Home In A Park

Vancouver based Architecture Practice.

Seng Tsoi, Vancouver, Architecture, Architect, Design, Interiors, Landscape, Houses, Homes, Buildings, Burnaby, New Westminster, Richmond, Canada

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Research; conceptual design 2019

Experimental, experiential dwelling; prototype

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The Home in A Park was designed as an instrument to reconnect oneself or one’s family with the natural world and to encourage inhabitants to experience the landscape from varying perspectives while moving through and living within it.

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This home is meant to be a simple structure consisting of 3 separate volumes at varying heights surrounding an entry courtyard. Each volume houses distinct functions that collide and support each other, encouraging inhabitants to experience moments above, below, in between, and within volumes.

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The home exterior was intentionally left white and blank to distort scale and depict the home as a human-made object within its natural context. In addition, the design incorporated triangular apertures of varying sizes to distort its scale further while referencing its volumetric shape.

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These apertures were strategically placed within each volume to reference load-bearing locations and provide moments of lucidity. Its external scale is referenced in its surrounding landscape, and its internal scale is referenced through a warm wood-finished interior, objects, and inhabitants. Other than services and circulation, the interior spaces were left flexible for its guests to fill.