Push Button House created by Adam kalkinarchitect is shipping container that opens up into an entire house. The Push Button House starts as a shipping container until a button is pushed, and it turns into a house. Motorized walls unfold like a flower, revealing a fully functional house, complete with refined, understated furnishings.
The open structure contains six rooms spread across the container’s floor and walls. On one wall there is a double bed and bathroom complete with a full size bathtub. in the middle, there is a kitchenette and dinning table complete with a chandelier overhead. To complete the home, the doors of the container are lined with a library full of books. on the other wall there is a living area with a sofa and side tables.The home demonstrates how the technologies of wider industry can be used to create dynamic architectural conceits.
Lars Frank Nielsen architect t and founder of the Danish practice ONE N Design has created this modular architectural system for the Swedish company Add-A-Room. The houses can be ordered in different modules with specific functions and be composed according to the user’s requirements. They are prefabricated in Sweden in collaboration with mainly Scandinavian companies and with the use of local materials.
The sumptuous and sophisticated conversion of a former dairy by the architect Charlotte Skene-Catling. The Dairy House is located in England between Bruton and Castle Cary.The engaging design and carefully considered detailing of the property is of a quality rarely matched in the UK – black Indian marble, for instance, is used throughout the kitchen, and alternating strips of estate oak and opaque glass form the newly-added annex.
The house has approximately 2,030 sq ft of internal space, which includes five bedrooms, a large kitchen, a large reception room with an open fireplace, a study area and, outside the property, a bathing pool. There is a generously sized garden that overlooks the rural landscape of Somerset.
The extension houses two bathrooms; everything behind the retaining wall can be flooded with water. Layered oak and laminated float glass produce an eerie, filtered light. The materializing effect of refraction and reflection create an aquatic underworld. The way the light moves around the house over the course of the day draws the user through it.
The property was originally built as a cheesemakers cottage in 1901. The conversion, completed in 2006, involved demolishing every partition within the original structure and creating a series of rooms within the stone shell. Added to the back of the original cottage is a beautiful oak and glass annex. The conversion and additions were conceived by Charlotte Skene-Catling of SCDLP .
Auto Residence has been designed by the architect Markus Voglreiter. This auto residence is located in Gnigl near Salzburg, Austria and the surrounding areas make it look even more beautiful. Transforming the structure of the house into a car was a big challenge as it was originally a 70’s style house and then the architect also had to come up with two separate dwellings to incorporate two generations of a family. Add to this the fact, that the auto residence was laden with eco-lighting solutions as well.
The architect came up with this idea after noticing the potential a 70′s style house had to offer and completely turned it around. It may look small, but this compact house doesn’t lack any of the comfort that comes with a common looking residence. Moreover, the project features sustainable technologies and energy saving systems. Markus Voglreiter
This contemporary house in Albert Park, Australia resembles like a traditional Victorian cottage from the outside and invites guests into its cool and clean minimalist interiors, and an ultra-modern addition at the rear. George Residence, designed by architect Matt Gibson, sits on a narrow plot. This is what gives the house its unique character. The home is built surrounding two central courtyards with three building components. A wooden deck offers an uninterrupted runway leading through the home’s elongated layout, creating continuity between the indoor and outdoor living spaces. Matt Gibson
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The L41 home, designed by Architect Michael Katz and Artist Janet Corne is a 220 sq. ft, small, energy efficient, and sacrifices nothing but extraneous space. L41 can be stacked and is available in other sizes, including a 290-square-foot, one-bedroom model and a 360-square-foot, two-bedroom model.
The Tyee looked into pricing and learned the ultimate goal is to have these produced in bulk for about $50,000 each, fully equipped. Green elements include triple-glazed windows, energy efficient appliances, LED lighting, solar heating, heat recovery, and a plush green roof.
This curios house located in Bilzen, a small city in the north-east of Belgium is the first building designed by the Egypt born and Brussels based architect Bassam El-Okeily. Its wide glass front fills the building’s modest width of only 5,30 m and stages the cubistic interior – the dramatic colourful light concept does the rest.
“The house has a closed ground floor exterior ( topped by a total transparency in glass. The display window reveals two balconies in skewed positions projection from a white façade.
The lower balcony contains a reading corner for a library belonging to the gentleman of the house, while providing him with a sheltered view of the street. The upper balcony accommodates an artist’s studio, the private domain of his wife. Blue light turn the façade into a spectacular light sculpture after dark. it’s a narrow house in a narrow street, which offers the tale of a man , a woman and their passion.
Architecture become a pretext to chair something else than the sidewalk. A house is a space to live; it could also be a place to remain.”
Puff-Buff is a studio design created in Poland in 2003 by designer Anna Siedlecka and architect Radek Achramowicz. They are known for their transparent hi-gloss inflatable PVC lamps illuminated by LED. The lightings have a polished stainless steel construction, which adds up the beauty of the lamp making it a perfect part of any contemporary homes’ interior design.
“The company synthesizes the best of architecture with both industrial and interior design or, as Puff-Buff says: “working across various scales and materials, the studio has created objects and environmental projects with focus on flexibility, transparency and new technologies, but always connected with pleasure and delight”.
New Yorker architects from Axis Mundi created this sustainable citadel in the Montana plains called Ark House. They filled the request to design a home for a 100 acre site in Madison Valley, that feels contemporary while still related to the ancient landscape.
The Ark House has a very provocative residential design, including a 4,800 sq ft deck and 5400 sq ft three story interior. As you enter, a vast covered space like an open barn leads you to a staircase and then a bridge crossing over a pond. After what, the living space comes into view.
Residents must cross to the main house in the other end of the long narrow building, either by ascending to a platform out over both sides of the house or via a bridge passing over a three-storey atrium below.
Living areas and bedrooms in the four-storey home each look out over the mountainside at one end, and into the atrium at the other. Architect also conceived the house with a near zero energy profile with a high performance envelope, a ground source heat pump and solar electric panels built into the roof system.
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Underground House, designed by EM2N architect, located in Greifensee, Switzerland.
Haus Gross in Greifensee, Switzerland, looks like a typical house by all accounts. But this modern and inventive design proves that looks can be deceiving. This understated, low-profile house holds a buried treasure in the form of an underground living space. The 721-sq.-ft. sub-grade home addition includes two sunken open-air courtyards leading into the three children’s bedrooms, a bathroom and a state-of-the-art home theater for private film screenings. A two-storey glazed façade lets light flood every corner, above ground and below.
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