An underground house that also serves as a stunning viewing platform for the mountains around.
For a house with stunning views, the design strategy is usually: Build tall. But SeARCH, a Dutch architecture firm, and Christian Müller Architects, have managed to design a house with stunning, panoramic vistas, which also happens to buried almost completely into the side of a hill.
The trick is in the oblique opening, carved into the side of a hill. The house itself is set back, leaving room for a massive patio; the shape of the opening exaggerates the feeling that you're standing before massive, vaulted skies. (For art fans: This trick is something like what James Turrell is leaning on, in his massive ongoing installations at Roden Crater.)
To ensure that the rooms aren't shrouded in darkness because of the sunken layout, the building itself isn't very deep--rather, all of the rooms wrap around the interior courtyard.
For a house with stunning views, the design strategy is usually: Build tall. But SeARCH, a Dutch architecture firm, and Christian Müller Architects, have managed to design a house with stunning, panoramic vistas, which also happens to buried almost completely into the side of a hill.
The trick is in the oblique opening, carved into the side of a hill. The house itself is set back, leaving room for a massive patio; the shape of the opening exaggerates the feeling that you're standing before massive, vaulted skies. (For art fans: This trick is something like what James Turrell is leaning on, in his massive ongoing installations at Roden Crater.)
To ensure that the rooms aren't shrouded in darkness because of the sunken layout, the building itself isn't very deep--rather, all of the rooms wrap around the interior courtyard.
- 12/2/2009
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
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