United States | Futurist Architecture

Capsule Loft: A West Village Apartment with A Cantilevered Wood-Clad Volume and Industrial Loft

The design challenge for Capsule Loft is to accommodate a second level for bedrooms and maintain the architectural integrity of the industrial loft. This West Village apartment is 2500 SF in size, located in New York and designed by Joel Sanders Architect. The industrial loft in this apartment is characterized by tall south-west corner windows and exposed concrete beams. The architect also inserts a cantilevered wood-clad volume called the Sleeping Capsule.

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Meadow Beach House: A Family Retreat with Lasting Materials and Multiple Smaller Volumes

Located in Martha’s Vineyard, MA, the United States, Meadow Beach House is designed by Andrew Franz Architect as a comfortable family retreat. Completed in 2016 with 5,000 SF in size, this house is crafted with lasting materials to respond to its beachside meadow setting. It also has multiple smaller volumes that settle into the house landscape.

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Michigan Lake House: An Assemblage of Three Offset Structures with Gentle Undulations of Roofscape and ‘Shou Sugi Ban’ Exterior

The house exterior is clad in ‘shou sugi ban’. It is a traditional Japanese method of charring wood, so it becomes bug resistant and rot-resistant. The modulation of deep facade members and the charred texture can enhance the shadows across the house facade as the sun sets and rises.

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The Children’s Library at Concourse House: A New Children’s Library with A Bright, Colorful, and Playful Environment

This library is situated under the vaulted ceiling of the Concourse House multipurpose space, in a dark and underused mezzanine space. It is designed to break from the institutional quality of the other program spaces, also to engage the children through a bright, colorful, and playful environment. It also allows for flexible transitions between organized and individual group storytelling and readings.

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AADX Apartment: A Three-Story Apartment with Full of Arts and Colors

This stair is transparent with open steel netting, open risers, and a thin solid steel structure. Around the stair, there is a small double-height area that can create a good relationship with the master bedroom which looks out through a large pretty circular window.

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The Post Ranch Inn: A Rustic, Eco Luxury Hotel Overlooks the Pacific

Muennig surveyed the property for several weeks and climbed the trees to nail the best views. Such observation brought him to design a few defining structures, such as tree houses, hobbitlike rooms, and cylindrical cabins. The tree houses built on slender stilts standing ten feet above the ground.

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Port Ludlow House: A Compact Modern House on a Wooded Waterfront Property

The firm has successfully arranged the interior to look simple yet elegant. It comes with IPE wood flooring, limestone countertops, zebrawood cabinet doors with mahogany end panels, and Douglas Fir trim and doors.

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Lake Creek Residence: L-Shaped House with a Sense of Fondness for Nature

The home displays a thin profile, allowing for maximum passive natural lighting and ventilation to reduce the need for overpriced mechanical and lighting systems.

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The Camp MINOH: A Rugged Family Outpost in the Rustic Midwestern Landscape

The Camp MINOH consists of four cozy sleeping nooks, four full bathrooms, and one-half bath. The interior is mostly bright with open living spaces suitable for extended family gatherings. When summer rolls around, this residence is perfect for adventure and other outdoor activities.

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A Rural, Eco-Friendly Retreat in Connecticut Designed by Lynn Gaffney

The house also comes with two-bay garage which is used as a 600 square foot guest apartment housing living room, kitchen, bath, laundry area, gas fireplace, sleeping quarter, and balcony.

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The Floating Farmhouse: Bring the Vernacular Past into the Present

In the project, rather than suspending all activity on the creek nearby the house, he paid more attention to the used materials and how to perfect them.

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