housing projects
Helsinki apartment blocks
In Helsinki a new residential complex is going to emerge on the site of a former power plant, Hanasaari. ALA, the young architecture studio which won the competition, presented a different and daring approach.The terraced blocks have a wave like form that offers almost every apartment a fabulous view toward the sea. Inside their enclosed […]
Copan Building
This is considered to be the largest condominium in the world. 40 floors of apartments that vary from 26 to 300 square meters make a total of 1160 living units. They are completed by a series of commercial spaces accessible to any inhabitant. This 140m high building was built in Sao Paolo by Oscar Niemeyer […]
Glass bubbles house
It’s a small apartment building and it’s almost all covered in glass bubbles. It consists of 13 apartments divided in two blocks, connected on each floor by an atrium. In front of the reinforced concrete structural core, 7,900 blown glass spheres form the playful design of this building. The green glass bubbles are all handmade […]
Mill house
Constructed as an addition to an old farm house, somewhere near Malmo, this building expresses the Swedish conception of a small vacation house, which must include a sauna. Using his conception that buildings should respect the surrounding nature, Gert Wingardh creates not only a house, but an entire scenario which makes our mind flow to […]
The Micro compact home
M-ch is a small compact home, conceived as a temporary living space, for a number of one or two people. The project was initiated by Prof. Richard Horden with his team of students and assistants (in 2001) and was a result of the colaboration with the Tokyo Institute of Technology. It was developed as a […]
Rucksack house
The Rucksack house started as an art object, created by the sculptor Stefan Eberstadt, but investors saw the commercial opportunity of the 9 sq m box and transformed it into a house extension, as a cheaper and faster alternative to usual extensions. The author says it all began with the need of escaping the walls, […]
