This residence’s occupancy program has been fragmented into four pavilions, according to an organic plan, freeing a central space that looks completely outward. A little like the “heart of a village”, this space links the other building bodies, geometrically distinct from each other.
Architects: Corpo Atelier / Filipe Paixão Project: Wood Structure Inside Stone Walls / Single House Refurbishment Location: Sernancelhe, Portugal Photography: Ricardo Oliveira Alves Architecture studio Corpo Atelier has renovated and restructured an old stone outbuilding in a rural area of northern Portugal, adding a bulky wood structure behind its thick masonry walls. From the architect:
This Rural Cave House is a renovation project of “wow home” TV series, for the client Ye Liangchen, a Internet star, who lives in the Loess Plateau of Shanxi Province. The original house is one of typical traditional cave courtyard in the village, in disrepair, and almost collapsed condition. It included a main cave as the
Cave House was rehabilitated as rural dwelling by the architects Andrés Moreno and Manuel Murillo of UMMO Estudio. The house is located in the Cuevas del Pino estate in Villarrubia, Córdoba, Spain. The Cuevas del Pino estate sits in the foothills of Sierra Morena, in calcarenite stone terrain arranged in slightly sloping strata that gives
Tinhouse is located on the northwestern tip of the Isle of Skye, on a steeply sloping site overlooking The Minch, the body of water separating the Inner and Outer Hebrides. This rural house was completed in 2016 by the Rural Design Architects. The project is an essay in landscape, economy, construction and imagination which shares the
Peruvian architect, Marina Vella, has completed Chontay Stone House on a rural site, south-east of Lima. Description by Marina Vella Arquitectos Site The project is located in a 5,800m2 rural plot south-east of Lima, 40.5 km from the road that borders the Lurin River from Lima to Huarochiri. The road that leads to the site
“Under the Calvary” house was designed by Slovakian studio Architekti Šercel Švec for a family of four. Description by Šercel Švec: The area of architecture is placed in a centre of a small village Veľké Úľany (South West Slovakia). The ground is unique for its specific irregular shape which tends to be narrowed at the edge.
Cyril Chenebeau Architecte have transformed a small and old cottage in a contemporary rural house. Description by Cyril Chenebeau: Located in the vicinity of Nice, near the small village of Sclos de Contes, the house is built below an old pathway, on a slope made of several terraces planted with trees and facing west. The existing
