John Lautner's influential architectural legacy is hard to miss. Some of his works, like the Elrod House in Palm Springs or the Chemosphere in the Hollywood Hills, have been depicted in blockbuster Hollywood movies. Other projects, however, live on as humble—and not so...
Completed in 2021 in La Calera, Argentina. Images by Javier Agustín Rojas . The house is located in La Calera, at the foot of the Cordoba mountains, about 10 km from the capital city, formerly a satellite city, now absorbed...
The design of John Lautner’s Marbrisa House for Jeronimo Arango in 1970 is inspired by the natural features of the site: the ocean and the sky.
A look around a holiday rental like no other: a minimalist concrete-cast lakeside house in Portugal's beautiful Alentejo region...
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Image 8 of 20 from gallery of Glen Ellen Aerie House / Aidlin Darling Design. Photograph by Matthew Millman Photography
Through the sense of sharing and friendship, Casa Na Terra is the new home for Silent Living, in the deepest heart of Alentejo. In order to completely integrate the house into the landscape and minimize its impact, it merges with the topography. Amid a wide natural landscape, the sole visible
Completed in 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. Images by Tim Van de Velde. Situated on the edge of a forest, residence FSD is shaped on its inclined terrain. The steep slope perpendicular to the residence results in a one...
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Presenters Caroline Quentin and Piers Taylor take viewers to Spain to take a look inside four spectacular properties, in BBC Two show The World's Most Extraordinary Homes.
As part of the Notion Archeological Ecological Park, three pavilions are designed to produce a series of thresholds and gateways, housing information services and visitor facilities. Each is conceived as a lightweight framework that thickens the perimeter, staging encounters within the park. EAST ENTRY PAVILIONThe East Entry Pavilion offers a dramatic moment of arrival at the primary visitor access point to the site. Here there is accessible entry to the plateau of the of the ancient city, where the site slopes rapidly to the water. The pavilion creates a threshold at the access road, its geometry articulating the crossing of the entry path with the security threshold. The east end of the pavilion cantilevers over the landscape to overlook the bay. Below the cantilever, terraces are built into the ground to provide areas of rest for visitors and cafe seating, The walls and roof are constructed as a lightweight lattice of self-weathering steel, with the roof being primarily a shade canopy structure with solid areas only above the enclosed program zones. As at the West Entry, the CMU block screen walls create the security barrier at the site entrance. The visitor path continues to a ramped entry to the current access break in the ancient fortification wall, staging excursions into the park.BARADAN BAY PAVILIONAt the east end of the site is Baradan Bay, a picturesque cove popular as a swimming spot with local tourist boats. The Notion site is located along regional cycling and hiking routes and networks, and the site design aims to respond to and produce value for these publics. A third pavilion is planned here in order to accommodate local recreation and ecological tourism growing in the region to stage various form of access to the site. Outside of the secure archaeological zone, this pavilion houses a more substantial open air restaurant with a lower terrace overlooking the bay. It will also accommodate bicycle rental, a small cafe, and restroom facilities. It shares a material palette and architectural strategy with the other two pavilions, conceived of as a large weathering steel shade canopy under which modest programs are arranged as islands. The structure gathers into its edges pedestrian and cycling pathways producing an additional threshold of arrival to the park.WEST ENTRY PAVILIONDue to the extensiveness of the site, two visitor entry access points are planned at each end. The West Entry Pavilion marks the entry to the site at the corner of the beach highway and the Hales River, just north of the ancient Port Gate. Located at the base of a rugged climb to the top of the hill, it is designed as a thickened threshold with an expansive shade canopy, where layers of walls and screens extend the simple program of guard/ticket booth, souvenir stand, and restroom facilities to capture the corner of the site and achieve presence from the road. The pavilion is constructed of self-weathering steel, complimenting the tone and materiality of the site while minimizing long-term maintenance. The site enclosure at the pavilion is formed by a masonry wall, constructed of generic CMU blocks laid on their sides and parametrically rotated to produce patterns of density and porosity in order to achieve material articulation with modest means and local construction techniques.The West Entry Pavilion will be the primary point of entry to the western slopes of the park for archeological survey team members and researchers staging site visits from the Notion Excavation House
Image 41 of 41 from gallery of Minas House / studio mk27. Section BB
Image 4 of 17 from gallery of Place du Village House / Zakarian-Navelet Architectes. Photograph by Stéphane Chalmeau
French developer Christian Bourdais has enlisted eight architects to develop vacation homes on a 50-hectare nature re...
Completed in 2019 in Hyères, France. Images by Stéphane Chalmeau. It’s the story of an inside / outside house on a peninsula. In the trees, around a square and towards the sea: the Mediterranean Sea. “La place...
Image 17 of 20 from gallery of Glen Ellen Aerie House / Aidlin Darling Design. Plan
