Located in the rolling foothills means this home can have a lot of advantages from its site, especially the landscape. The green plains and beautiful hills able to turn this home into a perfect place to relax and enjoy nature. The dark exterior look makes this home can be recognized easily as a unique living place.
This family house is built based on a combination of reinforced concrete and masonry construction. Its lower floor is reinforced and also resists soil pressure while the ceilings are monolithic. The building uniform skin is ensured by the sandwich construction with the white sand-lime brick and the windows are oak, as same as the staircases and floors. A larch floor can be found on the terrace area.
The result of this awesome project is a warm and comfortable family that is modestly sized that can cover its relative lack of scale with the ever-closer relationship with the landscape and an abundance of light. This house also can get a lot of advantages from the landscape views that come to the house interior through the elegant glass walls.
The shed space is designed around the notion of ‘slow eating’ and also intended to foster a social approach to dining with a long table set alongside the open plan kitchen. The chefs and guests can be found in the same space, creating an intimate dining space that brings flavors, smells, techniques, and ingredients to life.
Shared functional areas on every floor can be found outside the private rooms, designed to promote community-building that also include outdoor terraces, TV room, lounges, a living room, a library, and a kitchen. The shared kitchens allow for large dining tables and communal cooking to playing host to group meals, providing them a comfortable space for entertaining.
The interior of this five-star inn is a combination of modern and elegant design, created by blending one element to another element. The interior surface is dominated in white through the white curtains, walls, ceiling, and floors. The long and narrow windows allow the guests to enjoy the awesome views right from their own rooms.
The five homes are characterized by flat roofs and dominated with wood materials for the entire structure of the buildings. In order to get more advantages from the awesome views of nature, large glass windows and doors are also added along the building walls so everyone inside the houses can enjoy the views and warm atmosphere from the natural light.
Using soft transitions, the architecture can blend into nature due to the warm and pleasant climate. Porches, outdoor living and dining spaces, with switching levels defining thresholds between this nature and architecture. Wood materials are used to design the shutters and avoid glazed openings while the large sliding doors can open up key spaces to the garden.
Every sustainable notion possible is used to design the buildings with little impact on the existing trees and site, cross-ventilation, and proper sound transmittance ratings. The landscape around the building also will promote social engagement among the owners of the property to create pleasant opportunities for neighbors to meet and engage.
This house has a vertical backbone: a staircase that leads up to the roof terrace, offering awesome views of the city. The house bearing structure is made of ceramic blocks while the ceilings are reinforced concrete. The spruce glued profiles are used to design the windows. The house interior is fully equipped with the same material as the floors: built-in furniture in oak.
The house space is filled up with natural light throughout the day and it is enhanced by a diamond plaster finish on the interior ceilings and walls, parallels with the minimalism idea through the materials that used.
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