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-Контейнер (Case House) Джона Пардея

Дом для отдыха в Котсволдсе, Великобритания (Cotswolds, UK), "Дом-Контейнер" (The Case House), выглядит просто. По форме он похож на большую коробку - когда дом закрыт, лишь единственный фасад на внутреннюю часть участка говорит о том, что это жилое строение - но когда дом полон гостей, множество стен-дверей, опускаемых гидравликой, раскрывают дом навстречу солнцу и окружающим пейзажам.
Это позволяет приподнять завесу тайны большой коробки. Дом, раскрываясь подобно раковине устрицы, демонстрирует изысканное, притягательное, белоснежное внутреннее пространство, контрастирующее с более темными фасадами. Это "разоблачение" возвеличивает смысл дома, предстающего посреди сада большим ларцом или шкатулкой для драгоценностей. Опускающиеся на шарнирах стены-ставни - самый активный элемент в этом архитектурном решении, способном изменять саму природу как здания, так и места.
Площадь около 80 кв.м., 1 этаж
Landmark Houses, Lower Mill Estate. The Case House
John Pardey Architects