Vaulted roof
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News • News • 30 Jan 2023
Taller General + ERDC Arquitectos craft a classic vaulted brick house on the hills of Auqui
Set atop Auqui hill, bordering the city of Quito, Horno De Pan, designed by Taller General and ERDC Arquitectos, is a vaulted brick house that retains a rural character while establishing a visual connection with the urban landscape.
JAG studio
Built on a moderately sloping terrain with a variety of natural features around it like eucalyptus trees, pine trees, orchards, and animals, the house seamlessly adapts itself to the uneven topography of the site through a set of levels.
JAG studio
Featuring bricks as the star player, the sturdy material provides solutions for the project's roof, structure, and vertical and horizontal limits. Wide load-bearing brick walls resolve the vertical elements and provide mass... More
Project • By Váncza Muvek Studio • Cathedrals
Szeged Cathedral renovation
In the international discourse on contemporary architecture it seems to be evident that intervention into historic buildings is always a sensitive issue. This is particularly the case when the project is not only a simple renovation, but there are alterations or additions to the original building – it is always difficult to find the balance between past and present, between the attitude of sheer preservation of a monument and the voice of contemporary architecture. Additions copying eariler times and contemporary impacts that ignore their context are the two extremities to avoid – the desireable solution lies somewhere in between. There is no ultimate recipe, the questions need to be asked and answered in every particular case. 3H architerc... More
Project • By OB Architecture Ltd • Private Houses
Shearwaters
Shearwaters is a replacement dwelling in the Pembrokeshire Town of Tenby. It is located on the southern side of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. The site is located at a cliff top boasting panoramic views from Tenby to the west and the Bristol channel to the south.The brief was to create a contemporary 5-bedroom dwelling that was unique but complementing of the typical pitched roof vernacular of the area. The design developed out of a series of detailed studies into the local roof forms, pitches and relationships between geometries.The plan spreads east and west to the boundaries of the long and narrow site to maximise the size of the front and rear gardens. A ground floor form containing the dining and living spaces reaches out to th... More
Project • By OB Architecture Ltd • Private Houses
The Mill House
The Mill House is a Grade II listed property located in Shalford village Conservation Area. The house is set within a generous 6-acre plot with stunning views adjacent to ‘Shalford Mill’, an 18th Century watermill with Grade II * listing.
The Client’s brief was to extend and remodel the house at ground floor to provide a light filled kitchen dining area that would open out to maximize the potential of the beautiful garden.
The design concept is based on a sketch of the house circa 1836 that shows a cluster of pitched roof forms which have been removed over time. The footprint of the extension is located on the original foundations of these previous structures and reinstates the historic courtyard.
The roof is construct... More