Engawa
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Project • By TAELON7 • Pavilions
Limbo Engawa
Limbo Engawa is an architectural pavilion conceived across two sites, as a co-commission between Limbo Museum in Accra, Ghana, and Art Omi in the Hudson Valley, New York. First constructed within Limbo Museum’s unfinished concrete structure, the pavilion was disassembled, transported across the Atlantic, and reassembled within the landscape at Art Omi.
Juergen Benson-Strohmayer
The term engawa refers to a transitional space between interior and exterior, building and landscape, private and communal life. In Accra, Limbo Engawa occupied the threshold between an unfinished concrete structure and surrounding cultivated land. An oversized daybed created a place for farmers and museum visitors to sit, lie down, and gather, while elev... More
Project • By MUS ARCHITECTS • Private Houses
FOREST ENGAWA
The term "Forest Engawa" is a combination of a Japanese architectural element and the context of our project.
The project of a single-family house in Miłoszyce near Wrocław is a contemporary interpretation of a single-story pavilion immersed in a forest clearing. The building was conceived as a calm, horizontal form that does not dominate the landscape but enters into an equal dialogue with it. The starting point was the need to create a house with a distinct identity while being maximally integrated with the surrounding forest and the daily routine of its inhabitants.
MUS ARCHITECTS
Concept, Context, and Assumptions
The architecture of the house is shaped by a combination of Japan-inspired minimalism with functionality and warmth c... More
News • News • 11 Mar 2021
Tennessee mountain house inspired by Japanese form and aesthetics
Looking out to the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, the Short Mountain House by Sanders Pace Architecture is divided into three distinct pavilions. This strategy allows space to be efficiently compartmentalized to meet the needs of the owner or expanded into adjacent pavilion areas when extra space is required for guests.
Keith Isaacs Photo
The pavilions are oriented in a way that defines a unique series of negative/exterior spaces around the house and allows for clear sightlines into the surrounding landscape. Connectors designed as bridges span the space between the pavilions, linking them together.
Keith Isaacs Photo
Though the simple gable roofs are in keeping with the region’s vernacular, the roof pitches are based... More