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American architect Robert M. Gurney has designed the Wissioming2 House in Glen Echo, Maryland. The house sited on a sloping, wooded lot with distant views of the Potomac River. The house is organized into two volumes connected with glass bridges that span a reflecting pool which separates the volumes. Secondary volumes intersect and overlap the [...]

Metcalfe Architecture & Design has redesigned an existing mid-century dwelling of the Seidenberg House in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, USA. MA&D reconstructed this mid-century kit house, taking advantage of its location by creating a bedroom nestled in the treetops, transforms it into a house in the sky. A glass connector bridge links the bedroom to the [...]

Herbst Architects was challenged to build a house on the site which 90% covered in mature pohutukawa trees as a part of a continuous belt of forest along the beach front. The program separated loosely into private and “public” components, give smaller individual masses with which to articulate the forms. The private functions of bedrooms [...]

Iporanga House is designed by Brazilian architect Nitsche Arquitetos Associados in Iporanga a condominium for summer houses on Sao Paulo’s coast. The briefing was to minimize the ground surface and preserve the original Atlantic Rainforest. But at the same it also provide be large and comfortable living. Incoming search terms:nitsche architecture, house in iporanga / [...]

Located on a dense hillside forest in the Santa Rosalía area of Guatemala City, Corallo House integrates the existing forest into the layout of the house. PAZ Arquitectura merges the nature into the architectural intervention. The design process began with the aim to preserve the existing trees, in order to have the trees interact with [...]

Koji Tsutsui & Associates designed the InBetween House in Nagano, Japan. A cluster of boxes united by irregular, interstitial space, InBetween House mimics the Japanese urban condition on an architectural scale. While the rectangular volumes are like small buildings, the amorphous areas in between are akin to the narrow passageways and odd gaps that crop [...]