Month: September 2023

Combining the balance of city living together with nature. Home design ideas with natural light and breeze. Leaving space around the house for a garden area, including inserting plants on the balcony to create a good atmosphere for living. It is the heart of home design. The design process begins by considering the limited usable space and modification to support the space adjustment to future lifestyle changes. The living space is designed to accommodate any lifestyle. Designing the space to suit growing families involves creating areas for in-home work and responding to work-from-home or changes for the home office setup.

The property boasts a captivating vista of a picturesque eucalyptus plantation to the north, presenting an exclusive and unparalleled setting amidst the urban landscape. Guided by the client’s vision, the design brief prioritized allocating a significant one-third of the 2400sqft site to lush greenery, reflecting the family’s deep affinity for outdoor living. Furthermore, in their quest for a distinctive and harmonious aesthetic, the clients desired non-rectangular rooms, adding an element of playful creativity and uniqueness to the overall design.

An architectural project rises, challenging the obstacles imposed by the unevenness of the terrain. It is a unique house, rooted in the surrounding earth and blessed with a privileged view of the majestic volcano in its back. In the midst of complexity, innovation finds its home, manifesting through the integration of rammed earth into the walls of the upper floor, a gesture of communion with the surrounding nature. 

Face Rock Beach House is set on an ocean-front bluff in the city of Bandon on the Oregon Coast. The house opens up to incredible views of the seascape and rock outcroppings to the west. Face Rock, the namesake for the house, is a craggy sea stack with a distinctive, face-like feature that, according to Coquille legend represents Princess Ewauna looking upwards towards the sky.

The project is located at the western entrance to the town of Tarare. This redevelopment of industrial and logistics sites within the urban fabric has enabled us to enhance the value of this traditionally marginal suburban area, offering factory employees a site that is fully accessible to soft mobility and integrated into the urban fabric. Our mission was to work with the project owner to support the emergence of a new productive city.

“My wife is a country girl, so it was her idea,” landscape architect Bob Hursthouse says, referring to the couple’s move from a Chicago suburb to the Kendall County countryside, about 60 miles west of the city. Their country homestead is about 1½ acre…