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This small house, Baltazar Residence, is one of those houses which is located on small lot but thanks to great design use everything it could provide. It accommodates a growing family and takes advantage of the beautiful ocean views. The house has concerete base that rices of the ground with a minimal amount of openings until the second story. Starting from the second store it has a steel frame with a glass window walls that offers panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean. Thanks to the materials used inside and outside house its design gets a modern look without losing in comfort. [Public Architects]

as seen on DIGSDIGS

Architects: PIQUE llc
Location: Tumalo, OR, USA
Structural Engineer: Elemental Engineering llc
Contractor: R&H Construction
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Peter Jahnke

This residence sits on a remote 10 acre site comprised of Sage & Juniper trees in Central Oregon. Conceived as two simple cubes in the landscape, one box for sleeping and one for living, the structure offers two distinct means of interaction with the landscape. The sleeping box is low & burrowed into earth, while the living box floats above, hovering just at treetop level. East & South orientations are exploited for views as well as passive solar orientation of the home.

Exterior materials were chosen for durability against the extreme climate and risk for forest fire. All rainwater will be harvested & stored for landscaping or firefighting purposes. The pool provides an additional margin of wildfire safety as a usable body of water on the remote site.

A contemporary house designed by Pb Elemental Architecture which built with the main principle on how to create a modern house on tight budget. The client is a large family and still growing so the house must have four bedrooms, two bath, living and dining areas, open kitchen, an entry corridor, large storage room, bookshelves for huge book collection, laundry room and closet, all of them must built on 1600 square foot site. The end result is a beautiful house with minimalist exterior and stunning interior design, the building cost just $167/sf and the footprint is only 790 square feet.

as seen on momy

Architects: Ecker Architekten
Location: Seckach, Germany
Client: Gemeinde Seckach, vertetren durch
Construction Area: 1,550 sqm
Project year: 2002
Photographs: Constantin Mayer, Köln

The project is the result of an invited competition. In the context of two historically protected buildings, the useable area of the existing city hall was to be doubled. The demolition of modifications from the 1950’s and 70’s and restores the historic structures to their former proportion. This surgical removal created a 10 -meter gap allowing the insertion of a new building, housing council chambers, offices, kitchen facilities, and archives. To mark the contrast between modern and existing facilities, the new structure is clad with a locally-quarried stone and the fenestration is expansive. The roof forms a hyperbolic paraboloid, allowing the appearance of a flat roof at the front and rear of the building while providing a maximum pitch of 12 degrees.

Architect: Daw Arquitectos y Diseñadores – Macarena Aguilar, Pablo Bronstein, Diego Aguilar
Location: Santiago, Chile
Collaborators: Rafael Urzúa, Juan Salinas, Sebastián Noguera
Contractor: Sistek
Materiales: Concrete, Glass, Wood
Site Area: 1,900 sqm
Constructed Area: 370 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Pablo Bronstein

This project deals with the degrees of relationship between the exterior and interior as its main idea. Variated exterior spaces, defined by the geometries of the house are generated, and create patios and transition spaces with exterior capsules existing as the smallest unit of definitive interior space.

The second idea variable arises from the material in its capacity to be both a unit and a multiple as well as the generation of texture through repetition and large surface areas of wall and ground. In this way the concrete is cast with perforations or undulations and the floor planes in stone or paving tiles laid out over the ground.