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"The recent #catastrophic #natural #disasters in India has stunned the# world.
Extremely heavy monsoon rains triggered massive flash flooding and landslides, causing tremendous destruction across large parts of the country.
This monster natural disasters washed away millions of homes, businesses, and vehicles.
Sadly, hundreds of lives were also lost in the devastating flash floods and mudslides.
Scientists say climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of many types of natural disasters.
As the planet warms, weather patterns are disrupted, leading to more extreme rainfall capable of causing devastating natural disasters like this one.
India's vulnerability to these natural disasters is increased by its climate, mountainous terrain in many regions, and large population living in flood-prone areas.
This terrible tragedy underscores the urgent need to improve natural disasters preparedness and response.
Climate change is expected to keep worsening natural disasters around the world.
All nations must make resilience to these natural disasters a top priority.
Improved early warning systems, flood control infrastructure, and public education can help mitigate loss of life and destruction when the next inevitable natural disasters strikes.
The world grieves with India as the country works to recover and rebuild from this monster natural disasters.
We can only hope global leaders take the growing threat of climate change-fueled natural disasters seriously.
More must be done to protect people worldwide from the heartbreak and devastation of natural disasters like this one.
Our thoughts are with the victims and rescuers responding to this horrific natural disasters in India.
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CCY Architects nestles Aspen home into mountainous hillside
CCY Architects designed this home in the mountains of Colorado to be built largely below grade, to reduce its impact on the surrounding natural landscape.
Meadow House takes its name from its location within a grassy plot of land in Aspen, Colorado. It was commissioned by a family that wanted a full-time residence but wanted to avoid spoiling the views of the surrounding Rocky Mountains.
Meadow House is designed to blend into its surrounding landscape
"It was important that they have a base for sharing the natural and cultural amenities of the area with their numerous guests in an unpretentious atmosphere," said CCY Architects, a firm based in the nearby town of Basalt.
"[The clients] also challenged us to make the house appear as small as possible," they added.
Upon arrival, the home appears from behind native grasses
From the initial approach to the 14,000-square-foot (1,300-square-metre) home, only a small volume clad in black wooden siding is visible. This is an accessory dwelling unit, or ADU, which contains a guest bedroom, living room, and kitchenette in which guests can enjoy some privacy while staying at the home.
Although it appears that this structure sits on solid ground, it is actually perched on a green roof, beneath which is the residents' wing, containing the garage, primary bedroom, a home office, and a walk-in closet.
CCY Architects chose furnishings and finishes in a monochrome palette
"On approach, this small structure set in native grasses is all that's visible, and only fully reveals itself as part of a larger composition upon entering the auto court," explained the architects.
A glazed passage connects this part of the home to the main communal areas, which enjoy sweeping views of the surrounding mountains through full-height openings made of black metal frames.
Large windows connect the house to mountainous views
Between the owners' wing and the main living areas, an exterior living room with its own fireplace offers an opportunity to take in the outdoors in the warmer months.
The architects chose furnishings and finishes in a monochrome palette, while tall wood ceilings bring some colour into the space.
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The rest of the home's bedrooms are on the lowest floor, closest to the stream below. "Analysing the site profile, we discovered that a large part of the program could be inserted under the meadow and capture the tranquil sound of the river below, even though it isn’t visible," said CCY Architects.
"The quality of the sound – and the fact that it is heard all night – helped the clients embrace locating the five guest bedrooms primarily subgrade," they added.
An exterior living room has its own fireplace
The lower floor also contains a range of amenities for the owners and their guests, including a billiards table, home cinema, and bowling alley.
Even though these spaces are partially built below grade, they open out onto an outdoor terrace via sliding glass doors, providing them with ample natural light.
Meadow House takes its name from its location within a grassy plot of land
Concrete panels wrap the volumes that are nestled into the site, while black, vertical boards are used for the above-ground portions of the building, such as the kitchen, living and dining room.
CCY Architects has completed several residences in Aspen, including an addition to a Victorian home with a perforated metal facade and a vacation home on a sloped site.
The photography is byJeremy Bittermann.
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Ciguë uses steel foundations to elevate lightweight home in rural France
French studio Ciguë has elevated this timber-clad home in Saint Julien le Petit, France, above its rural site using slender, removable steel foundations.
Looking to contrast the area's traditional stone country homes, the Paris-based studio drew on the lightweight Case Study Houses built in California in the 1960s to create a simple structure that sits lightly in its surroundings.
The Wooden House is a residential project in rural France designed by Ciguë
"The Wooden House scrupulously chooses its land, its exposure, its height and its references to revisit the archetype of the country house," said the studio.
"[It is] a place in which you live carefree and unconfined, in direct contact with the landscape, surrounded by bare necessities," it continued.
The structure is clad in blackened timber
The almost-square central form of the home, clad in black timber planks, sits atop an area of raised wooden decking. The deck wraps the southern edge to create a variety of seating areas surrounded by a black timber balustrade.
A roof has a large overhang and is supported by thin steel supports. It shelters a south-facing section of full-height glazing, which provides the L-shaped living, dining and kitchen area with dramatic views across the landscape.
A covered terrace wraps around the structure
Two bedrooms, a bathroom and a study space create a more private L-shaped section of the home, which north and east with small windows framing views.
A stepped roof line creates higher ceilings at the front of the home, while the bedrooms at the rear are slightly more intimate-feeling spaces.
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In the study, a small mezzanine level sits atop a wooden frame accessed by a ladder, leading to an elevated space with a small window.
"Benefiting from large window openings, [the home] is flooded with light and lives to the rhythm of the seasons according to its bioclimatic principles," said the studio.
Large full-height windows frame views out to the landscape
Internally, the walls and ceilings have been given a crisp white finish. Simple furnishings, window frames and fittings were made using wood sourced from the local area.
Much of the framework and structure is left exposed, with a grid of black timber battens supporting corrugated plastic forming the roof. The junctions between the foundations and house are also left visible.
Ciguë applied a simplistic material palette througout the interior
"Floating lightly above its field, the house imprints its unique Neo-vernacular spirit on the landscape, having chosen wood from the surrounding forests that have gradually replaced the regions agricultural land," said the studio.
Previous projects by Ciguë include several retail interiors including a store in Nottingham for skincare brand Aesop organised around distillation apparatus and a store in Bangkok for fashion brand Isabel Marant with woven bamboo screens.
The photography is byMaris Mezulis.
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Woods + Dangaran creates Desert Palisades house for rocky site in Palm Springs
Patinated brass panels and extra-clear glass form the facades of a weekend dwelling designed by Woods + Dangaran for a boulder-strewn site in southern California.
The Desert Palisades home – located in a gated community of the same name in Palm Springs – serves as a family weekend retreat for designer Brett Woods, who leads Woods + Dangaran with architect Joseph Dangaran. Their studio is based in Los Angeles.
A glazed corridor links the two parts of the Desert Palisades home
The dwelling sits on a rocky hillside offering views of the mountains and the city below.
The desert context and keeping the terrain intact were key considerations for the design team. Woods also wanted a house that departed from the mid-century modern style that is so ubiquitous in Palm Springs.
Interiors were crafted from a "muted palette"
"Our vision for the home was very much antithetical to the typical tropes of mid-century modernist style that so defines the iconic Palm Spring aesthetic, and this informed the development of the palette and materiality," the studio said.
L-shaped in plan, the single-storey home consists of two volumes that total 3,800 square feet (353 square metres).
Furnishings intend to tie the home to its natural surroundings
The main volume, which looks east toward the city, is a rectangular bar that holds the public zone and primary sleeping areas. It is gently lifted above the ground to preserve a pair of arroyos that run through the property.
"As the site begins to slope away to the east, the building delicately lifts off grade and spans the natural terrain and arroyos," the team said, noting that this kept draining channels in place.
A swimming pool was built into the terrace
Behind the main bar is a "west wing" containing a garage and guest house.
A glazed corridor links the two parts of the home, and bridges the arroyos and a cacti garden. Metal trellises extend outward from the glass enclosure, offering shade and producing an interesting play of light and shadow.
A rectangular volume includes sleeping areas
The home's facades are wrapped in patinated brass panels that will continue to weather over time. Flanking the ends of the main bar are piers made of concrete masonry units (CMUs), which help anchor the home to the site.
The exterior also features generous stretches of low-iron glass, known for its high transparency.
Woods + Dangaran perched the house on a boulder-strewn site
In the rear, 12-foot-deep (3.7-metre) overhangs help protect the building and also visually unify its different components. The backyard features a swimming pool and terrace.
Within the dwelling, one finds a straightforward layout. One side of the bar holds the sleeping areas, while the other contains an open-concept space for cooking, dining and lounging.
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Similar to the exterior, the interior design takes cues from the desert landscape.
Sage green, dusty pinks and sandy browns form a "muted palette that seems to blend in with the terrain", the team said.
Mountainous surroundings are reflected in extra-clear glass windows
Finishes include travertine flooring and walls made of exposed CMU blocks. For the furnishings, the team used earthy materials such as walnut, teak, leather and stone to help tie the home to its natural setting.
Crisp views of the landscape are provided by the home's low-iron glass windows. Along the front of the house, rooms are lined with gauzy, floor-to-ceiling curtains that, in addition to offering privacy, add a soft touch to the interior.
"For the interiors, it was particularly important to cultivate a feeling of comfort and cosiness," the team said.
The home is clad in patinated brass panels that will weather over time
Other projects by Woods + Dangaran include the sensitive renovation of a mid-century residence in Los Angeles that was originally designed by Craig Ellwood.
The photography is byJoe Fletcher.
Project credits:
Architecture and interior design: Woods + Dangaran
Landscape architect: Chris Sosa
Renderings: Squared Design Lab
General contractor: HJH Construction
Lighting design: Woods + Dangaran
Soils engineer: Landmark Consultants
Structural engineer: Labib Funk + Associates
Civil engineer: Labib Funk + Associates
Fire sprinklers: AFP Systems
Plumbing engineer: California Energy Designs
Title 24: Solargy
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Six DIY Glass Houses Built from Bottles
PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN #GLASS #houses often just had a lot of #bottles around, and in a sort of DIY-Philip Johnson style, constructed a transparent, fragile fortress. From an embalming fluid #bottle #house in Canada to a beer bottle temple in Thailand, here are six of the world’s strangest bottle buildings. Just don’t maliciously throw any heavy stones while you’re around.
Måns Tham stacks shipping containers to create Swedish house
Swedish architect Måns Tham has created a house on the outskirts of Stockholm using eight standard shipping containers that are stacked and elevated on metal pillars.
The dwelling, appropriately named Container House, was designed by Tham for a couple who wanted to self-build a home from the containers that are typically used to transport goods around the world.
Måns Tham used shipping containers to create this house in Stockholm
The husband of the couple works for a demolition firm and is a keen mechanic interested in customised American cars. This informed an architectural approach focused on reuse and alteration, which enabled the project to be largely self-built.
As there was insufficient space on the steep lot to create a slab, the building is raised above the ground on steel pillars.
A total of eight containers have been used. Photo is by Thomas Jacobsson
The house comprises eight containers with a standard width of 2.4 metres. These units are stacked to create three levels of living spaces for the couple and their three children.
Walls between containers were carefully removed to maximise the living spaces while preserving the structural performance of the units.
It is elevated above ground on metal poles
"A shipping container is actually not a great starting point for a home because of its limited width," explained Tham.
"We had to put a lot of effort into deciding which walls to cut and which to save so that we could use the containers with as little additional structure as possible," the architect continued.
Large windows frame the surroundings
The containers are positioned in response to the site's topography, which enabled the upper storey to span a larger area and accommodate the main living spaces.
Rainwater pouring down the steeply sloping hillside passes underneath the building and the adjoining eight-metre steel-truss bridge to the adjacent pine forest.
A bridge connects the house to the adjacent forest
An entrance on the house's lower level leads into a space containing a den and guest bedroom. A laundry room and main bathroom at the rear of the building incorporate a large window that looks directly onto the rocky site.
Stairs ascend to the upper level that houses the main living area, alongside a terrace that is positioned to make the most of the evening sunlight. Bedrooms at the back of this floor look onto the forest.
A mezzanine lookout sits above the living space
A single container above the living space provides a mezzanine lookout where the children can find some privacy.
This container also functions as a lightwell, allowing daylight to reach the north-facing living room. A steel staircase with open treads and a balustrade made from netting help to maximise the amount of light that passes through.
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Many of the materials and fixtures used throughout the interiors were salvaged from demolition sites around Stockholm. Timber planks, metal panels, staircases and parts of discarded kitchens were incorporated after slight modifications.
Tham was required to develop inventive solutions for details such as the railings, chimneys and guttering in order to satisfy Sweden's strict building codes while retaining the house's cohesive aesthetic.
The main bathroom looks directly onto the rocky site
"There is a point where the stacked containers, with everything that is added and modified, cease to be containers and instead become an assembled building fixed in a landscape," the architect concluded.
"This point interested me and guided me through many design challenges with the house."
Repurposing shipping containers to create buildings is a popular trend in architecture. Elsewhere, Polish practice Wiercinski Studio recently converted two containers into a portable house, while Fenwick Iribarren Architects used them to create a demountable stadium in Qatar.
The photography is byStaffan Andersson unless stated.
Project credits:
Chief architect: Måns Tham
Collaborators: Julia Moore, Erik Lundquist
Structural engineer: Egil Bartos, Ramboll
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A+I and Unionworks raise Bridge House to protect sensitive Hamptons environment
New York studios A+I and Unionworks have completed a house near Long Island's Sagaponack Pond with two volumes connected by an enclosed bridge, allowing the site's native shrubbery to grow beneath.
Bridge House is the first ground-up residential project by A+I, or Architecture+Information, which typically works on office interiors.
The studio collaborated with Unionworks on the expansive private home, located near the Hamptons town of Bridgehampton and totals 12,000 square feet (111 square metres)
A+I and Unionworks designed Bridge House in Long Island
Responding to the property's fragile ecosystem, the architects decided to partially raise the house to safeguard against flooding and minimise the impact on the land.
"Because the lowest of the three volumes is elevated 12 feet (3.7 metres) above the ground plain, evoking a bridge, the home seems to float above a bio-swale with native grasses, shrubs and wildflowers created by LaGuardia Design," said the team.
The "bridge" connects two grounded volumes
"This strategic landscaping allows water during major storms and coastal flooding to pass underneath the structure without harm," they added
Each end of the "bridge" is supported by a grounded volume that contains part of the home's communal areas. The two ground structures are parallel, intersected by the bridge, bringing the total of connected volumes to three.
The volumes have plentiful terraces
These buildings were constructed with slender grey bricks and clad in vertical wooden siding, a choice that the architects describe as "a significant departure from the typical Hamptons shingle style".
"[The property] needed to be unlike any other Hamptons home," said the architects.
Exposed brick and light wood was placed throughout the interior
On the ground floor, the exterior finishes alternate between the exposed grey bricks and floor-to-ceiling windows that slide open, extending the living space into the home's multiple terraces.
"Dark-stained, quarter-sawn wood wraps the facade, lending dimension and character," said the architects.
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The bridge extends over the grounded volumes and becomes the top floor, cantilevering where it meets the grounded volume on the north side.
Stained wooden planks also clad its elevations and underside, which shelters a walkway between the two ends of the building.
The bridge contains five bedrooms
The home's interior palette includes accents like bronze kitchen cabinets, which are intended to develop a patina over time.
White oak-paneled walls offers plenty of storage space, and a dramatic, suspended staircase creates a screening effect with the spacing of its slender metal supports.
The bridge serves as the top floor
The bridge structure contains five bedrooms, including the primary suite at one end, which opens out to a rooftop terrace. Downstairs, there are four additional bedrooms in one of the wings.
The Hamptons has long served as an escape from New York City, and this stretch of Long Island's southern shore is home to many impressive properties. Others to recently complete include Worrell Yeung's renovation of a 1970s house designed by Charles Gwathmey and a stone-clad residence with a pyramidal roof by Neil Logan.
The photography is byMagda Biernat.
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Wooden terrace acts as "additional room" for Polish house by UGO
A blank exterior clad in corrugated metal conceals a large terrace at this holiday home, which architecture studio UGO has created close to a lake in Wielkopolska, Poland.
The summer residence, called Terrace With a House by the Lake, was designed by Poznań studio UGO to create the feeling of being immersed in nature while having a minimal impact on its rural site.
UGO has created a Polish holiday home with a blank exterior
With an exterior informed by nearby agricultural structures, the U-shaped building encloses a 120-metre-long wooden terrace that UGO designed as an "additional room" for the home.
"The huge terrace is a place for living, resting and eating for the inhabitants of the house," explained the studio.
Corrugated metal lines parts of the exterior
"Its slightly raised platform was intended to allow the household members to commune with nature, without interfering with it," UGO continued.
"The result was not so much a house with a terrace, but a terrace with a house."
The blank exterior conceals a large terrace
Sliding doors create a seamless connection between the terrace and a central living, dining and kitchen area, which looks out in the direction of the lake through double-height glazing.
At either side of this living space are two wings containing the bedrooms. These have their own private connections to the terrace, with seating areas sheltered from the central space by deep cut-outs.
The terrace acts as additional living space for the home
Above the bedrooms are mezzanine areas, providing further sleeping spaces that open onto a roof terrace.
"The side wings additionally protect against the wind and provide full privacy for vacationing residents," said the studio.
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The corrugated metal of the exterior is contrasted by Siberian larch panelling in areas where guests have the "most frequent contact", such as the entrance areas and around the courtyard.
Inside, the furniture and materials have been chosen to reflect the colours and textures of the landscape outside, with minimal finishes that retain focus on the home's large windows.
It is lined with Siberian larch
Oversized metal gutters line the edges of the house, with protruding brackets that direct rainwater to irrigate the surrounding plants.
Protruding from the roof is a distinctive cone-shaped chimney that provides ventilation for a fireplace in the living room, as well as ducting for a heat pump.
Large windows frame outward views
Alongside the path leading into the main home is an additional smaller building, providing storage space for two cars and a motorboat.
Other Polish houses featured on Dezeen include a lakeside cottage by HOLA Design that incorporates large windows to frame outward views and a gabled house by Kropka Studio that references local agricultural buildings.
_The photography is byAlex Shoots Buildings. _
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