Casa Schierle is a relatively small wooden house designed by Matthias Benz and is located in a beautiful village near Munich, Germany. It’s designed with sustainability in mind and serves very well for contemporary lifestyles of its owners. The exterior color palette is quite dark what makes it different from surrounding houses and make it...
Lego-Like Small Houses Based on Prefabricated 15 Sqm Modules
One+ is a small home modular system designed by Lars Frank Nielsen of the Danish studio ONEN for the Swedish company Add-A-Room. It allows to build small homes or additions to existing ones based on prefabricated 15 square meter modules. These modules are made of high-quality local Swedish materials and has stylish, energy efficient and...
Sustainable Clad House Blended with Surroundings – Hidden House by Standard
Hidden House by Standard Architecture is located on a serene 7-acre site in the Mount Washington area of Los Angeles. It’s a great example of open to outdoors house. It features two courtyards. The living space opens up to one of them, while the second one looks out over the city. The 3500 square feet...
Zig-Zag Single Storey Bungalow House With a Planted Roof
Lien Residence is a house in Singapore, that was designed by Singapore studio Ministry of Design. It is a single storey bungalow-type building with zig-zag shape. The shape helps it to avoid the existing trees and created small courtyard spaces that are sheltered from the weather but allow the entry of light and breezes to...
Sustainable House Design on an Artificial Island – Blue House by FARO Architecten
The Blue House is designed by Dutch architect Pieter Weijnen of FARO Architecten. It’s located on Steigereiland, one of seven artificial islands dredged from Amsterdam’s lJ Lake in IJburg. Its color reminds deep-blue waters that surround it and that’s how it gets its name. The house designed with sustainable use of energy in mind. The...
Sweden House With Passive Heating – Villa Nyberg by Kjellgren Kaminsky
Villa Nyberg is an part of the first series of Sweden passive houses designed Kjellgren Kaminsky. It’s designed as environmentally friendly house and is situated in Borlänge, central Sweden. The idea of passive houses is based on the knowledge that people and household equipment generate a lot of energy. That’s why passive houses are extremely...
Very Modern Yet Not Minimalist House Design – Skywave House by Coscia Day
Who said that very modern house design should be minimalist? Skywave House by Coscia Day shows that isn’t exactly true. The 2,250 square feet house and is set on a 40 ft wide suburban lot in Venice, California. It’s main distinctive feature is a sculptural roof that reminds a breaking wave, which is suspended in...
1840’s Victorian House Remodeled Into Zero Carbon House
Designed by John Christophers of Associated Architects as a family home this house is a winner of RIBA award for architectural excellence in 2010. It’s an unique zero carbon project located in inner city Birmingham, UK. The new house has been built around an existing early Victorian two-bedroom semi-detached house, produces as much energy as...
Amazing LEED Home With a Very Vertical Design – HouseHillside House
This contemporary residence LEED Platinum home that spans four levels on a hill of Mill Valley, California. It is designed by San Francisco-based SB Architects, and built by well-known green builder McDonald Construction. The steep hillside site provides for a very vertical design with living and private zones situated on multiple separate floors. The total...
Two Volume House Situated on a 160 Square Meter Strip of Land
The Kensington Lighthouse, located in Melbourne, Australia, on a 160 sqm strip of land. The house is made from two sunshells, connected around a courtyard by a rectangular timber lined volume running the length of the north boundary. This north boundary is a 4m high wall of the neighboring house. The ground level of the...