4 Advice to Choose a Triangular Cottage

Living under the slope can mean living with the charm of sloping surfaces and living with the charm of beams and the like. Thanks to its unique shape, the A-frame house offers plenty of space inside. The high ceilings and natural materials give the interior a warm and cosy atmosphere, while also feeling open and spacious.

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The kitchen, dining and living areas are mostly at ground level. Here, the focus is on the connection to nature. Floor-to-ceiling windows let in light and connect the interior to the natural surroundings. If a gallery is included, the living space can open up into the gable. As the house is mostly a timber-frame construction, the natural building material is also the dominant element inside. The bedrooms are located under the gable on the upper floor. Sometimes there is a third level at the top, where sleeping can take place.

Critics find fault with the fact that the A-frame house's interior is characterised only by its slopes. Although this limits the design possibilities inside the house, it also allows for creative solutions: Open beams or visible staircases, for example, create a modern loft feel.

With custom-made furniture, you can make the most of any slope. For example, bunk beds under the slope create a wonderfully cosy bed for the night and make the most of the space available. If the bed is placed under a skylight, and it's a starry night, you can fall counting shooting stars instead of sheep. With a sense for the overall design, you can create great living environments of the highest quality.

The A-frame house is a special type of A-frame house: It consists entirely of roofs that reach down to the ground. The building has four roofs, all with the same pitch, and the peaks all touch each other.

A tent roof has no ridge. One of the most characteristic features is symmetry. This is why this type of building is also called a pyramid house. One of the most famous buildings of this type is the glass pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre in Paris.

In Scandinavia, these houses are often used as holiday homes on the beach. Here, this type of building is called a Finn cottage or Finland house. There are often entire holiday villages built in this style. This type of roof is particularly popular in ski resorts, as the snow easily slides off the building.

If the house is located in warmer regions, the main living space on the ground floor remains cool because the warm air rises to the top of the building. In Germany, the A-frame house is typically found in the lakeland of Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, the Harz Mountains, Thuringia, or the Ore Mountains.

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A tight, triangular corner site can be a source of restrictive constraints and frustration. Where right angles are considered to be the norm, the acute corner can be problematic for resolving a design programmatically. On the other hand, the constraints of the site can be a source of creativity and ingenuity.

The eight projects featured in this collection embrace the challenges of a corner site. Instead of shying away from the site’s imposing geometry, these designs exaggerate their site constrains and corner conditions. The acute corner is resolved both on the façade and interior of the building with innovative and inspired design. With a varied range of design resolutions, some projects take the corner geometry through and resolve the building in a sharp edge, while others employ gently rounded corners on carefully sculpted façades.

The last strategy demonstrated in this collection is the blunted corner, which allows for the addition of more windows on the resulting façade segment. As a result of their structural shapes, these projects’ interiors take on equally innovative, often wedge-shaped spaces. Take a look at these unique spaces with astute designs and thoughtful programmatic solutions …

Australia House by Andrew Burns Architects, Niigata, Japan

This corner design exaggerates the edge condition by dramatically extruding the corner edge vertically. With this gesture, the house has accentuated corners in plan and elevation.

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Triangle House by E2A Piet Eckert und Wim Eckert Architekten, Winterthur, Switzerland

In this design, the corner is chopped off or blunted to allow for windows to be applied to the narrow façade.

On the Corner by EASTERN Design Office, Higashiokino, Higashiomi, Japan

The corner in this design is dematerialized with glass windows. The result is a dynamic façade plane composed of receding and protruding windows.

Triangolo by sebastian nagy | architects, Spojovacia, Nitra, Slovakia

This edge is highlighted with the change in material at the corner; the dark gray siding is interrupted by a vertical light member. The sharp angular balconies also echo the overarching design geometry.

5 – 9 Roslyn St by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects, Potts Point, Australia

This corner building softens the façade junction with a broad curved corner. This softening is reinforced by the undulation of the façade in sections at the top of the building.

Tres Picos Tower by LBR&A, Mexico City, Mexico

The largest project in the collection, Tres Picos Tower demonstrates the corner site at the impressive scale of a residential tower.

Mount Lawley House by Robeson Architects, Perth, Australia

This private home terminates in an outdoor triangular balcony. The flexibility of the outdoor space suits the constrained nature of the acute triangle.

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