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Shi House
Works #689 2021 - Design Presentation
Architectural Design / Houses/Villas
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- architecture
- building
- furniture
- indoors
- living room
- room
- coffee table
- table
- couch
- home decor
- interior design
- foyer
- waiting room
- reception
- reception room
- fireplace
This house sits patiently on the slope of a ravine waiting each day for the sun to set behind the mountain.
The project is formed by a vertical element that opts for a stony materiality to become, with time and climate, part of the mountain on which it rests.
This new and platonic stone connects vertically the access with the rest of the house, which is organized as a solitary horizontal element that emerges abruptly from the mountain and projects towards the front until it floats above it. Its white, abstract and somewhat defiant nature seeks a visual balance between the natural and the artificial. The Japanese believe that to experience a phenomenon you have to place two opposites, this house could be an exercise in the meeting of these two opposites.
The house is closed to the neighbors and is transparent to the front and to a natural reserve within a deep ravine which is framed horizontally along the public areas.
The use of the Engawa or interior-exterior space around the entire glazed surface is intended to dilute the light and cause a smooth transition between the interior and exterior.
The private areas on the contrary to the rest of the house become very introspective, illuminated and ventilated by a long courtyard that only connects to the outside through the sky.
The project is formed by a vertical element that opts for a stony materiality to become, with time and climate, part of the mountain on which it rests.
This new and platonic stone connects vertically the access with the rest of the house, which is organized as a solitary horizontal element that emerges abruptly from the mountain and projects towards the front until it floats above it. Its white, abstract and somewhat defiant nature seeks a visual balance between the natural and the artificial. The Japanese believe that to experience a phenomenon you have to place two opposites, this house could be an exercise in the meeting of these two opposites.
The house is closed to the neighbors and is transparent to the front and to a natural reserve within a deep ravine which is framed horizontally along the public areas.
The use of the Engawa or interior-exterior space around the entire glazed surface is intended to dilute the light and cause a smooth transition between the interior and exterior.
The private areas on the contrary to the rest of the house become very introspective, illuminated and ventilated by a long courtyard that only connects to the outside through the sky.
