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Basé à Melbourne, l’artiste Jake Stollery réalise des créations digitales de portraits de femmes. Avec des projections et des scanners 3D, il montre le corps et l’identité humaine comme un paysage digital mouvant. Ses séries « Composite », « Strong I Am / Nichicahtoc » et « Merge » sont à découvrir.

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Prague studio EDIT! has sunken the majority of this Czech house below street level, so only a small gabled structure is visible to passersby (+ slideshow).

House on House occupies a stepped plot of land in the town of Mníšek pod Brdy, south-west of Prague, where local regulations required a pitched roof. To overcome this restriction, EDIT! designed a mini house with a traditional shape at street level, and concealed a larger rectilinear block underneath, opening out to a large garden.

“The site was previously part of a gardening shop full of greenhouses, which was later divided into smaller plots of about 1,000 square metres for individual housing,” architect Juraj Calaj told Dezeen.

“The owners are a couple in their 30s who do a lot of gardening, so they wanted a small house of about 100 square metres, with maximum contact with the outdoors.”

The upper storey, which has a pre-weathered zinc roof, houses a guest bedroom, WC and small storage room, while the lower level houses two bedrooms, a reading room and an open-plan space for the kitchen, dining area and living room.

The lower level also supports a terrace on top, which is level with and open to the street. “This openness was an important aspect of the design,” explained Calaj, whose previous work with EDIT! includes a Prague shop interior for Puma with chains and pulleys suspended from the roof.

“We didn’t want to fence the upper part of the house off. A big part of the roof can be accessed by the public.”

Metal stairs have been added at the side of the house to provide an alternative, more informal route to the main living space.

“This ambiguity about how you enter the house was considered from the beginning,” said Calaj. “It was important to have direct access to the garden from the street, and not just through the house. And the owners use this as their summer entrance.”

The back of the house faces south, attracting direct sunlight throughout the day, and features a terrace at the lower level, which has an overhang to help shade the rooms inside.

Vertical sections of larch timber, chosen for its durability and colour, line the terrace and extend up to cover the roof, designed to give the outdoor space a sense of enclosure.

“We conceived the terrace area as a cut-out from the simple volume of the house, and used the wooden cladding is used to emphasise this,” said Calaj.

A timber worktop in the kitchen creates a visual connection with the larch of the terrace, and large square windows frame views of the garden and trees beyond.

Windows in the reading room downstairs and the guest bedroom upstairs have been fitted with wide sills, which double as seats where the occupants can enjoy views and sunshine indoors.

Photography is by Mark Prethero, Blankfoto.

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Slovenian firm 3biro Arhitekti designed underground rooms and cantilevers to create the impression that this family house “only slightly touches the sloping terrain”.

Located in Škofja Loka, north-west of Ljubljana, the three-storey House in Groharjevo was designed by 3biro Arhitekti for a family of four who originally only approached the firm to relocate the windows on an already approved plan.

“They had bought a plot package, including standard house plans with a building permit,” 3biro Arhitekti’s Mina Hirsman told Dezeen. “However, we introduced our vision of their house and of course they were fascinated since it was tailored to them.”

The architects designed an angular building that utilises the slope of the landscape, creating two ground-level storeys that both open out to sheltered outdoor areas.

The lowest level is largely sunken underground and leads out to a secluded terrace sheltered beneath the cantilever created by the two storeys above. A second cantilever is created by the uppermost floor, sheltering the house’s main entrance alongside a parking space.

“Based on the specifics of the given site – its sloping terrain and the dense settlement surroundings, and the desire for as much outside area as possible – the result is non-classical. It seems that the house only slightly touches the sloping terrain,” said Hirsman.

The base of the building was constructed from reinforced concrete, but the upper sections were built with a timber framework.

“The decision to use wood as the structural material was because of the speed and cleanliness of construction as well as sustainable reasons – Slovenia is rich with woods and living in a wooden house is pleasant,” said Hirsman.

Most of the outer walls are clad with timber, although the two side walls are covered in a rainscreen of corrugated metal that wraps around from the roof.

Hirsman explained: “The north and south facades are clad with wood and have large windows towards the beautiful views, but facades on the east and west are as closed as possible – the material is the same as the roof and it protects from the neighbouring houses.”

A large living and dining room occupies the majority of the houses’s middle floor and features double-height spaces at both ends, creating generously sized windows overlooking the landscape.

A central staircase leads up to three bedroom and two bathrooms on the top floor, while the lowest level accommodates an office and showroom for one of the clients, who works as an engineer.

“The biggest challenge in the project was how to make the building with the smallest footprint and in that way leaving the most of the plot green, unbuilt and open,” added Hirsman. “With two overhangs, the result is a 180-square-metre house with a 33-square-metre footprint.”

Photography is by Miran Kambič.

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