April 2015 ~ Modern Jogja Design

Unique Mountain Eco Resort in Switzerland

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Unique Mountain Eco Resort in Switzerland

Located at an elevation of 5,500 feet, The WhitePod Alpine eco resort in the Swiss Alps is a unique concept designed to be in harmony with the surrounding environment whilst still benefiting from a comfortable habitat.

The WhitePod Camp features 15 unique geodesic-dome pods surrounding a central traditional wooden chalet.

Each pod is anchored on a solid wooden platform, and naturally isolated from the cold and the snow.

Equipped with wood-burning stoves, organic luxury bedding and full services bathrooms, a pod will cost you between $400 and $550 per night: that’s the price to pay for the ultimate mountain escape!

Photos courtey of WhitePod
Source: TheDesignePad

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Unique House in Venice by Coscia Day Architecture and Design

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Unique House in Venice by Coscia Day Architecture and Design

Anthony Coscia, principal in Coscia Day Architecture and Design, created for himself and his wife a 2,250 square foot home on a 40 ft wide suburban lot in the artistic neighbourhood of Venice, Los Angeles, in California.

The Skywave house is a hovering sculptural form emerging from a single articulated plane that contorts to produce unique interior spaces over a tall-glassed in first level.

A curved sheet of steel provides shade and protection, while the increased sense of space is accomplished with large glass walls, an enclosed outdoor living room and the multi level open plan.

The Skywave Residence by Coscia Day Architecture and Design:

“The design was a prize winner at the Miami Biennale, exhibited in the A+D Architecture and Design Museum’s New Blood: next generation LA show in 2007 and presented in an exhibition in Japan sponsored by GA. The house has been featured in GA [Global Architecture] House Projects, the AIA Magazine and Form. This is the architect’s own home set on a typical 40 foot wide suburban slot lot in the artistic and eco-friendly community of Venice, CA.

The floating living room and bedroom suite hover over transparent 12 foot high glass walls with full height sliding doors. A 29 foot tall skylit entry offers short and long views of nature and sky. The interior is a continuous open space, which provides uninterrupted views through the house to the landscape. Interior walls are either glass or solid to 7 feet with glass upper portions to allow the ceiling to flow from room to room. Sliding doors and moveable interior partitions can open to reveal even private areas to the rest of the house and nature beyond.

A reverse-greenhouse for the mild climate of southern California, it is a sun-drenched airy space for people to enjoy, while viewing to the exterior foliage. A glass room filled with organically shaped architectural elements. The interior space expands to the side property lines with the true walls of the split first level being the Cyprus trees to the west, bamboo to the south and tall green tree hedges along with the Japanese plums to the east.”

Photos by: Erhard Pfeiffer

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Ultra Modern Residence For Two in New Zealand

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Ultra Modern Residence For Two in New Zealand

Patterson Associates sent us photos of the amazing Mai Mai House project.

Located in Auckland, New Zealand, and completed in 2008, this lovely two bedroom two bathroom residence was designed for a couple.

The white street facade is particularly impressive, with no windows and no discernible doors.

This property was nominated as one of the 16 best private homes built between 2007-2008.

The Mai Mai House by Pattersons Architects:

“Mai Mai is a story of love. This is a private house. It seeks to create a union which reconciles seemingly contrary identities, personalities and problems. In this house these two lovers – the hunter and the bird, as we have grown to call them – make sense of the elements that define them as individuals, and the chemistry that draws them together as a couple.

A key to unlocking the Mai Mai is in the word ‘duality’. The house uses a duality of function and a duality of meaning to reconcile paradoxical ideas of concealment and display, ambush and retreat, challenge and reconciliation.

The name of the house has more than one interpretation. For New Zealand Maori, ‘Mai’ can mean clothing, but it can also signify the verb ‘to bring towards me’. ‘Mai Mai’ is the New Zealand name for the makeshift blinds in which duck hunters ambush their prey.

Mai Mai the house offers a hide too. The building’s façade is a camouflage, a cipher which tells the story of its occupants. A Kahu Huruhuru – the Maori name for a traditional and highly-prized feathered cloak which was a signature of beauty and rank(1) – creates by day a ‘screen’ of privacy from the world outside and by night a ‘screen’ on which images are projected publicly.

The facade offers yet more secrets – it opens unexpectedly as entry to the living environment and to reveal a two-level vertical car stacker. Behind the facade a concealed western courtyard attracts the warmth of late afternoon sun.

Inside, the Mai Mai is both nest and hide. The living area forms a snug raised above the main floor level – she calls this her ‘perch’, while he calls it his ‘vantage’. This lanai floats between the city and a gallery: the hunter and the bird are united in their love of art.

From the gallery, a crafted stair descends into a cinema, which offers retreat and concealment from the open spaces above and around. Here, blind doors open to bedrooms, bathrooms and storage. Concealed behind its invisible door the owners suite lies in the centre of a private hedged garden.

Privacy and engagement, concealment and display, identity and belonging. From these tensions, the Mai Mai creates harmony, in a shared sense of place. From paradox, emerges meaning. A true love story.
(1) Brian Brake – (Reed 1994). Te Aho Tapu”