mwworks designed a small cabin called the Little House, a 1,140-square-foot retreat nestled into the forest overlooking Hood Canal on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. "The small footprint ultimately served as an effective tool to govern the design process," notes the architects. "Focus was placed on the essentials...extras were edited out...
Project name
Little House
Architecture firm
mwworks
Location
Seabeck, Washington, USA
Interior design
Avery Cox Design
Landscape
Johnson Southerland
Structural engineer
PCS Structural Solutions
Construction
E&H Construction
Material
Wood, Glass, Stone, Metal
Typology
Residential › House
A series of family cabins hidden in the forest, overlooking Washington's Hood Canal and inspired by the native killdeer bird. The retreat is an expression of ‘tactile modernism’, connecting the family to the sensation and physical experiences of the Puget sound ecosystem.
Project name
Hood Cliff Retreat
Architecture firm
Wittman Estes Architecture+Landscape
Location
Hood Canal, Hansville, WA
Principal architect
Matt Wittman AIA LEED AP, Jody Estes
Design team
Matt Wittman AIA LEED AP, Jody Estes, Naomi Javanifard, and Erica Munson
Structural engineer
Strongworks Structural
Construction
Jack Colgrove Construction
Material
Wood, Glass, Metal
Typology
Residential › Rural Retreat
The site of this project is located on a sloping land and the client asked us to make a copy of the sloping house project that we had worked on before. But with the consent of the client, we decided to think differently and present a new design.
Architecture firm
Milad Eshtiyaghi Studio
Location
Fundo San Rocco, Peru
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Autodesk 3ds Max, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Milad Eshtiyaghi
Visualization
Milad Eshtiyaghi Studio
Typology
Residential, House
The site is an hour’s drive away through the East from Bangkok; Chachoengsao, in which the suburb’s living environment is closed to a city, many factories, and the sea (Gulf of Thailand), which produces an excessive level of soil salinity. A non-terrain land with an artificial pond is where the villa is located.
Project name
Villa Backyard
Architecture firm
TOUCH Architect
Location
Chachoengsao, Thailand
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray , Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Setthakarn Yangderm, Parpis Leelaniramol
Design team
Pitchaya Tiyapitsanupaisan , Tanita Panjawongroj
Visualization
Hamidreza Meghrazi
Typology
Residential › House
A livable place always tells us a story, a gesture, a sense, just like nature, architecture is also capable of flourishing like a tiny seed among the undergrowth, inhabiting it is our instinct and basic need, this house shows this reverence for nature and respect towards her, appropriating landscapes and taking advantage of every visual moment towa...
Project name
Earth Caterpillar House
Architecture firm
Veliz Arquitecto
Location
All over the world
Tools used
SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Jorge Luis Veliz Quintana
Visualization
Veliz Arquitecto
Typology
Residential › House
The Rocky Mountain House #1 is a 2000 square feet Nordic style house with 4 bedrooms and 3.5 baths located in the outskirts of Carbodale, Colorado. A creek front property with a bird sanctuary in the backyard. A sustainable home which explores a new way of living with smaller spaces and the idea of economic sustainability.
Project name
Rocky Mountain House #1 (Tiscornia Residence)
Architecture firm
Forma Arquitectura
Location
Carbondale, Colorado, United States
Principal architect
Santiago Mussi Tiscornia
Typology
Residential › House
Breathing new life into an old building. From our first meeting with the owners, it was clear what conditions their future home should meet: “It should be fresh but also unpretentious.”
Project name
Reconstruction of mill, Central Bohemia
Architecture firm
Stempel & Tesar architekti
Photography
Filip Šlapal, Václav Šedý
Principal architect
Ján Stempel, Jan Jakub Tesař
Built area
147 m² (Building footprint), 241 m² (Usable area)
Material
Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
You can be dark, but not in The House of Light! In my crazy search for new ideas in architecture. I really liked to have an amazing cabin beside the lake or the beach, and I wanted to challenge this house with unordinary forms!
Project name
House of Light
Architecture firm
Amin Moazzen
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Amin Moazzen
Visualization
Amin Moazzen
Typology
Residential › House
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