Casa M steps down a steep plot in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, as a two-story single-family house by Silverline. The split-level composition gathers everyday life around a social lower floor while lifting quiet suites and the garage above. From the street, it reads as a modest single-story volume; from the garden, it opens across two levels toward terraces, greenery, and a pool.

Villa VDSC rises on a steep rocky plot in Málaga, Spain, where A-Plus Villas shapes a house around a commanding Algarrobo tree and expansive Mediterranean views. The villa threads interior rooms, terraces, and a pool between rock and horizon so that everyday life stays closely tuned to the changing city skyline and the light over the sea.

This project stands in Barbizon, France, as a house drawn deep into the Fontainebleau forest. In Sinu Architectes reshapes an existing structure with timber-frame additions, opening long views and layered thresholds between woodland and interior. The result is a calm domestic realm where controlled light, warm materials, and tailored furniture turn a once-ordinary house into an attentive retreat.

Casa La Vista stands above the dunes of Baja California, Mexico, as a cliffside house oriented to the open horizon and the meeting of sky and sea. Designed by Medeza, the residence stretches along a southeast axis that courts desert light, coastal winds, and long views toward San José and Punta Gorda. Across its wings, the architecture arranges daily life around shade, courtyards, and an unmistakably Baja terrain.

Inverted House rethinks suburban living on the hillside of Tbilisi, Georgia, where TIMM confronts a neighborhood of fences by turning the dwelling inward. The single-family house in Okrokana replaces the conventional boundary wall with inhabitable architecture, shaping daily life around two gardens rather than distant views. Within this protective perimeter, light, proportion, and a calibrated use of wood and white surfaces set the tone for calm, introverted domesticity.

NetherhallGardens Roof Extension crowns a converted Victorian apartment in London, United Kingdom with an unexpectedly generous upper level by AR Architecture. The project adds a family office, leisure rooms and a private outdoor terrace, all concealed within the conservation area roofline. Daily life now shifts easily between work, reading, music and time in the open air, without disturbing the building’s brick gables and street-facing character.

Hata Dome stands on foothills above the Sawtooth Mountains in the United States, its white concrete curve reading against scrub and sky. Designed and built by Anastasiya Dudik as a 2024 house, the project folds future primitive ideas into a minimal, object-like dwelling where circular openings choreograph light and views.

Terrarium House compresses the chaos of Ladprao, Bangkok, Thailand into a quiet inward world shaped by Unknown Surface Studio. Conceived as a private house wrapped around existing trees, the project turns a constrained, landlocked plot into a luminous courtyard dwelling. Within its stone-lined entry and glass-edged rooms, daily life gathers around a planted core where light, shade, and crafted timber carry most of the architectural weight.