#vernacular-reinterpretation
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a 1930s chair is the architectural inspiration for gad's nature experience center in china

A free-form roof floats like a cloud, allowing relaxed, locally adapted architecture that grows from alpine terrain and frames mountain, village, and water landscapes.

Photography

fromwww.archdaily.com

1 week ago

Villa Boso / Kenichi Teramoto / office of Teramoto

A villa was designed and built entirely without concrete as a contemporary reinterpretation of vernacular architecture and critique of concrete-dependent construction.

Remodel

fromwww.archdaily.com

2 months ago

Alicia House / ALTOVA

Casa Alicia is a 200 m² contemporary, bioclimatic reinterpretation of vernacular architecture in Comitan de Dominguez, designed as Airbnb accommodation and completed in 2024.

Design

fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine

3 months ago

kapsimalis architects embeds stone-clad cave homes into greek island's hillside

A terraced Folegandros residence uses pavilion and semi-subterranean volumes that reinterpret local vernacular, integrating stone, concrete, and oak into the sloped landscape.

fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine

5 months ago

mature trees and patios shape domestic life in mexican residence by estudio villagalvez

Casa Gálvez by Estudio Villagálvez stands at the edge of a dense residential and industrial neighborhood in León, Mexico, where the city unexpectedly meets a strip of greenery. This adjacency defines the identity of the residence that opens toward a communal landscape of mature trees, including a flamboyant (Delonix regia) and a eucalyptus, integrating them into its composition and framing them as thresholds, companions, and internal landscapes.