Traditional meets contemporary
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Project • By LFSN • Individual Buildings
Casa Friscanzana
Friscanzana house is a country mansion harmoniously placed in the network of stone walls and typical paths in the countryside surrounding the Sicilian town of Ragusa.
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The house consists of a main building, extending lengthwise with a string of broad rooms divided by transversal bearing walls, and two juxtaposed annexes.
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The project is based on a deep and (auto)ironical analysis of the Sicilian character, meant both as a body of endemic behaviors and as an interpretation of clichés about the “Sicilian man” found in the media and particularly in movies.
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Fimmina, Masculu, Duminica, Curtigghio, Lagnusia, Calura e Friscanzana, Tivitti (Woman, Man, Sunday, Courtyard/gossip, Lazine... More
Project • By Km Architecture Office • Housing
The Grand House
Changing the structure of the traditional three-room house with a contemporary approach suitable for multi-generational families and tropical climates.
The development of large cities attracts many people to work and live there, but their spirit always remains connected to their homeland. This process has given rise to houses built by those who have returned to their hometowns after years of hard work.
Hoang Le
Hoang Le
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Hoang Le
We named this project Grand House, a shared home for the extended family where siblings return to be with their aging parents and connect with their roots. The spatial organization aims to harmonize openness and modernity with privacy and tradition, catering to the individual users whi... More
Project • By Raj Karan Designs • Individual Buildings
Flux Farm
The site is a hide away, embraced by the Aravali Range with its greenery punctuated by quarried Rock, Kota village and the ITC golf course.The client being a golf enthusiast and having farming as a hobby, desired to use the place as a weekend getaway from his city life.
Client’s brief was to create a farmhouse which would merge with its surroundings. Finishes were to have minimum required maintenance as the place would be used only once in a week. The vocabulary of the place was identified to resonate with the client’s personality - a symphony of contemporary and rustic.
The site is of 3 acres, zoning of the which has been done in three parts, Main House, Servant Quarters and the Fields.
1.5 acres allocated to the fields and... More