Posts Tagged ‘small houses’
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Small Sauna House Design – Mill House by Wingardhs

Small Sauna House Design – Mill House by Wingardhs
Wingardhs Mill House is a manifestation of the Swedish ritual of sauna and bathing. It’s an annex to a old farm in Vastra Karup, the country side of southern Sweden, which was converted into a vacation and sauna house. Besides the sauna space there are rooms for undressing, washing and relaxing. The traditional ritual of sauna involves baking together and dashing out for an invigorating dip in a cold water. To make the process flawless small pool was built adjacent to the sauna. Besides the pool there are small garden near it. The house’s interior is very bring and light thanks to it large windows and the cladding is done in natural wood. [Wingardhs, via dornob]

Small Sauna House Design – Mill House by Wingardhs
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Small Glass House on the Water – Watervilla Kortenhoef

Small Glass House on the Water – Watervilla Kortenhoef
Watervilla Kortenhoef is designed by Waterstudio.NL and was finished in the end of 2008 year. This small house’s ground floor is located very near to the water level. Thanks to that it looks like the house float on the water. Although underneath the ground floor there is a full storey where bedrooms and bathroom are situated. Almost all its walls are floor-to-ceiling windows that offers an amazing view over the water. That isn’t only way to enjoy beautiful surroundings. There is a spacious roof terrace as well which provides even more spectacular views. [Waterstudio.NL]
If you enjoy floating on water homes you also might like apartment on water.

Small Glass House on the Water – Watervilla Kortenhoef
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Sunday, May 15th, 2011
2+ Weekend Modern Container Small House

2+ Weekend Modern Container Small House
2+ Weekend house is a modern small house unit at Trebnie, Slovenia. Designed by Jure Kotnik Arhitekt, the house born because of high prices for real estate. It’s the system of two containers manufactures specially for housing. ConHouse pushes the development of containers manufactured especially for housing and office purposes. Before ConHouse small container houses projects was mostly made with usual cargo containers.
The 2+ is a two-level mini housing unit composed of two containers perpendicular to each other. It shows that a minimal number of containers combined in an innovative fashion offers fresh yet functional architectural solutions. Thanks to colors and minimalistic look the design of the house looks quite modern. The upper container provides a projecting roof above the entrance as well as serves to shelter the back terrace. The ceiling of the bottom container is also a terrace of the first floor.
2+ Weekend Modern Container Small House
Modern Container ConHouse Interior

2+ Weekend Modern Container Small House
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Friday, May 13th, 2011
Small House with Reinforced Concrete Frame – Hall House

Small House with Reinforced Concrete Frame – Hall House
The Hall House was designed for a couple without a child in Shiga, Japan which wanted to have enough space for spare time activities on a small site. The house has parking lot, billiard-theater, dining-kitchen and bedroom with bathroom which all are contained in one hall changing their heights according to the slope of the front road. The frame made of reinforced concrete with about 180mm-thick walls in order to create soundproof environment. There are many exclusive things in the Hall’s House interior design like the glass bathroom, not isolated bedroom, rustic yet sophisticated look of concrete walls, unusual sloped roof and so on. It is great example of the new age’s architecture. [ALPHAVILLE]

Small House with Reinforced Concrete Frame – Hall House
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Sunday, May 8th, 2011
Modern House Design On Small Site Witin A Tight Budget – Crockett Residence

Modern House Design On Small Site Witin A Tight Budget – Crockett Residence
Pb Elemental Architecture is the company which designed this beautiful modern house with many limitations. First of all the budget was very tight but the clients family was large and still growing. The site is only 1600 square foot although the Elemental Architecture managed to fit everything needed on it. The house includes four bedrooms, two baths, an open kitchen, dining and living areas, an entry corridor, a utilities area, a large storage room and an accessory dwelling unit with a full kitchen, bath, laundry and closet. In the end the building footprint is only 790 square feet with building cost of $167/sf and beautiful modern interior design. [Pb Elemental Architecture]

Modern House Design On Small Site Witin A Tight Budget – Crockett Residence
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