House on Swain’s Lane in London, Overlooks a Cemetery

I always knew those Brits are wicked, but not like that. Apparently on Swain’s Lane in London, there’s a glass looking house designed by London-based architects Eldridge Smerin, which has a great view, (prepare!!!) over a cemetery. Other than the fact that there are dead people in the area the four-storey house is extremely modern with large windows and doors made of glass to enhance space. Built on the footprint of the original 1970 house, it has two facadase. One is overlooking the cemetery and is mostly glazed while the other one is made of black granite, translucent glass and black steel panels, and overlooks the street. Looks extremely fancy but I’m not sure if I’d be able to live there. Would you? - via Dezeen

C-2 House by Curiosity Inc

Here is another amazing project designed by Curiosoty Inc The house is located in Yamanashi, Japan, and was build in 2006. Enjoy the photos.

Geddes Residence Shines in West Vancouver

We’ve been covering wooden houses before, but we have something new for you today. Designed by Nigel Parish from the Canadian Architectural Design Studio Splyce, the Geddes Residence is a beautiful shining home with an irregular shape and view to the ocean, built in West Vancouver and surrounded by a very carefully planned scenery. The Geddes Residence is special on the upper level where an outdoor room and a sundeck exist but also on the lower floor where open space is the main characteristic, with lovely large windows and doors. Looks very modern and comfortable, one of the best place for a family to move in.

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Conceiving A Floor Plan

Making a floor plan is the most important step in home decoration. It is very important to decide how you will arrange your furniture in the room, what are the limitations and other space constraints that you might face before placing out things and have an idea of how they would look beforehand. Since, moving furniture and rebuilding closets and making new windows cost a lot and is quite tiresome to accomplish, your pocket and other people involved with you in the home decoration project will appreciate minimizing any unnecessary efforts and a clear plan to look forward to. Here are some tips to make a floor plan of your home:

Things You Will Need:

* Architects' ruler with 6 sides giving different scale measurements,
* Paper,
* Triangle, and
* T-square.


Tips:

* A hand-sketched draft drawn with a pencil helps you to have the view of the whole home at once using a scale of 1/4" = 1'.
* For furniture, scaled cutout silhouette pieces with most common dimensions are best, for you can easily rearrange them, as you like, without much ado.
* Have accurate dimensions of each of your rooms, your total living space, your furniture pieces and closets and storage areas.
* Here are the two formulas that are most commonly needed while doing home decoration for laying tiles, buying wall paper, calculating how much paint to use on wall and ceilings and other such things:

Floor Area = Length x Width (of the room)
Floor Area = Length x Width (of the room)

* Wall Area = Height x Length (of the wall)
* While buying large furniture pieces and other accessories, make sure that they fit in through the staircases or elevator doors and doors of your home, so that transferring them to the room doesn't become a problem. If you are hiring carpenter, it will be better that he does his work inside the room.
* While measuring the space, be sure to know the dimension of your windows, doors, closets, furniture of each room, electronic items and other appliances, telephones and electrical outlets. Knowing these dimension will prove to be helpful while window treatments or ordering for new furniture too.
* You may like to get the photocopies, once you finalize the plan so that you do not have to do it all over again, once you have finished it.

Final Wooden House

Final Wooden House - Type: wooden bungalow - Location: Kumamura, Japan - Completion: 2008
Images and text by Sou Fujimoto Architects - Photographer: Iwan Baan

I wanted to create an ultimate wooden architecture. I thought through this bungalow, which can be considered as a small and primitive house, it was possible to do a primitive and simultaneously new architecture. 350mm square profile cedar is piled endlessly. At the end of the process appears a prototypical place before architecture became architecture.

Final Wooden House, Sou Fujimoto Architects, 2008


Final Wooden House, Sou Fujimoto Architects, 2008


Final Wooden House, Sou Fujimoto Architects, 2008

Wood is amazingly versatile. Due to its versatility, wood is used in a conventional wooden architecture by intentional differentiation in various places. Not only in structures, such as columns and beams, but it can also be used in everything else from foundation, exterior wall, interior wall, ceiling, flooring, insulation, furniture, stairs to window frames. I posit that if wood is indeed multifaceted, then conversely it should be possible to create architecture that fulfills all functions by one process, and by one way of using woods. It is an inversion of versatility. From that originates, new architecture that maintains an undifferentiated condition of the harmonized whole before function and role underwent mitosis.

Final Wooden House, Sou Fujimoto Architects, 2008


Final Wooden House, Sou Fujimoto Architects, 2008

350mm square profile cedar has an amazing impact. It transcends what we usually call “wood” and becomes “an existence” of an entirely different material. While the dimensions adequately display its materiality as wood, 350mm squared is simultaneously the dimensionality directly corresponding to human body. Thus, three-dimensional space is created out of 350mm increments. This stepped space was a long fascination of mine for couple of years as its defining characteristics are the generation of a sort of spatial relativity and a new sense of various distances unachievable by coplanar floors.

Final Wooden House, Sou Fujimoto Architects, 2008


Final Wooden House, Sou Fujimoto Architects, 2008

There are no categorization of floors, walls, and ceilings here. A locality that was thought as a floor transforms into chairs, ceilings, and walls from different perspectives. Floor levels are relative and people reinterpret the spatiality according to where they are. People are three-dimensionally distributed in space and will experience new sensations of depths. Spaces are not divided but is rather produced as a chance occurrence within fusing elements. Inhabitants discover various functions within those undulations. It is a place akin to nebulous landscape. This resonates with the undifferentiated condition of above-mentioned architectonic elements. Both as a constructional methodology and experiential space, this architecture is synthesized by the fusion of various undifferentiated elements. Here, conventional rules of architecture is nullified. There is neither a plan nor a stabilizing point. This is possible purely because the wood is that versatile. Perhaps it is only possible with wood to be simultaneously the insulation and the structure, the finish and also the furniture. By being composed of the wooden blocks instead of slabs, the method of creating the undifferentiated condition was made clear.

Final Wooden House, Sou Fujimoto Architects, 2008


Final Wooden House, Sou Fujimoto Architects, 2008
I think this bungalow ceases to be within the domain of wooden architecture. If architecture made from wood is to be considered wooden architecture, then this bungalow is the wood itself that transcends the architectural convention to directly become a place for humans. It is of primordial existence before architecture. That is to say, rather than new architecture, it seeks new conception, a new existence.

Guest House Tokyo by KINO Architects

The Guest House KINO Architects projected, is located in a high-density residential area of Tokyo.

The plot is only about 46 square meters. In Tokyo, this size of house in not rare, it’s called “small house”. KINO Architects have taken the old family-house dream and adjusted it to today’s one-person’s house reality. They built a small apartment with a basement floor, loft and first floor for the owner, and a second floor with its own entry to rent out.

Christmas accessories to decorate home interior

Christmas celebration was just celebrated every time gazed at the year end, but many plans that a long time ago could be prepared. One of them was to decorate the house in accordance with the Christmas theme. In torque that was exact for you gathered with the family and dearest people, the atmosphere arrangement that was comfortable and cheerful will to the interior of the dwelling cause the deep impression to each one of the family’s members. The appropriate room was organized to welcome Christmas was the sitting room and the dining room. For his furniture sitting room was even better that was just functional like the sofa and single chair. Likewise for the room ate. You were enough to place the decoration that his characteristics were flexible, so as if Christmas passed by then the display to this room continued to be used. The method created the Christmas atmosphere that was more impressive. Several methods that could be carried out to create the Christmas atmosphere in the house.

1. Color
The element of the color that could give purity was clear colors, created the warm impression and familiarity by applying the minor color like red, orange, or yellow. To Christmas usually the dominant color is the red and green color. However if you want to braver to create, not there is mistakenly to try the color of the new blend like blue or purple that was combined with sparkling colors or silver. You could then make one color that was dominant to the room, afterward repeated consistently so as to become the main theme of your room.

2. Accessory
Normal accessories were used as the Christmas decoration could take the form of the decoration was suspended, the Christmas circle, the hanging to the ceiling, gold balls, the hanging of socks, dolls like Saint Klaus, Rudolf the Red Nose, and Frosty the Snowman. The presence of the decoration took the form of the hat Saint then could create Christmas purity.

3.The Christmas tree
For the clear tree that was used not exclusively must take the form of the casuarinas. You could create used the dry twig that was arranged and placed in the corner of the room. Add the decoration and sparkling complexities or small wood dolls so as to appear more interesting. The Christmas tree must not just, the tree that has been used last year and was not yet broken also could be still being used.

4. Dining room complexities & sitting room
You could place various complexities to the sitting room and the dining room. Like teapot ceramics or colored glasses glasses with the color that was matched the theme of the room. The similar table tablecloth and various balls and sparkling beads that were placed in the glasses cup then will increasingly reinforce the theme of the room.

5. The illumination
For the illumination that was used, chose that helped created the dramatic and romantic atmosphere. One of the alternatives to his choice was the candle. Better choose the color of the candle that in accordance with the theme of the room. Use the illumination that was warm to give the friendly impression. When enabled again better for was maximized by you the natural light by making the aperture or the big window.

6. Flower
The series of the colored lily flower white and the other luxuriant flower could also decorate the guest table. Did not miss the series of the round flower that adhered to the door.

The North Wall by Haworth Tompkins

The North Wall, designed by Haworth Tompkins, is a new arts center for St. Edwards School in Oxford that incorporates a visual arts gallery, dance studio and theatre.

The buildings, which forms part of the boundary between the school campus and the street, comprises a flexible 250 seat courtyard theatre, a fully equipped drama studio, a dance studio and a visual arts gallery, along with full front and back of house facilities for in house productions and professional touring companies.

The mellow stone boundary wall runs the entire length of the street elevation and has been incorporated into the building. The new timber-framed theatre uses moveable rostra to allow end-on, in-the-round, traverse and thrust stage settings to be employed. The remaining facilities are housed in a new building that combines with the stone wall and the pitched roofline form a coherent, carefully scaled streetscape to the public side and a new courtyard and outdoor performance space to the school side.

The walls and roof of the building are clad in unseasoned English oak shakes and thin vertical slats, designed to bend and twist into organic, patinated surfaces that will vary in color and texture according to orientation and exposure.

The combination of vernacular forms, large frameless windows and a traditional but non-local primary cladding material is intended to appear both familiar and strange in the red brick and clay tile setting of the school and its immediate surroundings, emphasising the purpose of the building as a place for innovation and creativity within a sensitive historic environment.

Arch Daily Sports & Culture Centre byDorte Mandrup + b&k brandlhuber & co

Architect: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps + b&k brandlhuber & co
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Project Year: 2006
Project team: Dorte Mandrup, Anders Brink, Lars Lindeberg, Jesper Henriksson, Arno Brandlhuber, Asterios Agkathidis, Markus Emde, Jochen Kremer, Martin Kraushaar, Sarah Breidert
Client: Copenhagen Municipality / LOA(Danish Foundation for Culture and Sports Facilities)
Engineer: Jørgen Nielsen Rådgivende ingeniører A/S
Contractor: NH Hansen & Søn A/S
Photographs: Torben Eskerod and Michael Reisch

The schemes most pronounced feature is a large translucent membrane that stretches between the sports and culture centre arena, and the four characteristic end walls of the neighbouring public housing scheme.

The building´s structure is composed of steel and timber covered with opalescent polycarbonate panels with a low U-value. This translucent cover offers excellent daylight conditions and at night the structure appears as a glowing crystal. The building will be used for a variety of daily sport and cultural activities such as concerts and theatre performances. The dynamic landscape inside allows for various activities to take place on different levels in visual contact with each other.

White Cave by Takao Shiotsuka Atelier

Architects: Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
Location: Oita, Japan
Client: Private
Project year: 2006-2007
Site area: 419 sqm
Constructed area: 132.6 sqm
Contractor: Hokoku Co. Ltd
Photographs: Toshiyuki YANO (Nacasa & Partners Inc.,)

The house is built on a hill looking down at a town area. The site’s shape has an irregular form. There is a height difference of 2m in the site. The north side is adjacent to a neighbor with this height difference. In the west and the south sides trees grow thick right next to the neighbors. And to the East, you can see the town area.

Walking to the site through a path that goes side by side, causes the scenery to change as we walk, and feels very attractive. We arranged the building parallel to the path and saved the height difference inside the volume placed across the site.

We wanted to give the building the same variety as the complex surroundings of the site and its irregular shape, causing disorder but not confusion, on a single operation. The angle of the walls is slightly changed to add more dynamism to the spaces as the user moves. Even the relation with the surroundings, that control and distances views and light, became complex.

The outside walls and the roof have a rough concrete finish, and the openings express the thickness of the concrete that form the volume. We wanted to continue with the characteristic silence of the place, given by the surrounding concrete wall, the ancient burial mounds park and the dense trees. We thought that the appearance of a hard static concrete volume responded to the surroundings of this location.

Organic Wooden House on Seattle’s Skyline by Pb Elemental Architecture

Seattle’s Pb Elemental Architecture is putting an organic notch on the city’s concrete skyline. The Dang Residence is a two-storey private wooden house of 3,600 sq. ft., clad in naturally beautiful cedar. Interiors are divided into a series of modern loft-style living spaces, including three bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a media room and a study. The upper and lower levels are connected by a sky-lit staircase that allows the spill of natural light into the whole of the home. Throughout the house, thoughtfully placed skylights and windows light up corners and crannies, and unique architectural details like art niches. Two balconies and an intimate courtyard at the center of this design embrace outdoor living. Pb Elemental Architecture.