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Pitched Roof House_by Chenchow Little Architects

The Pitched Roof House by Chenchow Little Architects is probably the most interesting home I’ve seen in a long time. From the outside, you wouldn’t imagine that you could actually even FIT inside the home with its “pitched” roof and interesting geometrical shape. While from the inside, the home is quite spacious, with triangular shaped windows, in interesting parts of the house- giving the residents a new and unique perspective of their surrounding area.
Though it is an unusual looking residence, it nestles quite perfectly amongst other more traditional suburban homes- giving the neighborhood a modern/contemporary edge that it likely needed. I would imagine that from the inside you’d feel more like you were living in a beautiful prism, or diamond rather than a “humble abode” and that’s precisely what makes the home so amazingly quirky and creative. While I would imagine being the ,”crazy neighbors” on the block would get a little old after awhile- I know that being the ,”neighbors with the most unique interesting” home on the block would be a title some, and certainly these residents wear proudly.

Folded House_by Alphaville Architects

This is a 100m2 residence for a couple and their cats located in Osaka, Japan. The typical method for designing a house would assign rectangular rooms with specific functions and lay out them. Such a design produces a series of rooms of similar size and causes monotonous spatial experiences. Our approach was to avoid the conventional design practice and to create a structurally rational but spatially heterogeneous house.On the assumption that there is a human being within the optimal spatial coordinates resulted from the site and living requirements, we used Voronoi line segments that divide equally the shortest distance to create spaces.The actual trial and error involved the full use of 3D-CAD. First, the building’s shape was squashed in a parallelogram in order to keep an adequate distance from the site’s borders. Second, the center wall was folded to divide the space into two, diagonal to the site on the first floor and parallel to the site on the third floor. Next, the floors were skipped, and. The final step was to slope the roof. In this way, various spaces came to be created so that continuous changes can be experienced as one moves along or through the bent wall.
The slits on east elevation that run from first to third floor introduces direct light into the space reflecting the folded wall beautifully through the highly rational structure with minimum wall girders. At the same time, the slit on west elevation bring indirect light through the openings from behind the folded wall. Therefore while the space along the folded wall is an interior space filled with direct light, it also has an outdoor- space-like feeling facing folded walls with shining openings reflected by indirect light.
We imagined a life in a building situated in a medium-density city where multiple buildings are connected via exterior in a loose relationship among man, building and nature, unlike in a city where each building is confined to each specific site. In that sense, although what we proposed here is a single family house, this design model is also applicable to larger buildings such as collective housings, offices, or multi-use complexes in a rational and versatile way.