Lakehouse Residence by Max Strang Architecture

Max Strang Architecture has implementaly designed the Lake House Residence in area of 4500 sq foot located in Winter Heaven, Florida.
This modern residence design gets LEED-certified as the first certified in the region. Mainly constructed in square shape, this modern house interior is combined in same taste and supports the passive environtmental design. "Green" design concepts are embeded to this "white" house for supplying the home energy needs.

Architects: Max Strang Architecture

Location: Winter Haven, Florida, USA

Area: 4,500 sqft

Year: 2010

Photographs: Paul Warchol, Calder Wilson

Hvac Coordinator: Joseph Strickler

Electrical Contractor: Robert Krieger

Structural: Douglas Wood Engineers

Mep Engineer: Jose Martinez, P.E

Solar System: Quick Beam Energy

General Contractor: Alan Ulch Builders

Lakehouse Residence by Max Strang Architecture:

“Registered with the USGBC, this modern home is anticipated to be Winter Haven’s first LEED-certified residence. The interior living areas are conceived as wooden volumes nestled within an outer stucco “shell”. The shell provides generous eight-foot overhangs, which shelter the walls of glass from the Florida sun. A narrow courtyard amplifies the arrival experience and creates a privacy barrier for the private realm of the home.

The home incorporates important passive environmental design concepts that result in abundant day-lighting and cross-ventilation potential. Glazing on the south elevation is extremely limited and a mature oak tree filters afternoon solar heat gain. Active environmental design features include a solar photovoltaic system, solar hot-water heaters, geothermal HVAC and LED lighting.

The one-story home, located on a Central Florida lake, contains four bedrooms and a kitchen, dining room, living room and office. A pool and covered terrace are positioned along the lake-side of the home.”

Photos courtesy of Max Strang Architecture, Paul Warchol , Calder Wilson

Casa Sulla Morella, The Modern House

Castelnovo Sotto, Reggio Emilia, Italy, a contemporary house featured with sustainable technologies has been designed completely by Andrea Oliva Architetto. 
This house built in 2009 is constructed like modern house shape but there are much differences, the house adapts the environmentaly friendly complement such as passive and active technologies. Natural sun enters and makes accent of exposure into the house interior. Combination color usage of its interior both bright and dark of wall and furniture sharpen deeply its view outside and inside. There are some active energy technologies equiped and supplied for supplying the house energy, especialy exploiting the sun.

Photos by: Kai-Uwe Schulte-Bunert

Casa Sulla Morella by Andrea Oliva Architetto:

“To the borders of the country of Castelnovo Sotto, beetween the stream Morella and a roman road, in a landscape context characterized from channels, ditches, rows, shrubby stains, gardens, villas and agricultural houses it places the “House on the Morella”.

Inserted between rural landscape and observer to 60 mt from the road, suspended by the ground to protection of the tall stratum of superficial wather and to memory of the installations “terramare”, the residence is composed of two staggered elements to northeast: the porch or climatic mitigator and the housing space or insulating body.

With an orientation of 18°toward west the house exploits to the best the natural contributions that, because of the geometry of the porch, of the ample surfaces south glass door and of the flowing obscuring, they anticipate the opening to the “winter sun”and the protection from the “afternoon summer sun.”The study about the solar axonometries has allowed, therefore, to opportunely appraise the incidence of the sun on the wrap and get into proportion the fixed screenings of the vertical settis and the horizontal shutters and the mobile screenings of the flowing pannels.
The combination of some characters of the agricultural houses they are proposed through a reason euclidea, that in the key form-function, distills elements as the “porta morta” (passing space in the residence with scope of ventilation), the “sporto di gronda” (coverage's extension for protection of the vertical masonries) and the “portico” (integrated coverage or juxtaposed for the protection of open and external spaces of the building).
The residence has a structure in portant walls (smaller presence of thermal bridges), constituted by bricks with pores, of 38 cm, coupled to a layer of coat insulator on the external side of 10 cm, the attics are made of tiles and concrete with riddles in reinforced concrete, coibentate and separated while the coverage had a layer of 22 cm of isolation, that is coupled to a coverage mantle in corrugate iron, draining, connected to a system that pick up the rain water.
The windows are in plywood with low emissive glass and gas argon. The plant design is integrated with domotic and allows a reduction of the consumptions through the control of the temperature of the single rooms, the predisposition for an efficient job of the great electrical appliances, the automatic turning off of the lights in empty places, the checked generation of warm water for sanitaries and the regulation of the use times for each single instruments.
The heat system is constituted by radiant panels feeded by a low condensation boiler while the sanitary warm water is integrated from panels solar, places on the coverage, where an integrated photovoltaic system for 6 Kw is in progress of realization. The residence is endowed with a mechanized system for the rycircle of the air, that bring the scheduled consumption for the heating to 5,19 kWh / mq.year.”

Sustainable Desert Home Design- J2 Residence

Design: assemblageSTUDIO

Photography: Bill Timmerman

Landscape Architect: E Group
Interiors: Cleo Design
General Contractor: Darrell Fellhauer
Structural Engineer: Lochsa Engineering
Electrical Engineering: RHR

2011, AssemblageSTUDIO has completely designed the J2 Residence trying to combine modern and contemporary house construction. Located in Las Vegas, Nevada, this house covers the soil surface around desert area. This house model considers the around nature and the house functions such as J2 residence equips local plants and pool making fresh atmosphere and remembering its area condition that has high dry level. Elegance interior and entertainment facilities have been completed this house that purpose to its fun.

J2 Residence by assemblageSTUDIO:

“The project is located in the master planned development of Summerlin, along the western edge of Las Vegas at the base of Red Rock. The community’s design requirements call for “design individuality, horizontally and sensitivity to the desert hillside environment.” J2 recognizes the owners and developers combined appreciation of the desert environment through our choice of materials, environmental orientations, daylighting, landscaping and use of renewable energy sources.

Our client desired a home that engaged the outdoors within their living spaces. Expanded views into the adjacent golf course and foothills provide a connection between indoors and out. Each public space; great room, dining room, library, and casita is provided a view into the distant landscape as well as intimacy with the courtyard and pool. The basement bar and game room area connects to the outside through a courtyard which admits daylight into the space.

The home provides a large percent of its own power consumption through Kyocera Multicrystal Photovoltaic Modules placed on the wing canopy. The canopy has been designed to eliminate direct sunlight from entering into the residence during the hottest seasons while allowing maximum visibility to the south. Rammed earth construction creates a thermal mass to mitigate the extreme fluctuations in day and nighttime temperatures.”