A rammed-earth townhouse, a renovated modernist kit home and a concrete house in Switzerland feature in Dezeen's houses of the month for May.

Also included in our monthly list of the five most popular residences featured on Dezeen are houses in Hawaii and Hyderabad – both with gabled corrugated-metal roofs.

Read on to find out more about Dezeen readers' favourite houses in May:

Photo by Matthew Millman

Hale Kiawe, USA, by Walker Warner Architects

Hale Kiawe is a minimalist family retreat on Hawaii's Kona Coast designed by Walker Warner Architects.

Set amid an undulating volcanic landscape, it has simple gabled forms clad in wood siding and topped with a corrugated-metal roof.

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Photo by Chris Mottalini

Sears Modern kit house renovation, USA, by BoND

This home on New York's Fire Island is one of oldest in the area, a two-bedroom Sears Modern kit house for which the original plans and materials were ordered from a catalogue.

Architecture studio BoND renovated the modernist home to restore it to its former simplicity after a 1999 renovation, stripping away finishes and adjusting the internal layout.

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