“This project was a study in urban bachelor-pad living,” says architect Cass Calder Smith of a two-story San Francisco house he built for a single 30-something.
Casa Domus was just another model home in another Mexico City-area subdivision when an Italian furniture importer and her husband purchased it, and subsequently asked the developer to leave any outstanding interior work unfinished.
In renovating a historic Vancouver residence, local firm Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden achieved a deft melding of old and new that centers on an exuberantly hued, light-strewn kitchen.
Mautern, Austria Christoph Mayrhofer Architect Apparently, even in a place like Mautern, Austria, just 37 miles west of Vienna and a few hundred yards from the Danube, there are dreary, poorly constructed homes. Designing something special in a zone of such drab single-family houses and apartment complexes was the dilemma facing Austrian architect Christoph Mayrhofer. His clients, two high-school teachers, had originally been looking for what Mayrhofer calls a “catalogue” house—much like the partially prefabricated build-to-order houses offered by homebuilders in the U.S.—but couldn’t find anything that struck them. Their requirements were simple: Enough room for the husband’s 4,000 books
Apparently, even in a place like Mautern, Austria, just 37 miles west of Vienna and a few hundred yards from the Danube, there are dreary, poorly constructed homes.
Project Specs Box House Boulder, Colorado PyattStudio LLC << Return to article the People Architectural Designer PyattStudio LLC 2834 11th Street Boulder CO 80304 (303) 803-6810 (303) 442-3722 www.pyattstudio.com Rob Pyatt Assoc. AIA Engineer(s): Nicol & Assoc www.nicolstruct.com Consultant(s) Lighting: Splashlight Studio info@splashlightonline.com Other: University Of Colorado Faculty Advisor: Rick Sommerfeld Associate Chair and Senior Instructor Architecture Department|CAP| University of Colorado, Denver 303.556.6160 Sommere@colorado.edu Thermal/Daylighting/Energy Consultant Timothy Moore Whole Systems Design www.whole-systems-design.com General contractor: Rob Pyatt Photographer Michael DeLeon www.michaeldeleonphoto.com CAD system, project management, or other software used: ArchiCad the Products Structural system: Structural Insulated Panels (SIP) Exterior cladding