Claro del Bosque

Tatsumi Apartment House in Tokyo

The site faces not only a wide street with heavy traffic but also a subway station. Hiroyuki Ito Architects thought it wasn’t appropriate to adopt a steel structure because of noisy neighborhood but adopting a reinforced concrete structure, columns and beams might become too unwieldy for objects in a small room whose area is 30 square meters or more.

But if the spaces between columns and beams could be considered as niches that would provide cozy rooms that protect the inhabitants from noise and vibrations. A six column structure instead four was adopted in order to keep the structure smaller as to create between them a suitable space for a comfortable living. The dimensions are slightly adjusted so that they could be used as benches, low tables, bed spaces, and tables.

Reynisfjara, Iceland

Rosenberry Residence in Montréal

In the words of the architects Les architectes FABG:

This residence located on a large wooded lot near Sutton in the Eastern Townships region is conceived as a bi-generational family cottage for a financier now based in Asia and his parents still living in Montreal sharing it for family holidays in summer and winter. Common areas, kitchen, dining room and living room occupy the ground floor open space as well as the private rooms of the parents on its west end. The second floor is reserved for the son, contains a living room, guest rooms, a terrace and a bedroom offering unobstructed views of Mount Sutton.

The two wings are disposed at right angle to minimize noise transmission between floors for occupants living on a different daily rhythm and having to adapt to twelve hours of time zone separation. The house, sitting on a podium with a swimming pool and a lawn terrace, is clad with black lacquered aluminium panels and white cedar accents. The hybrid structure is made of wood, steel and concrete floors with radiant heating while the glazing of the curtain wall and windows include a low-e coating.

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Clark House / la SHED architecture