Brown House Exterior with Wood Cladding Ideas and Designs

Design by Vibe Design Group Photography by Robert Hamer

Eingangshof (Fotograf: Marcus Ebener, Berlin)

This detached Victorian house was extended to accommodate the needs of a young family with three small children. The programme was organized into two distinctive structures: the larger and higher volume is placed at the back of the house to face the garden and make the best use of the south orientation and to accommodate a large Family Room open to the new Kitchen. A longer and thinner volume, only 1.15m wide, stands to the western side of the house and accommodates a Toilet, a Utility and a dining booth facing the Family Room. All the functions that are housed in the secondary volume have direct access either from the original house or the rear extension, thus generating a hierarchy of served and servant volumes, a relationship that is homogeneous to that between the house and the extension. The timber structures, while distinctive in their proportions, are connected by a shallow volume that doubles as a bench to create an architectural continuum and to emphasize the effect of a secondary volume wrapped around a primary one. While the extension makes use of a modern idiom, so that it is clearly distinguished from the original house and so that the history of its development becomes immediately apparent, the size of the red cedar cladding boards, left untreated to allow a natural silvering process, matches that of the Victorian brickwork to bind house and extension together. As the budget did not make possible the use a bespoke profile, an off-the-shelf board was selected and further grooved at mid point to recreate the brick pattern of the façade. A tall and slender pivoting door, positioned at the boundary between the original house and the new intervention, allows a direct view of the garden from the front of the house and facilitates an innovative relationship with the outside. Photo: Gianluca Maver

John Gollings Photography

The client brief was to undertake alterations of an existing family home on the cliff top edge of Rothesay Bay on Auckland's North Shore. The design provides a modern four bedroom home, designed around the existing garage and building footprint, with a new master bedroom with a discrete lounge attached. Photography by DRAW Photography Limited

Andre Fotografi

Built on gently sloping land in suburban Melbourne, this contemporary and environmentally friendly home is designed to integrate seamlessly with the inherent natural beauty of the existing site. Our approach favoured the use of natural materials, both inside and out, in order to create a relationship between the house and its surrounding environment. A series of inter-connecting rooms allow clear lines of vision throughout the house while also maximising the available light. The application of passive solar design principles provides an abundance of warmth in winter and captures cooling breezes during summer. This light filled, split level home features the intelligent and sensitive application of sustainable design principles, conveying a feeling of openness, expansiveness and calm. Photo's by Emma Cross.

Starp Estudi

Entwurf und Bau: Christian Stolz / Foto: Frank Jasper

Bildnachweis: Bauidee

Thomas Ebert

Onyx

Shannon McGrath

Ben Hoskings

Contemporary country cottage designed in Gradoli, where natural stone, warm wood cladding and large glazed openings create a refined dialogue between traditional rural architecture and modern living. The covered outdoor area extends the interior spaces into the surrounding landscape, while the combination of handcrafted materials, clean lines and natural light enhances the warm and welcoming atmosphere of the project. A countryside retreat conceived to balance simplicity, comfort and timeless Mediterranean elegance.

A casual holiday home along the Australian coast. A place where extended family and friends from afar can gather to create new memories. Robust enough for hordes of children, yet with an element of luxury for the adults. Referencing the unique position between sea and the Australian bush, by means of textures, textiles, materials, colours and smells, to evoke a timeless connection to place, intrinsic to the memories of family holidays. Avoca Weekender - Avoca Beach House at Avoca Beach Architecture Saville Isaacs http://www.architecturesavilleisaacs.com.au/

Foto: Aline Stücher https://wolfsgrube.de/