Shigeru Ban Architects | Metal Shutter Houses

Shigeru Ban Architects | Metal Shutter Houses

Architects Housing Japan House

This is a new under construction project on West Chelsea [ 9 unit condo ] that was designed by japanese Shigeru Ban Architects. The project is located on the south side of West 19th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in West Chelsea’s art gallery district, right next to the High Line, the Hudson River Park, Ghery´s IAC Building and Jean Nouvel´s 100 11th.

On this building, Shigeru Ban once again innovates on the material use by incorporating motorized perforated metal shutters on its -dynamic- facade, which act as light-modulating privacy screen at the outer edge of each residence’s terrace adjacent to the double-height living rooms.

From their website: This subtle “removable skin” echoes the neighboring gallery after-hours shutters, subtly contextualizing the building within its site. The building can literally become a uniform minimal cube, or it can open completely (as well as virtually unlimited permutations between). South of the loggia, twenty foot tall, upwardly pivoting glass walls open completely, thus blurring the boundary between the inside and outside – the double height living room and loggia become one.

Similarly, a series of interior sliding glass doors create an open “universal floor” in each of the duplex houses – one vast and uninterrupted expanse which transitions seamlessly from inside to outside, or partition the space into private areas.

Avra Verde, Seven Exclusive Desert Pavilions by Rick Joy architects

Avra Verde, Seven Exclusive Desert Pavilions by Rick Joy architects

Housing Natural House

Architect: Rick Joy architects
Project: Avra Verde
Location: The Saguaro National Park West
Award: American Architecture Award
Photo: © Avra Verde

This unique private residence designed by Tucson architectural firm, Rick Joy Architects. A design concept for Seven Exclusive Desert Pavilions On Forty Acres, located At The Saguaro National Park West. This project is to promote an indoor-outdoor lifestyle merging sensory experience, artisanship, and environment sensibility; to create the most unique private residence enclave in the American Southwest.
















The use of raw, untreated steel works exceedingly well here in the Desert, reminding one of rusty cans or abandoned auto carcasses. The house is ingeniously angled to exploit precisely framed views in all directions and the overall effect is serene and sophisticated.
















From The Architect:
" … The simplest things can evoke the deepest feelings. The silence in great music is often more profound than sounds…"
Rick Joy

Six Townhomes by Sebastian Mariscal Architecture

Six Townhomes by Sebastian Mariscal Architecture

Housing

This Six Townhomes project is a portfolio of well-regarded contemporary housing project throughout the city of San Diego's most desirable and expensive neighborhoods. Designed by Sebastian Mariscal Architects whose become the architects, developer, and also contractor of this Six townhomes project.





















Six Townhouse sits on a sloping lot on a curving street, a topographic condition made subtly evident as the apparently identical units curve and drop with the terrain. The rowhouses sit atop an underground garage accessible from the side street on the low side of the site; they address the sidwalk through a small gate in a hedge that provides privacy to the open unit beyond.


















Each rowhouse is composed of two parts that are expressed in their finish materials. Service elements ( stairs, elevators, storage, and the like ) are placed in limestone-clad pylons that act as sound gaskets between tne units. All living spaces are contained in wood boxes that bridge between the stone pylons.






















The wood boxes, clad completely in ipe contain bedrooms a the second and third floors. Under the wood box, a large loft-like space for the kitchen and living area extends into gardens on both ends. This connection is made seamless by the use of fold-away glass doors that completely open both ends of the room. Ipe flooring runs outside as decking in both directions, connectiong the garden and terrace areas to the interior.






















Six Townhouses is a quintessentially Southern California housing scheme that builds on a legacy of seamless connections between house and garden. The real genius of Six that it accomplishes this with such a deceptively simple kit-of-parts.

Garland 77 in Sydney by Alex Popov Associates

Garland 77 in Sydney by Alex Popov Associates

Housing

Garland 77 in Sydney, Australia is an eight storey building with a dramatic foyer designed by Alex Popov Associates. Designed by highly acclaimed architect Alex Popov, Garland Row comprises twenty four, 3 & 4 bedroom grand terraces offering uncompromising design standards. The entrance to Garland 77 is a dramatic foyer which incorporates naturally ventilated glass and marble paving.






















Each contemporary terrace house features dramatic double-height living spaces, internal living areas open to private courtyards and terraces and designs that maximise sunlight, space and cross flow ventilation, while natural light streams in through cleverly designed sky lights. Spaces range in size between 190-200 sq m internally, all terraces offer generous living areas.

All terraces are Torrens Title and enjoy street frontage. Alex Popov architects have designed all lofts to be spacious containing double storey spaces, solid timber floors and timber deck with gas outlet for the barbeques.





















Garland Row is located in the inner East's most desirable new address and has Sydney’s best amenities only minutes away.

Loloma 5, Completely Modern Live | Work Solution by Will Bruder

Loloma 5, Completely Modern Live | Work Solution by Will Bruder

Apartments Housing

This Loloma 5 that was designed by Architect Will Bruder is a completely modern Live/Work solution at a new level of urban experience and architectural design. Every unit offers commercial office space, 2 bedrooms, roof terrace, and a view patio aligned with Camelback Mountain. This was the first development in the Loloma Arts District which offers easy access to the very best of historic downtown Scottsdale, including the art centers of Main Street, Marshall Way, transit centers, Canal Front Development and the refurbished Hotel Valley Ho.





















The architecture of Loloma 5 is a thoughtful and sophisticated acknowledgement of the traditional and modern roots of its Old Town Scottsdale context - a place with pride in its false-front, covered boardwalk, 'old west' friendly downtown image. This project creates a live work environment in the heart of Scottsdale that celebrates both the historic and physical context of the place.

The building's vertical scale is tempered with a entry courtyard for the work spaces, along the project's southern edge and a landscaped auto court along the northern edge of the site is veiled behind a perforated metal gate and a living ocotillo fence. The architecture is folded in an angular manner to define each unit and capture, for each, dramatic views of Camelback Mountain.



























Carefully detailed window walls are screened from the sun behind perforated aluminum scrims while private cantilevered balconies project behind aluminum plate railings. In scale, proportion, finely articulated details, massing, and materially, the Loloma 5 live/work project draws carefully from its local context and history, representing an architectural rightness for Scottsdale and its aspirations of design quality and uniqueness.



























A rich palette of Materials includes: sandblasted concrete block, standing seam zinc, corrugated steel, fiberglass and LUMAsite panels, plus a desert inspired vibrant color scheme on the limited stucco surfaces. Interiors feature maple cabinetry, stainless steel appliances, finished concrete, linoleum and commercial carpeted floors and light-filled spaces.