InBound SA - Lifestyle - Feb Volume 4 I Issue 2 | Page 60

LUXURY LIVING designed a wing of interconnected pavilions. These spaces, built from concrete and steel, open through full-height windows and sliding screens onto colonnades and pergolas. The structure is intended to merge with the terrain, framing specific views and inviting the outside in. The durability of the materials is balanced by precise details that give the architecture a measured, human scale.
The other sister’ s wing comprises three distinct volumes: one made of board-formed concrete, one of Corten steel, and one covered in corrugated metal. These forms are conceived as solid objects within the landscape. Their simplicity and honesty in materiality make them stand out, creating a clear, easily comprehensible composition against the rolling grasslands.
THE MEDIATING SPACE
Connecting these two wings is the shared living area. This central space mediates the dialogue between the light-filled pavilions and the solid sculptural forms. A roof, appearing to float above a concrete base, is its defining element.
Light filters through clerestory windows, flooding a ceiling of timber slats that add warmth against the steel and concrete. Large, laser-cut steel canopies form a threshold zone, a blurred boundary between interior and exterior.
The entire structure is anchored by gabion walls at the entrance, filled with local slate. The stone
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