Lac Megantic
—Quebec, CA
Nestled in between
the picturesque landscape of Lac-Megantic a quaint guesthouse that
acts as an extension to the family’s main dwellings. The
design intent is to fully utilize the seasonal changes by integrating
nature into the built environment. —Quebec, CA
The guesthouse emerges from the hard landscape, slowly defining a transition between nature and architecture. The roof terrace above the guest house acts as a welcomed extension from the main dwelling to the lake creating a seamless transition from one home to the other.
The Garden House
—Chandigarh, IN
The Garden House is
designed as a series of small outdoor frames actively interlacing
with the interior’s, generating an intricate series of internal and
external spaces. —Chandigarh, IN
The house becomes a play where the walls are constantly folding between public and private. The design focuses on using screens of different opacities to help curate the various degrees of privacy. Constantly unfolding itself, and the journey takes the user through a labyrinth between the inhabited rooms and nature.
The house is used as a popular stage for different conditions: inside/outside, lit/dark, private/public, hidden/revealed, quite/noisy.
BKK House
—Bangkok, TH
The Architecture
establish a relationship with nature through the elements of light
and shadow, sounds, materiality and landscape blurring boundaries
between public/private and internal/external. —Bangkok, TH
Achieved through the careful curation of materials such as glass, timber and concrete, dissolving those into lights, translucencies, reflections, refractions and textures. The main focus was to define a home that breaks away from a traditional understanding of a series of separated and isolated rooms but to create a series of open transitional spaces through the use of tectonic elements.
We are after a house that is unconstrained by tradition, but rather is activated by the symbiotic relationship that tradition and modernism have to offer to each other.
An Embedded Dwelling
—Burgel, DE
The architecture is developed using traditional design methods of Northern Germany through the application of Tectonic components such as pitch roof, plaster, wood, glass and clear relationship with green elements. This allows a strong relationship with the site to be established.
The design aims to simultaneously create a seamless relationship with the surrounding, but to also establish a “grammar” that represents its inhabitants.
In order to do this, a list of traditional architectural elements was collected and manipulated based on what would best represent the identity and personality of its final user.
Coexistence
—Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers, FR
Nowadays we often find ourselves thinking how living within nature would mean. As architects we often relate our thoughts to a platonic retreat, typically located in a context that is systematically and programmatically different to the urban context we live in.
Design architecture within nature has always been challenging. Canonic elements of architecture don’t make us relevant here, ephemeral yet untouchable conditions are driving forces instead.
Our aim is to put forward an architectural proposal that treasures the core values around nature and generates spaces that celebrate it.
Sara Hildén Art Museum
—Tampere, FI
with twelvefortyone.co.uk
Everything often starts from a very simple gesture that eventually turns into something magical, sophisticated.
The ability of every form of art is to play with our imagination, taking us through an unexpected journey. Masses, matters, contrasts, colors, these are often the tools to play with, finding balances, proportions. The way to experience them is the prelude to something surprising, or better yet, unknown.
Architecture often finds itself to relate to the same principles. Gestures define spaces, moves depict movements, materials create atmospheres, thresholds allow for a subconscious sound perception.
Experiencing it should do the rest.
Flamingo Visitor Center
—Abu Dhabi, UAE
The proposal originated through the understanding of the land, and its own morphology. We have been fascinated by what horizontality has to offer, its sense of calmness, acceptance, and the ability of stretching the stretching horizon and its continuity. While the land seamlessly houses changes in its landscape, dry and wet seems to dwell together in an uninterrupted and sophisticated way. Coexistence.
A simple geometry and yet a simple construction, with a layer of complexity that can be experienced, felt, ultimately owned. An interactive journey into the land to learn the beauty of it, as well as the beauty in its own simplicity.