Дом из старой автотрассы (Big Dig House)

As a prototype for future Big Dig architecture, the structural system for this house is comprised of steel and concrete from Boston's Big Dig, utilizing over 600,000 lbs of salvaged materials. Although similar to a pre-fab system, subtle spatial arrangements were designed from highway components. Most importantly, the house demonstrates an untapped potential for the public realm: with strategic front-end planning, much needed community programs including schools, libraries, and housing could be constructed whenever infrastructure is deconstructed, saving valuable resources, embodied energy, and taxpayer dollars.
SINGLE speed DESIGN LLP

Реконструкция Мейкснера Шлютера

The Wohlfahrt-Laymann dwelling is situated in a relatively exclusive residential area in the Taunus outside Frankfurt am Main. The original house, an archetypal wooden “simple country cottage”, was built in the 1930s and the initial idea was to replace it with a larger house. However, after a detailed inspection of the site and the quality of this very picturesque, traditional home, it was decided to use the existing building as a starting point for further planning.
A new shell was built around the house thus creating a new interior and intermediate space. The position of the shell and its distance at different points from the “inner” house is dictated by the functional requirements of the ground plan structure. The inner house is broken open at points where light or space are required for the interior - these light or room extensions are projected onto the outer shell in the form of “light connections” or “space connections” and transferred to it as perforations. The roof of the inner house has been removed and the attic rooms are extended upwards with vertical spacing connections. Inner-, outer-, intermediate- and un-rooms of manifold and sometimes curious variations are generated. Complex and seemingly simple rooms alternate with each other.
Paradoxes occur in the Wohlfahrt-Laymann house, where an apparently normal reality becomes distorted and a simple, traditional country cottage becomes as a dream of cosmopolitan density in the suburbs.
Площадь 243.0 кв.м.
Convertible City - Projects - Wohnhaus Wohlfahrt-Laymann (RU)
Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten (RU)

Дом-трансформер (The "Transformable" House)

Функциональная идея проекта Дома-трансформера (The "Transformable" House), предназначенного для временного проживания, в том, что он способен "открываться" навстречу приезжающей семье, и "закрываться", когда жильцы его покидают. Кубическая форма дома представляет резкий контраст с окружающей его со всех сторон лесистой рощей. Образно говоря, именно она подчеркивает его масштаб и значимость на фоне окрестностей. As one approaches from the 200-foot-long driveway, the house appears as a refined element in the midst of the clearing, sets off a ripple effect of diverse textures, and evolves into a metaphor of the forest."
Площадь около 360 кв.м. 3 этажа
Architectural Record | Project Portfolio | Transformable House (RU)
Kanner Architects

Пляжный дом в Кенте Симона Кондера и Криса Неве

The shingle beach at Dungeness is a ghost town of battered shacks and boats. For a dozen miles the beach has given Kent a straight edge, but here it curls round the headland and slips past the mountainous nuclear power station that broods over the marshes. Before this dogleg is a bungalow sheathed in black rubber.
With its pitched roof and chimney it cuts a perfect house-shaped silhouette out of the scenery. Next to it, its opposite in every sense, is a 1950s Airstream caravan, one aluminium curve from beginning to end.
“I’ve always had a slightly spooky feeling here – that house, for instance, is full of worms,” says the architect of the rubber house, Simon Conder, pointing to the bait and tackle shop across the road. It takes a rugged type to make a home in this exposed and slightly post-apocalyptic spot, or an eye for unusual beauty – the filmmaker Derek Jarman’s cottage is a few hundred yards away. The couple that owns the rubber house concede that Dungeness is not everyone’s idea of the rural idyll, but it reminded them of one of their favourite places, the California desert. “There are very few places in England where the horizon is that open and that far away,” says one of the owners, and whereas in London she is dogged by lung problems, here she can breathe.
Площадь около 100 кв.м., 1 этаж
Architectural Record | Residential Quarterly | Vista House (RU)
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Simon Conder Associates Architects and Designers

Дом в Новой Англии

Twenty-five years have passed since the Rubik’s Cube was a marketing meteor, but as a metaphor, it still has force for Monica Ponce de Leon. Each year, at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), she teaches a studio named for the maddening puzzle, which offers an important lesson: When a volume’s exterior is truly linked to its interior, getting the outside right may require tireless manipulation of the inside.
Ponce de Leon and Nader Tehrani, her GSD colleague and partner in the Boston firm Office dA, have created a house that demonstrates that challenge. The typical American approach to home design, in which each new space adds a new volume, held no appeal for them. “This house,” says Ponce de Leon, “is the opposite of sprawl."
Площадь 241,5 кв.м. 2 этажа
Architectural Record | Record Houses 2006 | House in New England
Office dA, Inc.

Дом Кесслера (Kessler Residence) Роберта Гарнея

Traditional, romantic, and nostalgic are terms that come to mind when describing the architecture of the town of (Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA) just a few miles outside of Washington, D.C. But one particular house on a typical street in this town belies its clapboard façade and pitched roof. Architect Robert Gurney, FAIA, principal of his Alexandria, Virginia-based namesake firm, has designed a home that seamlessly fits the neighborhood as well as his own Modern aesthetic and that of his clients’.
But that’s the least of the surprises you’ll find in this house. This 3,800-square-foot home employs universal design techniques from the basement to the third attic floor, all aspects of which are neither obvious nor institutional. “One of the Kesslers’ twin daughters has cerebral palsy and uses either a walker, crutches, or a cane to get around,” says Gurney. “The Kesslers wanted her to have complete access to all parts of the house, and that’s what we’ve done. But the way we’ve done it means that you may not notice unless it"
Площадь 353,0 кв.м. 2 этажа + мансарда.
Architectural Record | House of the Month | Kessler Residence
Architect Robert M. Gurney, FAIA

Дом-Брусок (Bar House) Питера Глака

Каждый, кто знает работы архитектора Питера Глака (Peter L. Gluck and Partners, Architects) из Нью-Йорка, понимает, что не следует к нему обращаться за традиционным домом. Глак признает, что его проекты можно назвать “дерзким модерном”, но идеи для этого рождаются лишь из местных особенностей и исходных задач. И когда семья из шести человек пришла к Глаку заказывать строительство дома в Аспене (Aspen, Colorado, USA), они уже знали, куда пришли.
“Наши семьи уже некоторое время были друзьями, - говорит клиент Глака, - и мы испытывали большое уважение к работам Питера. Кроме того, мы точно знали, что он способен понять, как лучше всего использовать возможности участка.” Укрывшийся в глубокой, узкой долине, окруженной горами, с рекой с одной стороны и живописной дорогой с другой, участок был привлекателен и труден для освоения. Клиенты знали от жителей располагавшегося здесь старого дома, что солнце достигло оконечности долины только с юга, но и их, и другие дома по соседству, были построены без учета этого.
Площадь 534,2 кв.м., 2 этажа.
Architectural Record | House of the Month | Bar House
Peter L. Gluck and Partners, Architects