Architectural Record 2015-04
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD APRIL <strong>2015</strong> BUILDING TYPE STUDY 957<br />
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Every year, record looks for houses that advance the architectural<br />
discipline—they push the limits of spatial concepts and materiality or<br />
refine the existing vocabulary in imaginative ways. Just see this year’s<br />
choices: one house is clad in solid-surface material; another reflects<br />
its surroundings with polished stainless steel; a third literally mirrors<br />
its environs, using glass. While the latter two dissolve architecture<br />
within natural settings, other houses here open out to nature in<br />
traditional but inspiring ways. One selection, however, doesn’t do any<br />
of the above: instead it distorts our perception of scale, height, and<br />
function in a surprisingly inventive urban dwelling. Like the others,<br />
it creatively explores the potential of single-family house design.<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY: © OSKAR DA RIZ<br />
5(&25'<br />
+286(6<br />
MIRROR HOUSES, BOLZANO, ITALY,<br />
PETER PICHLER ARCHITECTURE
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