Modern Facades

Expandable Ecological House

We present this house in New Orleans (Luisana, USA), which dazzled us for its originality, purity and practicality. It is ideal for any place, but more than anything in delta areas or near rivers and streams with potential floods.

It has 168 square meters on two floors, expandable to 250. It was built in 2008 by the Architect Studio Element, for the Foundation Make it Right. It is made of steel and wood

Make It Right was founded by Brad Pitt at 2007. Build homes, buildings and communities for people in need, originally due to natural disasters. All of their projects are LEED Platinum certified and are inspired by the Cradle to Cradle system of Architect Bill McDonough, based on green building.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and left thousands of people homeless. The government relocated them to prefabricated homes, but many were built with toxic materials. That's where Make it Right was born, to rebuild the city with low-cost homes, but healthy and sustainable. For that, architects were invited to comply with the Cradle to Cradle guidelines that maintain that green design can help prevent environmental disasters and promote the economy.

This modern house we were fascinated because in addition to fulfilling all that, it is expandable in 82 m2 economically, easily, quickly and with great taste. Its design is versatile and adapts to different needs. It is sustainable and efficient because -among other things- its facade South is protected from bad weather and achieves natural cross ventilation.

They used steel-safe structures and efficient and ecological infrastructures, building half of the maximum allowed covered volume. The rest begins as a huge and comfortable porch, ready for the expansions of the original house or even for a second house. It serves as a space for family gatherings or with neighbors. In a second stage it can help to increase the value of the property through the expansion, or to make money with the sale of a second house that can be built at a medium cost.

We hope you like it and offer ideas and inspiration!

10 Expandable Ecological House — Exterior view

13 Expandable Ecological House — First Scheme

14 Expandable Ecological House — Second Scheme

For more information about the visual content of this publication, you can refer to the Photo Credits: Elemental Arq. (Chile) – Make it Right (USA)

Low cost house awarded in Brazil

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Low cost house Photos: Pedro Kok Photographer - Terra e Tumo Arquitectos - ArchDaily Building of the Year.

Starting with our daily post, we present 'Vila Matilde' in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from the study Terra e Tuma Arquitetos. Which was built in record time and overflows with modernity, comfort, originality, good taste and low budget. These characteristics earned him one of the ArchDaily Building of the Year awards (2016). The experts described it as illuminated, accessible and comfortable, which added to the low budget and short time of work, transformed it into an ideal.

La original house, in the area of Vila Matilde, it was bought 25 years ago and in 2013 it began to attract attention after a storm collapsed part of its roof. After that unfortunate situations, owner and son decided to remodel it.

It is distributed on a plot of 4,8 x 25 meters. On the ground floor you have the living room, kitchen, laundry room and bathroom. its minimalist decoration enlarges the spaces to make the most of them.

A bright corridor adjoining the kitchen, laundry room and an interior patio connects the front living room with the room in the back. In the middle, the green patio gives light and ventilation. This area also serves as an extension of the kitchen and the laundry room. On the second floor we find a quarter of visits, totaling about 95 square meters.

An incredible mini garden grows on the concrete slab ceiling of the living room, which can eventually be built for future demands of the family that inhabits it.

The result is a simple house, very nice and inexpensive!

Facades of Two Plants on the Atlantic Coast

The following houses belong to the town of Costa del Este, in the Partido de la Costa, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The place is very close to the Atlantic Ocean, windy weather, pleasant and hot in summer, but very cold in winter.