#contemporary house

A home conceived as a contemporary retreat, where architecture, light and simplicity come together to create a sense of calm and a strong connection with its surroundings. Ana Mora Ana Mora Ana Mora Ana Mora Ana Mora The project embraces an architecture of clean lines and open spaces, where courtyards and generous openings allow natural light to flow throughout the interior, creating a constant dialogue between the domestic spaces and the outdoors. The sober yet warm material palette, together with a carefully considered relationship between solids and voids, defines a serene, functional and timeless home. Ana Mora Ana Mora Ana Mora More

#1_ SITE The project is situated in Chacras de Coria, Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, within a semi-urban setting of low-rise housing, vineyards and poplar trees that defines the cultural landscape of the Greater Mendoza foothills. The house — 170 m² developed on a single level — emerges from the desire to create an introverted refuge that engages with its context through a logic of containment and controlled openness. The condition of the plot boundary is resolved by a continuous perimeter wall of exposed reinforced concrete that runs the full length of the building line. The texture of the concrete, with its visible formwork marks, lends the ensemble an honest, quiet and austere material presence towards the street. Acce... More

A young couple decided to leave central Prague and build their first home together in the city’s outskirts. They envisioned a life with children playing in the garden, long summer dinners with friends by the fire, and spending quality time outdoors as a family. Helena Línová, Vítězslav Kůstka In addition to the standard program—a bedroom, a study, two children's rooms, a living room, and a garden—one key wish emerged: an outdoor sauna. The house is located in a suburban neighborhood high above Radotín, overlooking the Berounka River valley. Although the corner plot is flat and well-oriented, it lacked privacy, being surrounded by large neighboring residences. The desire to create a privat... More

Built on a narrow terraced plot facing the sea in Badalona, Casa PR21 occupies the full width of the site and unfolds across four storeys and an accessible roof terrace. Designed for a family of three, the house organises everyday life through a sequence of spaces in which structure, light and voids shape the interior experience. A restrained material palette and white surfaces allow natural light to flow from one façade to the other, making it the project's primary organising element. José Hevia José Hevia José Hevia José Hevia José Hevia The layout stems directly from its structural system. At ground-floor level, a series of reinforced concrete portal frames creates an op... More

Creation of an apartment in the rural section of a farmhouse in Praz-Pury The project involves the creation of an apartment in the partially disused rural part of a 1930s farmhouse. Fribourg farmhouses of that era housed both living quarters and farm functions under one roof. The rural section typically consisted of two stables flanking a central passageway — the fourragère — a through-space used for feeding livestock, which also benefited from additional height allowing hay to be stored above the stables. David BARD David BARD David BARD David BARD David BARD The intervention follows a logic of continuity, enhancing existing spatial qualities. The apartment is laid out on the ground floor acros... More

A typical urban residential plot in Bengaluru, India, measuring 200 ft by 50 ft and oriented east–west with a gentle slope rising towards the west, comes with a unique twist. While two sides are bordered by dense housing — as is common in the city — the other two remain open. Most notably, the western edge opens out to a no man’s land atop a hill, guaranteeing no future construction and providing an uncommon sense of openness within the dense urban fabric. The architects were commissioned to design a residence for a family of four, featuring four bedrooms and a casual hangout space on the terrace. The brief also called for a dedicated spa area and ample parking space.  Vinay Sekhar Vinay Sekhar Vin... More

Casa Tertulia is a single-family residence located in San Mateo de Alajuela, Costa Rica, on a steeply sloping site with a dominant landscape condition. Its primary operation consists of providing housing through a strategy of minimal intrusion: rather than resting heavily on the ground, the house is elevated on stilts to reduce earthworks, allow ecological continuity beneath the structure, avoid interrupting natural runoff, and prevent flooding and humidity problems; making a complex site habitable without sacrificing accessibility or comfort for its elderly owners. The project's syntactic organization is based on an "L"-shaped configuration that articulates two domains: the social and the private. This geometry does not respond solely to... More

Located in Puszczykowo near Poznań, the house was designed for a sloping site intersected by two natural embankments. The existing topography became the starting point for the entire concept, shaping the building's form, section and functional organization. The result is a house that grows naturally from the landscape and responds directly to the site's conditions. The building is composed of two interconnected volumes containing the residential and garage functions. Both are covered with asymmetrical mono-pitched roofs aligned with the natural slope of the site, allowing the architecture to integrate with the terrain while creating a distinctive silhouette. Konrad Idaszewski Konrad Idaszewski Konrad Idaszewski The changing... More

Located in the Galician countryside, the project establishes a direct relationship with its immediate site context, prioritising response to local topography, microclimatic conditions, and solar orientation. Designed by SINALDABA Estudio Arquitectura, the residential structure relies on foundational passive building principles, envelope compactness, protection against prevailing winds, low surface-to-volume ratio, and minimal site disturbance, rather than relying on nostalgic or regional vernacular aesthetics. LUIS DIAZ DIAZ SINALDABA ❌︎ Remove Applied Products block will be inserted here   Architectural concept & Passive strategies The volume is shaped by strict microclimatic responses. The building envelope... More

Occupying a corner plot in Torrefiel -one of Valencia’s most humble neighborhoods- the Nest House is conceived as an exercise in protecting and highlighting the scarce and valuable built heritage still preserved in the streets of this key peripheral district in the city's north. David Zarzoso David Zarzoso David Zarzoso David Zarzoso Indeed, although code regulations allowed us to demolish the existing structure and build a new, the project insisted from the very beginning on preserving the original envelope and seeking shelter within it. It is as if that skin -made of solid brick and lime mortar, held intact over the years- had now become the foundation (or perhapsthe nest) for a new, emergent architecture that r... More

DWELLING THE BARN The project emerged from the search to recover an essential way of dwelling, in contrast to the increasingly fragmented domesticity of contemporary housing, often shaped by the logic of the apartment. From the outset, the client expressed the desire to live in a barn, associated with an austere, quiet, and intimate experience—almost monastic. Rather than reproducing a rural image, the house adopts the barn as a spatial archetype capable of establishing a different relationship between openness, structure, and permanence. In contrast to the freedom of the surrounding landscape, the interior creates a restrained and introspective atmosphere through carefully framed deep openings, reminiscent of a monastery, and shado... More

Located in Cacupé, Florianópolis, Casa Cacupé was designed around an L-shaped layout, a strategy that optimizes the use of the site, maximizes natural sunlight, and establishes a strong connection between the interior spaces and the outdoor areas. Defined by a contemporary architectural language and a palette of light, neutral tones, the residence reflects the homeowners' desire—after relocating from São Paulo—for a bright, welcoming home that embraces its natural surroundings. Wood, natural stone, and understated finishes compose the interiors, enhancing the sense of warmth, light, and well-being throughout the house. Rafael Ribeiro Rafael Ribeiro Rafael Ribeiro Rafael Ribeiro... More

Ertürk House was conceived not merely as a formal architectural exercise, but as an exploration of the relationship between light, proportion, and materiality, and their influence on spatial experience. Rather than creating an iconic or experimental object detached from its context, the design seeks to establish a calm, restrained residential environment that integrates naturally into its surroundings and supports everyday life. İlay Bilge Şen İlay Bilge Şen İlay Bilge Şen İlay Bilge Şen The massing is composed through the careful arrangement of distinct volumes, creating a balanced architectural composition. The dialogue between the abstract lightness of white rendered surfaces and the tectonic solidity of exposed... More

Carved into a hillside of southern Crete, the house is born from the intersection of two offset compositions. The lower mass rests within the hillside; above it, a lighter volume crosses the void, forming a bridge that defines the entrance and mediates between ground and sky. OFFICE SKOH OFFICE SKOH Material austerity—plaster, stone, and glass—anchors the structure in its context, allowing light and wind to animate its surfaces. The pool, discreetly positioned behind the main volume, withdraws from the prevailing north winds and extends the horizon of the dwelling into the landscape. OFFICE SKOH OFFICE SKOH OFFICE SKOH Neither object nor excavation, the house acts as a precise calibration between inhab... More