House Apartment

Marcus O’Reilly Architects has carefully designed a low key, site responsive beach house in Sorrento on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula in Australia. The timber clad structure reinterprets a longstanding beach house tradition in the area. It uses local materials to blend into, respect and compliment it’s sought after, national park adjacent location. The site, which has been in the owner’s...

Designed by 123DV architecture & consult, Brick Wall House is located in Woerden, Netherlands. The location of this residence is highly exceptional: flanked by small-scale detached semi-classical houses with gabled roofs on one side, a large apartment block planned on the other. The house represents the transition between these two worlds: the facade facing the apartment block is a 16 by 9 metre abstract closed wall with the exception of a protruding stairwell that offers an intriguing view along the facade; the other side of the building consists of an informal stacking of rectangular volumes.

The house, entirely built of brick, blends in with its surroundings. It is a lively type of brick, in a sleek bond with emphatically horizontal joints. The contrasting interior was kept as austere and clean as possible and features flawlessly plastered white surfaces. Kitchen, cupboards and built-in appliances are completely white as well. The dining table with a draw-leaf was specially designed for this house.