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Casa Boreal: A Modern House for Commercialization with A Compact and Efficient Design

This house is 167,00 m² and designed for commercialization. Casa Boreal or Boreal House is designed by Nommo Arquitetos, located in a gated community in the north of Curitiba. The investors’ premise is to create a product with good external space and qualitative sunlight, including fulfilling the basic program for a family of four. The result of this awesome project is a compact and efficient design that makes the house comfortable.

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Modern Barn: A Weekend Retreat with Simple, Durable, and Elegant Materials

Completed by Specht Architects, this contemporary barn is a residential project located in Wilton, Connecticut. Designed for a couple who engaged in the arts actively, she as a fashion editor and he as a broadway, this weekend retreat offers an awesome place to relax. Simple, durable, and elegant materials are used to design the entire part of the historic barn.

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Villa Geldrop: A Large Villa with A Clear Orientation and Strong Geometry

It is a house for a businessman and his family, designed by HofmanDujardin and completed in 2011. Villa Geldrop is a large villa with 415 m² in size that set in the Dutch countryside, Geldrop, Netherlands. It is not an ordinary house but viewed as a modern interpretation of the classic box plan that made famous by Italian renaissance architects such as Palladio, supported by the villa’s clear orientation and strong geometry.

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UB01: A Single-Level House with the Development of An Extended Front Porch

This project is started in partnership with Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) in response to receiving a HUD grant when a lot of New Orleanians were just returning to the city after Hurricane Katrina. First built during the summer of 2006, every subcontractor who worked on the first house has worked with URBANbuild ever since. UB01 employs a single-level, three-bedroom, two-bath strategy with the development of an extended front porch.

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UB02: A Residential Program with A Two-Story Structure and Vertical Development

As the program’s first project in Central City, New Orleans, UB02 can represent the first step in its commitment to the neighborhood. Through this residential program, URBANbuild and a group of students from Tulane School of Architecture try to improve the quality of life for residents of Central City by designing an awesome house. This house is developed vertically with a two-story structure that creates a reduced footprint.