Villa Drusch, designed by Claude Parent, famous French modernist is built in 1963 for local industrialist Gaston Drusch. It implements architect’s “theory of oblique architecture” because looks like the home turned on its side. Simple rectangular concrete box become very original living space with tricky angles and open spaces. Outdoor lap pool is placed to...
House on Floating Land – HYE RO HUN by IROJE KIMHYOMAN
This site is located in borderline between city and mountain. Urban landscape and mountains views could be seen all together. The house entrance is a big transparent gate door with attached to it inner court. Two wooden boxes which are consisted of duplex room are laid on landscaped architectural mass which contain living room and...
Architect’s House Surrounded by Untouched Nature
Freelon Group mostly specialize in public projects although one of their architects, Michael A. Rantilla, builded his private residence in Raleigh, North Carolina. The three store house was designed to response to certain site obstructions, like zoning setbacks, a stream buffer and a steep slope. Each floor made of different material and placed at right...
Letterbox House
Letterbox house isn’t first experimental house design by McBride Charles Ryan architects. They are one of extraordinary Australian teams which always could surprise people with interesting house shapes and interior designs. Letterbox house is constructed on 290 sqm area with anything but flat landscape. House exterior looks like it has been turned inside out. That...
McBride’s Experimental House Design in Hawthorn
McBride Charles Ryan is Australian house design company which mostly specialize in experimental designs. Their other project, Klein Bottle House was mathematics experiment when this house is a try to create sphere shaped house without unnecessary parts. By selectively removing parts of the sphere, there is the sense internally of being in and surrounded by...
Klein Bottle Holiday House by Rob McBride
The winner of the 2008 Australian Institute of Architects Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture, the Klein Bottle House is a holiday house located on the Mornington Peninsula. The place is approximately an hour’s drive from Melbourne. The unusual home design is generated from a mathematical model. The “Klein Bottle” in mathematics is a non-orientable...