The front door opens onto a light filled courtyard conceived of as the central ‘hearth’ of the house. The success of the building’s functionality and sense of space and flow comes from a meticulously ...
By linking the double garage to the rest of the house with a glazed link (the only ‘new build’ addition to the footprint) a coherent ‘u’ shaped plan was created, which has formed the eponymous ...
The house plan is dotted with a series of courtyards and water bodies (for passive cooling) that breathe life into the spaces. Sun paths and summer and winter solstices were also elaborately ...
This project is a variation of the terraced house typology designed around three central ... star plan shaped by the oblique angles of the site perimeter. Thus, the three courtyards form a series ...
Luckily, this was not the case with this modest, modernist architecture courtyard house in London. Thanks to the concerted effort of bodies like the Twentieth Century Society and a new generation of ...