De Blas House is placed at the crest of a north faced hill with views to the mountains near Madrid. The house consists of concrete box build as a platform with a transparent glass box roofed by delicate and light steel structure painted in white on it. The poured-in-place concrete box like a cave houses the living areas of a traditional house separated for...Continue Reading... { 1 comment }
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The concept of this home is strongly influenced by the lifestyle of the client, a person who is engaged in the field of art and creativity. He wanted to live in open space without division between his private and professional lives. The house has modern design and mostly made of cooper and concrete. Using of cooper in house building become more and more...Continue Reading... { 2 comments }
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This minimalist house is set above a vineyard in the Yarra Valley north-east of Melbourne. It’s designed by Denton Corker Marshall and consist of two thin rectangular plates which are supported by a series of parallel black concrete walls set at right angles to them and by the hillside. Full height glazing laid longitudinally between the plates. Each...Continue Reading... { 0 comments }
Villa Astrid is another beautiful work by Wingardhs design studio on dramatic West Swedish landscape. The crucial parameter for the design of Villa Astrid was dictated by the local building code, which stipulates a 3.5-metre eaves height and a roof pitch between 14 and 27 degrees. This effectively reduces the size of the villa as seen from the street where...Continue Reading... { 8 comments }
Concrete is quite popular material in building multi-residental and block houses but isn’t the most popular in building private houses. Although this 2,204 sq. m. house almost whole made of concrete. It also set into the hillside because of problematic landscape of the site. In spite of that the house’s front capture awesome river views and...Continue Reading... { 3 comments }
The Hall House was designed for a couple without a child in Shiga, Japan which wanted to have enough space for spare time activities on a small site. The house has parking lot, billiard-theater, dining-kitchen and bedroom with bathroom which all are contained in one hall changing their heights according to the slope of the front road. The frame made of...Continue Reading... { 1 comment }
Stevens Lawson, a New Zeland architect, made a nice contribution to inner Auckland suburb of Herne Bay’s neighbor by creating this house. The house is for a single family and its main contribution to the street where it’s situated is its sculptural facade made of cast concrete. The facade has quite unusual shape and hide private spaces behind...Continue Reading... { 0 comments }
At first this 350 sq.m. house was build with concrete method. It’s situated in quite place between trees with one wall exposed to the world. Walls, floors and columns together form concrete shell. The front door is a electronic sliding door with movement sensor. The house hides two basement floors thanks for using concrete technologies. Kitchen and...Continue Reading... { 0 comments }