Residential Building

Explore 38 award-winning designs tagged Residential Building on Architecture Magazine.

Brand: Parviz Ghasemi Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

12th

This project redefines the morphology of a residential building with two bevels on both sides to improve the quality of life and prevent the repetition of similar and neighboring buildings. Tried to create a dynamic view by cutting parts of the bevels and creating full and empty spaces in the play of light and shadow and despite similar plans, define an independent identity for the units and the building by creating a different view and perspective, and transform the elevation to in between space, to form different narratives of the flow of life inside the building.

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Brand: David Chen Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Dua Tau Din Village

The project location is in Hsinchu City, Taiwam; it's a rezoning area from farmland and a military base. The village that once stood there dates from 1950. The memories of the old village and childhood neighborhood are rapidly disappearing with modern development. The ideal of this project is to recreate a space that reminds one of an old village by using modern architecture, a place where streets and courtyards are available for children to play in and nature is nearby, and to stimulate diversity for each household through a combination of residential and park.

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Brand: Vassiliades Architects Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

House in Fasoula

The Z Shaped Creation is a bioclimatic residential building in Fasoula, Cyprus. The white Z shaped form defines the morphology of the building. The interior spaces are arranged as volumes placed into the cavities of the white form. The design follows simple geometries in a minimalist approach, with exposed concrete, large wooden surfaces and a neutral white color. The house covers 230 square meters on three levels, one basement and two floors above. The basement is set into the slope, holds the parking spaces and is built with stone masonry.

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Brand: EgoHouse Architects Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

X House

X House is a residential building set in a mixed forest within the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine. Respect for the site and preservation of the existing green spaces guided the design and the construction. Large areas of panoramic glazing connect the interior with the surrounding trees, making nature an accent of the living space. Cantilevered roof projections and second floor terraces are made of reinforced concrete and form broken lines around the main volume. The exterior uses porcelain stoneware, metal, wood and fiber-cement panels. The total area is 460 square meters.

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Brand: Rodrigo Kirck Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

135 Jardins

The 135 Jardins Project was designed to be an emblematic residential and commercial enterprise - to become an icon and a landmark among so many buildings already built in the city of Balneario Camboriu (Brazil). Designed in a pure prism, it was designed to be asymmetrical, in which the apartment tower interconnects with its base and retail area; bringing the concept of green areas in all shared use spaces.

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Brand: Evolution Design Project Type: Residential building Tag: Architecture

Flexhouse

Flexhouse is a single-family home on Lake Zurich in Switzerland. Built on a challenging triangular plot of land, squeezed between the railway line and the local access road, Flexhouse is the result of overcoming many architectural challenges: restrictive boundary distances and building volume, triangular shape of the plot, restrictions regarding local vernacular. The resulting building with its wide walls of glass and a ribbon-like white façade is so light and mobile in appearance that it resembles a futuristic vessel that has sailed in from the lake and found itself a natural place to dock.

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Brand: Torres Arquitetos Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Arte Residence

Arte Residence is a residential building located on Torres beach, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the south of Brazil. The building has twenty floors, with two apartments per floor. Each apartment offers 200 square meters of private area, three suites and large social areas. The volume is a vertical monolith with horizontal planes arranged in half levels, where large balconies face the sea. Exposed concrete, wood and ceramic tiles form the finishes. The building also includes energy efficiency, careful water use, and thermal and acoustic comfort.

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Brand: Svetoslav Stanislavov Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Royal River

Royal River is a high rise 75 meters tall residential building, located in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. RR uses has several integrated technologies that makes it a contemporary residential building sustainable ventilation and air conditioning system, waste collection system, high speed elevators, maximized glazing for each apartment and tight structure core with compact emergency staircases that is helping a maximum usage of floor area. The facade system uses composite aluminum panels that allows it usage of freeform and easy and quick installation methods.

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Brand: Moriyuki Ochiai Architects Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Geosong

They performed the design for a residential building located in a hilly area. Thus, they set out to integrate into their design the structure of the earth while echoing the natural forces shaping the hills, strata-soil, and spring water found therein. Resonating with the landscape of rolling hills, this residential building channels and gives form to the natural energy embedded in the multiple layers of intertwined strata and springs surrounding it.

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Brand: Rodrigo Kirck Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Elysium Residence

Elysium Residence, located in the south of Brazil, in the coastal city of Itapema. To promote design, the project implemented concepts and values of contemporary architecture and sought to redefine the concept of residential building, bringing experience to its users and the relation with the city. The solution holds the use of scenic lighting, innovative construction systems and the use of parametric design. All technologies and concepts applied to this project aim to transform the future building into an urban icon.

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Brand: Rodrigo Kirck Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Eleve

The Eleve Residence, designed by architect Rodrigo Kirck, located in the south of Brazil, in the coastal city of Porto Belo; To promote design, Kirck implemented concepts and values of contemporary architecture and sought to redefine the concept of residential building, bringing experience to its users and the relation with the city. The designer applied the use of mobile windshields, innovative construction systems and parametric design. The technologies and concepts applied here, aimed to transform the building into an urban icon and to generate new ways of creating buildings in your region.

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Brand: Seyed Hamed Jafari Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Rouzan

Rouzan is a residential building in Isfahan, Iran. The design brings together a traditional Iranian house and a modern apartment. The facade is made of bricks produced from local materials, aligned vertically with concave sections and sharp angles. Semi-transparent bricks and wooden canopies with decorative niches and cavities recall traditional Iranian homes. The rooftop holds a water fountain, a garden and a barbecue area. Electrical rotating canopy windows are controlled remotely, expanding to admit more sunlight in winter and contracting to limit heat in summer.

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