Home Architectural Design

Architectural firm, Nico van der Meulen Architects, was commissioned to design this home according to the owner’s specifications. The brief to the architect was to create a single-storey home with an urban feel. In order to achieve this, the architect updated the 1950’s house and converted it into a timeless modern space with a better [...]

This project is a result of renovation and expansion made to a house at 2711 First on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill which designed by Paul Hayden Kirk. It was a bold compact composition with shingled walls that wrap over to become the roof. The idea was reinforced inside with cedar clad walls and ceilings. Incoming [...]

The Blurred House is a major renovation and extension by BiLD architecture to an original 1930’s Californian bungalow in Melbourne’s inner-north. The design is adapting vernacular Australian suburban typologies with a jarring juxtaposition of existing ‘old’ and introduced ‘new’ architectural elements, transitioning from the vernacular to the contemporary architectural, producing a unique formal and visual [...]

25th Street House by Shimizu & Coggeshall Architects in Santa Monica, California, United States: The project is aim to insert a LEED platinum contemporary renovation into a 1920’s structure in a way that would contrast and complement. Small unused spaces were reconfigured by expanding them for a multiplicity of programs. Connections with the exterior were [...]

Studio Twenty Seven Architecture was commissioned to build a new modern home utilizing $160,000 on the waterfront where the old “shack” stood. One of the challenges was balancing a modern interior design aesthetic for a dream home with a desire to use a minimal amount of materials. The strategy used by the architect was employing [...]