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CWN House / Bernardes Arquitetura

September 12, 2021 Susanna Moreira 0

In Santana de Parnaíba, a city 40 kilometers away from São Paulo downtown, is the condominium where this residence was built. The plot with 1,850 square meters and approximately 6 meters of unevenness accommodated the house with 1,750 square meters of built area distributed over three floors. The L-shaped design and one of the diagonal wings has a steel frame and stone closures on the south face (opaque) and frames and brises on the north face (translucent).

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Casa Ananda / OWN

September 12, 2021 Agustina Coulleri 0

Ananda is a complex of 13 townhouses of 210.00m2 each, located in Mérida, Yucatán. The project covers a lot of 2,215.00m2 and is developed in a uniform volumetry sectioned by openings and solids that jointly accommodate pedestrian accesses and carports. Creating contrast through materials and textures generated by three-dimensional triangles, based on sacred geometry, the pattern of the flower of life is formed as a ventilated facade, which provides shade, privacy and controlled ventilation through perforations of different scales.

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building with nature: the primitive hut

September 12, 2021 UMA 0

UMA built a hut in the middle of a swedish forest that is cut out from three of the most common trees in sweden: the spruce tree.
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Alter & Company revamps 1960s home to create Sri Lankan-informed Bawa House

September 12, 2021 Amy Frearson 0
Bawa House in Sussex

Architecture studio Alter & Company has updated a mid-century house in East Sussex, England, using a layout and materials palette inspired by trips to Sri Lanka. Bawa House, named after Sri Lankan modernist Geoffrey Bawa, is a renovation of a typical two-storey detached house built in the 1960s. Alter & Company’s design sees the interior layout

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