Christopher Hume’s piece with accompanying pictures was a useful reminder of the way our traditional, masculine, Euclidian-dominated, architecture has overwhelmed the primal, curve-focused lines that characterize the natural world. (There was a song, long ago, that made fun of our geometric habitations: “Little boxes; little boxes; little boxes made of ticky tack!”)

The individual and exterior access through paths of grit, identical to the surrounding fields, pursues to approach the visitors to the rural character of the landscape. The rooms in the interior are divided in three separated areas. The interior, walls, roof and floor are painted with the same color to assure the comfort and unity of the interior space.

Concrete wood house architecture designed by Wallflower Architecture located in Singapore. It’s designed with cooling system which naturally create different temperature for house atmosphere because of of their different concealed heat maintenance, all these materials have heat gain or loss, making the air temperature different above them. In nature, that’s what creates breezy areas. The [...]

A contemporary “square” linking buildings and people in extreme hot climates
The Emerald Plaza project for the city of Abu Dhabi deals with the problem of urban space in a very hot environment in artificial, context-less developments in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Built in 1869, this is the oldest house in Sausalito. Sited along a creek, the original building is a simple clapboard farmhouse with high ceilings. The house had been added onto in the 1920’s when plumbing was introduced. Since the original structure is historically significant, our design approach was to demolish the addition and replace it with a new one that allowed the kitchen to move out of the historic house. Roofing the kitchen with translucent panels allows warm southern light to flow into the house. New axial openings transform the small dark historic rooms. A deck now connects the house to its large side yard and the creek.