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Located in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Casa Seis Patios is a single-family residence designed for an art enthusiast seeking a home deeply connected to the natural environment. The project is organized around six patios, strategic voids that articulate the spatial layout, allow natural light and cross ventilation, and dissolve the boundaries between indoors and outdoors through the integration of vegetation in every space. At the heart of the volume lies the main patio, where the house fully opens toward a central pool, turning this space into a true gathering point. Andres García Lachner Andres García Lachner Andres García Lachner Andres García Lachner Conceived as a livable gallery, every corner is designed as a stage... More

A tiny wooden house set within the dense urban fabric of Yanaka, Tokyo. This area, designated as a quasi-fire prevention district, preserves numerous shrines and temples that survived wartime destruction. In response to its conventional residential surroundings, the design introduces a subtle yet distinctive element of 10° rotation. Keishin Horikoshi / SS Keishin Horikoshi / SS Externally, the house maintains a simple rectangular form, harmonizing with neighboring buildings by following similar proportions for balconies and pilotis. However, within a nested wall is rotated by 10°, generating intriguing triangular voids at the corners, as if formed by the splitting of wall thickness. Keishin Horikoshi / SS Keishin... More

Guarumo is a contemporary residence located on the Costa Rican Pacific coast, where the characteristic tropical landscape is harmoniously combined with modern, simple and discreet architecture, all with a high degree of aesthetics / design.  Leonardo Finotti The project is located on a steep hillside, so the adequate positioning of the architectural program is essential to guaranteeing a proper adaptation. The staggering of its blocks favors a real adaptation to the topography of the site, minimizing the impact to the soils and avoiding large movements of land and expensive retaining walls. At the same time, it capitalizes on the spectacular views of both the ocean and the dense natural landscape that surrounds it.   Leon... More

Built in the 1960s as part of a controversial urbanization project that faced community resistance, De Walvis (Dutch for "the whale") was designed by W.F. Lugthart and initially seen as a disruptive addition to Amsterdam’s Bickerseiland. Decades later, KAAN Architecten has reimagined the building, stripping it down to its essence and reshaping it into a sleek, sculptural landmark. Sebastian van Damme Drawing inspiration from Donald Judd, the architects introduced strong horizontal lines that optically separate the floors while maintaining interior flexibility for future spatial connections. The extended floors, clad in dark, lightweight metal, create a striking floating effect, further enhanced by recessed triple glazing with ne... More

On a former campsite is the plan area ' The Nieuwkoopse Eilanden ' realized. The new building plots are spread over a number of headlands between the Nieuwkoopse Plassen and Zuideinderplas.   Building plot 15 is an extra wide plot at the end of one of the headlands an provides a wide view over the lake. The quality of this unique location is fully utilized in the house: the neighboring facades and the roof- and floor surfaces are relatively closed and form a comfortable shell. The front and rear facades on the other hand, are open and offer a wide panorama of the surroundings. Outdoor terraces, protected from wind, rain and too many sun exposure, are created by placing these mainly glass facades inwards and position them at an angle.... More

This is a house for a couple and a small son in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. We designed a large house with a square plan and designed four small houses from each vertex. The gap between small houses becomes a crossroad. The small houses are designed to be alone and the crossroad is designed to stay with the family. Residents can live in and out of small houses and a large house. The windows of small houses are connected to the crossroad, and the windows of the large house are connected to the garden, gentle hills, trees of the forest, the sky and the clouds. More

The Coffee Shop is sitting on different levels in itself due to the slope of the land. It describes itself with a space that opens to the road towards the slope of the terrain. More