Roomah: Takuya Hiromasa Mori and Hasokai House Kuro "in Fukui, Japan

Kuro is a strange house in Fukui, Japan, architects Takuya Hosokai and Hiromasa Mori.
It is a house with a wooden frame and leather finished in dark wood, hence its name, "Kuro," which means "black" in Japanese. The house is about 162 square meters on a fully landscaped plot in the style of traditional Japanese garden, 457 square meters.
Its construction ended last year, although the original design in 1980.

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Roomah: Schemata Architecture Office "63.02 ° House" in Tokyo

The name of this house of Schemata Architecture Office is the provision with respect to the street, whose main facade forms an angle of 63.02 ° with respect to this.

This built in Nakano, Tokyo, completed in December 2007, with an area of about 71.4 m 2

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Roomah: Enertia Houses: Casas Geo-Solar

In Time magazine has described geo-solar homes as one of the best inventions of the past 2007 years.
These homes are heated with a system that respects the environment, geothermal energy use in summer and winter using solar energy. The heat of the walls is also used for radiant conditioning systems.

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Roomah: Bipolaire Architects "40 Housing for Youth" in Torrevieja

From the outset, the project of 40 houses for rent in Torrevieja couple was considered by the developer, the IVVSA as its pilot project sustainable. Wanted to understand the possibilities of housing VPO "sustainable" and added costs. Prior to the presentation of the first drawings of writing a report which explained the possible improvements to a standard dwelling, together with an estimate of costs. In this way, the developer had a document to decide where to invest in improving the quality and avoid unnecessary discussions and subsequent changes, as was going to be a learning process for both the developer for the construction and technical equipment.

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Roomah: A-Cero "Casa Santander"

Santander House is a shelter located in a sloping rectangular plot of about 2200 m2, overlooking the River Miera.

The design idea was to emphasize the views of the River Miera, oriented to the south. The slope of the terrain helped the provision of housing, resulting in a set of 3 volumes around a central core that is spread on the ground.

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Roomah: LOQ Kit prefabricated modular housing

LOQ Kit is a modular system for building houses, designed by architect Patrick FreeTar. It is a system of building houses that allows a variety of different combinations, and in turn gives the possibility to adjust the housing and expand, including adding or subtracting plants. Its mounting system means that we can disassemble and move it to another place they mounted again in the new location.

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Roomah: Construction: House in calle Colina Vista Hermosa / Smiljan Radic

In the commune of Las Condes in Santiago, Chile, a new building designed by architect Smiljan Radic. These are two houses out of concrete platforms, above the level of the ground, which has a slope that rises from the street. These trays, build a plane for home, patio and terrace with access to each house, containing a glass box that houses the public spaces on the first floor and bedrooms on the second. A second volume, clad in wood, leaves and perpendicular to the main volume contains the stairs and a veranda on the second floor. Under concrete trays are stored cars to street level.

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Roomah: Under Construction: Building Thomas / Gonzalo Mardones V.

In the commune of Vitacura This site is under construction apartment building, designed by Gonzalo Mardones. It is a building of three stories high over a withdrawal, with a total of 7 departments. As noted in the memory of the building:

"The volume of the building acknowledges the limits of each department to the outside. Is shown as a composite made from the sum of distinct, full and empty windows, balconies, openings, beams, etc.. "

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Roomah: Nader Khalili "Adobe Houses Super Adobe" in California

Nader Khalili, Iranian by birth and Californian by adoption, not an architect of the pile. In the late seventies, at Cal-Earth, the organization he works for, he developed the 'super-adobe' ( 'superblock' in English), a construction technique based on sandbags and barbed wire, tested earthquake and tested by the authorities in California challenging.

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Roomah: Vacation house in the Rigi / AFGH

The building is located on the edge of the site, to maximize the distance to the neighbors and leave room for other construction. The basement of the concrete anchor block on the slope of the land and houses and access services. On this volume is a wooden house, which appears as a boat. This apartment faces east, protecting access.

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Roomah: Jean Prouvé's house auctioned

Jean Prouvé was considered by many as the pioneer in the prefabrication of houses. In 1951 (20 years before the tower Nagakin of Kurokawua) made this model, the Maison Tropicale, a prototype of the ideal home for the French colonies in Africa.

The auction house Christie's will make the sale at a price which is estimated between $ 4 and $ 6 million.

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Roomah: Rak Jebel al JAIS Mountain Resort / OMA

The trend of the OMA Architecture strong contrasts and forms reflected this time in the Rak Jebel al JAIS complex located in the Emirates. A project that is beyond the conventional concept of a resort and applied the strategy of living ancantilado. The various programs are embedded in the mountains, being connected by a road on top of the gorge.

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Roomah: Shigeru Ban "Metal Shutter Houses"

Metal Shutter Houses is one of the last projects of Shigeru Ban Japanese architect known for the Houses of Paper and Paper Church in Kobe, which built on the occasion of the terrible earthquake.

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Roomah: Cloud 9 - Enric Ruiz Geli Villa Bio "Llers, Girona

Contemporary architecture is the platform of culture and contemporary art.

Living is a platform that can be turned into art. THE ART OF HABITAR.

The platform will see it as a LINEAR LANDSCAPE OF EVENTS.

This landscape is folded into the site and form a spiral growing.

The platform is a linear structure of concrete section in the shape of "C".

The blind are employed as FACADES longitudinal beams and create an overhang of 15 m.

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Roomah: Luise KunsHotel, a hotel with lots of art

Arte Luise KunsHotel is a hotel in Berlin which is composed of a palace and a classic 1825 building annex built in 2003. The hotel has 50 rooms that are 50 different works of art. Guests define it as a "gallery where you can sleep."

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Roomah: Hidalgo Hartmann - House Bianna, Girona

Located in an agricultural valley surrounded by mountains, the house is subjected to the role of their natural environment with respect, integrating into their lands and opening up the hearings with specific openings that frame the landscape.

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Roomah: Commercial Offices CGE - TNG Architects

The work is a commercial office of an electricity company. Is located in a corner spot in a parallel street one block from the main avenue of Puente Alto. Aims to provide services for customers and house payments.

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Roomah: The Ode to a glass-Studio Battersea Power Station in London

Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos are present in the Battersea Power Station, one of the regeneration of London's most important in recent years. The project, Battersea Weave Office Building. One of the most attractive buildings in the Masterplan developed in conjunction with Arup, Grimshaw, Keiichi Tahara, Reid Architecture, among others.

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Roomah: Zaha Hadid / Maggie Center: Center for the Treatment of Cancer.

To the Iraqi architect, Zaha Hadid, gandora the 2004 Pritzker Prize, is the center for the treatment against cancer, Maggie Center. Located at the Hospital Kirkcaldy, Five, Scotland, was recently inaugurated in November 2006.

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Roomah: Shop for Wine, Vina Viu Manent / Moure-Rivera Architects

Recovers an old colonial area, including the use of wood from old cuba, which brings smells, textures of the past but with a contemporary design and program.
The floor is rectangular and the perimeter runs a red canopy that does not touch the ground or the roof, thanks to the lighting seems to float, containing furniture and shelves to display wines and accessories World of Viu Manent, at different levels .
The sky was white and flown to generate the same effect of lightness.

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