Modern Architect Design

Japanese architect offices Nakae Architects and Ohno Japan joint efforts have created a student dormitory in Tokyo. The salt of this building is that it is horizontal "slit" into parts, separating the floors. The project was named MM Apartment. Three-storey house divided into eight apartments, each of which designed for one person. Each apartment - a two-story small square windows are placed at different heights.

Many people like the weekend during the winter to the mountains, doing your favorite sports or simply enjoying the beauties of nature. Unfortunately, the activity of people here and the environment and ecology. The concept of environmentally-clean house Snow House can help solve this problem.
This project was created by Nicholas Dorvelom in collaboration with Emilio Marín to participate in the competition the company Xella. At the heart of development - the use of cellular concrete blocks, facilitating the most effective conservation of the natural heat inside the room. Work on the project Snow House, designers sought to create a winter villa provides a comfortable rest and at the same time, concern for the environment.



As a means of heating in the concept were applied geothermal heat pump and solar accumulating wall, also known as a wall thrombus, using the natural heat of the earth, and the principle of the greenhouse effect to warm the cold air that enters the Snow House from the outside. Thus, inside a long time maintained a stable temperature.



The dark outer layer of roughcast better absorbs the sun's heat, and prevents the accumulation of snow on the roof. In addition, the rational use of heat and contribute to the optimal distribution of a low base, and the organization of internal space construction.

Interesting concept of "second skin" in the form of transparent cocoon of shimmering lights, created from the photovoltaic cells, presented design studio LAVA - Laboratory for Visionary Architecture. Thus will be covered by a shell and change their aesthetic appearance of the old skyscrapers of Sydney.

We offer you a look at the interior beauty Nafi in Basel, Switzerland, designed by ZMIK. Designers color space is divided into two zones: waiting area and the work zone.

In a small village in southern Spain, which is called Zahara de La Sierra (Zahara de la Sierra), in the hills of Andalusia and on the shore local lake to put a small cozy cottage, a mandatory for tourists. This hangar for canoes, the original project which is designed and implemented by the Spanish architect Burren Julio (Julio Barreno). This building is a smooth, white, and quite modern, very nice-looking from a distance.

London architect Haworth Tompkins placed steel art studio in the destroyed building of the Victorian dovecote in Suffolk (UK). Studio and called - "Pigeon" It takes as much space as the original 19 th century brick building, whose facade is currently falling apart. Steel watertight inner box was placed inside the facade with the help of a crane.