Semeraro House by Luce Architetti
The Semeraro house has undergone a profound renovation that has brought the ancient stone vaults back into view and redesigned the internal layout with the addition of two toilets, one patronal and one service.
The Semeraro house has undergone a profound renovation that has brought the ancient stone vaults back into view and redesigned the internal layout with the addition of two toilets, one patronal and one service.
Carlota and Alejandro wanted colour. They wanted a cheerful apartment. The apartment they had bought was totally fragmented in small dark rooms and basically looked very grey.
Calmly sitting at the tranquil water’s edge in Noosa, the Mermaid Quay House is at its heart a family retreat that balances leisure, relaxation and the thrill of a weekend escape.
Located on a former farmland site in Balwyn, the Kenny Street House is a unique project in that the site is a relatively large, flat site surrounded by much smaller houses in the middle of suburban Melbourne.
The project could not be more relevant to our times, as it tackles multiple challenges including how to intensify unused infill plots for new homes, how to build adaptably when facing the fast-changing socioeconomic landscapes during the Coronavirus pandemic
The design of this project centers around three key architectural elements: vertical furniture walls, a horizontal and continuous concrete floor, and moving partitions.
The layout of the Blue Terracotta Apartment is part of a circle divided into sections. We combined several sections into a living-dining room-kitchen-hallway.
The 1.8-hectare site is a naturally formed terrace snuggled into the gentle north-sloping base of Queenstown Hill, overlooking the untamed Shotover River which disappears around the bend.