Architonic's most-viewed projects of 2021: Houses

With wellness and sustainability two of the biggest architectural trends of the year, it’s no surprise that our list of the most-clicked housing projects from the past year reflects the growing importance and respect for considerate construction. The featured projects both complement their own environments while taking care not to exploit others. Here’s the list of our users' most popular housing projects of 2021, how they fit into their natural landscapes, and provide contentment to those who call them home.

1 – Es Pou House by Marià Castelló Architecture
Formentera, Spain

This home in Formentera is split into three separate sections. The first is an open-ended porch for shaded relaxation at the hottest times of the day. This initial structure also shades the main entranceway into the house’s second section, itself separated from the third by connecting brickwork. Each separation brings a continuation of light and air through the collective construction.

2 – Holiday Home by Orange Architects
De Koog, The Netherlands

This pavilion-like home, specially created for vacations, is part cabin in the woods, part favourite family board game. By dividing the spaces by how they’re used rather than with individual rooms for individual people, Orange Architects have created a family getaway that encourages quality time spent together. Highly insulated with a light and spacious layout, the atmosphere remains fresh and breezy in the daytime, and warm and cosy in the evenings, making sure cabin fever won’t set in, whatever the holiday weather.

3 – Interlude House by Ayutt and Associates Design
Khet Sathon, Thailand

Hemmed in on all sides by its bustling Bangkok neighbourhood, Interlude House pushes itself back towards its boundary on one side, leaving its opening to face a neighbour’s garden. By casting large, imposing plant life along its perimeter, the house protects itself from the cacophony of its location and combines mid-ground with incumbent background vegetation, visually stretching its outdoor space.

4 – HV Pavilion by GGA Gardini Gibertini Architects
Castel Del Piano, Italy

In the middle of an olive grove, the envelope-shaped HV Pavilion seems to rise up out of the landscape, opening its locally-inspired ‘dry-stone’ lid to expose an aperture of living space underneath. Sandwiched by its extruded concrete terrace floor and ceiling, the home is framed with natural wood, further establishing its connection to the hillside.

5 – Weekend House Nové Hamry by NEW HOW
Nové Hamry, Czech Republic

With a face-like form that seems sculpted by Pablo Picasso, the Weekend House from NEW HOW features a steep roof nose – a requirement to deal with heavy snowfall during the winter. The home blends its palette of dark grey from the prominent aluminium roof with neighbouring forestry of dark green spruce trees and grey granite and basalt.

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This article is part of Architonic's Annual Review series, reliving our users' most-viewed projects of the past year, while looking ahead to the next.