Despite its small dimension, the cabin includes a series of functions which determine its formal solutions.It’s a shed, where the firewood required by the client’s house heating system is stored. The air passing through the planks of the building’s shell ensures the collected wood to dry.

It’s a shelter, a refuge, a place that provides interaction between the private but open courtyard and the outside public space. A center of gravity around which the life of the clients and the inhabitants of the small hamlet takes place: the niche on the south facade is a special seat for humans an animals.

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Designed by Gion A. Caminada, the building is located in the forest and adjoins a glade to the west, which opens onto the valley. A slightly ascending path leads over a pasture and along the edge of the forest to the hut. It is located in an area known as “Plong Vaschnaus”, Switzerland, near the rhine confluence. In the immediate vicinity contradictory conditions meet. The grassland below the hut is crossed by high-voltage pylons and dominated by the noise of the neighboring gravel. Above the hut is dense forest, which merges into mountainous terrain.

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This is an extension plan for a young couple’s house next to the main house. The main house is a one story Japanese style house with about 200m2, which is commonly seen in rural areas. It is a big house with many rooms and mainly consists of large spaces for people to gather and to provide hospitality. However, the young couple desired feelings of ease and spaces that ensure quiet and comfortable times. A simple extension may enable each of the house’s residents to live completely separated, but the relationship between the families and the connection with the main house might be lost. Therefore, by utilizing the functions for living in the main house, the extension is designed as a minimum living space, and pursues both maintaining distance and retaining fertile relationships.

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This timber house is about different ways of perceiving the landscape surrounding it. There are two principal floors; one set 750mm below the earth, one 1500mm above. The ground floor consists of one single family room with a noticeably low horizontal ceiling. In this space there is a physical connection with the nature outside the continuous windows. The space above is the inverse. This floor is divided into four equal rooms with 6m high ceilings. The height defines the space. Large windows open to composed views of the wheat field. Whereas the ground floor is about connecting with the visceral nature of the context, the floor above is about observing nature – a more distant and cerebral activity.

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La entrada House in Balsthal se publicó primero en Global Spaces.

Architects: Arquitectura G     Photography: José Hevia     Construction Period:  2013     Location:  Cilleros, Spain

The project is a complete refurbishment maintaining facades. It has an open floor plan to make it a multipurpose area, unheated, and related to the garden.

The functional program is divided into four rooms around a courtyard. Deciduous vegetation casts pleasing shadows and stays downstairs and contributes to climate control of the house.

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