The house is a fertile ground for architectural experimentation: a space for innovation where technical solutions, aesthetic alternatives, and new ways of dwelling are tried out. AV Monographs 276 gathers sixteen projects built in diverse geographica

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The house has always been an aesthetic laboratory, where new languages have been tried out, sometimes calling into question their very function, as happens with some icons of modernity. It has also been a social laboratory, ready to adapt to the tran

Bernardo Bader Architekten   Austria   At an altitude of 1,100 meters, this wooden dwelling was thought up with the clear intention of reducing everything to the essential. Grounded on simplicity, it is a reinterpretation of the concept of the original hut. The solitary house seeks to mak

Dekleva Gregoric architects   Slovenia   The firm of Aljoša Dekleva and Tina Gregoric designed these holiday house close to Lake Jasna and Triglav National Park in Slovenia, near the Italian and Austrian borders. They intertwine tradition, innovation, nature, and architecture, redefining th

Lux Architect, Cánovas Arquitectura   Germany   The house, built entirely with wood, is located close to Augsburg in Bavaria, with views of the Schmutter Valley. Rising 7 meters and containing two floors, it is collapsible and was designed with painstaking attention to every detail, in an effort t

Kolman Boye Architects   Sweden   Overlooking the port of Stockholm, this wooden residence rises on an irregular plot bordered by steep cliffs. A work of the practice of Erik Kolman and Victor Boye, it seeks to reduce its environmental footprint to a minimum. By partly clinging to th

munarq   Spain   This project builds on the resources available in the area. A specific type of soil defined by its excellent cohesive capacity is used to build all the walls. So the building is raised with local materials and techniques, incorporating the traditiona

Leopold Banchini Architects, Sana Nabaha   Morocco   Two parallel walls of rammed earth form a linear succession that forms a rural house in Al Haouz, Morocco. Redefining the traditional house-courtyard typology, Dar El Farina breaks up its sequenced domestic spaces by means of pivot doors. The sun shi

Moro Taller de Arquitectura, Fino Lozano   Mexico   The house is located in the small town of San José de Gracia, Michoacán de Ocampo, in the center of the country. The project seeks as its main objectives to be economically and environmentally feasible, to blend into the landscape, and to design simp

Harquitectes   Spain   So exacerbated by the romantic imagination of modernisme, the medieval character of Barcelona’s old quarter is less attributable to ogee arches and flamboyant traceries than to the relationship between the alleys within the confines of the old walls

Fernanda Canales   Mexico   This house is many houses in one: one looks towards a circular interior patio, the other opens up to different views along the outer perimeter; one is at ground level, and the other is a green roof, 360º+360º. An extroverted house during the day, loo

Bojaus   Spain   In its abstract and material essence, the X house arises from a tension between a stunning location and the desire to inhabit it. The conflict is addressed with a firm determination to create a new element that is not ‘in,’ but ‘of’ the landscape, in

Pedro Domingos   Portugal   Built high on a hill near the town of Santa Bárbara de Nexe, this concrete house fuses with nature while evoking the image of an old ruin. To make the most of views, the main livable zones are placed in the upper level, a 385-square-meter space. The

Tomohiro Hata   Japan   With a built area of 260 square meters, the project involved reconstructing a house in the Japanese city of Muko, in Kyoto Prefecture. The area was previously dotted with farmhouses, each one composed of a main house and a group of other residential

Duarte Fournies Arquitectos    Mexico   The house is located in an Andean valley in the center of Chile, with an extreme climate of cold winters with rain and snow, and warm summers. The owner will live by herself in this isolated environment, receiving guests occasionally. Considering thi

Group Projects Architecture   United States   A work of the Brooklyn firm Brooklyn Group Projects Architecture, the house is situated on a large parcel in Millerton, New York state, surrounded by trees and offering views of the Catskill Mountains. It stands at the lower meadow level, following t

Robbie Walker   Australia   The brief called for a small house to share with family and friends. The client, deeply committed with the natural environment, made it a priority to preserve the existing trees in the thick forest where the building is located, in the region of Vict

Guillermo Hevia, Catalina Poblete   Chile   The main objectives in this commission were to ensure views of the lake, one of Chile’s largest, for the entire house, and to make it easy to adapt to different situations (owners being alone or with their children or other visitors). The solution ev