Hillside House With Creative Terracing and A Small Lap Pool

Villacasa residence in Mt. Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles is designed by Space International architecture studio. It’s located on the hillside site that allows to make the most from its compact size with creative terracing and mixing indoors and outdoors. A small lap pool located on the downslope end of the lot doubles as a retaining wall and...Continue Reading...

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House on the Hill Linked to the Landscape – Krater House

The house is situated on the top of a hill on Antiparos, in the Cycladic islands, Greece. There was a lot of challenges in designing it related to its position. First of all there was a need to protect living areas from strong winds of the Aegean Sea and to hide them from the settlement at the foot of the hill. That’s why part of the house was dug...Continue Reading...

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House with Clever Books Storage

Kitchel residence is designed by BOORA Architects and located in Northwest Portland, Oregon. It’s placed on the hills and surrounded by environmentally sensitive forest. The house’s boomerang shape and folded geometry aligns with the topography which produces a dynamic special quality and admits daylight. While designing the house the goal was...Continue Reading...

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Contemporary Wooden House on the Hill with Outstanding Staircase

Villa Holmenkollen is builded on the hill near the Oslo, Norway. The house has total area of 370 square meters including garage and is designed by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter. It has quite simple rectangular shape and made of wooden panels and large floor-to-ceiling windows. Such shapes and materials make the house design contemporary and in the same time...Continue Reading...

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9 Points House – Steel House on Problematic Site

The 9 point house by ITN architects is situated on a beautiful but problematic site on the south side of the dandenong ranges. The 4 acre site was one of the last in the forested hills available for residential development. It was very hard to access, not to say to build anything there. The house was built on the top of the site to catch spectacular views...Continue Reading...

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