A pitched timber roof lies on a play of volumes that rest strategically on the sloping terrain. The apparent abstraction that organizes the floor plan maintains a visual connection between the space indoors and the idyllic environment. The living are
The existing school complex was constructed by Hans von Meyenburg from 1954 to 1956. It is dispersed across the site in a loosely staggered parallel configuration. The project strategy is based on an analysis of the existing buildings, which are unde
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
Located amid gently rolling hills in western Germany, this is a small museum for exhibiting the work of sculptor Wolfgang Kubach and his wife Anna Maria Kubach-Wilmsen, world-famous for their stone sculptures. A gabled-roof barn, built in the 18th ce
At the center of the observance of the 500th anniversary of the Fuggerei social housing complex in Augsburg rises this pavilion built with cross-laminated timber (CLT), a work of MVRDV. It harbors the exhibition ‘Fuggerei of the Future,’ which propos
Critical of intensive practices, a family long engaged in raising livestock makes organic cheese in an environment that improves the quality of life of the animals and blends into the landscape. Deviating from the picture of an opaque industrial
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,
The jumping horses trained in an equestrian center located at the foot of the Andes Mountains are housed in a shed under a pitched roof ripped at the top to bring in natural light...
With the idea of enlarging their current residence, a building set between party walls, the clients acquired the property adjacent to their rear patio, and the result is an elongated complex facing two streets, with a central courtyard linking the tw
On land cultivated by a rural cooperative, a new building hosts an internationally known circus training school in volumes that use the language of agricultural sheds. An enclosure made of corrugated fiber cement panels results in a unitary image tha
In a peaceful spot close to the southern coast of Norway, a close-set group of three cottages forms a holiday residence for different generations of one same family. Three simple volumes with pitched roofs, access to one of which is differentiated so
Nocaima is a remote community of just twenty families scattered along a mountain path that negotiates its way amongst dense forests and sugar cane and coffee plantations. The villagers tend to form terraces when building their homes, following the to
The pitched roof extends 7.30 meters symmetrically covering the house’s two floors – the top one for parents, the lower one for children. Each space looks out to the lake through cutouts in the exterior cladding of corrugated cement panel with aggreg
Raised on a platform that negotiates the slope of the terrain, the house is envisioned as a shelter amid nature in Conguillío National park, in Chile’s La Araucanía region. From the terrace one can contemplate the dead river of lava that is a reminde
On the initiative of the local government, several constructions complete a forest reserve for the Kuy, an ethnic group that has lived with and tended to elephants for centuries.
In the town of Molins de Rei, in Barcelona, the new El Molí Library – previous Biblioteca Pau Vila – is located in the old industrial warehouse of Ferrer y Mora, a textile factory built in 1858, also known as ‘fábrica del molí’ because of its locatio
Shortlisted in the international section of the 2020 FAD Awards, the project submitted by Albert Faus Madrid (Barcelona, 1972) involves reorganizing the Bangre Veenem educational complex, with its existing primary school serving the village of Youlou
Known for the famous medieval castle after which it is named, the municipality of Leiria spreads by the banks of the Lis River. This compact single-family house goes up on a hill on the outskirts of the city, on a site in a high position overlooking
With over three centuries of history, Bodegues Ribas is the oldest winery on the island of Mallorca. Since its foundation in 1711, its wines have been produced in Ca’n Ribas – an 18th-century manor house kept intact to date – and the lands around it,
A series of simple operations has made it possible to transform a barn into a new municipal library without detriment to its rural character and its link to the traditions of the place. Respecting the original structure, the project replaces the faca
On an old military site, with two bunkers concealed below ground, the summer house is formed by three modules with a wood structure separated from one another, placed under a large roof that creates an outdoor space sheltered from sun and rain...
Inspired in the old farm that used to be on the site, the complex is organized around a large courtyard, protected from strong winds by the four buildings. The design gives a family of three generations a place to spend time together but also live in
A work of the practice of the American Frank Barkow and the German Regine Leibinger, with offices in Berlin and New York, this daycare for children of employees of the machine-tool and medical-equipment manufacturer Trumpf is located within the firm’
A barn in the German municipality of Kressbronn, near Lake Constance, has been turned by Thomas and Christine Steimle into a library and community center. In deference to the building’s history, the project balances past and present. The renovation i
A menos de un año de su inauguración, prevista para otoño de 2012, la construcción del Museo de Arte Parrish, diseñado por Herzog & de Meuron, avanza en Water Mill, en la isla neoyorquina de Long Island. El volumen es el resultado de la extrusión
