Barcelona studio Arquitectura-G has revamped a country house with a “labyrinthine character” into a family home featuring a tile-covered kitchen, a spiral staircase and a secluded swimming pool. The house already featured a ground-floor patio, which can be directly accessed from a series of rooms. Another one was also created on the first floor, providing...
Hocker Farm With A Traditional Exterior And Minimalist Interior
Do you like striking contrasts? If you do, then this modern take on a traditional chalet will impress you by the contrast between indoors and outdoors. Donald Architecture completed the design of Hocker Farm, a charming stone cottage. Constrained in size by the original garage footprint, the challenge was creating the extra rooms within a...
1800s Rough Stone House Renovation
The original house of 1800s was built here, in Chamoson, Switzerland, and renovated by Savioz Fabrizzi Architecte into a completely modern space. The genuine rocky surface makes the project perfectly blend in the natural surroundings, that’s why the architects decided to leave as it is, just reinforce and emphasize it using concrete for the parts...
Sustainable House With Raw Stone Exterior
Camel Quarry House is built on the footprint of the burnt out ruin of the original house. The site features great views of natural landscape and blends with it very well thanks to the exterior done in raw stones combined with several wood inserts. Its form is simple – a rugged face reflecting the quarry...
Modern Forest House Finished With Stone – Bosvilla Soest by Zecc Architecten
Bosvilla Soest is designed by Zecc Architecten in the woods Soest, the Netherlands. It presents itself as the detached modern forest house with exterior done in the material that looks like the natural stone. There are also a lot of wood details that in combination with the stone anchor the house to the ground and...
Vernacular Dry Stone House at The Pyrenees
House at The Pyrenees is designed by Eduardo Cadaval and Clara Solà-Morales in a small village nested in the Pyrenees, Canejan, Catalonia, Spain. The vernacular dry stone house is a comfortable residence that have two units on a single envelope. It features amazing views over the valley, while an identical window located on the top...
A Single-Family House Overlooking Fields and Fyn Beech Forest
This beautiful single-family house is located on a hill overlooking fields and Fyn beech forest. Its consists of two composite boxes which are done in simple gray, custom-made stone. The side facing the fields and forest, characterized by large windows that invite natural light inside. On the other side windows in contrary are made very...
House with Four Courtyards – The Purchase Residence
This house is located in Westchester Country, New York, a forested landscape that has been highly developed with small cities, suburbs, highways and roads. The Purchase Residence is designed with four courtyards, which capture as many views as possible while not being overwhelmed by the noise of a near interstate highway. The four-courtyard scheme separated...
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...
House With Natural Wood And Stone Interior And Exterior
Litmus completely renovated this former home of an esteemed horticulturalist, preserving its original landscaping and relocating its main entrance. Visitors enter through a Torii gate, navigate over a stream and around a pond to the stone-terraced entry. As the entrance as the whole house’s interior are mostly done in natural wood and stone materials. Not...