Moebius House : By Tony Owen Partners

Sydney, Australia
Tony Owen Partners
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Photo © Courtesy of Tony Owen Partners

This family house faces onto views of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge. The house explores the maximisation of light, space, ventilation and views on a tight sight. We are exploring a more environmentally sensitive form of design called ‘micro design’. Micro design utilises parametric modelling software which can respond to very small changes to design input criteria. In this case issues such as maximising ventilation, views and efficiency of structure and minimising impacts to neighbours views and overshadowing were the key design criteria.

Concrete House II : By A-cero

Pozuelo de Alorcón, Spain
A-cero
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Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia

The architecture studio A-cero presents one of its latest works about a big single-family house. It takes place in the outskirts of Madrid on a 5000m2 plot. It is a single storey building and it has a 1.600 m2 built surface.

House in Las Rozas : By A-cero

Las Rozas, Madrid, Spain
A-cero
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Photo © Courtesy of Luis H Segovia

A-cero presents its new house: a built set of volumes and sheets combined as a perfect play that mixes the limits between art and architecture.

Fray Leon house : By 57Studio

Santiago, Chile
57Studio
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Photo © Courtesy of 57Studio 
This is a residence for a family who looks for a more extensive terrain and ampler spaces, without leaving the traditional neighborhood where it has lived for almost 30 years. Located on the east side of Santiago, the main characteristics of the neighborhood are the presence of old growth trees and huge lots with houses that have a limited relation with the street.

House in Somosaguas II : By A-cero

Somosaguas, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
A-cero
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Photo © Courtesy of A-cero
The plot, where this housing is situated, is the result of dividing an original state. It adopts the form of an irregular polygon of four sides, presents a light slope and has a surface of 13.357 sqm.

Casa Adpropeixe : By Carlos Castanheira & Clara Bastai

Gerês, Portugal
Carlos Castanheira & Clara Bastai
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Photo © Courtesy of FG+SG - Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
It is said and written, that the idea is to be found in the site and it’s true.
It’s not just the idea, but also the name that comes from the site.
Adpropeixe, which almost seems to be a name out of an Astérix book, is a part of the Gerês Natural Reserve, located in Vilar de Veiga, in the Terras do Bouro district. It’s just there, by the water, after passing the bridges and just before arriving at Gerês; the spa village.

House In Nagata : Suga Architects

Nagata, Kobe-city, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Suga Architects--Tadashi Suga
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Photo © Courtesy of Yoshiharu Matsumura
This house is located on the foot of mountains in Nagata, Kobe.
This location indicates a typical landform of this city, which is surrounded by mountains on the north and coastlines on the south

The Kona Residence : By Belzberg Architects

Kona, Hawaii, United States
Belzberg Architects
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Photo © Benny Chan (Fotoworks), Belzberg Architects.
Nestled between cooled lava flows, the Kona residence situates its axis not with the linearity of the property but rather with the axiality of predominant views available to the site.  Within the dichotomy of natural elements and geometric hardscape the residence attempts to integrate both the surrounding views of volcanic mountain ranges to the east and ocean horizons westward.  The program is arranged as a series of pods distributed throughout the property, each having its own unique features and view opportunities.  The pods are programmatically assigned as two sleeping pods with common areas, media, master suite and main living space.

Herringbone Houses / Alison Brooks Architects

Architects: Alison Brooks Architects – Alison Brooks, Michael Woodford
Location: Wandsworth, South London, UK
Client: Alex Wingate
Area: 400sqm per house
Construction start: Junio 2005
Completion: Diciembre 2006
Phase 1 contractor: Unimead Ltd
Phase 2 contractor: Kaymac Construction
Structural Engineer: Price & Myers
Mechanical and Electrical/Health & Safety: Peter Deer & Associates
Quantity Surveryor: Carruth Marshall Partnership
Photos: Cristóbal Palma


The Herringbone Houses are two 400sqm houses and integrated landscape located in a wooded back land site overlooking the South London Bowls Club for private developer Lyford Investments.

Each open-plan house is composed of two continuous planes of herringbone timber and graphite render surfaces that form walls, floors, external decking and fences. These planes interlock and fold inward at the centre of the house to create a double height entrance hall open to the sky. This approach to the wrapping of spaces generates an apparent lightness to the houses which are conceived as an assembly of planar elements as opposed to “punched” masonry. The atrium holds a suspended timber staircase and galleries which lead to the first and second floor bedrooms. Each house has a two car carport that has been integrated into the design of the house, fence and landscape with pebbled roofs on expanded metal trays supported by stainless steel ‘picture frames’.



The 3 storey 5 bedroom houses have full basements with storage, guest accommodation and a games room. The ground floor is conceived as an open plan living, family and kitchen area wrapped around a central double height hall open to the sky with a 3x2m roof light. The hall is a double height atrium at the centre of the house with a sculptural oak staircase hanging in the middle of the space. The first floor bedrooms are accessed from a gallery space and library with a balcony offering views down into the living space.

The three principle bedrooms are on the west facing façade with large windows that maximise passive solar gain and offer fantastic views out over the bowling green. All of the bedrooms have windows on both sides to allow natural ventilation of the spaces and maximise the light and views. The living rooms are recessed behind deep overhangs that provide shade, direct views to the south-east and shelter the ground floor entrance areas. Adjacent to these are the three storey volumes oriented north south, containing bedrooms and family rooms. These elements also have recessed glazing at the 2nd floor level to reduce solar gain, increase a sense of privacy for the occupants and create space for greenery at the buildings’ upper levels.



The ground floor living spaces have been designed in order to create a free flowing space from inside to outside with level thresholds opening out to generous terraces.

The house is constructed from a steel frame with timber infill that has been wrapped in plywood sheathing. This acts as a substrate for the insulation and cladding. The herringbone cladding was initially developed and set out using 3d modelling software to establish the dimension of each board and to test the final visual effect. After trials with different lengths of board and widths it was decided to us a thin board profile (50mm) and that the boards should be 800mm long, a dimension that worked functionally for the construction and fitted into the structural levels of the house.

The cladding is essentially a traditional open weatherboard construction. The house is initially wrapped in Tyvek breather paper over the rigid insulation. Battens were set out at 800mm horizontal centres and the IPE cladding was all pre-cut to 800mm lengths with pre-drilled holes to speed up the installation and accuracy of the construction process. At our request the contractor constructed a 1:1 mock-up to test the construction of the façade and each stage of the installation was signed off by the architects before proceeding.

This enabled us to maintain a tight control over the building finish. Following the installation of the boards each board was pelleted and sanded before sign off.
Across the façade all materials – timber, render and glass are in the same plane. This was done to further enhance the abstract planar quality of the façade. The windows sit on steel angles and are strapped back to the window heads and jams, meaning that they can be positioned flush with the timber, like holes cut out of in a thin surface.

Given the automation of the process and simplicity of the traditional construction method this delicate and refined façade took no longer and cost no more than a standard horizontal weatherboarding system. Yet the result is a distinctive façade with an optical ‘accordion’ effect and with the refinement of a piece of renaissance marquetry.
By David Basulto — Via:archdialy

Site Plan

  1st floor plan

2nd floor plan

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Section 2