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murphy mansion 0.2

Previously designed by Tsuge and Yamagishi, students from Gifu University of Japan, my task is to redesign the house in considering Australian suburban context. This timber house is designed for a retired couple and it is meant to be a prototype of sustainable housing by introducing the Japanese OM system (http://www.passivedesign.com).
The theme is to create a complex, functional, flexible and transitional living spaces and at the same time, enhance the day to day living experience of the occupant (the retired couple). This house is not merely a machine for living. Machine has no life; it is not responsible to love and feeling. 24 hours a day, from sunrise to day's end, from winter to summer, from life to death, every moment in the house is transitional and involve with time. The house is not just a volume, it responses to the light and air change, its response to the concomitancy of the couple, it responses to the joy and happiness of the visiting grandchildren…”the moment of reflection”. The house involve corporeal and perceptual transition, transition between shadow to light, between one level to another, between high and low, compression and expansion. Just like the classical sculpture, the space is not fixed, absolute, or abstract, but it is relative to a movement, a posture, a gesture. Referring to my visit to the Casa de IÁrdiaca in Barcelona, the internal courtyard is not a free green zone, but the exterior environment that participates actively in the specific quality of the interior. The tree emphasizes the vertical relationship between the ground and the sky, and also symbolizes immortality, from one generation to another.

All the above are the guidelines of my design. But eventually, I can completely get rid of all the theoretical interpretations (or bullshiting) of my idea. A beautiful building is not compose by beautiful words. What one see, what one feel is the spatiality and texturality of the building. The essence of the building finds spiritually, not verbally.

posted by ryxx @ 1:49 AM