IN OUT HOUSE

 This small house was designed for a family of florists. Built on the same property as their family business greenhouses, this proximity was supposedly generating a lot of exposure of their private life towards their employees whilst they dreamed of an open space with ever surprising views. Responding to this we turned the classic façades inside-out generating interior/exterior courtyards by opening the views from inside to outside to inside, with the hard exterior shell protecting their private life.

BETWEEN LINES

With this project, we emphasise the idea that we live between earth and sky, materialising this feeling by bringing the two entities closer. Raising the ground around the house so that the earth is hugging the interior space, keeping it rooted while extending and elevating the roof to open it towards the sky. We used white, massive flowing horizontal lines to create weightless slabs, glided in a stepped profile, cutting out a figure with bold graphic underlines. By bringing the exterior ground at the windowsill level, we generated a grass surface uninterrupted by urban elements, with the overextended ceiling slab leading the view towards the sky.