Apart from being our refuge, a house must relate to the city and generate new encounters with the urban context in which it finds itself. Yet, at the same time, it must express a certain enigmatic notion of what goes on behind its walls and enclosures. This project offers a new perspective on the extent to which the activity in the house should be...
Project name
Lantern House
Architecture firm
MUKA Arquitectura
Location
Griñón, Madrid, Spain
Photography
Javier Callejas
Principal architect
Moisés Royo, Jesús Bermejo
Design team
Moisés Royo, Jesús Bermejo
Collaborators
Ignacio Campos Alcaraz, Loreto Carmenado Vaquero, Alba Martín de Vidales Mateos, Antonio González Rodríguez, Helena Medina
Interior design
MUKA Arquitectura
Civil engineer
MUKA Arquitectura
Structural engineer
Gonzalo S. Buenache
Environmental & MEP
MUKA Arquitectura
Landscape
MUKA Arquitectura
Lighting
MUKA Arquitectura
Supervision
Gonzalo S. Buenache
Tools used
AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop
Typology
Residential › House
The project is located on the outskirts of the municipality of Zapopan, a few minutes from the town of San Esteban, in an area with excellent views, due to its higher altitude, where you can find hills for cycling, hiking, and which serves as a place to disconnect from the city.
Project name
Casa Estudio San Esteban
Architecture firm
Gil García
Location
San Esteban, Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico
Photography
Nicolas Covarrubias
Principal architect
Carla Adriana Gil López, Sergio García Navarro
Collaborators
Radio Floors, Iluminación Dilight, Mármoles ARCA, Inofe Home, Showroom 53
Interior design
Gil García
Material
Brick, concrete, steel, glass, wood, stone
Typology
Residential › House
Situated in a natural shelter of a valley at the foot of the Serra da Estrela, close to the parish of Gonçalo, in a place also known locally by the name of Mora, this agricultural property has approximately 18ha of area, and is surrounded by a dense pine tree forest.
Project name
Casa NaMora (NaMora House)
Architecture firm
Filipe Pina, David Bilo
Location
Gonçalo, Guarda, Portugal
Photography
Ivo Tavares Studio
Principal architect
Filipe Pina, David Bilo
Design team
Filipe Pina, David Bilo, Diana Cruz
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
LuxeRivers is a new mixed-use development in Chongqing, a large city in southwest China, on a steep site at the confluence of the Yangtze and the Jialing Rivers. It comprises several blocks of luxury apartments, residential villas and commercial elements woven together with extensive infrastructure, including bridges and tunnels, landscaping, paths...
Architecture firm
SAOTA (Concept Design)
Location
Chongqing, China
Principal architect
Lead Architects: 5+design (Design Development)
Design team
SAOTA Project Team: Greg Truen, Adrian Monger, Lean Fouche, Kier Bothwell, Darren Rodgers
Collaborators
Project Manager: Mingyi, Li
Structural engineer
Chongqing Bojian Architectural and Planning Design Institute Co. Ltd & Chongqing ChangSha Xiaan Architectural Design Institute Co. Ltd.
Landscape
Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM), Chongqing Riqing Urban Landscape Design Co. Ltd
Construction
Chongqing Education Construction (Group) Co., Ltd
Typology
Residential › Apartments
Meca is an habitational experiment that revolves around Sustenance. This is what represents its clients’ lifestyle and their true self the best. The food cycle is fundamental to the genesis of this project, and this is how we represented it spatially: Located in its center, lies the heart of the house, a big kitchen materialized as a large countert...
Architecture firm
Atelier Matias Mosquera
Location
San Isidro, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Photography
Matias Mosquera
Principal architect
Matías Mosquera
Design team
Matías Mosquera, Camila Gianicolo, Marcelo Vita
Structural engineer
Pedro Gea
Landscape
Ayerza & Samaría
Visualization
Atelier Matias Mosquera
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Material
Concrete, Glass, Metal, Wood
Typology
Residential › House
The house as an external body has a great effect on the soul, which protects the physical layer of the soul. So it can help him in the direction of excellence, this approache to a house is clearly visible in the traditional architecture of Iran. Interaction with nature is a lost puzzle of modern life, and therefore modern man has become more isolat...
Architecture firm
4 Architecture Studio
Location
Unit 184, Modares Street, Gonbade Kavous City, Golestan Pr, Iran
Photography
Peyman Amirghiasvand
Principal architect
Mohammad Sadegh Afshar Taheri, Mohammad Yousef Salehi, Kasra Shafieezadeh
Design team
Sara Maleki, Maryam Almasi, Iman Eslami, Bardia Shafieezadeh,Arezoo Hekmat
Collaborators
Graphic: Arezoo Hekmat
Completion year
Summer 2020 / Autumn 2021
Civil engineer
Iman Hazrati
Environmental & MEP
Poor Ramezanian, Poor Ramezanian
Supervision
Shamseddin Gharavi
Construction
4 Architecture Studio
Material
Metal, Concrete, Drywall, Brick, Ceramic
Budget
27,000,000,000 IRR
Client
Mr. Abbas kashanian
Typology
Residential › House
The existing outdated extension of this terraced house is completely replaced. The program of the new extension includes a large dining room with kitchen, a toilet and a laundry room. At the request of the client, the kitchen had to be hidden from view from the dining area.
Architecture firm
Studio Kloek
Photography
Hannelore Veelaert
Principal architect
Pieter Cloeckaert
Design team
Pieter Cloeckaert and Laura Spelier
Interior design
Studio Kloek
Structural engineer
Studieburo Tom Bisson
Visualization
Studio Kloek
Material
Concrete grey and green, steel, glass, gold colour, red bricks, aluminium (gold colour)
Typology
Residential › House, Extension
Rita is No. 2 in a series of organic houses, such as Chloé, Borja and Filippa. All with the same objective, to develop an exercise that lies in materializing and repeating a set of project operations that in the studio we call "Housing Manifesto".
Project name
Rita House (Casa Rita)
Architecture firm
Estudio Fernandez Renati
Location
Club de Campo los Pingüinos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Photography
Javier Agustín Rojas
Principal architect
Alejo Fernandez
Collaborators
Héctor Fernandez Renati, Gimena Caffo
Built area
Covered area: 692 m². Semicovered area: 453 m²
Material
Concrete, brick, wood, glass, metal
Typology
Residential › House
