Residence

Explore 30 award-winning designs tagged Residence on Architecture Magazine.

Brand: Satoshi Kurosaki Project Type: Residence Tag: Architecture

Grace

Grace is a small timber framed residence for a family of three on a riverside lot on the outskirts of Tokyo. The house is designed for a work from home lifestyle. Storage, kitchen appliances and other functional features are built into the walls to enhance unity and continuity in the long, narrow space. Private rooms occupy the first floor, while the second floor is a single open room under a gable roof with exposed rafters and indirect lighting. A glazed front balcony with deep eaves forms a transition between work and leisure.

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Brand: KAZUNORI SAKAI Project Type: Residence Tag: Architecture

Amami House

Amami House is a self-sufficient residence on Amami Island, Japan, planned for a family of four. The island has a hot and humid climate with low levels of solar radiation. The house supports comfortable living without dependence on the power grid or air conditioning. Passive strategies such as natural ventilation, daylighting and insulation reduce the need for mechanical systems. The traditional hip-and-gable roof form is reinterpreted with contemporary performance features. A solar water heater, a composting system and a home garden complete a small cycle of self-sufficiency.

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Brand: Phaithaya Banchakitikun Project Type: Residence Tag: Architecture

DUSITANON

Baan Dusitanon is a four-story residence with a mezzanine level, located in a busy urban area. The building is enveloped by a facade of vertically aligned and gently twisted louvers made of high-strength aluminum. The louvers screen the interior from outside views while keeping the city visible from within. The facade also acts as a thermal buffer and frames planted areas between the screen and the walls. Each floor places semi-private living areas at the front and bedrooms at the rear. A double-height living space on the fourth floor opens toward the cityscape.

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Brand: Pedro Sunyé Project Type: Residence Tag: Architecture

Single Wall

Single Wall is a residence located in Angra dos Reis, Brazil. The house is organized by one continuous pressed bamboo wall, 80 meters long. The wall separates leisure and service areas, conceals technical spaces, and supports the suspended bedroom volume. Exposed concrete, pressed bamboo, and Brazilian marble are the main materials. Post tensioned concrete allows a free span of 12.5 meters and a cantilever of 6.5 meters. Glass panels retract fully, joining interior and exterior. Cross ventilation, natural light, and shading provide comfort without artificial systems.

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Brand: Tsukasa Ono Project Type: Residence Tag: Architecture

Sumu Yakushima

Sumu Yakushima applies Regenerative architecture, a new approach developed that combines traditional Japanese civil engineering with contemporary technology. Designing the underground environment and engaging the buildings in a constructed mycelial network promotes biodiversity in the soil. Promoting the flow of air and water The buildings and decks are raised, dispersing wind flowing between the mountains and the sea without blocking it.Off grid energy from solar power and firewood.

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Brand: Michihiro Matsuo Project Type: Residence Tag: Architecture

Gave

Gave is a multi-unit residence with attached garages, completed in Osaka, Japan. Each unit links a private garage directly to a studio or office space, so residents move from the car to the home with ease. The building has a steel structure and two floors. A column-free garage entrance allows large vehicles to enter and leave smoothly. Large slabs of natural Ena stone form the main gate, and the floating second floor works as a canopy. Wide driveways, planting and shared terraces create a quiet and private setting.

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Brand: POTIROPOULOS and PARTNERS Project Type: Residence Tag: Architecture

Serpentine House

The architectural gesture of a long L shaped flowing form along the two main edges of the site seeks to create a threshold between the surrounding scenery and the resulting negative, a courtyard of similar scale to the building footprint. This fluid form narrows and widens to create tension with the enclosed courtyard but is rigid along the perimeter of the site, forming a well-defined edge. The building form stretches through a series of large pergolas to cover parts of the courtyard and to create a rather staged sequence of closed, open and semi open spaces.

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Brand: Kiyoshi Sugimoto Project Type: Residence Tag: Architecture

Wedge House

Wedge House is a three-story residence built on a narrow site with a steep slope in Ikeda City, Japan. The wedge-shaped cross section places the largest floor at the top and the smallest floor below ground, so that no added force is applied to an old retaining wall. The two upper floors are made of wood and the basement is made of reinforced concrete. The east and west walls are finished with silver coated steel plates that support the cantilevered floor and frame the view to the south. The living area on the second floor opens to a terrace with a wide view.

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Brand: Satoshi Kurosaki Project Type: Residence Tag: Architecture

Timeless

Inside, the house is defined by two courtyards, one large and the other small, that are arranged in parallel. The main courtyard is on the south side and features a bamboo grove that draws the eye when one steps into the entryway. A smaller slit-shaped courtyard on the north side is also dotted with plantings and serves as a lightwell, filling the first-floor living room and entryway as well as a second living room upstairs with pleasant, diffuse light.

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Brand: PROYECTO CAFEINA Project Type: Residence Tag: Architecture

Saint Peter House

Designed from the philosophy of participatory design low tech high customization, this house is conceived from bricks, a material widely used in San Pedro Cholula region in an ancestral way from the knowledge of the local workforce in the construction system. The main skin of the house has 3 formats for accommodating the bricks; double wall, lattice, and spike from where its expressiveness starts, which are distributed in a functional way to close, gain natural light or ventilate the interior spaces with windows in openings and other times through a double semi-solid facade.

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Brand: Satoshi Kurosaki Project Type: Residence Tag: Architecture

Infinity

This residence in the mountainous region of northern Okinawa known as Gushiku Mui serves as a weekend and vacation home for a client whose primary residence is in Hokkaido. The hilltop site offers sweeping views of the ocean immediately below as well as the ambiance of the magnificent mountains behind it. The living dining kitchen area stretches the full width of the property, with a jacuzzi bathroom featuring outdoor views at one end. Beyond a living room terrace partially shaded by eaves, an infinity pool segues into a natural landscape of ocean and forest.

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Brand: Ta-Hsiu Lee Project Type: Residence Tag: Architecture

Dan Mo

Dan Mo is a retirement residence completed in February 2020 in Taichung, covering 440 square meters. The lotus flower inspired the design, and the architectural elements portray the parallel pattern seen on lotus petals. Mortar is applied to the surfaces with a special technique that makes the material tougher, denser and resistant to wind and rain. Apart from external tile cladding used to channel water, no further surface treatment is applied, which reduces material consumption. A circular path on the first floor links the function spaces and supports family interaction.

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