Archi-Dork

My work in the Montana State Architecture program, and posts on inspiring architecture

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Do you have some more examples of houses which are part of the nature surrounding them? Or just really "grassy"? I love buildings which are basically treehouses or caves!

Norway House

Here are some houses that incorporate nature in the design and seem to fade into their surroundings:

Outrial House Robert Konieczny KWK Promes

Stone House Vo Trong Nghia

Edgeland House Bercy Chen Studio

Sky Garden House Guz Architects

Summerhouse in Gata Hrunmannahreppur ASK Arkitektar

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House Cylinder / Town and Concrete

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Shanghai LuJiaZui Exhibition Centre / OMA

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[archatlas]

A Mixed-Use Development in Paris 

Monts Et Merveilles is a mixed use project that includes 132 housing units, 1 religious center and 2 retails businesses by Jean Bocabeille Architecte. The project sits on a former railway enclave, the Clichy-Batignolles ecodistrict, in a forgotten piece of Parisian ground now being redeveloped.

From the architect

This major municipal project was envisioned as a response to the elevated need for housing while paving the way for a durable, mixed-use 21st century city. This project is the result of a lengthy consideration of zoning rules for minimal distances between structures. Shoehorned into its larger setting as the final piece of a larger puzzle, it is tied to a sense of proximity in this neighborhood and a desire to create density. The horizontal and vertical paneling carves out an unusual volume, at once a glacier and a rocky outcrop. This form gives the residence a strong sense of identity while also refining and streamlining the rigorousness of the construction system used.

Images and text via

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Selfridges Building - Birmingham, UK (1999-2003)

Designer: Future Systems 

[blazepress]

Amazing apartment block in Italy.

[architags]

Studio Pacific Architecture. Bonnett Edwards House. Wellington. New Zealand. photos: Studio Pacific Architecture

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[archatlas]

Doehler SABO project

SABO project is currently in the process of completing the gut renovation of a Brooklyn loft located in a former die casting factory built in 1913. Under the 12’-0” ceiling, a new 7’-8” datum is defined by the height of a series of new partitions, custom cabinets, glass enclosures and a new mezzanine. The vertical combination of opacities and transparencies manages privacy while bringing natural light to every single space. The new connections between rooms establishes a continuum that expands each space beyond it’s limits.

Images and text via SABO project

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❛ Retrospect Vineyards Residence ❜

Location: Windsor, California, USA Designed by: Swatt Miers Architects Photographer: Russell Abraham Post II by ENVIBE

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Mexican Giant Cordon (Pachycereus pringlei) photographed on the Baja peninsula by French naturalist Leon Diguet on one of his 6 expeditions to Mexico between 1893 & 1913. He later wrote the book “Cactacees utiles due Mexique”.

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stonescape ~ kengo kuma

[thetypologist]

It’s Monday morning…I need a Typology of coffeepots. By Frank Trimarchi.

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in tribute to this post, have some more color palettes that i’ve been keeping locked up for a while, hehe

[did-you-know]

An Australian modular home builder designed a concept for a 5-story house that hangs off the side of a cliff. The design uses steel pins to keep the home secured to the edge of the rock.

Source     Photo credit: Modscape

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Architecture school in a nutshell (Zoolander)