Sustainable housing

Set over four split floor levels, this newly transformed north London home is an outstanding example of how to remodel and create high quality spaces within a typical semi-detached house. This contemporary and light filled home has expansive glazing and balconies which open out to the garden below, and effortlessly combines tactile and inviting materials across the interior and exterior thresholds.    Sympathetic alterations by Matthew Giles Architects replace earlier unsatisfactory additions, and include a new dark zinc roof dormer, new high performing glass panels to the front and rear with improved window openings and roof lights at the front of the home.  © French+Tye Rosebery Road lies within the Muswell Hil... More

A place for senior citizens to call home. Vitápolis is a residential complex whose services are tailored to the social and welfare needs of senior citizens. In addition to the development's 35 fully-accessible independent apartments, it has community space which covers a surface area of than 1,500 m2 and includes gymnasiums, workshops, cafeteria, meeting rooms, lounges, gardens, pools, sports facilities and allotments. The Vitápolis project looks beyond architectural considerations and sets out to deliver a solution adapted to the emerging physical and emotional needs of this section of the population. Romero & Vallejo The development does not merely provide a set of accessible housing units. It aims to create... More

asas arkitektur, Atsite and Fragment (formerly Eriksen Skajaa architects) were prequalified for the planning and design competition for the development of a headland at the Tinnelven outlet into the Heddal water. Previously site for Tinfoss ironworks in Notodden. The task was to outline a residential area and a building with eight interconnected apartments for disabled children.The main grip is a step-by-step transition through neighborhoods to the landscape room and the water via good lines of sight and varied typology from point houses, slats to terraced houses. The odds are flood exposed, the sketch facilitated public flexible public spaces at the lower level below the flood level that caters to the footpath along the headland, whic... More

The site of Daylighthouse 2 is next to the huge lake IJsselmeer. In between the lake and the house is a beautiful swamp for birds. Almere planned row houses on this location and the town house is the end of a row facing south west. Mirck Architecture translated the wishes of the client into a wooden cube of 9 by 9 by 9 meter. The facade, inner space and climate are influenced by sunlight and daylight. The particular structure of the cube is shown everywhere and continued in the plot wall and the shed.The ground floor living space is fully glazed to the south and west side. The sun protection is created by the cantilevered bedroom volume above. To the north, a split level opens the inner space, creating voids. In the voids special shiny roun... More

The Syshaus House comes to the market bringing a new concept to live with quality, practicality and sustainability - not only ideals, but effective practices. The structural system is composed of standardized types of pillar, beam, joint node and screw, which when combined result in different configurations of plants and programs, within a limit of up to three floors, either in a flat or sloped terrain. The external and internal coverings, such as floors, walls and linings, are also conceived as part of a docking system. In this way, the residence is entirely assembled in the lot, without generating waste or consuming natural resources such as water - abundantly wasted in conventional construction.Baptized as ‘ecosystemic’, the construction... More