Best MoCo Architecture This Week
by Harry / January 24, 2009


Eric Degenhardt & Richard Lampert's Landed at Spaceinvading, "a mobile free-standing architectural unit, a micro architecture between house and object". Also at Stylepark.



This week's picks:

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+ dRMM's Sliding House, "a house with mobile walls and roof that can be moved to cover and uncover parts of the dwelling."

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+ Nicos Kalogirou's Split & Rotate holiday house at Architizer, a "single-family house [that] consists of two volumes linked by a glass passageway."

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+ at103's Romero house at Arch Daily, "The stone box is the hermetic one; it contains the principal bathroom and services areas such as: storage, maid's room and garage. The wooden box contains all public areas living room, dining room, studio, bar, kitchen, tv room, visits and kids rooms."

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+ Case Architects' eco-friendly homes at Contemporist, featuring "green roofs, rainwater harvesting, radiant floor heat, insulated concrete foundations, and non-toxic finishes."

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+ Kenji Tagashira's House in Tokiwa at rolu | dsgn, "Tagashira designed this home for a family that prefers going 'somewhere to enjoy nature' rather than suffocating in the din, dust and dirt of the city."

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+ Rural Studio's $20K, 296 sq. ft. Pattern Book House at Materialicious.

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+ Hidden Creek Eco-Village at Jetson Green, a "suburban development that attempts to reconcile the demands of single-family home buyers with the problems of sprawling housing developments."

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+ Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architecture Office's small Paco house at architecturephoto.net.

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+ Koichi Kimura Architects' Small House at What We Do Is Secret.

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+ Buscando la Aurora's Malinalco House at Arch Daily.


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These samples of modern architecture are awesome! I especially like the sliding doors/roof structure; it's so inventive. In general, the box like design of these modern homes is perfectly simplistic but each is unique in its own way! Thanks for sharing!

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