The Forte House is a 12,075 sqft residence located on a 3 acre land that is set in the midst of a sub urban context on the outskirts of Cochin, Kerala.
Project name
The Forte House
Architecture firm
S Squared Architects
Location
Cochin, Kerala, India
Photography
Khan and Baker
Principal architect
Shaji V Vempanadan, Sumi Shaji
Design team
Shaji V Vempanadan, Sumi Shaji
Interior design
S Squared Architects
Structural engineer
Abhilash Joy, Vipin Sivadasan
Visualization
S Squared Architects
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop
Material
Concrete, Ferrocement, Metal I sections, Marble, Wood
Typology
Residential › House
Hayat-Khaneh is a metaphor for a house with intimate life essence existing throughout. “4 exterior voids intersect at the entrance hall of the building. The entrance functions as the heart of the building in linking all living spaces.”
Project name
Villa Hayat-Khaneh
Architecture firm
KanLan [Kamran Heirati, Tallan Khosravizadeh]
Location
South Khazarshahr, Mazandaran Province, Iran
Photography
Parham Taghioff
Principal architect
Kamran Heirati
Design team
Solmaz Tabatabaei, Amirali Sharifi, Kiana Shojae
Collaborators
Shervin Hashemi, Shahaa Maghrebi
Environmental & MEP
Farid Eskandari, Ali Piltan
Visualization
Mohamad Miri, Maryam Sehat, Pantea Khalafi
Material
Concrete, glass, wood, steel, stone
Typology
Residential › House
The Rome and Tehran-based architecture practice uc21 architects led by Amin Haghighat Gou have recently completed Cantilever House, a contemporary single-family home located in Mosha, Damavand, Iran.
Project name
Cantilever House
Architecture firm
uc21 architects
Location
Mosha, Damavand, Iran
Photography
Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Principal architect
Amin Haghighat Gou
Design team
Amin Haghighat Gou
Interior design
Amin Haghighat Gou
Environmental & MEP
Mehdi Safe, Amir Hossein Borji
Landscape
Amin Haghighat Gou
Lighting
Mehdi Safe, Amin Haghighat Gou
Supervision
Amin Haghighat Gou, Milad Ahmadian
Visualization
Amin Haghighat Gou
Construction
Milad Ahmadian, Amin Haghighat Gou
Material
Concrete, Steel structure, cement plaster
Typology
Residential › House
Modern and minimalist style villa in a pristine area with a pleasant climate for a family of six people. The villa is designed completely in white to don't have a strong color contrast with the green and forest space as a redundant element.
Architecture firm
Taha Estabar
Location
Sarnen, Switzerland
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop, Camtasia
Principal architect
Taha Estabar
Visualization
Taha Estabar ( visualizer.taha)
Typology
Residential › House
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
Milad Eshtiyaghi : The location of this project is in Arendal, Norway. In designing this project, we used the horizontal line of the sea in the design so that the project starts from a horizontal line and culminates with the idea of the mountains formed by the background, and then by shaping the shape of the house according to the climate ,The sh...
Architecture firm
Milad Eshtiyaghi Studio
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Milad Eshtiyaghi
Visualization
Milad Eshtiyaghi Studio
Typology
Residential › House
The Valencia-based architecture studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has recently completed Pati Blau a minimal residence located in Valencia, Spain. It was in the Muslim era when the so-called farmhouses were concentrating the population of the Ribera Alta, although some of these settlements had an Iberian origin. Over time these population centers h...
Project name
Pati Blau House
Architecture firm
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Photography
Diego Opazo, Jesús Orrico (Video)
Principal architect
Fran Silvestre, María Masià, Estefanía Soriano, Fran Ayala
Collaborators
Pablo Camarasa, Sandra Insa, Sevak Asatrián, Vicente Picó, Rubén March, Jose Manuel Arnao, Rosa Juanes, Gemma Aparicio, Paz Garcia-España, Ángel Pérez, Juan Fernandez, Pau Ricós, Andrea Baldo, Blanca Larraz, Carlos Lucas, Miguel Massa, Paloma Feng, Ricardo Candela
Interior design
Alfaro Hofmann
Civil engineer
Enrique Alario
Structural engineer
Windmill
Lighting
Foseados en falso techo. Luminaria lineal led. Sistema GLINT Enrique Ferer ligthing.
Tools used
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Construction
Arturo Coronado CORONADO VIANA
Material
Gypsum cardboard plate with a matte water-based enamel finish. White lacquered DM board paneling, Black marquina florín marble cladding, Smooth plasterboard plates, Matte water-based enamel. Pinturas Utival.
Typology
Residential › House
314 Architecture Studio unveils butterfly-shaped residential proposal in Athens, Greece. Settling within the seaside suburb of Vouliagmeni, in Athens, Greece, the new residential proposal by 314 Architecture Studio adopts the distinct shape of a butterfly. A series of organic curves form the unique dwelling complex, comprised of four different inde...
Project name
The Butterfly
Architecture firm
314 Architecture Studio
Location
Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Pavlos. Chatziangelidis, Giota Chala
Design team
Antonis Sarris, Caterina Palantzi, Eleni Zygogianni, Anna Stagaki, Dimitris Panagiotou, Andrianna Triantafyllopoulou, Eirini Bouliou, Dimitra Stergiou, Alexandros Papadopoulos, Iro Dermitzaki, Eleni Palaiologou
Collaborators
Structural engineer: Fotini karagianni. MEP engineering: Stefanos Karagiannis. Developer: VNK capital
Visualization
314 Architecture Studio
Status
Under construction
Typology
Residential, Private Residences