Terrace Villa / Solid Space Atelier

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Text description provided by the architects. Located at the foothill of an enclosed two acre wooded site, the housing design addresses the synthesis of two potentially opposing conditions: the modernistic model of a house with traditional Chinese building typology known as Chinese quadrangles as genealogy. By rethinking later model not as discrete entity but a formal and organizational strategy. This specific site also inspires us to employ topological models which operate at two scales: a volumetric organization which allows continuity between landscape and building and a fine scale surface striation that both integrates and articulates geometry and material as they shift from the intensive space of the interior to the extensive space of the exterior.