Bel Air House / DARX Studio

This project was developed on a flag shaped hillside lot in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. The orientation of the site is within a canyon where the sun rises from above a steep hill behind the flat building pad. The favorable views from this lot are on the opposite side of the suns path, looking downhill towards the neighborhood canyon. The design challenge was to orient the building towards the view, while allowing sunlight to illuminate the core of the building from the opposite direction. In addition, the local municipality has an overlay zoning regulation which limits the use of skylights and prohibits single level flat roofs, requiring an additional secondary flat roof which must cover at least 30% of the total roof area.

NZ House / Aguirre Arquitetura

Located in a gated community in the city of Uberlândia-MG, the NZ house was designed for a family that enjoys receiving friends and family. To that end, the house's U-shaped layout allows for well-defined sectoring on a single floor, making the leisure and living spaces the focal point of the house's dynamics.

Six Frames House / Lukas Lenherr Architektur

In an existing barn from around 1850, a new, extremely thin wooden structure is installed. The six spruce frames support the existing wooden structure during the construction phase and remain visible later to define the spaces. Vertical and horizontal panels stabilize the wooden structure and generate the rooms and their sequences with their various openings. Through the three floors, these niches are now openly connected and generate a single large living space from the ground floor to the roof.

A Modest House in ‘Pol’ Neighborhood / inpractice

Homes are often described as beautiful, comfortable, or even luxurious, but when the aim is to achieve comfort in compact spaces that is when it can be described as clever. Passing through the narrow galis (narrow streets), with rather traditional-looking homes, one observes the people who live here. They are chatting on the otla, an outdoor sitting slab, and on many occasions, one can see the hustle of everyday life in these homes from the street. This neighborhood in Ahmedabad has all aspects of a traditional pol but is quickly changing with time while being rooted in ideas of community living and the interaction of homes with the street. These continue to be the binding thread in its urban fabric.

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