Archive for the 'Apartment' Category
Flexible Emergency Housing from Nano Rescue House Design
The Nano Rescue House is one of the most thoughtful designs for emergency habitation. Each Nano can nearly double the living space by using a drop down bed system, enabling the house to provide accommodations for up to four people in an amazing 200 square feet space. The homes come in standardized sizes so they [...]
Category: Apartment,House, posted at: Nov 13th 2010, Comments: 1 CommentTags: cross ventilation, footprint, furniture, House, house design, living space, Nano Home, Rescue House, shading, ventilation
Fascinating Super Slim Towers in Korea
The awad winning architectural firm REX designed a residential complex in Songdo Landmark City, Korea in which every apartment offers direct southern exposure, cross ventilation, and views. However, Korean zoning guidelines and local building practices typically produce towers that fail to provide these three locally prized amenities. Furthermore, prevailing site strategies carve up the open [...]
Category: Apartment,Architectural,Towers, posted at: Nov 7th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: architectural firm, Block A4, cross ventilation, Korea, living space, open space, open spaces, REX, SLC, ventilation
Eco Friendly Exploded House in Turkey
The Exploded House is a concrete home composed of three volumes connected by a glass atrium, designed by Global Architectural Development to meet the building codes of the area. Joined together as a single home, each volume serves a different purpose and is less than 75 sq meters. One volume serves as the master bedroom [...]
Category: Apartment,Dining room,Home,House,Landscape, posted at: Nov 3rd 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: atrium, concrete roof, Dining room, House, interior, Landscape, master bedroom, natural ventilation, rainwater collection, roof, ventilation
Modern Arbor Lofts to Helps Revitialize Town
Arbor Lofts, designed by LA based PSL Architects, is an affordable and energy efficient housing project for the creative class that hopes to spur economic development by making the site a destination, a center of activity and a source of locally-produced artwork. It was the project to revitalize the area and set of 21 live/work [...]
Category: Apartment, posted at: Nov 1st 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: Arbor Lofts, California Title, Downtown Specific Plan, efficient design, Energy Code, energy efficient design, housing project, indoor air quality, LA, PSL
Gorgeous Two Seasons Hotel in Norway
The Two Seasons Hotel situated in the center of Stavanger, Norway was designed by JDS Architects. It’s appearing almost like an M.C. Escher drawing from above, the square building is crowned with an undulating green roof that dips towards the historic section of town and rises dramatically on the far side to address a nine-story [...]
Category: Apartment, posted at: Oct 30th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: garden space, hotel rooms, interior, JDS, Norway, parking garage, roof, shape
Chicago’s High Rise Solstice on the Park
Architects from Studio Gang have designed an entire high rise building based on the optimum angle with solar access and shading as its core concept. Aside from maximizing energy efficiency through passive solar design and being absolutely beautiful the angular surfaces also create a shimmering prismatic effect, Solstice on the Park will be aiming for [...]
Category: Apartment,Apartments,Architects,Office, posted at: Oct 25th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: dwellings, Jackson Park, living space, passive solar design, shading, smart design, solar, structure design, Studio Gang
Striking Recycling Tower for Collects and Sorts Trash
Designed by Minh Ngoc Phan & Sim Lee Yee, the Recycling Tower doesn’t just house a small recycling center on the ground floor like most buildings do, the entire thing actually is a recycling center. Each modular apartment has its own builtin compartments for residents to use to sort glass, metals, paper, plastics and organic [...]
Category: Apartment,Towers, posted at: Oct 23rd 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: aluminum, Bridge, facade, natural ventilation, recycling, ventilation
San Francisco’s Presidio National Park Get LEED Certified
The first LEED Certified neighborhood in San Francisco will open in the Presidio National Park. The project’s crowning piece is a former public hospital that has been transformed into a 154-apartment building, and the neighborhood also includes townhomes and duplexes that maintain a cozy relationship with some neighboring trees. The Presidio is a kind of [...]
Category: Apartment,Sustainable Design, posted at: Oct 20th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: inhabitat, LEED, National Park, neighborhood, Presidio Trust, San Francisco, sustainable building, Sustainable Design
KOZ’s Green and Yellow Stacked Apartments for France
Koz Architecture’s newest project build with 28 colorful and airy social housing units for Courbevoie, France. The multihued complex was designed as a denser alternative to the widely spaced-out private homes of suburbia that would still allow occupants to feel a sense of ownership, individuality and escape from the hectic city. Aside from being bright [...]
Category: Apartment,Apartments,Home, posted at: Oct 19th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: France, housing units, KOZ, rainwater collection system, single family residence, social housing
Enota’s Lotus Towers as New Sustainable Housing Project
Located in Ljubljana, Slovenia, The Lotus Towers is a proposal that placed second in an invited competition calling for designs for a new sustainable housing project. It’s designed by Enota, this new mixed-used development is highlighted with apartments featuring two sides for natural ventilation and daylighting, and beautiful views of the adjacent urban park. The [...]
Category: Apartment,Apartments,Energy Efficiency,House,Towers, posted at: Oct 17th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: competition, House, housing project, Lotus Towers, Office Space, shape, Slovenia, spa, urban park, ventilation
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