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Mirror Mountain
Mirror Mountain
Taiwan
Special Mention, 2023 A+Awards, Details - Architecture +Concrete
Project Featured on Jun 23, 2023
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Mirror Mountain
Taiwan
Special Mention, 2023 A+Awards, Details - Architecture +Concrete
Project Featured on Jun 23, 2023
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2022
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
$50M - 100M
Mirror Mountain is located within a residential area of Zhubei City, Taiwan. The street front of the site is 24 meters in width and 26 meters in depth, both sides of the site boundary borders the walls of the neighboring houses, and faces toward the street at the southern end. In consideration to the scale of the site and the surrounding residential typology, the architecture design adopted the approach of a small community structure that is not of singular orientation, creating a concaved courtyard to act as the central axis, mirroring in plan to form three facing residential units on either sides, including the two street front residential units (A-type), and four facing units around the central courtyard (B-type).
Within the single residential floor area of 7 meters by 8.8 meters, the staircase is pushed to the center of the plan, opening up the potential of the single level plan to operate as a double-sided space, therefore driving the space to generate more liveliness of activities within domestic interiors.
As the generator of the spatial structure, the staircase meanders between different spaces and weaves between levels in the residential unit, utilizing the flexible relationship between the stair and privacy/publicity of spaces, allowing each stair/space encounter to shift in between closeness, openness, or extensiveness, forming new relationships with different spatial environments. Life within the house is tightly connected to the staircase, expanding and accumulating everyday experiences.
Following the narrow staircase and entering into the first and second floor of the unit, discovering a space that is opened from the inside out, set as the core for everyday social interactions within the household. The dining table is not designed for a singular purpose, it is also considered as a site that sits in between the kitchen, mezzanine and staircase, operating in the space as the gathering place where family events and activities happen. Vertical walls, openings, stairwell and the singular supporting column by the staircase are met and merged with one another within the space, producing a spatial layering experience visually between blank walls, at times injecting moments of privacy within the fluid space, and introducing moments of abstraction in spaces.
The mosaic wall on the street façade and the regulated concaved balconies make up the overall “even-tone” impression and flatness of this architecture project. The housing block utilized its external structural composition to fit in better within the surrounding urban housing typology. The back-elevation of the block offsets from the neighboring walls, leaving space for light wells, in order to give further depth to the interior space and provide some quiet back window views for units with facing façades.
Terrace boxes, balconies in combination with eaves cantilevered off the elevations, establishing unique characteristics between housing units within the overall collective structure. In terms of the core living value, these elements become the intricate boundary that regulates between the inside and outside: the eave slopes down as it extends outward, opening up the city view horizontally; the terrace wall combines external conditions internally, bringing in backyard-like space and atmosphere, creating duo rain experiences between two facing elevations within one singular space.
Within the single residential floor area of 7 meters by 8.8 meters, the staircase is pushed to the center of the plan, opening up the potential of the single level plan to operate as a double-sided space, therefore driving the space to generate more liveliness of activities within domestic interiors.
As the generator of the spatial structure, the staircase meanders between different spaces and weaves between levels in the residential unit, utilizing the flexible relationship between the stair and privacy/publicity of spaces, allowing each stair/space encounter to shift in between closeness, openness, or extensiveness, forming new relationships with different spatial environments. Life within the house is tightly connected to the staircase, expanding and accumulating everyday experiences.
Following the narrow staircase and entering into the first and second floor of the unit, discovering a space that is opened from the inside out, set as the core for everyday social interactions within the household. The dining table is not designed for a singular purpose, it is also considered as a site that sits in between the kitchen, mezzanine and staircase, operating in the space as the gathering place where family events and activities happen. Vertical walls, openings, stairwell and the singular supporting column by the staircase are met and merged with one another within the space, producing a spatial layering experience visually between blank walls, at times injecting moments of privacy within the fluid space, and introducing moments of abstraction in spaces.
The mosaic wall on the street façade and the regulated concaved balconies make up the overall “even-tone” impression and flatness of this architecture project. The housing block utilized its external structural composition to fit in better within the surrounding urban housing typology. The back-elevation of the block offsets from the neighboring walls, leaving space for light wells, in order to give further depth to the interior space and provide some quiet back window views for units with facing façades.
Terrace boxes, balconies in combination with eaves cantilevered off the elevations, establishing unique characteristics between housing units within the overall collective structure. In terms of the core living value, these elements become the intricate boundary that regulates between the inside and outside: the eave slopes down as it extends outward, opening up the city view horizontally; the terrace wall combines external conditions internally, bringing in backyard-like space and atmosphere, creating duo rain experiences between two facing elevations within one singular space.
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