Our newest lookbook collects eight dwellings that had been self-designed by architects and designers together with Mexico-based Ludwig Godefroy and London studio Holloway Li.
From a modernist-style home in South Africa to an American household residence characterised by a gigantic inside crane, there are a selection of supplies and ground plans provided by every of those houses.
The properties display the myriad methods architects and designers apply their information to their very own residing areas and push the boundaries of what’s potential outdoors of consumer constraints.
That is the most recent in our lookbooks sequence, which offers visible inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For extra inspiration, see earlier lookbooks that includes wood kitchens, assertion bathtubs and paper lamps.
Atwater Home, USA, by Rebecca Rudolph and Colin Thompson
Co-founder of Design, Bitches Rebecca Rudolph and her husband Colin Thompson of Gensler designed their very own house in Atwater Village, Los Angeles.
Within the kitchen, the pair mixed a sophisticated marble splashback with a central stone island clad in bespoke concrete panels made by Thompson.
Mossel Bay home, South Africa, by Yvette van Zyl
Modernist and nautical influences come collectively at this three-bedroom house in Mossel Bay, South Africa, designed and owned by native architect Yvette van Zyl.
Porthole-style home windows illuminate the inside, which encompasses a combination of concrete ceilings and flooring and partitions of uncovered or painted brick.
Peckham Home, UK, by Surman Weston
Peckham Home is a self-designed and self-build venture by structure studio Surman Weston, the place co-director Percy Weston at present lives together with his household.
Hit-and-miss brickwork clads the house’s placing facade, whereas lime plaster strains the partitions inside. Finish-grain woodblocks, salvaged from offcuts of the ceiling’s wood construction, had been additionally used to create chunky flooring.
London condo, UK, by Holloway Li
Native design studio Holloway Li sought to honour the utilitarian kitchens of London’s many rapid meals retailers when making a “distinctive” circle-brushed metal kitchen for this Highbury condo.
Inhabited by studio co-founder Alex Holloway, the condo options pops of color in its resin eating desk and chubby orange armchair. A tub was additionally positioned within the open-plan residing area, including to the house’s uncommon design.
Casa SanJe, Mexico, by Ludwig Godefroy
Recognized for his brutalist-style buildings, architect Ludwig Godefroy and his companion renovated this home and residential studio in Mexico for himself and his household.
Built-in with an adjoining backyard, Casa SanJe is characterised by a cast-concrete inside with a mix of balmy wooden panels and a wall coated in reddish volcanic stone.
Brighton home, UK, by Studiotwentysix
Isabella and Dan Grey of structure workplace Studiotwentysix created a birch plywood-lined loft extension for his or her household home in Brighton, England.
Containing 55 sq. metres of further residing areas, the loft consists of an uncovered red-oxide metal construction and is punctuated by geometric skylights.
JArzm Home, USA, by John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects
The founders of John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects inserted a large yellow development crane into the kitchen of their Los Angeles household house within the metropolis’s Silver Lake neighbourhood.
“Designing our personal home was nice as a result of we did not must ask permission,” John Friedman informed Dezeen, explaining the bizarre transfer. “We might do no matter we wish.”
Oasis is the house of structure studio Unknown Works‘ co-founder Theo Video games Petrohilos, who wished to renovate a terraced London home by including a facet and rear extension to create a pliant inside and maximise pure airy.
The studio positioned a petite inside courtyard on the centre of the plan, which was knowledgeable by customary Japanese stone gardens that present cross air flow all through houses.
