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| Sustainable Syncline House in Colorado by Arch11 Posted: 17 May 2013 05:09 AM PDT
The Syncline House project was conceived as a threshold between the city and the mountain park in Colorado. The house is designed by Arch11 to be self sustained utilizing a ground loop heat exchange system that taps into the very bedrock seen at the distant ridge. Structural steel frame is used in place of traditional stick framing throughout the home. The western facade was challenged by height and wind exposure. The thickened wall is a steel brace frame that incorporates vertical vierendeel trusses to resist the 120 mile per hour winds coming down out of the mountains. Additionally, it accommodates the primary vertical mechanical chases.
The western wall phenomenally erodes, revealing the landscape with varying degrees of openness. At the entry, framed apertures provide controlled vignettes of the landscape from foreground meadow to high ground cliffs. As the entry opens to the living spaces the apertures transform in scale to reveal the expansive landscape in its entirety. At the southwest corner thirty feet of glass retracts into the walls, dissolving the boundary between the domestic and the wild; the living spaces are then bounded only by the uplifted cliffs beyond. A simple stair cantilevers from the stone wall. Climbing the stairs, the foreground, mid range, and ridge views are sequentially revealed. Experientially scissoring into the landscape and back into the house the stairs connect the mountain park with the house. The west wall of glazing extends the western room boundaries to the wall of rock and meadows beyond. The east wall remains closed, allowing only privileged, controlled views and light from the clerestory above. [Arch11] The post Sustainable Syncline House in Colorado by Arch11 appeared first on Home & House Design Ideas | Interior. |
| Luxurious Grand Hotel Domine Bilbao Interior by Javier Mariscal Posted: 16 May 2013 05:07 PM PDT
Situated near the Guggenheim Museum, The Grand Hotel Domine Bilbao have warm atmosphere with luxurious interior design. The first five-star hotel of the Silken Hotel chain and it surely is their pride. This hotel expresses a contemporary and cutting edge concept that avoids ostentation and promotes lot of fun and frolic activities. The project is infected by its neighbor, the Guggenheim's, activity and offers a space that contains a selection of furniture that represents the most beautiful and aspiring designs from the 20th century. Its singularity consists in the application of a concept of integral design, of great, formal coherence, carried out by Javier Mariscal and Fernando Salas with their respective teams. – [Javier Mariscal]
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