Residential Architecture

Explore 10 award-winning designs tagged Residential Architecture on DesignAmid Magazine.

Designer: Oliver Schütte Work: Residential Architecture Classification: Sustainable Product

No Footprint Wood House

The No Footprint Wood House is located along the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Its bioclimatic design integrates with the surrounding lush tropical forests and natural habitat. The project forms part of the multi-award winning No Footprint House series. Climate-responsive building variations are based on passive design strategies. Industrial building techniques and prefabricated components are combined with locally harvested and regenerative construction materials. The project promotes integral sustainability in terms of its social, economic, environmental and spatial performance.

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Designer: Oliver Schütte Work: Residential Architecture Classification: Sustainable Product

Floating House

The Floating House is a three-level home located in the Central Valley of Costa Rica. The building measures about 400 square meters and is placed on a sloping hillside site. Passive design strategies guide the project, including site-specific positioning and the use of natural resources. Industrial and prefabricated building techniques are combined with locally harvested and regenerative materials. Large roof overhangs protect the spaces below from rain and solar radiation. Solar energy is collected on the roof. Terraced gardens and balconies face the surrounding landscape.

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Designer: Sam Alawie Work: Residential Architecture Classification: Architecture

Ripple House

Ripple House is a residential building located in Sydney, Australia. The home stands on a compact site of 311 square metres and contains four bedrooms, three bathrooms, two car spaces, and indoor and outdoor kitchen and dining areas. A custom screen forms the front facade. The water droplet pattern is laser cut into aluminium sheets, and each sheet is curved to ripple across the surface. A durable powder coated finish protects the metal from sea salt spray. A central void connects the two levels and supports openness, light and interaction within the home.

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Designer: Mateusz Zajkowski Work: Residential Architecture Classification: Architecture

The Suburban House

The Suburban House is a house located in a heavily urbanized suburb of Warsaw. It is surrounded by various types of buildings that create spatial chaos. The designers' intention was to create a building that would improve the surrounding space. Due to the intensive development. Its terrace is surrounded by the walls of the building to ensure the privacy of the users, and on the north side it has only narrow windows, obscuring the surrounding intense development. The main openings are facing south, providing a view of the plot.

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Designer: gad Work: Residential Architecture Classification: Architecture

Lijiang Taohuayuan

Lijiang Taohuayuan is a residential complex in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China. The site lies on the bank of Wenbi Sea, close to Wenbi Mountain. The buildings rise gradually from the lake in the west towards the east, so that more homes gain a view of the water. The plan includes two-story compounds, four-story courtyards, duplexes, eight-story condominiums and a town center with commercial services. The facades apply local Naxi elements, such as wooden lattice windows, with modern methods. Gardens are placed around single buildings to bring the landscape indoors.

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Designer: Boguslaw Barnas Work: Residential Architecture Classification: Architecture

The Farmhouse

The Farmhouse is an example of the transformation of a typical rural homestead into a residential mansion. In the place of five existing farm buildings scheduled for demolition, the project team proposed five contemporary farm buildings. The newly designed forms have a shape, which results from the reference to the existing farm layout, terrain, view axes, functional needs, division into residential zones and location of trees.

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Designer: Boguslaw Barnas Work: Residential Architecture Classification: Architecture

The Lesser Polish Eaves Cottage

The Lesser Polish Eaves Cottage is a house which was inspired by the Polish wooden arcade architecture. The search for regional features characteristic for single-family housing led designer to discover forgotten traditional eaves houses of the region. The design was created in order to accommodate a 4-person family space, located on the unusual long and narrow plot of irregular shape. There were separated as many as five different levels, legally falling within the definition of a two-story building.

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Designer: Anna Maria Sokolowska Work: Residential Architecture Classification: Architecture

Stodolove

Stodolove is a house created through the conversion of a farm building dating from 1940. The building stands on a plot surrounded by greenery and old fruit trees in Rumia, Poland, in a district that is a remnant of a former village. The simple black form with a pitched roof refers to the old wooden barns still preserved in the area. The facade is clad in charred Scandinavian spruce boards and the roof in charred Siberian larch. Black sliding shutters on the ground floor recall barn doors. The building height is 8500 mm and the floor area is 126 square meters.

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Designer: Ioannis Panagiotou Work: Residential Architecture Classification: Architecture

Polygon House

The building is dominated by the broken geometries created by the reconstruction of the architectural form while maintaining at the same time the capacity of the lines and volumes, the desired functionality and the tranquility that the users of this holiday home are looking for. The open field of view both indoors and outdoors adds elements of visual comfort and relaxation to users who can see the horizon around them unobstructed. The relationship of the building with the environment is characterized as provocative in terms of highlighting its volumes.

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Designer: C&D Inc. (Wuxi Subsidiary) Work: Residential Architecture Classification: Architecture

Wuxi C&D He Xi

Wuxi C&D He Xi is a residential architecture project built in the Wuxi Economic Development Zone. The layout draws on the inner and outer city plan of the historic Helv City. Traditional Chinese architectural style and elements are reinterpreted with modern techniques. Columns, beams, arches, rafters, purlins and deep overhanging roofs shape the facades. Materials include stainless steel plate, aluminium alloy, stone and integrated wall panels. Courtyards and gardens link the buildings with nature and support a calm living experience.

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