Residential Building
Residential building design exploring housing typologies, construction methods, and community-focused living spaces.
Clad in Clay
Along the Coast A narrative of architecture that emerges, rather than one that is imposed. Every land possesses its own narrative—one that has taken shape over time, under the sun, in the path of the wind, and through the interplay of water and earth—long before it ever hosted architecture. What we call the architectural identity of a land today is not merel
GITONIA - DAFNIA
This contemporary residential masterplan reinterprets traditional Portuguese vernacular architecture through a clean, modern design language. The urban layout organizes modular residential blocks around a central circular public plaza paved in fine compacted gravel. Warm golden-yellow sedimentary sandstone defines the structural trims.
Common Ground
Proposal for the Cad in Clay-competition. It is a sustainable urban neighborhood project in Carnaxide where the main building material is compressed clay bricks made out of soil from the construction site
Architecture Discipline Floats a Timber-Screened Lantern over a Glass Base in a New Delhi House
A New Delhi residence pairs a slatted timber box on a glazed plinth with gabled plastered pavilions, trading excess for filtered light and garden.
INDARQ Makes One Common Three-Hole Brick Serve as Wall, Ceiling, and Sunscreen in a Paraguayan House
In Fernando de la Mora, Paraguay, Vivienda E.ME asks a humble local brick to shade, enclose, and frame a row of preserved trees.
Studio Gontijo Arquitetura Strips a Compartmentalized Brasília House and Rebuilds It Around Gardens and Water
In Brasília, Vista House replaces a walled-off family home with charred timber volumes, vine-draped cantilevers and rooms that open onto pool and garden.
Parto Grafts a Board-Marked Concrete Wing onto a Granite Farmhouse Beside Veade's Village Church
In Veade, northern Portugal, Parto stitches a board-marked concrete wing onto an old granite house, holding the street wall down to the village church.
dolmus Architekten Sets a Timber Family House on a Board-Formed Concrete Plinth in Schüpfheim
In Schüpfheim, Switzerland, a stacked-panel concrete base anchored into a slope carries a timber family house with a granny apartment tucked below.
Neo Architects Breaks a Six-Bedroom Coastal House into Gabled Fragments on a Western Cape Slope
A 480 m² residence in Romansbaai Estate, Western Cape, splits into stepped stone and timber volumes under green roofs to hold sea views and the fynbos.
Alki Architecture and Design Studio Wrap a 40 m² Wānaka Cabin in Charred Timber and Plant It in a Meadow
A 40 m² retreat in Wānaka, New Zealand, where blackened yakisugi cladding, oak interiors and a wildflower garden turn material limits into a method.
otro estudio Routes Daily Life Through a Garden Patio in a Rafaela House of Brick and Concrete
In Rafaela, Argentina, an exposed concrete wing and a renovated brick house turn the 25 paces from street to front door into a planted, daily crossing.
Ricardo Azevedo Arquitecto Grows a 1938 Granite House in Santo Tirso into a Five-Bedroom Home with a Zinc Wing
A 1938 granite house on Rua do Retiro in Santo Tirso keeps its arches and rooflines while a dark metal wing and pool open it to the garden.
Ricardo Azevedo Arquitecto Revives a Derelict Santo Tirso Townhouse with Raw Stone, Oak and a Yellow Spiral Stair
A 375 m² rehabilitation in central Santo Tirso, Portugal, keeps its granite and rough stone and threads colour, skylights and a garden pool through them.
Sergio Sampaio Archi and Tectônica Set a Timber-Framed House on Stilts Above a Wooded Slope in Jacareí
In Jacareí's Paraíba Valley, a 440 m² house enters from a steel roof deck and descends through a glulam frame to a pool above the Jaguari reservoir.
Di Frenna Arquitectos Wraps a Board-Formed Concrete House in Comala around an Open-Sky Courtyard
In Comala, Mexico, Akina House hides behind lattice and board-formed concrete, opening inward to a planted courtyard through a sequence of slow pauses.
Escala Arquitetura Steps a Stone-and-Timber House Down a Narrow Forested Slope in Araras, Brazil
In Araras, Brazil, a 1,300 m² house of rubble stone walls and thin timber roofs breaks into pavilions that track a narrow lot's steep fall.
Williamson Williamson Sets a Light-Catching House for a Scenic Artist into Toronto's Scarborough Bluffs
On Toronto's Scarborough Bluffs, concrete shoring becomes a ground floor and white light monitors turn a painting studio into a daylight instrument.
R+R Architects Brings Balinese Gables and a Plunge Pool to a Weekend Villa Outside Ahmedabad
On Ahmedabad's quiet outskirts, a 6,000-square-foot retreat pairs pitched timber roofs, concrete and a reflecting pool with a gallery of carved objects.
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