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Floating House
Designer: MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
Location: Ontario, Canada
This project intersects a vernacular house typology with the site-specific conditions of this unique place: an island on Lake Huron. The location on the Great Lakes imposed complexities to the house's fabrication and construction, as well as its relationship to site. Annual cyclical change related to the change of seasons, compounded with escalating global environmental trends, cause Lake Huron's water levels to vary drastically from month-to-month, year-to-year. To adapt to this constant, dynamic change, the house floats atop a structure of steel pontoons, allowing it to fluctuate along with the lake.
→ www.archdaily.com
Posted: 12/31/2008
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High School #9
Designer: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Image Credits: Roland Halbe
→ coop-himmelblau.at
Posted: 12/31/2008
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Kiltro House
Designer: Supersudaka
Location: Talca, Chile
Image Credits: Supersudaka
The versatile Chilean group Supersudaka designed this unusual house located in Talca, Chile.
Made with a metallic structure covered entirely with wood and glass, the house has been in constant change resulting a mix, a bastardized design with a patio and roof terrace.
→ coolboom.net
Posted: 12/31/2008
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Groninger Forum
Designer: NL Architects
Location: Groninger, NL
Image Credits: NL Architects
→ grotemarkt.groningen.nl
Posted: 12/31/2008
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