Innovation and Affordability in Smart Security System: Korner

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Innovation and Affordability in Smart Security System: Korner
Golden Accents Supplying Creativity: Panamby Apartment in Brazil
Angular Roof Design Shaping a Stylish Family Home
Fascinating Origami House with Architectural Comfort Pockets
Asymmetric Modern House in Norway for a Family of Four

Posted: 22 May 2014 06:19 AM PDT

Do you use an affordable home security system? A secure home is not only comfortable when you are there, but it also gives you a sense of comfort when you’re away. As creative minds come up with ideas and refine them until they fit our fast-paced world, we get to chip in their work if we consider it worthy. Korner – the first 1-piece door/window sensor that sets up in under 2 minutes is not only responding to security needs in any type of homes, but also simplifies the installing process and hands you the control. This is how it works: the two elements – the router Fob provides an easy connection (just plug it in the router) and contoured door/window Tags (patent-pending innovation system) that you stick on corners. Looking to crowdfund this affordable home security system, Korner also promises their technology “discerns actual entry from heavy vibrations, thus reducing false alarms”. So when someone tries to break in, you hear a piercing screech in you’re say, sleeping in your bed and immediately receive an alert on your smartphone app (iOS and Android App.), allowing you to either call the police or forward the alert to your “circle” of friends, family and neighbors. Check out other cool features on their crowdfunding page. Even more, the creators of this affordable home security system partnered with Domestic Abuse Women’s Network to provide survivors of domestic violence with a free home security system donated by you, if you so choose. Wouldn’t it be nice to leave your rented apartment and know you will find it just the way it is? Then how about knowing you offered the same feeling of security to someone who was most likely terrified in their own home?

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Golden Accents Supplying Creativity: Panamby Apartment in Brazil

Posted: 22 May 2014 02:41 AM PDT

What we appreciate most about the Panamby Apartment is the harmonious and seemingly natural fusion between its visual warmth and modern comfort displayed. Studio Diego Revollo managed to convert a 170 square meter (1830 square feet) flat- located in a premium neighborhood in São Paulo, Brazil- into a vivid home spiced up with creative, inspiring details.

Accommodating a young couple with two children, the crib was well adapted to the living needs of a growing family. By enlarging the existing living space and brightening it with a soothing color palette, the designers achieved an airy and welcoming look. Some of the highlights of the social zone include a neutral travertine floor, impactful furnishings, a large pendant lamp and minimalist artwork. Oak finishes and gold accents give this place energy and a boost in personality. The kitchen features a well individualized color palette, particularly reflected in the green tiles and white furniture. Enjoy the virtual tour!

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Angular Roof Design Shaping a Stylish Family Home

Posted: 22 May 2014 12:08 AM PDT

A beautiful family home with angular roof design rises in Australia’s Canberra hills. With “different activities within the house uniquely expressed on the exterior“, the angular roof home known as the Narrabundah House conveys the feeling of a good life. By designing angular roof canopies adorning the front and back terraces, the architect managed to showcase an invitation through architecture. The facade angular room seems to funnel in the views, while the backgarden angular design lines funnel out to the garden. It seems to me like this house takes in urban stress only to exude peace and tranquility the way a tree breathes in carbon dioxide and breathes out life-maintaining oxygen. A 100-year-old eucalyptus tree on the property anchors this idea.

A central hallways separates the living area from the resting spaces: “The living areas open to the north at the rear, harnessing the winter sun and addressing an elegant eucalypt. At the front they twist dramatically to the south east, catching beautiful views over Scott St and across rolling country towards the distant Cuumbuen Nature Reserve.” Thanks to photos by Michael Downes of UA Creative, we can enjoy Australian architect’s Adam Dettrick work of modern art with fantastic living functions. Built by Innovative Building Projects, this immaculately designed modern home is also friendly with nature. “Sustainability principles and simple passive design techniques underpin the environmental performance of this home, with good orientation, sun shading, double glazing, heavy insulation and non-toxic materials combining to provide year round comfort and liveability. Exterior materials are utilitarian – chosen for their robustness, character and economy.”

Some are adventurous with their home design. Are you one for geometric playfulness in architecture?

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Fascinating Origami House with Architectural Comfort Pockets

Posted: 21 May 2014 01:32 PM PDT

Architect Yoshiaki Tanaka of TSC Architects used 146 square meters of indoor space to create a home that responds to its owner's needs. At the same time, the Origami House in Japan's Mie prefecture is also imagined to withstand wind pressure and earthquakes. Built for a young married couple, the inviting home in an old village surrounded by mountains incorporates the landscape in its architecture. Also, the Japanese culture comes into play when creating the structure. On a compact lot of only 251 square meters, architects imagined this highly modern shape inspired by origami – the art of paper folding. There already was a round stone wall built there by one of the couple's grandfather, so the new Origami House and all its elements was introduced into this inherited site.

The architect explains how the project came to life: "Therefore I decided to leave the stone wall of the site and, on the foundation stone, hung the roof which I folded like origami and thought about the earth and the form of the house where I could live all in one body." The origami roof rises like a tent, creating protective spaces that translate into culture-specific mental comfort for the family. Varied functions make this origami-inspired design a valuable concept: "It controls sunlight and takes in wind and, besides, makes half outdoors space. This house creates new scenery while inheriting the memory of the village ."

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Asymmetric Modern House in Norway for a Family of Four

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:07 AM PDT

Spreading over a compact but lively enlarged 48 square meters, the Arne Garborgsvei 18 House in Trondheim, Norway, sparks up anyone’s dreams about upgrading a traditional design. Standing out with its modern extension imagined by TYIN Tegnestue, this modern house in Norway proudly wears its natural pine wood skin. Now a playground for a family of four, this provocatively-designed home in the city’s historic district showcases its asymmetric geometry both outside and inside, where Norwegian birch plywood lines the walls.

A thoroughly extension was applied in order to provide the family with more space, as they dreamed of: “It is the first time of working with detail in accordance to building code and regulations on Norwegian soil. This resulted in 30 cm thick walls and roofs half a meter in thickness.” Captured in photos by Pasi Aalto, the architectural structure was completely left up to the architects and they did a wonderful, provocative job: “On the ground floor the project created a spacious entry area with a combined bath- and laundry-room. The second floor of the addition adds a new multi-purpose room with a high ceiling. This constitutes a break with the monotonous section common to this type of house from the 1950s. The distribution of functions, answering to different needs, contributes to the particular shape of this addition. “

Would you enlarge your existing home or just buy a larger house?

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