The architects were FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects. It was located in Shiga, Japan. The Client was Private. The Construction was built in 2010. The Site Area was 707,21m2. The Constructed Area was needed 152,33m2. The Photographs were Takumi Ota.

Walking past the Trojan Home on the streets of Melbourne, appealing in this monotonous wooden giant could be found, but a whole new world awaits on the inside. The house design was very unique, with its lavish and sweeping interiors that are insulated with perfection, a thermal chimney that keeps the home’s temperature balanced, passive [...]

There were obvious reasons for some renovation, where was on the rise. Many well made architecturally and geographically desirable house, which had the age, needed a serious face lift. Metropolitan Home recently featured the stunning mid-century (1960), architects Lucian Rosciszewski and Marek Slosar renovated Eichler House of Marika Sakellariou. The roots of the homes interior [...]

Urban planning The site was situated in a settlement of detached single-family houses, characteristic for the 1970s. The traditional arrangement of functions for each storey consisted of basement/garage; ground floor/living space; attic floor/ bedrooms. They had been transformed into a linear order. The so called “streckhof“, stringing together different functions in one floor adapted the [...]

An extension was clad by a veil of metal lace screened by thin concrete piers to a baroque theatre and an adjacent commercial block in Germany. The extension to Landestheater Schwaben, the commercial building and a medical centre on the Elsbethen Site in the Bavarian town of Memmingen, was designed by German architects Trint + [...]