Wood Details
How to create residential details where privacy and natural light co-exist
Viewed from the street, House 27 appears as a modest two-storey home. This impression belies the effects of the disciplined compositional use of materials and the subtle play between form, detail and surface. The street façade is composed at grade by a brick patterned plane juxtaposed to the deep recess of the entryway. This composition […]
Continue ReadingSimplicity in residential details for a minimal home
The building expresses both contrast and tenderness in relation to site and context. Its volume has been kept low, without any plinth or pitched roof. Facing Öresund, the terraced site has an ocean view, but the building questions the convention to turn all rooms towards that same view – the site has many qualities all […]
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A Farm School (Grangecole)The proposal reads the environment and reinterprets it. The new school is born on the basis of the traditional farm models of this zone. These farms are characterized by a clear structural order that stars the inside, a honest construction and a neutral volume. Structure is SpaceIn these traditional models and in […]
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In Buddhist mythology, Jetvana is the name of one of the Buddha’s most important spatial edifice which when literally translated means: the grove of Jeta, land donated to the sangha for founding a monastery. It was of semiotic significance that the site offered by Samir Somaiya owner of the neighboring sugar factory in rural Maharashtra […]
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