Fascination Seaside Living: Architecture & Design - Hardcover

Van Uffelen, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3037682965 ISBN 13: 9783037682968

Publisher: Braun, 2024

Synopsis

The volume takes you on a journey to the world’s most beautiful houses set in gorgeous coastal settings.

Living by the sea, surrounded by dunes, cliffs or wide beaches is a life in sync with nature, immersed in nature. Naturally, this preferred location near the water also leaves its imprint on the buildings there. On a functional level, beach houses have to offer protection against the wind and waves, but above all, as the supreme manifestation of longing turned into architecture, they must give room for experiencing nature.

This volume invites you to rediscover and redefine life by the sea. The selected projects show the planning and construction possibilities in dealing with the special conditions of such locations. It presents creative designs and spatial concepts from all over the world of dreamlike, relaxed, and enjoyable living between water, air and earth.

About this title

About the Author

The core topic for Chris van Uffelen is the transfer of knowledge about design in all its manifestations. For more than twenty years the Dutch-German art historian has been publishing books as well as countless essays and articels on art, architecture, interior design and urban planning from antiquity to the present.

From the Back Cover

A house by the sea surrounded by dunes, cliffs and wide beaches is a dream of happiness for many people. It goes without saying that this preferred location on the water determines the construction method: beach houses must protect against wind and waves, just as they should give space to the experience of nature as a longing that has become architecture. This volume invites you to rediscover and redefine life at sea. The projects presented show the planning and constructive possibilities in dealing with these special conditions. Creative design and room concepts for dreamlike, relaxed and enjoyable living from all over the world will be presented: Open and close the door to the sea.

Edition details

• Publisher: Braun
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037682965
• ISBN 13: 9783037682968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224