Modern Architecture Design H-house by Tamizo Architects

Poland based architect, Tamizo architects group designed 240 square meters single family house named H-house located in Pabianice, these single family house are defined as openings in the solid box are well organized and proportioned.

This modern, elegant and comfortable H-house, designed two young people (couple). Open for the sun and garden, closed for the neighbourhood. ‘Day area’ (ground floor) with living room, kitchen, dining room, toilet and technical room. ‘Night area’ (first floor) with 2 bedrooms, 1 big bathroom, wardrobe, library. ‘Relax/fitness area’ (2 floor) one big room for different sport activity, bathroom, sauna, and 2 patios. Via
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Warringah Road House – Modern Home Design by Corben Architects

Sydney based architectural firm Corben Architects was designed this new, three storey, four bedroom, north facing residence, sited on a battle axe block was designed to take maximum advantage of outstanding views over Middle Harbour and maintain absolute privacy to the adjacent neighbours.

The building is a simple rectilinear form of concrete and masonry construction, carefully layered with timber battening and sandstone cladding to present a modern home with a focus on natural materials and clear design principles.

The main entry, two living areas and guest wing are located on the middle level with three bedrooms on the upper level, the main one designed as a luxury suite. The lower level incorporates a large rumpus / media room and store areas.

The interior finishes incorporate American Oak timber floors to the living areas, Serena Grey honed stone floors to the circulation areas, Capricorn Walnut veneered joinery, white polyurethane cupboards, Raven Caesarstone island benchtops and Nero fossil stone slabs in the bathrooms to create a contemporary, sophisticated interior with a warm inviting feel.

Energy saving options were adopted including an operable skylight over the central core allowing natural light and ventilation, timber slated screens provide sun control, concrete floors and roof to provide thermal mass and low E glazing to the external windows and doors.

The finished house is a fine example of an understated but luxurious house that takes maximum advantage of a difficult site.
Architects: Corben Architects
Photographs : Alina Gozin’a

Modern Design Villa BH by WHIM Architecture

Villa BH has a 280m2 floor area designed by WHIM Architecture located in Burgh-Haamstede, the Netherlands. Villa BH is a modern, (environment) friendly house with a remarkable experience of space, light and the natural context.

The villa is positioned on a rectangular plot of 34,75 x 50m, that is enclosed at 3 sides with similar plots and freestanding houses. On the back (north east) of the plot there’s an old embankment with several tall trees, which existence is protected by local regulations. From the living program; the kitchen, dining area and living are all orientated on this embankment with the large trees. Here the villa has a facade width of 20 meters.

Villa BH designed to optimize the accessibility of the house with all the program is situated on the ground floor level around a patio. This enclosed outdoor space provides the owners of the house the privacy they admired. As at the same time the patio makes the living area an enlightened space and gives it a facade to the south.

On the other side of the patio is the main bedroom situated. By making the facade of the patio totally from glass panels, the main bedroom has a great see through towards the existing embankment with the several tall trees as a central focus point on the plot.

The ceiling of the living area has an extra height in the shape of a sloped roof. The physical appearance of this area becomes hereby more specific and highly qualitative. Lifting the roof in this area also allows perspectives to the existing treetops, that give this plot it’s specific character, from all the different areas inside the building.

The villa is designed as environmental friendly with extra insulated facades, with 30cm of insulation. With this thick insulation there’s a timber construction that suits the thickness of the package. The roof is as well extra insulated and covered with sedum, which also regulates the distribution of the rainwater more gently. On the flat roof are 20 solar panels for electricity. A heat pump warms the interiors in the winter and cools them in the summer with natural temperature differences retrieved deep in the ground. As an extra heating there are 2 fireplaces for wood, one in the living and one in the TV-room.
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Contemporary Concrete House by AFGH Architects

Andreas Fuhrimann and Gabrielle Hächler Architects was designed modernist contemporary holiday house located in the middle of the village of Vnà in the Lower Engadine.

The aim was to develop a formal language which had a certain proximity to traditional Engadine architecture and yet remained immediately recognisable as contemporary without being conservatively romanticised. In urban planning terms, the building closed a permanent gap in the village structure whilst the dimensions correspond to those of the adjacent houses. The use of concrete as the main building material pays justice to this stone appearance. Only the inner walls and ceilings of the living and bedrooms are lined in plywood panelling to give the rooms a warmth and comfort and as an approximation of the traditional sheltered feeling of a mountain dwelling. The solidness of the ground storey is likewise a common regional feature. The archaic is also reflected in the construction with the use of gas concrete, allowing the walls to be erected homogenously without layering. 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. The depth of the reveals creates an attractive play of shadows and roots the building firmly in the region.
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.
Visit the Andreas Fuhrimann and Gabrielle Hächler Architects website – here.

Contemporary House Remodel in Miami by Max Strang Architecture

Florida based Max Strang Architecture has remodeled this contemporary home built in the 1980’s into a crisp and modern house. The original home had experienced two prior renovations and was especially ripe for a design overhaul. Located in Coconut Grove, Miami’s oldest neighborhood, the home was surrounded by a lush tropical garden. The new design takes full advantage of the amazing garden views. With the photography collection in mind, only preferred northern light fills the main living gallery.

The top floor contains a spacious master suite, guest bedroom and reading loft. The main entrance to the home is on the second floor, which contains the living, dining and kitchen areas. Below is the realm of teenagers with two additional bedrooms and a den. An outside terrace was added adjacent to the living room. This new structure also serves as an airy carport below. Via
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Dangle-Byrd House with Modern Landscape by Koko Architecture + Design

Koko Architecture + Design completed modern house architecture design the Dangle-Byrd House in Pennsylvania. The Dangle-Byrd project was an opportunity to explore the challenge of maintaining the spirit of craftsmanship within a modern domestic landscape. Set on a wooded five-acre site in rural Pennsylvania, the house utilizes a material consciousness to engage the neighboring handcrafted Amish farm buildings.

The house consists of three interlocking volumes. While each volume is very simple in its form, the exchange between them allows for a wide variety of spatial experiences. The first impression one has is that the house is two “shadow-boxes” connected by a “bird cage”. However, as you enter the house the perceptions change. From the interior, the cage is no longer a figure, but rather a looking glass to the outside. The single storied master suite becomes an intimate walnut valise, retreating from the exposed glass living room. A dramatic perforated steel bridge passing through a two-storied screened porch reaches the guest suite. The northern end of the house has a private balcony looking down to the lap pool set into the woods.

The elegant engineering of farming equipment and local Pennsylvania trussed bridges inspired the unusual structure of the house. The resulting form is a steel “exo-skeleton” with a wood and glass box suspended within the exposed frame. The structure is not just visual, but literally wraps around the inner volume as if it were a “ship in a bottle”. The glass living room walls and roof structure is suspended off of the cage by 6 strategic supports.

Severe in form, the materiality of the house combined with a sustainable approach allows it to become part of the surrounding landscape. Passive solar heating and radiant floors enable the “bird cage” to respond to Pennsylvania Winters. A massive “hand set” stone chimney anchors the house. The luminous floating glass walls of the living room contradict this permanence. The blackened cedar boxes combine the architects’ Japanese background with the simplicity of the Pennsylvania farm buildings The honest steel structure and rough cedar boxes reinforce the importance of “making” rather than “concealing”.
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Family House Residence by George Papadopoulos in Lemesos, Cyprus

George Papadopoulos is an architect who runs Skinotechniki, designed house for his family in Lemesos, Cyprus. The aim was to create a family home for his family: he, his wife, and four boys.

This family house is built between two narrow streets in the old part of the town of Lemesos, about 50m from one of the most popular stretches of sandy beach in Cyprus, and just down the road from the house I grew up. The site was previously occupied by an old carob mill that burnt down in a fire in 1989, leaving only the ruins of the stone walls.

These house building apply ecological solutions to heating, cooling, lighting and water management.

Most rooms in the house face the partly covered internal courtyard. This is a traditional way of building in Cyprus helping to keep the family together and safeguard the privacy of the occupants.

A neoclassical proportional system that relates to human scale is applied to both interior and exterior surfaces and can be seen in plan, elevation and section.

Like music, Architecture needs to touch our senses. To do this, opposites need to be combined. In music is quick/slow, melodic/rock. In architecture, is open/enclosed, dark/brightly lid, hot/cold, hard-soft, heavy-light. Is this opposite that wake up our senses and give us a sense of belonging. The house is full of these opposites.

Walls are 55-75cm thick, made out of aerated concrete blocks, with thermal resistance well beyond that of the traditional adobe wall. In Lemesos, the energy requirement of a modern building for cooling alone is 70% of the total energy consumed. The house does not have a conventional cooling system. It is cooled by a combination of elements. Traditional ceiling fans. Shaded roof windows and a hallway rising up three storeys, draw hot air out using the stack effect principle. Large plane trees in the internal garden and correct building orientation, give shade. The water from the fish ponds and pool that cover the 65% of the internal garden area evaporates providing additional cooling.

At night the cooler air from the mountains sinks through the open roof lights. The main bedroom has it’s own special cooling system. A geothermic system where using a small fan, air is drawn from the bedroom through 30cm diameter pipe buried underground. The air comes back in the room providing a comfortable temperature. The children’s bedrooms face west and could have been very hot at night. This is not so because they are constructed of lightweight materials -steel and wood- that do not store and therefore emit heat back into the room. This idea is taken from traditional Lemesos houses which had a room, usually on the first floor, built of lightweight materials and used for sleeping in the hot summer nights. Heating is achieved using a diesel boiler. This is assisted with 8 racks by 20 solar heated vacuum tubes that heat the living room under-floor heating system. -via-

Contemporary Single Family Home Design by aka Architecture + Design Inc

aka Architecture + Design Inc have designed the contemporary single family home called Whistler Cay Residence located in one of Whistler’s oldest residential neighbourhoods with spectacular views of Whistler, Blackcomb and surrounding mountains.

The Whistler Cay Residence is a 5000 sq. ft. single-family home located in one of Whistler’s oldest residential neighbourhoods with spectacular views of Whistler, Blackcomb and surrounding mountains. The contemporary design incorporates the vernacular materials of the typical Whistler Mountain home but applies them in a modern language with clean and simple gestures that are at once bold yet subtle. The house asserts its presence on the street yet respectfully refers to its context through its warm use of timber, stone and natural cedar wood siding. The grand living spaces feature expansive glass windows that open up to views beyond. Secondary spaces offer smaller framed views while securing privacy from nearby houses.

The steeply sloping site limits the amount of accessible grade so outdoor space is provided instead through a series of generous terraces at all sides and levels of the house. The size and function of each terrace varies according to its view and exposure to natural light. The main terrace is fully covered and equipped with an outdoor fireplace and is intended for year-round usage and social gatherings. The master bedroom is intended for the private use of the owners although it shares the same spectacular views.

Luxury Albatross Avenue House by Bayden Goddard Architects

Bayden Goddard Architects have designed the Albatross Residence, located on Australia’s Gold Coast. The Albatross Avenue house situated on an exclusive residential street, the site adjoins extensive park to the south and absolute beachfront to the east. The internal and external palette of finishes of natural timbers and stone cohesively create a tropical, modern and comfortable ambience. External finishes of recycled timber, natural stone, and copper allow the property to further develop character over time. Tall mature trees matching the scale of the house are intentionally located about the property to frame the beach front, the main entrance and internal courtyard. Two palms boarder the swimming pool as the wet edge between graces the length of the timber colonnade softening polished concrete and rough stone finishes. Lighting of the landscape at night creates drama within the timber battens and palm fronds, backed by the ambient aqua glow of the swimming pool.

The interior of the property is catered for by the marble and timber finished kitchen with chef’s scullery and abundant cold and dry storage behind. Multiple dining and living areas are defined by furniture and finishes allowing a fully transformable space if the function so requires. Entertaining the end of the room, a split faced sandstone wall is suspended over the flickering floor level fireplace, visually playing on weight and spatial elements.

The upper level upholds all of the ground floor’s quality and design functionality, continuing play with material and space. All of the bedrooms afford beachfront orientation due to the broad width of the property, each with its own ensuite and walk in robe. The private master suite achieves an intimate aesthetic through warm textures as the sandstone wall rises from the floor below to the angled glass skylight directly above the double shower. Running the length of the eastern façade, a sandstone tiled balcony allows the family to check weather conditions and enjoy the beach aspect throughout the day, utilising indoor to outdoor spaces. Via

Northland House Modern Architecture Design by Parsonson Architects

This Northland House designed by Parsonson Architects sits on a high ridgeline overlooking Wellington Harbour with orientation in two directions, east to the harbour and hills beyond and west to the afternoon sun.

While the inside spaces feel very open and connected to the outside. Design using idea of floating above a landscape, which represented to us a sense of freedom, lightness and appropriateness to this location. Patterns of surface materials are loosely influenced by the tapestry of land viewed from the sky. Some in shifting layers with non-parallel surfaces subtly distorting perspectives.

Flooring and decking change in material and texture as they run level from the west courtyard, through the living room and out to the west deck. The roof glides over, unimpeded, like a shadow, perforated at the edges with louvres. Large solid and glazed doors slide to open or close the spaces. The wings of the plan focus the views either east or west and close off the house to the neighbours to the north and south.

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