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House in Niigata Residential Building

Kazunori Kiryu Residential Building Architecture

House in Niigata

House in Niigata is a private house designed for a family of four in an old and densely built residential area. The outer walls are made of wooden material lightly colored in gray, so the building harmonizes with the surrounding streets. The plan is organized around two gardens. A courtyard enclosed by a concrete wall is placed on the ground floor, and a roof terrace framed by a wooden lattice is placed on the second floor. All rooms face these two gardens, so screening such as curtains is not needed. Traditional wooden construction was used.

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B73 Apartments Residential Building

Svetoslav Stanislavov Residential Building Architecture

B73 Apartments

B73 is embedded in the context with its innovative look, having high-end material usage and quality in execution. Each floor comprises of a single apartment. B73 is one of the very few buildings in the country using solid surface material and thermoforming for complex 3D shapes. The facade's morphology starts from a surface that is stretched with strategically placed cuts. A discontinuation occurs creating the shape of a swallow bird. A light art installation is placed in the ground floor lobby.

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Terrace Residential Building

Rodrigo Kirck Residential Building Architecture

Terrace

Terrace is a vacation apartment building located in Picarras, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The building has 59 units on 25 floors, reaches 87 meters in height and offers 11,179 square meters of built area. Every apartment includes a large terrace facing the sea, and the repeated terraces form a monolithic facade that links the ground floor to the upper collective terrace. Exposed reinforced concrete at the base is combined with sliding panels in the apartment frames. The design was inspired by the old beach houses once found on the site.

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Cubiq House 12 Residential Building

Ken Thong Residential Building Interior

Cubiq House 12

As this home is surrounded by natural park and landscape, we devised a nature-inspired design that features comfortable urban hues and warm wood textures to capture the rejuvenating vibe of its surroundings. The majestic wooden ceiling feature is sure an eye-catcher for the common area to maintain visual connectivity in each space, while the grand double-volume ceiling ensuring that every corner is being illuminated with a healthy amount of natural light.

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Huafa Seasons Peninsula Residential Building

Zhuhai Huafa Properties Co., Ltd. Residential Building Real Estate

Huafa Seasons Peninsula

Huafa Seasons Peninsula is a residential development in Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai, China. Contemporary design is applied to the architecture, the landscape and the interiors. The facade uses only two materials, a warm grey marble in rough and smooth textures and antique bronze aluminium panels for decoration and window frames. The result is a calm and consistent exterior. The landscape covers 230,000 square metres and follows a neighbour of flowers concept. Asian plants and trees bring flowers in all four seasons, and the low density plan supports a restful daily life.

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Gathering of Talents Residential Building

Tzu Tzu Hsu Residential Building Interior

Gathering of Talents

Gathering of Talents is a residential interior design set beside a waterfront in a former industrial district. A vacation house serves as the design model, and the facilities refer to hotel standards, including a fitness room, a game room and a sky garden. Cool colors and modern white lines create a calm and elegant atmosphere. At the main entrance, an open white space holds suspended glass tubes that resemble a hanging curtain and recall the white lines of the exterior. A sunlight house links the roof and the sky garden, where residents can gather in daylight and greenery.

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MareNostrum Residential Building

Aaron Leppanen Residential Building Architecture

MareNostrum

MareNostrum is an eight story residential building in Quito, Ecuador. The name refers to the Latin term for our sea, and the facade reinterprets the movement of the oars of Roman fleets. The curved facade forms large balconies that extend the interior space to the exterior. Cutout corners span two levels, give shade from the sun and create places where neighbours can meet. The building holds suites, two bedroom and three bedroom apartments and lofts, with a lounge and green areas on the terrace. Passive strategies provide natural light and ventilation.

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Love Story of City Residential Building

Hsu Fu Chu Residential Building Interior

Love Story of City

Love Story of City is a residential interior design for three connected buildings in Taichung City, Taiwan. The property covers 1000 square meters. The design links indoor and outdoor areas, turning separate exterior spaces into a shared area for activities. Themed landscapes between the buildings guide the indoor traffic flow. Electric windows improve air circulation and reduce air conditioning use. Window frames act as frames for the scenery and reflect direct sunlight to keep interiors comfortable. Stone and tile create a consistent style.

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12th Residential Building

Parviz Ghasemi Residential Building Architecture

12th

This project redefines the morphology of a residential building with two bevels on both sides to improve the quality of life and prevent the repetition of similar and neighboring buildings. Tried to create a dynamic view by cutting parts of the bevels and creating full and empty spaces in the play of light and shadow and despite similar plans, define an independent identity for the units and the building by creating a different view and perspective, and transform the elevation to in between space, to form different narratives of the flow of life inside the building.

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Dua Tau Din Village Residential Building

David Chen Residential Building Architecture

Dua Tau Din Village

The project location is in Hsinchu City, Taiwam; it's a rezoning area from farmland and a military base. The village that once stood there dates from 1950. The memories of the old village and childhood neighborhood are rapidly disappearing with modern development. The ideal of this project is to recreate a space that reminds one of an old village by using modern architecture, a place where streets and courtyards are available for children to play in and nature is nearby, and to stimulate diversity for each household through a combination of residential and park.

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Flexhouse Residential building

Evolution Design Residential building Architecture

Flexhouse

Flexhouse is a single-family home on Lake Zurich in Switzerland. Built on a challenging triangular plot of land, squeezed between the railway line and the local access road, Flexhouse is the result of overcoming many architectural challenges: restrictive boundary distances and building volume, triangular shape of the plot, restrictions regarding local vernacular. The resulting building with its wide walls of glass and a ribbon-like white façade is so light and mobile in appearance that it resembles a futuristic vessel that has sailed in from the lake and found itself a natural place to dock.

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House in Fasoula Residential Building

Vassiliades Architects Residential Building Architecture

House in Fasoula

The Z Shaped Creation is a bioclimatic residential building in Fasoula, Cyprus. The white Z shaped form defines the morphology of the building. The interior spaces are arranged as volumes placed into the cavities of the white form. The design follows simple geometries in a minimalist approach, with exposed concrete, large wooden surfaces and a neutral white color. The house covers 230 square meters on three levels, one basement and two floors above. The basement is set into the slope, holds the parking spaces and is built with stone masonry.

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