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Project • By Cometa Architects • Private Houses
Casa D
This residential transformation project reinterprets a 1960s house through a careful strategy of structural reuse, volumetric clarity, and spatial densification. Situated on a corner plot within a heterogeneous urban fabric of varying building scales and typologies, the intervention preserves the footprint and foundational concrete frame of the existing house while extending vertically with a lightweight steel structure engineered to withstand seismic loads.
Giorgos Sfakianakis
The architectural language is defined by a sculptural massing of opaque facades and calibrated openings. Responding to the proximity of taller neighboring buildings and the challenge of privacy, the house assumes a monolithic presence. To mediate light and spat... More
Project • By Nacho Gias • Housing
Vivienda Unifamiliar Torrelodones
The project involves the rural house integral rehabilitation in Madrid, in the residential area of Torrelodones.The meticulous study of the architecture and construction of the house conform the first step of the project, to analyze its state of conservation, construction systems and geometry.It is a rustic architecture, typical of the Madrid rural area, where many different constructive systems coexist, from load-bearing walls, ceramic joists, steel pillars or concrete beams ... each single systems used respond to the supplies available at each moment of the house construction.It has a traditional façade, with great textures from a hard concrete Surface to protect from humidity, and a gable roof. It seeks to make a functional and at... More
Project • By Moneo Brock Studio • Private Houses
Casa TEC 205
The Casa TEC 205 is located very close to the Chipinque ecological park in Monterrey, an urban landscape dominated by the Sierra Madre. This house is the first prize in a raffle organized every year by the Technological University of Monterrey to raise funds for its students. The house design preserves four large extant trees on the site. Now embedded in the house, the trees characterize the spaces they inhabit. Major interior spaces enjoy direct connections to their own corresponding outdoor spaces, each associated with a different landscape, a unique character and quality of light. In order to gather these outdoor spaces into the project, a series of large wall planes that intersect in the house’s center project into the surrou... More