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Villa Attie House

Joy Alexandre Harb House Architecture

Villa Attie

Embedded into the land topography, villa Attie offers a great ventilation, daylight and comfort. The house is accessible from the two roads surrounding the building. The first access leads to the private spaces of the house like the bedrooms, and the secondary access leads to the semi-private spaces. The open space plan embodied the idea of effective combination of comfort, coziness, functionality and flow of circulation. The finish levels inside and in the pool area are the same. So that once the windows are open, it creates the feeling that you are outdoors while sitting in the living room.

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OO House

Jianhe Wu House Interior

OO

OO is a residential interior design created through the renovation of a house that was forty years old. The three storey home covers 195 square meters and stands in a narrow alley in Kaohsiung. The facade carries openings arranged in a code like pattern and filled with glass bricks, so daylight enters while the interior stays secure. Materials include Japanese cypress, solid wood and formaldehyde free bamboo carbon paint. The staircase divides the space, and its landing is made of magnetic glass that also serves as a drawing surface.

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Yi Family Friendly House

Wen Lung Chen House Interior

Yi Family Friendly

Yi Family Friendly is a residential interior design for a five story home shared by three generations. Each generation has a private floor, with a luxurious style for the parents, a calm style for the grandparents, and a colorful, playful setting for the children. Shared areas, such as the sitting and dining area and the upper play room, bring the family together. Marble, wood, metal and mirrored surfaces are combined throughout the interior. Color layers and material changes guide movement between the spaces and link Eastern and Western elements.

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With Four Children House

Ryuji Yamashita House Architecture

With Four Children

A house for a couple and their four children. There is a playroom in the center of the house, and four children's rooms are located facing each other. There are steps and windows between them. When the children open the window, the floor becomes a big desk where they study face to face. The four children's rooms become an integrated space and are connected to the first floor because the desks are made of glass. It is a space that connects the family at various distances.

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Park Villa House

Anson Cheng House Interior

Park Villa

Park Villa is a residential interior design for a three-storey detached house in Yuen Long, Hong Kong. The interior was created for a couple who use the house as a vacation home. A hotel-like and relaxing atmosphere was intended, with a warm and welcoming setting for guests. Contemporary design is combined with an oriental Asian style through the partition design and the selected furniture. Natural materials such as marble, wood and leather were used to echo the green landscape around the house.

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A C Residence House

Wei-Che Chien House Interior

A C Residence

A C Residence is a residential interior design for a family home in Taiwan. Wooden tones form the central theme of the interior. Materials with different wood grains are combined with white marble, artificial stone, painted copper plates and laminated wooden flooring. Each area is defined by vertical and horizontal material lines instead of solid walls. Glass surfaces keep the circulation open and extend the space visually. A wide hallway, a low sofa and a low television cabinet allow children to move and play freely.

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Miniature Travel House

TaWen Huang House Interior

Miniature Travel

Miniature Travel is a residential interior design for a home of 99 square meters. Classic elements are combined with modern minimalism, and simple moldings on the walls create a neoclassical atmosphere and add depth to each room. In the entryway, a floor of interlaced white stone pattern and copper strips meets a dark blue wall and an elegant cabinet with a dark green line, showing a gradation of colors. Marble, titanium-plated metal, glass and natural veneer are used throughout. The display cabinets are kept low to extend the visual scale of the marble back wall.

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Miorita House

Alexandru Zingaliuc House Architecture

Miorita

Miorita is a three storey residential building located in Chisinau. The ground level holds commercial spaces, while the two upper levels host three apartment units. An underground parking area is placed below the building. Each level has a different polygonal shape, which gives the building a stacked and rotated appearance. The facade combines dark ceramic granite tiles with bright warm timber cladding on a ventilated system. Sharp angles and cantilevered terraces create a dynamic form within the urban setting.

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Villa Olympea house

Joy Alexandre Harb house Architecture

Villa Olympea

The Residential Villa in the mountains of Lebanon is integrated with its surrounding nature. Its design consists of 2 L-shaped structures on the ground floor, which interact together to create an internal green patio, visible from all spaces in the house. This concept was thought of in order to avoid having corridors in the house, for aesthetic reasons as well as for avoiding loss of space. A cedar tree was planted in the internal patio,it being the emblem of the country found on the national flag , becoming the heart of the house.

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Basalt House

Aamer Qaisiyah House Architecture

Basalt

Built for comfort as well as being elegant. This design is truly eye-catching and remarkable inside and out. Features include oak wood, windows made to bring in plenty of sunlight, and it is soothing to the eyes. It is mesmerizing by its beauty and the technique. Once you are in this house, you can't but notice the serenity and the oasis feeling that takes over you. The breeze of the trees and the surrounding with the sun rays makes this house a unique place to live in away from the busy city life. The Basalt house is built to please and accommodate a variety of people.

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H2O House

Niroop Kumar Reddy Nallari House Architecture

H2O

H2O House is a private residence in an urban residential area of Hyderabad. The house is designed for a family of four and covers an area of 12500 square feet. Indoor and outdoor water bodies support passive cooling and lower indoor temperatures during the day. Light weight fly ash bricks and thermal insulation sheets are used as masonry to limit heat transfer. Large openings on opposite walls allow cross ventilation, and solar panels are placed on the terrace. Spaces are zoned vertically according to privacy, with shared rooms below and bedrooms above.

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Morimachi House

Toshiaki Tanaka House Architecture

Morimachi

House in Morimachi is a single storey house designed in a minimal form. The house is clad in metal sheets and kept low to respect the surrounding scenery. Steel framing forms the main structure, with dimensions standardized to the module of the traditional Japanese timber house to keep a familiar sense of scale. Wood sliding doors add depth, continuity and openness to the interior. The garden combines water scenery with gently undulating ground, creating a different view from each room along the south facade. Traditional carpentry and plaster techniques were used throughout.

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