CONTINUOUS
LANDSCAPE
IMPRINT
AND EXPOSURE, SLOPING SITE, 2002.
the courtyard
is the generating principle of the artificial, climbing landscape defining
the house. Crossing the horizontal pool, which is situated parallel to
the height lines, initiates the impulse for the house to be defined by
the continued interpretation of the naturally sloping landscape.
the
pool with a length of more than 90 feet is situated parallel to the height
lines of the landscape, accentuating the transition to the landscape.
the water's potential as light source and ambient generating substance
fills the house with the atmosphere relating to the far view across the
valleys being an imaginary sea.
the municipality's
building laws concerning roof shapes above the first floor are understood
as transparent volumetric parameter wherein the virtual landscape defines
the house's areas, using the restrictions similar to an individual moving
around in our society according to his interpretation to the freedom possible
in it.
after
dinner the inhabitants change to the living room by walking over water
respectively on the glass roof of the pool. the notion of flying is interpreted
in the kind of connection between the main living areas, their floating
edge condition in relation to the view - the living area is on the south
edge already on floor above ground -, and the stairs winding up around
the courtyard. |