Graystone Custom Builders,  Newport Beach, CA. Michael Beck Photo.

Maison dans un Champs  Jean-Baptiste Barache & Sihem Lamine / Architectes

The scale of this project refers more to the chapel or to the barn than to the house. The wooden hull defines a unique and oversized space in which is inscribed a sculpted object. Without ever touching the envelope this object integrates the bathroom, sleeping area and the enclosed beds, stairs, and the library. The entire inner cladding, composed of panels of plywood against pine is soft and warm, in contrast to the raw and rough outer skin. The natural skin patina developed over time creates and ageless building, giving the impression that it has always been there.

It merits mentioning three items of the design’s environmental approach:

Use of the site without earthwork 

Wood heating and passive solar 

No electrical connection

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by Harding Meyer

Wiel Arets

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Orange Grove Lofts Brooks + Scarpa Architects

Orange Grove is a five-unit for sale market rate loft project, featuring ceiling heights up to 30 feet. The building is sensitively designed and compatible with the neighborhood, but differs in material palette and scale from its neighbors. Referencing architectural conventions of modernism rather than the pitched roof forms of traditional domesticity, the project presents a characteristic that is consistent with the eclectic and often unconventional demographic of West Hollywood. Distinct from neighboring structures, the building creates a strong relationship to the street by virtue of its large amount of highly usable balcony area in the front façade.

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Flatland Aydin Buyuktas