Month: April 2022

Lake Barcroft is a 135-acre lake located in Falls Church, Virginia. The community comprises approximately 1,040 homes with 225 houses that share lakefront property. The houses in the community were constructed in 1949, and most employ a ranch-style or split-level vernacular. While the lake is located a mere ten miles from the US Capitol, the lakefront community enjoys a psychological reprieve from the urban core of Washington, DC. The steeply sloping, wooded lot where this new house is constructed, was one of the few remaining vacant waterfront lots at Lake Barcroft.

the patio aids to regulate the temperature throughout the house, acting as a thermal buffer in summer and winter.
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Kitchens and bathrooms get a lot of remodeling attention. But there’s been a surge of interest in living room updates in recent years. Many updates to living rooms are typically less expensive than the major changes often involved in kitchen and bathr…

While having a primary bathroom that’s over 200 square feet is a problem most people wouldn’t mind having, that much space can feel like a vast echo chamber with awkward proportions. That was the case in this Pacific Palisades, California, home. The b…

The rural municipal building is located in the southern part of the central park of Saue giving it a logical and dignified closure. Viewed from the outside, the office and administrative building seem like a pavilion in the public park. The contradiction between the privacy and the prominent public location of the work environment is solved by a double-skin façade. On the one hand, the archaic covered archway carved into the laconic triangular volume gives the building its administrative prominence in the local urban context but at the same time functions also as a public shelter in the park and ensures sun protection for the interior spaces.

behind the building’s puzzling exterior, an unexpected oasis pops up forming a new kind of public space in the neighborhood.
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located at the corner of the site, the park pockets are envisioned as calm escapes from the busy street and covered meeting spots for the community.
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