Source: Brandlhuber+ Photography: Erica Overmeer Working from the idea of the Four-Directional Module (0082.2 VRM Hybrid Houses), this beach house in Rocha, Uruguay, uses stacked maisonette units to optimize exposure to the sun and surrounding landscape. Perched on pilotis above a pool in a beachside pine grove, the house takes the 3.5 per 12 meter module as its primary building block, repeating and rotating it to cr

Source: Dorte Mandrup Architekter Photography: Torben Eskerod Nicknamed “The Crystal” because of its semitranslucent “skin” made out of polycarbonate that allows for the inner light to escape into the dark Copenhagen night, The Crystal has become somewhat of a local landmark. Flexibility and coherency are other keywords regarding The Crystal. The inner landscape is painted green, which creates a coherency that allows

Source: Brandlhuber website Photography: Erica Overmeer Located in Berlin-Wedding, the multi-use atelier and gallery building combines different forms of usage. Although the area has no binding land-use plan, a regulation from 1958 only permits the construction of commercial buildings. Yet at the same time, an ongoing grandfather clause also ensures that the area remains essentially a residential zone. In this contex