Architecture design of Glenwood residence offers 80 units of permanent housing to late-stage, chronic alcoholics, based on a model known as harm reduction. Many low-income, homeless, chronic alcoholics have struggled to attain sobriety. The Glenwood residence is organized around a central pool courtyard. The main living space and master suite all open onto the courtyard [...]

The Edge House is located at Kolbotn, a suburb south of Oslo. The entrance stair rises along the slope through the house up to the plateau. This strategy avoids costly blasting, hiding the technical connections in the stair. It saves at the same time the existing characteristics of the site, creating a dramatic interplay between [...]

Northern walls have high narrow windows to diffuse daylight to interior spaces. High and low windows provide natural ventilation. The living areas open to buffalo grass, live oaks, and terraces of indigenous plants. A rugged coursed stone and paint-grip galvanized metal roof contrast with the sharply carved interior of honed concrete floors, [...]

This wooden architecture house is characterized by rolling topography on wooded peninsulas separated by salt water bays and coves.wooden house design adopts this land and promotes dramatic water and woods views.The exterior is curved and stone terraces and planters follow this curve and mediate between the house and the landscape. Architectural and natural forms were used in an ornamentation program that included both the interior and exterior.