olson kundig architects in california

Seattle-based studio Olson Kundig Architects takes to Truckee, California to site its Analog House — completed in 2019 in collaboration with the client, local architecture practice Faulkner Architects. The house is designed as a celebration of its ‘rugged, high desert site populated by ponderosa pine, manzanita and exposed basalt.’

The complex footprint of the dwelling is informed by the preserved specimen trees, around which it is woven. The architecture surrounds a cluster of trees to create protected internal courtyard, which — together with full-height and clerestory windows — invites the forested site into the living spaces. ‘This house has been shaped both functionally and poetically by the mature ponderosa pines trees that occupy the site,’ notes design principal Tom Kundig,In the same way that you would weave through the trees on a forest walk, this home changes direction to respect and

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Architecture and Landscape: 10 Projects Integrated in the Topography

As a starting point for architectural projects, the terrain and its topography point out the directions that the distribution of the program can follow. Among them, one solution stands out for the continuity between topography and architecture: lowering the level of construction and advancing the land over the roof. From this roof garden created with the same characteristics as the surroundings, the result gives the impression of an almost non-existent intervention.

The incorporation of the land as an architectural element takes up, in a certain way, the concept of caves, reinforcing an idea of ​​shelter and reception from a hybrid between the initial and natural configuration and the architectural intervention.

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The incorporation of the land as an architectural element takes up, in a certain way, the concept

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Dutch Design Week, Utopian Hours and Light + Building are among the architecture and design events featured in the Dezeen Events Guide this month.

Other events taking place in October include Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Seoul Design and Orgatec.

Read on for this month’s highlights and see Dezeen Events Guide for more architecture and design events around the world.

Light + Building
2 to 6 October, Germany

Light + Building is the world’s largest lighting and building services trade fair, showcasing lighting solutions from more than 1,500 international exhibitors.

The event, which takes place in Frankfurt, also presents electrical engineering products, house and building automation and security technology.

This year also includes a digital platform with online presentations and networking opportunities.

The event will focus on three key themes: Green Deal and Sustainability, Electrification and Digitization and Light and Design.

2022 marks Lighting + Building’s first Autumn edition and event since

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Lido Beach House II / Resolution: 4 Architecture


  • Area Areas of this architecture project Areas:
    2625 ft²

  • year Completion year of this architecture project

    Years :


    2021


  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers : Toto, Andersen Windows & Doors, Big Ass Fan, Blanco, Bosch, Brizo, Caesarstone, Calazzo, Daltile, Juno Lighting Group, Kohler, Country Kraft, Subzero, Tom Dixon Lighting

  • Lead Architects :

    Joseph Tanney, AIA & Robert Luntz, AIA




Lido Beach House II / Resolution: 4 Architecture - Exterior Photography, Windows
Courtesy of Resolution: 4 Architecture

Text description provided by the architects. Sitting on a flag lot at the corner of Lido Beach, this 2,625 sq. ft. prefab home serves as a summer house for a professor / writer and her family. The home attempts to establish a relationship to the surrounding

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This year’s Oslo Architecture Triennale presents strategies for building better urban neighborhoods. From rewilding to co-living, Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson picks five of the most interesting ideas.

The eighth Oslo Architecture Triennalewhich has the theme Mission Neighborhood, sees the former Munch Museum in Tøyen temporarily transformed into the Oslo Neighborhood Lab.

The venue is hosting exhibitions, conversations and workshops that explore how architects, designers and city stakeholders can help to create “more sustainable, diverse and generous” neighborhoods.

One of the exhibitions on show is Mission Neighborhood – (Re)forming Communities.

This features a series of real-life projects that challenge traditional ideas of how housing communities should be planned.

“There’s a growing demand for improvement”

“An intense debate on housing quality and housing access is taking place in Oslo, and internationally,” said Christian Pagh, director and chief curator of the triennale.

“There’s a growing demand for improvement and for friendly, human-scaled

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