Villa MKZ / Takeshi Hirobe Architects

Villa MKZ / Takeshi Hirobe Architects

Textual content description supplied by the architects. The footprint of this trip dwelling dances across the advanced situations of the positioning. Though the positioning is splendidly located overlooking an ocean view to the southeast, there may be an elevation hole of about 1.4 meters within the middle, round an outcropping of bedrock, and an unbuildable space reducing into the property on the road facet. By necessity, the indifferent constructing housing a two-car storage, and the visitor room is located on the east facet, the place the elevation hole is smallest, however the consumer requested that the principle home weaves across the troublesome website situations. 

At our first consumer presentation, we proposed a plan comprised of interconnected triangles, however this design was not rigidly mounted; moderately, our method allowed for the varieties to be adjusted by “pinching” the roof peaks as we developed a extra detailed plan.  And in reality, as we continued with the design course of, we progressively adjusted the peaks in response to consumer requests concerning the inside, so that every roof phase contained an area appropriately scaled for its use. Our Section Dance mission (2019) employed an identical method, which we dubbed “modal planning”—a versatile technique that permits us to differ the dimensions of areas based on how they’re used, as an alternative of controlling the general kind by a robust geometric precept.  

The roof slabs, which amplify the triangular shapes of the footprint, are supported by polygonal columns that change in kind all through the house, and, in locations, by bearing partitions. Inside air quantity necessities decided the rhythm of the slabs and the volumes of the areas they enclose. Rooms going through the ocean join to at least one one other, twisting to the east and west to create a sequence of areas.

By manipulating the complexity of interlinked free-form triangles, we freely various parameters equivalent to the connection with the panorama, the scale of the rooms, and the amount of the areas. The result’s a natural-feeling inside scale and a way of affinity between the buildings and the positioning.