Luxury Beach House Plan Designs in Rio de Janeiro

Luxury beach house plans designs is an ideal house or resort near tropical beach. There are perfect outdoor architecture, sweet terrace, modern and luxury kitchen, tropical house main bedroom, and lounge bed for hanging out. This resort designed by Mareines and Patalano Arquitetura and located near Rio de Janeiro on a beautiful little beach with amazing blue water.







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Alila Villas Uluwatu – Sustainable Design in Balinese Luxury Resort

This beautiful resort located in Jl Belimbing Sari Banjar/Dusun Tembiyak Desa Pecatu Kecamatan Kuta Selatan Kabupaten Badung Bali (Bukit Peninsula), Indonesia. The resort laid on 14.4 hectare site area, consists of 34 residential villas and a hotel with 40 villa suites. Designed by WOHA architects, Singapore, this resort become a project with high consideration in environmentally sustainable design. Here, in this resort you will be satisfied with the panoramic views of the sea and the horizon. The combination of contemporary style design and detailed Balinese traditional materials create a luxury ambiance both outside and inside.

Richard Hassell as the principal architect of of this eco-friendly project said: ”We are very pleased that Alila Hotels have embraced the Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) principles, and we are using many ESD measures including local materials, water conservation with soaks and rain gardens and recycling with grey water systems, using local plants from the special Bali Savannah ecosystem on the Bukit, which are being raised in a nursery on site to encourage local bird and animal life, heat pumps for water heating, salt water pools – among many others.

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Apollo architects and associates: shift

’shift’ by apollo architects and associates in tokyo
all images courtesy apollo architects and associates
photographer: masao nishikawa

’shift’ by japanese firm apollo architects and associates is a two-storey
family dwelling located on the outskirts of tokyo. pivoting around
a central courtyard, the inward-facing house consists of two offset
volumes stacked on one another, separating the communal spaces
from the private programs.

exterior view

despite the seemingly closed-off aesthetic of the exterior, the interior
is extensively lit by the connecting courtyard. framed in black steel,
the view to the exterior space serves as the focus and spatial orientation
of the interior. a visual connection is made between the ground floor
and the upper floor through the courtyard’s transparency.

inside the courtyard

kitchen and dining

the offset stacking creates pockets of open space that facilitate additional
light into the space: the dining space is flanked by the courtyard and
a garden to the south; a slice of the ceiling opens up to the sky throughout
the length of the living room, washing down the textured reinforced
concrete wall to the north.

wide steps separating the living area from dining/kitchen

living space fronted by the courtyard

second level circulation space

(left) living space through the central courtyard
(right) exterior staircase on the north side

much like the drastic contrast in atmosphere between the exterior
and the interior, the two volumes are treated in contrasting materials
to display a different sense of mass. the base is constructed of exposed concrete,
engrained with a texture that mimics japanese cedar; the second volume
consists of wood construction finished in a lightly-reflective photocatalytic paint.

exterior at night

entrance facade treatment

floor plan / level 0

floor plan / level +1

project info:

principal use: private house
structure: reinforced concrete/ground floor, wooden/first floor
site area: 257. 54 m2
total floor area: 180.20 m2 (99.37 m2/ground floor, 80.83 m2/first floor)
structural engineer: kenta masaki

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