Sky House | MIA Design Studio

Sky House is a residence designed by the architectural firm MIA Design Studio that connects people and nature through layers. These layers become the main subject of the house, where parents and children can see each other from every room. In combination with our desire is the personality of the owner who loves and enjoys inner-peace and calmness. Therefore, the design team was determined to have a clear idea for the architectural plan, which could promote a deep horizontal and vertical connection between human to human and human to nature in this house.

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THE COCOON HOUSE – Refurbishment | Landmak Architecture

THE COCOON HOUSE – Refurbishment, designed by Landmak Architecture, is reborn, with a new form with an addition of a floor and mezzanine. The advantage of the place is the space at the front and the back of the house, with more nature approaching like garden. The old balconies at both end of the house is skinned with ventilation brick block, inside this skin is the green space for rain, wind and sunlight to shine through.

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Kodikara House | Lalith Gunadasa Architects

Kodikara House, designed by the architectural firm Lalith Gunadasa, achieves the client’s demand and responds to the site and context. Straight and pure lines, simple forms, wide opening views and huge volumes with lots of natural light characterize this urban house for a young couple with busy lifestyle. The design was conceptualized to a thoughtful puzzle of internal rooms and outdoor gardens that together create the illusion of endless spaces on what is, in reality, in a 14 perch urban plot.

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Shenzhen Terraces | MVRDV

Shenzhen Terraces, designed by MVRDV, is a mixed-use project with sustainability as a focus acting as a new three-dimensional urban living room with more than 20 programs, including a small gallery, library, and outdoor theatre. MVRDV’s Shenzhen Terraces aims to bring vitality and innovation to the area through a seamless integration of landscape, leisure, commerce, and culture. The central concept of Shenzhen Terraces is to merge the existing landscape with the new development by using stacked plateaus for its various buildings.

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Meditation Space for Creation | Jun Murata | JAM

Meditation space for creation, designed by the design studio Jun Murata | JAM, guests are prompted with various light experiences. The designer inserted a white container. A short container, referred to as “closed space”, is connected to the outside of the container used as a guest room.Seasonal scenery ends from the rectangular opening in the east and west. Additionally, natural phenomena that change every moment bring changes inside.

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LT Houses | Michel Macedo Arquitetos

LT Houses, designed by Michel Macedo Arquitetos, is inserted in a growing urban area where the buildings designs are predominantly repeated. The sloping corner allows vehicles to access by private circulation, releasing the main facade for pedestrian access. The post-tensioned structure allows flexible plants, generating possibilities for different arrangements and fulfilling the needs of the market and the families who live there.

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Vikarna Basement | Studio 4000

Vikarna basement, designed by Studio 4000, is a relocation of an architectural studio to the basement by enhancing its experience. The brief also had scope for exploring possible additional uses and values to the marginal spaces of the plot and give expression to the idea of living & working from the same place to the common users. Considering this, the design intervention began by setting aside specific functional requirements to start with; instead an attempt was made to work outwards at general qualities – sky-visibility, natural ventilation, daylight factors – and placeness.

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Can Tho House | Landmak Architecture

Can Tho House, designed by Landmak Architecture, blends two different cultures with indigenous culture imbued with sophistication. The house has four façades creating spaces sandwiched between wells of light, giving different emotions when standing under it. The feeling between inside and outside was completely reversed. This solution design immerses humans in nature, touching the plants and flowers in any public space, even when walking on the small bridge.

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The Northstar School | Shanmugam Associates

The Northstar School, designed by Shanmugam Associates, intends to find ways to learn with nature and inspire from Gujarat’s stepped wells. Open-ended corridors, building orientation and future development were factored into the overall planning. The design foundations at Northstar lie on ideologies of exploring contemporary design with local material, using regional references to define built form and finding simplistic solutions for complex design problems.

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Shanmugam Associates

Shanmugam Associates (SA) is a professionally managed architecture and design firm pioneered in southern Tamil Nadu, India. SA has its growth laid on a strong foundation. The architecture is simple, rational, powerful, experimental, and pragmatic. The essence is to deliver minimal and timeless solutions taking into consideration nature’s sensitivity, economic barriers, and client’s requirements. Immense focus has always given to sustainability and sensitivity to nature in SA.

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Graha Lakon | Andyrahman Architect

Graha Lakon, designed AndyRahman Architects, is a residence with dialogue between Harmony and Contrary as the aim. Since the beginning, the client collects ethnic wood material which he dreams to use it as architectural element of his building. therefore, it becomes element for one area of the façade of the building. There is interesting dialectic between the old-fashioned and the contemporary in this design where the old-fashioned furnitures  were arranged inside interior design with contemporary impression.

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Eagle’s Nest | Ian Bennett Design Studio

Eagle’s Nest, designed by Ian Bennette Design Studio, aspires to balance and curate the experience of outlook and expansiveness of site, with privacy and seclusion. The restrained material palette heightens this experience of site, landscape and built form along with the changing dynamic of light and shade. Capturing views whilst maintaining privacy was of paramount importance for a site flanked with pubic land and fronted with both a busy pedestrian walkway and vehicular thoroughfare.

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Ian Bennette Design Studio

Ian Bennett Design Studio is a multi-disciplinary design studio specializing in high-end residential design characterized by bold, low maintenance, robust + above all else, pure built forms that are highly considered internally + externally. The Studio is a full-service practice taking projects from inception to construction completion.

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Homefood | Landmak Architecture

Homefood, designed by Landmak Architecture, restored Vietnamese farmers’ purely natural and traditional farming methods. The work was completed with a combination of additional architectural elements and those renovated from one front part of the old building. The restaurant is designed and built out of local and traditional tropical materials. Such architectural and construction methods and materials aim at creating spaces filled with Light and Emotion.

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The Cube House | Reasoning Instincts Architecture Studio – RIAS

Cube House, designed by the architectural firm Reasoning Instincts Architecture Studio, is a multi-generation residence. The house is conceived and manifested as a blend of modern aspirations of traditional values of its inhabitants. Situated within a dense urban fabric of a residential colony, the site demanded careful consideration of the house massing to maintain its privacy and openness.The physical from of the house as its name suggests is conglomerated and articulated within a single cubic volume leaving one third of the land open for landscaping. Its components also adhere to this inherent geometry at various scales while following disciplines of climatic design.

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