The lifeguard tower is an essential facility that enables observation, patrolling, and protection at North Piha - one of New Zealand's most beautiful but dangerous surf beaches. The tower is to serve the club and the community by providing a functional and durable building to replace the existing dated structure. The brief was for a robust, low-maintenance building that would withstand the sever..

At the edge of a forest, our intervention create the limit. Facing the South and framing the trees, the building captures the views and the light. The apparent structure in wood and concrete creates the space partition, expressed through a simple, rational and repetitive plan for the sake of economy. The activity spaces, all identical, bright and generous, look at the forest and open onto a larg..

Fang House is located in Zhangshuxia Village, Qiandao Lake, Hangzhou city. The homestead of Fang House is a rectangular plot of 8mX12m, which is also the largest area that the village grants uncle Fang to build. The house site is located in the inner part of the village. The house is surrounded by three-story residential houses, and there is hardly any view of the lake from the inside of the hou..

On a small Danish island sits a simple summerhouse, built right next to the coastline and with an open meadow landscape as a backdrop. The natural stone house, with a pitched roof that takes its inspiration from nature, is situated on a small plinth that acts as coastal protection against severe storms and elevated water levels. A house in harmony with nature. The small 55 m2 summerhouse towers ..

EL 16.52 is a coffee shop located off the coast of Songdo, Busan, South Korea. EL stands for altitude above sea level, and 16.52 signifies the altitude level of the underground floor where the main building was built. The meaning lies in the context of the National Geopark to which this site belongs is architecturally implied, and the temporal nature of this stratum is intended to be contained i..

On the site of the oldest merchants' quarter, Lübeck's founding quarter, which was heavily destroyed in World War II, gabled townhouses are being built in a self-contained design on the original plots of land. Their density and mixed-use are based on historical models. The examination of the merchant's house, a typical Lübeck development, and the requirements for building in the core area of the..