modern rural house

Design studio arba was commissioned to design this timber dwelling in Thomery, France, the architects, rather than tear down the walls, decided to respect them and build a new building around them, giving birth to the name of this project – ‘the house between the walls’. Despite retaining the existing wall, the architects have inserted... 

In the heart of the village of Malveira da Serra, at the base of Serra de Sintra, in Portugal, architect Pedro Quintela has transformed an old rural residence into the ’embracing house’. Found in ruins, the confined U-shaped house with the small patio used for agricultural purposes, aroused an intimate call within the designer, who...