This 850 square feet unique architectural residential project "Compact House Design" was designed by New York architect Andrew Berman Architect. This small compact homes designed with a writing studio and private library located among the tree in Long Island, New York.
The architect saw the door as a threshold, while the window in the study signified one’s arrival. “As you go from the vertical entry to a horizontal aperture,” Berman says, “the building becomes a volume describing the transition.”
This Compact Homes design is actually more like a tree house than a cottage: Entering the small, high vestibule, one immediately confronts a narrow wood stair leading up to the second-level work space. At the rear of this loftlike expanse, the historian’s desk looks out through a 16-by-7-foot window directly onto a grove of trees with a stream in the near distance.
The home’s unusual copper-clad facade reflects the ever-changing colors of nature. A simple, wood-framed glass door opens to the V-shaped house plan. Angled out are the north and south facades of an ever-expanding interior that’s flooded with natural light through the large windows throughout. The double-height entrance leads to the kitchen and bathroom, and the working and entertainment areas at the read of the home.
Related Books:
Compact Houses: Architecture for the Environment
The houses profiled are designed to make maximum use of the smallest possible footprint in order to protect the environment. The houses profiled here prove that efficiency as well as beautiful, thoughtful design can be had in a tiny setting. Each project includes a case history describing its design challenges and how the architect overcame them, a detailed blueprint for each house, full-color photos of the interior and the exterior, and plans of the layout.
Compact Houses
This exhaustively documented sourcebook will be invaluable to professionals and students of architecture, interior design, interior de-corating, and furniture design. Information is provided on every aspect of the design process from the ground up—floor plans, materials, and specifications—on furniture and fixtures.
Compact House Design by Andrew Berman Architect
Compact House Design by Andrew Berman Architect
This 850 square feet unique architectural residential project "Compact House Design" was designed by New York architect Andrew Berman Architect. This small compact homes designed with a writing studio and private library located among the tree in Long Island, New York.
The architect saw the door as a threshold, while the window in the study signified one’s arrival. “As you go from the vertical entry to a horizontal aperture,” Berman says, “the building becomes a volume describing the transition.”
This Compact Homes design is actually more like a tree house than a cottage: Entering the small, high vestibule, one immediately confronts a narrow wood stair leading up to the second-level work space. At the rear of this loftlike expanse, the historian’s desk looks out through a 16-by-7-foot window directly onto a grove of trees with a stream in the near distance.
The home’s unusual copper-clad facade reflects the ever-changing colors of nature. A simple, wood-framed glass door opens to the V-shaped house plan. Angled out are the north and south facades of an ever-expanding interior that’s flooded with natural light through the large windows throughout. The double-height entrance leads to the kitchen and bathroom, and the working and entertainment areas at the read of the home.
Related Books:
Compact Houses: Architecture for the Environment
The houses profiled are designed to make maximum use of the smallest possible footprint in order to protect the environment. The houses profiled here prove that efficiency as well as beautiful, thoughtful design can be had in a tiny setting. Each project includes a case history describing its design challenges and how the architect overcame them, a detailed blueprint for each house, full-color photos of the interior and the exterior, and plans of the layout.
Compact Houses
This exhaustively documented sourcebook will be invaluable to professionals and students of architecture, interior design, interior de-corating, and furniture design. Information is provided on every aspect of the design process from the ground up—floor plans, materials, and specifications—on furniture and fixtures.
Box House by Alan Chu & Cristiano Kato
Alan Chu & Cristiano Kato designed this small construction with a simple program sited on an island of the North coast of Ilhabela at 100 meters above sea level, next to two enormous rocks, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The wood used on some doors, windows, staircase, shelves and furniture are leftovers used to mold the white box made of reinforced concrete.
The old existing one-story house with stone walls and clay roof tiles becomes a new building with 2 floors. The 3×5 meters white box is supported on one side by an existing retaining wall and on the other by a wall built with stones, a characteristic of local constructions.
Box House by Alan Chu & Cristiano Kato
Alan Chu & Cristiano Kato designed this small construction with a simple program sited on an island of the North coast of Ilhabela at 100 meters above sea level, next to two enormous rocks, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The wood used on some doors, windows, staircase, shelves and furniture are leftovers used to mold the white box made of reinforced concrete.
The old existing one-story house with stone walls and clay roof tiles becomes a new building with 2 floors. The 3×5 meters white box is supported on one side by an existing retaining wall and on the other by a wall built with stones, a characteristic of local constructions.
Rustic Canyon Residence by Griffin Enright Architects
Designed by the firm that was founded on the belief that collaboration yields the most innovative, creative, forward-thinking design, Griffin Enright Architects. This Rustic Canyon Residence set out to invert the conventional means of organizing a single family home, taking an existing, highly compartmentalized ranch dwelling and converting it in to a contemporary space for living that allows for expansive open spaces and a welcoming, informal atmosphere. Above these spaces, an existing pitched roof is cut laterally and folded back up in order to blend the interior with the landscape.
This blurring internalizes a hillside garden where an existing, 300 year old Sycamore tree becomes the new centerpiece of the expanded house. While the public areas are open and blend seamlessly with one another, the Library trades openness and informality for introspection and tranquility, anchored by a fireplace that floats in glass with the hillside and ancient tree just beyond.
Rustic Canyon Residence by Griffin Enright Architects
Designed by the firm that was founded on the belief that collaboration yields the most innovative, creative, forward-thinking design, Griffin Enright Architects. This Rustic Canyon Residence set out to invert the conventional means of organizing a single family home, taking an existing, highly compartmentalized ranch dwelling and converting it in to a contemporary space for living that allows for expansive open spaces and a welcoming, informal atmosphere. Above these spaces, an existing pitched roof is cut laterally and folded back up in order to blend the interior with the landscape.
This blurring internalizes a hillside garden where an existing, 300 year old Sycamore tree becomes the new centerpiece of the expanded house. While the public areas are open and blend seamlessly with one another, the Library trades openness and informality for introspection and tranquility, anchored by a fireplace that floats in glass with the hillside and ancient tree just beyond.
Moosmann House by Hermann Kaufmann
This gorgeous small Moosmann House designed by Hermann Kaufmann. In the extremely cramped Situation between two existing single-family homes into a new building for a young family to conceive. In the eastern house to live the parents of building the plant, which together with the positioning of the new building and the two families concerned, entrance was prepared.
The topographical situation of the street allows direct access to the residential level, in the garden to get here on a short outdoor staircase. In the lower floor, about one meter below the garden level, is the sleeping area. The floor is wood construction and will be built through a kitchen toilet box clearly divided, the basement is made of reinforced constructively with the concrete exterior walls are insulated inside.
With the optimized insulated building envelope, ventilation and comfort with heat reached the house almost passive values, although the building body does not produce the optimal A / V ratio. This project stands as a possible answer to the increasingly important topic of the post-compaction or the exploitation of "residual land".
Principal: Moosmann Petra
Project management: DI Christoph Dünser
Planning: Richard Forer
General contractor: Berchtold Holzbau GmbH & Co KG, Wolfurt
Girder planning: DI Markus Flatz, Bregenz
Completition: 2002
Moosmann House by Hermann Kaufmann
This gorgeous small Moosmann House designed by Hermann Kaufmann. In the extremely cramped Situation between two existing single-family homes into a new building for a young family to conceive. In the eastern house to live the parents of building the plant, which together with the positioning of the new building and the two families concerned, entrance was prepared.
The topographical situation of the street allows direct access to the residential level, in the garden to get here on a short outdoor staircase. In the lower floor, about one meter below the garden level, is the sleeping area. The floor is wood construction and will be built through a kitchen toilet box clearly divided, the basement is made of reinforced constructively with the concrete exterior walls are insulated inside.
With the optimized insulated building envelope, ventilation and comfort with heat reached the house almost passive values, although the building body does not produce the optimal A / V ratio. This project stands as a possible answer to the increasingly important topic of the post-compaction or the exploitation of "residual land".
Principal: Moosmann Petra
Project management: DI Christoph Dünser
Planning: Richard Forer
General contractor: Berchtold Holzbau GmbH & Co KG, Wolfurt
Girder planning: DI Markus Flatz, Bregenz
Completition: 2002
