Beach house

A modern house for a couple and their family looking to slow down on Long Beach Island.  Sited on a particularly narrow stretch of the barrier island, the house takes full advantage of the lot’s unique positioning to maximize expansive views towards both the bay and the ocean. Halkin Mason Photography Halkin Mason Photography Halkin Mason Photography Halkin Mason Photography The main bedroom suite and living spaces are elevated to the uppermost floor to capture unobstructed ocean views with an abundance of glass. Large sliding glass doors open the main living space to a generously sized, ocean facing covered deck. A band of horizontal windows stretches across the west facade, connecting the ocean to the bay.... More

The house is situated on a narrow lot amidst a spectrum of 1950’s era beach bungalows and an eclectic mix of freshly minted estates. The concept for this home originated from a desire to generate a timeless balance between the vernacular of mid-century California beach architecture and contemporary sensibilities towards sustainable materials, function, vistas and natural light. BRANDON SHIGETA LAUREN PRESSEY LAUREN PRESSEY LAUREN PRESSEY BRANDON SHIGETA BRANDON SHIGETA BRANDON SHIGETA BRANDON SHIGETA BRANDON SHIGETA More

Primeriza House is located on a small clearing of an otherwise heavily sloped terrain with stunning views of the Pacific Ocean to the front and a strong backdrop of almost vertical slope densely populated by cypress trees. Marcos Zegers Marcos Zegers Our clients wanted to make the most of outdoor living, and one of their key requirements was to create many opportunities to inhabit the exterior. Another was to create various different environments, nooks and crannies, and moods inside the house. These two, combined with the plot and weather conditions, shaped the volume of the house and its many transitional spaces.  Marcos Zegers Marcos Zegers The house conquers the slope and inserts firmly into the terrain by mea... More

Venice, California is a buzzing beach town with upscale commercial and residential pockets. Not far from the free-spirited Venice Boardwalk, Muscle Beach, funky shops, stylish boutiques and foodie hotspots is a brand new construction quaint modernistic Oxford Avenue home designed by lead architect Matthew Royce. This envy-inducing split-level rental home, owned by Royce, who also served as its general building contractor, is equipped with a custom-made Schweiss 13.8' x 10.8' one-piece hydraulic designer door with electric photo eye sensors and is clad in glass. What's really unique about the home is the hydraulic door opens from the living room to overlook a private outdoor patio and lets fresh air into the home. "I chose the hydraulic do... More

A wooden house near the beach was renovated into the designer's residence and workplace, as well as a curry restaurant. Yosuke Ohtake Yosuke Ohtake What I was conscious of while designing this house was about "mixed". I proceeded with the design while paying attention to the various mixes surrounding this house, such as usage, culture and nationality, time and space, town and house, work and life. Yosuke Ohtake Yosuke Ohtake Yosuke Ohtake In designing, I thought that it would be possible to renew the mundane "multinational house" by understanding the roots and cultural background of my own once again and mixing the essence of foreign countries with traditional materials and techniques of this area. Yosuke Ohtak... More

The house is designed as a two-level volume that faces the lagoon and beach front of the condominium. The first level, containing the entrance, parking, and private bedroom area, is visually below the boardwalk level and is conceived as a solid concrete base that emerges from the ground. The second level, made up of the social core and master bedroom area, in contrast, is devised as a light element that rests on its base and opens towards the landscape and horizon. Juan Solano Juan Solano Juan Solano The design of the house solves an ambitious 8-bedroom program by concentrating its horizontal connections at the lot´s core and arranging its private and social spaces towards the exterior. The result maximizes its exposur... More

Beach house, located among the pine forests and rice fields of Comporta, set in sand dunes, in a place of great natural beauty and strength of fauna and flora.The center of inspiration was the deserted and wild beaches of the region and the reproduction of this environment, with dunes and vegetation. FG+SG | Fernando Guerra FG+SG | Fernando Guerra The project is composed of 2 pure volumes with great transparency, around which you can appreciate the complexity of the nature that surrounds them.A wooden volume on the ground floor and on top of it a concrete volume on the first floor. FG+SG | Fernando Guerra FG+SG | Fernando Guerra Patios were created on the ground floor, allowing the sand and dune vegetation to also inha... More

Principle Architect: Moein Nikaeen Design team: Phase 1: Noura Sam, Parsa Bateby, Bita Rezaee, Fatemeh Ghaemi, Sana Sharifi Pooya  Phase 2: Zahra Salehi, Sepehr Beyhaghi Interior design: Behnam Dalili Structure: Arsham Aghajani 3D Visualization: Saeed Sadeghian, Parham Bakhtiari Caption Caption Caption This project is a design of a villa on a 330 square meter plot of land located in Royan county, Mazandaran province, northern Iran. The project draws inspiration from the connection between architecture and art. During the research phase, the "four square" idea was explored. The main challenge in designing this villa was expanding the open space in the project and how to connect and integrate it to the enclosed spac... More

We have designed a primary structure that serves as a retaining wall against the landslide on the terrain. PAUL CREMOUX studio PAUL CREMOUX studio The houses on the access side appear as two simple pavilions constructed with a modular wooden structure, while on the other side, they are perceived as two massive concrete volumes. PAUL CREMOUX studio PAUL CREMOUX studio The modular wooden frames are equipped with mechanical panels that function as hurricane shutters, which can be adjusted by the user for ventilation and interior lighting control. PAUL CREMOUX studio PAUL CREMOUX studio More

Kati Kaan is an off-the grid, self-sustainable beach house located at the National Biosphere Reserve of Sian Kaan in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo at the east of the Yucatan Peninsula. As an aisled location, it has to save, recycle as much as possible of water and to generate and store power from both, solar and wind generators. As part of the strict regulations for this site, the footprint of the house is limited to a tight land surface of the 100-meter beach-front plot, as up to 200 sq meters of construction and 8 meters above the highest dune are allowed.  Leo Espinosa As a response to the present conditions, the house is placed on stilts and behind the second dune, so the impact to the very sensitive vegetation is minimiz... More

After seeing how we’d refurbished and renewed their friend’s beach shack home at Burrill Lake, on NSW’s South Coast, our clients engaged us to work some similar magic on their ‘unusual’ home at nearby Mollymook Beach. The Palm Co. While the house was set on a flat 680sq m block just one road back from the beach, the existing dwelling had some challenges. Inside, the house was dark, with a compromised, multi-levelled floorplan featuring one and a half bedrooms and no real connection to the generous backyard. Weird would be a polite way of describing the layout. The Palm Co. The late 1970s house had also been given an ill-thought-out internal makeover in the 1990s which was beginning to look tired and... More

The Xihu Residence is based on two very important premises for its owner: to have all the internal comforts of a house through the use of technologies to seek the sustainability of the operation of the house. Caption Due to these two premises, the owner wanted to incorporate the use of a centralized HVAC system and optimize its operation by carrying out the construction of the project through the ICF system that provides the best possible insulation. In the same way, the chosen HVAC system is highly efficient, and the proposed windows are double-paneled in order to minimize the demand for the residence’s operating load. Caption The design combines all these needs with the use of different textures and materials that link t... More

Exuberance-free, the home reflects Latvians’ reserved and modest nature. No element is purely decorative, so as not to take away from the rugged beauty of the landscape. Even elements like drains and gutters are hidden or replaced with a rain chain.  Alvis Rozenbergs Alvis Rozenbergs Latvian legislation does not permit newbuilds within the proximity of the coastline, however, it is possible to build on existing foundations. With this in mind Open AD’s clients purchased a coastal property with the idea of transforming it.  Alvis Rozenbergs Alvis Rozenbergs The property consisted of four mismatched buildings – the main house, a garage, shed and garden house. Open AD established how to preserve... More