House of the Week 175: Tellico Cabin

Photography (c) Sara Dario and Harlan Hambright

Located along the Tellico Plains, Tennessee is a cabin designed Hefferlin + Kronenberg Architects. The site has fond memories for the client and the banks of the river and the adjoining valley holds historical significance to the Cherokee nation. The cabin with it's standing seams gabled roofs has walls clad in stone and dark stained cedar and a landscape of plants and vegetation indigenous to the Tellico plains. Inside heavy timbers support the steeply pitched roofs of the cabin that provide sleeping lofts for the guest beds in the raised volume.

House of the Week 174: The pool Shophouse

The pool shophouse in Singapore was designed by multi-disciplinary practice FARM and KD architects. The monolithic lap pool was inserted into the existing shophouse and guides the viewer from the front to the rear of the building. The additional parts of the house hover over the pool and are bathed in natural daylight from the roof.

House of the Week 173: Real del Mar house

Designed by based architects Garcia Studio, Real del Mar is located on a triangular site in a seaside development in Tijuana, Mexico. Walls of sliding glass blur the inside from the outside whilst the rendered concrete walls conceal views helping to create a narrative for the living areas to embrace the landscape and vistas of the Pacific Ocean beyond.

House of the Week 172: Cocoon House

In a sense this is an anti-social building. It makes no attempt to blend to blend with it's environment [...] the intent was to demonstrate that harmony between the work of nature and the work of man can be brought about by clearly differentiating between the two

Paul Rudolph

The two bedroom, one bathroom cottage designed by Paul Rudoulph for a client H. R. Healy in 1950 sits on the edge of the river banks of Siesta Key in Sarasota. The concave roof was designed to drain rainwater and was constructed using a built-up spray-on process typical of cocooning disused US naval ships.

House of the Week 171: Zero Cottage

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The Zero cottage is an 1,150 ft^s free-standing extension composed of a workshop with living spaces set over it. The living space includes a two-bedroom flat, studio apartment and storefront space. Designed by David Baker and Partners, Zero Cottage presented an opportunity to explore advanced sustainable design, construction techniques, materials and technologies, with a goal of achieving Passive House and Net-Zero Energy certification - the first of its kind in San Francisco.

House of the Week 170: Casa GR

Photos: Leonardo Finotti

Designed by Brazilian practice Bernardes + Jacobsen Architecture, Casa GR sits on a near 600m² suburban lot in São Sebastião. The bedroom spaces, located on the upper levels float above in a white framed metal box, shielded from the tropical heat with vertical timber screens. The living and kitchen areas open to the lush landscape at times with double height spaces to engage with the family areas above.

House of the Week 169: House Gepo

images (c) Tom Janssens

From the untethered landscape of the rear garden, House Gepo appears as a floating concrete box. The openness of the glass clad communal level integrates the interior of the ground floor with the site. Designed by Open Y Office, the material use inside serves to divide the spaces into private and public areas, whilst on the exterior softens an otherwise industrial aesthetic of steel, concrete and glass.

House of the Week 168: Serengeti House

(c)Nico van der Meulen Architects

This contemporary tropical house, designed Nico van der Meulen Architects sits on the periphery of a popular golf course in Johannesburg, South Africa. Conceived for a family seeking modern amenities, the building interior tempers natural elements of rock and wood, against man-made materials of glass and steel.

House of the Week 167: Temple Hill Residence

Temple Hills Residence is a two-story house located on a 5,000 ft² site in Laguna Beach, California. Designed by Schola Architecture Studio, the contemporary house is a renovation of an older hillside home built in the 1940s. The final product utilizes renewable building materials and sustainable design practice and the interiors are airy with a vibrant mix of materials.

House of the Week 166: La Tumbona

Designed by the late Argentine architect Clorindo Testa in the late 80s, La Tumbona is located on the beaches of Ostende, Argentina. The distinct cubic forms of the house appear as a tumble of red concrete boxes dancing over the dunes. The proximity to the sea allow in high tides the waves to wash underneath the home.

House of the Week 165: House on the Bluff

images (c) Yasuhiro Nukamura

This office and residence for a family of four is located on a urban site in Yokohama, Japan. Designed by architect Edward Suzuki, the interiors are finished in bleached timber with off-white walls and black trim. The double height office and library whilst meant for work, doubles as a small concert space.

House of the Week 164: S House

(c) Patrick Reynolds

The S House in Mount Eden, New Zealand was designed for a family of five by architects Glamuzina Paterson. The house derives its name from the fluid and winding circulation that divides the long, thin site into two gardens to the east and west of the lot. The perimeter of the home is finished in stained cedar in contrast to the black oxide concrete through the floors of the interior. The lush gardens compliment the palette of materials in a landscape composition of reeds, waterways and rocks.

House of the Week 163: Northcote House

The Northcote house designed by Robert Simeoni, sits on a tree-lined cul-de-sac lot in Melbourne, Australia. The house marries attractive natural elements with modern details to create a tropical contemporary home that echoes the adjacent Rubie Thomson Nature Reserve. Double height voids in the architecture invite the environs in the living and dining areas whilst the bedrooms and office remain private and secluded.

House of the Week 162: Maracanã House

The Maracanã House in São Paulo, Brazil was designed by Danilo Earth of Brazilian practice Earth and Tuma Arquitectos Asociados. The rough bare appearance at the entry is translated to the spartan interior of exposed concrete blockwork and flooring. The open plan living areas unfold to lush walled gardens, attempting to find balance with the natural and man-made surroundings.