Home of a hundred outdoor rooms
Home of a hundred outdoor rooms.
Human shelter does not need a large footprint.
What home is meant to be is a reliable place that contains all kind of privacy, for both good and bad.
Personal bonds in the family are delicate. An appropriate distance can work as well as a hug in daily life. We need a place to meet as well as a place to hide.
A Visual sequence of public and private generated the planning.
Thanks to the tropical weather, trees and hedges work well as architectural elements that change the vast landscape into outdoor rooms.
There’s no boundary between architecture and landscape.
The whole site is a lived container.
Solid and open hedges lead them wandering from one courtyard to another that pleases the eyes almost without end.
As Bruno Taut said when he visited the Katsura palace in Japan, "In Katsura, the eyes think.”
Home of a hundred outdoor rooms
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