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Gorgeous Treetop Dwellings in the Mexican Rainforest
Alejandro Sánchez García Arquitectos designed the Chipicas Town Houses, four independent single buildings inside a private garden in downtown Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
The architects have devised a an unpretentious floating lantern design that is timeless and transcendent.
In a treetop bedroom, glass from ceiling to floor completely exposes the surrounding rainforest.
The result is a gorgeous place to sleep that appears suspended high up in the rainforest canopy.
The design is simple and unpretentious, opening a full wall of glass in even the childrens’ bunk rooms overlooking the surrounding jungle.
Because of the tiny garden setting, an extremely vertical design is devised for each building to protect most of the vegetation.
The Chipicas Houses were designed with two sides of the façade made of floor to ceiling windows and two sides with a skin made of wooden lattice to gain a sense of privacy.
The backs of each of the buildings are entirely covered in a wooden rain screen that offsets the textural complexity of the growing wood nearby.
From the outside, these rain screens seem impenetrable and solid – but from inside, they simply filter the light.
A completely novel view is created down under the overhangs.
(Because these screens are not connected all the way down.)
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Floating Roof Graces Beach House for Coastal New South Wales
Here’s an Australian beach house from TKD Architects, in the traditions of the best modern beach house vernacular with its extensive glazing.
Like all the most-loved beach houses, it offers the see-through peek at the ocean through the living room upon arrival.
Its transparent floating roof suggests suggests a sail on the ocean beyond.
Steel and glass best weathers a harsh coastal climate.
Muted greys and silvers mimic the natural colours of the beach and coastal vegetation.
Offering a straight shot to the beach, the house is perfectly sited for multiple summers of fun.
A Sleek and Sophisticated Singapore Shop House Renovation
A traditional facade of colonial architecture in Singapore masks a surprising twist within.
The dark warren of former rooms have been scraped out and replaced with a huge elegant space that connects across its center by stairwells, with a master bedroom suite and the children’s two bedrooms above the kitchen and the living room.
A Koi pond anchors the unusual plan, offering a visual feast for those traversing the stairwells.
At one extreme of the long narrow site, a kitchen and dining room is behind the Koi pond.
For South Africa’s Hot Climate, the Cool and Elegant House Abo
This beauty represents a thorough overhaul of a dingy existing structure in hot suburban Limpopo, South Africa.
Known for their sophistication and bold design, South Africa’s Nico van der Meulen Architects completely transformed the frumpy former brick house.
The outdated single story brick home, hot and cramped, is now the open and glorious, double height glass House Abo.
Outside, wooden slats take the brunt of the brutal sun.
New double height spaces are now pleasantly chilled by wonderful cool stone floors.
For the climate, on the Tropic of Capricorn, cooling is the main consideration…
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