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Project • By Yaro Bureau • Apartments
Back Home Apartment
On the eighth floor of the new Viking Park residential complex in Lviv, the Yaro Bureau team designed an interior where every square meter enhances the feeling of space, light, and tranquility. The clients—a well-traveled couple—dreamed of a home that could rival the world’s finest resorts in both comfort and atmosphere.
“The clients wanted to avoid any sense of contrast when returning from a trip,” the designers explain. “Instead, they wanted their apartment to feel like a place even better than a vacation.”
Andriy Shurpenkov
Andriy Shurpenkov
Andriy Shurpenkov
The original two-room layout, with its dark, windowless hallway, didn’t align with this vision. The architects reima... More
Project • By Office One Architecture • Private Houses
Casa P
Casa P is the remodeling project of a 4,000 sq ft. single family residence located in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. The project involved the design of the living and dining room areas and its facades as well as the outdoor terrace and pool, to be built in the coming months, and its interior architecture. Within a restrained budget of approximately 70 dollars per square foot of construction, minimum interventions were allowed throughout the rest of the façades where openings were reconfigured and horizontal screens were introduced. The plan of the residence was left intact, only elevation and sectional interventions were allowed.In order to provide privacy to the residence on the south facade and not lose contact with nature, the front of the... More
Project • By Fernando Alda Fotografía • Apartments
Casa 30x30 (Reforma Integral de una vivienda)
1. DESCRIPTION OF PURPOSEAlong the years many high standing residences of the XIXth Century expansion of Madrid have been modified to convert some rooms with little use into independent small apartments with minimal surface and optimum situation. In this case it is a 35 m2wine cellars which was adjacent to the kitchen of one of these residences which was bought by our client about thirty years ago and which had to be reformed.The existing distribution, composed of compartments and opaque, divides the apartment into 4 spaces (bedroom, living room kitchen and bathroom), all of them very small. The storing space was minimum and comfort and natural light were ratherscarce since every space is associated to a single aluminum window and balcony w... More
Project • By Office One Architecture • Private Houses
RIMA House
RIMA House is a 1400 sq ft addition located in San Marino Island Miami Beach. Inspired in the Spanish colonial architecture of St. Augustine, Florida, the design reinterprets the traditional houses’ material and volumetric layering and its iconic balconies and merges minimalist interventions through the introduction of the term minimalist hybridization.
In terms of material layering, we focused on the combinations of materials found in the houses of St. Augustine, specifically the ones built out of tabby (masonry) and frame (wood). Additions and second stories were built out of wood while the original house and base were built out of masonry. This material expression added texture and scale to the urban fabric as well as a sense of... More