Horace Hou: Looking Out Week 7

This is the Rolling Huts in Mazama, WA by OSKA Architects. These individualised pods allow hikers to stay in similar to our studio project brief. The wooden and metal structures create a simple structure that allows lots of natural light in and provides expansive views to the surroundings. The houses are raised above on stilts to allow clearance from snow a factor that our bathhouse has to factor in.

William Aldrich: Looking Out Week 7

Urban Housing Project: 24H Architects (Nieuw Leyden, Netherlands)

The façade is made of certified wood (I suppose that’s better than uncertified?) and Corten steel. Where the wood peels back to reveal the steel, is where the “canyon” is located within the home. This “canyon,” which is present in all rooms, is where the home gets the most of its sunlight.

http://www.contemporist.com/2011/04/12/urban-housing-in-nieuw-leyden-by-24h-architects/

Liz Dolinar: Looking Out Week 7

This crazy looking furniture are the work of British designer Anthony Hartley. The chairs are named Mr. Smith II and both pieces feature abstract curves and fun colors. Hartley's furniture is made out of wood and hand sprayed with a high gloss paint (chairs are laminate birch ply, cabinet is oak).

Looking Out Week 7 - Charmaine Y

This is the Inariyama Special Education School by Atsushi Kitagawara architects in Chikuma, Nagano, Japan.  The architect uses traditional, cultural Japanese construction methods using lumber to build almost the entire structure to give a "homey" feeling to the students and everyone using the buildings.  The architects designed an entire complex of buildings of various programmatic functions to create almost a wooden town.

Looking Out Week 7: Yasmeen Almuhanna

Chatou by h2o Architectes

Now here is a project done for one overly privileged teenager. Starting as nothing more than an empty building in the owner's backyard, Paris-based h2o Architects were hired to rethink the empty shed in order to provide a private space for the owner's teenage son looking for independence from his parents.

The rethought wooden furniture forms the entire interior of the house. Made from modest plywood, the furniture allows for sleeping, living, studying, and washing spaces. The lack of kitchen in the program is due to the agreement between the teenager and his parents that meals would still be shared in the family home.