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Modernism reinvented // Villa ‘N’ by Architettura Matassoni

November 16, 2015 by bg-martin

” The unit is organized around a patio with the function of central court, that defines the home’s life; this compositional logic allows a visual reciprocity between the different environments with many possible views. The living area and the kitchen-dining area are in direct contact each other and with the outside by means of a remarkable visual permeability, partially filtered, from the leafs of the bamboo plants in the centre of the patio. . .

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Coupled House | Naoi Architecture & Design Office

October 4, 2015 by bg-martin

Coupled House by Naoi Architecture & Design Office | Tokyo, Japan, 2011 This project involved rebuilding a single plot with an existing wooden, one-storey detached house located in a quiet residential neighbourhood. As many of the other buildings in the area had also been recently refurbished, we wanted to preserve the scale of the house and the mid-century vintage and slightly anachronistic character of the neighbourhood in a new, updated form. Gardens and courtyards in traditional Japanese houses used to […]

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The Scale of Small // Reviving the Shotgun House

April 23, 2015 by bg-martin

The Scale of Small Reviving the Shotgun House — an outline by BG-Martin The shotgun house is a narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than 12 feet wide (about 3.6 meters), characteristically with doors at each end. It was the most popular style of house in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War, through to the 1920s. The style is often associated to New Orleans; however, such typology has spread as far away as Chicago, Illinois; […]

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