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House in a valley  

House in a valley

Hsinchu, Taiwan

Project Featured on Sep 08, 2018
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House in a valley

Hsinchu, Taiwan

Project Featured on Sep 08, 2018
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2017
[Preface]
A successful entrepreneur bought a piece of land in a dry valley, asked if we could design a house for his retired life. An old Chinese saying came to our mind: 'A gentlemen, implicit, not hidden.' It describes the type of a sophisticated man, lives remotely, continuous to contribute to the society. It is the ideal that we hope we could capture and translate it with Architecture.

[Concept]
A house is the basic type of architecture, but its function is complex. To address the complexity of daily life on this particular site, we split the house into four rectangular boxes that interact with the land in different ways, hoping to create various spaces to meet different functions along the sloping contour, and allow nature to flow in.

[Method]
The split-boxes inset, touch or flow above the ground, they also slide horizontally and vertically in response to the changing slope to implicate the main and the subordinate, the public and the private, and to create the roofed parking space down below and semi-outdoor space above. Although seemingly independent, these rectangular boxes are inter-connected with ramp, stair and pathway on the inside and outside; walking through it, the arrangement of architecture create a constantly changing and overlapping view of man-made geometry and framed nature. And what thought to be enclosed and protected on the inside of the private space, are found to be open and reveal to the outside nature. It is implicit, not hidden. An experience could only be found on this particular site, for this particular gentleman.

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