Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
A stunning home overlooking British Columbia’s Soo Valley, SoLo represents an experiment in how to create environmentally sensitive single-family homes that are also strikingly beautiful. Crafted from warm Douglas fir, the mass timber prefab building even makes solar panels look great: A shimmering array of them lines the linear house’s facade. Inside, floor-to-ceiling windows and a wood-on-wood palette provide a cottagey feel. But this is more than a cabin in the woods — it’s residential architecture at its finest.
Team Derek Newby and Alysia Baldwin with Aik Ablimit, Cillian Collins, Susan Gushe, Joshua Rudd and Adrian Watson
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
Architecture: Single-Family Houses
This home’s humble size and material makeup belie its marvelousness. Located in the northern Japanese town of Minoh, Osaka Prefecture, with a view of majestic Mount Aogai, the 87-square-metre house was designed on a tight budget with the aim of ushering in as much of the natural panorama as possible. To that end, its master stroke is a dramatic overhanging roof: Made of corrugated metal, lined in timber and integrating a massive polycarbonate skylight, it brings in the blue sky and lush vista while also creating an intimate in-between zone under its eaves.
This one architectural gesture establishes the building’s style based on an honest use of materials and a balance between opacity and transparency. Inside the one-storey home, which is divided by slender wooden beams, a number of nested rectilinear volumes, white-washed or clad in plywood, contain the kitchen, bath and other functions. Modern and solid, the structures make a wonderful contrast against the classic, airy envelope.
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