Atrium house / Tag

House J sits in the western mountains of Beijing, China, where Atelier About Architecture reshapes a long-familiar house into a layered retreat for a scattered family. The freestanding house reworks its original shell into a series of gardens, halls, and rooms that hold changing generations together while keeping everyday life quietly independent. Light, topography, and an enduring courtyard structure the project’s new rhythm of return.

Travelers’ House stands in Warsaw, Poland, a ground-level house by BBGK Architekci shaped for a couple who live to roam and return. The plan revolves around an atrium and a tent-like roof that pulls garden air deep inside, then frames long views into the pines. Materials skew warm and tactile, and the interior nods to tropical modernism without turning away from the woods outside.