Eco house

The house has been designed according to the sustainable principles of biobased, ecological construction. In the design and construction of this house, we carefully looked at the orientation, the sun and the usual wind direction (for example, for the possibilities for night ventilation). The sun has a lot of influence on the shape and the layout. The house is constructed from a vapour permeable timber frame construction system, delivered on site as prefabricated elements. All the insulation materials above the ground are natural. Martijn Heil The plots are relative small in this project. The neighbouring home is relative close by and provide much shade in winter. The clients have therefore chosen not to create a roof overhang on... More

An odd, asymmetrical art-deco house, nested in the urban fabric searched for clarity after an erratic succession of renovations and extensions. The rooms are open to typological diversity, despite the rigid plan repeated in every level. All living spaces revolve around ambiguous rooms, broken in their middle and punctuated by central blue columns, suggesting a fragmented reading of their otherwise unitary material appearance. The blue elements function as the only vertical ornament of the domestic spaces where the floors are built with three kinds of wood, forming stripes of varying widths, acting as an endless tapestry.   The spiral staircase ties the house together: glossy dark blue doors, a pre-existing romanticised handrail and a... More

This house is located in a quiet neighbourhood in Pune. Abutted by two roadslined with large banyan trees, the site had an existing art-deco house, set amidstlarge trees. The programme was to demolish the old house and construct a new one.   The idea was to preserve most of the trees; hence the new house predominantly occupied the area of the existing house and started responding to the surrounding trees. The presence of nature around was so strong that indoor and outdoor got integrated effortlessly, almost every room opening in three directions and connecting with the trees all around. A cobbled arrival courtyard with blank wall as a backdrop creates a layer of privacy.   The journey into the house starts from this court and... More

The existing Art Deco house is gazetted for conservation by the Urban Redevelopment Authority. The original main entrance faces away from the main gate of the newly sub-divided plot of land. The challenge was too layout the new additions to the conserved house, in such a way that a new formal entry is created between the existing house and the new block. Caption Caption This was achieved by inserting the new Living Room between the conserved hose and a large existing tree, at once creating the intermediate elements with a character of their own: the main entrance porch adjacent to a pond, and the new timber deck onto which the living room space flow out to. Caption Caption On the opposite side of the conserved house, t... More

This house is a three-story wooden house located in a residential area near the center part of Tokyo.   The client is a couple working together, and they requested a space where they could spend a relaxing in holiday. In addition, high airtightness and high heat insulation specifications were required so that the entire three-story space could be used without the stress of temperature differences.   Based on these requests and the shape of the long and narrow site, a light court was set up in the center of the site, and rooms were arranged on the left and right sides of a light court. The use of eco-technologies such as high insulation resin sashes, additional insulation, and a ventilation system for total heat exchange ensure... More

The project consists in the intervention in an old Art Deco house, catalogued by the National Institute of Beaux Arts. The complete house, façade and interiors, was recovered to create three apartments (one duplex, two simplex), with access through a hall of double height, decorated with epoch moldings and stained-glass windows.   At the far end of the property a building is designed, with five apartments in six levels, three of which are superimposed on the building. Each of these is recessed, creating terraces which open to an avenue lined with trees. The way in which the new building and house are joined, opens the space for a central patio, southerly oriented. All five apartments live toward this area. The façades o... More

Marmalade Lane, Cambridge’s first cohousing development, is now complete and welcoming K1 Cohousing members. This marks the culmination of eighteen years of work by the group, and comes at a moment when custom-build and community-led housing are being recognised by the government as viable and attractive models for future housing.   The development comprises 42 homes – a mix of two- to five-bedroom terraced houses and one- and two-bedroom apartments. In common with other cohousing communities now established in the UK, Marmalade Lane’s shared spaces and communal facilities, designed to foster community spirit and sustainable living, are integral to the development. These include extensive shared gardens as the focal... More

Located off the coast of the Peconic River, between the North and South forks on Long Island in the state of New York, Shelter Island is accessible only by ferry. While during the summer months the island’s population swells to over 10,000 year-round residents total only about 2,300. Eco House is located on a one-acre plot of land located at edge of the wooded Shelter Island Heights on the North side of the island above Crescent beach, with Amazing winter water views and ravishing sunsets. The two structures built on the site are independent, but share the interior “piazza" a link between the Main Eco House and the Pool House; it acts as a connecting communal space for socializing and relaxing. The vineyard creates a buffer zone betwee... More

This backland site was part of a generous 4 bedroomed property that benefits from a mature garden, including listed trees and well established, mature boundary hedging. The site for the new property was chosen by our client for its minimal impact on the existing property. The result is a narrow, east-west orientated building plot, partially encroached by tree root protection zones and existing planting which is to be retained. The building plot also forms a stop-end to an existing 1970s mews, which is a dominant yet incomplete development pattern.Early stage 3D modelling highlighted three key amenity areas with optimum light throughout the day and the seasons. The building design concept was then developed to provide hard edges to avoid imp... More

Los jobos is a new and quite neighborhood at the south area of playa tamarindo community. This area is located in the ‘green corridor’ that connects tamarindo and langosta estuaries with the forests and mountains that surround tamarindo. This corridor is used by animals to come down from the mountains and have access to the water of the of the estuaries during the dry season. The property that is surround by a beautiful forest and it has a stepped slope next to the access leaving 100% of the property under the street level. Because of this, our client asked us to lift up part of the program trying to reach the views and also share a great connection with the canopies of the trees that surround the property. Social and services areas, the st... More

Jenkins Street is a juxtaposition in many ways. It flawlessly mixes private & intimate spaces with open plan living and the architecture provides contrast with new modern-contemporary meeting with old period-art deco. The dynamic of new and old, and diversity on a functional level as well as a visual level alludes to a home with a perceived split personality; made tranquil with the right balance of yin and yang.Located in gentrifying Northcote, the quieter inner streets are filled with a healthy mix of redevelopment sites and period homes with modern extensions, with industrial or bohemian undertones. Situated walking distance to Northcote Plaza, All Nations Park, train stations and the High Street precinct, Jenkins Street provides the... More

Gorter has provided a roof access hatch with electrical scissor stairs to the Forest Lodge Eco House in Sydney, Australia . The Gorter roof hatch has a unique insulation value which fits well with the objectives set for this sustainable Eco house. The roof hatch in combination with the electric scissor stairs ensures that the very limited space is used optimally. The roof hatch is used to gain access to the roof garden. The roof garden is constructed in a way that it contributes to the isolation of the building. The Gorter electric scissor stairs consist of a wooden casing and a wooden lid. The scissor stairs is mounted on the lid and made of cast aluminum. The electric scissor stairs are operated with a remote control. Scissor stairs ar... More

As a part in a chain of Agritecture development projects, Terraces home adopts the combination of Architecture and Agriculture (Agriculture + Architecture = Agritecture) as a basis for sustainable development. The idea is to combine the two distinctive elements of Vietnam’s rural areas: The house (accommodation space) and terraced rice field (cultivation space) to create a Home with blurred boundaries in and out; above and below; common and private. Certain accommodation space is located along the slope of the roof so that it is wide open to sight angles, light and shadow, which is enabled by concrete trays of farm produce at different levels high above. Along the two flanks of the roof are irrigation systems to keep plots of farmlan... More

The Eco Houses grew from a double conceptual root. On the one hand, ensuring the profitability of Pedras Salgadas Park as a tourist hotel project made the option between rehabilitating the existing hotel or building a new one a project that was as slow as it was costly. On the other hand, the organicity of the park itself actually suggests implementing these bungalows, which are small in comparison with a conventional hotel and much easier to conceal in the existing tree cover. The main characteristic is their modular nature. This fundamental detail continuously transforms the experience of those who lodge there. Any of the houses – consisting of a hall, bathroom, sitting room and bedroom – allows for multiple layouts, so that it was possib... More