#topography tag

2 weeks ago

Chongqing Luxerivers Cafe / Wide Horizon + Epiphany Architects

Luxi Lake Cafe is a lightweight architectural insertion in Chongqing responding to mountainous waterfront topography, dense infrastructure, and public life through a restrained spatial intervention.

Renovation

3 weeks ago

Engawa in Ninotaira / HAMS and, Studio

A renovation transforms a 60-year-old Hakone house by integrating valley-scale topography through layers of enclosure into a continuous interior spatial experience.

Design

2 months ago

Nyrenstone Estate / Alexis Dornier

Villa NN follows Tampah Hills' steep slope, stepping down the hillside and using circles and tangents to shape spatial arrangement and architectural character.

Miscellaneous

2 months ago

Ubani Publishes First Volume of the Guide to Tbilisi Districts, Focusing on Kala

Kala documents Tbilisi's oldest district using spatial analysis, maps, illustrations, and historical excerpts to reveal its urban morphology.

#residential-architecture

SAP House / Estudio Brasileiro de Arquitetura + Atelie AU

The SAP House is located in the Serra da Mantiqueira, on a generous plot of land with a steep slope. The project does not aim to dominate the topography, but rather to accept it as a natural given. It touches the ground only where necessary, allowing the mountain to follow its course. Geography becomes the premise of the design a house suspended over the mountainside.

Design

Design

Concreto House / Dayala e Rafael arquitetos associados

Design

Balance House / Alexandre Chaguri Arquitetura

Design

Birdwood House / Peter Besley

Design

Concreto House / Dayala e Rafael arquitetos associados

Design

Balance House / Alexandre Chaguri Arquitetura

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Design

Birdwood House / Peter Besley

Remodel

Cedar House / Fernanda Padula Arquitetura + Juliana Risso Arquitetura

Cedar House nestles into steep lakeside terrain, using topography to shape a light, layered architecture with an upper-level entrance housing bedrooms and an office.

Design

Valley House / SOHO Architects

A hillside home in Sulthan Bathery uses strategic grading and two building blocks to nestle into sloping terrain while minimizing disturbance and retaining structures.

Agriculture

Beyond the Metropolis: Strategies for Residential Projects in the Taiwanese Countryside

Taiwan's 36,197 km² area has high population density concentrated on western plains due to mountainous terrain; about 22% of land remains agricultural.

Remodel

5 months ago

The House Apart / IGArchitects

Build a new family home on a 4×35m former private road corner, adjacent to parents' house, a government-owned vacant lot, and a 4m cliff.

5 months ago

UH Infonavit Santa Fe Community Park / AMASA Estudio

Located at the western edge of Mexico City, the project developed by AMASA Estudio in the INFONAVIT Santa Fe Housing Unit faced one of the most complex contexts within the set of interventions carried out in 2024. This unit presents a particular condition: having been built on a ravine area, the buildings are situated on uneven terrain, with considerable slopes that hinder both connectivity and accessibility among them.

Design

#architecture