The Lost Villa Boutique Hotel is located at the bank of the River. We do not want an ambitious landmark, instead, we want to create buildings that involves into the nature and become invisible, balancing architecture and nature with humbleness and veneration.
The smallest plot size available in most of the residential layouts of the city is about 200 sq yards. A Large requirement on such a small plot called for an introverted solution with a garden at the center, around which the rest of the spaces function.
A historic manor house is transformed into a restaurant and beach club. Conceptually, the new venue follows the same principles of restaurant 212 in Amsterdam, featuring ‘no table seating’, an open kitchen with bar-height seating directing the guests’ focus on the chefs, stimulating interaction.
The Pivot House is located on an irregularly shaped lot in a Burnaby suburb. Pinched on the north end and steeply sloped to the front door, the footprint of the house is shaped by the site, which fans out on the south, allowing for a broad walk-out living space.
The house is designed for a young family of four, located in Bahçeköy, Istanbul. The main motive of our concept is to have capaciously open spaces for living areas and link the interior with the exterior through large Windows and terraces.
We initially saw Balmain Rock House as a restoration and extension project, however through a collaborative process of discovery with the client, the existing cottage was not only restored, but its resonating bones became the inspiration for its addition.
Located west of Ho Chi Minh city on a 5m x 15m land, the Pattern House by MM++ Architects is an example of the standard south east Asian housing type called “shop-house” or “tube house”.
In the interior planning stage, emphasis was placed on a division in which the sea is present in all spaces of the BC apartment.
Privacy and altimetric asymmetry are the main concerns of this specific intervention zone. Therefore we established a dialogue between this duality, building around programmatic voids, exogenous or endogenous.
Morgana House is somewhere else. Surrounded by neighboring homes dating from the late nineteenth century, the building is like an abstract volumetric study for a potential building and seems to have fallen out of context.
The intervention is a recovery of an attic of a building in Turin whose final intention of the client is a main use for Airbnb. The project thus becomes an opportunity to create an environment that can accommodate future tenants in the best possible way and at the same time give them a moment of relaxation and peace.
This bright attic apartment is developed in an existing dwelling located in a residential area of el Sardinero, an exclusive neighbourhood with magnificent views of the Cantabric Sea.
