The tough experience of lockdown during the pandemic has made us reflect on the design of domestic space, and particularly on its connection with the outdoors. Inserted in built-up urban spaces, located in sprawling suburban areas, or embedded in nat

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Interior life needs the outdoors. During the recent viral pandemic, lockdowns reminded us that we need contact with others and with nature. From this intimate withdrawal, which is both shelter and cell, we must open up to others and to the world. Per

not architects studio   Japan   The site is a corner of a small residential area in Tokyo. It is surrounded by two parks and a long path connecting them, creating an environment that is unique for walking. The project seeks reproducing in the house that pleasant urban itinerary thr

Shota Nakanishi Architects, Ohno-japan   Japan   The site is located in a residential area in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region, which has the most rainy days of any region in Japan. The project follows the traditional local architecture, aiming to create a house where people ca

MACH   Spain   Casa collumpio is located in Barcelona’s Coll district, close to Park Guëll, integrated in a dense fabric of humble constructions and houses built in the early 20th century. The project uses the site’s changes in level to contain a reinforced concre

Tomohiro Hata   Japan   The complex features of this site in Hyogo Prefecture, within a labyrinth of retaining walls and winding narrow alleys spread out on a steep terraced hill, made it practically impossible to transport and deliver materials and machinery, making it nec

Equipo de Arquitectura    Paraguay   Taking inspiration from the vernacular constructions in the area, and built for a friend of the architects, the house starts out from a consideration: that of the intermediate space as a privileged one, a place for welcoming and sharing. Raw earth, i

Palera arquitectos    Spain   The project is located in Overa, in the north of Almería, in a rural environment with strong roots in agriculture. Over the years, the urban fabric of the town has blurred the agricultural footprint of the territory. Despite this, ancient eras can st

Bates Masi + Architects   United States   This home is located in Amagansett, an early English and Dutch settlement in Long Island. The site served as communal grazing pasture for the early settlers, who divided the land into parcels where farmers rotated their livestock from one parcel to t

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   The brick house is built on a plot qualified by a group of tall pine trees, located at its northeast corner, and by the silent proximity of Monte del Pardo, along its north face. The complex is organized around three independent volumes: the cubic v

Barkow Leibinger   United States   The vast expanse of land around Bozeman – a city in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, not far from Yellowstone National Park – has been seen by many, and even more so with the pandemic, as an ideal place to escape from the madding crowd and enjoy

Bellafilarquitectes   Spain   In L’Escala, a municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Girona province, stands this one-family residence designed by Bellafilarquitectes, the Barcelona practice of Albert Massagué and Marta Andreu. With a built area of 204 square meters, it was de

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Miguel Mesa del Castillo   Spain   Molina de Segura (Murcia) is a formerly-rural county where vast stretches of land have been exploited to create suburbs. The result is a flattening of the land’s topographies and the destruction of its ramblas (territorial system of ravines) and loca

Sugiberry    South Africa   The one-bedroom house is connected, through a terrace, to an existing multi-generational family home. With design provisions made for the eventuality of barrier free living, it is a place for the client to grow old, close to his loved ones. The parts

José María Sáez Vaquero, Taller General    Ecuador   Situated some 80 km from Quito, the town of Mindo is part of the Chocó Andino Biosphere Reserve. This house is conceived as a container able to nurture a relationship between the natural – flora and fauna – and the artificial – technology, connectivi

Studio MK27   Brazil   Atop a 46-meter tall cliff, Casa Vista tries to frame the landscape as a wide-angle lens camera. Its horizontal proportions are defined by the extrusion of the elemental section of a cabin, which generates a 60-meter-long structure, with two volumes

Edition Office   Australia   On a hillock overlooking the environs of Byron Bay, in the western coast of Australia – a forested landscape as virginal as when Captain Cook first sighted it –, a house is designed as a sanctuary for its owner to escape to from a busy professional l

estudio_entresitio   Spain   The plot lies perpendicular to the reservoir of San Juan, an area with a high degree of protection due to the ecological value of the reservoir, and enjoys privileged views and private access to the water all over its east borderline. The respect tow

Iván Bravo   Chile   The house sits in a clear stretch between trees. It is built over posts that separate it almost a meter from the ground, allowing the flow of streams that run towards a lagoon in front of the main facade. Its triangular geometry, in this wilderness,

Ricardo Bak Gordon   Portugal   The small town of Grândola is some 120 kilometers south of Lisbon, by the coast, in the Alentejo, a vast region that is mainly rural and scarcely populated, between the Tagus River and the Algarve. Lying between Spain and the Atlantic Ocean, it takes