Maziar Behrooz’s Insta_House is based on his 2010 concept for the Container House (pictured), which began as a backyard art studio. If you’re the sort who’s been squeezing your life into tiny-house-level accommodations, the New York–based architect Maziar Behrooz‘s shipping-container house is the perfect upgrade (and, for the rest of us spacehogs, a respectable downgrade).
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Your $100K Shipping-Container House Is Ready For Move-In
Maziar Behrooz’s Insta_House is based on his 2010 concept for the Container House (pictured), which began as a backyard art studio. If you’re the sort who’s been squeezing your life into tiny-house-level accommodations, the New York–based architect Maziar Behrooz‘s shipping-container house is the perfect upgrade (and, for the rest of us spacehogs, a respectable downgrade).
We ❤ Converted Water Towers! Here’s A Nice One In Belgium
We’ve featured various converted water towers in recent months, including one in London by Tom Dixon and another in NYC by Brian Messana. Now, we turn our attention to Antwerp, Belgium, where Crepain Binst Architecture has embraced the valor of this industrial relic and transformed the structure into a private home. See more.
The tower is nestled in a flourishing forest with a nearby meandering brook. It once provided running water to a manor on the property, but was decommissioned in 1937. It stood neglected for years until the local municipality decided to restore it. Completed in 2006 (two years before Jo Crepain’s death), the structure, known as Water Tower Brasschaat, is a stylish dwelling; the cylindrical reservoir on top reportedly serves as a party space. Indeed, the windowless volume seems like an ideal venue for decadent behavior.
Post by Rebecca Fleischer
Photos © Crepain Binst
Editor’s Pick: A Dreamy Cabin in the Woods
Building: The Mill House
Architect: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB
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We all feel the need to escape the everyday grind and this converted barn is the perfect place for peace and solitude. Wingårdh Arkitektkontor’s Mill House is a woodsy oasis in the south of Sweden and full of smart and sleek design that nurtures a special relationship with the surrounding woods. Working only with 164 square feet in the main area, the firm brilliantly transformed a 19th century cowshed, stables, hay loft, and barn into a kitchen, living room and even a gym. Enormous sliding glass walls keep the home open and bright, but also very private and isolated, even with the panoramic forest views that frame the interiors.The cottage annex includes sauna with a rainwater-filled dipping bath beside it. Rain is collected in the home’s outdoor troughs and trickles into the bath below for the residents to cool off after a relaxing hot session. The use of fine crafted wood, streamline design, and rustic simplicity makes this house a total dream. Click through for more photos.
Read the complete project description here.
Church of Sant Francesc Conven by David Closes Arquitecte (ES)
Manresa-based architectural practice David Closes Arquitecte have realised this striking conversion of a dilapidated, early 18th century church located in the Catalan city of Santpedor. Completed earlier in 2011, ‘the project was aimed to convert the church into an auditorium and a multifunctional cultural facility’ and features a number of new, contrasting elements such as glass-clad staircase and ramps. [...]
A House In A Converted Water Tower
Water towers make for great landmarks, popping out of the urban landscape at surprising moments. Often situated on rooftops to make sure the homes and apartments below have adequate water pressure, water towers are associated with dwellings. But Tom Dixon, apparently a ‘design research studio’, has made the association even closer with Tower House which, as its name suggests, is a water tower converted into a house. Continue.
The sixty-foot tall tower in North Kensington, London, is accessible through a fire escape-like stair running up from street level. Perched on concrete stilts, the tower has been clad in wood, with windows punched through. The new home–which reminds us of the Chateau d’Eau, another water tower-flip–features three levels, and is surprisingly spacious at 23 feet in diameter. It comes stocked with a kitchen, living room, and bathroom on the first floor, two bedrooms and a bathroom on the second, and a large living space with access to a roof terrace on the third.
Currently, the rooms are for rent at $3,900 per month, which is understandable considering that the developer will have put in more than $1.25 million into the project by the time it’s complete (they plan to add two more stories). Our only question is, where did they put all the water?
[via gizmag]
Stählemühle by Philipp Mainzer Office for Architecture and Design (DE)
German practice Philipp Mainzer Office for Architecture and Design have given an abandoned, old mill estate a new lease of life by converting it into a state-of-the-art fruit distillery. Located in the south German city of Eigeltingen, the new, 143-square-meters ‘Stählemühle’ encompasses a distillery as well as degustation and tasting areas. The conversion was completed in 2010. More about the project:
Bondi Penthouse by MPR Design Group Pty Ltd (AU)
A Sydney-based architectural practice MPR Design Group Pty Ltd has realised this single-family apartment located within the historical part of the city. Completed in 2010, the project stemmed from an idea of adding a structure to ‘an existing environment to which it contributes to form a place in one of Sydney’s iconic beaches.’ More about the project: ‘This approach [...]