Month: October 2018

In 2014, Astrid and Henrik Larsen got the keys to what they had nicknamed “the ugliest house on the street” when they first saw it. They had a plan to transform this villa in Aarhus, Denmark, into their dream home, and for two years, they put all thei…

On its outskirts, you’d be forgiven for assuming that Columbus, Indiana is a suburban American town like any other. But travel downtown and you’re suddenly greeted with an unexpected variety of modern architecture. The small midwestern city has for the past half-century been a kind of laboratory for contemporary architecture, attracting designers as diverse as Kevin Roche and IM Pei. Children attend school in a building designed by Richard Meier, congregants attend services in a church designed by Eliel Saarinen.

On its outskirts, you’d be forgiven for assuming that Columbus, Indiana is a suburban American town like any other. But travel downtown and you’re suddenly greeted with an unexpected variety of modern architecture. The small midwestern city has for the past half-century been a kind of laboratory for contemporary architecture, attracting designers as diverse as Kevin Roche and IM Pei. Children attend school in a building designed by Richard Meier, congregants attend services in a church designed by Eliel Saarinen.

This Project is a house of small format, studio type, which was conceived as part of a plan with other houses that will be built in the future. It is located in the mountains of Malpaís, Costa Rica, in a property with vegetation typical of the tropical dry forest. The house was located in a way that is not going to interfere with the view of other houses that are projected in the master plan. Using this location, the existing trees were not cut and it was possible to take advantage of the amazing view of the north Pacific coast. The selection of the site was done with extreme care, and the specific point has an excellent view of the sunset and other natural phenomena: from the deck, it is even possible, during certain months, to observe whales.

unlock the roof and manually move it to open it and spend the night under the stars or the day under the sun.
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unlock the roof and manually move it to open it and spend the night under the stars or the day under the sun.
The post optinid’s tiny house features a sliding roof that opens to the sky appeared first on designboom | architecture & design mag…