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Living the Gardens Villas

sanzpont [arquitectura] Villas Architecture

Living the Gardens

Living the Gardens is a residential complex of nine villas in Cancun, Mexico, built on a site of 2,373 square meters. Each villa has three levels and covers 216 to 275 square meters. The ground floor holds a living room, dining room, kitchen, terrace, half bathroom and an interior garden. The upper floor holds a master bedroom and two secondary bedrooms. Each villa also has a roof garden. Local materials and passive bioclimatic design reduce energy use, while wooden louvers and native vegetation give solar protection.

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Shotgun Over and Under Residential House

William Price Residential House Architecture

Shotgun Over and Under

Shotgun Over and Under is located in the Lower Heights neighborhood of Downtown Houston, Texas. The site is bound by an industrial zone to the south and the first African American cemetery in the Houston city limits. The project references Houston's Shotgun Houses located in Freedman's Town in the Fourth Ward which are long narrow one-story houses with rooms placed end-to-end. Shotgun Over and Under is a deviation from the theme of Shotgun House and is conceived as two Shotgun houses stacked atop of one another, one private and one public.

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Argo Cultural Center

Chrysi Vrantsi Cultural Center Architecture

Argo

Argo cultural center is located by the lake Kati in the heart of the mountain Olympus in Greece.The building is named after the ship Argo. The purpose of the building is to make a connection between Man, Art and Nature. Argo makes use of the resources of the natural environment. The structure is a combination of steel frame and reinforced concrete. The objectives of the research are to create a building which is sustainable and uses materials in a futuristic design.The project is influenced by the geographical features, the social features as well as the history of the site.

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Casa Della Quercia Single Family Villa

Andrea Brunazzi Single Family Villa Architecture

Casa Della Quercia

Casa Della Quercia is a single family villa built on a panoramic hillside site with a centuries-old oak tree. The single above-ground floor covers 105 square meters and holds two bedrooms, a kitchen, a large living room and two bathrooms. The swimming pool sits in a sheltered rear patio with a microclimate suitable for mid-season, so the front lawn stays open. A central shaft brings light and air to the basement rooms. Walls are 53 centimeters thick with 16 centimeters of insulation, and a heat pump serves underfloor heating and cooling. The flat roof simplifies maintenance.

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Gateway to Lofoten Appartments

Manuela Hardy Appartments Architecture

Gateway to Lofoten

Gateway to Lofoten is an apartment building designed for Roest in Lofoten. The form is inspired by traditional fishing houses and by the long local history of cod fishing and stockfish production. Local building customs guide the shape and the choice of materials, while a modern twist is added through mirrored gabled roofs on the lower part of the building. The lower structure is light and hangs from the same concrete slab that supports the upper levels. The building is 38 meters wide, 7.7 meters deep and three stories high. It contains studio apartments and larger apartments.

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Oat Wreath Equestrian Pavilion

Polina Nozdracheva Equestrian Pavilion Architecture

Oat Wreath

Equestrian pavilion is a part of the newly creating equestrian center. Object is located on the cultural heritage and protected by cultural area of the historical ensemble of the exhibition. Main architectural concept is the exclusion of massive capital walls in favor of transparent wooden lace elements. The main motive of the facade ornament is a stylized rhythmic pattern in the form of wheat ears or oat. Thin metal columns almost imperceptibly support the light rays of the glued wooden roof, which lifted up, with the completion in the form of a stylized silhouette of the horse's head.

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Goethestrasse 1 Private House

Gronych + Dollega Architekten Private House Architecture

Goethestrasse 1

Goethestrasse 1 is a private house in Bad Homburg, Germany. The design transforms a strict development plan into a calm architectural form shaped by its location. The building develops its own scale in relation to the landscape and the surrounding buildings. Generous relations between inside and outside are created on a small plot with valuable trees. Light, shade and the reflections of the water surface in front of the glazed facades shape the interior atmosphere. Concrete, steel supports and prefabricated wooden elements form the structure.

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Larma Apartment

javad davoodi Apartment Architecture

Larma

Larma is an apartment building located in Royan, in the north of Iran. The building has six floors and twelve units. A gable roof answers the rainfall of Mazandaran in autumn and winter and follows the local building tradition. Brick, a material long used in Iranian architecture, forms the main surfaces. Colored glass set in wooden window frames brings tinted light into the corridors and stair areas. Shrubs and green plants on the facade recall the forests of Mazandaran, while large green terraces recall the yards of the region.

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Villa Troy Residential House

Renos Constantinou Residential House Architecture

Villa Troy

Villa Troy is a private house located on the outskirts of greater Nicosia. The internal covered area is 340 square meters, and the home serves a family of four. Living spaces are arranged in an irregular L-shape among verandas and a garden. The open plan ground level holds the lounge, the living room and the dining room, which develop around a double height void at the vestibule. Stone cladding on the front wall recalls the walls of Troy, and five metal brackets recall ancient spears. The placement of the building supports natural ventilation and daylight.

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Aimbere Residence Building

Torres Arquitetos Building Architecture

Aimbere Residence

Aimbere Residence is a residential building with fifteen floors, located in Guarapuava, a municipality in the state of Paraná, in the interior of southern Brazil. Aimbere in Tupi-Guarani, the language of the Indians of the southern region of Brazil, means one who squirms (turns). the building seeks to reflect this dynamism and the movement of Nature, with a contemporary architecture. The choice for a differentiated residential product has been a conviction of the developer and the architectural firm since their first studies.

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Lovin Maris Villas Residential Development

Quark Studio Architects Residential Development Architecture

Lovin Maris Villas

Quark was chosen for the architecture and interior design of the Lovin Maris Villas. The project consists of 14 modern style villas situated in a quiet, seaside neighborhood in Istanbul. Quarks design concept for this project integrates minimalist aesthetics and comfort with the geographic position of the villas. The positioning of the villas, overlooking the Marmara Sea, combined with large windows, LED cove lighting and spotlighting offers an eye friendly interior. The warm color palette used in the villas is complemented by the use of organic materials and natural textures.

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Almana Medical Center

Muhammed El Sepaey Medical Center Architecture

Almana

The design aims to reduce patients' anxiety and stress, accelerate recovery, shorten hospitalizations, reduce medication use, lessen pain, and promote a sense of well being by creating a well designed healing environment. Spaces are designed to be nurturing and therapeutic. On the organizational level, the design helps to enhance staff satisfaction, productivity and retention. Form of the building allows for the natural flow of space, air and light. The design combines advanced practices for lighting, day lighting, HVAC and water treatment systems that use significantly less energy.

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