Green Houses
Residential designs that integrate natural systems, sustainable practices, and landscape connections into home environments.
D Environmental Design System Laboratory Sinks an Ancient Pit Dwelling into a Passive House in Japan
In a quiet residential district of Iwata, a sunken garden replaces fire as the thermal heart of a cedar-framed home.
delavegacanolasso Builds Three Terraced Houses in Madrid That Turn Inward to Find Light
A trio of wood-and-concrete refuges in a dense Madrid neighborhood swap street presence for lush, introspective courtyards.
WOVEN Architecture Layers a Waterfront Home into a Forested Hillside on Saanich Inlet
A 6,500-square-foot residence in Willis Point, BC nestles into steep terrain, trading spectacle for a quiet calibration of wood, earth, and water.
Ming Architects Folds Shophouse Logic into a Sculptural Singapore Terrace Home
Node House channels the courtyard and air well traditions of tropical shophouses through a language of curves, concrete, and perforated steel.
Kareem and Ehab Aldomiaty Build a Self-Sufficient Desert House from Siwa's Own Stone and Earth
A 650-square-meter dwelling in Egypt's Siwa Oasis uses karshif construction and passive cooling to live off the grid in an ancient landscape.
MRTN Architects Hides a Timber Retreat in the Sand Dunes of Venus Bay
A curved, elevated holiday house on Australia's South Gippsland coast borrows its logic from the local bird hides that dot the peninsula.
Read Studio Stacks a Concrete House Vertically to Let a Sri Lankan Garden Grow Around It
A 323-square-meter home in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte occupies a small footprint so mature trees, herbs, and fruit plants claim the rest of the site.
S.LA Architecture Reopens a Narrow Vietnamese Row House Around Light and Memory
A 65 m² renovation in Bac Giang, Vietnam, swaps rooms, removes walls, and lets a bachelor owner reclaim her childhood home.
Atelier FCJZ Builds Four Houses That Blur Classicism and Modernism at a Ningbo Lakeside Campus
Conceived in the 1990s and realized three decades later, four board-formed concrete studio-houses sit among autumn trees beside Dongqian Lake.
bkm group Splits a Hilltop Home into Stacked Gables Overlooking a Polish Landscape Park
On a seven-meter slope at the edge of Gdynia, a cluster of brick and plaster volumes frames views of the Tri-City Landscape Park.
Arenas Basabe Palacios and Buschina + Partner Turn a Vienna Hillside into 82 Sun-Chasing Homes
A car-free neighborhood in Vienna's Meidling district orients every room and garden toward the south like a field of sunflowers.
Esquissos Splits a Sintra Hillside into Three Houses That Disappear into Their Landscape
Three isolated white gabled volumes in Sintra, Portugal step down a slope, using concrete terraces and timber to blur the line between house and garden.
