Mountain houses
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about Mountain houses
Project • By APS - Pablo Senmartin • Private Houses
Casa en la pradera
Anisacate is a town near the city of Alta Gracia, it is located at the foot of the mountain range of the small mountains of Cordoba, a sector where young families think about their home, in a quiet area, but close and accessible to the urban, to their time with great environmental and landscape value, which allow the development of the family. The available site has a large green plain of 27 m in front, and 40 m deep.
Andres Dominguez
From the beginning, it was thought to position the architecture well landscape, which would allow to generate a clear front, and a protected background,Building its own limits and controlled environment, from this simplicity the ground floor is developed, with a program of areas for common and social use... More
Project • By line+ • Swimming Pools
Jiunvfeng Bubble Pool on Mount Tai
“Leaning on the edge of the cliff, overlooking in all directions, enjoying the heavenly leisure.” In Li Bai’s verses, Mount Tai, the chief of the Five Sacred Mountains, breathed the air of the world and accommodated the most beautiful scenery of all. Faced with the ancient strata that have undergone 3 billion years of evolution, human beings are as small as a drop in the ocean, and how buildings, the habitat of human beings, will be integrated into the natural order?
Project Background
Jiunvfeng Bubble Pool is located in Dongximen Village, Tai’an, Shandong, a typical mountain village in northern China, occupying the natural beauty of the surrounding area of Mount Tai. However, due to the loss of nat... More
Project • By Virginia Lorello • Apartments
home in Valtournenche
Valtournenche, at 1500 meters above sea level, is famous for its skiing facilities that connect to Cervinia. The typical local house is very low, extremely small in size, completely covered in wood and with warm and feeble lightings. Externally it is possible to find the typical combination of gray stone and wood, of which the local vernacular architecture "rascard" is an exemplary case.
The project, instead of enclosing itself in a wooden cocoon, brings into the interior this strong relationship of splitted stone and honey wood. Light colors on the walls, new windows with reduced frames and the open-space kitchen, favor the entry of the snowy landscapes and their lights.
The grey color, applied to some walls and fabric elements, is... More
Project • By Camillo Botticini Architect • Private Houses
Alps Villa
This house is located in a clearing among the trees, at an altitude of 700 meters, near the "Passo del Cavallo", where you can see a place near but at the same time far from the urban area just below.
The relationship with the ground and the landscape are the materials that construct the project: with the ground it operates a principle of rooting towards the slope to the north, where the house seems to bite the mountain, while it "emancipates" to the south, with an overhang that projects it towards the valley.
Facing north, in fact, an open courtyard in the direction of the mountains allows you to admire the profile of the spires of the Dolomites, which at an altitude of 1200 meters continues the green inclined plane virtu... More