1. Contemporary Houses

2. What is Contemporary House? A contemporary house is basically a house that has been built in modern standards and design. These homes are designed for todays lifestyles and typically have huge windows, large, open spaces, gabled roofs with cathedral ceilings and exposed beams or flat roofs.

3. Examples of Contemporary Houses.

4. Three Detailed Examples

5. Lakeside Studio Architect & Designer: Mark Dziewulski

7. Atmosphere This contemporary house dramatically hovers over the water, the same way skytower hovers over the clouds.

8. Lighting They use spot lights on the top and also there is a lighting system with daily light which they use day light.

9. Furniture They dont use too much furniture, space atmosphere is relaxed because of this and they seems confortable also.

10. Technical Detail Seperately usage of these glass pannels as a glass wall reflects a nice view and also pannels can open and air can easily circulate.

11. Austin Patterson Disston Architects

12. Atmosphere It looks luxury and also modern, harmony is very good between house and home.

13. Lighting There are lots of lights maybe it seems good and harmonic but its not saves energy.

14. Furniture Furnitures seems expensive and confortable

15. Technical Details Shape of the stair cases is so aesthetic. Area of the fire house is so good it looks inside the wall.

16. Courtyard House DeForest Architects

18. Atmosphere There is a nice combination between outside plants and inside house dont disturb our eyes inside the green area

19. Lighting Hide lights are so good

20. Furniture Colour of furnitures are harmonic with the wall.

21. Technical Details Very nice usage of steel structure.

22. Eco-Friendly Houses

23. What is Eco-Friendly House? When a home is eco friendly, it is environmentally friendly and you are able to save serious some cash or energy.

24. Three examples

25. WYboy Ranch Sutton Suzuki Architects

26. A special design feature was to use passive means of climate control to temper the house in summer so as not to require air-conditioning and to limit the heat load in winter

27. Techniques included building the house into the hillside to use the earth to naturally cool in the summer and retain heat in the winter;

28. Design around existing large oak trees for shade in summer.

29. Dream pool

30. The main house and several large outbuildings, are powered by 250-foot deep geothermal wells that take advantage of natural water circulation and solar energy

31. By incorporating Green design and the latest technology, Sutton Suzuki was able to minimize the estates environmental footprint, giving the client peace of mind

32. Green roofs