Construction Tech

A view of the house from the street, set in the quiet residential area of Vicente Lopez, just north of the official city limits of Buenos Aires.

The gap between the back wall of the pavilion and the roof is perfectly sized to capture winter sun and summer shade.

"Our many ideas were floating around the mountain, and we needed someone to bring them down and turn them into reality,

HUTCH Design used organic materials and earthy tones to transform this former concrete pig shed outside of London.

Warm wood detailing ensures that the concrete flooring has a natural contrast.

Illustration by Lohnes + Wright

This off-grid retreat is quite literally nestled among the treetops in Epworth, Georgia.

The overall home is constructed with larch timber, a British wood, and features a central ridge beam that gives it a butterfly-shaped roof. Shou sugi ban was done on the wood to give it a charred finish.

The site has beautiful views of a nature reserve at the edge of a stream.

Base models of Dvele homes start at $250 per square foot, and range in size — the company wants its sustainable structures to be flexible to either small or large footprints.

In 2014, Jeff and Karen Gunning began researching building another house, hoping to create a single, contained volume without compromising their retirement funds. The resulting Tree House comprises three pitched volumes with cutaways to create a porch in phase one and recessed window planter ledges in phase two. Simple wood columns provide support.

A prefab home is any home that has been built, partly or fully, in a factory. The design may be fully preset, partly modified by the client, or completely made-to-order.

Icy blue tiling in the generously proportioned bathroom nod to the glaciers and fjord landscapes associated with Korina's Norwegian heritage.

Cabin ANNA began in 2016 as a way for Caspar Schols and his family to cope with a personal tragedy. At his mother’s request, he built a refuge on her rural forested property where the family “would feel connected and feel one,” says Schols. “I started dreaming of how we could be surrounded by life instead of shielded from it.” In ten months, the once physicist completed the Garden House: a prototype of what would, to his own surprise, turn into a much larger project oriented toward a deeper connection with the planet.