Showing posts with label vacation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vacation. Show all posts
Friday, April 4, 2014

The Best Sunsets from a Fancy Vacation Villa

If you have a villa like this, then you are really lucky! Having the chance to enjoy an outdoor place like this is really something amazing, and watching the sunset is one of the most beautiful things that you can ever watch, and the color of the sky is enough to make you relax and relieve all your stresses. This is a fancy vacation villa in Indonesia; everything in this place is just beautiful. The villa overlooks the hillside that is totally covered with greenery and the terrace includes a long pool just above the hillside and chaise lounges are added to enjoy and relax. An outdoor dining set that is totally made of wicker is added, where the chairs are covered with cushions, and the table is covered with a round glass.
Fancy Vacation Villa, Indonesia










Inside the villa, you can see fancy furniture; a living room and a dining space are set next to each other in a modern, cheerful style. This area is open to the terrace which makes natural sun light enter and enlighten the room. A lovely open kitchen is also available, which makes everything at hand easily. The bedroom and the bathtub are just breathtaking, what’s more beautiful and comforting than seeing the sunset while sitting in your own bedroom, or even while being in the bathtub! It’s magical! The bed is totally made of wood, and an oversized wooden headboard complements the natural ambiance of the whole place. Another room is available for kids, which includes bunk beds to save space, and another bedroom includes two single beds and overlooks the outer view, and glass enclosures are used to let you enjoy this view.













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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Spectacular Buck Creek modern vacation home

This stunning Buck Creek vacation home has been designed by Fougeron Architecture on Big Sur’s spectacular south coast, anchored in the natural beauty and power of the California landscape. The architects design embeds the building within the land, creating a structure that is inseparable from its context. The site, which features a 250-foot drop to the Pacific Ocean along the bluff and toward the west, offers dramatic views. Yet it demands a more complex form than a giant picture window.

The long, thin volume of the house conforms to the natural contours of the land and the geometries of the bluff, deforming its shape and structure in response, much like the banana slug native to the region’s seaside forests. In this way, the complex structural system applies natural forms to accommodate the siting. The main bearing system of the house is set back twelve feet from the bluff, both to protect the cliff’s delicate ecosystem and to ensure the structure’s integrity and safety. The house itself is cantilevered over the bluff. The interior is a shelter, an elegant refuge in contrast with the roughness and immense scale of the ocean and cliff.

The main body of the three-bedroom house is composed of two rectangular boxes connected by an all-glass library/den. A one-story concrete wing perpendicular to the main volume holds the ground-floor bedrooms and features a green roof; it is the boulder that locks the house to the land. The lower of the two main volumes, a double-cantilevered master bedroom suite, acts as a promontory above the ocean, offering breathtaking views from its floor-to-ceiling windows. The upper volume is an open-plan space-kitchen, living room, and dining room-with a swooping ceiling, all clad in wood, that follows the shape of the land.

The house’s two main facades express both shelter and exposure. On the north, clear expanses of glass reveal ocean and coastline views; long strips of translucent channel glass dapple the light, playing on the sea’s shimmering surface. The south facade, clad in copper, which wraps over the roof, is mostly enclosed, offering a retreat from the forces of nature. Roof overhangs on the east and west protect the windows and the front door from the harshness of sun and wind.

























Photos: Courtesy of Fougeron Architecture