Interiors : 2B Loft Apartment

Architects studio 2B Group has recently completed, this now 4,000 ft² two bedroom, two bathroom penthouse located in Kiev, Ukraine. The clients, a young man with a 7 year old child wanted only eco-friendly materials and an open plan where possible. The material palette includes fair faced concrete, sawn heat pine, masonry bricks and a 20 ft shipping container.

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House of the Week 142: Corallo House

(c)Paz Architects

The Corallo House in Santa Rosalia, Guatemala city, Guatemala designed by Paz Architects is a three level concrete residence completed in 2011. Located in a dense hillside forest the penetrates the home, merging nature into the daily activities of the users. The glass façades reinforce the connection to the landscape. The main structural element is fair-faced concrete that bears the texture of the formwork, creating a dialogue between the man-made and the natural.

New Work : Ten Bangkok

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Designed by CASE Studio (Community Architects for Shelter & Environment) the group takes a humanitarian and anthropological approach to creating appropriate housing in informal settlements. The projects undertaken by this collective often involve community members as participants in the process of improving their shelter and environment from community surveying to group meetings and workshops. This alternative housing option for the middle class, features 10 units for a variety of persons including some of the architects. The volumes are staggered, interspersed with gardens and courtyards creating common spaces for physical and visual respite and blurring public/private boundaries. The process, as well as the aesthetic has conjured a community identity and a relationship between dwelling and context - the result is an architecture that is the fruit of cooperative design where the architects are also the clients; the clients are also the architects

house of the week 69: Concrete Studio

This week's House of the Week is an unabashed residence tucked into a landscaped hillside by Texas based Mell Lawrence architects. The in-situ formed concrete surfaces recall stacked blocks whilst edges of the building are sliced off to create apertures for light and access.

House of the Week 052: Uccle 2003

Designed by Belgian architect Marc Corbiau the sleek fair faced concrete house sits partially submerged on a rolling green, revealing an elegant composition on the interior.

also check out this proposal for an Instant house by H3AR

House of the Week 020: Azuma house

On a tight 57 sqm lot, Tadao Ando has placed a simple concrete row house that wraps around a central courtyard that draws air, light (& rain) to the adjacent spaces - a modern twist to an otherwise traditional Japanese vocabulary.

one day at Azuma house

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