The Leonard Residence by Ehrlich Architects

The Leonard Residence by Ehrlich Architects

Concrete Homes Glass House Modern House

Ehrlich Architects has designed modern concrete house design combined with glass material creating beautiful 4000 sqf modern residence located on a 45-degree-angle downward sloping canyon site in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. Embracing an entry courtyard, the structure is a composition of vast areas in glass supported by steel and concrete, tracing its lineage to the case study houses of LA.

The hillside-bound site presented the most obvious challenge as well as opportunity for design. To achieve the vision objectives, the house is spliced into multiple levels to accommodate and embrace the steep slope yet make the most of all useable space, nearly panoramic views and augment privacy from the closely adjacent homes. Each level fluidly caters to specific living, working and relaxation needs of the residents, allowing for utmost efficiency and comfort.

The entrance level is greeted by a permanently-installed corten steel and glass dining table designed by the Architect. A two-story living room is suspended over the canyon on a structured concrete slab that also serves as the finished floor. From this level, a floating tread stair ascends to the master bedroom/bath suite and a floating reading loft affords classic LA views through the 20-foot high glass walls. Access to a roof terrace above the garage fosters sunbathing and relaxation.

The Garren Residence by Pique Architects

The Garren Residence by Pique Architects

Glass House

This beautiful and natural house design idea is the Garren residence located in Bend, Oregon. Designed by PIQUE Architects, this Garren residence is situated on a high desert prairie site and is a very low-slung building, with strong horizontal elements to visually tie the building to the landscape.

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Three parallel axis walls orient the house toward prominent views and define outdoor rooms expanding the small footprint into the landscape. The structure features a central void that further integrates the exterior and interior. This void delivers natural light to the basement rooms as well as provides a private exterior gathering space in the center of the house.

Wall Less House Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan by Tezuka Architects

Wall Less House Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan by Tezuka Architects

Glass House Japan House

This Wall Less House was designed and build by Tezuka Architects. This modern minimalist japanese house design is located in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan with 255.19m2 site area and 239.91m2 total floor area. The great lighting design of this japanese residential design was designed by Masahide Kakudate (Masahide Kakudate Lighting Architect & Associates, Inc.)



The Wall Less House Japan is supported by a central core and a pair of extremely thin columns. The absence of walls on the ground floor allows the internal space to extend to the garden on 360 degrees. The house stories consists of basement area and 3 floors. Construction project was done by Matsumoto Corporation and the construction period takes 8 month from start to finish ( April 2000 - December 2000 ).

The Openhouse, Hollywood Hills, California by XTEN architecture

The Openhouse, Hollywood Hills, California by XTEN architecture

Glass House Modern House

Designed by XTEN Architecture, The Openhouse is embedded into a narrow and sharply sloping site led to the creation of a house both integrated with the topography and open to city views below. Retaining walls double function to extend the first floor living area into the hillside and to form garden terraces on two levels. The front, side and rear facades of the house slide away, opening the interiors to gardens, views and the hillside landscape.



















Ten and twenty meter steel spans allow for unrestricted access to the surroundings and frame uninterrupted views over Los Angeles. Deep overhangs provide solar protection for double glazed walls that slide away to create continuous open spaces from interior to exterior, transforming the local hillside typology by allowing the house to be formed by the topography and opening directly to it in every direction.





















Building finishes are few in number but applied in a multiplicity of ways throughout the project, furthering the experience of continuous open space from interior to exterior. With all the glass walls completely open the house becomes a platform, open to hillside gardens and cinematic views over Los Angeles.





















Glass, in various renditions, is the primary wall enclosure material. There are forty-four sliding glass panels designed to disappear into hidden pockets and allow for uninterrupted views and access to exterior terraces and gardens. There are also fixed glass walls, mirror glass walls, and light gray mirror glass panels which lend lightness to the interior spaces.












The glass walls are visually counterweighted by sculptural, solid elements in the house rendered in stone, dark stained oak and plaster. The use of quartz flooring throughout the house, decks and terraces continues the indoor-outdoor materiality.

The Glass Box "X House" By Arquitectura X

The Glass Box "X House" By Arquitectura X

Glass House

This fantastic x-house is built like an opened glass box / glass house with a stunnig views of the valleys. Built in 2006-2007 in Quito, Ecuador, as you can see X House is one of a kind. X House allows you to look straight through to the other side in most areas. The rectangular home has floor to ceiling windows spanning its two floors. When looking at the home, the main focus has to be the large enclosed patio. The shape of the patio mirrors the home but on a smaller scale and is smartly separated from the rest of the interior home, making it feel like its own living space.




















Architects: Arquitectura X - Adrian Moreno Núñez, Maria Samaniego Ponce
Location: La Tola, valle de Tumbaco, Quito, Ecuador
Contractor: Adrian Moreno Núñez, Carlos Guerra Espinosa
Client: Adrian Moreno Núñez, Maria Samaniego Ponce, Lía Moreno Samaniego
Design year: 2003 – 2006
Construction year: 2006 – 2007
Structural Engineer: Pedro Caicedo
Electrical Engineer: Pedro Freile
Services: Raúl Cueva
Constructed area: 380 sqm
Photographs: Sebastián Crespo



















The X House Description :
Not having a site when we started design on our house, we set out an elemental scheme that could work both in Quito and the valleys east of the city; this meant distilling our experience into an abstracted form, inspired in the work of Donald Judd, that could be placed in any of the sites we would be likely to find: an open ended box, whose spatial limits would be the eastern and western ranges of the Andes.

As we had no actual place, we looked to the spaces we felt our own, and found the patio as the essential place maker throughout our architectural history. On the other hand was our fascination for the prototypical glass house and its possibilities in our year round temperate climate.



While the patio creates a sense of place it has to be enclosed in order to work, so the mountains can’t become the spatial limit. The glass house is perfect for that unlimited sense of space; the addition of a patio to the glass house gave us the chance to adapt to the different site possibilities.

We separated the private and public spaces defining a patio, the service spaces and circulation could be added as a plug-in as needed depending on site conditions, further defining the patio. Finally this diagram could be fitted into the open ended box according to specific site conditions that would define orientation, size and proportion.