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[21 Jul 2010 | One Comment | ]
The Building Technology with Shade Canopy by Benjamin Hall and Brent Vander Werf’s

This is Fishman Shade Canopy to results from a research Benjamin Hall and Brent Vander Werf’s with solstice solar angels, located in Palo Alto – California. the studying to create a site specific geometric strategy where the canopy provides 100% shade while maintaining a visual opacity. This prototype builds upon experiments conducted throughout Hall’s Capstone project at the University of Arizona, a few years ago. After developing a warp and weft system of structural shade members, the next step of the project was to manifest those findings in a full-scale …

Architecture, House Design »

[6 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
The Bungalow in Singapore by Formwerkz Architects

Located in Singapore The house is organised around the simple part of a linear block with different functional zones layered from the main landscape zone. Formwerkz Architects had to design a space sufficient to house the client’s multi-generation family of 11 persons within a fairly small built-up area of 4600 sq ft. The amount of built-up area allowable for the particular site is largely pre-deteremined by the local authorities’ zoning act. In addtion, the client has certain ‘fengshui’ requirements. Two of the key requirements that to some extend shaped the …

House Design »

[29 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Hypotherical Project House Design in Forest Offered by TsAO & McKOWN Architects

Here is a custom designed house for a hypothetical client explores the universal human desire for both orderliness and spontaneity, while firmly rooting itself to the landscape and creating privacy by shaping the terrain. Located design of a 4,500 square foot house at an east Long Island community’s master-planned by Richard Meier. Another significant issue was how to root the house to the earth; the nearly flat site in a young growth forest offered no footing. We responded by reshaping the topography, establishing the first level slightly below grade …

House Design »

[28 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Modern House design in Seattle, Washington by SkB Architects

This area 5100 square feet located in Seatle Washington, modern house design is designed to maximize the relationship to the lake through section and massing exploration.This built with an innovation and inspiration that is so great that the results show the building is perfect, because attention to the aesthetic value of modern home design. [sKB Architects]
To compliment the site and provide balance between structure and landscape, the main living spaces were lowered to four feet above lake level, rendering a lower profile. Starting from the house’s entrance views through it …

House Design, Interior Design »

[27 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Interior Green Forest Residence by Cindy Rendely Architecture

Located in Toronto Canada, Cindy Rendely Architecture to designed Interior Green Forest Residence. The house was created as a multigenerational home for grandparents, parents and three children, as well as for a caregiver and her husband.

Architectural designer Cindy Rendely has created a stepped arrangement of volumes that open forthrightly into the landscape. Openness to the ravine and awareness of the changing seasons are reinforced by the many full-height glazed walls and doors at various vantage points, which also bring light, motion and sound into the interior.