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Houses is the ArchEyes archive of single-family homes, from modernist prototypes such as Mies van der Rohe’s Lemke House to contemporary residences on every continent. Each case study looks at how a house answers its site, climate and way of life through plan, section and material: courtyard homes in Mexico and Brazil, timber extensions in Spain, coastal villas in Italy and compact urban dwellings in Asia. Together they trace how architects keep reinventing the most personal building type.
Casa LS45 is a 350-square-meter weekend house in the wooded slopes of Laguna de Servín, Querétaro, Mexico. Organized around a terrain-bound volcanic stone core, the residence combines elevated black masonry…
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Compare a well-designed house with a poorly resolved one, and the difference often comes down to a few inches at the top of the wall. The depth of an overhang…
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Casa Dragones is a 712.3-square-meter residence in Merida, Yucatan, organized as a porous assembly of concrete arches, planted courtyards, and restrained upper volumes finished in chukum. Designed by V Taller…
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Blue Window House is the renovation of a three-story interwar villa in Prague, where a revised facade, a vertically organized interior, and a tightly controlled palette of blue, red, and…
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Casa J1 is a 310-square-meter coastal house in Costa Cachagua, Chile, organized as a stepped concrete base and elevated volumes that orient domestic life toward the sea, golf course, and…
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House Kala is a four-bedroom residence on a forested hilltop in Lombok, Indonesia, organized as a single-story circular plan around a central courtyard. Its form calibrates domestic life between the…
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House in Las Rozas is a 370-square-meter residence on a wooded slope outside Madrid, organized as an interconnected group of cylindrical volumes. Its oblique roof lines, internal courtyards, and recessed…
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Half Solid House is a 175 square meter dwelling on a corner alley site in Vung Tau Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, where a layered louvre envelope mediates between tropical…
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No one designs a house around one mountain view, a bedroom over a forest, or a tub facing the ocean. Those features are costly and impractical in a home you…
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Ascendente House by TETRO is a 274 m2 residence in Lagoa Santa, Brazil, organized around existing trees and a sloping site through a stepped section, a screened horizontal volume, and…
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Music Room – Casa La Flecha is a 230-square-meter addition to an existing coastal house in Playa Matamora, Uruguay, conceived as a dedicated space for music, gathering, and contemplation. Set…
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Casa en Palmilla is a 600-square-meter house in the desert hills of Los Cabos, organized as four independent volumes under two L-shaped roofs. Its architecture is defined less by formal…
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House in a Garden repositions domestic architecture within a dense, cultivated landscape along the Birrarung floodplain in Melbourne. Conceived as an elevated layer within foliage rather than an object on…
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Villa in Recco is a 730-square-meter residential transformation set within a terraced coastal landscape overlooking Baia dei Frati in Liguria. The project reworks an accretive historic structure through a landscape-led…
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