All Blog Posts Tagged 'architecture' - Wave Avenue

Playful KKF House with Golf Alley by Number Fives

2013-01-16T01:00:00.000Z

Number Fives architectural design office created the KKC house with a uniquely playful theme. This contemporary home has its own miniature golf course in the middle and a refreshing robust landscape surrounding it.

Number Fives website.

Geometrical Extension of the Balmain Cottage

2013-01-15T02:00:00.000Z

Sydney-based architecture studio Innovarchi designed the Balmain renovation project. This unusual geometric extension is part of a traditionally designed cottage in Balmain, New South Wales in Australia.

Description from the architects:

In the context of the heritage area in and around Balmain this extension to a small cottage demanded careful consideration of the philosophy behind the new intervention. Analysis of traditional built forms, usage patterns and development codes led to a strategy of providing a contemporary interpretation of the ever-decreasing volumes often evident in ad hoc additions of kitchens, laundries and outside toilets that were often made to these original structures.

Moving away from traditional usage patterns, the public penetration of the private realm has progressed from the compartmentalised formal front rooms to the more relaxed and inclusive realm at the back of the property. The area closest to the entry now becomes the bedroom precinct and the back is a fragmented indoor/outdoor public space bounded by the allotment fencing. Access is via a central corridor that extends through the house right back to the rear gate.

With local design guidelines requiring pitched roof forms the new architecture grew out of the recognizable triangular shapes traditionally associated with hipped roofs. The building also acts as a protective screen creating a privacy hood blocking the views into the garden from the neighbouring house. As the scale and dimension of the addition reduces towards the back gate the external landscape is amplified and spliced into the informal semi-internal spaces.

The folding forms create a canopy that provides shading in summer and allows the northern sun to penetrate into the space for passive heating in winter. The addition breathes new life into old under-used home with 95% of the existing building fabric retained. The roof design increases the rainwater harvesting capacity and the skylights foster a reliance on natural daylighting. The spaces are naturally ventilated and the roof has high performance insulation to minimise heat gain. The landscape concept includes a deck area and large native garden eliminating the need for lawn.

Photos by John Gollings, Innovarchi website.

Tasteful Twin Peaks House in Melbourne

2013-01-15T01:00:00.000Z

Australian studio Jackson Clements Burrows designed the Twin Peaks house. This renovated modern home is located in Melbourne, Australia and was completed in 2011.

Description by the architects:

This project involved the design of alterations and addition to an existing Edwardian house of some historical significance which is located in an area with a Heritage overlay.

The brief for the house revolved around accommodating a family, including 3 children. The proposal included 3 new bedrooms and activity space to the new first floor at the rear and a large family /kitchen area directly below. The existing house included a new master bedroom / ensuite, study and the maintenance of the original grand dining room and lounge areas.

The idea of the house was organised around finding a compatible but distinctive relationship between the existing interior and the new addition and the existing external form and the new addition. This was achieved through the use of a common materiality contrasting black brick for the new against red brick in the old. The pitched external roof forms, a requirement of stringent Heritage guidelines, were expressed as “twin peaked” gable ends that aligned directly with the with the double valley hip roof of the existing house. The external timber clad rainscreen is defined as a one third proportion that aligns directly with the existing slate tiled roof of the existing house. While compatible in terms of proportion and alignment the reductive abstraction of the new exterior and interior, suggests a new relationship to both the immediate garden and the greater surrounding context.

Internally the new addition uses white painted timber lining boards and exposed internal black work to define a new family living space. The use of materials normally associated with the exterior of a Heritage house suggests an inversion of our normal reading of an interior that is both surprising and yet reassuring in terms of its familiarity.

Photos by Shannon McGrath, Jackson Clements Burrows website.

Sleek Shaker Heights House

2013-01-14T02:00:00.000Z

Ohio-based studio Dimit Architects designed the Shaker Heights House. This sleek contemporary home is located in Columbus Ohio and was completed in 2012.

Description by the architects:

This single-family residence was designed to facilitate the modern lifestyle of an active young family in the leafy Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio. The house plan is arranged as two basic wings--- one is more public in function with living, dining, and entertaining spaces--- the other is more private, providing bedrooms, home office, exercise room, and support spaces. The two wings meet at the heart of the house- an expansive open kitchen, with views to a protected rear courtyard with swimming and reflecting pools.

The various rectilinear masses of the house will be clad in either a light cast stone veneer or with ipe wood slats arranged over a rain-screen membrane. Generous walk-out roof decks, also surfaced with ipe wood slats, provide extensions for each of the second floor bedroom spaces, while the remaining flat roof surfaces will be planted with green prairie grasses. Construction by Pistone and Tesauro Builders of Chagrin Falls is near completion, with exterior detailing and landscaping scheduled to be finalized by the early summer of 2012.

Photos by Feinknopf Photography, Dimit Architects website.

Picturesque Waterfall Bay House

2013-01-12T02:00:00.000Z

Auckland based studio Bossley Architects design the Waterfall Bay House. This 270 square meter residential home is located in Waterfall Bay, Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

Description by the architects:

Located in a remote bay in the Marlborough Sounds, this house emphasizes the intimate qualities of the small bay. Set close to the water it runs along the contour as a two storey primary element incorporating living areas above and guest rooms below.

Linked by a glazed bridge is a main bedroom, raised above the cliff on visually unstable legs to emphasize its eerie-like relationship to tree tops and sky.

Photos by Paul McCredie and Kieran Scott, Bossley Architects website

Behemoth Giraffe Design of a Day Nursery

2013-01-12T01:00:00.000Z

Paris based studio Hondelatte Laporte Architectes designed the zero energy project Giraffe's Crib. This 1450 square meter day nursery crib was completed in 2012.

Description by the architects:

Giraffe's crib is located at the foot of the "non-tour" designed by Jean Nouvel, in the words of the "triangle" between the Quartier du Vieux Pont de Sèvres neighborhood slab made in the 70s, and the new Keystone neighborhood. The whole area offers a hilly skyline.

To integrate this remarkable urban overall consistency, the project consists of three tiered layers, morphology is the articulation of all neighborhood characteristics: stacking and moving ramp.

This public facility expresses the world of childhood. The idea is to create an event that leads the public space using childish imagination: invest wildlife places. A giraffe is a leader and has quietly graze the tree layer within reach while polar bear cub trying to climb to the upper terrace from the south and a procession through the garden ladybug.

Photos by Philippe Ruault, Hondelatte Laporte Architectes

Fun Playground Hoops Around a Tree

2013-01-09T02:00:00.000Z

Tokyo based studio Tezuka Architects designed a playground that is literally a Ring Around a Tree. This one-of-a-kind and enjoyable play area is located in Tachikawa, in Tokyo and was completed in 2011.

Project description:

Designed around Japanese Elm (zelkova) is not just a short stop on the children's lives - the tree which is carried with spiral around building has planted more than 50 years.Nearly eradicated from typhoon and completely dry, despite widespread skepticism, elm fully recovered.Older residents of the neighborhood say that even before kindergarten built it was the only tree in the area used by children for climbing and playing.

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Tezuka Architects website.

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New Eco-Resort Designed in Harmony With Nature

2013-01-08T01:00:00.000Z

The refreshing Eco-Resort Pedras Salgadas was designed by Luís Rebelo de Andrade and Diogo Aguiar. Located in Portugal, this new eco-resort consists of a set of seven small houses in perfect harmony with the surrounding outstanding nature. It was completed in 2012.

Project Description:
Designed in a modular prefabrication system but flexible to adapt to the specific places within the park, these houses result in several different combinations of the same three modules (entrance/bathing - living - sleeping) creating different morphologies and different dialogues with the surrounding nature, wisely occupying the empty spaces between the trunks of large trees and, at the same time, allowing each home to be unique, special and worth visiting.

The pitched roofs that characterize the intervention redefine the contours of the park boundary and result, within the houses in comfortable but dynamic spaces.
The vain corner contradicts the structural logic of the house but creates the ilusion that the park is inside the house framing living nature pictures.

The outer coating in slate tile refers to the local construction traditions and the slatted wood used when there is a balcony creates the perfect resting spaces.

Photos by FG+SG architectural photography, Diogo Aguiar website.

[via dezeen]

Push + Pull Residence by MW Works

2013-01-07T01:00:00.000Z

Seattle based studio MW Works designed the Push Pull Residence. This 4,090 sq ft project is simple and elegant contemporary residence located on a tight, narrow urban lot in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle.

Description by the architects:

This project explores the potential for a modern infill project that is both lively and responsible. The long face, just three feet from the property line, opens up to natural light but maintains privacy while the ends of the house open up to small private landscapes. The house was designed to easily integrate a solar hot water system, photovoltaics and a green roof. During demolition of the previous home, framing was salvaged and milled into Douglas Fir siding by the architect, revealing an on-site history through aged, black nail holes and wood patina. A rigorous plan, reserved detail, and a palette of rough materials and clean lines combine to create an adventurous yet highly livable home on a modest budget.

Photos by Tim Bies, MW Works website.

Impeccable House in Yamasaki by Tato Architects

2013-01-03T02:00:00.000Z

Japan based studio Tato Architects designed the House in Yamasaki, Hyogo in Japan that was completed in 2012.

Description by Tato Architects:

This is a house in the northern part of Hyogo Prefecture for a couple and their two children. The construction site is a part of a place surrounded by mountains and the sky is overcast most of the days. I wanted to create light, stable indoor climate and came up with a plan of three sheds of house type arranged on a 1.8 m high, grey foundation platform.

 The level of the first floor was lowered by 760 mm below the ground to get firm basement, as the site was slant before the development, and to get more stable performance of the floor heating system of foundation heat condensing type utilizing the terrestrial heat. It was also expected that the whole site could be used like a garden as the rooftop neared the ground thereby. The site is at the corner entering the residential area and I thought that lowering the rooftop would leave wide visibility to the surroundings of the mountains and the sky, and that it would be beneficial to the whole residential area.

Building materials explained:
Corrugated polycarbonate panels are used for outer walls of bathroom shed and sunroom shed among the three sheds to take in solar radiation. Moisture and water absorbing and heat-retaining sheets of greenhouse use are inserted in between the corrugated panels and structure. The inside of the walls are formed with heat insulating layer of polycarbonate clear hollow sheet. The ceiling and walls of bathroom are further filled up with light transmitting thermal insulation material of reproduced PET bottles.

To bring the second floor close to the first floor 50 mm square pipes are laid around the opening connecting both floors. They are sandwiched by the flooring material and the ceiling material to come up to 80 mm thickness. This opening is to be closed with a shade during extremely hot hours in summer and extremely cold nights in winter.

The outer walls of a foundation platform are covered with fiber reinforced cement board leaving space a little to make rainwater drops easily off the edges and also to provide shading. The RC part is provided with external heat insulation and broken cobblestones are laid all around it for drainage of rainwater and heat insulation.

Folded Extension of a 19th Century Home by Alison Brooks Architects

2013-01-02T01:00:00.000Z

One of U.K.'s leading architectural firm Alison Brooks Architects has extended a 19th century home in north London with two tapered volumes that project into the garden.

Description by Alison Brooks Architects:

The first volume wraps around the brick walls at the side and rear of the house to create a home office, while the second volume extends out at the back to increase the size of the first floor living room

Alison Brooks Architects website.

Green Village | Sustainable Homes Made Entirely of Bamboo

2013-01-01T23:00:00.000Z

As a rapidly renewable resource, bamboo is definitely a sustainable structural material. Not to mention its sturdy nature that lasts a lifetime and naturally cools any dwelling. For these reasons, father and daughter team John and Elora Hardy conceptualized and designed the Green Village located along the Ayung River in Bali, Indonesia. This group of sustainable and eco-friendly homes are made entirely of bamboo, from its building structure to its interior furnishings.

According to Elora Hardy, CEO and lead designer for the Bali-based bamboo design and construction company honored as a finalist of the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture,

“Even sustainable timber can’t begin to compare with bamboo as a conscientious building material. With very few resources or attention a bamboo shoot can become a structural column within three years, and that house could stand strong for a lifetime.”

Find out more on the Green Village website.

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Artfully Crafted Cantilever Lake House

2012-12-27T02:00:00.000Z

Architect Brian Mac of Vermont based studio Birdseye Building designed the Cantilever Lake House in Dunmore. This project celebrates the simplistic yet artfully crafted design of a contemporary home in the woods.

Birdseye Building website.

Symbolic Looping Bridge Called Festina Lente

2012-12-26T02:00:00.000Z

Five years ago, Academy of Fine Arts design students, Adnan Alagic, Bojan Kanlic and Amila Hrustic teamed in designing this symbolic looping bridge that bring together the secular and spiritual. The project dubbed as 'Festina Lente' means 'make haste, slowly' in Latin.

In the middle of the bridge are two benches for people to meet and interact. At night, the structure is lit with white LED lights that is visually attractive from afar. The bridge measures 38 metres built over the Miljacka river in Bosnia.

[via ignant]

Majestic Glass Igloo Hotel in Finland

2012-12-24T23:00:00.000Z

Finland is famous for magnificent views of the northern lights. If you're looking for that perfect place to enjoy the sky spectacle while lying on a comforts of a bed you may want to check out this glass igloo.

Glass igloo provides an one of a kind opportunity to admire the northern lights and millions of stars of the crystal clear sky in a comfortable room temperature. Built from a special thermal glass the temperature inside the igloo always stays a normal level. It also prevents the glass from not getting white frosted, hence keeping the view clear even when the temperature outside drops to under -30°C. Every igloo is equipped with a toilet and luxury beds.

Glass Igloo Hotel in Finland's website.

Acantillado House by Fran Silvestre Architects

2012-12-24T01:00:00.000Z

Spain based firm Fran Silvestre Architects designed the Acantillado House located in Calpe, Alicante. This contemporary home is an example of a structure that respects the natural terrain.

Description by Fran Silvestre Architects:

The design objective is to build 'a house in the air, walk on water'. The structure looks calmly to the Mediterranean Sea.

The house has a pool and a garden in the basement.

Given the steep slope of the plot and the will to develop housing on one level. We opted for a three-dimensional displays and concrete slabs that adapts to the topography making the minimum armed topography suits doing the minimum possible earthwork. This monolithic structure anchored to the rock creates a horizontal platform, the dimension of access from the street, where the home is located. The pool area is a lower bound on a flat area exists on the lot. The concrete structure is thermally insulated on the outside with a smooth plaster of lime, white flexible and finish. The other materials, walls, pavements, gravel cover maintain the same color emphasizing the unitary character.

Fran Silvestre Architects website.

Playful Inflatable and Trampoline Bridge in Paris

2012-12-22T00:00:00.000Z

Tired of the same old wood and concrete bridge? Why not try something playful? In Paris, AZC Architecture Studio designed an inflatable bridge built with giant trampolines. Let the inner child in you come out as you enjoy crossing, bouncing and jumping over this unique bridge. Have fun! ♥

The AZC Architecture Studio says:

The competition brief, A Bridge in Paris, allows us to locate an architectural reflection within this same realm of contemporary urban enjoyment. It appears to us that Paris has enough bridges. Our intention is to invite its visitors and inhabitants to engage on a newer and more playful path across this same water. We propose an inflatable bridge equipped with giant trampolines, dedicated to the joyful release from gravity as one bounces above the river. Installed near the Bir-Hakeim Bridge, it is formed of inflatable modules, like giant life-preservers, 30 meters in diameter. In the central part of each ring, a trampoline mesh is stretched. The floating buoys, fabricated in PVC membrane, are attached together by cord to form a stable and self-supporting ensemble. Each module under tension - filled with 3700 cubic meters of air - develops in space with an arch-like form.

[via likecool]

Splendid Modern Mansion in Tyrolia Austria

2012-12-21T01:00:00.000Z

Hamburg based studio Splendid Architecture designed the Kitzbuehel Mansion in Tyrolia Austria. This 520 square meter modern home was completed in 2010.

Description by Splendid Architecture:

Eventhough the overall architecture formulation and the detailed implementation is very modern, local materials were used as a tribute to the traditional Tyrolean architecture.

The architecture actually reflects the atmosphere and the vibrations of the beautiful surrounding landscape.

Splendid Architecture website.

Camouflaged Artist Studio is Clad in Mirrors

2012-12-20T02:00:00.000Z

Bureau Lada designed this contemplative studio called The Archive. This space was built to house a contemporary artist who loves peace, solitude and the idea of 'being away from it all'. The structure is covered in mirrors, almost disappearing in nature.

Description by Bureau Lada:

The brief for the Atelier Malkovich ideas competition asked for the design of an innovative and functional studio for the contemporary artist. It should address the changing of both their role in society and their working methods.

The contemporary artist is an archivist in white shiny sneakers and skinny jeans. They work and operate in the modern world of cities and towns. From the Coffee Company to exposition space, from workshop to gallery, they observe and record, gather and collect. They need a place where they can store their accumulated information and where they can archive their inspirations and materials – to download and upload.

From the outside, the building is camouflaged with mirrors; it reflects the surroundings negating its own existence. The large cabinet doors are almost invisible and the entrance must be discovered. Archive‘s interior has a warm soft sore, and is fitted with wooden shelves and ‘shaker’ hooks. It is an uninterrupted space, where the artist can walk around and around, endlessly roaming through their orderly labyrinth - it is a hard disc for the creative mind!

Bureau Lada's website.

[via thecoolist]

Amusing Seoul Museum Shaped Like a Handbag

2012-12-19T01:00:00.000Z

This is the Simone Handbag Museum, an interesting and eye-catching structure designed by Korean-based studio UAD in collaboration with Charlie Smith Design.

The concept form of this two-storey equates literally with the function of the museum, which is to exhibit everything about handbags.

Simone Handbag Museum website.

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Delighting Spa House by Metropolis Design

2012-12-17T23:00:00.000Z

Capetown based studio Metropolis Design completed this gorgeous Spa House. This contemporary house is located in Avenue Suzanne, Hout Bay in South Africa. Completed in 2010.

Description by Metropolis Design:

The building is conceived of as a hovering set of abstract sculptural elements, lightly suspended over a large waterscape, which forms an extended terrace on the mountainside.

The inter-penetration of two simple forms, in combination with the staggering of the floorplane, allows a surprising amount of volumetric complexity and spatial interplay in and around the building.

Transparency, an apparent lack of structural support, and the gaps between elements, dematerialize the building and create a presence in the landscape which is of nature, despite its abstraction.

Water as a rejuvenative element, constitutes the primary experience of the building and provides its symbolic language.

The guest accommodation block hovers dramatically over the water and projects into space towards the mountain and sea. It shelters the dining area, itself submerged below water level. Pool decks are arranged as islands in a sea of water, connected by a bridge. The underwater spa with large viewing windows into the pool has a sense of stillness and mystery.

The ground floor opens up entirely and entrances the experience of the building as a light platform in a vast landscape.

Metropolis Design website.

Compact + Quaint Home in Tokyo by On Design

2012-12-17T01:00:00.000Z

Japan based studio On Design have recently completed the FIKA project. FIKA is a housing for owners to sell their wares thats stands on a site of 10 square meters, with the look and feel of Scandinavia.

This 58.58 square meter home is located in Nagasaki, Toshima-ku, Tokyo.

On Design website.

250 Books Stored on Building Facade in Amsterdam

2012-12-16T01:00:00.000Z

De Batavier is a library in Lootsstraat, Amsterdam with a unique facade designed by a local artist Sanja Medić. Sanja created 250 pieces of ceramics books which appear to be stored on its facade.

This project was commissioned by the housing organisation De Alliantie and HVDN.

The artists says:

The building is situated in Lootsstraat, in a neighbourhood where streets are named after Dutch poets and writers from the 18th and 19th century (e.g. C. Loots, J.van Lennep, J.P. Heije, J. Kinker, A.C.W. Staring).

The work is a 'library' consisting of 250 unique ceramic books. Each book carries the title of a poem from on of the above mentioned poets or a drawing from the famous 18th century type book by Johan Enschede.

This project is realised through close collaboration with the ceramist P. Kemink (Koloriet, Amsterdam) and graphic designers Melle Hammer and Susanne Laws.

Sanja Medić website.

[via bookshelfporn]

Weekend Refuge + Los Molles House

2012-12-15T02:00:00.000Z

Architects Oltmann Ahlers W., Oltmann Ahlers G. and dRN Arquitectos collaborated in designing the Los Molles House.

This 260 square meter wood and steel modern home is located in Cachagua, Chile and was completed in 2009.

Photos by Nicolas Saieh and Felipe Camus

A Skateboarder's Awesome Dream Home

2012-12-14T01:00:00.000Z

Francois Perrin of Los Angeles based firm Air Architecture and Gil Lebon Delapointe designed a prototype of a fully functional Skateboard House.

In this house you will be able to skateboard any areas and surfaces, Indoor and Outdoor. The radical residence is to be built in Malibu, California.

Description by the architects:

The PAS House is the project of a private residence, to be built in Malibu, California. In this house you will be able to skateboard any areas and surfaces, Indoor and Outdoor. The client and instigator of the project is Pierre Andre Senizergues (PAS), a former World champion and Pro Skater, Founder and Owner of Sole Technology, a Socal based Skateboard footwear and apparel Company leader in the Action sport industry with brands like Etnies, Emerica, Es and Altamont.

The project to be located in a site overlooking the Pacific at the top of Malibu, was developed by the skateboarder and designer Gil Lebon Delapointe and the LA based architect, Francois Perrin. The concept of the house is a ribbon that creates a continuous surface to be skated from the Outside to the Inside.

The house is divided into three separate spaces. The first one includes the living room, dining area and kitchen, the second one includes a bedroom and bathroom and the third one a skateboard practice area. Each space is skateable as the ground becomes the wall then the ceiling in a continuous surface forming a tube of a 10ft diameter. The furniture is also skateable, whether it is integrated in the curve like the sitting area, the kitchen or the bathroom or just as standing object like the dining table, the kitchen Island or the bed. Closets and drawers could be integrated in the curve too.

The PAS house is the first house to be entirely used for skateboarding as well as being a traditional dwelling. It is the ultimate dream for generations of skateboarders who wanted to bring their practice into their home. In the practice of Architecture, it also represents a groundbreaking in the construction of a non Euclidian geometrical space with a continuous surface that creates a new experience of the domestic space, more fluid and dynamic and reflecting of our 21st century lifestyle. A model of the project and a full scale prototype of the Living area was presented in Paris for the exhibition Public Domaine/Skateboard Culture at la Gaite Lyrique, a New museum directed by the City of Paris. For the 25th birthday celebration of Etnies, their team of pro skaters did a demo session in the prototype.

Air Architecture website.

Uniquely-shaped Abalone House in California

2012-12-13T01:00:00.000Z

Architect Thomas Cowen designed the Abalone House, a contemporary beach house project in collaboration with Rana Creek who designed its living roof. Remotely located by the mountains of Big Sur, California, this home is gifted with fantastic views of the sea.

Rana Creek Design

Delightful Balloon Supported Bridge

2012-12-11T23:00:00.000Z

As if coming straight from a fairytale this hellium-filled balloon supported bridge by French artist Olivier Grossetete has amused many. This bridge installation project is called Pont de Singe, literally translated as Monkey Bridge.

Located in Tatton Park in Cheshire, England, this balloon bridge was made for contemplation rather than function. See it in action in this video.

Concept sketch and installation:

Photos by Olivier Grossetête and Toby Savage.

[via dezeen and toxel]

Spectacular Home in Brussels is a Light Sculpture at Night

2012-12-11T02:00:00.000Z

Brussels based collaborating team Bassam El-Okeily and Karla Menten designed this 3-storey contemporary residence in Bilzen, Belgium.

Inside is a combination of chaotic geometric and simple rectangular rooms. At night, when different lighting are turned on, the geometric walls of its unique interior create a ,public light sculptural spectacle'.

[via home-reviews]

Delectable Gingerbread Model of the Famous Fallingwater House

2012-12-10T01:00:00.000Z

Have you ever done an architectural model? If so, you would know how difficult and painstaking it is to build one. Culinary artist Melodie Dearden did it in a mouth-watering and more challenging manner, creating Frank Lloyd Wright's the Fallingwater by using gingerbread and heaps of frosting.

This wasn't an easy task. To give you a little background on the Fallingwater, built almost 8 decades ago, this home is set partly on a waterfall so that it appears to float over it. So you can just imagine how outrageously strong the gingerbread dough and sugar have to be to hold everything together.

Here's a glimpse of the work hours spent by Melodie Dearden and Brenton on this model:

•It took over 12 hours to design
•It took Brenton and I around 40 hours to build and decorate
•There are around 164 different pieces of gingerbread
•It took roughly 12 square feet of gingerbread dough (that’s four large batches) to make all the walls, floors and roof
•Over 8 bags of powdered sugar were used to make all the frosting
•It took over 40 sleeves of large Smarties which are used to simulate dry stack stone on the building exterior
•The river and water fall are made up of three batches of hard candy

Check the model in the making below!

Melodie Dearden website.

[via inhabitat]

Crisp Design of Villa SSK by Takeshi Hirobe Architects

2012-12-08T02:00:00.000Z

Takeshi Hirobe Architects designed the recently completed Villa SKK located in Minamibōsō, a city located in the south of Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

To achieve the idea of connecting the sea and mountains through this home, the architect thought of combining the three-dimensional wooden wall structure creating a tunnel-like space inside.

Project Description:

The Villa SKK project is a relaxing weekend house in Minamibōsō, Chiba, Japan.

This 2 storey structure is mainly made of wood. The total building area is 79.40 square meters while the total floor area is 105.05 square meters. The structure is set on 854.28 square meter site area.

Project was completed in May 2012.

Photos by Koichi Torimura

[via gessato]