SZ House is a small family house located in Ibaraki (Japan), is primarily an original project in its approach, without frills or luxuries, resolved with sobriety, for many may be too much. The property occupies an area of 105m2 and basically consists of four parallel walls that enclose three main areas: one private, one public, and a third elongated and narrow is the connection between the two.

As expected, the private area of the SZ House was occupied by the bedroom, bathroom, patio and a room for leisure. The public area consists of the garage, patio, and the piece that has the living room and kitchen. Besides the important functions of ventilation and lighting, every yard is adapted to the privacy of every part of the house: the kitchen, the patio has a broad view of the street, while from the bedroom is the leisure room. We would like to know how to control for the bath, which is fully glazed.

The corridor that connects all the rooms comes to be seen as an area of overwhelming proportions, something that could have been improved with a good skylight. The flue from the kitchen seems to be crying out for a ride vertically to the roof, and not understand why the floor of the corridor lined with the same tile in the garage. Still, a home has earned for quality analysis. Read the rest of this entry »

To say that a building is integrated into the landscape is a resource that many publishers abuse to praise a project when in reality we all know that is like talking of cement and margaritas. This time the topic is true, because this housing Longhi Architects is carved in a hill of Pachacamac, 40km south of Lima (Peru), blending with their surroundings.

It is a work of architectural camouflage, but rather of symbiosis between land and human activities, both routine and intellectual. On an area of 5000m2 built area occupies approximately 480m2, which are organized in different “front” as the hillside.

Raised as a retirement home for a philosopher, it was all projected on an “invented ancient language”, there is symmetry and almost all their holes are distributed in a disorderly manner, but without breaking the overall harmony of the work.

A large area glass cube on its end is the only piece of “naked” all the house, the rest is always behind the walls that form its walls of stone, or simply buried. Read the rest of this entry »

The architecture studio A-cero presents an interior renovation of an apartment located in Ferrol. The house is set in a single plant, which located two bedrooms with bathrooms, living/dining room, kitchen, laundry, toilets and outdoor terrace. The total areas of the plant are 155m2 and 150m2 of terraces.

The hall-dealer accessed from the main entrance of the house. Linking two distinct areas (day area and night area) for an imaginary north-south axis. The lounge / dining room, kitchen and laundry room is located east of the axis, while the sleeping area (bedroom) is the West. Thus, both the room as the master bedroom, but occupy their own space within the zoning forth above, enjoy the same south facing views, this being an important priority for the property and enjoyment of the dwelling.

The terrace offers relaxation areas and seating. Dominated south to enjoy the sun and views, and north used to link this area with the kitchen to have a barbecue area and outdoor dining. The master bedroom suite designed with a dressing room with a total of 40m2.

It has sought, with the proposal, the smooth functioning of housing in relation to the needs of the property as possible to adapt the packaging pre-existing formal and turning the main rooms to the south, looking for a better use of the views of light and heat. The elevations sorted according to a harmonic modulation of the gaps, trying to maximize light and views mentioned above. The living – dining room, has an area of 38m2. Read the rest of this entry »

Beauty, strength and usefulness are the keys to the strong housing that we present you throughout the week. A construction of pharaonic dimensions (2.900m2) emerging as a large sculpture in the exclusive area of Madrid “The Lakes of La Finca.”

Continuing the sculptural architecture of A-zero, this time the work of Richard Serra has been the main reference and inspiration to design this residence located in the largest parcel of residential (13. 357m2 of surface area).

The outer walls define the overall picture of housing. The purity of form construction creates a coherent whole with a structure made only by concrete walls where the intermediate pillars disappear and fine materials such as travertine marble, are imposed.

In accordance with the wishes of customer privacy, the house has closed to the outside (the path) through a series of concentric curved walls of natural stone at the same time, generating large spaces and open to the inside of building.

The building comprises three levels: basement, ground floor and first level. The interior layout was organized looking for maximum functionality and comfort of the owners, so that the master bedroom and all rooms used by the owners are located at the level of access. Read the rest of this entry »

The architecture studio, A-cero presents you a modular semi-detached house situated in a village in the mountains of Madrid. To explain this property, you must first know what they consist of the elements of the traditional house. One of the great hallmarks of the peoples of the mountains is your home, reflecting the lifestyle of its inhabitants.

Traditional houses joined physically strong and sober spaces for agricultural and livestock purposes (barn, stable and corral), to residential use.The manner of construction of housing with local materials contributes to the integration of rural communities within the landscape in which it sits. The construction of this area has always been conditioned by the cold and adverse weather conditions that occur in the mountains. The buildings are usually very compact and support each other to protect against low temperatures. The materials used are stone, slate, wood, adobe and tile Arab curve, very easy to get to the locals, and which proliferate in the vicinity.

The traditional model of housing, called “ mountain home “, is in stone masonry walls and slate uncut, trimmed inside with mud. In the base and the angles of the house would place blocks of stone Gander and rectangular or “blocks”, which introduced more robustness. Both the floors and in the structure, use large oak beams and pine. The holes in the facade, rather few and small were often framed by large pieces of oak saw, granite or brick tiles. Read the rest of this entry »