floor to create a double height space at the corner of the unit as well, allowing for more light and views to the park and trees nearby. Looking from the main floor towards the park the arrangement of windows and solid wall provides views primarily of the trees, sky, and grass in the park. From here you can almost begin to think that the space lies in meadow, forgetting that you are in a vibrant urban neighborhood.-via

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Modern House Design of Greenfield Residence by Minarc-Architects

The Greenfield Residence is a beautiful green house designed by the Icelandic firm Minarc-Architects, and the principals of the firm live in it with their two infant children. The house is situated in a classical “temple on the mount” position, quite a few feet above the semi-suburban streetscape of Mar Vista.

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Concrete Block House by ehrlich architects

ehrlich architects has design a new modern house with exposed concrete block construction has two building structure, main living space and modern a half story guest building at rear of the house. For the main dweller spaces, double-height structure built which provides generous art walls and features a burnished block fireplace and tall glass sliding doors that open the interior to the exterior spaces. A sheltered courtyard also created, designed as open elements form and connecting area for main and guest building. The entire modern house composition banded with elegant palette that includes steel-troweled stucco, exposed concrete block, stainless steel railings, walnut millwork, cast glass partitions, and rheinzink. At the top of main building, there is also roof terrace for private party with BBQ accommodation.

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Modern Ranch House Design – Green Mountain Ranch

This glass-and-steel house is located in the Colorado Rockies is designed by Cynthia Leibrock. It’s anything but an usual ranch home. Designed in modern style it’s filled with smart high-end things that make a living there more comfortable. The house also utilize some modern energy-saving technologies like solar panels for heating, doors and windows that prevent heat loss and other more simple things. Besides a patio there is beautiful glass garage outside the house. The kitchen is one of the most high-tech places in the house. It features Gaggenau magnetic induction cooktop, that won’t burn if you touch it, a Gaggenau column refrigerator with shallow shelves and other luxury Gaggenau’s appliances like steam cooker. The guest bath has a reflecting pool and a steam shower with a redwood bench. Besides all that cool stuff the ranch house is optimized to old people live there.

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House on the Mexican Pacific Coast

House overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Mexico, designed by Cadaval & Sola-Morales architects.

Details from the architects:

The main goal of the project was to create a low-cost and low-maintenance house that realised all the structural qualities of the material in which it was built to its full potential.

The design takes forward the idea of low-cost/low-maintenance, and applies this strategy to all the materials involved in the construction, while pushing to the limit both their technical and tectonic qualities: floor, windows, railings, etc., are done re-using materials that were previously used for pouring the concrete and for the rest of the construction process.

Perhaps, it is the space generated within inner and outer space what makes the house special. The house was designed to operate fully opened; it is then when the cantilever, this huge threshold, is fully occupied and becomes the central space of the house.

The house was awarded one of the 5 young architects honorable mentions (under 40 yr) at the Spanish Bienal of Architecture and were one of the 25th finalist including among others Nouvel’s Agbar Tower, Rogers’s Terminal 4, Miralles Santa Caterina Market or Chipperfield’s Americas Cup Building. We were also the youngest office awarded.

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House 108

Architects: H Arquitectes – David Lorente, Josep Ricart, Xavier Ros, Roger Tudó
Location: Santa Cristina d’Aro, Girona, Spain
Collaborator: Felip Toledo, Technical Architect
Client: Steven Hind and Beatriz Escolano
Construction year: 2002-05
Constructed Area: 109 sqm
Photographs: STARP estudi

All of the openings have three fencing levels: adjustable shutters that guarantee sun protection in the summer and captures the sun’s radiation in the winter, a mosquito net which allows ventilation and protects from the insects, and finally, interior aluminum carpentry with a thermal bridge break and double glass with an interior chamber. The façade is built with ventilated double panes and an interior bearing wall. Hence we improved the insulation, the thermal inertia and air tightness; we minimized the thermal bridges and the possible condensations and avoided cracks due to the cross of the façade’s vertical plane with the suspended floor and the roof plane. The southern façade, with more sun exposure, has a natural shade: deciduous climbing plants protect it from the sun’s direct radiation in the summer and allows the sun to enter in the winter.

The roof has little sun exposure because it faces the north and is protected with vegetation. It is finished with zinc over a waterproof board with a ventilated chamber and interior insulation.
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House Presenhuber - holiday house

This holiday house is located in the middle of the village of Vnà in the Lower Engadine. The particular challenge of the project was to bridge the divide between the old-world charm of the village and the modern flair embodied in a holiday house for an internationally successful art gallery owner. In urban planning terms, the building closed a permanent gap in the village structure whilst the dimensions correspond to those of the adjacent houses.

Over time the village was periodically hit by fires, meaning that the original timber structures disappeared and were replaced by the stone houses that give the settlement its indigenous character today. The resulting massiveness of the walls has a great similarity with traditional means of building and enabled the typical corbels of the window reveals. The windows are arranged according to interior criteria, giving the façade an informal appearance typical of old Engadine houses.

Finally, the traditional and modernist elements of the sculptural volume blend into a unified whole. The interplay between simplicity, rural straightforwardness and contemporary comfort and architectural sophistication lend the house a very specific character, which pays respect to the village without being obsequious.

Architects: AFGH
Location: CH-7557 Vnà, GR, Switzerland
Project year: 2006-2007
Construction year: 2006-2007
Client: Eva Presenhuber
Planners: Jon Andrea Könz
Budget: 900.000 CHF (US $866.551)
Constructed Area: 224 sqm
Photographs: Valentin Jeck

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Contemporary House by Nicholas Murray

This house is designed by Nicholas Murray and situated in west part of Melbourne, Australia. It was one of the many warehouses in this area but become great contemporary living place. A rustic yet elegant approach was taken to combine the original characteristics of the structure with the refined contemporary lifestyle of its occupants to create a symphony of harmonious contradiction. With a carefully controlled palette of materials, this split level retreat is an epitome of inner city living, commanding a magnificent view over the city and Docklands skyline on its top two levels. The interior is separated for different zones, some of which show almost raw materials while other are covered with modern surfaces. One of the most cool zones that is more modern than others is cooking area in the kitchen. Not only appliances there are made of stainless steel but also cabinets.

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