This is an IT professional‘s weekend house near the Great Wall of Beijing. The driving concept of this scheme is Folding Landscape. The down-slope site facing the hills and river makes it possible to exploit the contours. A continuous volume is being pulled up from the ground level and faces the natural landscape. A glass-enclosed living space is inserted in-between the volume and ground. The rising volume and the levels inside resemble a continuous and undulating landscape, and a courtyard inserted at strategic position connects with the outside on the ground floor.
The ground floor plan follows the example of Mies Van Der Rohe’s (see Wiki) Farnsworth House, and on the upper level the plan becomes reverse – a pool enveloped by glass roof and floor, so the sunlight could shine through the water and the glass floor of the pool and cast upon the ground floor.
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Yes Architecture projected this modern reinterpretation of a traditional building on the site of a winepress in Sausal-Pistorf, Austria.
The house has an open sleeping, living and cooking area that copy the typically one-roomed, windowless structures of the winepresses. The local corn drying barns were also an inspiration, creating a similarly slatted wooden framework to encircle the house.
Closed on three sides, the glass facade at the northwest site elevation opens the house to its beautiful surroundings.
AFGH Architekten designed this incredible holiday house located in Scheidegg, Switzerland.
The building was arranged on the periphery of the property so that the option of constructing another building could be left open. The concrete cellar anchors the building in the sloping terrain and houses the entrance area and the technical servicing, on top of which is the wooden volume of the building.
The concrete chimney of the open fireplace rises like a mast out of the cellar, and together with a concrete wall forms the bracing backbone behind which the two single-flight staircase connect the three levels.
On the ground floor is a large living room spread over two different levels and with different ceiling heights. The deliberately low area containing the kitchen in fact creates a spatial feeling.
The five-meter long fixed-glazed panorama window, which frames the breathtaking view like a picture, introduces a contemporary modernity.
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The Joshua Tree, created by Hanger Prefab, is a “mobile home” with a steel skin and wooden interior.
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The Klein Bottle House designed by McBride Charles Ryan is located in the town of Rye, just outside Melbourne, Australia.
The house is described by complex shapes and spaces that revolve around a central courtyard with a grand regal stair connecting all the levels.
