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Top 100 Architecture Trends of 2012

By on August 20, 2013 in Architects, Design Inspirations, Eco Technology, Green Rooftop Design Inspirations, Inside commercial design inspirations, Inside House Design Inspirations, Outside Commercial Design Inspirations, Outside House Design Inspirations, Uncategorized

From dirt wall abodes to pixelated panel interiors, the best architecture trends of 2012 showed a wide range of innovative designs.

2012 was also a year for homes inspired by pop culture. The Hobbit in particular was a popular theme leading up to the movie’s release in December, resulting in architecture with a seemingly earthy feel. It appeared that consumers were open to new designs with this eco look, and some even welcomed homes made mostly out of dirt. Compared to some of the more modern chic abodes on the market, designs such as these proved the public were still willing to buy homes with a minimum amount of grandeur.

Trend Hunter’s Architecture Trend Report explores the implications of these designs in much more detail, and can help businesses looking for ideas in this area.

TrendHunter - Article

From Shipping Containers to Abodes

By on August 20, 2013 in Design Inspirations, Eco Technology, Inside House Design Inspirations, Outside House Design Inspirations, Uncategorized

This collection of eco homes come in a variety of sizes, shapes and materials. There are many small choices people can make to be more environmentally friendly such as using reusable water bottles, taking public transit and turning down the AC, however, these trends show that no matter your station in life, it is also possible to make sustainable choices for your living space. It makes sense, as your house is probably where you spend the most amount of time.

In the future we can expect to see an increasing number of green housing and solar-powered energy options on a residential level.

List of 71 Eco Houses

Antón García-Abril - Architect

By on August 20, 2013 in Architects, Design Inspirations, Inside commercial design inspirations, Inside House Design Inspirations, Outside Commercial Design Inspirations, Outside House Design Inspirations

Ensamble Studio

Antón García-Abril, (Madrid, 1969) is a European PhD Architect, full-professor at the School of Architecture and Planning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), and he is currently developing a second doctoral thesis about “Stressed Mass” at the School of Civil Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Barcelona. He received the Spanish Academy Research Prize in Rome in 1996. He has been associate professor at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (E.T.S.A.M.-U.P.M.) for a decade, invited professor at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University in 2010 and Cornell University in 2008, and visiting critic and lecturer in different universities and institutions in America and Europe. In 2000 he establishes ENSAMBLE STUDIO leading, together with his partner Débora Mesa, a cross-functional team with a solid research background on the lookout for new approaches to architectonical space, building technologies and urban strategies. Their built projects are exposed structures that explore the essence of materials to create space. The Music Studies Center and the SGAE Central Office in Santiago de Compostela, the Martemar House in Malaga, the Hemeroscopium House in Madrid, The Truffle in Costa da Morte (Spain) and more recently the Reader’s House in Madrid and the Cervantes Theater in Mexico City have been internationally published. Their office has been awarded with important prizes like The Rice Design Alliance Prize to emerging architects in 2009 or the Architectural Record Design Vanguard Prize in 2005, and was selected by SANAA to participate in the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2010. This year Antón has been elected an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for his services to international architecture, and has been curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presenting “Spainlab”. He co-founded with Débora Mesa the Positive City Foundation in 2009, with the aim of forwarding their views on urban development, and they are in the process of setting up a research laboratory at MIT, the POPLab (Prototypes of Prefabrication Laboratory).

Ensamble Studio

James Law - Architect

By on August 20, 2013 in Architects, Design Inspirations, Inside commercial design inspirations, Outside Commercial Design Inspirations

CYBERTECTURE

Cybertecture is the revolutionary concept that provides a symbiotic relationship between the urban fabric and technology. Pioneered in 2001, Cybertecture forges both the hardware of the built environment and software systems and technologies from the micro to macro scales of development.

The genesis of Cybertecture is in response to man’s progress into the 21st century, where working and living environments need to adapt and evolve to cope with the demands of modern working life. It plays an integral part in this evolution by providing awareness and connectivity via seamless integration of technology into the fabric of space.

Cybertecture designs, from technology, products and interiors to systems, buildings and masterplans, allow flexibility and accessibility to inform, adapt, react, communicate, manipulate and control environments, whilst being sustainable and environmentally considered in application and context.

Cybertecture embraces the future through continuous innovation and evolution of design and technology. It provides a myriad of solutions, all of which are diverse in individual application but holistic to the overall user environment, and always being integrated with innovation being pursued.

Cybertecture is the logical progression in the evolution of design and technology. Innovating locally and affecting globally, it addresses the fundamentals of sustainable and balanced designs, with every step taken in consideration to local and global impact.

In a world fast growing and developing with limited resources, Cybertecture aims to create more awareness with healthier environments to live, work and play in.

James Law

Bart Prince - Architect

By on August 20, 2013 in Architects, Design Inspirations, Inside House Design Inspirations, Outside House Design Inspirations

By Far my favorite Architects of our time.

ARCHITECTURE comes about as a result of the synthesizing by the architect of creative responses to input from the client; data gathered from the site and the climate; and an understanding of structure, materials, space and light. Working from the inside-out, the architect guides the growth of an IDEA resulting from the combination of these responses to a completed design which is as much a portrait of the client as it may be of himself.”
- Bart Prince

Bart Prince

River Place / Paul F. Hirzel

By on August 20, 2013 in Architects, Design Inspirations

From the architect. At the end of a single lane road cut into a hillside, on a dry west-facing slope near Juliaetta, Idaho, the owners wanted to restore a pioneer vineyard (the first known vineyard in the canyon). Preserving the most ideal land for the vineyard, we located two structures – one above a flood plain, the other perched on a narrow basalt cliff overlooking a spawning pool on the Potlatch River. The owner and guest quarters are housed in one structure and the other is used for special events such as wine tasting.

ArchDaily - Article
River Place

Eco Houses around the world

By on August 20, 2013 in Design Inspirations, Eco Technology, Outside House Design Inspirations

US. This housing unit in San Francisco’s Bay Area includes photovoltaics, a solar domestic hot water system and zoned radiant heating. “There is a huge section of the Bay Area population who make it a priority to live in a thoughtful and sustainable house,” says architect Craig Steely. “The construction cost came in at twice what [the owners] had budgeted. Instead of cutting back, they chose to add more sustainable features to their lower unit, increasing its value so they could ultimately sell the lower unit and recoup their construction costs.”

Eco Houses around the world article

Chiles Residence

By on August 19, 2013 in Architects, Design Inspirations, Inside House Design Inspirations, Outside House Design Inspirations

Built upon the steel frame of a previous home and a love of mid-century modern art and architecture, the Chiles Residence provides both open perches and quiet retreats on its wooded hill site. Using rusted steel panels and white painted steep beams, along with wood, aluminum and glass, the house frames both art and views of the landscape. The roof garden combines elements that serve, both in form and reason, to counter the clearly defined steel structure and at the same time giving feelings of height and expansion.

Tonic-Design - CHILES RESIDENCE

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Panel House

By on August 19, 2013 in Architects, Design Inspirations, Inside House Design Inspirations, Outside House Design Inspirations

The house is located on 28 x 89 foot lot on the Ocean Front Walk in Venice Beach. Due to the lots’ long and narrow dimensions, the design intent is to create a series of angled walls and reveals in the side elevations in order to provide for view corridors down the side yards to the ocean. The space between the tapered walls is used for pivot windows, which allow for the modulation of the natural prevailing breezes through the house.

The narrow structure afforded the opportunity to create a clear span structural system, eliminating the need for any interior load bearing walls. By omitting interior walls, natural ventilation air paths can flow from the Ocean Front through the entire interior and out the Leeward side of the building. To create the clear span spaces, a steel building system of wide flange steel columns and beams, diagonal brace frames with composite steel and concrete decking and concrete slabs are used to create a rigid diaphragm so that no shear walls are required.

The building’s skin is made of pre-fabricated panels, typically used for walk in refrigeration buildings. The panels are manufactured out of 6-inch thick foam skinned with thin sheet aluminum that is painted with a Kynar paint finish. The 6-inch thick panels are 30 inches wide x 30 feet tall and weigh less than a hundred pounds each. Two men simply install each panel, which orient vertically with an interlocking joint and are screwed to the closure plate at the floors. The panels are designed with a dull aluminum finish creating a surface that has a subtle reflectivity of the changing colors of the sky and sunsets.

David Hertz - Panel House

Transparent House

By on August 19, 2013 in Architects, Design Inspirations, Outside House Design Inspirations

Bridge House cautiously. It is made of two rolls of steel with concrete floors and steel decking, has a roof made from plantation pipe and fitted with transparent glass walls. Another example of narrow houses, is certain to bring out feelings of entry Worth $ 175,000, Bridge House is situated in one hour drive from Adelaide. The bad guys from Max Pritchard Architect wants to bring out the adventurer in you. Apparently, people think nothing is more challenging than living in a bridge “” surrounded by lush green scenery

Transparent House

Architect Max Pritchard

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