It is a permanent micro dwelling located in Almere, the Netherlands with 50m2 in size. Slim Fit is designed by ANA ROCHA Architecture for urban densification that occupies with its minimal footprint. The use of smart and flexible design can provide many applications. With its compact footprint, this dwelling becomes an ideal home for compacting and filling in the city blocks’ inner areas.
This family house is located in Melbourne, Australia, a residential project designed by Sibling Architecture. Family Framework House has the main architectural gesture that can open the entire house up to its back garden. This modern house is also designed with playful color and super graphics to complement its framing device efficiency.
Located in Aculco, State of Mexico, Aculco is a completed project of a holiday home designed by Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados. This house sits in an ideal place where someone can get some rest from modern living in a natural environment. With 90 m2 in size, this house is made of block walls of quarry stone with minimal need for maintenance.
Surrounded by the Kaimai Ranges and the Karangahake forests, from Paeroa through the last bridge towards Waihi, this farmland home reminds of the essence of living simply, quiet family moments, and the importance of the environment. Designed by Make Architecture, Karangahake House offers warm cross-laminated-timber floors for a cozy enclosed atmosphere.
A home for the client of this project is a place to retreat from the outside world. Glassbook House is a hideaway located in Tempe, New South Wales, Australia, designed by Sibling Architecture. This house is explored as a sanctuary with serious collection books in a two-storey bookcase. The southern glassblock facade can filter the daylight deep into the house interior.
Located in Philadelphia, United States, El Chalet is a 2014 project of a 6-unit apartment building by Interface Studio Architects. This project shifts a program to the long edge of a narrow site in East Kensington, along the busy Frankford-Market elevated Blue Line. This apartment has a clear roofline and an intimacy with the near railroad.
The aim of this project is to build a house in a rural context that satisfies the users’ needs and meets the characteristics of a decent home. Apan is a 2017 project located in Hidalgo, Mexico with 58m2 in size. This house is designed by Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados that proposes the use of a local building system and also two volumes to divide private from public rooms.
Bought by designers Carvalho & Bernau from the municipality two old classrooms in a former school building, this apartment is a 2018 project located in The Hague, the Netherlands. With 150 m² in size, the refurbishment of Alba’s Play is done by ANA ROCHA Architecture. The high walls are combined with newly added volumes to transform it into a sustainable home.
Paraíso is a weekend house located in a residential area near Cuernavaca, Morelos, México. It is a single-story house with two major openings located within a golf course with 350m2 in size. The intention of the main design made by Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados is to create a sense of openness. Two major openings are presented with LCMX interior design that offers a contrast between the building’s materials.
This private house has around 325 m2 of construction distributed between two levels, located in San Angel Inn, in southern Mexico City. Campestre is designed by Palacios Arquitectos Asociados in 2015, a house with a rectangular proportion of its plot. On its two patios, the built area is distributed which also divides the private and public rooms.
Building a house is one of the best ways to ensure you get everything you want out of a home. You get to choose the layout, the type of roof, the windows, and much more. One thing you want to be built the right way before you can begin to customize the house, however, is the foundation.
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