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 на берегу в Лас Аренас (Las Arenas) Джавьера Артади

Rain almost never falls on the Peruvian coast just south of Lima, the northernmost stretch of one of the driest spots on earth: the Atacama Desert. In this arid landscape, barren mountains and sandy cliffs hover above the Pacific. Beneath a vast, glaring sky, the startlingly empty, alien terrain—with not so much as a cactus on the ground—makes anything built here look like a brusque intrusion. Still, gated communities crowd this inhospitable coast, as Limeños buy up dusty plots to build weekend escapes at the beach. In one such development, Las Arenas, 60 miles south of the capital, architect Javier Artadi has created a house of pure, Minimal, almost simplistic forms—carved-out, white concrete boxes—that belie a complex attitude toward the setting."
Площадь 223,0 кв.м. 1 этаж + цоколь
Architectural Record | Record Houses 2006 | Beach House In Las Arenas
Artadi Arquitectos S.A.

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