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Garden & House by Ryue Nishizawa [Tokyo] Japan 🇯🇵 This building, in a highly dense district packed with high-rise condominiums and office buildings, is the new home to two women in the editorial business who wish to work and live in this historical environment. They specifically request to include an office, common living space, private room for each, a guest room, and a bathroom. I got an impression that it involves a program that is somewhere between an office, and a residence, or a dormitory. The site is an extremely small rectangle of 8x4 m. To the right, the left, and across the street are large buildings of over 30 m of height standing with no setback making the site much like a small dark valley surrounded by mountainous construction. Suspecting that a building with regular frame walls would result in narrowing the already narrow usable space of the site, I looked for a possibility to create a building with alternative method. My final decision of structure consisted of a vertical layer of horizontal slabs to create a building without walls. A garden and a room are distributed as a pair on each floor – every room, whether it is the living room, private room or the bathroom, has a garden of its own so that the residents may go outside to feel the breeze, read a book or cool off in the evening and enjoy an open environment in their daily life. Each room is smaller than the slab allowing for freedom in determining the relationship between the room and the garden regardless of the floor level. The entirety is a wall-less transparent building designed to provide an environment with maximum sunlight despite the dark site conditions. A delight in life is felt as you ascend the light, well ventilated residence that is nestled in this exceptional location in the dense urban fabric.

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Casa Ses Clotades in Formentera Spain 🇪🇸 Marià Castelló Architecture Photos: Marià Castelló Architecture Ses Clotades is located on the isthmus that connects La Mola to the rest of Formentera, a territory where the landscape reveals the island’s geological and environmental history. It is an environment shaped by ancient dune systems, where gentle depressions and small sand hills create a dynamic topography, marked by a constant interplay of rises and falls. Over time, much of these dunes has been colonized by pine and juniper forests, forming a dense vegetation adapted to the extreme conditions of sunlight, wind, and water scarcity characteristic of the insular Mediterranean. In this context, the house is integrated with the site through an architectural style closely linked to the location. The project is conceived around a series of dualities—solidity and lightness, shadow and light, compactness and openness—that reinterpret the natural conditions of the environment. Three distinct volumes are arranged on a concrete platform: two emerge from the ground, housing the living areas, while a third is partially embedded in the earth to take advantage of the subsoil’s thermal inertia and minimize its visual impact on the landscape.The main, taller volume is fragmented by courtyards that filter the light. It can function independently, accommodating one or two people. Beside it, the second, more compact and private volume contains three bedrooms, allowing for independent privacy management depending on the occupancy of the house. Between the two is a permeable link that simultaneously serves as a gallery, porch, and intermediate climate space, promoting natural ventilation and a gradual transition between interior and exterior.

Split Level House / OFIS Architects Ljubljana, Slovenia 🇸🇮 Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric , OFIS Architects ečna pot , meaning “eternal path” in Slovenian, is the name of one of Ljubljana ‘s longest streets . It connects two distant districts of the city, much of it passing through an ancient forest on the slopes of the hills that now form part of Tivoli Park. According to some historical sources, the road has existed since prehistoric times, when the Ljubljana basin was still a lake and stilt-house culture flourished on the slopes through which Večna pot now runs. The house was built on what was once the shore of a lake that dried up in prehistoric times. The area suffered from the risk of flooding until recently, when regulation systems were built. The pre-regulation era led to the evolution of a building typology with a raised ground floor. Basements were semi-subterranean, which reduced the danger of flood damage. Access to the ground floor, where the main living space was located, developed into a unique architectural element: the portico. The house is positioned at the end of two streets, and this specific location determined its internal organization and the design of its facades and two entrances. A monumental portico leading to the elevated ground floor, emphasizing and formalizing the ritual of entering the house, is situated at one end. The purpose of the portico is to create an imposing landmark and provide a covered walkway to the main door. This more formal entrance leads to a foyer and a large living room. The second entrance to the house is at street level and is designed for the family’s daily use. Besides the large living room, which is connected to the first floor through a double-height void, the ground floor also houses a service area, kitchen, dining room, and living room. A rectangular staircase connects all three floors. The upper floor accommodates the bedrooms. The double-height space creates a dynamic interaction between the rooms. The facade is designed in black brick. Here, a connection can also be found with its specific location.

A6A 099 . VELO CITE France - Vaux-sur-Mer 🇫🇷 2021 Photos by Agnès Clotis Vélo Cité formalizes the link between a traditional and a new housing sectors developed around Royan downtown. Thirty-seven houses fitting into the existing slope and offer a new landscape. Like the old Charente buildings, cut and topped with irregular roofs, we offer a volumetric composition that marks the territory and strongly qualifies it. This double topography is shaped by the ground and by the air. In order to establish our buildings, the limit between the public and the private is materialized by these stretched lines in the landscape, on which the constructions emerge.The project is built in raw concrete, and becomes the support for the landscaping that binds the whole project.An idea that starts from a questioning of the current way of consuming housing, and our ability to re-enchant its programmatic and architectural design: how to remain innovative both technically and socially? It would therefore be a question of thinking about new forms of production, avoiding the standardized product which no longer adapts to current households.Thus, creating neighborhoods that are shared and loved by their inhabitants, with their own strong identity, where each dwelling is part of a homogeneous fabric, but remains different in its essence, like its owners.

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Urbina 65 / EPArquitectos @eparquitectos Mazatlán, Mexico 🇲🇽 478 m² Photographs: OHFA , Alan Rojas , Erick Perez , Alvaro Apolinar The narrow hotel is arranged in three small towers interspersed with three small courtyards planted with trees and vegetation. This, along with the landscaped walkways on the ground floor and the perforated corridors on the upper floors (which are traversed by the foliage of the trees), allows for the integration of tropical landscaping, offering memorable walks in close connection with nature, as well as promoting cross ventilation and good acoustic insulation between the units.The building aligns itself towards its southern boundary, then detaches and opens up towards its northern orientation where it resolves its circulation and opens up to capture prevailing winds through large windows that take advantage of indirect natural lighting, which translates into good climatic comfort that is appreciated in the hot tropics. Urbina 65 is located in a popular neighborhood near the tourist area of ​​Mazatlán , offering an unusual hospitality experience, surrounded by small houses, but very close to avenues full of commerce and services.It was conceptualized as a community-linked business, where the people who run it are neighbors, with whom we work together for a better environment, contributing resources, coordination and time for the improvement of the immediate public space, such as paving the streets, planting trees and lighting.After a year of working in coordination with the community, we managed to get the Directorate of Social Development and Welfare to pave Tomas Urbina Street, which only lacked the section where the property is located.

Rogelio’s House / Pepe Ramirez Morelia, Mexico 🇲🇽 260 m² Photographs: César Belio Casa Rogelio is a project designed for a young person who enjoys design, art, modern furniture, and wine. He requested a contemporary home that breaks with the classic housing schemes established in private developments, where empty appearances prevail over essence. It was designed as a seemingly quiet dwelling, closed off from the outside world, yet distinguished by the strength of its volume. Casa Rogelio seeks something beyond mere appearance; with natural materials, a neutral color palette, skylights, and openings that direct the gaze toward interior courtyards, it aims to create an atmosphere of tranquility, elegance, and naturalness, where spatial quality prevails over mere appearance.A concrete screen framed by a cantilevered “U”-shaped volume is the protagonist of this project, which is located in a private subdivision with material and spatial restrictions and on a mid-block lot with 8.5 meters of frontage and 20 meters of depth. The design is developed as follows. The house is laid out along a central axis that spans the length of the property (20 meters deep) and contains the entrance area, staircase, and a hallway. This axis connects all the spaces within the house. Upon entering, the foyer guides the flow of movement: proceed to the living room, ascend to the second or third level, or enter the entertainment room.

CoA arquitectura CASA CIELO Location Mexico - Tlajomulco de Zúñiga 🇲🇽 Photos by César Béjar The house is located in a subdivision inside a natural forested area. The property has neighbors on each side barely three meters apart, while the rear side is next to an oak tree reservation where the view is narrowed only a few meters away because of the trunks and canopies’ density. The house is both a transitional space between the street-city and the forest, and a place-refuge from both. Hence the emphasis on the entry experience, to leave behind so that the foyer and the murmur of water welcome us.Crossing the door’s threshold, a vestibule faces the staircase that leads to the basement and upper floor, three steps beyond, the living room and dining area is opened to the right with a straight clear view to the forest. The master bedroom and bathroom share the same view, the same ‘bring the forest inside’. Two more bedrooms that inhabit the upper floor of the main façade are opened laterally to the exterior through semi-closed courtyards so that the volume is as least perforated as possible. The house occupies all the lot and adopts its triangular shape. It is proposed as a carved volume to give place to the openings and transition courtyards between the interior and exterior. It is built of only one material, looking for a calm integration with the landscape.

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Tree Island House / Carter Williamson Architects Alexandria, Australia 🇦🇺 Photographs:Katherine Lu Tree Island is a family home that rises above its constraints, turning its limitations into its most striking features. Just four and a half meters wide internally, it maximizes space by reaching up high against the neighboring warehouse conversion to the south. A substantial void at the center of the home connects the living, dining, and kitchen spaces, its long, north-facing skylight illuminating every element of the family life cradled gently within.A small courtyard offers a calm buffer between the existing home and the contemporary addition, while a glorious fig tree planted directly into the kitchen island blurs the connection between indoor and outdoor space. A breathtaking void enshrines the core of this young family’s home, its most essential living, dining, and kitchen elements bathed in natural light and filled with greenery.Sited in a heritage conservation area in Sydney’s inner west, Tree Island climbs higher as it moves back from the street, where from the rear it catches the eye with a staircase encased in curved, patterned brick. It houses three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a study that opens onto a rooftop garden that feels as though it is nestled in the trees of its leafy street.

The House with Terrace / SOS Architects Chiang Mai, Thailand 🇹🇭 285 m² Photographs: Rungkit Charoenwat The idea for “The House with Terrace” arose from a simple question: if a household consists of only two people and a dog, how should the home be organized to truly suit their lifestyle? Instead of following the conventional model of a single-family home, the project is characterized by its communal spaces and a large rooftop terrace that becomes the heart of daily life.Designed for three people—a couple and their dog—the house prioritizes quality of life over the number of rooms typically found in conventional homes. Therefore, the layout includes only two bedrooms, both deliberately compact, as they were conceived primarily as sleeping spaces. The master bedroom features solid wood flooring to add warmth to the interior, balancing the raw aesthetic of the concrete walls and exposed steel elements that define the house’s architectural language.The main living areas are arranged in an open-plan common space encompassing the living room, dining room, and pantry/bar. These areas connect seamlessly to a double-height foyer, conceived as a flexible spatial core capable of adapting to future activities and hobbies. Both the living room and the stair landing open onto the rear garden, allowing natural light and greenery to become part of the interior experience. Meanwhile, the bathrooms, kitchen, and service areas are located along the west side of the house, acting as a thermal buffer that reduces the heat buildup caused by the afternoon sun. Skylights bring natural light into the bathrooms, enhancing brightness and helping to reduce humidity.