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Twin Villa
Type
STATUS
Concept
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
The Twin is located 60 miles outside Beijing in the Pingu District of China. The villa is situated amongst a new residential and leisure development built around the man-made Jinhai lake.
The local farming community has been enhanced with a new village center and farmworker housing. The market-rate housing recently introduced consists of a mix of housing for seniors, moderate income duplexes, and villas. Both the existing hospitality services and public access to the lake is being expanded. Numerous leisure activities are offered, including boating, and golf.
The site is located on an island with fairly steep topography. The level of the lake varies depending on the rainy season, leaving a portion of the lot adjacent to the water unbuildable. The Twin villa consists of a pair of monolithic volumes. The custom faceted concrete shell structures are nestled into the sloping hillside. The dynamic form burrows into the hill and cantilevers out over the downslope reaching out to the lake. The semi-subterranean building is embedded into the earth reducing the impact of the building on the landscape.
The placement of the building on the site, together with the form and massing of the building, optimizes views while at the same time maintains privacy from the street and the neighbors.
The pair of residential volumes are distanced by a central circulation spine. The interstitial space is a transparent threshold that serves as a visual connector to the lake. The two wings serve as the primary structural system by which the main circulation of the villa is supported. Diffused light filters through the transparent void illuminating all levels of the home.
Concrete is the predominant building material of the region and the choice of the local craftsman. With this in mind, various applications of concrete are used throughout exploiting the potential of the versatile material. Notions of fluidity, porosity, thickness and smoothness are explored, all through the relationship of the interior surfaces to the exterior building volume.
The local farming community has been enhanced with a new village center and farmworker housing. The market-rate housing recently introduced consists of a mix of housing for seniors, moderate income duplexes, and villas. Both the existing hospitality services and public access to the lake is being expanded. Numerous leisure activities are offered, including boating, and golf.
The site is located on an island with fairly steep topography. The level of the lake varies depending on the rainy season, leaving a portion of the lot adjacent to the water unbuildable. The Twin villa consists of a pair of monolithic volumes. The custom faceted concrete shell structures are nestled into the sloping hillside. The dynamic form burrows into the hill and cantilevers out over the downslope reaching out to the lake. The semi-subterranean building is embedded into the earth reducing the impact of the building on the landscape.
The placement of the building on the site, together with the form and massing of the building, optimizes views while at the same time maintains privacy from the street and the neighbors.
The pair of residential volumes are distanced by a central circulation spine. The interstitial space is a transparent threshold that serves as a visual connector to the lake. The two wings serve as the primary structural system by which the main circulation of the villa is supported. Diffused light filters through the transparent void illuminating all levels of the home.
Concrete is the predominant building material of the region and the choice of the local craftsman. With this in mind, various applications of concrete are used throughout exploiting the potential of the versatile material. Notions of fluidity, porosity, thickness and smoothness are explored, all through the relationship of the interior surfaces to the exterior building volume.
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