This week's picks:

+ Meixner Schlüter Wendt's Wohlfahrt-Laymann Residence, "The original cottage within is the site for a series of excavations and interventions that link it to the new exterior skin". At sub-studio design blog.

+ Hidalgo Hartmann Arquitectura's guest house in Girona at AMNP.

+ Powerhouse Company's Villa 1 at Arch Daily, "Since the spatial needs of the house called for at least twice the volume allowed by the regulations, we designed it upside-down: all day functions above ground and all bedrooms below, but with ample daylight access.".

+ Darren Petrucci's 600 sq. ft. VH R-10 gHouse, a 16-by-40-by-24-foot guesthouse in Martha's Vineyard featuring SIP panel construction and a green roof. Via Materialicious with more at Boston Magazine and Architectural Record.

+ Binary Design Studio's SEED[pod] and submonitor house. ""Modeled as low purchase price, low square footage, the SEED[pod] is added to in affordable and manageable increments.". Via Materialicious and Archinect.

+ H Arquitectes' House 101 at Archinect, "in a corner of a neighbourhood of a typical urban centre, in a small village near Barcelona. The first great decision was to compact the program in two only floors.".

+ Michelle Kaufmann's mkHearth, the eco modern farmhouse, "The mkHearth centers on a hearth space where a cabinetry / fireplace unit extends and connects the first through third floors.". At Jetson Green.