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Krara House

Krara house

ABDALLA ELSHAAFI architect as Architects

This design is formulated as a system that represents a hybrid structure of what is architectural and what is natural, balancing the daily needs of humans with structure. The system aims to resemble systems in nature, so that the building interacts with its surroundings and creates a coherent ecosystem from a set of elements and systems that interact with the architectural composition.

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This house is designed to form an open novel, with each corner of the house forging a new story every day, and new opportunities to explore. That makes these corners a vocabulary for dialogue and communication between inside and outside. The field of view forms an additional space and parallel stories between nature and the architectural space.

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This will create renewed experiences for residents to explore new scenes every day. This house is designed to exploit the entire area of the land so that the architectural constructs overlap with the natural elements like trees and the water stream (which penetrates the space of the house from the entrance until it reaches its back yard), thus forming a separation between the different functional spaces.

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The architectural movement element represented by the stairs is linked with a moving natural element, which is the water stream, thus creating a close relationship between the architectural elements and nature. In order to achieve the openness of the inside to the outside, the glass walls and trees are combined to allow communication between the inside and the outside, while preserving privacy of the internal space.

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