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.
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 .
Irish firm Architecture Republic designed this beautiful renovation on an residential house in Dublin, which consists of a cruciform constructed out of polycarbonate and steel that extends from the center of the building out into a jutting, second-level extension in the rear of the house. The original facade is preserved, while the interior is completely reworked to be a sleek, open-feeling, modern living space.
The house sits on a terraced site, whose split-section layout is native to the area: a large open space to the front, with smaller rooms to the rear at a half-level difference. The project began by leveling out the interior by extensive removal of the existing extension, internal walls and earth. the result was a more open, double-height volume.
Platforms were created for dressing, sleeping, studying, relaxing and reclining, while the “trunk” contains a service elements including kitchen, toilet, storage and stairs. The plastic elements become opaque or semi-transparent foils for natural daylight (from the sides as well as skylights), reflected light and artificial back-lighting. These same sheets also ‘wrap’ around to serve various functions as walls, floors and ceiling. Architecture Republic
Ceramic House in Madrid, is a make-over redesigned by Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez of an attic rooms into a new living space with a variety of levels. All parts of this interior are fully covered by ceramic. So the title of this house design is Ceramic House.
From Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez:
“As if the design would be a three-dimensional object, every one of the rooms or points of the home can be located by specifying the axis of coordinates. The result is the power to move around in few square meters at different heights, going up and down, offering a new experience of roominess in the context of a home: to explore the space. The transition between the rooms is continuous and lets the movement flow freely across the numerous levels. The spatial flexibility that transforms this home is an innovative housing concept which adapts itself to the actual necessities and to the new usages. Where roominess, brightness and time flow in a multifunctional space without corners or precedence. ”
Maximum Garden House was made by Formwerkz. The design maximizes the area for garden, that usually doesn’t have enough area to be built.
From the architects:
One questions the sense of “landed-ness” in a typically maxed-out envelope of a semi-detached typology. What is usually left over after the building footprint is no more than a slender planting strip on the ground. Hence, one prime motivation of this house was to seek out more garden spaces/surfaces in an attempt to redress this imbalance while we fulfill the client’s brief.
The Picturesque Landscape
The vertical wall planting set within a niche along the front boundary wall and the Burle Marx inspired shrubbery on the car-porch roof, reclaim surfaces otherwise normally neglected as canvasses for beautification.
The Planter Screen
Enclosing part of the building façade on the upper floor is a layer of planting system we devised to behave more like a curtain wall. Its primary function is to perform as a privacy screen and to keep the rain out. We were particularly thrilled with this detail as it approximates to an organic envelope. The curtain of plants coincides building performance with man’s affinity for nature.
The Sloping Roof
The sloping roof deck is derived from the staggered section of the house and retained a continuous flow from the indoor.
We were nostalgic with the idea of getting up on the roof, itself. The sloping roof-scape reminds us of an undulating terrain. We imagined the inclined plane to be more conducive to sit or lie down and have a conversation while looking out in the same direction, sharing the same moment, like one do in a park.
Studio Mumbai Architects have designed the Palmyra house in Nandgaon, Maharashtra, India.Constructed entirely from locally sourced and sustainably harvested palmyra, the home is sited on a working coconut plantation in the West Indian coastal town of Alibaug.
This two-storey timber house, built as a weekend retreat, lies in the shade of an extensive coconut grove on coastal agricultural land facing the sea, near the fishing village of Nandgaon, south of Mumbai. The functions of the house are placed within two oblong masses slightly offset from one another, whose facades are predominantly characterised by louvres made from the trunks of the local Palmyra palm. The structure is made of ain wood; local basalt was used to make boundary walls, plinths and paving.
Plaster finishes were pigmented with sand from the site. The development of the design and detail, which resulted from collaboration between the architect and the craftsmen, took on tested techniques, both local and foreign, and raised them to a finer construction resolution.
The French firm Karawitz Architecture have developed a passive house in Bessancourt, France.
The house is closed to the north to limit heat loss and opened to the south benefiting from free solar energy. aesthetically, it is an abstract replica of a traditional house.The second skin of the houses design is untreated bamboo which envelopes the frame in solid wood panels.
The cladding, which becomes grey over time, drew inspiration from traditional barns in the part of the Ile-de-France region where the house is situated. It passes in front of the windows to the north and finishes by unfolding on to the roof. Identical shutters are fitted on large bay windows to the south to provide shade and light in the house, during the day or at night.
Photovoltaic panels on the roof round off the program, producing 2695 kwh/yr in energy. the foundation slab is the only concrete element, the entire structure is created from the assembly oflarge solid wood panels, which have been prefabricated in a workshop.
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.
The Mahina house (the Maori name for Moon) designed by Weber Consulting in the shape of the crescent.
Mahina, Maori for moon that has been designed by Weber Consulting was originally slated to be placed on the relatively uninhabited Kawau Island, about 60km north of Auckland, New Zealand.
Promoted as “Bondesque”, The Mahina – Maori for moon – has been designed in a curved crescent shape with ceiling-to-floor glass and a modern, white interior design.
The house at Kawiti Point has a floor area of 827sq m and will feature a plant room, deck, swimming pool and “thermal mass” to regulate internal temperatures.
Director Warrick Weber said there has been some interest from overseas.
Kawau is home to a mere 450 properties and 70 residents, who mainly get around by boat.
There are no street lights and limited phone services. Residents knew little of the plans for Mahina, which has been around for about three years.
James & Mau Architecture have designed the Infiniski Manifesto House in Curacaví, Chile.The Manifesto house represents the Infiniski concept and its potential: bioclimatic design, recycled, reused materials, non polluting constructive systems, integration of renewable energy.
The project relies on a bioclimatic architecture adapting the form and positioning of the house to its energetic needs. The project is based on a prefabricated and modular design allowing a cheaper and faster constructive method. This modular system also allows thinking the coherence of the house with possible future modifications or enlargements in order to adapt easily to the evolving needs of the client.
The house, of 160m2 is divided in two levels and uses 3 recycled maritime containers as structure. A container cut in two parts on the first level is used as the support structure for the containers on the second level. This structure in the form a bridge creates an extra space in between the container structure, isolated with thermo glass panels. As a consequence with only 90m2 worth of container, the project generates a total 160m2, maximizing and reducing significantly the use of extra building materials. This structure in the form of a bridge, responds to the bioclimatic needs of the house- Form follows Energy – and offers an effective natural ventilation system. It also helps to take full advantage of the house´s natural surroundings, natural light and landscape views.
Like if it had a second skin, the house “dresses and undresses” itself, thanks to ventilated external solar covers on walls and roof, depending on its need for natural solar heating. The house uses two types of covers or “skin”: wooden panels coming from sustainable forests on one side and recycled mobile pallets on the other. The pallets can open themselves in winter to allow the sun to heat the metal surface of the container walls and close themselves in summer to protect the house from the heat. This skin also serves as an exterior esthetic finishing helping the house to better integrate in its environment.
Both exterior and interior use up to 85% of recycled, reused and eco-friendly materials: recycled cellulose and cork for insulation, recycled aluminum, iron and wood, noble wood coming from sustainable forests, ecological painting, eco-label ceramics. Thanks to its bioclimatic design and to the installation of alternative energy systems the house achieves 70% autonomy.
