Modular House in Madrid, Spain by A-cero architecture Studio

Wow!!! my favorite Modular House,





Directed by Joaquin Torres, the first luxury modular houses that located in Madrid, Spain, was finished by A-cero architecture Studio, introducing a modular architecture product based on the principles of the Industrialized Construction. It applies the same ‘production line’ standardisation procedures to the construction, modularity, technology, quality control and time spaces that are applied to other many fields of human activity. The Modular House benefits from the speed and cost advantages of assembly line production. Producing in-factory and assembling on-plot means that within just 3 months a house design can be enjoyed after signing. More specialized labour can increase productivity and quality as well as reducing the costs.

A-cero plan to roll out the offering of bespoke modular houses offering decoration as equipping as an extra service, in the same way you would receive a boat. Example prices are divulged as 69,000€ for an 82 sq m house as standard, or fully decorated and equipped for 85,000€. Joaquin Torres A-cero architecture Studio also advised that this system need not be exclusive for residential construction – schools, offices, retirement homes or student residences could also benefit from this modular buildings technique

The project is unique from the typical prefabricated house in offering luxury but distinct from Daniel Libeskind’s recently revealed luxurious prefab (Libeskind Villa, the German-made Future House) in offering luxury at an affordable price, not simply for the economic elite.

Contemporary sustainable house design......

The Infiniski Manifesto House,

The Infiniski Manifesto House is a prefabricated building of contemporary sustainable house design was designed by Jaime Gaztelu and Mauricio Galeano, James & Mau as architects and designers. The Infiniski Manifesto House that located in Curacaví, Chile, is not only green home design, it is cheaply and quickly. The modular home is composed of two 40? shipping containers and two 20? containers. The wooden pallets that used on the home exterior gives it fantastic texture, but also has purpose, they provide shade and allow the home design to be naturally cooled, since air can move freely between the slats. The containers meanwhile, are completely weather tight and provide the necessary structural capacity for the green home.






Infiniski designs and builds eco-friendly houses and buildings based on the use of recycled building material, re-used building material and non polluting materials and the integration of alternative and renewable green energy. It tries to think the values of architectural design and construction differently, a contribution to the needs of our changing environment. For Infiniski Manifesto House projects, James & Mau offer innovative and contemporary designs based on bio-climatic and modular architecture.

The sustainable interior design at the Infiniski Manifesto House is airy and open due to a large living space on the bottom floor created by the placement of the containers. What seems like inexpensive storefront windows are used as the walls, which can be slid open to naturally ventilate the sustainable house design. There is also a folding screen to create a covered outdoor porch or shade the interior from the sun when folded down. Geothermal heat pumps also help provide heating and cooling. The green house design pictures was taken by Antonio Corcuera.

Butler House Design by Andrew Maynard Architects in Australia

Such a nice house,







This building is a concept of modern urban house designed for the young family and boisterous young boys. Located in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia, the Butler House was designed by Andrew Maynard Architects is vertical and architectural pinnacle, fills the void that effects so many inner-city dwellings and a lack of outdoor space. This warehouse apartment consist a rooftop terrace with a difference and complete with canopy and grass.

The Butler House was a tricky project to approach. The defined nature of the boundaries meant a creative approach had to be adopted in order to make the most of what was available. The result is an adaptable home design that will grow and alter over time, just as the family will. Butler House designed to reduce sound transmission, but not to a point of isolation. A very open, vertical path of stairs allowed sounds to travel to all corners of the home design, where their path aided by ubiquitous reflective surfaces in steel and concrete.

Where the rooftop pod sits, atop the vertical spine, it sits within the home existing structure. The existing roof structure was simply cut at the collar-tie and refashioned in a manner, minimising steel use, to allow a bedroom for the rooftop pod – a bionic upgrade of sorts. A trafficable glass floor on the roof, next to the spiral staircase, allows a visual connection and solar access to the living areas below. The effect of the newly- penetrated light throughout the three-storey apartment cannot be downplayed. Again, the adjustable louvres and blind help control the light admittance.

The dark, Butynol clad roof of the pod responds in size and pitch to the neighbouring rooflines, but affords residual spaces to either end, open to the sky, with glimpses to the city skyline beyond. The turf covering is both practical and playful, bolstering tension against the adjacent corrugated tin. With doors wide open, the continuity of turf well and truly blurs and line between interior and outdoor. The kitchen functioned, defined and connected. The overhead joinery was added for further storage and as a point of connection to the living space beyond. Incorporated was the spiral staircase from above, tying it into the architecture design of the space.

The existing mezzanine floor was somewhat of an acoustic pitfall within the house. Used primarily as a rumpus room for the children, it’s openness was at times detrimental. The challenge was to cordon off the space to use as a bedroom, without obstructing the all-important windows. The solution came in covering the gap between wall and floor in playful joinery, whilst a cavity to allow light and ventilation to the living room below. The joinery not only successfully dislocates the spaces, but becomes a bed, storage, robe and table. To the other side of the room, in-lieu of a dumb wall, oversized sliding doors offer acoustic and thermal isolation when needed.

Upside-Down House by Daniel Czapiewski in Poland

Upside down house????



The upside-down house in Poland took 114 days to build the structure, a typical project made by Czapiewski’s corperation which specializes in wooden houses, would normally take 21 days to construct. Daniel Czapiewski remembers that his workers had to take an hour’s break every three hours while working inside the house because they were feeling disorientated and confused from the strange angles of the walls.



The upside down house is not the first unusual structure made or devised by Czapiewski. He is infamous for making the longest single piece of wood in the world – a Guinness World Record. Czapiewski also smuggled a complete antique house out of Russia. The house was built by Polish detainees sent in their thousands to desolate regions of Siberia by Russian Tsars in the eighteenth century. Because of its age, suspected to be over 240 years old, the Siberian house was officially an antique and therefore illegal to export.



A Polish businessman and philanthropist says he has built this upside down house to remind people of wrongdoings against humanity. The house has been attracting thousands of tourists. People visiting the house start to feel sea-sick once they are inside. “Mankind spoiling this world, and only mankind can fix it…”, the owner of this new wonder said. The house took 5 times longer to build than a normal house.

Modern Design

Nice House with green technology,






This green home was designed by Edward Suzuki Associates Inc. with modern design concept that adapted from traditional Japanese design vocabulary. The House like a Museum is one of the International Architecture Awards for 2009 The Best New Global Design that located in Kamakura, Japan, a five-minute walking distance from the railroad station, sits in a commercial and residential zone. As such, the neighbouring houses and shops encroach upon the site rather closely, so much so that from the start the idea to ‘look out’ from the property was abandoned, an instead ‘look inward’ approach was adopted.

Since the client-owner had a vast amount of art collection and wished to display such art in the new green house design, the theme ‘House like a Museum’ became the design generator. The theme ‘Go in to go out’ was applied to the design of this sustainable house design and the rectangular silhouette of the green home design was pushed to the boundary limits of the 776 square meter property in the center of which was placed a 15-meter diameter circular patio. The thrust of the planning was to allow each and every room to face and to have a view of this central garden.

Finish material for the exterior is basically diatomite over exterior insulation, while for the interior it is predominantly Japanese stucco-paint for walls and ceilings and either bamboo laminates or limestone for the floors. Bamboo laminates are used for all built-in and movable furniture as well, the reason being bamboo, in contrast to wood, grows much more rapidly and hence more eco-friendly house.

In the same vein, much effort has been made to borrow from and apply the wisdom of traditional Japanese sustainable green design, such as the ‘Engawa’ (peripheral corridor) that fuses or separates as required the inside and the outside, ‘Tsuboniwa’ (tiny patios), ‘Hisashi’ (roof overhangs), ‘Tsuufuu’ (cross ventilation), selected use of evergreens and non-evergreens and roof gardens for extra geothermal insulation. All these are ‘passive’ means of applying natural energy efficiency instead of ‘forced’ mechanical methods expending unnecessary green energy.

Farm House Design by JVA in Toten, Norway

What a nice farm house....







This is a small house for two historians and their children, overlooking lake Mjøsa at an abandoned farm which they have inherited. The existing old house in the yard is not insulated and used for guests and storage. The existing barn has to be torn down because the main load bearing construction is rotten. However, the cladding of the barn, more than 100 years old, is still of good quality and now used for exterior cladding and terraces of the new house. Some of the old planks are cut with a varied with at the root of the tree compared to the top. These diagonals are used to adjust the horizontality of the cladding towards the sloping lines of the ground and the angle of the roof. The spatial complexity, exposed construction, and material simplicity of the barn has also inspired and informed the new architecture in a wider sense.

From the main entrance to the south, the interior organization has a dual focus, both opening the whole facade towards the lake to the north, and at the same time stepping the central space downwards to the terrace at the west side of the house. The series of common spaces at these sloping axes are visually connected, opening the full length of the house. Above, there is a children’s loft, below the parent’s part of the house. The main section rises towards the south to allow for the low winter sun to enter the building. The glazed and lofty winter garden works as a heat collector at winter time, and heat buffer for the rest of the house at summer time.