Philosopher’s House sits in Valencia, Spain, a house reworked by Jose Costa Arq. for layered daily life. The renovation orients living around a sunny courtyard and lifts a library into a loft under white-painted rafters. Reused hydraulic tiles, restored doors, and exposed brick anchor the rooms while a red stair stitches inside to out.
Concrete House occupies a steep lot in Goiânia, Brazil, where Dayala e Rafael Arquitetos Associados organize living across two tiered levels. The house reads as low, confident horizontals—social rooms flow at grade to a pool terrace, while a closed upper volume gathers the private rooms. Structural clarity drives the project, using long spans, cantilevers, and a lean material palette to settle the home into its terrain without heavy earthwork.
Periscope House is a house in Toronto, Canada, designed by Atelier RZLBD for a young family seeking a more personal, sustainable way to live. The project renovates a one-story bungalow and strategically adds a partial second floor, using subtraction as a tool for light, height, and clarity. What began as a straightforward addition becomes a study in restraint and sequence, with voids pulling daylight deep into the plan and giving the street a memorable new profile.
Trullo Svevo sits in the hills above Ostuni, Italy, where architect Francesco Consoli reanimates a traditional house with rare restraint. A cluster of dry-stone trulli regains daily purpose as calm rooms, while a new volume, modeled on a lamia, extends the domestic rhythm into the landscape. The project balances rural craft and present needs without noise.
Nocaima Retreat sits in the rolling hills of Nocaima, Colombia, a compact house by Obreval that revisits rural archetypes with crisp, contemporary rigor. The project channels vernacular cues—bamboo, pitched silhouettes, open corridors—into a precise structural and environmental strategy. Calm in stance and exact in detail, it reframes local building logic while addressing climate and water in one measured move.
Courtyard + Connector Residence stands in Austin, TX, United States, as a new-build house by Chioco Design. The project responds to a single-family neighborhood with an extroverted plan that reaches from the street to a sheltered pool courtyard. Designed in 2023 for a speculative builder, it borrows materials from nearby homes and gives them a crisp, contemporary reading.
Residência CV sits in Curitiba, Brazil, where Luiz Volpato Arquitetura renovates and expands a deteriorated house instead of razing it. The project keeps the structure, recalibrates the layout, and responds to a prominent position at the entrance of a consolidated condominium. It’s a house rethought for contemporary use, with new rooms, durable materials, and stronger ties to the garden and street.
La Croix unfolds along a Canadian mountainside, a house by Luc Plante architecture + design that tracks the slope with split levels and sweeping gables. The residence organizes daily life around an open living floor with a double-sided hearth and views toward the Eastern Townships. Clad in masonry and metal, it reads contemporary yet composed, with geometry tuned to light and the wooded site.
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