Drawer Deck Design: Convertible Interior & Exterior Space « Dornob

Drawer Deck Design: Convertible Interior & Exterior Space « Dornob: "What a simple yet strange design idea: an interior living room area that slides out like a drawer to become a cantilevered exterior balcony space overlooking an historic square in Germany.

The rest of the interior space is equally compelling, filled with wall niches that let in light and serve as shelving units to store odds and ends collected by the owners, a (post)modern white space with offbeat wood, stone and other more colorful accents and decor.
While this is certainly an extreme design idea, the architects nonetheless did keep the context in mind. The windows, while more frequent and regularly spaced than those of the surrounding buildings, are contextual in their size and proportions. The roof line has a familiar angle that also allows this offbeat home to blend in with its surrounding architectural context."

Creative Modern Home + Contextual Design Approach = « Dornob

Creative Modern Home + Contextual Design Approach = « Dornob: "It is one thing to design an outstanding modern home, but quite another to make a contemporary modernist design like this unique house also fit with a less modern neighborhood. This house is an excellent example of a structure built with its own strong sense of personal identity and modern functionalism but that also relates to its surroundings in a respectfully contextual way.

Seen from virtually any angle this house has something of a modernist aesthetic to offer, from abstract slits to asymmetrical facades. It is even constructed of concrete – unlike its 1920s brick-built adjacencies. Nonetheless, looked it with a broader lense it seems to fade into the background and below to the street wall of similar stand-alone buildings from another era.
Within the confines of the complex surrounding the structure, the ground plane is also extremely modern with repetitive wood laid out in two tones – a flat contrast to the vertical walls of the building itself. Inside, the home is dominated by white, wood and concrete, bringing together simple warmth and a small scale with modern surface treatments."

the N house in Oita, Japan by Sou Fujimoto Architect

very interesting play with interior and exterior....