This lakeside residence, Artreehoose designed by Della Valle Bernheimer in New Fairfield, provided two major structural design challenges. The first was the support of the bedrooms in the upper volume of the house that cantilever over the transparent living spaces below. This was accomplished using steel trusses supported on minimal columns below. The hybrid trusses [...]

“The Atlantic forest is in my opinion comes before the sea, the beaches, the bikinis, football and carnival, it’s the great Brazilian landscape” comments Arthur Casas, “I always wanted a house in the middle of the forest, in a place where I could relax and recharge my energy”. In the form of two large symmetrical [...]

Before commencing the construction of their new home, Buffalo Rixon architect and his wife Katherine studied vacant lots closely. Very close. They pitched tepee in the remote Idaho canyon where their house would be located off the road between Ketchum and Hailey, and has spent many hours in the study of light and learning about [...]

“I like to say that this house tiptoes on earth,” says Robert SWATT, director of Emeryville, California-company SWATT architects, high upsloped site dictated the unusual design solution, “This piece of very old cedar trees natural and retaining walls that we do not want to disturb. Our goal was to work with the land. “As an [...]

Different vertical and horizontal spaces, which embody a completelyOn the highest hill at the edge of the village Hochbuch near Lindau the house stands like a floating wood box between the development way and the steeply dropping site. From here you can enjoy the wonderful view toward Bregenz and into the mountain country of Vorarlberg/ [...]