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A house in California in the Toro Canyon collects the views of the sky Posted: 27 Aug 2011 01:04 AM PDT This wonderful view extremely has been brilliantly framed only concrete and glass and metal, photographed by the incredible always Ciro Coelho. The view of the architects Shubin and Donaldson made it’s sky is no limit on the Pacific Ocean and the materials (concrete, glass and metal) on the sky and the sea. The soft House close to the steep hills and cool metal roof will fire safety and energy efficiency. A careful, free of holes, and other Visual barriers to keep roofs ruin the purity of the lines of the opinion, approaching the House. The structure is built to the flames of the fire, because of the need to protect against the “very high fire zone” resist of California. Exquisite traders is in the elegant conclusion on the roof of the corrugated cardboard, balanced and harmonious metal glass and concrete. The client for this project is also an architect, active in collaboration for the project Shubin and Donaldson. The entry is almost like a store entrance of retail – Starfire glass bars for the exhibition entrance built from glass and metal installed. The public areas of life are the rooms private house on the right and left. The House was Paul Franz construction, a local contractor of the walls built with construction in concrete, working with the architects on previous projects have enjoyed. Behind the living room, the kitchen has a view of the same large Windows. Here is the thoughtful attention of the retailers in degree in the stainless steel surfaces. This room is by the view as a living room as stunned. The bed is on the right side. Access to the site, it is a long sequence of arrival as journey up to through the Canyon. One extravagant 7 500 square feet, the House is hardly green. But another way to green design consider themselves not as a replacement for other buildings and again and again. A simple concrete structure could last for centuries. A house in California in the Toro Canyon collects the views of the sky is a post from: Belle Interior

Al fresco design at Zephyros Villa, Cyprus. Posted: 26 Aug 2011 01:04 PM PDT Error in deserializing body of reply message for operation ‘Translate’. The maximum string content length quota (8192) has been exceeded while reading XML data. This quota may be increased by changing the MaxStringContentLength property on the XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas object used when creating the XML reader. Line 1, position 9011. Error in deserializing body of reply message for operation ‘Translate’. The maximum string content length quota (8192) has been exceeded while reading XML data. This quota may be increased by changing the MaxStringContentLength property on the XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas object used when creating the XML reader. Line 1, position 8981. Error in deserializing body of reply message for operation 'Translate'. The maximum string content length quota (8192) has been exceeded while reading XML data. This quota may be increased by changing the MaxStringContentLength property on the XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas object used when creating the XML reader. Line 1, position 8966. Via Homesresult comes the very sleek Zephyros Villa, designed by Koutsoftides Architects. Sited overlooking the ocean in Pomos, Cyprus, the home is almost entirely outdoors. Most of the defined "house" is just roof. Or not even that – the whole center of the house is just a frame that is completely open to the sky. The result is a house that feels much more expansive and grander than it really is. Just four boxes form rooms that anchor it in its four outer corners. On both sides of the central pool, the part of the roof over the outdoor living area is just a trellis. Cooled by the large expanse of the central pool, virtually right in the central outdoor living room, the house reduces its demand on energy by encouraging the movement of water-cooled breezes through the seating area. The roof trellis can be closed to provide shelter for rainy days, and a huge full length screen wall can be drawn across the opening. To the side of that open air living room, the sleek modern kitchen anchors one corner of the house. The kitchen and the dining room are the two rooms anchoring the front corners of the building overlooking the expanse of sea. Full size windows slide aside completely, entirely opening the kitchen and dining room to the sea air beyond. Beyond the dining room, the narrow end of the house opens up onto a further porch area, supplying a serene view of the ocean to the North. (The center of the house supplies further views to the ocean on the West.) The serene and timeless simplicity of the design echoes the vastness of the ocean beyond. The plan shows what a well organized space it is. Note how little of the space is conditioned space (shown in white). More than half of the house is open to the breezes, including the lavish storage for clothing at the back of the bedrooms. Between the the master bedroom and the guest bedroom at the back of the house is a hot pool completing the central pool that cools the house. Over sized doors to the bedrooms slide into the wall, just like the exterior screen wall does. This house was originally envisioned as a holiday house, but partway through the design process, the clients decided to simply move in permanently. Even with their change in plans, they did not want to alter the architectural plans. Not surprising! Why save vistas like this for vacations! The super simple modular design is just void – box – void – box.  This view from outside shows that the villa is a smaller house than it seems inside. You can see why the clients kept the design the same, even once they decided to make it their full time residence. It is a flexible design, not only suitable for a vacation house. All living in Cyprus is essentially outdoor living, and breathtaking beauty is not just for vacationers. Al fresco design at Zephyros Villa, Cyprus. is a post from: Belle Interior

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