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Project • By AD+studio • Residential Landscape
Transiting Step House
Located in a new residential zone and approached from a road which connects 2 main streets of the area; the building is affected by noise, dust from the main street’s vehicles. The site is surrounded by buildings, which average height is 13.5m. The house’s direction is eastward, stretches to East-West, the front and back areas of this building are strongly damaged by sunlight.Design solution is to restrict dust, noise and thermal radiation by limiting the open spaces from the West and East. A large atrium in the middle of the house plays as a transiting space – which shape is like a funnel in order to take sunlight and fresh air deeply inside. By interspersing private spaces with the common ones around the atrium, the architect can bo... More
Project • By AD+studio • Housing
3 Houses
Text description provided by the architects. The building site can be reached from 2 different directions: one from a 3 meter-wide lane that can only be used by motorbikes and another is from a 5 meter-wide lane. The site is landlocked by many closely placed buildings: the front of the 5m lane has the 4 storeys (15 meters high) townhouses and the back of this site adjacent with 7.5 meters high 2 storeys house. As a result, it forms the site with a distinctive zigzag shape, with “the Knots” effect in the middle.The design solution is to divide the house into 3 blocks with different height levels to accommodate different building functions. These blocks are then connected by courtyard acting as transition space; bringing lights and natur... More