Contemporary Designs of Houses
Contemporary home designs come in many different forms. You could perhaps find hundreds, if not thousands, of different contemporary home designs. However, certain trends do exist, and these fundamental architectural concepts can help you assess many contemporary home concepts. Certain principles, such as consolidation and sustainability, have a marked presence in contemporary home design.
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Integrations
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One of the concepts architects apply to contemporary home design is integration. Integration involves designing a home that encompasses all the activities that contemporary families may engage in from a home base. This contemporary design concept offers capacity not only traditional "home life" activity, but also for play and work activities. Examples of this type of home include a Modern Studio House in Rhode Island and a Live/Work house in Japan, as illustrated at the Trendir website.
Sustainable
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Another trend in contemporary home design involves the sustainable home. Such homes may use solar power, wind energy or combinations. Other environmentally friendly design elements might include provisions for indoor-outdoor vegetable gardening and composting facilities for organic waste disposal. A passive solar house design in Texas exemplifies this contemporary house design concept, also seen on the Trendir website.
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Conversions/Restorations/Renovations
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Conversions, restorations and renovations provide another architectural interest area in contemporary home design. Conversions involve such efforts as remodeling existing buildings into a contemporary home. Examples include renovation of old textile mill buildings into senior or low-income housing, as done by the city of Lowell, Massachusetts. Another example is converting deserted barns into homes, a potential mentioned in the Dick Francis novel "The Decider." Renovation examples include the updating of an existing house to a contemporary style, such as the Ranch House Makeover in Missouri and the 1910 historic house renovation in Atlanta, Georgia, both illustrated at the Trendir website.
Compact/Minimalist
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Another trend in contemporary house design involves keeping the scale of the home on a par with the needs of individuals or smaller families. Examples of this trend include the "Small Houses on a Budget" category and the individual minimalist design style of a modern Mexican home, both described at the Trendir website.
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