Cascade House with Unique Glass Element Privacy Screen by Paul Raff Studio

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Elegant architectural composition of a house that stands between the old growth gently sloping site. Home design created in line between the house and overlooks the surrounding, thus providing a good relationship between residence and nature. This house is designed to maximize the potential for natural light, because it was oriented in a Cartesian axis tight. Integrated design combines a high performance building envelope design with passive solar systems as an effective strategy for a sustainable environment for the northern context. Sunshine created a large window to catch the low winter sun, which can penetrate and warm the house. A very interesting part of this house is a leading privacy screen façade consisting of glass elements are stacked vertically. An interesting sight when viewed from the inside through the glass of this green with a good quality of light, which seemed to be behind the waterfall. Once the opposite when viewed from the outside, even on days greyest years, subtle shifts in colors and textures inspired by the vitality of the street. On the opposite side of the pond there with open atmosphere to expand interaction of light and water in a continuous flow between interior and exterior spaces.

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6:20 pm August 13, 2010

Habitat 825 Modern Kings Road House Design By Lorcan O’herlithy

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This modern house designs most of its buildings using a light green color faforit looks bright.Massing is composed of two intersecting L’s that result in central common open space. where the kings road house engages the property line, the courtyard carves a two story void on the north elevation promoting link betwen sites. this centraly located space allows all unit to have direct access from the exterior. while eliminating the need for mechanically climate controlled carridors. in addition. private open spaces are set within the common area trough landscaping elements rather than boundaries. located adjacent to rudolf schindlers king road house. given the historic presence of the kings road house. saveral measures were taken to preserve the house’s releationship to its surrounding landscape.to avoid casting shadows on to the adjacent property. habitat 825 draws inspiration from schindler in developing new forms of contemporary lifestyle trough the use of light, materials, colors and common open space.the building was reduced to two stories on the north side adjacent to the kings road house. in addition. the form in beds inwards away from the house to allow more breathing room and to draw attention towards the central open space. Architect who built this house is Lorcan O’herlithy. Providing a luxurious modern house design.

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10:52 pm July 9, 2010

Green House Design Inspiration Harmony With Nature

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A house that inspired the design for people to always pay attention to nature, environmental issues are a growing issue in society, to love, protect and preserve nature is a good way of keeping nature. Even in a house that is in harmony with the natural surroundings, is an architectural firm Nathan Good Architect of the attempt to design a house built in harmony with nature. Are you interested in cutting-edge technology solutions or just want to live on the earth lightly, Nathan Good Architect can translate vision into reality.

 Green House Design Inspiration By Nathan Good Architect
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2:40 pm June 20, 2010