Midnight Pass House by DSDG Inc. Architects

Midnight Pass House by DSDG Inc. Architects

Built by Voigt Brothers Construction , the Midnight Pass House is located in Sarasota, a city on the southwestern coast of Florida, USA.

It is a two story contemporary designed by Mark E. Sultana, principal of Sarasota-based studio DSDG Inc. Architects, and built by Voigt Brothers Construction

DSDG Inc. Architects:

“The concept began with creating a modern residence for a family of five by taking advantage of outdoor and indoor living. The site for this residence is a one acre wooded waterfront property on Siesta Key with water and city views to the East and South. The residence is structured around a central round, double height living room with an open loft den penetrating the space on the second level. Two axes extend from the center of the radial living room to the entry creating the center of the grand steel and glass staircase, out to form the edge of the exterior hardscaping and to the rear creating the edge of the large double height volume outdoor living space and edge of pool deck. The residence captures the views of the water while bringing the outside in with large opening glass doors on the rear.
Creating the drama of arrival at the entry is accomplished through a motor court with bamboo and palm tree gardens. Once inside the residence, a center staircase creates vertical circulation from the ground level up to the 2,500 square foot roof top terrace. The roof top terrace creates a tree top view of Sarasota bay and Downtown Sarasota as well as a private getaway from the main residence featuring sail shades and hot tub.
Since the site is located in a tropical climate, outdoor living spaces are located off of all living and sleeping areas. The custom designed, wet edge, radial shaped pool on the rear mixes fire and water to create not only a day time oasis but also a night time light show. The residence accomplishes the goals in which were set forth by creating modern design in scale, form and function in a minimalist manor.”

Photos by: Detlev Von Kessel

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Sea Shell Residence by Lanciano Design

Sea Shell Residence

This 7,500 square foot contemporary home, Sea Shell Residence located on the Mediterranean coast of Israel exhibits the works of Lanciano Design, an Israel-based studio responsible for this

clear and precise space characterized by clean lines, rich but delicate materials and aesthetic original solutions.

Designing the interior of the house was hatched  as an “Haute couture” project based on  informations from the beginning of the project, and accurately calculated details , that makes the main philosophy behind  this wonderful  design. “Openness” has been the main concept behind this project, combining informal ambient and  elegance, with a palette of colors that repeats the colors of the outside into the house.

It features an unconventional layout of the kitchen & the dining area , which makes this home friendly and entertaining to family & guests. The ground floor has been wrapped in large apertures maintaining a dialog with the outside, thus offering an open space feeling.

 The bathrooms area displays a unique “out of the box” and different thinking ,  featuring original designs, besides many lighting scenarios with special effects are applied to completely change the ambience of the house

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Oberen Berg House by Alexander Brenner Architects

Oberen Berg House

 This three story contemporary home located in Stuttgart, Germany, has been designed by Alexander Brenner Architects , a design studio based in Stuttgart, and was completed in the year 2007.
The northeast side of the house is a combination of white cubes, each of which is recognizable as an individual structure when viewed close up, but the cubes appears to merge forming a unified whole when viewed from a distance

From the north-east through the entran- ce hall, the floor-to-ceiling glazing facing southwest opens up onto the garden. One can look out over the pool in front of the house, and across the valley towards the hills opposite. In this entrance hall, visitors are aware of an interplay of open and enclosed spaces stretching between transparent expanses of glass and protective walls. This layout satisfies both the occupants’ need for security and, on the other hand, for openness and a connection with the surrounding natural landscape.

The house can be divided into units of varying sizes without major constructional work being required, thus offering its occupants maximum flexibility and allows a suitable way of living for every lifestyle and family situation. This multi-generational villa is a new and sustainable reinterpretation of the old dream house that can grow and shrink within the same building shell.
The house’s southwest orientation with its generous glazing and the dark floors ensure maximum passive solar gains. A large-surface solar sy- stem installed on the roof and a geothermal heat pump complements the energy requirements of this wonderful home.

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Luxembourg Apartment by Metaform Atelier D'architecture

Street art fuses with modern design and architecture

The multi story home features a stacked look that consists of several different box like structures. The bottom box structure is the smallest with each stack expanding in size a bit more than the previous one. Vibrant orange and red cloud like shapes illuminate the overlapping sections of the stacks creating incredible contrast to the black base. The house is equipped with plenty more street art pieces scattered throughout both the interior and exterior terraces providing for the ultimate urban living environment.

Luxembourg Apartment by Metaform Atelier D'architecture

The ambition was to free the three facades of the building from the circulation spaces in order to create maximum flexibility and luminosity for the apartments.

The narrowness and the exiguity of that part of land encouraged the development of 4 differently sized and individual apartments. Considering the proximity to the road, the resulting lack of intimacy and the weak exposure to sunshine, the ground floor is used for the garages.

The first floor is occupied by a two-bedroom 80sqm apartment designed for a family of three. The rooms are isolated and ensures intimacy and well-being with  an open space oriented towards the road.
Two studios, 47 and 48sqm respectively takes the second floor with 1m overhang on on 3 sides of the building.

On the third floor is a 115sqm duplex apartment with a sturdy all-glass ceiling ensuring sunshine to get through to the north-oriented kitchen and dining room
In this construction the use of a unique material, black shiny extruded metal, contributes to its monolithic and sculptural character.

Description :

Within the framework of our project, architecture and art are found side by side, are entangled, extend and complete each other in order to create a common language, a synergy which creates an intriguing, vivid and dynamic, yet at the same time intimate, welcoming and friendly ensemble. The reflection on the relation between art and architecture is part of the concept created with the involvement of the Luxembourgish artist SUMO. It is a response linked to the evolution of the urban landscape because the era of the "post-graffiti", even if many refuse to admit, has become an integral part of the city. Sumo voluntarily covered the space from the ground to the ceiling with his artwork in such a way that his art, which one can consider being "post-graffiti", is subtly integrated in the built space. Architecture gave way to art which reveals itself at times under the overhanged volumes with yellow, orange and red clouds, at times in the background of the loggias of the apartments with its peculiar figures. Art emphasizes this formal game of the spaces that seem to have "slid" to give way to the organic sketches and eccentric colors created by the artist. This cooperation puts forward the idea of the existence of equilibrium between the development of our building landscape and the artistic interpretation

Begin/End work : September 2010 / November 2011

Design team : Metaform Atelier D’architecture.
Photography : Steve Troes Fotodesign

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