S-HOUSE by Yuusuke Karasawa Architects

S-HOUSE

a project by Yuusuke Karasawa Architects

Oomiya, Saitama, Japan, completed 2013

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There is modern architecture and there is avant-garde. Tokyo-based Yuusuke Karasawa Architects designed a glazed, split-level house in Japan’s Saitama prefecture that explores the owner’s interest in the networks formed by space and nature.

Philosophy and architecture are certainly no strangers, but rarely does a scenario play out where a client finds an architect who can fully express the client’s life’s work through the design for a single-family home. Such is the case with the S-House in Omiya, in the Saitama Prefecture of Japan. The client is a professor of what he terms “network philosophy.” An acolyte of French philosopher Michel Serres, he studies the interconnections between humans and nature.

SEONDONG CULTURAL & WELFARE CENTER by UnSangDong Architects

SEONDONG CULTURAL & WELFARE CENTER

a project by UnSangDong Architects

Seoul, South Korea, completed 2012

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From the Architect:

The city is required the concept of urban regeneration which renews the abandoned and polluted environment. The current concept of urban regeneration is well used as the strategies of new town development. It has the meaning of creating rehabilitation and revival of urban environment, industry, economy, and the culture by providing new programs and physical architectural environments to the decaying existing cities. Rather than simple architectural esthetic controls, new composition of circulation system, which induces new transformation of environment, is required. It has been developed in the direction of cultural device and the community of governance concept to improve the quality of city dwellers’ life.

ROMAN VILLA by Marte.Marte Architekten

ROMAN VILLA

a project by Marte.Marte Architekten

Rankweil-Brederis, Austria, completed 2008

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This rusty metal tower was designed by Austrian studio Marte.Marte Architects to help tourists locate excavated Roman ruins on the outskirts of a town in western Austria. Stefan Marte of Marte.Marte Architects created the structure between the remains of two Roman villas at the location of an ancient traffic intersection in Brederis. Few traces of the original buildings remain, so the new installation provides the only landmark above ground level.

THE WALL OF NISHIHARA by SABAOARCH

THE WALL OF NISHIHARA

a project by SABAOARCH

Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, completed 2013

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Japanese studio Sabaoarch has built a concrete house with tiny windows on a narrow strip of land in Tokyo. The Wall of Nishihara occupies a sliver of sloping land between two streets in Shibuya, Tokyo, so Sabaoarch enclosed it in concrete walls, which are punctured with tiny windows to give the residents privacy but still bring in light. 

TEXTURED TOWER by Coll-Barreu Arquitectos

TEXTURED TOWER

a project by Coll-Barreu Arquitectos

Bilbao, Spain, completed 2012
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The sculptural Textured Tower is a project designed by the practice of Coll-Barreu Arquitectos in 2012 for fire training and it is located in Miribilla, Bilbao, Biscay, Spain, proving that a simple training space can become a ground for experimentation and discovery.