The sun with its warmth and light is object of desire for every house, says Matteo Thun, the architect of this modular house system. With its transparent glass facade, 0′ sole mio uses the energy of the sun and is not dependent on solar collectors and heat pumps thanks to the orientation to the sun. [...]

Mobil Chalet at Munich, Germany
A great amount of mobility, energy efficiency, good design and optimum functionality?Hans Georg Dieterle kept his promise to fulfill these requirements in a convincing manner with his patented solution for living and working. The mobile chalet can be used at various locations in an undisturbed natural setting as well as in [...]

Wolkenstein in Meran, Italy
Wolkenstein is designed by Holz Box Tirol and Di Anton Hoss. Marquees and sunshades usually spell the death of every architecture with ambition. For that reason, the architects of a four-storey residential building in Meran have taken precautions to prevent unregulated design elements appearing at random on the balconies of the [...]

ABC House is located at Kertajaya Indah Regency Block, Surabaya, Indonesia. ABC House is short for ?A Brother?s Connecting House?, reflecting the client?s brief for the design of two houses for his sons? families on a 600-square-meter site. The structure, with a gross floor area of 500 square meters, consists of two symmetrical houses [...]

While the impracticalities of life in a glass box rendered the Farnsworth House an unlikely model for the mainstream housing market, the concept fascinated many architects. In 1949 Philip Johnson (b. 1906) began work on his own residence in New Canaan, Connecticut. In some ways, the Farnsworth and Johnson houses studies in contrast. Painted white [...]

In 1946, Mies van der Rohe designed a weekend retreat for Dr. Edith Farnsworth in Plano, Illinois, near Chicago. A number of architects including Richard Neutra and Buckminster Fuller had grappled with the practical problems of using metal-framed structural systems for domestic design but no one idealized the concept to the degree Mies did in [...]