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- Edwardian Baker Street House in Australia by Marcus O’Reilly Architects
- Architecture Design of Villa Bussum in Netherlands by GROUP A
- Tower Chameleon House in Michigan by Anderson Anderson Architecture
| Edwardian Baker Street House in Australia by Marcus O’Reilly Architects Posted: 07 Apr 2013 05:07 PM PDT
The Baker Street House situated on a highly desirable street two blocks from the beach in the Melbourne suburb of St. Kilda Australia, designed by Marcus O'Reilly Architects. Due to the fact that the surrounding neighbourhood has various heritage requirements to keep the Edwardian street frontage intact Marcus O'Reilly Architects had to carefully insert this modern extension without negatively affecting the streetscape. While, the flat seam zincalume metal cladding applied to the rear is a distinctive and modern transition material from the timber siding of the original house, it also ties new and old together in relating to the corrugated roof of the original structure. A sun filled outdoor room to the north of the property was carved out and bi-fold doors were installed to ensure a seamless flow from indoors to outdoors. Small details yield little rewards to visitors as they explore the house such as dry masonry landscape walls, a lily pad infested reflecting pond, and finely designed and crafted joinery throughout. Large windows and double glazed skylights ensure bright sunlit spaces reducing the demand for grid-powered lighting. The large amount of glazing is regulated by sunscreening, seasonal vines, strategically planted deciduous trees, sunshades, retractable awnings and overhangs. Large bagged double brick walls to the south act as ballast to further regulate the regions characteristically large daily temperate shifts. The house does its part thanks to photovoltaic power-generating panels that sell excess green power back to the grid. – Marcus O'Reilly Architects
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| Architecture Design of Villa Bussum in Netherlands by GROUP A Posted: 07 Apr 2013 05:07 AM PDT
Located in a lush and cool near Amsterdam, GROUP A created beautiful house combine both of modern and scluptural called Villa Bussum. This house using slanting walls and roofs the abstract building volume feels comfortably embedded in the landscape. A cut-out corner facing the street in front of the house, clearly indicates the main entrance. On the eastern side of the villa, a secluded garden and a second entrance can be found. A comfortable porch and a 15 meter wide panorama window face the garden, and double up as a transition between the villa and the garden at the back of the house. Both gardens in front and at the back of the house are linked to each other by a sloping path. This descending path extends itself to underneath the cantilevering villa, thereby providing garden access for the basement floor. – Photos by Daria Scagliola & Stijn Brakkee
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| Tower Chameleon House in Michigan by Anderson Anderson Architecture Posted: 06 Apr 2013 05:07 PM PDT
Located with magnificent view of Lake Michigan, Anderson Anderson Architecture created single volume tower house with modern materials. The site is minimally disturbed, other than the mounding of two earthen enclosures adjacent to the tower, created from the excavated earth of the foundation and offering a ground to contrast the tower experience above the treescape. The tower is intended to reflect the austere, scaleless non-particularity of the occasional farm buildings dotted elsewhere on the hills. The building is wrapped in a skirting wall of recycled translucent polyethelene slats, standing two feet out from the galvanized sheet metal cladding of the wall surface on aluminum frames that serve also as window washing platforms and emergency exit ladders. The translucent polyethylene material set out over the dully reflective wall cladding is chosen for its ability to gather the light and color of its landscape, dissolving the finely shadowed and haloed structure into the seasonal color cycle of snow, ice and black twig tracery; pale pink blossom clouds; pollen green leaf and grass; golden straw and vivid foliage. The double skin creates a micro-climate and thermal differential around the structure creating a rippling mirage updraft that in the summer sends steaming condensation or in the winter drips melting icicles. Interior the home is very open and warm, using light wood panelling which covers the walls and ceilings. – Photos by Anthony Vizzari
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