In the environs of Valle de Bravo, Casa Rancho Avándaro is a weekend retreat designed primarily to make the most of its extensive natural surroundings. The house is a commanding presence on the landscape, striking a balance between the well-tended gardens and the imposing stone buildings.
Project name
Casa Rancho Avándaro
Architecture firm
Chain + Siman
Location
Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, Mexico
Photography
Rafael Gamo, Jaime Navarro
Principal architect
Renatta Chain, Lina Siman
Interior design
Chain + Siman
Built area
House: 520 m², Terrace: 256 m²
Material
Stone, Wood, Glass, Metal
Typology
Residential › House
Lying on a pleasant wine cellar lane, SENAA architekti designed a weekend house that uses every bit of its steep sloping plot. Conceptually divided into several layouts and structural parts, the house has a traditional morphology and combines modern details with historical technologies.
Project name
Weekend House in Bukovany
Architecture firm
SENAA architekti
Location
Bukovany, Czech Republic
Photography
Alex Shoots Buildings
Principal architect
Václav Navrátil, Jan Sedláček
Design team
Kateřina Zabadalová, Jan Gadziala
Collaborators
Garden: Jana Zuntychová
Built area
Built-up Area: 98 m². Gross Floor Area: 142 m². Usable Floor Area: 115 m²
Material
Ceramic blocks Porotherm, interior plaster, exterior plaster Profi with limestone
Typology
Residential › House
The Havacil House is a weekend holiday home located on a site surrounded by the jungles and mountains of Ramsar city. It has a cubic shape combined with sloping roofs.
Project name
Havacil House
Architecture firm
Shomali Design Studio
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop, Lumion, Adobe After Effects
Principal architect
Yaser Rashid Shomali & Yasin Rashid Shomali
Design team
Yaser Rashid Shomali & Yasin Rashid Shomali
Visualization
Shomali Design Studio
Typology
Residential › House
The Cove House is a weekend home nestled in a site swaddled by the mountains of the Western Ghats. Red Brick Studio was approached by the client who wanted to build a space which would allow him a get-away from the hustle of the city life and provide him an opportunity to soak in the picturesque views of the backwaters of the Panshet Dam the site o...
Project name
The Cove House
Architecture firm
Red Brick Studio
Location
Panshet, Pune, India
Principal architect
Ankur Kothari, Anil Poduval
Design team
Kalyani Shah, Azhar Poonawala
Collaborators
Ashok Chouhan, Devendra Mahor
Structural engineer
Himanshu Tulpule
Typology
Residential › House
A small, intimate weekend home situated near Ahmedabad that celebrates materiality and the relationship between the manmade and the natural - reducing carbon footprints. We used earthy, local materials, shaped and worked by local hands, to build this modest, private retreat. The surroundings were left largely undisturbed while building this ecologi...
Architecture firm
tHE gRID Architects
Location
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Photography
Photographix India, Inclined Studio (Video credits)
Principal architect
Snehal Suthar and Bhadri Suthar
Design team
Snehal Suthar and Bhadri Suthar
Collaborators
Local craftsmen
Interior design
tHE gRID Architects
Structural engineer
inhouse
Environmental & MEP
inhouse
Landscape
tHE gRID Architects
Visualization
Snehal Suthar and Bhadri Suthar
Tools used
ZWCAD, Adobe Photoshop, SkethUp, Nikon and Sony camera
Material
Yellow dhrangadhdra stone, Exposed concrete, Reclaimed wood, MS, Reclaimed jute, Reclaimed rope, Glass, Kotah,
Typology
Residential › Weekend villa
