Modular system.
Generic skeleton.
Individual interpretation.
Collective appearance.
Never static. Never finished.
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B D C
B C A
A D A
A C C
B D D
One structure.
Many infills.
One rule.
Many exceptions.
House and garden.
A balancing act between the permanent and the transient. Waiting for the transient to take over.
The building embraces two trees of the park.
Outside becomes inside. Inside becomes outside.
Acer palmatum, ant chair, bambuseae, betula, daw chair, hay new order, hydrangea, jasminum, joyn table, lavendula, LC2, MvS.03, portal, pteropsida, rosa, slow chair, tray table, tulipa, vinca mayor, vinca minor.
Revealing space.
On the sand.
In the sea.
A new extension encloses the existing building, defines the border, gives it a facade. Old and new, in between they meet.
To uncover.
To remove.
To add.
To expose the modernity of the past.
To Eliminate.
To Continue.
To Obscure.
To Reconfigure.
To Repurpose.
To Densify.
To Copy.
To Overlay.
To Reimagine.
To Restart.
To Abstain.
To work with what exists.
To work with who are there.
To work with the resources that are left.
Between mass and void.
Between unity and diversity.
Between elements and ensemble.
Defining and composing by stacking and layering.
Dividing the program of the building in smaller clusters.
Bringing the building to the human scale.
