Bronze Architecture · 2021

Horizon Urban Home

by B5 Design

Bronze A' Design Award 2021 in Architecture
CLIENT: B5 Design
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About Horizon Urban Home

Horizon is a two story house designed as a family retreat on a private farm, away from the crowded city. The modern contemporary building uses light colours, wide terraces and biophilic elements to open the interior to the surrounding landscape. The ground floor holds an open kitchen and large living rooms that overlook the swimming pool area. The first floor holds the master bedroom and three children bedrooms, linked by a private terrace. Stone, wood and concrete are combined to give a solid and calm character.

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Horizon Urban Home is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Horizon Urban Home is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Horizon Urban Home splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

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Unique Properties: A Modern contemporary urban house located at a private farm designed to provide a family hideout from the crowded city atmosphere, carrying forward the modernist questioning of the fundamental premises of architecture, in the infinitude and wonder of shifting light and hand wrought detail and in the clarity and interconnection of built forms, with its deep sense of human comfort and pleasure
Dimensions & Packaging: Two story villa with biophilic elements, entrance path way and landscape, the dynamic architecture is characterized by its light colours and wide terraces, the house is designed to be amused by the surrounding scene, the Ground Floor has a modern open kitchen and large living rooms over looking the swimming pool area, while the First contains the master bedroom and three kids bedrooms connected by a private terrace to enjoy the view
Tags: modern villa , private rest house , modern house , relaxing house
Production Technology: Modern contemporary style giving clear look and the relaxation effect
Design Challenge: combining the materials (stone, wood and concrete) to offer solidity built while giving pleasure to the eye and touch
Research: As we begin the design process, we start by a thorough site analysis and a careful explorations into alternative setting of the particular building elements on the land, analysing the pros and cons of each arrangements, illustrating for our client what their options are and inviting them to speculate about directions they may not have considered. Starting with free hand sketches going to samples selections and mood boards then considering all the plans and details to the 3D illustration to show the combination of materials and masses and relation within and area studying to achieve all the needs
Inspiration: Achieving the deep sense of human comfort and pleasure, we got inspired by the architect Gaudi house and how it is very relaxing and yet getting the luxurious and elegant look, what more could one ask of home than that it combine security with wonder
Project Duration: The project started in April 2015 in Doha, Qatar and finished the design concept and technical drawings in the same year December 2015
Operation Flow: Combining elegance look with simple function to achieve the aime of the project for relaxation and enjoying the view and natural light
Patents: All Copyrights go to B5 design
Image Credits: B5 Design