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- Simplicity Reigns in 100% Renewable Energy Home: Great Gulf Active House
- Inspiring Private Residence Offering Shade Under the Israeli Sun
- Cozy Australian Dream Home With a Strong Modern Appeal
- Creative Light Installation: Glacier Ribbon Ceiling Feature by Lumicor
| Simplicity Reigns in 100% Renewable Energy Home: Great Gulf Active House Posted: 27 May 2014 08:40 AM PDT A new home is often mistaken for a place to eat, sleep and relax. But it’s more than that, ever since we started understanding sustainability. Take the Great Gulf Active House by Superkül inc as example: a home that “sets a new precedent in Canadian residential development”. Designed for one of Canada's largest home builders - Great Gulf – the sleek architectural style was backed up by environmental responsibility and energy efficiency. Occupying a lot in a new suburb outside of St. Catharines, Thorold, ON, Canada, the 3,290 square feet residence photographed by Torben Eskerod showcases its highly contemporary silhouette with great pride. According to the architects, this innovative home was cleverly designed to fit in its environment: “The design strategy considered the environmental impact of the entire lifecycle of the home from concept to performance. The house is oriented with the long roof slope and major glazing facing south, maximizing the efficiency of the solar hot-water system and passive solar gain. Two intersecting axes guide the open plan of the interior to promote cross breezes and the multitude of skylights and windows create naturally light-filled spaces and minimize the need for artificial light. An exterior deck that aligns with the width of the living room reinforces the visually seamless extension of the interior spaces.” Run on 100% renewable source energy, the home is ready to take on the future.
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| Inspiring Private Residence Offering Shade Under the Israeli Sun Posted: 27 May 2014 04:22 AM PDT This inspiring private residence located in Ramat HaSharon, Israel, creates the perfect background for a life filled with happiness and relaxation. Under the harsh Israeli sun, creative minds of Tel Aviv-based studio Pitsou Kedem Architects imagined a contemporary oasis. Collaborating with architect Jonathan Munjak, the architecture studio infused this previously vacant lot with life. Photographed by Elad Sarig, the home presents itself as a highly modern residence open to the outdoors via large windows, glass doors and glass partitions. A spacious deck provides an invitation to relax outdoors either lounging by the pool, taking a swim or just blissfully thinking about how much this back yard looks like one you would find in a luxury resort. The inspiring private residence evokes thoughts of freedom and relaxation. An open living space includes formal and informal dining and living spaces gathered in between large windows. Flooded with natural light, the light social spaces were dotted with color just enough to create an elegant overall look. Dark columns punctuate the space, while a pure white shelving system defines the living area. This play of color and non-color provides the interiors with a fascinating design, simple yet extremely sophisticated.
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| Cozy Australian Dream Home With a Strong Modern Appeal Posted: 27 May 2014 12:57 AM PDT Dreaming of your own Australian dream home? Then you’re in luck, because this modern suburban home has plenty of inspiration to offer. Designed by Craig Sheiles Homes in collaboration with Mick Rule, this spectacular home plainly known as Floreat 2 displays a compact contemporary architecture under the Western Australian sun. A modern architecture that uplifts the wishes of neighbors also plays with the owners’ mood when they get home: “The façade consists of bold solids and filigreed detailing which are juxtaposed to provide simple forms and proportioned amounts of scale. ” The black and white living room of this cozy Australian dream home sets the color palette for the rest of the spaces. Through these photos by Silvertone Photography, we see details that surprise the eye: a textured and patterned choice of furniture and furnishings, a light-flooded staircase or a landscaped garden where privacy reigns. There’s an intentionally seamless connection between interior and exterior spaces, one that extends the home outdoors: “Outdoor living areas are blended into the interior via frameless folding glass doors and an assimilation of flooring.” All living areas are designed to utilize passive solar principles and the mass wall of the staircase void operates as a heat sink to radiate heat back into the house. A simple palette of colors and materials provides a luxuriously relaxing interior which is finished in limestone floor tiles." Elegant and welcoming, the home easily differentiates itself from neighboring residences.
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| Creative Light Installation: Glacier Ribbon Ceiling Feature by Lumicor Posted: 26 May 2014 12:21 PM PDT
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