Reseidence

Situated near a sparse forest with intriguing vistas over the suburbs of Nicosia, this house stands in a deliberately ambiguous way: Rather than adopting a conventional residential typology that opens outward to offer uninterrupted views of the surrounding landscape, it rises as an austere, introverted box. Is it a building, a sculpture or a container? The architectural proposal constitutes a systematic elaboration of the primordial dwelling-box and its reinterpretation in relation to contemporary modes of domestic living. Caption Caption Caption The design begins with a three-dimensional grid - a lattice of points forming the rudimentary outline of a box with a 14×17 meters plan. Fragments of the natural landscape gra... More