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Project • By BLOKK • Private Houses
Sommerhus Frølunde Fed
Sommerhus Frølunde Fed is a contemporary holiday home centred around architecture, natural light and a close connection to its surroundings. Set within the scenic landscape of Frølunde Fed, the house is shaped by the distinctive character of the site and the quiet rhythm of the surrounding landscape. The architecture is driven by a desire to create a retreat where simplicity, materiality and functionality come together in a clear and harmonious whole.
The house comprises four bedrooms and two bathrooms, as well as a generous living space that brings the kitchen, dining area and living room together in one continuous open flow. This space forms the heart of the home – a place for gathering and spending time together, wit... More
Project • By iy Synapsis Architects • Residential Landscape
Line of Living
Line of Living is conceived as a linear Mediterranean retreat where daily life unfolds along a single axis of light, landscape and calm. Set on a hillside plot in Eupalio, western Greece, the residence embeds itself into the terrain while opening fully to slope and view. Positioned along the southern boundary, it frees the foreground as an uninterrupted outdoor field, reinforcing the project’s spatial identity and foregrounding the experience of Mediterranean living.
katerina iakovaki
katerina iakovaki
katerina iakovaki
An organizing axis structures the residence into three programmatic volumes: a tiled-roof social core containing living and kitchen areas, a stone-clad block for the master suite, and a taller wing with... More
Project • By KUU arhitektid • Private Houses
Cottage in Muraste
Estonians have historically been “forest dwellers”. Their experience in building from wood goes back to the 3rd millennium BCE when the first timber structure was built – the koda (chamber). Through traditions and customs, this dwelling unit with archaic and simple architecture laid the foundation for a complex ethos that could be called the soul of the Estonian identity.Koda is one of the oldest Estonian words, originally meaning “place for living”, and it is linguistically very close to the words kodu (“home”) and koht (“place”). The archetypal koda in its original form is still in use, even though its basic purpose has changed. Over time, completely new types of koda have appeared: places for makin... More