Homes

Although it’s only 93 square feet, the first floor appears larger with its flared walls.

Ten minutes from British Columbia’s prized Whistler and Blackcomb ski areas, this house is located on a small lot atop a hill. Embracing a vertical layout, the upper level is where the open living area, complete with sectional, wood-burning stove, marble island, and spacious dining table, is found. Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, the forest views are especially heady.

Frequent visits to Calistoga Ranch left a Los Angeles couple hankering for even more time amid Napa Valley’s tranquil vineyards, so they realized it was the right moment to build their post-retirement dream home in California Wine Country. Wade Design Architects and Geremia Design knew exactly how to bring it to life.

The prefab can be customized and configured to the client’s liking, and it can even be outfitted with renewable energy systems such as rooftop solar panels.

Pine was used for the exterior siding and the lower perimeter base is lined in reinforced concrete.

The weekend retreat is a welcome respite from the hustle of Mexico City.

Casa Tiny was designed as a two-person escape. But instead of being an isolated retreat, it has become a gathering place: “a space for experience, rather than a space for things,” says owner Aránzazu de Ariño. “We love sobremesa”—the post-meal time when people settle in to converse, drink, savor dessert. “It’s very Mexican.” At Casa Tiny’s table, cooking and working become “interrelated,” she says. “The idea behind the house is so powerful,” says her partner Claudio Sodi, that it “moves you to enjoy life and nature in a completely different way.”

The deck near the home and the porch surrounding the house are lit up at night to allow for entertaining and outdoor living.

The 500-square-foot home is designed for empty backyards in Silicon Valley. Abodu imagines the units serving as rentals, or housing for recent graduates or aging loved ones.

Baumhaus Halden glows at night.

The Olmos Park Residence sits in an established neighborhood in San Antonio. Heavy limestone walls screen neighbors on both sides, while the fourth side opens up to a verdant flood basin.

Amalgam Studio spent around 18 months building this residence, which merges the indoors and outdoors.

This home's prefabricated components were all made in Marmol Radziner’s home-building factory near Los Angeles, and trucked over to the one-and-a-half-acre site.

Organized around a central courtyard, the home’s three modules are oriented to maximize views of downtown Marfa; 20-foot-deep piers drilled below each concrete footing root the structure to the site and help stabilize it against West Texas winds, which can reach 120 miles per hour.

At 74 square meters (797 square feet), this variation of the Vinkelhuset line by Danish modular cabin designer Møn Huset is L-shaped in plan and hits all the right notes, boasting clean lines, a practical gabled roof, and simple, attractive detailing on the interior.

Designed by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter for a family of four, the Split View Mountain Lodge is a holiday home near the village of Geilo, Norway. The main volume splits out to form additional annexes that frame individual views of the surrounding mountains.