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LaCantina’s new V2 Folding Door deepens your home’s connection to the outdoors with ultra-thin frames, larger glass panels, and concealed hardware.

Daily Needs by the Belgian studio segers is a modular prototype that’s one part chicken coop, three parts urban farm, as it includes components for a raised vegetable bed, composting bin, and tool shed.

The UK-based firm Raskl Art + Architectural calls this a “luxury minimalist chicken coop.” Materials are Valchromat (Atlantic Plywood) and Iroko wood. The nesting area is denoted by an egg shape perforated into the façade with a CNC machine, and the roof lifts with the help of gas struts.

"The 1970s houses of Whangamatā were the design source for this new beach bach—the simple gables, lean-tos, decks and yards. ‘The clients and I walked the neighbourhood to have a look at the existing character,’ says architect Paul Clarke. ‘They wanted to build sympathetically in the form and size of the building, so we’ve reused elements we know well, but combined them in a new way to put together something different.’"

Maclean designed around the existing trees on the property, including a native Kõwhai tree, which is why the house is called the Kõwhai House.

The materials for the prefab were chosen to help the lodge blend into the wood. According to the architects, “the lodge features an intentionally limited palette of natural materials, including the same species of timber, western red cedar, on the external cladding and internal lining. Left unfinished, the exterior will weather naturally to a silver-gray color that is reminiscent of the local landscape, which will contrast the cozy, warmer tones of the interior."

Elevation of Atelier C by Nicholas Francoeur

Floor plan of Atelier C by Nicholas Francoeur