The Glenwood Residence by Wernerfield

A stunning residential project of the gleenwood residence located in Dallas, Texas has been created by Wernerfield Architects. The residential project is organized around a central pool courtyard. The main living space and master suite all open onto the courtyard through a series of floor to ceiling mahogany and glass sliding panels that seamlessly integrate interior and exterior. Deep overhangs along these spaces serve to protect the home from the harsh Texas sun and create a generous covered outdoor living area.

This beautiful modern residence was designed to follow the natural site topography, one descends into the courtyard through a steel gate and series of stone walls that run the width of the site and divide public and private space.

Sited around the main natural feature, a massive oak, the home is designed to sit quietly within its surroundings. From the street, the second story office and guest room are pushed to the rear of the site and obscured by this oak to reduce the overall scale of the home.

A natural, yet minimal material palette constructed with rigorous and exacting detail also make the home feel both inviting and modern. A number of environmental features including geothermal heating and cooling, energy star appliances, regional building materials (such as Granbury Texas limestone), and a high performance building envelope are all incorporated into the project.

Modern Zen House Design in Spain by A-cero Architects

This cool modern zen house design idea is located in Pozuelo de Alarcón Madrid, Spain designed by Spanish architects A-cero. The house is situated on a slope, inclined toward a lake, allowing for an upper and a lower terrace for outdoor living and entertaining. This futuristic home design is hided behind a harmonious sculptural set of curved walls made of stone dark granite and marble travertino that seem to emerge from a big water plate arranged in the house entry. This modern zen home has a modern features which applied to all kind of house elements such as lighting, blinds, safety, air conditioning and lots more by using computerized and motorized concept.

This beautiful modern zen house interior design is divided into upper and lower levels. An upstairs hall, lined with skylights, leads to the essence of luxury living – a spacious kitchen, wine vault, dining room, lounge and library; and continues deeper into the home’s private living spaces – the master bedroom, dressing area, bathroom, an indoor swimming pool and a gym. All the house rooms are provided with wide large windows in a dark safety glass.

The high floor communicates with a terrace. In the lounge the access to outside is made by a long large window that provides a continuity sensation from the interior space to outside. This terrace is covered by a pergola made of an aluminium structure that supports the sculptural premeditation of the building. In one of the side parts of the garden, there is a relaxation area with a pond of Buddhist inspiration.

Unusual and Unique Upside Down House Design in Poland

Some people try to make a different kind of approach in designing their dream homes such as this cool unusual and unique upside down house design located in Poland in the tiny village of Szymbark and designed by Daniel Czapiewski, a Polish businessman and philanthropist. These upside-down house was took 114 days to build the structure

This unique residential architecture ideas has becomes a tourist magnet with its unusual structure that has took 5 times longer to build than a normal house. Once you are inside, you will feel sea-sick and dizziness as you see all of the structure and interior furniture were arranged in upside-down way. The designer remembers that his workers had to take an hour’s break every three hours while working inside the house because they were feeling disorientated and confused from the strange angles of the walls.

Minimalist Purple Cedar House Design Ideas

Pete bosley has done wonderful task in designing this beautiful modern minimalist purple cedar house design. This house has a cool features to protect the front of the house from noise using wrapped dark cedar materials. The screen is facing a disguised form of step function of the building. Clever building material choice has made this house get its privacy but still allow light to penetrate the west side by using frosted glass material.

The image of the frayed edge of the wooden screen through the frosted glass provides a beautiful silhouette in the light of day. Dark purple color of the house exterior and interior. From the natural color as the stones are arranged as a fence to modern furniture. This minimalist residential architecture has a large opening to see the bay and also the edge.

Marrakesh Residence - Indian Art Deco House Design by U+B Architects

This residential architecture of Marrakesh Residence was designed by U+B Architects, this indian art deco house design style was completed in 2004 and deeply influenced by the traditions and environment of Marrakesh, Morocco. The interior and exterior design element of this marrakesh residence are exclusive craftsmanship by local artists.

Decorative finishes of the home include: custom patterned and colored terrazzo floors, hand cut mosaic tile work and hand-wrought iron doors and handrails. The materials and colors link the house to the surrounding architecture and landscape while deep overhangs protect from the hot sun and provide generous outdoor living spaces.

House in Las Rozas by MoRE Arquitectos

MoRE Arquitectos has designed this 460 square meter house located in Las Rozas, Madrid on a sloping lot with South access. The House in Las Rozas program is divided in three different spaces: private area, household servants and guest rooms. The project is created around the fold of a plane and the creation of spaces.



A horizontal plane, white, is adapted to the rise of the lot, resting gently and evolving the program. This plane, folds and unfolds generating transitions and relationships. The second vertical plane, black, articulates the space generated by the first plane. A series of boxes arrange the property program allowing the continuity and fluidity of the house.

Casa Llorens by Eneseis Arquitectura

Project Type: Isolated family house
Architects: Eneseis (Daniel Solbes Ponsoda, Jose Luis Durán, Jose Vicente Lillo)
Site: Mutxamel, partida “La obrera”
Co-Architects: Katerina Zeminova Daniel Cano
Surveyor: Raquel Barceló
Builder: Abelardo Granados
Promoters: Llorenç Solbes y Virginia Mur
COst: 195.000 euros
Project date: 2006-2007

This new family residence is called Casa Llorens, located at Mutxamel, Alicante, Spain in a housing area close to the town centre, but depends on the car for transport. Designed by Spanish architects Eneseis Arquitectura, the house is partly buried and protected from being overlooked on three sides, but opens up on the fourth side to trees and views across the landscape. The house is designed to be accessible for a wheelchair user. The architects aimed to make it sustainable by optimising the amount of natural light and ventilation in each room.



This sustainable building connects the public street with a 40m narrow pass. It is surrounded on every side except the northwest, where it opens to some trees and the mountain view. The building opens towards the mountain view, and closes itself, looking for privacy, against the surrounding buildings.



SOIL AND ARCHITECTURE

Our first idea for the project came from a self-protecting instinct; the desire to build a controlled environment, our custom-made world. We modified topography to generate a trench situation, protecting the house from neighbour’s views and controlling the view out; the environment became the sky and the distant northwest landscape.

The soil that was removed from the trench was piled up on the perimeter, eliminating the usual need to take soil elsewhere. Thus, we made the relative elevation 1.5m, digging the natural soil just 0.5m. On this simplified space we adapted the architecture that completes the project. We modified 100% of the soil’s plot, generating a new reality, a synergistic union, a garden-house or house-garden, non-divisible, that chooses and generates its own accessible landscape.



SUN AND VENTILATION
We started with a linear floor distribution that begins turning, bending, raising…looking for the optimum solar place, and passive ventilation, extracting the air from the fresher places of the garden.

The sleeping-room zones remain half-buried, profiting from the temperature regulation of the thermal inertia.



MOVEMENT AND ACCESSIBILITY
We generated a continuous flow between the garden and the house, between inner and outer space. The house itself is an accessibility vehicle to the garden. When solving the accessibility problem, instead of thinking about the limitations, we preferred to think about creating an environment that could improve the abilities enjoying: resting on the water, swimming, taking sunbaths, traveling along the garden, flowing…

Inside, the spaces are dynamic, custom-fitted for a wheelchair. The movement is reinforced by the continuous white walls that build the house.

Casa Paracaima by DCPP Arquitectos

Project: CASA PARACAIMA
Architects: DCPP Arquitectos
Type: Private Residence
Location: México D.F.
Buildable Area: 360 m2
Year of Construction: 2007-2008

Casa Paracaima is a private residence located in México city. Designed by DCPP Arquitectos, this 360 square metre house consists of two concrete volumes and a lot of restrictions to the sides and at the front. The architects used these restrictions to give shape to the house always searching for the maximum amount of open areas and good orientation.



That gave us a project that consists of two main volumes that intersect: the first volume consists of a big, structural, concrete arch 25 cm and 7.5 mts. high, that carries the other volume. This volume contains the main open area with an open terrace, with the roof passing at 7.5 on one side. The other side holds the library.



The wood used to pour the concrete was used again in some of the woodwork inside the house, such as the doors. The other volume, in contrast with the big arch, is much more closed and contains all the private areas of the house.



This volume contains the main open area with an open terrace with the roof passing at 7.5 on one side and on the other side holds the library. The other volume in contrast with the big arch, its much more close and contains all the private areas of the house.