n-lab Architects designed this house for a family in Luxembourg.
Description from n-lab Architects:
The clearly defined volumes play with the concepts of heaviness and lightness. A walk around the single-family house reveals firmly anchored volumes and floating bodies creating large overhangs. The four facades were treated with regard to local conditions. The few openings to neighboring buildings are partially covered in wooden slats in order to filter the views from and to the most private areas. The largest opening is on the garden side, where the entire first floor is raised off the ground.
From the architect. The theme of this house is air volume. This house has many layered air volume.
So I call this house “polyphonic”. The site is a place used to be a workplace of the construction company and it seems atmosphere savage. It is not feel the context of orientation, so I put the house on the center of the site to be no hierarchy around the house.
This house changes the air volume between summer and winter. The aim of the nesting composition in section and plan is to change the air volume. This principle is similar to the principle of Japanese traditional “Kotasu”. To reduce energy consumption by controlling of air volume, it makes comfortable interior environment. I think there is very few architecture to achieve environmental control and good space at the same time.
I think this thinking works in subtropical region as well as in cold area. This method of construction is good way to be able to cope with various environments. I think this method is primitive way.Many other past projects are related to this project. For example “Layered House”, “Ordos 100” and “House of Eden” are closed to this project.
Past projects is strong thinking to interior. This house may also seems to be strong.
This innovative book is the first to provide a fun, interactive way to learn about architecture. Filled with an array of beautiful and elegant drawings, it poses all manner of architectural challenges for the user: from designing your own skyscraper, to drawing an island house or creating a Constructivist monument, plus many others more.
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Architects: SUN Architects & Engineers
Location: Jeju-si, Jeju-do, South Korea
Architect In Charge: Eunsoo Sun, Seungjong Kang
Area: 243 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Seunghoon Yum, Eunsoo Sun
From the architect. SM’1 House is the house of the architect who has his wife and two daughters. Everyone who constructs wants to build his house but it’s said to be difficult to do such a thing easily. The excuse that architects have not established their construction world, vague fear and hesitation seem to make them feel a heavy burden.
I had been in such trouble and delayed it, during thinking ‘I have to do something as an architect and a father’ for the closest people called ‘Family’, I watched a father’s story on the media accidentally and the story haunted me. It’s said that the house is a place where children’s value memories are and makes them keep their memories of childhood a lot.
However, most people build their house tremendously for a couple after children grew up and leave their parents. I blamed myself for ‘ Are there spatial sympathy of family during living the apartment for dozens of years? How often do we communicate with each other? in that space”. During I was thinking about these questions, I liked to build a house as soon as possible and then I put the thought in practice. At home, I don’t know how long I live in the house but I want to dream beautiful memories and the happiness of my family.
Ora 3-dong, Jeju-si, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province is located around the existing settlements that is in the old town(Juju-si) in current Juju and in the center of New Jeju. Around it, houses and villas, warehouses, etc are in the village so they make people feel a bit messy. The site is land which gives a cozy and comfortable feeling due to being well-lighted having a full south aspect. To the south, there is Hallasan(Mt), to the north, there are the airport and the offing so it has nice view.
The main concept of the deployment plan is if possible, to direct the space with different feelings by setting the relationship of the outer space in each room respectively. The space divided into this is planned to hold features of Jeju’s traditional house deployment, several small yards and a front yard have appropriate hierarchy in the yard and try to communicate organically each other. In addition, the feeling of the yard is a lyrical space where I saw in the grandmother’s house in the childhood, and the same concept in lighting plan to direct was applied and planned.
The main room (large Kudul), kitchen (Jeongji), guest and tea room (Barkgeori), hobby room, utility room (Gopang) are planned focusing on the living room (Sangbang) on the first floor, it’s planned that the living room is in the center of the house and family members can get together, the living room always gives bright and spacious feeling by placing my housewife’s flow and eyes openly with opening it with the kitchen.
In particular, I made both the front yard and inside-back yard come to indoor. In the guest room, Pongnang yard emphasizes lyricism to remind people of neat Jeju stones and Pongnang on the past ollegil.
The facade reflected on the form of flat arranged as the three-dimension moderated decorations as much as possible to emphasize neat feeling. Neat and clean white stucco and glass has the intention not to disturb surroundings by embracing natural colors.
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From the architect. The design for the new houses at No. 25-27 William St share a common platform, although these sites will form separate applications, they are conceived of as complimentary activities and are thus discussed together. The key ideas are expressed as follows.
1. The retention of the original “bach era” landscape.
The existing house at the beach at No 25 William St sits at the top of a lawn that is open to the Takapuna beachfront. This is now one of the few sections the opens so generously onto the public domain. This is seen as a positive gesture to the public space of the beach front and recalls an historic house type which is now rare in this region. This lawn or green space features a simple concrete path that extends to the beach from the house.
The intention is to retain and extend this green space and the axial path from the beach through to the William St address. This strategy involves opening the sites up to each other and linking them with a consistent landscape treatment.
There are two significant trees at each end of the combined site. These are to be retained as they are large scale plantings that will book mark the site. Similarly two traditional outbuildings are to remain at either end of the house on the front section.
2. Linking the buildings on the two sites.
An extended pathway from simple materials is to link the buildings on the two sites. The new buildings will be detailed to merge with the land form or , conversely, be strongly defined objects on the lawn and path. They are to be simply clad in robust, weathered hardwood panelling buildings with a concrete base. These materials are found from the existing “bach era” landscape as we’ll as the foreshore and neighbourhood.
The minor dwelling near William St at No.27 is to be clad in naturally weathering brass or copper metal panel it is intended to sit close to the retained large Puriri tree and form a detail on the site, a notional gate house or street elevation.
3. Respecting the local scale.
There are to be three discrete house forms. These have a combined plan area which is similar to the two existing dwellings to be removed.
The new from adjacent neighbours and occupies the approximately back third of it’s section. The House at No. 25 although significantly larger than the existing bach or cottage will be over 1200mm lower than the existing roof ridge. (At 8m wide it will be over 3m narrower when viewed from the beach than the existing house. It will however be 3m longer that the original house on the site. Relative to the neighbouring houses it is smaller in all dimensions from the neighbours either side.)
The house and minor dwelling at No. 27 are ancillary dwellings adjacent to the main house at No. 25. These are spaced at opposite diagonals on the site and appear as one room (5m) wide towers from the road. At their highest they are between 100-800mm higher than the existing house on the site but over a far smaller area.
The three houses will fit easily in the general pattern of the neighbourhood. They will rarely be seen all together and will appear as modestly scaled.
4. Packaging.
The new houses are notionally thought of as a small collection of containers or vessels. The content of these packages, set back behind robust claddings, are finely detailed and glazed.. The houses, or packages, have been placed and arranged so that the cladding conceals the content from the more public approaches and reveals the interiors as one accesses elevations that are interior to the site.
This subtle theme is developed further with the provision of folding and sliding able to be manipulated to suit the requirement of the inhabitants.
Elegant rusticity meets unpretentious luxury in the work of this award-winning architecture firm. Howard Backen, principal of the architecture firm Backen, Gillam & Kroeger, is at the center of a popular movement in home design that emphasizes elegant simplicity and embraces the rustic charm of natural materials. This volume, the first on his work and that of the firm, is an artful exploration of this aesthetic, featuring farmhouses in the Napa Valley, hilltop homes, seaside retreats, and lakeside hideaways. Throughout the work, a sense of intimacy, warmth, and informality pervades. Natural materials, such as wood, stone, and brick, form the foundations, walls, and ceilings of these subtly luxurious spaces, while nature itself plays a considered role that is at once complementary and also intricately conjoined with the work. Sensitive, alluring, and wonderfully resonant with the suggestion of invitation, the work of Backen, Gillam & Kroeger is both thrilling to the eye and restorative to the soul.
In this pilot episode Robert Slinger talks about the Kreuzberg Tower, where he lived on the eighth floor for more than eight years. The project which consists of a tower and its two wings was a social housing project-cum-student-residences built by the architect, educator and poet John Hejduk.
