Pocheon House / 1990 uao

It must be a village lane, there appearing less and less cars, with small houses located sparsely. Climbing along the low slope, you can see the nearby creek and forest, and also feel the layered bent ridgelines of a large mountain. At the entry of the hill which becomes a little steeper, stand two large rocks like door jambs. At the end of the in-between road, exists the client’s parents’ house. On a low and spacious site of which the client’s mother can take care, this Pocheon project is located. On the day we were invited as the architect of this project into the client’s parent’s house, we looked down through the windows of its living room toward the project site. We imagined: the mother would stand like us by the windows looking down to a new house, remaining worried about her daughter’s couple though they are as old enough as close to retirement. So for this project, we placed the kitchen and the living room to be seen from the windows of the mother’s house. We hoped that she could ease her worry, by seeing together the scene in which her daughter’s house is lit up and rice is cooked in a pot.

CHIN’s Hostel / VEIVE ARCHITECTS

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. —Yoshio Taniguchi. The project is located in Xiangjian Village, Lin'an, Hangzhou., and served as an important intersection of the Huihang Ancient Trail. At the time, it was a meeting point welcomed by all villagers nearby, and that’s where the name “Xiangjian” come from, meaning to encounter or to meet. CHIN’s Hostel is a "shelter" in the mountain and countryside. She is neither luxurious nor simple, but with details showing the traces of life everywhere. She encourages residents to come out of the city, and go to the countryside to meet nature, explore nature, gather, and make friends...

Tunich House / Ápiron

House Tunich is located in Telchac Puerto, a coastal town north of the Yucatan Peninsula. The project displants on a regular beachfront estate with twenty linear meters in front of the sea of the Gulf of Mexico and twenty-four meters wide located right at the corner lot, these characteristics established the bases for the design of the project. The house was designed to prioritize the ocean views and seeking for the passing of the winds to provide freshness to the overall space.

Terraced House in Deurne / POLYGOON Architectuur

For decades, an irregular, funnel-shaped plot of land served as the driveway to a storage space at the back of the site. It was a narrow, open slot in the streetscape, fronted by a shabby gate. Nevertheless, the east-west orientation and 8 meter wide building line offered quality and space to erect a new terrace house. What’s more, by demolishing the storage space, a square walled garden with a great deal of privacy was created.  The floor plan was developed as a trapezium so as to deal with the increasingly narrower form of the site and the kink halfway. This way the interior spaces all have the same internal angles and pointed corners are avoided.

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