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- What happens when a house has no rooms? Last week, I explored Casa Horizonte (https://lnkd.in/e_ybpmce), a house composed of several distinct spatial worlds. This week, I’m looking at its apparent opposite: Casa Entre Muros
- What happens when a house has no conventional rooms? Last week, I explored Casa Horizonte (https://lnkd.in/e_ybpmce), a house composed of several distinct spatial worlds. This week, I’m looking at its apparent opposite: Casa
- Casa Horizonte by RCR Arquitectes is 60 metres long. Its bedrooms are 2.5 metres wide. I love this house, and I would hate to live in it. Tonight I take apart why. We look at how RCR threaded 11 corten boxes onto a single buried spine, why the bed is
- How do you build a house without machinery? At Palmyra House, Bijoy Jain and Studio Mumbai worked largely by hand to preserve a functioning coconut plantation. The house was divided into two slender timber volumes, while its structure was developed
- The Most Sustainable Room Has No Fixed Function Alternative, slightly more provocative: Why This Architect Refused to Design “Rooms” I prefer the first because it connects immediately to the sustainability argument you're making. YouTube description
- Why would an architect deliberately make a house less compact? In House A, Ryue Nishizawa broke a narrow volume into five offset boxes. This created small patios and more external perimeter, allowing daylight and cross-ventilation to reach deeper into
- Ryue Nishizawa’s House A is not an efficient building, at least not by the metrics we usually use. More façade. More roof. More foundations. More complexity. But those apparent inefficiencies create something else: more daylight, better ventilation,
- Ryue Nishizawa’s House A is not an efficient building — at least not by the metrics we usually use. More façade. More roof. More foundations. More complexity. But those apparent inefficiencies create something else: more daylight, better ventilation,
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