A lattice screen is lost inside the white walls by day, at night a screen of light and shadows appears on the facade of Casa la Blanca. One of the typical Mexican lattices, widely used within the State of Colima, for decades, within its cities and on the coast to protect itself from the intense sub-humid warm climate and its strong climatic changes...
Project name
Casa La Blanca
Architecture firm
Di Frenna Arquitectos
Location
Av las Parotas, Residencial Las Parotas subdivision. Villa de Alvarez, Colima, Mexico
Photography
Lorena Darquea
Principal architect
Matia Di Frenna Müller
Collaborators
Mariana de la Mora
Structural engineer
Luis Flores
Material
Concrete, Stone, Glass, Wood, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
Symbiotic Jag is located in the noble area of Braga, whose morphology and topography are characterized by its pecoliar character. The target of intervention has a very steep slope allowing a visual relationship of amplitude with the city in which the morphological structure of the subdivision based on a logic of "staircase" allowed an implantation...
Project name
Symbiotic Jag
Architecture firm
Office of feeling Architecture
Principal architect
Vitor Marques, Miguel Ribeiro, Armando Amaro
Design team
Vitor Marques, Miguel Ribeiro, Armando Amaro
Visualization
OFFA Visualization
Typology
Residential › House
The Sinuous House by ANTIREALITY takes its name from the curvy and circular shape of the building. This conceptual two-story house is designed as a weekend retreat for city workers, located within the natural coastal landscapes.
Project name
Sinuous House
Architecture firm
ANTIREALITY
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Visualization
ANTIREALITY
Typology
Residential › House
Algarve, in the South of Portugal does not only live by the sea. Proof of this is the village of São Bartolomeu de Messines, municipality of Silves - located in the interior of the Algarve, far from the mass tourism that occupies the whole coast, and privileged by the mountains that surround the whole region.
Project name
House in Messines
Architecture firm
Vitor Vilhena Arquitectura
Location
São Bartolomeu de Messines, Algarve, Portugal
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Principal architect
Vitor Vilhena
Collaborators
Vitor Vilhena, Fábio Guimarães, Nuno Gonçalves, João Simões
Civil engineer
PLANN Engineer
Structural engineer
PLANN Engineer
Supervision
Vitor Vilhena Architecture
Construction
Window to the Future, lda
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
Hugging House is based on a project that is mainly capable of fully respecting nature and establishing a connection with the building's environment (not to mention energy, sustainability, and ecology), and that through its impact and experience could generate in the visitor the same respect for the natural world.
Project name
Hugging House
Architecture firm
Veliz Arquitecto
Tools used
SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Jorge Luis Veliz Quintana
Visualization
Veliz Arquitecto
Typology
Residential › House
It is a project to enjoy Yucatan, its sky, its wind and its vegetation. The footprint of the house is just one fifth of the land extension, always leaving free space and vegetation as the protagonist.
Project name
Akúun House (Casa Akúun)
Architecture firm
Arkham Project / GCW
Location
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Photography
Yoshihiro Koitani
Principal architect
Benjamín Peniche Calafell, Jorge Duarte Torre, GCW
Design team
Alan May, Iván Valdez, Lorena Cervera
Construction
Cáceres Arquitectos y Asociados S.A de C.V
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel, Stone, Wood
Typology
Residential › House
The trees stay! This was the initial phrase in the interview with the owners of the property, a pair of preexisting galleries, the first one with a shed covered in soot, barely noticeable the color of the clay roof tiles, and the second one covered with metal sheets was almost unable to sustain.
Project name
Door To Mérida House
Architecture firm
Taller Estilo Arquitectura
Location
Calle 78 número 484 B por 55 y 57 Colonia Centro. Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Photography
Tamara Uribe, Marina Guzmán
Principal architect
Víctor Alejandro Cruz Domínguez, Iván Atahualpa Hernández Salazar, Luís Armando Estrada Aguilar
Collaborators
Silvia Cuitún Coronado, Daniel Rivera Arjona, Jorge Escalante Chan, Adrián Morales
Structural engineer
Juan Diaz Cab
Construction
Carlos Canto Trujillo, Juan Diaz Cab, Taller Estilo Arquitectura
Material
Cement, Wood, Stone, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
The Concept is located in the Wadi Al Disah (Disah Valley), Tabuk of Saudi Arabia. The house is defined by two volumes connected with each other through a concrete core.
Architecture firm
Omar Hakim
Location
Wadi Al Disah, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Omar Hakim
Built area
300 m² (ground floor), 200 m² (first floor)
Typology
Residential › House
