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Showing posts with label cantilevered swimming pool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cantilevered swimming pool. Show all posts

Modern Beach House In Peru With Overhang Pool: Casa Playa Blanca




This two story modern beach house, Casa Playa Blanca, is located in one of most exclusive resort areas most in Lima, Peru, about 97.5 km south of the capital.





A second floor swimming pool extends from the home by 4 meters and serves as an overhang for the front entrance.



A wooded deck on the second floor serves as an outdoor seating area at the pools' entrance.




Kitchen and Dining:



Bedrooms:




Bath:


A mostly neutral house, the white structure has many wood touches throughout:


House plans:


Ambient and inset lighting plays a large role in the home's design which was created and built by twin brothers Alfonso Valega Rey and Gonzalo Valega Rey of Ecke Architects.



www.ecke-arquitectos.com

images courtesy of facebook and archello

Lakeshore View House With Suspended Pool In Sentosa, Singapore



The design concept behind this stunning modern home in Sentosa, Singapore is to explore the extension of space and the sight line and to redefine the hard edges of the suspended box structure through the suspended acrylic pool below. Using such elements like solids, voids, screens and walls helps to delineate the different zones and functions of the house.

Anton Garcia-Abril's Hemeroscopium House: Cool Cantilevered Concrete




Located in Madrid, the Hemeroscopium House, designed by Anton Garcia-Abril and Ensamble Studio, took a full year to engineer but only seven days to actually build (including that amazing cantilevered swimming pool).

Albeit, it's not being embraced by the eco friendly community given its large carbon footprint (apparently 1 ton of concrete = 1 ton of carbon dioxide) and the fact that reader comments suggest it's 'blatantly wasteful'. Even Treehugger author Lloyd Alter smartly suggested that the beams should have been reappropriated 'from a dismantled highway'.

Regardless of its potentially negative effect on the environment, it's certainly has an aesthetically positive effect on me (although I do wonder who is gonna clean those two swimming pools and all those windows).





Hemeroscopium house materializes the peak of its equilibrium with what the Ensamble Studio ironically calls the “G point”, a twenty ton granite stone, expression of the force of gravity and a physical counterweight to the whole structure:






The order in which these structures are piled up generates a helix that sets out from a stable support, the mother beam, and develops upwards in a sequence of elements that become lighter as the structure grows, closing on a point that culminates the system of equilibrium. Seven elements in total.





The design of their joints respond to their constructive nature, to their forces; and their stresses express the structural condition they have. By the way this structure is set, the house becomes aerial, light, transparent, and the space kept inside flows with life. The apparent simplicity of the structure´s joints requires in fact the development of complex calculations, due to the reinforcement, and the pre-stress and post-tension of the steel rods that sew the web of the beams.





The Building Process:


The Architect with his team:


The Architect:


To see the entire building process including sketches and the architectural renderings, go to Arch Daily here.

Architects: Ensamble Studio
Location: Las Rozas, Madrid, Spain
Principal in Charge: Antón García- Abril
Collaborators: Elena Pérez, Débora Mesa, Jorge Consuegra, Marina Otero, Ricardo Sanz
Technical Architect: Javier Cuesta
Promotor: Hemeroscopium
Contractor: Materia Inorgánica
Project year: 2005-2008
Constructed Area: 400 sqm
Photographs: Ensamble Studio



special thanks to Ensamble Studios, Archinet and Archdaily for the images and info.

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