Articles by Bianca Valentina Roșescu

A residence that’s all about celebrating the family’s love for their land and their agricultural heritage, situated amidst residential pockets of Chennai, India. On account of this, neighborhoods experiencing urban sprawls and extents of farmlands being turned into commercial plots have a significant change in the residents’ way of life. The brief aims to revert to a grounded lifestyle setup through a design that captures the essence of being connected to one’s roots. The client’s understanding of the significance of landscape and the design team’s conscious effort to integrate that with the activities inside built spaces guide the project decisions.

Luxury Frontiers, the San Francisco and Johannesburg-based international design and development firm, has conceived and designed exclusive luxury accommodation for Camp Sarika by Amangiri in Southern Utah. This first-ever North American all-weather, year-round camp is home to 10 luxury tents nestled at the foot of Utah’s mighty mesas.

A “resort-style” town house in the center of Saigon. Located in the very dense and hectic district 1 of Ho Chi Minh City, this town house is only 3,6m in width X 10m in depth, tube shape land. The recycled louvers and the ceramic wall blocks of the front façade give a vernacular interpretation from the street, widely opened on the ground floor, like the typical shop houses of the city. In opposition to the bustling public space, and despite a very limited area, the interiors spaces create a “resort” like experience.

Injecting a dose of mid-century California modernism into the Rocky Mountain West, Tengoku Residence embraces the natural terrain of Jackson Hole in an unexpectedly modern way. Diverging from the mountain modern style typical of the region, the design of the 4,739-square-foot vacation home was inspired by the owner couple’s shared love of Japanese Zen gardens and mid-century modern design, as well as their backgrounds living in California and Hawaii.

Jokopi – MERR, a local coffee shop branch that is currently expanding in Indonesia, built its first drive-thru coffee shop concept during the Covid-19 pandemic. People tend to be warier of closed indoor spaces because of how easy it is to get infected. Therefore, the drive-thru concept is applied as a design response to create a resilient space for customers and to be prepared for a possible upcoming pandemic outbreak.