Novron Ardesco Houses in Turkey by Teget Architectural Office

Today, modern homes design trends is created in simple and minimalist way. Some architects use concrete materials as its main structure while it can be combined with floor to ceiling glass windows to create a transparent looks in its main concrete structure which resulting a great modern concrete house design with light facade such as this Novron Ardesco Houses nestled in in Yalikavak, Mugla, Turkey.

This modern box-shaped house is designed by Teget Architectural Office in 3800 m² building areas and was completed in 2007-2008. This Architectural Photography Design was taken by Hande Köksal. For further information, Visit the Architects website here.

Wilson House Architecture in Yarra Valley Victoria

Designed by Denton Corker Marshall, this modern concrete wilson house design is located in Yarra Valley, Victoria. Two thin rectangular plates – roof and floor – lay into a gentle rise above the vineyard stretching down to the main road. The black metal floor plate is supported by a series of parallel black pigmented concrete walls set at right angles to it. One end rests on the hillside; the other cantilevers 11 metres beyond the supporting wall. The identical roof plate floats above, separated by full-height glazing on the front and ends, and on the back by two vine green sticks laid longitudinally between the plates.

Each plate is 50 metres long and 11 metres wide. Their singularity and clarity is reinforced by deep setbacks – two metres on the front and rear, and five metres on the cantilevered projection – to the external wall. The roof plate is supported by internal steel columns.

The lower lever, defined by the black concrete walls, contains entry, car parking, wine cellar, study and guest bedrooms. The upper level – conceptually a single space – contains the master bedroom, second bedroom, living, dining and kitchen.

A floor-to-ceiling glass wall with sliding external doors extends the full length of the house, and opens onto an upper level terrace stepping down to an outdoor swimming pool.

Floors are honed mid-grey pigmented concrete, and ceilings white plasterboard. Internal spaces are defined by sycamore panelled volumes inserted into the space, and held free of the ceiling and the long glazed wall.

The Leonard Residence by Ehrlich Architects

Ehrlich Architects has designed modern concrete house design combined with glass material creating beautiful 4000 sqf modern residence located on a 45-degree-angle downward sloping canyon site in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. Embracing an entry courtyard, the structure is a composition of vast areas in glass supported by steel and concrete, tracing its lineage to the case study houses of LA.

The hillside-bound site presented the most obvious challenge as well as opportunity for design. To achieve the vision objectives, the house is spliced into multiple levels to accommodate and embrace the steep slope yet make the most of all useable space, nearly panoramic views and augment privacy from the closely adjacent homes. Each level fluidly caters to specific living, working and relaxation needs of the residents, allowing for utmost efficiency and comfort.

The entrance level is greeted by a permanently-installed corten steel and glass dining table designed by the Architect. A two-story living room is suspended over the canyon on a structured concrete slab that also serves as the finished floor. From this level, a floating tread stair ascends to the master bedroom/bath suite and a floating reading loft affords classic LA views through the 20-foot high glass walls. Access to a roof terrace above the garage fosters sunbathing and relaxation.

Minimalist Dream House Design Ideas

Some people may have a limited land and space available to build their dream house. but living in a small limited space available could be very tricky if we know how to design it, arrange it and make it as comfortable as we can such as this beautiful minimalist dream house design ideas designed by Marklee Johnston & Associates.

Located in a hill side, this white modern concrete dream home design catch a beautiful panoramic views of Santa Monica Canyon, Spain. This contemporary spanish house cleverly utilizes the restriction of hillside and zoning ordinance to create a spatial and structural opportunity – adopting the zoning envelope as a building form. The dynamic form minimizes distinction between roof and wall planes while maximizing interior and exterior.

Vardas Residence in Paphos | Cyprus by Vardastudi

Vardastudio have designed this modern concrete residential home design of Vardas Residence located in Paphos, Cyrus. Its the architect’s own house which characterized by the purity in materials and forms. The vardas residence was very much influenced by Le Corbusier’s great projects in India. This is a primary use of concrete in it’s purest form. Especially today where everybody tries so hard to achieve a ‘perfect’ concrete, for the architect this stands as a statement to what concrete is all about – real and bold.

The building can be analysed in two volumes on top of each other. The top volume was designed in such a way as to ‘feel’ that is suspended over the other. The movement is straight and clear. The ground floor is occupied by the living, dining and kitchen in an open plan. A light staircase dominates the space. The bedrooms and the more private spaces are placed on the top floor, giving more privacy.

Carysfort Road House by ODOS Architects

ODOS Architects have designed this contemporay live and work space of Carysfort Road House located in Ireland. Previously this house is a mid-terrace house in Ireland that has been extensively refurbished into a contemporary live/work space.

The new structure was conceived as a simple form which connects at ground level with the existing house. The tight site and strict planning constraints defined the form of the new extension from an early stage. In order to stop the new addition being visible above the roof line of the house, the new extension is partially sunken.

The ground floor rear elevation is completely open to provide a full height glazed connection to the courtyard. This new living space is an office mezzanine with a glazed south-facing wall, providing clerestory lighting to the ground floor. Black terrazzo flooring has been used throughout, which contrasts with the white walls and ceilings.

Residential Architecture Design 776 Malvern Road Residence

Gray Puksand have designed residential architecture design of this 776 Malvern Road armadale residence. The projects is situation within complex planning overlays created challenges with this 3 unit development.

Quality was also paramount as the developer was to establish their residence in one of the units. By adopting some of the local venacular and integrating with quasi-industrial references, the development has succeeded in setting a new benchmark for value in its area.

776 Malvern Road, Armadale
Circa. 2007
Area: 1,000sqm
Project Cost: $2.8m

Lim Geo Dang House by IROJE KHM Architects

This 231.6 square metres Lim Geo Dang Korean House Design is designed by IROJE KHM Architects. Using exposed concrete and wood panel as its main building materials, this residential complex in Ilsan new town contains the context of urban design that wishes to be my house/neighborhood and be our village as a concept of village where live together. A house becoming to the city, so it gain a life by taking root the architecture in the city.

By opening the architecture towards the city, it forms a village that owned in common each other, but on the contrary, it should satisfy the function as a private space of oneself. It is hard to secure enough outside space in the site area of 70pyeong with the general program of house. In this case, the outer wall of first floor and the road come into close contact. That is, the house becomes like closed and introvert character, so the city and the house exist separately.

In addition, spare outside space is incorporated into the road space at that. With this, a garden as a buffer for the connection of city and city, a garden as a vertical connection for the friendship with the neighborhood, a garden as a nature to make the life plentiful are required.

The garden area is maximized by apply garret program which was seen in the ‘Hak Ik Jae’ that arrange minimum rooms on the ground floor and other rooms arrange on the upper part or under the ground to form a horizontal system. Moreover, overlapping of up and lower side for area is intended by setting vertical displacement with different level mutually. This vertical system obtains maximum area and shows the variety and continuity of the space.

The piloti on the first floor opens the site to the road and connects the city and the architecture. It also divides the road and site with spatial boundary and surrounds the courtyard at the same time. The courtyard becomes a public outside space where held in common visually with the roadside and is penetrated with inside of the house through the transparent glass. By varying the direction facing the road, it functions as a private space of resident at the same time.

Eight gardens & Spatial Korean Traits

Unintended traditional drama of the artless space, where weaves unsymmetrically by repeating and becoming a frame pictorially with the continuity that seems unlimitedly, becomes a root of Lim Geo Dang’s spatial story. I introduced a garden as a nature, because I thought the modern house is a refuge and a resting place for us who are worn out by the dehumanized daily life. And I thought it should be architecture as a ‘nature’ moreover an environment which contains various living offers vitality to the life. Every garden is connected with the ‘passage’. They interchange each other through this ‘passage’ and the inside/outside integrated each other.

An abundant and artless spatial affair, provided by making inside space into outside space, outside space into inside space, also intermediate space where belongs to the middle sphere, is expected.

The eight gardens, including the entrance garden that has various passage, courtyard, pavilion garden, underground garden? in front of the library, underground garden? in front of the dining room, roof-hall garden?, roof-hall garden ?, service garden, connected and arranged having horizontal/vertical system by moving and changing in different level. They are tensed and interact with the natural connection.

Visual Korean Traits

The long mass of piloti exists on the front of the road heavily. It is intensified to feel the ’soaring’ image of traditional architecture as a sensibility. This floating request to separate the mass of first floor and second floor and the outer wall divided into timber and concrete.

The wooden board, that could express the property of matter itself, is selected for the main material of outer wall. Because it is expected to keep a naturalness and a slowness with deep flavor as a life that is changeably correspondently lives according to the flow of time that has historical character. Moreover, it is a kind of repulsion against western wooden house. To bring the wooden board into modern woody, the exposed concrete, which is an artificial stone either an expression of time, is used as a basic material and intended the mutual harmony.

To reinforce the connection part of wood, ‘T’-shape steel panel is used with exposing and the well-floor-pattern is selected for the outer wall’s connection. The Korean-style folding up door is inherited the show which is hung on the latch of rafter as a tool that integrates inside and outside space. The latch is applied as a fixing method of the blind for sunlight control on the roof hall garden and pavilion of Lim Geo Dang.

Tradition is a root of present age. What flower of tradition we should bloom in this age?
I think a house as architecture in modern society could maintain the life with the spatial diversity and change that contains periodical color which could plentiful human life. ‘The yearning for the flavor of our traditional culture’, which could grow the value when the western culture soak into our environment more and more, is regarded as an intentional motive of the house. It was a small approach to the unsolved question that what is the constitutional flavor of our life that the Korean traits, which could comprehend the modern Korean who live in Korea today, are soaked.