Housing Reform for a Couple of Audiovisual Producers and Their Dog
A couple decides to move to an old house located on the third floor of a block built during the 1950s in a famous working-class neighborhood of the city of Granada.
A couple decides to move to an old house located on the third floor of a block built during the 1950s in a famous working-class neighborhood of the city of Granada.
An architect and her partner, parents of twins, called upon APPAREIL Architecture to design the expansion and refurbishing of a veterans’ home in Verdun. The client, Catherine Gauthier, being an architect herself, the project was conceptualized through collaboration and communication among all parties.
Located on a unique extra-long ocean-front parcel on a barrier island, the Figure Eight Island Beach House perches lightly among the dunes and live oaks. The home’s massing is sculpted by the breezes- open to cooling summer breezes from the South, while blocking the chilling winter gusts from the North.
Our design explores the notion of merging building and landscape. The original house, designed in 1956 by a prominent Seattle architect, is located in the private enclave of Broadmoor.
Madreselva House is a family residence built on the coastal town of Salinas, Asturias, on a small trapezoid- shaped lot located between two different residential zones, a townhouse complex and a single-family residence.
Casa Tojal is shy and bucolic, from a steep terrain surrounded by olive trees. In a torn gesture, it is born as an integral part of its landscape and it leans over the valley towards the garden that surrounds it.
Dark grey stone, mahogany, detailed topography and the surrounding vegetation are combined to make LS House feel like it is part of nature. This project, set in Valle de Bravo, 180 kilometers from Mexico City, is a rustic residential proposal and at the same time a modern construction of purified lines.
The concept for this Edgemont Family Home was inspired by the surrounding coastal rainforest and the homeowners love for mid-century design. To enter the house you are brought down several steps, through the soft pink front door, into the main floor of the home.
This 7,000 sf house is nestled on a heavily wooded hilltop site in Ross, CA with breathtaking views of Mt. Tam and the San Francisco Bay over native California Oaks in one direction and the town of Ross through majestic old-growth redwoods in the other.