House with courtyard by Izquerdo Lehmann

The living and dining room is open on both sides along its entire length, with a pair of running windows. It captures as beautiful ocean views as views of plants in the courtyard. Placed on 350 square meter area the house has four bedrooms for children and guests besides the master bedroom. Courtyard is the centerpiece of the house with its own nature inside. It is connected to all house’s rooms and patio below the house’s level covering the full sea view from the horizon to the beach. This vacation home is built in rural farm in the town of Huentelauquén. It’s facing the sea at the edge of a windswept plateau, located 40 meters above the beach.

Small Rural House, New Forest by Hampshire Architects

The design for this small rural house in the New Forest by hampshire architects Deer Park Alpha is a response to the needs of composer, sound artist and installation artist, Hywel Davies.

The house is essentially a one-room cottage, organised into two halves with spaces formed with large and small alcoves around a central fireplace. It is made on the earth, from the earth, and over time will return to the earth. The house will be entirely off-grid and self-sufficient.

The north half of the house contains the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and entrance and is made with a thick cob wall. The south half, constructed of locally sourced timber, is the main studio and flexible living area.

Exhibited at ArtSway in June 2010. You can download a PDF of the project here

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A Futuristic Singapore University Building Design by UNStudio

A fantasy campus design I must say by architecture masters over at UNStudio. This fantastical campus building isn’t yet there, but the project was under the name of Plot A of the Singapore University of Technology and Design Campus shorten as SUTD. It will be the most prestigious university building located on a site of 76,846 meters square. To accommodate future challenge of green design the futuristic building will definitely uses green concept and it will houses the Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) program.

UNStudio’s Ben van Berkel stated about this project as follow: “The main aim of the design for the Singapore University of Technology and Design was to create a campus that celebrates both teaching and learning in an open and transparent way. The network of horizontal, vertical and diagonal vistas within the double quadrant organisation of the campus enables professors, students and faculty members to see, meet and communicate with each other through a network of crossing points, presenting opportunities for continuous interaction and exchange.” Such amazing university design that we’re hope to see it come into virtualization and we can’t wait for it. Check it directly the progress at UNStudio

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Know Your Material: Getting Cool and Stay Warm with Low E Glass

The sun is a source of energy. It has so many benefits for many human beings and other life forms. But on the other hand, the sun is also damaging. There are many types of sun light ranging from ultraviolet, infrared and visible lighting. Visible light help us to see what’s in front and around us while the ultraviolet can damage the skin, wood, and weathered the paint away. Infrared is the source of light that contains heat.

There are many ways to avoid all the negativity caused by the sun and one of them in the architecture world is by using Low E glass. Low E means that it is low emissivity and it’s guaranteed that it’s different than the normal glass. It doesn’t let damaging light through your house so this way the temperature inside your home will remain cool.

There are different types of Low E glass. There is the soft coating Low E Glass and the hard coating Low E glass. This summer due to the extremely intense heat it’s best that you applied the double glass of Low E using clear Low E type with a soft coating. It can reduce heat inside your house for up to 25%. Else than hindering you with extreme heat, it can also reduce chillness inside your house as some of the Low-E glass can reduce cold ranging from 26 degrees, 35 and up to 49 degrees for the hard coat Low E Glass.

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Korean house design by IROJE KIMHYOMAN

The house entrance is a big transparent gate door with attached to it inner court. Two wooden boxes which are consisted of duplex room are laid on landscaped architectural mass which contain living room and dining room. The one box contains master bed and study room and another box is consisted of two bedrooms and study rooms for two daughters. The living room has double height ceiling which gather a lot of sunlight during the day through the roof. Vertical and horizontal ways fill the house from top to bottom and connect various spaces. This site is located in borderline between city and mountain. Urban landscape and mountains views could be seen all together.

Prefab cedar panels by Hudson

The house is inspired by simple forms of functional farm buildings and consist of two bedrooms and the room which could be as guest room as home office. There is also a dark room and studio because owner of the home is a photographer. Floors, walls and roofing made of prefabricated timber and was very quick to assemble. The house have 4m x 2m window and an 8m line of glazed doors which extending the living room on to a raised desk. The building is covered by 15,000 untreated cedar shingles which are very cost effective to use. Cedar House by Hudson Architects is their answer to modern prefab building technologies. It’s situated in the countryside of North Elmham, on the river Wensum and perfectly fit surround landscape.

Experimental house design by entouched nature

The three store house was designed to response to certain site obstructions, like zoning setbacks, a stream buffer and a steep slope. Each floor made of different material and placed at right angle against each other. The first floor is combination of glass with concrete outside and glass with marble inside. The long roof where is enough place to walk is accessible from the second floor. The third floor is almost transparent giving an opportunity to catch amazing views of nature. Besides having beautiful nature outside, the house interior mostly made of natural materials. Not only marble, but wood, bamboo, ipe are widely in use. The overall interior look is rustic and modern Freelon Group mostly specialize in public projects although one of their architects, Michael A. Rantilla, builded his private residence in Raleigh, North Carolina

Warm home interior by Paul Morgan Architects

That make house design very warm and habitual. Linear design elements in the interior add it touch of modernism. The house also incorporates passive and active thermal devices like roof mounted wind scoops with electrically powered louvers allow for air ventilation from southerly wind as well as the purging of warm air during summer. Designed by Australian studio Paul Morgan Architects this house situated on an expansive property in Australia’s South-Eastern state of Victoria. The four-bedroom house is inspired by surround conditions of this exposed rural setting. It is self-sustaining in a remote and harsh environment without existing services. The house was sited high enough to maximize the view from the house but low enough so that the view of the brow of the hill and the silhouette of trees was not disturbed. Strathbogie granite, quarried from the site itself, creates a warm and tactile backdrop in several rooms and its inherent colours determined the palette of autumnal colours, with rich timber stains.