Interior Design Sense

Architects: Charles Pictet Architecte FAS SIA
Location: Frontenex, France
Collaborator: Philippe Le Roy, Architecte EPFZ
Engineering: Jean Regad, Genève
Project Year: 2004-2006
Photographs: Francesca Giovanelli

The construction is located on an old property that comprises several high-quality buildings, among which an orangery dating from the early 19th century.

The project includes the building into the living space. In the orthogonal structure adjustments of the property, the only exception will be the orangery, skewed by its location.

The volume of the new building articulates these two geometries and addresses the link between the two parties, the old and new.

Architects: Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
Location: Oita-city, Oita, Japan
Client: Private
Project year: 2008
Constructed area: 119 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki YANO (Nacasa & Partners Inc.,)

It is a hairsalon built in the suburbs. A mountain type design code is repeated from facade and an opening to interior design. This brings the visual effect as an icon to construction. “Paper-cutting” will be a motif if it says.

It seems to assemble space while connecting the paper which clipped out a chevron figure. A repetition of the same figure produces the delicate deviation from the every day required of a hair salon. And it gives the whole building fictiveness.

Architects: KWK PROMES
Location: Ksiazenice, Poland
Project Architect: Robert Konieczny
Collaborator: Marcin Jojko
Structural Engineer: Jaroslaw Kaminski
Design Year: 2004
Construction Year: 2005-2007
Site Area: 1,440 sqm
Constructed Area: 180 sqm
Photographs: KWK PROMES

A green clearing surrounded by forest was the only context for the proposed small house. Hence the idea to “carve out” a piece of the grass-covered site, move it up and treat it as the roofing to arrange all the required functions underneath. When the whole was ready, the client came up with another request, to create some space for a small recording studio and a conservatory. The latter was obtained by linking the ground floor with the grassy roof through an “incision” in the green plane and “bending” the incised fragment down, inside the building.

This procedure turned the roof into an atrium, as the only way to reach it was through the interior of the house. As opposed, however, to a typical atrium, the newly-created space has all the advantages of an outer garden while remaining a safe, internal zone within the building.

This way, a new type of house was created, and its designation – outrial – is to convey the idea of an atypical atrium which is part of both the interior and the exterior of the building.

The studio was created in a similar way as the conservatory, but in order to ensure work comfort for a rock musician, it was isolated from the rest of the house by shifting it upwards.

Architects: Powerhouse Company
Location: Schou, Denmark
Partner in Charge: Charles Bessard
Project Team: Nanne de Ru, Charles Bessard, Mads Lassen, Thomas Lund, Anders Lyhne
Project year: 2005 – 2008
Structural Engineer: Tonny Hovborg
Engineering: Carl Peter Adolph
Photographs: Powerhouse Company

Glamourous yet cost effective, the XXLong Summerhouse challenges the idea that luxurious does not necessarily means expensive. With a budget of a standard summerhouse, the XXL Summerhouse provides all the qualities of a custom made design.

A unique site on the Danish Coast of 10m wide by a 100m long, challenged us to make unusually long house. As the view is the most important assets of this site, we made a huge living/dining room on the sea and placed the bedrooms towards the back, their footprint reduced to the minimum. Then, instead of compressing the house, we stretched it to become 5m wide and 30m long as to optimally combine the garden with the house. Every room has direct access to the garden; the garden becomes a room.

Architects: Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
Location: Saiki-city, Oita, Japan
Client: Private
Project year: 2008
Constructed area: 81.94 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki YANO (Nacasa & Partners Inc.,)

The cottage in the silent village between mountains. We wished to make the silence a space. It seemed to me that the concrete block is a silent material compared with concrete. Silence is made by the thing being alive It becomes coldness if there is no breath of a life there.

The block fit this place nicely. There are no fittings in the opening of the outside wall. Brock was just merely stacked, and the hole was merely vacant there. Quiet scenery exists.

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Architects: Wiebenson & Dorman Architects PC
Location: Cleveland Park, Washington DC, USA
Project year: 2001
Contractor: Enterprise 6
Structural Engineer: JGK Structural Engineers
Photographs: Wiebenson & Dorman Architects

An addition and renovation to this pseudo-colonial house utilizes modern forms and materials, improves circulation, allows for abundant natural light and includes complete living facilities on one level.

We believe that our efforts, in most projects, should result in a design that is appropriate to the property, to the users, to the existing amenities, to the neighborhood and especially to the times in which we live. In order to achieve such designs, we consider opportunities to take advantage of the Owner’s goals, the site and its views and its features, light (natural and artificial), circulation (vertical and horizontal), energy efficiency (including passive solar) and other factors that we believe create dynamic, enjoyable, comfortable and responsible architecture.

Architects: Sinato
Location: Funabashi, Japan
Use: Ladies’ Apparel Shop
Project year: 2008
Constructed area: 116.9 sqm
Photographs: Yasushi Nagai

The triangular walls divide the center of shop space.
They stand as if they dance and make an “aperture of the space”.
We can hang the clothes in the aperture.
We can walk through the aperture.

Materials of front side and back side of the triangular walls are different and it makes various expression of this space.
The more people moving in this shop, the more various complicated view we can see.
The experience of this space is like a moving image than a static image.