A Riverside house

This building is located on a river bank is a simple yet powerful design, made of traditional building method from wood, in a contemporary design. The architect says that this house embrace the great natural view of the riverbank, named 'plat house'.

floating buildings

Waterstudio.nl specializes in above water design, as their design expertise. Many floating houses can be seen in their website.

Urban Acupuncture for a 'sick' area below fly overs

The design concentrate on 'healing' sick area below fly over road in Bandung, Indonesia. The architect being a suggester of the urban acupuncture said that this might be a way of making better land use without compromising the weakness of the government.

In Indonesia, known as a developing country, the problem of area below fly overs becoming slum and unattended area is common, and being repeatedly happened in Jakarta. This concept proposal derrives a method of healing such area. Via sa98

a white solid house placed on a hill ridge

Being a typically box house. this house on a hill ridge represent a great vista from inside out. The plan looks like a maze, and it's a house by guessing from the domestic scale. There's no opening at all, but doorways, but some part can be opened and create a new sense of complexity, said arkinetia.






The sun creates shading that changes the face of the house through out the day, becoming a theme of the facade. Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza wrote: “[It can be said] that the key lies in a profound understanding of light as matter, as material, as a modern material.”