This angular rural house in Greece by Athens studio Tense Architecture Network has over half of its concrete body buried beneath the ground. ‘House in Sikamino’ has a 60-metre-long and narrow shape with angular edges that thrust out into the sloping topography, creating a partially submerged upper floor and a completely buried lower level.
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The Metropol Parasol by architectural studio Jürgen Mayer H. covers the Plaza de la Encarnación in Seville since 2011. The aim was to built an identity-establishing construction that would combine modern architectural structures with traditional Gothic building forms.
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Charles Wright Architects built The Stamp House with the goal of creating a self-sustaining structure that made good use of the surrounding wetland at the building site. Constructed on a small patch of land in the middle of a pond, much of the Stamp House is comprised of a mixture of new and used concrete, which provides insulation to keep the temperature more constant throughout the year.
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The French Ministry of Culture started a collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, planing a mobile museum. The moving museum will show fourteen exhibits from the Centre Pompidou, hosted at seven different locations in France. The project aims to bring art and culture to areas and cities that usually have a rather low access to those kind of pleasures.
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Studio Weave created the Lullaby Factory – a secret world that cannot be seen except from inside the surrounding hospital and cannot be heard by the naked ear, only by tuning in to its radio frequency or from a few special listening pipes.
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The Rieteiland House was designed by architect Hans van Heeswijk for his family. In fact, the attractive plot of land is part of a newly established island on the outskirts of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It asked for a house that is completely orientated on the panoramic views to the park and the landscape.
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‘Pedra Líquida’ created the ‘Casa do Conto’, located in Portugal. The task was to build a new design hotel, restoring a beautiful XIX Century Oporto House. The new project uses traditional surfaces – crossed wood patterns, corrugated steel plates and curved plywood panels – as a ‘mould’ for the new concrete walls at the central staircase, at the back facade, at the cubic bathrooms inside every suite and at the oval-shaped central skylight.
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‘Feldman Architects’ added some accessory structures to an existing building, creating the ‘Mill Valley Cabins’. They created an artist studio and a yoga space which also serves as a private guest cabin. The program was divided into two small cabins which could be placed lightly between existing trees with minimal re-grading.
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In the Flemish farmlands, on a parcel fringed with pollard willows and surrounded by swamps, a pond and shrubbery, a typical north – south oriented farmhouse, built by ‘Wim Goes Architectuur’ is situated. The refuge is made of wood. The wood forms a patina, maturing with time to find its beauty. An inner space can be protected from winds, temperature and sound by sliding doors.
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Developed by Berry Chen Architects, the ‘Edgeland House’ is is a modern re‐interpretation of one of the oldest housing typologies in North America, the Pit House. Typically sunken, it takes advantage of the earth’s mass to maintain thermal comfort throughout the year. It’s gaining benefits from the earth’s mass to help it stay cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
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