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The Modernist Cabin
The project was designed for an architectural
competition, promoted by “Free Green”, in the USA.
The challenge was to develop a small vacation home for
a couple with two grown children, a kind of a modernist retreat. The aim was to
build an economic, ecological, modern but without formal excesses house, which
would integrate smoothly into the landscape of a forest in a lake front. It
should suggest what may be termed "affordable luxury".
The proposal is a contemporary reinterpretation of the
traditional Wood Cabin. Having all the commodities of modern life, the house
design essays a true ecological approach to building, based on passive
processes and common sense. The core of this design is the interaction between
nature and the house and its inhabitants, the outdoor/indoor relation, and the
way light and the passage of time affect materials and coatings. The house is
seen as a mean to reestablish a more respectful communion between man and
environment, reducing its ecological footprint.
The windows and exterior shutters fully retract into
the walls, making the forest and the lake extensions from the inside. Internal
partitioning is solved with large sliding panels, increasing the fluidity of
space and allowing to adjust the partitioning to the needs of each moment.
Several solutions were adopted in order to reduce the
house’s impact on the environment and reduce it’s ecological footprint, namely
the elevated floor, that reduces impact on the soil and
prevents flood damage
Resistant
and low maintenance materials were proposed but leaving visible the patina of
years. This acknowledge of the passage of time is the essential and poetic
counterpoint to the minimalism and apparent simplicity of the house design.
competition, promoted by “Free Green”, in the USA.
The challenge was to develop a small vacation home for
a couple with two grown children, a kind of a modernist retreat. The aim was to
build an economic, ecological, modern but without formal excesses house, which
would integrate smoothly into the landscape of a forest in a lake front. It
should suggest what may be termed "affordable luxury".
The proposal is a contemporary reinterpretation of the
traditional Wood Cabin. Having all the commodities of modern life, the house
design essays a true ecological approach to building, based on passive
processes and common sense. The core of this design is the interaction between
nature and the house and its inhabitants, the outdoor/indoor relation, and the
way light and the passage of time affect materials and coatings. The house is
seen as a mean to reestablish a more respectful communion between man and
environment, reducing its ecological footprint.
The windows and exterior shutters fully retract into
the walls, making the forest and the lake extensions from the inside. Internal
partitioning is solved with large sliding panels, increasing the fluidity of
space and allowing to adjust the partitioning to the needs of each moment.
Several solutions were adopted in order to reduce the
house’s impact on the environment and reduce it’s ecological footprint, namely
the elevated floor, that reduces impact on the soil and
prevents flood damage
Resistant
and low maintenance materials were proposed but leaving visible the patina of
years. This acknowledge of the passage of time is the essential and poetic
counterpoint to the minimalism and apparent simplicity of the house design.
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