Concrete Holiday Retreat in Argentina by Luciano Kruk
L4 House is located in the Costa Esmeralda gated community, thirteen kilometers north of the city of Pinamar and four hours from the city of Buenos Aires.
L4 House is located in the Costa Esmeralda gated community, thirteen kilometers north of the city of Pinamar and four hours from the city of Buenos Aires.
Combining a stone cavern with a glass house, the building is shaped like a mountain crystal. The jointless walls and triangulated roof are made of monolithic insulating concrete. Uniting structure, insulation and technical installation in one massive layer beautifully balanced by the transparent and reflective nature of glass.
Savion residence is a single-family home designed by Israeli studio Neuman Hayner Architects. Located in Savyon, Israel, the house has an area of 380 square meters.
The residence is a three level house designed for a steeply sloping site backing onto the Barwon Heads golf course. The house is designed as a series of stepped interior and exterior spaces meandering upward from the street towards seclusion and views at the rear of the block.
Designed by Manuel Aires Mateus, and completed in 2015, this house is located on the edge of a small chain of hills. Set in relative isolation, it sits above the village of Melides and the lack of neighbouring houses allows for unobstructed views of the ocean, which are particularly magnificent at sunset.
Torquay house is a gorgeous concrete house completed by Auhaus Architecture, an award winning design studio operating in Melbourne and the Bellarine Peninsula.
This “underground house” was designed by Swiss studio Bearth & Deplazes in Mergoscia, Switzerland. Description by Bearth & Deplazes: The antithesis to a house on a slope: one in a cavern, or better yet: a house in a fortified cavern, which is more of a reinforcement of the steep vineyard, a type of primal architecture or
Arthur Erickson’s 1972 Helmut and Hildegard Eppich house in West Vancouver rendered a West Coast post and beam aesthetic in concrete and is one of his most significant residential designs that is recognized worldwide.
Project: Bungalow House Architects: Studio Christian Wassmann Project team: Pino Pavese, Garrick Ambrose, Helene Nishijo Andersen, Jorge Rivera Local architect / AoR: Rizo Carreno & Partners, Inc. Structural engineer: Hector De Los Reyes Engineering. Inc. Electrical and mechanical engineer: Project Caine General contractor: Cobo Construction Corp. Materials: Exposed concrete, terrazzo, Carrara marble counter tops, bench