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Taiwan Twirl House
In
the history of architecture there are few moments when a project as
ambitious as this have occurred, gathering the worlds leading
architects to make avant-garde yet realistic case study houses for
one of the most beautiful sites in the world. The task handed to us
of creating a harmonious architecture within nature in such a
beautiful context in Taiwan highlights the clients true ambitions as
patrons of architecture, life and culture and a will to make the
inhabitants of Next Gene truly at home in Taiwan's most beautiful
region. The expected clientèle for the project was busy modern
individuals and families from Taipei who need an escape from the
capital’s busy and chaotic settings. When asked to make a
series of houses in an Eden-like location in Ao-di, Taiwan, we first
fear to disturb a place kept naturally intact for centuries. As we
visited the site right after a very strong typhoon we understood that
the place was, although naturally kept, in constant micro changes:
the typhoons, common in that region, would remodel the crust of the
earth, disturbing the soft vegetation and manipulate slightly the
land… on the base of that we decided to create architecture out of
nature. We designed a house that manipulates the landscape without
adding anything to it. A house in symbiosis with its environment. A
house that celebrates views and protects itself from being viewed.
There was a certain paradox in being located in such a beautiful
location and be so many different architectural expressions all
crammed next to each other. Our first house alone had 7 neighbors.
Our reaction was then to make a house that’s introverted rather
then looking outwards. A patio house. We started looking at it as a
walled donut. We then applied the site slope to the simple shaped
which allowed it to have a part pocking up and viewing out to the
beautiful landscape. Further more we decided to embed the donut
immediately into the landscape, erasing its presence as a volume.
Operating Lucio Fontana-like incisions into the topography we’ve
ended with a house that is a mixture of nature and architecture, that
is introverted and extroverted all at once.
the history of architecture there are few moments when a project as
ambitious as this have occurred, gathering the worlds leading
architects to make avant-garde yet realistic case study houses for
one of the most beautiful sites in the world. The task handed to us
of creating a harmonious architecture within nature in such a
beautiful context in Taiwan highlights the clients true ambitions as
patrons of architecture, life and culture and a will to make the
inhabitants of Next Gene truly at home in Taiwan's most beautiful
region. The expected clientèle for the project was busy modern
individuals and families from Taipei who need an escape from the
capital’s busy and chaotic settings. When asked to make a
series of houses in an Eden-like location in Ao-di, Taiwan, we first
fear to disturb a place kept naturally intact for centuries. As we
visited the site right after a very strong typhoon we understood that
the place was, although naturally kept, in constant micro changes:
the typhoons, common in that region, would remodel the crust of the
earth, disturbing the soft vegetation and manipulate slightly the
land… on the base of that we decided to create architecture out of
nature. We designed a house that manipulates the landscape without
adding anything to it. A house in symbiosis with its environment. A
house that celebrates views and protects itself from being viewed.
There was a certain paradox in being located in such a beautiful
location and be so many different architectural expressions all
crammed next to each other. Our first house alone had 7 neighbors.
Our reaction was then to make a house that’s introverted rather
then looking outwards. A patio house. We started looking at it as a
walled donut. We then applied the site slope to the simple shaped
which allowed it to have a part pocking up and viewing out to the
beautiful landscape. Further more we decided to embed the donut
immediately into the landscape, erasing its presence as a volume.
Operating Lucio Fontana-like incisions into the topography we’ve
ended with a house that is a mixture of nature and architecture, that
is introverted and extroverted all at once.
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