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Sophisticated Tropical Beach House in Australia

The gorgeous Tennyson Point Residence in Sydney, Australia has a common problem.

Like so many houses in the suburbs, the views to the sides needed to be reduced somewhat.

CplusC Architectural Workshop solved it with an giant wooden “bonnet” that shades the view out to the coast.

This double height wooden structure is supported on steel struts.

These giant struts also help to define the huge exterior spatial volume.

This huge shading device also protects the viewer from the harsh antipodean sunlight.

This wood used is a sensuous rich dark Australian hardwood.

It’s also used in cladding the street side of the house.  Read the rest of this entry »

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A Soft Wooden House Soaks up the Sky’s Light

Like many buildings in Japan, this wooden house in Aichi is closely surrounded by neighbouring buildings with neither light nor views to the sides.

So mA-style Architects added skylights around each side of the flat roof.

To create light and a feeling of space, filtered light is brought down and bounced off the perimeter walls.

Interestingly, the skylight is not the entire roof, but just the perimeter.

And even this perimeter filters the light with the beams.

The result is an extraordinary amount of filtered light creating a spacious and pleasant dwelling.

Changing light conditions reveal a constantly changing pattern of dappled light coming down through the ceiling.

The rooms are enclosed boxes within the larger space, more like buildings in a small village than a house.

The sense of being within a village is enhanced by the wide openings to the exterior, more like a village lane than a corridor. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Quiet Charm of a Glass and Concrete Cube

OYO have created a house that has the somnolent charm of a Vermeer painting in the old Belgian town of Wijgmaal.

Quaint and unsophisticated curtains echo the clouds in this bluest of Belgian skies.

By contrast with the floor to ceiling glazing facing the back garden, bedroom windows to the street are few and small.

The house is essentially a cube: a glass box with a concrete top half.

The simple space has a very clear and organized layout.

The space is furnished in quietly retro fifties modernism, but set within a more contemporary cubic volume.

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