Contemporary House In La Bilbaína With A Geometric Structure And Design

Contemporary House In La Bilbaína With A Geometric Structure And Design

Located in La Bilbaína, Spain, this residence occupies an area of 545.07 square meters. It was completed in 2013 and the project was the work of Foraster Arquitectos. Visually, the house has a very well defined design. It features straight and simple lines and it’s a combination of simple geometric shapes. The residence was built to serve as a family home where two generations could live comfortably. The interior of the house is organized in a practical manner. The social area is situated to the south of the building and it’s an open and bright space with glass walls and views of the garden. The ground floor houses the living room, the children’s playroom and the dining area which is open to the kitchen. All these areas are visually connected and they form the social and entertainment zone. The first floor can be accessed via a spiral staircase and it’s a double-height space which serves as a sleeping and relaxation area. The lounge area and the library have views of the garden like most of the other rooms. The basement houses the service areas and a gym and it receives light from the garden. What’s beautiful about the house is that it was designed with great attention to details and with a very precise layout and structure that give it a remarkably comfortable feel. http://www.homedit.com

ReForm of Garden / SPACESPACE

ReForm of Garden / SPACESPACE

Courtesy of SPACESPACE Architects: SPACESPACE Location: Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, Japan Area: 124.39 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of SPACESPACE     Courtesy of SPACESPACE From the architect. More than half of the southern garden was used as a parking lot with illegal car port, and there maining of it fell into ruin at first. Then, we stacked the garden and the parking lot at the same planar position by laying a concrete plane which is the roughly same size as living space, and lifting up the part of it to use its downside as the parking lot. The terraced overlap part comes up to 2nd floor level, and makes vertical relation ship with the existing house. Courtesy of SPACESPACE For instance, a high wall of high class residential area gives expression to the distrust of the residents who live there. These elements have many important messages to the city. We attempted to change the appearance of the house and the interior movement by designing some small elements. The appearance of the house will express the intension of residents requiring the trust and communication to their neighbors. Courtesy of SPACESPACE This site is situated at a residential area in Ikoma-city, Nara where is little colder in winter compared to the inner-city of Osaka. But it shares a border with Osaka and the residents can commute in only 30 minutes, so it functions as a bedroom suburb of both Osaka and Nara. This area is a typical suburban residential area of Japan and designed to satisfy the orthodox practices of city planning. The inner road and the building distance are wide enough and each house has the southern garden. Courtesy of SPACESPACE Additionally, this concrete plane is linked to kitchen and living through each independent passageway, steel out door furniture is put on, and used as outdoor living on sunny days. Some passageway is made along other adjacent sites. They form the communication with neighbors as well as the plane. Courtesy of SPACESPACE Now that someone looks carefully, each house constructed by a major house maker has a different design, but the whole town was developed in a short period of time, therefore, homogeneous cityscape covers the area. Additionally, these houses are built with LGS (light- gauge steel) components developed uniquely to lower their construction costs. But this isolated methods includes the peculiar application for building confirmation, so it doesn’t have the flexibility to change its exterior volume and the position of columns. 1st floor composed of some small rooms was converted to a big one-room. Some revealed LGS columns were furniturized by attached some functions (shelf, hanger, light, clock and measure). Some windows were also furniturized as benches and tables. Courtesy of SPACESPACE The appearance of the house is not only its exterior shape. Many exterior elements appearing to outside of the site (fence, entrance gate, storage, carport, post, plants and so on) and the whole of them are consist the appearance. A young married couple selected one of these houses in this area, and required us the full-scale renovation including to change the exterior appearance of the house. Plan Courtesy of SPACESPACE Courtesy of SPACESPACE Courtesy of SPACESPACE Courtesy of SPACESPACE Courtesy of SPACESPACE Courtesy of SPACESPACE Courtesy of SPACESPACE Courtesy of SPACESPACE Courtesy of SPACESPACE Courtesy of SPACESPACE Courtesy of SPACESPACE Courtesy of SPACESPACE Plan Axon Detail Site Site http://www.archdaily.com

Vertical Shutter Garden by Hideo Kumaki

Vertical Shutter Garden by Hideo Kumaki

Japanese architect studio created this particular vertical garden, used as shutters and providing shade and intimacy to the interior space. The vertical garden consists of tight cables fixed from the top of the terrace to the ground, on outside of the terrace. Climbing plants rise, following the cables and intertwined itselves. http://cubeme.com

Casa Valle Encantado / H+LA

Casa Valle Encantado / H+LA

© Jorge Taboada Architects: H+LA Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Building: FM Arquitectura Area: 481 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Jorge Taboada     © Jorge Taboada From the architect. South of the city of Monterrey on the skirts of the Sierra Madre, in an environment both suburban and natural, the landscape is dominated by the mountains that draw the gaze of whoever visits this site. Here is where the concept originated, an open residence which absorbs the view and the outdoors, yet with one clear purpose: to isolate the house, maintaining its privacy and a pleasurable thermal comfort. The house is laid out with longitudinal north-south façades. A dividing stone-clad wall levels the natural terrain and clearly divides the interior space from the exterior. Disregarding the street, the challenge was to capitalize on the views to the mountain and natural lighting, resulting in a detachment of the roof slab from the envelope walls to avoid opening windows. © Jorge Taboada Entering a space first thought to be shut from the outside, the opposite occurs: an open space, flowing spaces flowing, continually in contact with the exterior. The back garden can be accessed directly from the entrance hall, going through a water surface surrounding the living room, reaching the main terrace. All social areas have a way out to the garden, including the kitchen. © Jorge Taboada The stairway to the second floor is located lineally aside a great window, the only one on the south façade, covering a small interior double-height patio next to the dining/living room. This allows for small spaces to be indirectly lit on two sides, and a sense of amplitude and contact with nature. © Jorge Taboada On the second floor, the family lounge and distributing hallways are flooded by light entering throught the great window, which is protected by a wood lattice. The views and lighting are preserved throughout the house due to the roof slab floating over the walls. The bedrooms are spread and aligned on the north side of the building, protecting the spaces from the sun and undesired heat transfer. First Floor Plan © Jorge Taboada © Jorge Taboada © Jorge Taboada © Jorge Taboada © Jorge Taboada © Jorge Taboada © Jorge Taboada © Jorge Taboada © Jorge Taboada First Floor Plan Ground Floor Plan Section Section Elevation Elevation Elevation Elevation http://www.archdaily.com