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Water-Cooled House in Singapore by Wallflower Architects

Located in Bukit Timah, Singapore amongst the verdant landscape lies a two-story modern home of wood, concrete stucco, flagstone, limestone, granite, marble and lots of shallow ponds.

This gorgeous residential home by Arthur Casas Studio located in São Paulo, Brazil was designed for a family of four (a young couple with children 5 and 8 years old). The only design requirements from the owners were that the home incorporate a view of the upscale Quinta da Baroneza golf course and lots of light.

This linear reinforced concrete home by Shinichi Ogawa & Associates measures 150 meters in length, presumably the longest house ever built. The main house is simply composed of a white cube and 2 horizontal plates of 11m wide by 150m long.

Arch Daily reports the following description which seems to have some translation problems (so please don't blame me):
"Overlooking the rich natural environment, the world’s longest house tops a hill in the Khao yai forest complex of Thailand.

Through the waterfall as a entrance gate, the road leads you to the main house extending east and west on the left, and on the opposite side, a glass house in the forest as a guest house.

All rooms for owner family are put linearly between the plates, opening to both north corridor and south deck terrace. A glazed room for spa and fitness at the east end, 6 bedrooms with exclusive bathroom and living room, a family living/dining room, and storage or maid rooms at the west end.

This extremely long planning takes advantage of the beautiful landscape, gaining a panoramic view and a dynamic scale space as the very long deck terrace. At the same time, it regards a airy comfortable living environment.

The white cube as formal living/dining room has 6M high ceiling. The stairs from the hall below divides the large room into southern living space and northern dining space.

The 150m weekend house – the longest house in this century - was born by admiring the mountain scenery as a given condition and imagining a seascape as the contrastive view."

Above the private rooms, there is a roof top terrace covered with sand and the swimming pool of 40m long. It’s like a floating sky beach surrounded by mountains.

WEEKEND HOUSE / 2012
Location : Khao yai, Thailand
Program : weekend house
Structural system : reinforced concrete
Stories : 2 stories
Total area : 1592.41 m2
completion date : 2012.06

Shinichi Ogawa

All photos © Pirak Anurakawachon

Thomas Phifer's Modern Steel and Glass 8,800 Sq. Foot Taghkanic House Is Still On The Market.

Looking for a unique modern house about 2 hours outside of New York? This beautiful, exceptionally designed 8,800 square foot home was designed by architect Thomas Phifer, a previous design partner of Richard Meier's, and is available with or without a renovated farmhouse and 150 additional acres.

House Beirings is a very cool looking modern dutch farmhouse. In an effort to avoid visual contact with adjacent houses, the wood home by Amsterdam architects Rocha Tombal, has different shaped openings, windows, skylights and dormers that offer interesting ways to bring daylight in without directly facing nearby structures.

House Bierings
As described by the Amsterdam architecture firm, Rocha Tombal Architecten:
From a basic form, defined by the municipal urban plan, sculptural “eyes” emerge with direct views to the varied countryside landscape. The form and orientation of the building avoid visual contact with the adjacent houses: at the ground floor the angled ceiling of the kitchen accentuates the intensive contact with the garden. On the first floor, the different shaped openings in the roof and façade offer, like “fingers of light”, varied daylight experiences.

The routing through the house starts in the hall, a section of the ground floor volume. After experiencing the entrance area and passing the gigantic pivoted door, the visitor arrives at the “heart of the house”, the kitchen. Here he looks through the big glass wall straight into the garden, which suggests being outside again.

Behind him, the stair cuts a wooden wall inviting to follow the route towards the first floor. Its angled form and extreme proportions (small and high) and the daylight entering from the ceiling, offer the feeling of walking in a medieval street.

At the end of it he discovers the living room, a quiet, north-lighted attic space, from which a big opening exposes the surrounding green like in a framed painting.