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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The Maracanã House by Brazilian Terra e Tuma Arquitetos created this concrete, contemporary city house in São Paulo, Maracanã street. Huge block walls were composed around exterior and interior spaces, with a vibrant access mural, grayish materiality and clear glass surfaces.
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There are lots of crazy accommodations around the world. No matter if you’d like to take a nap in a treehouse, under the sea or in an igloo, everything is possible. Latest innovations are probably sleeping in the ‘Null Stern Hotel’, an old nuclear bunker that has been converted to a very modest hotel or the ‘Sleeping Around’ container, that is moving with you from town to town.
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The Wilkinson Residence by Oshatz Architects, located at the Pacific Northwest site, sits like a little nest among the trees. The exterior consist out of a series of horizontal layers of different wood and metal, while the walls are made of glass, to provide natural lighting on the interior and a beautiful view to the surrounding nature to watch the animals.
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The new Eco-Resort of Parque de Pedras Salgadas, Portugal, consists of a set of seven small houses in perfect harmony with the surrounding nature. Designed by Luís Rebelo de Andrade and Diogo Aguiar in a modular prefabrication system but flexible to adapt to the specific places within the park, these houses result in several different combinations of the same three modules
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Within JAIST Gallery (Japan Institute of Science and Technology), a gallery space to display Japan’s largest puzzle collection, Tatsu Matuda Architects and Rinno Architecutal office built a puzzle within a puzzle. They redesigned the gallery space using a special computer algorithm to fit 144 Penta Cubes into the room.
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The construction of the ‘Casa Box’ by Alan Chu Silveira e Cristiano Arns Kato Architectos followed a simple program. The aim was to renovate a caretaker’s house on an island on the North coast of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The two floor white suspended box sits 100 meters above sea level, surrounded by enormous rocks.
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Located in the South of Spain, close to the Mediterranean Sea, this small pavilion is surrounded by a remarkable landscape. The concept behind the ‘Non Program Pavilion’ designed by paris-based Spanish practice Jesús Torres García Architects subscribe to Oscar Niemeyer’s approach to design and ‘How to built a natural landscape’.
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In Littlehampton, UK, the ‘East Beach Café’ by Heatherwick Studio replaced a kiosk that sold chips, burgers and ice-cream. The narrow site, shaped like a forty meter-long cigarette, challenged the architects to give people a view of the sea, but at the same time shelter them.
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Surrounded by the artifacts of an industrial London, with fragments of bridges, viaducts and rail tracks, Undercurrent Architects created ‘Archway Studios’, a live-workspace built in and around a 19th century rail viaduct.
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