lau707Design

archatlas:

A Bridge House Over a Pond

Newberg Residence by Cutler Anderson Architect is single-family 1,440 square foot residence and 550 sf guest house designed to broaden the owners’ already strong emotional connection to the living world.  The site was an overgrown, man-made pond in an area of the owners’ farm that was not conducive to cultivation. 

The design attempts to make the pond and residence a single entity in which the owners can enjoy and connect with the wild creatures that come to the water on both regular and varied schedules.  To this end, the building was placed as a bridge across the north end of the pond.  The pond itself was enlarged and loosely ordered to integrate with the structure of the residence.

(Source: archatlas, via archatlas)

archatlas:

La Maison-vague

The project context is based on experimentation, and initiated by the public housing council of Reims (HLM – l’Effort Rémois) – in a subdivision of 63 lots with heavy economic constraints. 

La Maison-vague by Patrick Nadeau uses vegetation for its architectural and environmental qualities, particularly in terms of thermal insulation. A fully vegetated shell protects the interior from summer heat and winter cold. The basic form is to encapsulate within a single mat of vegetation that undulates and floats above the ground, at sitting height (the rim surrounding the wooden shelf is kind of a big bench). The traditional relationship between house and garden is changed, disturbed even, the project encompasses both in the same construction.

Images and text via

(Source: archatlas, via archatlas)

archatlas:

México, Arquitectura y Monumentos Históricos 

The project: México, Architecture and Historical Monuments was born out of Erik Gonzalez’s desire to share the architecture patrimony of his homeland. The series features some of the Mexico’s most important historical architectural achievements in illustrations of the building’s facades fashioned out of brightly colored geometrical shapes with incredible results. The projects featured so far include, from the top:

• Museo Nacional de la Máscara
  
• Palacio de Bellas Artes
  
• Teatro Juárez
  
• Monumento A la Patria
  
• Callejones de Guanajuato
  
• Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel
  
• Reloj Monumental
  

(via archatlas)

archatlas:

A House in the Brazilian Savanna

Cerrado House by Vazio S/A
 was built at the foothills of Sierra da Moeda, a mountain range in the state of Minas Gerias, Brazil. The three-bedroom house has a rooftop pool and a wide staircase that leads to the rooftop terrace. The rooms are right under the swimming pool and have views to the sierra and the savanna full of twisted trees; wooden  louvers shield the house from the sun.

Seeking the plasticity of basic architectural elements, the project also exalts an underestimated and threatened biome: the Cerrado, a Brazilian savanna. There is no landscape design: the house sits on a found landscape, whose immensity and vistas are best seen from the pool terrace.

Images and text via + via

(Source: archatlas)

archatlas:

Ophir Architects’ Creative

From the architect:

A robust sculptural form anchored to its hill site, this dwelling comprises a palette of textured concrete, black zinc and cedar composed and detailed in a refined manner. Exposed structural steel portal frames provide a quality of lightness by way of allowing the upper level living area to float into the view.

The resulting home offers a sense of security, substance and permanence, and affords moments of calm within spaces for reflection, embodying a way of living to better suit its occupants.

Images and text via Architects’ Creative

(via archatlas)

archatlas:

Paul Eis

Paul Eis is an architecture photographer based in Berlin that creates colorful version of buildings in Berlin and Hamburg buildings by digitally altering their sober modernist facades. If you want to see more of these candy colored creations check out his Instagram account.

(via archatlas)

archatlas:

Hotel Mar Adentro Taller Aragones / Miguel Angel Aragones

From the architect:

The first time I visited this property and took in the desert and the diaphanous, clear water running along a horizontal line in the background, I felt the enormous drive of water under a scorching sun. This piece of land, located in the middle of a coastline dotted with “All Inclusive Hotels,” would have to be transformed into a box that contained its own sea –practically its own air– given the happy circumstance that the universe had created a desert joined to the sea along a horizontal line. It was the purest, most minimalist landscape a horizon could have drawn. On either side, this dreamlike scenery collided with what humans consider to be aesthetic and build and baptize as architecture. I wanted to draw my own version, apart from the rest.

Images by Joe Fletcher Photography text via

(Source: archatlas)

betype:

Arthur Wines Muscat by Lost & Found

Follow us on Instagram: @betype

(Source: betype)